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goaliefight.bsky.social
É-town Concrète
@goaliefight.bsky.social
New Jersey indie rocker turned music blogger.
and yet we persist

we being you and me

which means you also gotta persist or I’m gonna look like an idiot
January 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
their bet is that the kind of person who doesn’t want to see a snuff film is also the kind of person who wants the right thing to have happened. someone so desperate for peace they’ll accept any justification to retroactively make the thing correct.
January 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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starting to question the efficacy of posting. just a hunch
January 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
i cannot make the Cal Chuchesta expression with my face. how does he do that.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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The gimmick of my music review blog is simple:

Albums can be good, or bad.

Independent of their quality, I can like them or dislike them.

Hence "Double Binary by Goalie Fight".

goaliefightnj.com/blog
January 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Self-actualization and the ignorance and hesitation towards it by ANORAK! is a good album, and I like it. It took me a while to come around to it, but it shows off a band that's pushing their own musical boundaries to great effect.

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The album opens with "Sonic", led by a deep 5-string bass, glittering guitar arpeggios, and muffled screaming over a sick-ass drum and bass break. They're letting us know that they're not the same band they were on ANORAK!, and they're not changing in half measures. They're back, and they have a sampler now.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
L.L.Bean Holiday Songs is a bad album, but I like it. It tries to capture the spirit of colonial New England Christmas and ends up sounding like medieval Old England Christmas. Joke’s on them, I’m into that shit. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/l-...
I love L.L.Bean, I wish New England was real. They make the only goddamn pair of black jeans that looks right on me. As much as I may try to pose that I’m above brand loyalty and that all corporations are evil or whatever, I’m very happy with the aesthetics and quality that I get from them. The only two things that I think are missing from their catalog are CDs and all-black Bean Boots. Now, I get to experience what I have lost.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Weihnachten Mit Den Fischer-Chören von Fischer Chöre ist ein schlechtes Album, und es gefällt mir nicht. Die Interpretationen amerikanischer Weihnachtslieder sind surreal, und die Farbgebung der Verpackung erinnert eher an Los Angeles Lakers als an Weihnachtsstimmung.
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Handel: Messiah - Great Choruses by Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus is a good album, and I like it. It's also a mouthful of a title.

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Handel: Messiah - Great Choruses by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus is a good album, and I like it.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
White Christmas by Bing Crosby is a good album, and I like it. It's also a good movie that came out nearly a decade later. Crosby conveys the gravitas of the more Christian tracks and the drunken joy of the more secular ones with equal skill.

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I don’t think my parents had this one growing up, but Crosby’s renditions of “White Christmas” and “Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas)” are in heavy rotation on New Jersey FM radio. In an inversion of what is traditional for old LPs, the slow tracks take up the A-side here, and the fast tracks with the featured singers are on the B-side. The album is a classy 1940s affair, with nods to where American design would go in the 50s with its whimsical typesetting, bold contrasting colors, and focus on the center of the piece. The interior booklet is kind of lazy with only song titles and songwriters, but come on. You know the lyrics to every song on here already.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A Music Box Christmas is a bad album, and I don’t like it. Thoughtless, grating, unworthy of your consideration. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/a-...
Here’s what I thought on Christmas Eve of 2024. ‘Fuck, that’s tomorrow, isn’t it? And I still have four Christmas albums to listen to this afternoon? Damn it. Well, at least work is slow. 15 songs, 35 minutes, sounds like my kind of record!’ How wrong I was.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
finally all the old blog posts are up

in case you wanted to read my scintillating reviews for such albums as “Celtic Woman”, “Putumayo Presents Celtic Women”, “Celtic Women 3 Ireland”, and “Piano Music For Your Dog”
December 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Bridge by Billy Joel is a bad album, but I like it. Too-cute lyrics smothered by awful production and nails-on-a-chalkboard e-piano, but there are a enough bright spots to keep me from throwing it out. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/bi...
My last shortform review wasn’t actually that short, so I’m going to keep it light on this one. Such is the blessing and the curse of having no editor and no social life.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sing the Sorrow by AFI is a good album, and I like it. It’s their transition point between horror punk and mainstream rock success.

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Sing the Sorrow by AFI is a good album, and I like it.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Mariah Carey’s \#1s is a good album, and I like it. It does not have All I Want For Christmas Is You on it - that would have tipped it over 75 minutes and onto two CDs. Her catalogue is deep and broad enough that I only mind a little.

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It’s all of Mariah Carey’s number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100… plus four other songs. Surprisingly, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” isn’t on here (though it is on the Japanese version), but “When You Believe”, the duet with Whitney Houston from The Prince of Egypt, is. We don’t have animated films that are structured around having an orchestral gospel song punctuate an emotional high point anymore. Are there any high profile, show-off divas like Carey, Houston, or Celine Dion who have made waves in the past decade? I don’t know, but this compilation album is a good argument for it.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Metallica by Metallica is a good album, and I like it. The fact that it became the blueprint for decades of self-absorbed rock radio to follow shouldn’t be held against it.

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Metallica by Metallica is a good album, and I like it.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
really all I want is for Anthony Fantano to interview the drummer of the Crash Test Dummies/his long lost brother Michael Dorge
December 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm gonna finally do it.

I'm most of the way through reposting my old goalie fight reviews onto doublebinary.neocities.org.

The next batch should go up on Thursday, and all the christmas reviews will go up on Monday.
I know some of the classical world’s superstars (your Joshua Bells, Lang Langs, Julian Blisses, et cetera) but I had not yet heard of Sir James Galway of Belfast when I popped this in. It’s a compilation of previously recorded work released by the revived RCA Victor imprint of BMG.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
tonight on AEW Dynamite: two former ROH World Champions pretending that they’ve never won a singles title in their life
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
does anybody else ever think about how hilarious and abrupt the last page of the Abominable Charles Christopher was
December 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
i am feverish and housebound so I might as well finish uploading the missing blogs to doublebinary.neocities.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
For a game set in Torrance, Dispatch has distressingly little Joyce Manor on the soundtrack
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Availability bias is the only one I'm familiar with so it's my favorite
June 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM