Battlestar Eclectic

Sarah Torribio and her right brain. Music. Musings. Writing. Style.

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I’m a writer with a background in journalism and a penchant for writing down my poetry, screenplays and random musing. I’m also a mom of two and die-hard rock ‘n roll fan.

Category: Music

  • Song of the Day: ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana

    “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana is a symphony of rage and angst by a band with an innate sense of dynamics and a pile-driver beat. Hooray, posthumously, for Kurt Cobain, an anti-hero who screamed so that we should not have to scream. (Although most of us still scream along) With David Grohl’s head-banging, hair-tossing,…

  • Song of the Day: ‘Barbed Wire’ by Cardinals

    I like this slice of indie melodrama-core. “Barbed Wire” by Cardinals features stabbing keys–is that accordion or a electronic facsimile?–and a desperate singing words of naked emotional. The lines are delivered somewhere in the neighborhood of deadpan, hysterical, scoffing and ironic. I’ve parked my car there a few nights here and there. –Sarah Torribio <<last…

  • Song of the Day: “Untouchable Face” by Ani Difranco

    I love “Untouchable Face” by Ani Difranco. The delicious heart stab of unrequited love. A low-fi production that matches the setting, a late and lonely night in a low-rent bar/diner. And then there is the poetry, of Ani, never intellectual but always smart. She transports you to her created scene not by the awesome power…

  • Flash Fiction: ‘The Ear-Worm’ (Making a Scene series)

    SARAH I can’t seem to stop listening to this song by Djo, i.e. Joe Kreely, i.e. Steve from “Stranger Things.” I can hear him singing it in my mind. (humming) “Enter troubador. Remember 24.” DOC: Hmmm. And does this ‘HE’ in your mind ask you to remember anything else–to do anything else? SARAH No. It’s…

  • Song of the Day: ‘No Audience’ by Absolutely

    There’s a touch of Imogen Heap and just a skosh of Cocteau Twins in this dreamy piece of indie electro-chamber pop. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post Listen to more songs of the day HERE

  • Song of the Day: “Just Like U Said It Would Be”

    This is one of my favorite songs off The Lion and the Cobra, the 1987 debut album by Sinead O’Connor which is an amazing album, as is her 1990 sophomore album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. A lot of people only know her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares to You” off I…

  • Song of the Day: “Losing Grip” by Avril Lavigne

    Why is this song such a banger? I tend to dismiss Avril Lavigne as a musical lightweight, or forget about her from time to time as she’s a bit reclusive, relatively speaking. She surprises again and again, though, with compelling songs. Even when her lyrics are teenage simple, her voice and delivery proves moving. Avril…

  • Song of the Day: ‘Capital I’ by Andrew Bird

    This new offering by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is arresting and inventive. Bird is as genre-bending as Beck in “Capital I,” which throws roots rock, chamber-pop and alt-rock into the sonic blender. This hot-off-the-presses showcases Andrew Bird’s mastery of strings and the strange. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >> next post Listen to more songs…

  • Song of the Day: ‘Shake the Disease’ by Depeche Mode

    My song of the day is “Shake the Disease” by Depeche Mode.  This ditty came out in 1985, when I was all of 11. I got into “DeMode”–as Richard Blade of KROQ fame insisted on abbreviating the name–big-time at age 15. I remember having all their albums on CD and playing on repeat sen-soo-al songs like…

  • Song of the Day: “Six Different Ways” by The Cure

    I just realized yesterday something I’d forgotten, that “Six Different Ways” by The Cure is the best song in the world. The writer in me wants to somehow evoke the production, which ranges from sweeping violin to introspective but upbeat toy instrument riffs. To say there’s heroin and fairy dust on this album. To risk…