{"id":1519,"date":"2017-06-09T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-06-09T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T07:52:11","slug":"song-of-the-week-dragoon-by-bitch-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Dragoon&#8221; by Bitch Magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Dragoon&#8221; by Bitch Magnet:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2VQXtyeFhA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week I read <em>Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock&#8217;s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)<\/em> by Jon Fine, the guitarist of Bitch Magnet. This book feels personally written for a teenager in the early 1990s who loved a lot of weird music, who became a college kid in the mid-nineties who loved an even bigger lot of even weirder music, who became a full-grown adult who still loves even more and often even weirder music, and who spends a huge amount of time listening to and playing music. Jon Fine feels the music he makes and listens to completely, and remakes that music&#8217;s meanings on the page with wit, intelligence and honesty, not only about what he loves, but also about what he doesn&#8217;t, even when the object is himself. The fact that he hates some stuff that I really love makes this book all the better: I reeled through the pages, agreeing with him, arguing with him, laughing and (almost) crying with him, and came out the other end with a renewed sense that those vibrating chords really do push through everything, and that&#8217;s the greatest thing you can know.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Bitch Magnet is pretty awesome.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Dragoon%22%20by%20Bitch%20Magnet\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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