“There’s just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we’ve reached the limit.” – Don DeLillo, The Day Room
The Continuing Tales Of… is a new bi-monthly feature where we pay tribute to an album’s anniversary by asking writers to compose a short story inspired by each one of the songs. This installment is The Stooges’ Raw Power, which turned 40 last month.
“If Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin can do 10-minute songs and Queen can do 10-minute songs then why can’t we? We’ll figure out the radio edits later.” – Justin Timberlake
To celebrate one of the best songs ever made and the album and man who gave it to us, I asked several people to write a piece in the form of a thank you letter, thanking R. Kelly for creating “Ignition (Remix).” Each piece tells a different story but they all serve the same purpose. To remind people of why “Ignition (Remix)” is regarded as a classic, and how a song about fogging up windows and popping Cristal, continues to bring people together.
Welcome to the first installment of Aux.Out. Book Club, where a group of us tackle a new or renowned book of the music canon and lay out some of our thoughts. Please join us in the future (our next book is at the bottom). Our clutch of readers are:
If you asked me two weeks ago what I thought the funniest thing was — the pinnacle of comedy, the uneclipsed apex of giggles — I would have told you it’s the scene in Dr. Strangelove when Peter Sellers (as president Merkin Muffley) calls the Soviet President Dimitri Kisov to tell them they are about to drop about 25 hydrogen bombs on his country.
It’s fitting we’re kicking off our new short story with an album like Give Up. There have undoubtedly been thousands of hasty narratives scribbled on 11th grade physics notes, blessed with working titles like “Recycled Air” and “Brand New Colony.” These songs have been internalized by an entire demographic, it was indie rock. It taught us how to think, how to feel, how to love. Strange to think that these daring, transparent emotions have had 10 years to mature, without losing any of its briskness. In lameness and in coolness, The Postal Service has never been insignificant, and asking our writers (including Kitty).
Prepare to be uncomfortable.
Hello and this is my column, Zoo Story. It will be appearing bi-weekly on Aux.Out.
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