Wednesday, May 10, 2006
 
ALL MY LITTLE WORDS
Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs Box Set
Merge Records : 1999
[Buy It]

SURVIVOR (SMOOTH SAX TRIBUTE)
Really, who cares?
A Smooth Sax Tribute to Beyonce
Tribute Sounds : 2004
[Buy It]

BYE BYE BYE (TRIBUTE)
I mean really. (It's "The United Boys," if you must know.)
A Tribute to Justin Timberlake
Big Eye Music : 2003
[Buy It]


MOISTWORKS READER'S SUPPLEMENT PRESENTS:

STEPHIN MERRITT: ROCKIST, RASCIST, CRACKER?

or,

FIGURE IT OUT YOUR DAMN SELF, I'M STAYING OUT OF IT

Sasha Frere-Jones didn't like Merritt's NY Times Playlist.

Jessica Hopper didn't cotton to some remarks Merritt made in a forum.

Slate weighed in with a defense.

And the Internet burst into flames.

Happy reading, I hope you have a few hours to spare to peruse this somewhat weird, highly charged, complexly interlinked web-based dustup. I know I said I was staying out of it, but I will say this:

Actually, no, I won't.

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