by Sasha Stone | Mar 3, 2019 | MEN, Obsessions, PJ Harvey
For my money, PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love is the album featuring a series of songs that expresses how I feel when I have fallen hard in my life for various people. No one else gets quite to it like she does. Full of passion, desire, occasional anger and...
by Sasha Stone | Feb 3, 2019 | Bob Dylan, In Dreams, Obsessions, POETS, ROCKGODS, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE, TO MUSE
One of the best Bob Dylan songs without a doubt is I’ll Keep it With Mine. It’s so good, of course, that PJ Harvey quotes it in her song Oh My Lover. “Give me your troubles, I’ll keep them with mine.” There is, of course, the famous Nico...
by Sasha Stone | Dec 24, 2018 | Springsteen, THINGS LEARNED
I have never been the kind of Bruce fan who has seen every concert. I haven’t played every one of his albums non-stop, nor do I know every small detail about his life and work. There are those kinds of fans. I know those kinds of fans. The truth is, I was just...
by Sasha Stone | Mar 21, 2014 | Chrissie Hynde, ROCKGODS
What a shame that the music industry does not find and promote awesome humans like this one: I came of age with women like this dominating. It’s no wonder than I am occasionally a ballbuster.
by Sasha Stone | Sep 20, 2013 | ROCKGODS
Katy Perry’s career took a while to build. But once she hit, she became a sensation of all sorts. But homegirl is decidedly unlucky in love. Many of her biggest songs really trace the outline of her romantic maturity and, I think, can work as a crude roadmap to...
by Sasha Stone | Sep 13, 2013 | Bob Dylan
For fans of the song another listen to a different version…Just the best. Photo credit (and neat experiment) here.