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I Totally Forgot Butch Vig Did This, but He's Totally Right

What's the most underrated record you've ever worked on?

This Perfect World by Freedy Johnston. An amazing singer-songwriter, I'm very close to him still; he sang at my wedding. The song "This Perfect World" is one of my favorite songs I've ever recorded. At the time I did that, people were taken aback because he's just like, a folk singer. It takes a couple listens to get used to his voice—he's got that high Midwestern twang—but there's some beautiful, beautiful songs on it.

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Track:
New Girlfriend (1994)

Artist:
Monobrow

Album:
Decade Vol. I

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New Girlfriend, Monobrow, 1994

I’d forgotten all the great live Steve Earle recordings there are. Thanks, Spotify!

“Venerable culture hasn’t disappeared; its past is present. The cooler commercials and half the music videos are shown in pearly black and white. Tony Soprano slouches into a epiphanic funk watching James Cagney as a Chicago gangster in the 1931 “Public Enemy.” The hippest, funniest show of the ’90s, “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” was nothing but guys making sophisticated cracks about bad old movies — and thus making them good…. for something. More broadly, the parody element inside so many hit movies and TV shows, as well as the sampling of hip-hop, demands that the consumer have a panoramic familiarity with the pop culture of yesterday and the day or decade before. You won’t GET “Scary Movie” unless you know “Scream”; won’t get “Scream” unless you know “Halloween”; won’t understand “Halloween” without “Psycho.” That leads kids to the video store — perhaps not for the best the past had to offer, but certainly for a huge hunk of it.”

—Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling”

Eleven years ago today, I started one of the greatest experiences of my time as a journalist—editing a genius Time movie critic’s column. A decade later, these are still fantastic reads, and I’m reminded again of how luck I was to be able to work with such great people throughout my career.  

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