does anyone have any sunset rubdown ? they are whole band now?

Im in love with Frida!

Wow!

dan: your summaries suck. you pick the best songs, but you do the worst job of describing them because you use saidthegramophone as a venue to practice your skills as a crappy prose-poet rather than to tell your readers what the songs you choose actually sound like. i appreciate the effort but am turned off by the results.

okay jeremy, not only are you fucking wrong (want to hear what the song sounds like? LISTEN TO IT. mp3blogs do not need to write like the fucking NME. also: what does it sound like? it sounds like a goldfish putting on a show) but i wonder if you realise how mean what you wrote was?

Sean - I can't believe you beat me to this. You're a prolific man.
Also, re: the Daily Show discussion - I couldn't agree with you more.

Jeremy - Why make a comment like that? We three have each had our writing meanly and unconstructively criticized, and frankly, we don't enjoy it or learn from it. So, why do it? Dan writes about music in a completely original way, and I can assure you that you are among a small minority of detractors. To wish him to stop is to be a selfish man.

You are also wrong to say that Dan posts the best songs. I post the best songs.

Harsh. As far as I'm concerned, Dan IS telling us how things actually sound to him. It is much braver of him to try to articulate how the songs personally make an impression on him than to become mired in music critic cliches. You seem to like Dan's selections; thus, it would seem to be great shame to pass up the opportunity to get some insight into the mind that is selecting the songs that you like.

It's sad that it took this comment for me to actually write on STG. Keep up the good work, Dan.

jeremy: you are an ungrateful little shit. I wish I could kick you in the balls. Then again, if you had any you would start your own music blog instead of trash talking this one.

Jeremy, go home!

You said it D.B.F.C.T.- there's no room for that kind of negativity here.

blegh, i'm the real jerimee. that other is an imposter. plus, he's a real meanie. i love dan's descriptions!

Jebus; I like the way Dan writes (and Sean, and Jordan). It's all better than "here's a trumpet, here's a backbeat, here's a guitar going chicka-chicka," which is the kind of writing I tend to fall into.

But--even if I didn't like their writing--this is their space and not mine (I'm a guest here) and, anyway, if I were to complain about it I'd want to do it in some way that's polite and, I don't know, constructive.

i loved that spenking track so much, i've tried to buy the cd - however you can't from that "buy" link. you are forwarded onto marriage records. who i've found don't respond to emails about buying anything... oh, how frustrating.

fair enough. while you do have to be prepared for criticsm when you publish anything publically, "suck" is not a word that any writer should have to hear. in terms of making my criticism more constructive, i guess i'd say that the real problem i have with dan's writing is that he uses an allusive, poetic style for almost every song. of course, there are some songs that almost require such an approach, and no great song can be summarized in simple prose. nevertheless, a more elaborate style loses it's power when relied on too often. sorry for not putting it this way the first time.

jordan: your songs are good too, just not the best.