Bend over and take one for the team Record Buying Public! The following are my picks for the most ridiculous, pointless and downright silly “greatest hits” compilations of all time. But you know… Read More
Looking forward to the next U2 album? Nope, me either, Pal. They haven’t been relevant since 1992 and I don’t suspect they’ll be able to pull off another reinvention a-la-Auchtung Baby. So they’re… Read More
These really speak for themselves… Good GOD, this dude looks like one of those mutants from Escape From The Planet Of The Apes! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kinda like this one, actually… Is that guy… Read More
Going away on a little trip and will have no time to blog, so I’m gonna steal a pretty terrific article from the United Kingdom’s Guardian that’ll hopefully keep y’all entertained until I… Read More
I have been quite vocal about my distaste for these packages over the years, and for a number of valid reasons, I think. A greatest hits album usually spans an artists entire career,… Read More
#40. The Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks: Everyone knows this is Ray Davies ode to England’s naïve and pastoral past, held together with clever character sketches. Everyone also knows that it was… Read More
BAND: The Stooges ALBUM: Funhouse RELEASE DATE: 1970 “LAAAAAAWWWWWWDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!” So begins TV Eye, the third track on this remarkably intense album by perhaps THE best, and certainly most important, punk rock band of… Read More
Ok, so let’s all just pretend we know what the definition of the term “New Wave” is. Let’s also say that, even though artists like Bowie, Roxy Music, Kraftwerk and Iggy Pop had… Read More
It’s a shame Elvis Costello and Graham Parker released stellar albums at the same time Joe Jackson released Look Sharp!, his debut, in 1979. Parker unleashed Squeezing Out Sparks, arguably his finest, and… Read More
