FirewaterBest Firewater Albums Ranked

Psychopharmacology

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8.6

“There are some records whose awesomeness can only be measured in a very special way: on the Patented Personal Performance Listener Fantasy Scale. Basically, if an album, or even a particular song on it, can inspire me to fantasize myself performing it, it is automatically awesome. If the fantasy involves singing the song as a kiss-off to my high school (which I graduated from over a half-decade ag”

Songs We Should Have Written

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7.0

“Pick your interpretation: view cover bands as shaky, budding novelists, tugging Hemingway tomes down from library shelves and re-copying whole paragraphs in their own wobbly hands, desperate to make the prose seem more accessible, more indigenous, more possible. Or see them as liberators, granting dusty, half-functional songs a contemporary glow, revising and updating and bestowing precious releva”

The Man On the Burning Tightrope

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5.7

“Never liked the circus. I wasn't a curmudgeonly kid, but the notion of the Big Top always filled me with dull dread. Some entertainments are simply meant to die, replaced by snazzier, safer and/or more sophisticated forms of leisure. And that's good-- that's progress. The mystery play, *bangsawan* and blackface burlesque are all happily retired diversions, subject to occasional, ironic revisitatio”