Battlestar Eclectic
Sarah Torribio and her right brain. Music. Musings. Writing. Style.
Category: alt-rock
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>>last post <<next post Oh, man, I fell for The Smashing Pumpkins hard when I was 18 or so, at the start of my community college voyage. there was something about Gish, Siamese Dream and…be still my beating heart…the double concept-ish Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness that swept me away. It amplified angst, desire,…
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I just had a craving for “Everlong” by the Foo Fighters. It’s my favorite of their songs, that and “There Goes My Hero.” I’m not sure why I never developed a love affair with the Foos, giving their meteoric debut and avid fan-base. It could still happen, though.. I’m only just now beginning to appreciate…
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>>last post <<next post This song is everything and more, innit? I’m very American, stereo-typically so, but I’ve fallen in love with the phrase innit. It’s so street. It’s so rock ‘n roll. It’s so informal. It’s so making tea over the stove burner. Back to this loop. Talk Talk is such a beautiful and…
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Some things are simple cause and effect. I stumbled across a new-to-me Killers song, “Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll” and of course had to keep listening to the Killers because they are bad-ass. I got a craving for their “Romeo and Juliet,” an exquisitely-rendered cover of a Dire Straits song, off the Killers’ 2007 sophomore release “Sawdust.” I found…
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Are you familiar with the band The Glove? The lineup included Robert Smith of The Cure and Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees fame. It was strange and dazzling and pretty. When I was in high school, knowing about this obscure and short-lasting project made me feel like I had an ultra-cool secret. That…
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Some of the most imagery-heavy lyrics around can be found in the miles-deep catalog of the dark-wave/alt-rock British band Siouxsie and the Banshees. The proof is in the pudding, as they say. To prove my point, all I have to do is point to a few lines from the epic “Dazzle,” off the band’s 1984…
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>>last post <<next post How did I miss this heart-breaker of an indie-rock duet? It’s a new-to-me, old-to-the-internet version of “Wake Up Exhausted” by Alkaline Trio. It’s probably time I admitted something, now that I hear Dan Andriano’s voice entwined with that of Tegan of Tegan and Sara. I’m a sucker for eye candy and…
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>>last post <<next post “New Song” is an ecstatically pleasant song. I think I may have underestimated Howard Jones. He helped pioneer electric rock amid the second wave British invasion of the the 1980s. According to Wikipedia, Howard Jones had six top 10 singles between the years 1983-1986, including “What is Love?” and “Things Can…
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>>last post <<next post Today’s song of the day is the lovely “Mr. Somewhere” off the 1991 album Blood, the final LP by dream pop supergroup This Mortal Coil. I’m just educated enough to know that the British music collective’s name is a reference to Hamlet. In his famous “To Be Or Not To Be” speech…