Elizabeth Nelson
@paranoiacs.bsky.social
Singer-songwriter for the Paranoid Style, contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Ringer, Pitchfork, LGM.
Very weirdly diffuse. I love everyone involved, so I am rooting for it, but it does seem like it doesn’t know what it wants to be.
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Very weirdly diffuse. I love everyone involved, so I am rooting for it, but it does seem like it doesn’t know what it wants to be.
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'I Want You' is perfectly brutal and 'Blue Chair' one of my top 5 Costello songs. Or was it a Napoleon Dynamite song?
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
'I Want You' is perfectly brutal and 'Blue Chair' one of my top 5 Costello songs. Or was it a Napoleon Dynamite song?
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We got to see him play these songs solo, and it was great, but I missed the fierce arrangements. In my top five LPs of 1986.
I Want You
YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic
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November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We got to see him play these songs solo, and it was great, but I missed the fierce arrangements. In my top five LPs of 1986.
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Give this a try—I have been able to access it so maybe Nelson created a gift link.
Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Give this a try—I have been able to access it so maybe Nelson created a gift link.
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Really well said. I'm still finding out Cale Facts and angles all these decades into being a fan. And as for Northern Sky - what a magnificent song! There's no guarantee it would have been enough of a hit to change things for Drake, but it's still bizarre the label didn't release it as a single.
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Really well said. I'm still finding out Cale Facts and angles all these decades into being a fan. And as for Northern Sky - what a magnificent song! There's no guarantee it would have been enough of a hit to change things for Drake, but it's still bizarre the label didn't release it as a single.
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I have listed all his appearances as a guest musician that I am aware of here:
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
John Cale - Helping out
werksman.home.xs4all.nl
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have listed all his appearances as a guest musician that I am aware of here:
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
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It is, quite literally, celestial.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is, quite literally, celestial.
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Very true. The viola solo on the Replacements ‘Sadly Beautiful’ is also right up there
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Very true. The viola solo on the Replacements ‘Sadly Beautiful’ is also right up there