| And there’s Kid Creole, which leads me to thinking about David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, which will eventually lead me to play the New York Dolls’ “Personality Crisis,” and by that point I am long gone and the only thing that can save me or you or anybody aboard this ship is “Vanessa from Queens” off that last Steve Malkmus album, which everybody seems to think is a better album than the debut, which it isn’t, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t ruthless in spots, because it is: “Why don’t you let me, let me, let me love you? Vanessa from Queens,” brisk and weightless, note-perfect. There’s Li’l Flip. There’s Ozzy’s “Bark at the Moon,” warranting several self-published pamphlets all on its own and I may get around to it, too, if the dust ever settles. Rebecca Pearcy’s impossibly perfect “Poppies.” The new Enon album. Nat King Cole’s “The Shadows.” Another R. Kelly song, the one with Ja Rule in it, fully colonizing every corner of my brain for days at a time. Malkmus’s “(Do Not Feed the) Oyster,” best second line of any pop song this year, no contest. Patti Smith’s “Summer Cannibals” took my breath away three times while I was meaning to sweep the floor. Always back to the Radiation 4: this week’s update was originally going to be an incredibly complex piece claiming that Wonderland had been the biggest news story of the week in every corner of the globe. |
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