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.
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...
Lou Reed - Street Hassle (Official Audio)
YouTube video by LouReedVEVO
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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...
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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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."
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · 4w ago"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...
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
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...
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
YouTube video by Spoon - Topic
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This looks cool
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · 3w agoOver 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...
Must-read post at LGM on Elizabeth Cook's new film. Thanks to the two greatest Elizabeths. @paranoiacs.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/some...
Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be a Woman: Talking 'The Easy Kind' With Katy Chevigny and Elizabeth Cook - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I’ve long been a fan of the great Florida-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook, whose wry and literary take on Country and Western music situates her comfortably between titans like ...
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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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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...
You may not think you need to read our junco partner @paranoiacs.bsky.social on KNOCKED OUT LOADED, but you do. Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt! www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/prec...
Precious Memories: Happy 40th Anniversary to Bob Dylan's 'Knocked Out Loaded' - Lawyers, Guns & Money
“For only fifteen hundred dollars/ You can have anybody killed” Hey! Happy Friday! I hope you are all enjoying the Open Championship as much as I am. What a leaderboard! A veritable who’s who of “who’...
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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...
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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Great read
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · 4w ago"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...
"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...
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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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
PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (4) – HILOBROW
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One of the best to do it:
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · last mo."It's a sleek new machine comprised of old parts, 13 songs over 43 minutes of admirably crazed night-terror boogie, fleet-fingered car-crash jams, and haunted incantations." I had a blast reviewing the psych-addled new Jack White LP over at Pitchfork. A genuine corker! pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
"It's a sleek new machine comprised of old parts, 13 songs over 43 minutes of admirably crazed night-terror boogie, fleet-fingered car-crash jams, and haunted incantations." I had a blast reviewing the psych-addled new Jack White LP over at Pitchfork. A genuine corker! pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Jack White: Frozen Charlotte
Read Elizabeth Nelson’s review of the album.
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Always happy for Billy Yule content!
Scott Berndt | Author@scottberndtauthor.bsky.social · last mo.The worst concert crowd in Rock 'n Roll history turns out to be the BEST for a young, wannabe drummer. You can read all about it in my new blog post. Leave a comment on my site and share! #velvetunderground #loureed #REM #120minutes #80smusic #musicsky @paranoiacs.bsky.social
Hey man, I don’t know yr particular bag. But I'll say the Paranoid Style 4th of July sale looks damn sweet. Four LPs for 80 bucks for big spenders. Basically an LP for free. Or five bucks off every CD? Celebrate America's Paranoid Style with commerce. C’mon everybody!! theparanoidstyle.bigcartel.com
PARANOID STYLE HEAT WAVE SALE! Is something inside of you burning? Are you flush with passion for the AMERICAN EXPERIMENT? Celebrate 250 years of absolute of the walls insanity with Paranoid Style bargains! 4 LPs/$80! 5$ off all CDs! Get in on this JULY ONLY commerce!! theparanoidstyle.bigcartel.com
Crazy Rhythms is undeniable but this one stays in permanent rotation for me. Jangle masterpiece
"Procrastination is a kind of prayer," and thus I am pious.
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · last mo.How hard am I procrastinating on deadlines? Hard enough to confirm that Steve Winwood's 'Arc Of The Diver' really is a killer LP, and that Bob Seger recorded an absolutely raging, brilliant version of Lou Reed's 'Busload Of Faith'. Procrastination is a kind of prayer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspn...
How hard am I procrastinating on deadlines? Hard enough to confirm that Steve Winwood's 'Arc Of The Diver' really is a killer LP, and that Bob Seger recorded an absolutely raging, brilliant version of Lou Reed's 'Busload Of Faith'. Procrastination is a kind of prayer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspn...
Bob Seger - Busload of Faith (Audio)
YouTube video by BobSegerVEVO
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A song cycle of endless emotional dislocations, the rudderless marriage at the center of Bob Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks' serves as a central metaphor for a generation of Americans who achieved escape velocity but wound up nowhere at all. The highway is for gamblers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NfD...
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
YouTube video by TheSoundOfMusic
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Amidst all of the legitimate anxiety surrounding the contraction of the media space, I am deeply inspired by the emergence of Skratch Golf, a beautifully calibrated site featuring wonderful reporting and analysis, executed with great humor and panache. We can still have nice things! www.skratch.golf
Skratch Golf
Stories at the intersection of golf and culture, Skratch aims to cover the sport's human and humorous sides.
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It's been seventeen years since I married the most unusual man called Timothy Bracy, a massive repository of professional football information who knows most of the Young Fresh Fellows catalog by heart, and encouraged me to find my voice as the writer in Paranoid Style. Love him.
an album that never gets old for me (and for my wife)
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Feelies' 'The Good Earth' LP walks a mesmerizing tight rope between the pastoral and panicked, joyful and sad. The carefully calibrated and the utterly unhinged. Their freakiest trick: they might sound like other bands, but no other bands can ever sound like them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTnd...
