http://disqus.com/by/imematt/enThu, 02 Dec 2010 04:22:02 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kin-im-my-own-grandpa.html#comment-105823586<p>Hear here, and an hearty hello! good traveler.<br>Nice to see the Half-Hearted Dude chime in!</p>MattThu, 02 Dec 2010 04:22:02 -0000http://popdose.com/new-music-anna-ash-just-like-the-movies/#comment-101996456<p>I'm really digging this. I've watched it twice here, and then been over to YouTube and her own site to search for more goodness. Thanks for the heads up!</p>MattWed, 24 Nov 2010 13:06:35 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2010/10/call-me-hanging-on-telephone-x3.html#comment-89042753<p>My first big rock show was Blondie, with Elvis Costello and Duran Duran (and The Greg Kihn Band, to boot! as well as local faves Sussman Lawrence) as support acts. I couldn't honestly tell you, now, if they played this tune, but in my reveries, they played EVERY song that I love by them, whether reality backs it up or not</p><p>nice set. the original... the cover... the L7, which I'd never heard before... and am happy to have, now.</p>MattFri, 22 Oct 2010 04:58:12 -0000http://popdose.com/numberscruncher-mothers-moms-politics-and-palin/#comment-65238204<p>Normally I just come to Popdose for whatever music and movie schmear I can get, figuring that whatever is going on in these other blocs can do just fine without me... surely they can (don't call me Shirley)...<br>Tonight, with a few extra minutes, I decided to click onto this Numbercruncher and ended up gotten got!<br>Spot-on, with this written observation thing, and sheesh... now I gotta wend back through however deep the archives go? Thanks.<br>But sincerity must, so... Sincerely appreciate how you write!<br>Now, buzz off, I'm reading what you wrote before...</p>MattFri, 30 Jul 2010 03:25:36 -0000http://popdose.com/the-friday-mixtape-beatles-covers-edition/#comment-16530987<p>It nearly made me weep.</p>MattSun, 13 Sep 2009 02:26:38 -0000http://popdose.com/soundtrack-saturday-american-beauty/#comment-16514029<p>This movie isn't as high on my list as it was when I first saw it, but I certainly wouldn't call it over-rated. As for the soundtrack, I think the tunes complement the storyline perfect. Even songs I never need hear again (on the radio, at least, and through overexposure, not because they are bad songs) - "American Woman", "All Right Now" - work great for me, here.<br></p>MattSat, 12 Sep 2009 17:49:27 -0000http://popdose.com/the-friday-mixtape-beatles-covers-edition/#comment-16511107<p>Well, turns out it was (I think) a problem on my end... My connection had been hinky the past couple of days at other sites. I reset my modem this morning and, so far, everything seems to be much better.<br>Once again, double++ thanks, Popdosers!!!</p>MattSat, 12 Sep 2009 16:50:07 -0000http://popdose.com/the-friday-mixtape-beatles-covers-edition/#comment-16445780<p>I'm looking forward to listening to these... Some I have already, but most I don't.Big thanks, Popdose staff!<br>Now, if I can get the DL to work... After about 200MB, it has stopped. Twice. I suppose it's all my fellow PD fanatics trying to grab this one, too...<br>Well, third times a charm right?<br></p>MattFri, 11 Sep 2009 18:45:39 -0000http://popdose.com/the-popdose-guide-to-david-bowie-part-one/#comment-13581976<p>I'm quite impressed. If I were asked to pick just two songs from each of these albums, to form an overview/ highlight reel, I'd probably fail... but you did a great job!</p><p>I've sat a few people down with the Sound+Vision box set, over the years, in order to set them straight regarding Bowie's greatness. This (your) collection, though there is some overlap with S+V, will be a perfect companion, for that same purpose.</p><p>Kudos and Hai! Karate...<br></p>MattWed, 29 Jul 2009 20:52:42 -0000http://popdose.com/?p=23577#comment-12982060<p>Reminding me of my favorite haiku, ever:</p><p>Loving you is hard<br>But not as hard as Dokken<br>That shit fucking rocks</p><p>I can't take credit for that magical placement of letters into words. I wish I could remember where I first read it, but alas... internet amnesia.</p>MattMon, 20 Jul 2009 21:14:24 -0000http://popdose.com/?p=23433#comment-12794111<p>"...timeless compositions like “Don’t Forget to Dance” that offer new insights to the listener as they mature."<br>Well said...<br>I remember when a Kinks video would come up on Night Flight, I felt like I ought to feel kind of sissy (songs about 'dancing'? c'mon!) since it wasn't in the vein of 'Photograph' and it's hoo-rah-rah-isms, but I instead ended up feeling nourished, instead.<br>Speaking of... art class in 7th or 8th grade... teacher let kids bring in (big, clunky, whirring, magical) walkmen... I noticed that all the kids were kind of singing/ mumbling at about the same pitch and speed... I went around and checked... Class of 17 and 16 were listening to, you guessed it, Pyromania! Since it was the first class of the day, It seemed that most of 'em had started the tape on side one, at the beginning, so were roughly (very roughly) in synch, give or take a minute.<br>I sincerely can't remember what I was listening to, but it was about this time in my life that my older brother started sending me mix-tapes... Husker Du, Replacements (yeah, he was in Mpls) but also X, and other stuff that would become my mainstays through high-school... And I'm pretty sure that from that day forward, just to be an asshole, mind you, I cut down Leppard any chance I could. Even though I liked some of their songs, I liked being an asshole more. Yeah the punk was working... and the punks had listened to some Kinks!</p>MattThu, 16 Jul 2009 20:41:59 -0000http://assholes.tumblr.com/post/85362392#comment-8698706<p>First thing I thought when I saw that pic: "It's Dave Attell... and he's got hair!"</p>MattSun, 26 Apr 2009 01:59:02 -0000http://popdose.com/dw-dunphy-on-fake-deux/#comment-6933604<p>The Sleaze Sisters from Times Square? Or were they a real band? I dunno, since I was about 8 years old when I caught it on HBO... Now I can't track down the film OR the (super-excellent) soundtrack. If you can... hoo boy! I'd love ya!</p>MattThu, 05 Mar 2009 20:38:31 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/civics-lessons-our-flag-was-still-there.html#comment-3153379<p>That's what I thought, too. I still do think that, to tell truths!</p>MattSun, 19 Oct 2008 01:14:35 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/civics-lessons-our-flag-was-still-there.html#comment-3153361<p>Who's God?</p>MattSun, 19 Oct 2008 01:11:37 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/civics-lessons-our-flag-was-still-there.html#comment-3153354<p>Well, C can mean anything you want it to, written like that.</p><p>My own, personal, opinion would be that A+B+C (+ every other letter from the english alphabet, to boot) = American... We are a nation of outsiders and individuals, which possesses nearly every posibile availibility to piss off someone.</p><p>We wide like that.</p><p>And I wouldn't have it any other way.</p>MattSun, 19 Oct 2008 01:10:17 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dylan-covers-highway-61-revisited.html#comment-2915481<p>I WOULD say this is some of her best...<br>The ultra- dynamic she uses to cause a person to turn up the volume.... then get blasted with over- volume... is ingenious.<br>doG-bless Polly Jean, and them who post her.</p>MattTue, 07 Oct 2008 06:28:41 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dylan-covers-absolutely-sweet-marie.html#comment-2915463<p>W'hell... I dunno if it's true that this is little known of not, but...<br>It was (probably) the thing that hooked me on the Scorchers when I bought the 'Ferver' cassette a few days after it came out.<br>This, to me, is the definative version of this tune... capturing the urgency better than the original...<br>It's true. This is the first song I thought of when this theme was inrtoduced. My-oh-my, and hevaen yes!</p>MattTue, 07 Oct 2008 06:23:54 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-names-time-has-told-me.html#comment-2876673<p>Whee... This looks like a good 'un.</p>MattSun, 05 Oct 2008 01:57:08 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-names-nine-bullets.html#comment-2876668<p>I didn't know! I didn't know! I didn't know!</p><p>Your blog is wonderful... If was just a little bit hipper I might'a picke dup on the title... alas I'm dense.</p>MattSun, 05 Oct 2008 01:55:45 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-names-spread-good-word.html#comment-2876616<p>Don't you Rick Roll me you savage, hedonistic bastard! I've gotten enough of that, ya dame!</p><p>But, the main reason I'm tyiping (an d mis-spelling) is that... Paul, you got tunes that are hostage to the i-tunes store? You should convert them to handy-dandy .mp3s (even preserving the metadata, and everything...</p><p>I thought we had a behind-the-scenes email convo about this type stuff, but I'm obviously wrong.</p><p>Just get yer-se'f the Double-Twist <a href="http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt">http://www.doubletwist.com/...</a><br>and it'll make all y'r i-tunes more resonable...</p><p>It takes quite awhile, if you have a lot of itunes corrupted music, because it re-encoes in real time, but in the background.... so, if you have a 3 min long song, it'll take 3 min to transcode... but it keeps the id3 tag info and bit-rate and all...</p><p>so there.</p>MattSun, 05 Oct 2008 01:38:26 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-names-star-maker-machine-music-biz.html#comment-2817707<p>Hey!<br>This blog rox my sox!<br>Even though I never could me pegged as a Joni fan, I DO appreciate her...<br>Not as much as I appreciate this blog, but... a fellow can't cover everything!</p>MattFri, 03 Oct 2008 02:12:38 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-names-so-this-is-what-volume-knobs.html#comment-2816975<p>I have a hard-time, wending my way through whatever 'new' music is professing itself, but... There are a lot of good 'uns working their magics... <br>It are sites like 'Volume Knob" that allow coots like me some possibility of knowing what the good stuff going on is...<br>And they do... <br>And I love the site. Thanks for high-lighting it for the others.</p>MattFri, 03 Oct 2008 00:36:08 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-names-armagideon-time.html#comment-2816441<p>Well thank you, aTart, ya tart!</p><p>I'm glad you were excited about the posting, because I was 1/2 afraid this'd be like most of my SMM contributions. Read: ignored.</p><p>But quality will out, and it is apparant to me that you have severely refined tasted, digging AT, and all.</p><p>Kudos to you, and extra drinks all around!</p>MattThu, 02 Oct 2008 23:43:00 -0000http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-names-armagideon-time.html#comment-2816238<p>Well hell... you make me think. And read. And tip-tap my foot (or pound my fist at the sky), for good measure!<br>So... you win. </p>MattThu, 02 Oct 2008 23:38:38 -0000