Video: It's fun to be imaginary!
{Yes, they are playing the song while riding a train!!! God bless IndieTracks!} This morning my ipod shuffle brought up Moustache of Insanity's "Imagine" and…
Blasphemous Rumors
I read somewhere that Martin Gore picked up a paper one day, highlighted three stories, then wrote a pop song about them. The resulting track,…
"Pudding Time" by Primus
Primus was my first introduction to the alternative-era bands in high school. Sure, I'd grown up listening to a swath of new wave and punk…
"In the End" by Green Day
It's either funny or pretty predictable that a large number of my high-school punk-rock memories involve truancy of some form or another. Maybe I just…
"A Pretty Girl Is Like" by the Magnetic Fields
It took me a while to get into the Magnetic Fields. When I first heard 69 Love Songs I thought a good portion of the…
"The End of the World" by Jesu
We usually think of Justin Broadrick and really, really distorted guitar in sort of the same light. Broadrick's best remembered for terrorizing eardrums in Napalm…
"Levi Stubbs' Tears" by Billy Bragg
Everyone in the Imaginary Nation's been there at one point in his or her life: Down, out and utterly destroyed. You know, the sort of…
"Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers
This song was huge. H-U-G-E. It was my freshman year of college and the Squirrel Nut Zippers were inescapable. Which wasn't such a bad thing.…
"Snowball in Hell" by They Might Be Giants
Hey, we all have our down days, even the two Johns in They Might Be Giants. Although you probably think all sorts of cheery thoughts…
"Astley in the Noose" by The Wonderstuff
It's not very often that a topically themed pop song sounds as relevant 20 years down the line as the day when it was cut,…