Richard Milhouse Nixon: Toughest Guy of All
Listening to: Aimee Mann - WhateverAimee Mann wins the award for the "Album With The Most Contractions In The Song Titles". Not really, 'cause that award doesn't exist in any physical sense, but she does have almost half the titles on this album incorporating some kind of contraction. Plus, are the contractions like 'should've, could've, would've, and must've' technically allowed? I always thought they were, but the spell-check here at good ol' Blogger seems to disallow 'should've, could've, and must've'. Maybe that's just preference. It's nice to know that Blogger has opinions on things. Hey, Blogger, what do you think about Richard Nixon? Shucks, it clammed up. But hey, what a perfect segue into my next thought!
I was reading some Hunter S. Thompson this past spring, specifically Part 2 of The Great Shark Hunt, in which he has a number of articles and essays on Nixon and Watergate. While I enjoyed reading it, I realized I really had no idea what he was talking about. Watergate has always been this vague thing to me, and I've never really known what the heck it was all about. This week, I decided to change all that. Towards the end of summer, I purchased a book, All the President's Men, by the two Washington Post reporters that really broke the whole Watergate story in order to inform myself. I started reading it this week, and it is just blowing my mind! What a crazy story it's been so far! I can't believe half the stuff I read, because it just seems so outrageous and fictional. It's proved to be a very interesting read, because even though I (sort of) know the end result, the incredibly convoluted and ridiculous plot is so thrilling and hilarious and is almost too good to believe. People being caught in lies left, right, and center; who knew government officials screwing the pooch on such a massive level could make for great reading? Well, I guess anybody who knows anything could probably make that leap, but man, this book is highly enjoyable.
This album is Aimee Mann's first album, and it's my favorite of hers. And, I should probably clarify that my rating system is not necessarily very good or trustworthy. I'm not great at really critically listening and determining the musical or lyrical worth of any given album, so my ratings are basically whether or not (and how much) I liked the album. Maybe I'm some sort of pussy, but I find myself really liking the work of Aimee Mann. Sorry, tough guys, I have to resign.
Aimee Mann - Whatever ★★★★★★★✩✩✩
Favorite Tracks: I Should've Known, Jacob Marley's Chain, I've Had It
Least Favorite Tracks: Fifty Years After the Fair
1. I Should've Known
2. Fifty Years After the Fair
3. 4th of July
4. Could've Been Anyone
5. Put Me On Top
6. Stupid Thing
7. Say Anything
8. Jacob Marley's Chain
9. Mr. Harris
10. I Could've Hurt You Now
11. I Know There's A Word
12. I've Had It
13. Way Back When
8 things:
You might think this is hypocritcal, but your post was too long. I took the time to seek out alternatives to having to read it, what with my bum eye and all. I successfully found a website to read it aloud to me in various accents and persuasions (Didn't see "Gay guy" unfortunately), and ultimately settled on Spanish accent. Then I took your post to word, and had it summarize it for me by cutting the post down to 25% of it's original size, and voila here she be.
"I was reading some Hunter S. Thompson this past spring, specifically Part 2 of The Great Shark Hunt, in which he has a number of articles and essays on Nixon and Watergate. People being caught in lies left, right, and center; who knew government officials screwing the pooch on such a massive level could make for great reading? This album is Aimee Mann's first album, and it's my favorite of hers. Sorry, tough guys, I have to resign."
Good post actually, but I'm sick of Aimee Mann. How many friggen albums does this girl have? Just like the show says Ryan...
Next!
Aimee Mann is done. She had a good run.
Next up: Akron/Family
I like that 25% post. It's fairly accurate as far as the bulk of the content goes. Maybe I'll start doing that.
Here's the other thing:
This little project is going to take between 3 and 4 years. And that's if I post about an album every single day. This is daunting and outrageous.
In fact, we won't even be out of the A's before Christmas. Shit.
Hahaha. The same thought crossed my mind, but unlike you I stopped after one band. What I'm going to do is eliminate 10 bands a month from my I-Pod until I can finally put on shuffle and listen to only things I enjoy. That's pretty easy to do considering I just have to listen to one band every 3 or 4 days I think.
If you're going to continue your reviews, I think what you should do is not go alphabetical, but rather just pick a random fringe band in your music library. Things that you've heard maybe one or two, but not the whole thing.
I was thinking about doing that, but I'd need to impose some strict rules or I would quit. I like this because it's like, alright, A-Z, do it.
I dunno. I'm mulling it over. Maybe I should do them all, but do it much more random. Like, totally random. So you don't have to hear about the same band so often.
I see what you're saying, and I'll have to respect that. Also, as added motivation you could think "At the end of this, I'd get on local TV".
Yeah, I think I'll just do it all random, and it will be good.
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