The very first album I bought when I got to Madison back in 2003—when Johnson Street was one long construction site and Grainger was still a modest, humble little building—was Rufus Wainwright's Want One. One of my first memories of Madison is walking right smack down the middle of Johnson—at that point a giant dirt road, really—and listening to Rufus.
In this week's \This Land is Your Land,"" Jeff talks about his love for a nonexistent Cat Power song.'
2007 is the 40th anniversary of the classic Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. The BBC is working on an anniversary cover album, the entire Beatles back catalog is about to become accessible on iTunes due to a copyright conflict finally getting resolved, and people in general are reflecting back on what it was that made the Beatles such a phenomenon in the first place. I would like to add my two cents and suggest that part of the reason the Beatles were not only immensely successful, but also profound and timeless ,is because of their lyrics. Many a life lesson can be gleaned from the Beatles' oeuvre—in fact, someone could probably write a self-help book using only Beatles-specific moral nuggets. While I don't have time (or the space in The Daily Cardinal) to write an entire book, I think a recap of the text might look something like this:
In this week's \This Land is Your Land,"" Jeff talks about how much he dislikes music festivals.'
In this week's \This Land is Your Land,"" Jeff ponders what to do with all his new music.'
\From the moment Son Volt's The Search starts it is evident the band has reinvented themselves,"" writes Jeff Landow.'
So yes, more hubbub about piracy and the RIAA and the targeting of college students and lawsuits and money and etc, etc, etc. If you're like 99 percent of the college population, you trashed the e-mail from DoIT, maybe skimmed an article in the paper and haven't thought about any of this stuff for more than a couple of seconds.
In this week's \This Land is Your Land,"" Jeff takes a look at modern hip-hop and ponders if hip-hop is dead or alive.'
Unless I'm in a car ... and the CD player is broken ... and I don't have an iTrip on me ... and I'm too embarrassed to sing ""Piano Man"" out loud ... I don't much listen to the radio anymore. I imagine I am not alone in this. Between CDs and iPods and all this new satellite radio stuff, it's got to be tough for the regular, old-fashioned WXYZ or KABC (total FYI tangent: For classification purposes, all radio stations west of the Mississippi start with a K and all radio stations to the east start with a W). However, despite its myriad of competitors, regular old radio isn't dead, although it might be getting a pretty swift kick in the face soon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, four large radio-controlling companies (Clear Channel, CBS, et al.) have come to terms with the FCC about—well—bribery, more or less.
In this week's \This Land is Your Land,"" Jeff talks about the Christian rock movement.'
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