The Monks - Black Monk Time |
60s band The Monks consisted of 5 American GIs stationed in Germany, trying to give the locals a taste of the contemporary sounds. While isolation such as this would have choked up and starved m...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:42:00 GMT |
Jeff Buckley - Grace |
This album, on its surface, didn't strike me as anything overly remarkable when I first hear it. Grace's presentation seemed too flashy and ostentatious, with a singer so in love with his own voice th...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:36:00 GMT |
Gang of Four - Entertainment! |
Punk rock shook the rock-n-roll scene to its core during the late 70s with its emphasis of raw power and intensity over fine songcrafting and skill. As the scene started to mature, raucous bands...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 20:04:00 GMT |
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple |
The Odd Couple, like 2006's St. Elsewhere, starts with the sound of a movie camera spinning up film. But whereas St. Elsewhere stomped in full of pomp and circumstance, brass blazing, The Odd Co...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 19:24:00 GMT |
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers |
The Modern Lovers is an album inspired by The Velvet Underground, of which point man Johnathan Richman and his band mates were huge fans. On opener "Roadrunner," for example, the mix of organ an...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 11:15:00 GMT |
The VelveyUnderground - The Velvet Underground and Nico |
I'm going to level with you. To anyone at all familiar with the Velvet Underground, or with The Velvet Underground and Nico, there is no way that my review is going to be comprehensive enough, or eve...
Posted by on Sat, 24 May 2008 20:30:00 GMT |
Of Montreal - Icons, Abstract Thee |
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? gave us a deeper side to Of Montreal: a man stuck in the throes of love and life pains, and coming out on top. Icons, Abstract Thee is an EP of outtakes from the...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 18:37:00 GMT |
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip |
thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on meAnd with those words Trent Reznor released Halo 27, known as The Slip, to the world gratis. This album follows rig...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 20:16:00 GMT |
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites |
I have no idea why I never got around to talking about this album before. I stumbled into it somehow two summers ago, and was almost turned off by its freakish-looking cover. I expected either a dated...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 19:47:00 GMT |
Portishead - Third |
There was no way that Third would be anything less than an instant classic, nestling comfortably with Portishead's two other classic offerings. That said, many were concerned that their newest would j...
Posted by on Tue, 20 May 2008 20:01:00 GMT |
