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'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.
- Rob Sheffield
#Innocent
#Psycho
#Stage
#Voice
#Young
The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.
- Rob Sheffield
#Culture
#Love
#New
#Search
#Time
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.
- Rob Sheffield
#Common Sense
#Enemies
#Heart
#Perfect
Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
- Rob Sheffield
#Drummer
#Four
#Hair
#Just
#Know
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills.
- Rob Sheffield
#Love Is
#Love
#Memories
#Music
#New
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
- Rob Sheffield
#Ball
#Day
#First
#Opening
#Race
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
- Rob Sheffield
#Clock
#I Can
#Me
#Morning
#Song
It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time when the church was so connected to the world.
- Rob Sheffield
#Best
#Church
#Grow
#Time
#World
Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.
- Rob Sheffield
#Fans
#Hometown
#Strange
#Tough
#World
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.
- Rob Sheffield
#I Am
#Life
#Music
#New
#Stone
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.
- Rob Sheffield
#America
#God
#Life
#Love
#Sex
Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
- Rob Sheffield
#Culture
#Movies
#Music
#Power
#Talking
You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
- Rob Sheffield
#Attitude
#Beat
#Beehive
#Glam
#You
Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.
- Rob Sheffield
#American
#Character
#Perfect
#Twilight
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.
- Rob Sheffield
#Best
#Fighting
#Gang
#Perfect
#Queen
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.
- Rob Sheffield
#Giving
#Know
#Rock
#Street
#Today
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
- Rob Sheffield
#American
#Black
#Death
#Flowers
#Go
#Legends
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
- Rob Sheffield
#Life
#Memory
#Moment
#My Life
#Surprise
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.
- Rob Sheffield
#Hip-Hop
#Language
#Music
#Teen
#World
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
- Rob Sheffield
#City
#Loneliness
#Pet
#Sad
#Weird
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