Creative Class

Taste is always subjective and fame-fleeting, but I could not agree more with NPR’s Carrie Brownstein on this:

This afternoon I went to the Spin party to see X. The band played
all of the hits, from ‘Los Angeles’ to ‘We’re Desperate’. John Doe,
always the storyteller, told the audience that ‘Nausea’ was how we’d
feel after the amount of beer we’d all been drinking and that ‘Motel
Room In My Bed’ is where we’d be when we woke up feeling sick … Before X were Vampire Weekend, who I saw yesterday at The Parish. It’s a shame so many people left after Vampire Weekend and missed X’s show.

To my ears, X were one of the very best bands of their era.  Doe is a terrific lyricist and the male-female vocals as good as any this side of Jefferson Airplane.

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