Albums of Our Lives: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Before you came along, I don’t think I actually had a musical identity.
...moreBefore you came along, I don’t think I actually had a musical identity.
...moreAt once soothing and horrifying, it became for me the soundtrack of grief and hope for my wounded city and country.
...moreThe summer before my final year at college, my fear started to manifest as an anxiety disorder specializing in sickness and disease.
...more“Annie Waits” summed me up in ways that I wasn’t consciously aware of at the time and not only because Annie was my childhood nickname.
...moreA friend once showed me his dad’s copy of the Beatles’s White Album and said you could find secret messages hidden in the lyrics. I tried to look for the same things in Odelay, but it resisted.
...moreA raw video of a diminutive woman howling “I’m the king of the world!” and nearly eating the camera was a welcome assault on late-night TV. It’s why I stayed up on a school night.
...moreThe end is always tragic. I’d known that from the start. What kind of sucker would expect to hold on to a girl named Misty Hayes?
...moreI wanted to feel sheltered under the cathedral of his voice, to feel, always, the way his songs made me feel.
...moreThe pioneering alternative rock band R.E.M. officially disbanded in 2011, after more than 30 years making music that defied description. Allegedly, singer Michael Stipe chose the band’s name in 1980 by picking it at random from a dictionary. The reference to “rapid eye movement”—a stage of deep sleep—is particularly apropos to the beautiful and sprightly […]
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