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When will you come back home?

Reuben — Mon, 27 May 2013 04:59:16 +0000

As someone who becomes obsessed with things generally, and musical ideas in particular, I have to a large extent inhabited the Ryan Adams song "When will you come back home?" over the past couple weeks. Often, recording a song helps me kick an obsession. Once I've totally dissected a song to its component parts, re-recorded, …

Signe videosong

Reuben — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:53:14 +0000

Cover of Eric Clapton's Signe that I recorded. When I was 16 I got an acoustic guitar and two tab books (Nirvana Unplugged and Eric Clapton Unplugged). Those two books taught me more about guitar than any other thing.

New videosong posted: Ol' '55

Reuben — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:55:08 +0000

Here

Great Songs - No Surprises

Reuben — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:22:22 +0000

Song name: No Surprises Composer: Radiohead (Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway, Ed O'Brien) Album: OK Computer No Surprises occupies kind of a strange place in the Radiohead oeuvre, and marks the end of a kind of tender song that Yorke stopped composing in 1997 (he eventually returned to it in recent work). …

Indisputably the best songs ever

Reuben — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:59:09 +0000

Recently I happened upon this list by Rolling Stone of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It is, of course, mired in old-fart music, relying on "importance" of songs rather than on aesthetics. It's also clearly not the work of an individual. The top 2 songs are both really just lines of bullshit: Dylan's …

Am I the next generation of Old Fart music fan?

Reuben — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:18:48 +0000

I maintain a long playlist of songs I think are great. The list is quite extensive (1293 tracks, at present) for someone that other people say is "picky" about music, and I think few people can say there are that many songs they really love. But, I have an issue with this list. Recently, I …

A pretty good band

Reuben — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:41:33 +0000

Saw these guys, What Made Milwaukee Famous, a couple weeks ago on Austin City Limits. Check out the video here of their track "Hellodrama". That's easily the best song on the album, called "Trying never to catch up". I got it off UCR's horrible cdigix system, so I don't know how y'all can find it …