Comments on: Carl’s Rock Songbook #49: Simon Reynolds, Retromania

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Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:39:35 +0000

[...] whose fine book and futurist longings I discussed in the last two Songbook posts, begins with pop music and keeps [...]

By: Tater Mash

Tater Mash — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:08:46 +0000

The only place I’ve ever heard Girl Talk played is at parties where college-age kids are playing beer-pong. I’m not sure why mash-ups are popular in such circumstances, but they are. So John Lewis is right, Girl Talk does keep em’ “dancing” and “shooting”

By: John Lewis

John Lewis — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:02:52 +0000

Girl talk is more analytically and technically political. Music before this might have kept em’ dancing or shooting but it did not inspire folks to quote a statute, see 17 U.S.C. § 107.