Album Review: Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

Arcade Fire's Funeral was inspired, and Neon Bible was brilliant (and both were suggestively atheistic). But their new album, The Suburbs, is exquisite.

I don't understand people who don't own and love Arcade Fire's albums. You might as well worship some god....

Album Review: All Of The 80's Music You Hated Loving

Redux: The new Scissor Sisters album is inspired madness. I never hated/loved the 80's so much/more.

It's like listening to Sirius XM's 1st Wave channel but not recognizing the songs; it's a Prince album before he went all Jehovah's Witness. It's when gay was straight, but totally gay.

The Scissor Sisters have their first totally great album.

Gay Fun Alert: New Scissor Sisters Album

Not for everyone...and barely for me: the (mostly) fun-as-hell gay campy-rock, retro-disco Scissor Sisters will have a new album out June 28. Their last one came out in 2006, and I enjoyed it kinda a lot but not totally. Like their first album, it had great songs peppered amongst some forgettable just-ok songs.

But it's good to see the gays taking back their rock/disco/new-wave musical birthright. And if nothing else, the Scissor Sisters do that.

From their first album:



From their second:



And, their best song ever:


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From their new album:

Before Lady GaGa

Lady GaGa is only a modern Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Stuck in my head earlier this month.

Grand Duchy Does The Cure

A Strange Day



By the way: Just Like Heaven is a great tribute album worth buying.

Not Bad

Frank Black and his wife have an album out under the name Grand Duchy. I like it more as I listen to it. It's The Good Queen of Pop meets the Wicked King of Distortion. The album has a very 80's feel, like the bad dreams of the Thompsan Twins.

A Fun List

Top 30 Atheist Songs

I think we can all agree on #1: "Dear God" by XTC.



I'm glad to see Green Day's recent "East Jesus Nowhere" made it on the list. Can you believe they played that song on Good Morning America and corrupted a young girl?

Emo Kid Is Throwing Slo-Mo Dove At My Face

Here's the video of my favorite most horrible song of all time, "Total Eclipse of the Heart," only the lyrics have been changed to describe the video's bat-shit craziness. This parody has forced me to throw away 3 perfectly good boxer briefs, so consider yourself warned.

Total Eclipse spoof
by chinesedaughter

Dear God Is Worth A Buck

The organizer of the Charlotte (NC) Pop Fest has decided to donate all proceeds to organizations advocating science and reason. To make his point, James Deem (the organizer) has covered "Dear God."

I want this on a shirt

You can buy the cover for a dollar at Amazon. All proceeds go to our favorite nonprofit: The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

The cover is fantastic; the cause is just; the lyrics are awesome.

I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners,
No devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it's the same the whole world round.
The hurt I see helps to compound,
That the father, son and holy ghost,
Is just somebody's unholy hoax,
And if you're up there you'll perceive,
That my hearts here upon my sleeve.
If theres one thing I don't believe in...

Its you,
Dear god.

XTC was so awesome...

For Iowa

Given the news today, I was reminded of a song from my rebel youth: The Dead Milkmen's "Stuart." Emphasis mine:

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I first became aware of this, about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year? Well this year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said "Keep your head and arms inside the mixer at all times." But Bill Jr., he was a daredevil, just like his old man. He was leaning out saying, "Hey everybody! Look at me, look at me!" POW! He was decapitated. They found his head over by the snowcone concession. A few days after that, I open up the mail and there's a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And it's addressed to Bill Jr. And it's entitled, "Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?"

Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can't build on it, you can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on, Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God.

You know what Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people, here in the trailer park.

Who knew The Dead Milkmen were visionary?

Bauhaus: Double Dare

Oh to be an angry teenager again...(see coments from here)

For GateTree