http://conversationalreading.com/seeing-sounds-by-nerd-review/ Since 2004. The blog of the critic, writer, and editor, Scott Esposito Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://conversationalreading.com/seeing-sounds-by-nerd-review/#comment-8927 w Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:53:26 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/wordpress/2008/07/seeing-sounds-by-nerd-review.html#comment-8927 I've kept away from NERD because of the Pharrell glut, but I listened to them again over the weekend and remembered what had attracted me to their music in the first place---their boyish earnestness, their silly though spot-on irony, their fresh funky groove---but I remembered all this by bopping along like a dancing monkey, not through this wonderful analysis you've offered. Thanks for articulating it, and for nailing it on the head, and for reminding me that I need to get the new album. I’ve kept away from NERD because of the Pharrell glut, but I listened to them again over the weekend and remembered what had attracted me to their music in the first place—their boyish earnestness, their silly though spot-on irony, their fresh funky groove—but I remembered all this by bopping along like a dancing monkey, not through this wonderful analysis you’ve offered. Thanks for articulating it, and for nailing it on the head, and for reminding me that I need to get the new album.

]]> http://conversationalreading.com/seeing-sounds-by-nerd-review/#comment-8926 Jahsonic Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:28:42 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/wordpress/2008/07/seeing-sounds-by-nerd-review.html#comment-8926 <i>heir very embodiment of postmodernity can best be seen in the fact that I don't even know how to classify them: are they a rock group or a hip-hop group?</i> True, true, true! And I thought CR was purely a litblog. My mistake. Jahsonic heir very embodiment of postmodernity can best be seen in the fact that I don’t even know how to classify them: are they a rock group or a hip-hop group?
True, true, true!
And I thought CR was purely a litblog. My mistake.
Jahsonic

]]> http://conversationalreading.com/seeing-sounds-by-nerd-review/#comment-8925 tito Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:35:37 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/wordpress/2008/07/seeing-sounds-by-nerd-review.html#comment-8925 Haven't heard this record (or any NERD, really) though I'll give it a spin. sounds up my alley (mostly b/c as I read the article i could have sworn I was in some time warp reading about Paul's Boutique -- probably my all time favorite record). Haven’t heard this record (or any NERD, really) though I’ll give it a spin. sounds up my alley (mostly b/c as I read the article i could have sworn I was in some time warp reading about Paul’s Boutique — probably my all time favorite record).

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