'Out Of Gas'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Didn't Milo from the Descendents not only go to college but also get an advanced degree? (They had an album titled Milo Goes to College.)
Y'all already confirmed Milo's degree, but I do want to mention that my pal who brought Ian MacKaye in to speak at his university last year is going to ask Milo Aukerman to come down to talk to people in the Spring about transitioning from punk to academia.
I know a woman here at my institution whose dissertation is "'We Accept You, One of Us?: Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974-1985," - department of History, UNC.
I did not know Keats was a doctor! Too bad he lived in the era before the understanding of bateriology - he could have saved himself!
Sure, but germ theory is so much less poetic that bleeding some wan, fainting, patient to release bad humours.
Flea: nice! Do you know who her dissertation advisor is?
Peter G. Filene: [link]
Thanks! Don't know him, though. Awesome topic.
Brian Cox used to be in D:Ream, the 90s northern Irish dance band (famous for "Things Can Only Get Better"). He has a PhD and quite a high profile in Britain for his popularisation of science.
Slate on the 25th anniversary of The Replacements' Let it Be....
This past October was the 25th anniversary of the best rock album you don't own. Let It Be, the third full-length record by the now long-defunct Minnesota quartet the Replacements, was released at the tail end of 1984, a miraculous year, looking back on it, in music history. That year saw the dawn of the global pop mega-star. Madonna (Like a Virgin), Michael Jackson (John Landis' video for "Thriller" was released in December '83 and played on loop for the following calendar year), and Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.) gave fledgling rock 'n' roll bands a new and coherent sense of what they didn't want to be when they grew up. In a telling shift in nomenclature, something called "punk" or "post-punk" became "alternative," and one hardly had to ask "To what?" The music was aimed at a fan base tuning out MTV, dialing in to college radio, and getting its hands stamped at shows in rec centers and converted lunch halls. The trade-off was breadth of audience for intensity of devotion. In 1984 alone, in quick succession, the hungry cognoscenti got Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minutemen, Meat Puppets II, Husker Du's Zen Arcade, the Smiths' debut album, and R.E.M.'s Reckoning.
Let It Be is arguably the finest of the lot, and also the decade....
Interesting article, but of course I gotta take exception to "the best rock album you don't own."
I just listened to Let it Be and am now listening to Tim.
So, what's the best Replacements album? I'd rank Tim slightly ahead of Let it Be. And then Hootenanny, with Pleased to Meet Me right behind....
Let It Be is their most Replacements-like album, and I think it has their definitive high points -- "Androgynous," "Answering Machine," "I Will Dare." But it's also more uneven and has some dopier songs. Tim is stronger on a track to track basis and I listen to it more often.
But I think Zen Arcade, Reckoning, The Smiths and Meat Pups II are all better albums.