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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'It positively marinates in social, romantic and political outrage, overlapping into a mosaic of grievance that would take decades to untangle." Over at Pitchfork, I reviewed the rad new 49th anniversary addition of Elvis Costello's debut 'My Aim Is True.' pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition)

Read Elizabeth Nelson’s review of the album.

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Speaking of "Easy Rider,": NEW ELIZABETH NELSON ALERT

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The paradoxes kept piling up, the prison of freedom growing ever more impossible to escape." For the Pitchfork Sunday Review, I wrote about 1969's sorrowful, game-changing 'Easy Rider' soundtrack. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every discerning fan of popular music should register that ticket sales are growing scarce for the one-time-only-historical-anomaly Lisa Walker & Elizabeth Nelson house tour package occurring next week in venues ranging from the midwest to the Atlantic. Grab a seat at Undertow Music while you can.

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Mike Brown @maupuia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This has become one of my fav Van songs. It's only recently I learned that it's "about" a literal stairway leading to his gf's flat in the Vanlose district of Copenhagen. But damn if he doesn't make sound like the most mystical, wonderful, pathway to enlightenment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA9E...

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Van Morrison - Vanlose Stairway

YouTube video by Xavi Somolinos

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 01/09/2026

The critical revisions on Astral Weeks following Ryan Walsh’s book have made it feel out of fashion to call Van a genius, and his personality doesn’t help, but come on, the guy wrote St. Dominic’s Preview

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Bill McCoy @ivylander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Once read an excellent interview with James Hunter, who toured with VM for a spell. Hunter figured his role was to be a Jack the Lad counterbalance to all the guru types hanging around. Probably much like Georgie Fame.

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy birthday to the dazzling, baffling enigma that is Van Morrison, whose direct line to the ecstatic mysteries of human spirituality seems at times to run alongside a visceral dislike of actual human beings. In 2014, I fruitlessly tried ranking his LPs for Stereogum. stereogum.com/1674114/van-...

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In what was a phenomenal capstone to an amazing birthday weekend, my fabulous in-laws Kelly and Mike threw me the best party ever, wherein my dear old friend Tom Frank gifted me with this vintage "I'm For Nixon" cap. Sometimes your cup just overflows. Love and thanks to everyone.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She has to have her Young Fresh Fellows tape back now

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Paul Sheridan @sheridanpaul.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Long live the YFF! Love the article, thank you.

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"The tumbling riffs, the earth-scorching guilt, the shadow of Kinks-style neurosis everywhere." Over at my substack I attempt to remember 1985's 'Topsy Turvy' by the Young Fresh Fellows, one of the great overlooked LP's of the decade. theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/where-is-g...

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Where Is Groovy Town?

Six Reflections on the Young Fresh Fellows’ 1985 Masterpiece ‘Topsy Turvy’

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Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Come because you love @paranoiacs.bsky.social and Scott McCaughey, stay for the Mark Eitzel/@wesleystace.bsky.social story theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/where-is-g...

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Where Is Groovy Town?

Six Reflections on the Young Fresh Fellows’ 1985 Masterpiece ‘Topsy Turvy’

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Followed by the wakeup plea of "Blackbird".

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 'White Album' is ultimately about every kind of fatigue: physical, spiritual, political and cultural. A soundtrack to the sad indulgences of the 60's yielding only false prophets and dark portents. You say you want a revolution. It's been a long, long, long, time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vU...

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Long, Long, Long (Remastered 2009)

YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I feel this exact way about how they grooved up Whole Lotta Love at Knebworth 79

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Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Chic's Tony Thompson played drums for them at one point in the 1980s.

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Beamed in from an alternate universe where Led Zep's major goal was to be as funky as The Meters rather than louder than The Who, “Trampled Under Foot” is five minutes of blissful, cathartic groove hinting at the truly rad disco band they might have eventually become. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhS...

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Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot (Live at Earl's Court 1975) [Official Video] [HD]

YouTube video by Led Zeppelin

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Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This series also includes posts from @paranoiacs.bsky.social @douglaswolk.bsky.social and many others (with many more to come).

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy 73rd birthday to Joe Strummer, the individual who perhaps more than any other inspired and clarified for me what it is I wanted to do with my life. Reposting an essay I wrote about the 40th anniversary of London Calling for The Ringer. Oh mi corazon. www.theringer.com/2019/12/17/m...

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The Siren Sound of the Clash’s ‘London Calling,’ 40 Years Later

Released in 1979, the Clash’s third album changed everything—punk rock, the band that made it, and the fans who worshiped it. Decades later, its rich, eclectic, propulsive sound hasn’t aged a minute, ...

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The alleged experts said it couldn't happen, but here we are: the great Lisa Walker from Wussy and I are headed out on a roving tour of venues ranging from the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast. Twinned icons, telling songs and singing stories. Don't miss out. Tix here! undertowshows.com/collections/...

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The real heads can hang out afterwards and listen to me harangue Cohen about how much I loathe his Phillies.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My very favorite Van record, that’s for sure.

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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Streets Of Arklow" for me, but it's all good....

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tpopt.bsky.social @tpopt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

All of side 1, really.

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I find 'Linden Arden Stole The Highlights' to be the single most transporting song in the entire Van Morrison catalog. Part noir-mystery and part eulogy for a drinking man, gambler and pious believer, coded with language as beautiful as Joyce himself. A saint's fable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xWu...

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Linden Arden Stole the Highlights

YouTube video by Van Morrison - Topic

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thesis, sequencers

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And Depeche Mode was Billy Gibbons' big inspiration for 'Eliminator'. Two of the great boogie bands ever. May the circle be unbroken.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When THE INTERROGATOR was coming out @paranoiacs.bsky.social told be that ELIMINATOR was a huge direct influence on the sound of the record, confirming my longheld belief that it deserves its critical reappraisal every bit as much as TRANS itself

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

She sends kisses, yeah

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If y'all like the rock'n'roll, you really should be listening to the latest @paranoiacs.bsky.social album. It's just wondering.

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Paranoid Style gang rode in Brooklyn on Saturday. Thanks to my band of stalwarts: Holsapple, Matheny, Langmead, Dawson, Mike V and Bracy. Also got to duet with my dear old friend Charles Bissell on "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Might not be many of these left. Such a night. 📸: Jack Silbert

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Eleven minutes ratifying his self-assessment as a literary and compositional genius, Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle” strips away the coy junkie-chic of so much bougie VU and refashions it as a pitiless tour through addiction's economic hellscape. Tramps like us. Sha-La-La. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LK9...

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Lou Reed - Street Hassle (Official Audio)

YouTube video by LouReedVEVO

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On the occasion of the excellent new film 'Tony', the Ringer reposted an old essay I wrote about the legacy of "Kitchen Confidential" and the early, formulative years of the man who would become an unlikely global ambassador. www.theringer.com/2020/07/14/p...

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Difficult Man: ‘Kitchen Confidential’ and the Early Days of Anthony Bourdain’s Legend

Bourdain’s incendiary industry tell-all was at once a colossal act of mythmaking and one of self-flagellation. Twenty years after its publication, and more than two years after his death, it feels jus...

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Knocked Out Loaded was the first Dylan album I owned, given to me by a friend of my dads for my 12th birthday. I've always had to defend my love of this one beyond "it was my first Dylan album". But this is right: both "his creative nadir" and it "contained the kernels of his next renaissance."

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Look folks, I can only say so much, but I can say this. August 15. Union Pool. The Paranoid Style. The Everymen. Special guests, old friends, new reckoning and the possibility that this could be the last time. Come see us, if you've got the gumption. Not dark yet. Getting there. tinyurl.com/5anj7j9t

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Their best '70s fetish records, Spoon’s ‘Gimme Fiction’ is eleven impeccably-imperfect pop songs whose admixture of mysterioso slow burns, stoner character studies and Freedom Rock workouts feel as nervous and caustic as vintage Stones. How insane it is getting older. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5n...

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The Beast and Dragon, Adored

YouTube video by Spoon - Topic

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Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This looks cool

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A treat -- @paranoiacs.bsky.social interviews the great Elizabeth Cook. Will never forget June 15, 2011 -- saw a great Cook show at the Linda and then came home to watch the Canucks lose game 7 on DVR. Real win-win evening www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/some...

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Lawyers, Guns & Money

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Over at Lawyers Guns & Money, I interviewed the amazing singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook and the equally gifted filmmaker Katy Chevigny about their wonderful new cinematic collaboration 'The Easy Kind.' One of the best music business films I've ever seen. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/some...

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dylan: “Are my methods unsound?”

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Have you been hoping for a brilliant and hilarious look back at Knocked Out Loaded, the 1986 Bob Dylan album remembered by virtually no one and loved by *precisely* no one? Well, friend, you are in luck: @paranoiacs.bsky.social has you covered: theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/driftin-to...

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Driftin' Too Far From Shore: The Miasmic Charm of Bob Dylan’s 'Knocked Out Loaded'

Well these times and these tunnels are haunted / The bottom of the barrel is too

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Dylan had famously struggled to adjust to the evolving recording techniques of the digital age, a struggle clearly abetted by the additional problem that he simply didn’t give a shit." On my substack, recalling the miasmic charm of "Knocked Out Loaded". theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/driftin-to...

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Driftin' Too Far From Shore: The Miasmic Charm of Bob Dylan’s 'Knocked Out Loaded'

Well these times and these tunnels are haunted / The bottom of the barrel is too

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David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

HiLoBrow's doing a "Patsy Your Enthusiasm" series, re Country Music of the 1950s. I wrote up Porter Wagoner's chilling "My Bonfire," cut in '53 but not out until his 1957 debut LP. Earlier entries from @dean17.bsky.social, @paranoiacs.bsky.social and @lperil.bsky.social w/ more all-stars to come

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PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (4) – HILOBROW

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