DYRT90s? // Collective Soul: Shine
In college, my friend Tim and I started a semi-comedic acoustic cover band called Bad Sneakers. Even though he possessed 98% of the combined musical talent of the group, he graciously let me pick all the songs. In a career that spanned nearly 14 months and encompassed the musical stylings of everyone from Talking Heads [...]
DYRT90s? // R.E.M.: Everybody Hurts
Back in my day, bands routinely made short films to accompany some of their more popular songs. These short films were called “music videos,” and there were entire television stations devoted to playing nothing but these short films – music videos, that is – all day long. Some music videos were little more than footage [...]
DYRT90s? // Sublime: Greatest Hits
The most interesting thing about the “two-year experiment to increase his creativity” story that MTV After-School Specials use to explain away the heroin habit that cost Brad Nowell his life is not the fact that it is most likely bullshit, but that it is hardly a cautionary tale. Suggesting that 40oz. to Freedom – a [...]
