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Raconteur Anthems

I’ve recently become obsessed with finding songs that fit into this category, which I’ll explain: these are songs that are anthemic singalong songs, but different than an anthemic pop song. These songs are usually dense and layered production-wise, tell a story, and are more lyrical than a standard pop song. The sentiment of these songs are bigger and more sprawling than a typical song’s subject matter. When I brought this up on the pod, KJ came up with the term “raconteur anthems,” and someone else said I was referring to “we anthems” instead of “I songs,” and I think that’s the perfect way to describe it. I think that when this type of song is done perfectly, it probably makes for the best music ever written.  “Like A Rolling Stone” is the archetype of this type of song. Other main examples include “Common People” by Pulp, “All My Friends” by LCD Soundsystem, “Born In The USA” by Bruce Springsteen, “Heroes” by David Bowie, “American Pie” by Don McLean, and this list goes on. A song is probably the most accessible art form there is, and achieving this level of universality in something that short and contained is an amazing feat, and I’ve gotten really obsessed with trying to figure out which songs fit the bill.

@curtis

Aug 17, 2023

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Drive that fast - kitchens of distinction

Obsessive with this song at the moment, I can’t get it out of my head, they’ve laced this song with something. It’s like if Michael Stipe of REM fronted Slowdive and told them how to write indie pop melodies with their silly guitar pedals. Listening through some more of their stuff after finding them through instagram earlier this week but this track will not escape any singular judgement I have on their other tracks- they’re all comparable to how this song makes me feel and therefore cannot champion it.

@glenbek

Oct 4, 2024

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Spoon, “kill the moonlight”

Nobody knows how to end an album on a particularly wistful note like my pal Britt Daniel. ‘Vittorio E’ is like the first of many such closers. 💙

@coreydubrowa

Apr 1, 2024

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When your new book is finally available for preorder ❤️

Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here: https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/ The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s. Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha). For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️

@coreydubrowa

Mar 27, 2024

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The cure announcing their first album in 16 years by PUTTING up a single poster outside the pub in crawley UK where they played their first gig

“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤 The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for

@coreydubrowa

Sep 14, 2024

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Unwound

I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s. So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it: “Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.” R.I.P. Vern Rumsey. This is their finest song, from their finest album. I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤

@coreydubrowa

Mar 23, 2024