Listened. Interpreted. Imparted.
Time and Fragmentation Reflected in The Bronze
The Bronze is the 6th track of Queens of the Stone Age’s 1998 self-titled debut album. The band is now arguably the most famous group in the desert rock scene, with frontman Josh Homme coming from desert-rock royalty Kyuss, although more sand-addled aficionados with greater genre knowledge could no doubt tell me that I shouldn’t…
Does This Faceless Cover Need a Personality?
The Faceless take on Shake the Disease, and we learn something about the nature of novelty.
Monster Magnet Called Out the Grunge Scene… Were They Right?
It’s not hard to see why Dave Wyndorf was already sick of grunge by the time they released Dopes to Infinity. In Negasonic Teenage Warhead, he takes square aim at the avalanche of moaning coming out of the rock scene.
Social Death and the Technopanopticon: Culture Beat – Mr. Vain
What kind of bizarre edgelord walks around calling themselves ‘Mr. Raider’?
Old Grit and Creative Destruction: Knuckledust – Slash and Ignite
This time in White Noise Communing, Knuckledust’s ‘Slash and Ignite’ from their 2007 album, ‘Promises Comfort Fools’.
All I Wanna Do, Sheryl Crow – When That Person at the Bar Tries to Make Friends…
Is Sheryl Crow’s 1995 hit ‘All I Wanna Do’ an amusing illustration of mid-90s American sexuality?
Bad Advice Anthem? In The Summertime – Mungo Jerry
Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime is one of those songs that perfectly encapsulates changing attitudes over decades. What must have seemed like a carefree and perhaps rebellious message back in the 70s, now represents a toxic cocktail of class tensions, sexism, and exhortations to drive under the influence.
Counterculture and the Attention Economy in The Ghost of a Thousand, Bored of Math
The world went from a “generation bored out of their minds,” to generations for whom boredom is impossible. In the modern world, there is never a point at which there is not a fresh avalanche of content and distractions to sweep away any potential absence of stimulation. If not the leisure and digital distraction that…
Bad Cooking, Michel Foucault, and Metallica – Blackened
Metallica’s classic 1988 opener for ‘… And justice For All’ is an instant recognition point for metalheads. The song explores the trials and tribulations of learning and, ultimately, failing to cook. It further delves into the symbolic representation of social pressures and abstracted confinement manifested in disappointing dinner guests, finally expanding on the primordial psychosexual…
White Noise Communing – Negative Creep, Nirvana
This time we’re examining Nirvana’s Negative Creep. On the surface, Negative Creep appears to be a lamentably repetitive song about being a stoned outcast, but beneath the thin veneer it is really a complex riff on the neo-Freudian underpinnings of sociological intrafamilial hierarchies, and the way in which sex can be weaponised to reinforce or…
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