DETAILED TWANG |
The Agony Shorthand music blog may be deceased, but like the proverbial Phoenix, we've created a new repository called DETAILED TWANG. You can read it by clicking here....
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:26:00 PST |
AGONY SHORTHAND'S FINAL POST |
AGONY SHORTHAND was a music-based site/blog that ran from February 2003 through September 2006. It was penned by Jay Hinman, with a couple of noteworthy exceptions. When I started it, I knew of only a...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:17:00 PST |
HUMAN INSTINCT : STONED GUITAR LP/CD |
Wow. I'll be honest, during the great private-press psychedelic freakout 70s LP resurrection boom of the early 1990s, I pretty much sat on the sidelines with my hands folded on my lap. I put out a mag...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:23:00 PST |
TELEVISION : POOR CIRCULATION CD |
Some well-intentioned knucklehead was insinuating in the comments box of my Top 100 LP's post from a couple weeks ago that no one really listens to TELEVISION; they're just a band that critics & p...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:27:00 PST |
MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS : MAMA WAS A SCHITZO, DADDY WAS A VEGETABLE MAN / ROCKET MUSIC ON 45 |
I plopped this on the turntable this past weekend and was again blown to friggin' kingdom come by its glory. These 1975-76 recordings from original recipe proto-punk space teleporters MIKE REP & T...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:22:00 PST |
SAPAT : TONGUE-TIED & STAID 7 EP |
This collective of Kentucky cornballs are part of the next wave of Siltbreeze Records signees, and to my ears they fit in perfectly which is to say nowhere else. Imagine the 1978 CHILD MOLESTERS wit...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:46:00 PST |
"LAUREL CANYON - THE INSIDE STORY OF ROCK & ROLL'S LEGENDARY NEIGHBORHOOD" by Michael Walker |
"Quick" , I asked my wife, "what do you think of when I say 'Laurel Canyon'?". She replied, "Um, Mulholland Drive. Fires. That lame movie we saw". Not bad. Me, my first associations with this Los Ange...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:45:00 PST |
VARIOUS ARTISTS : KILLED BY TRASH LP |
You know, I dont think I have had a single tribute record or CD sitting around in my collection for years, until this one showed up unannounced recently. If theres any sort of tribute/cover collection...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:20:00 PST |
VARIOUS ARTISTS : "THE PARAMOUNT MASTERS" 4xCD box set |
Wow, the expiration of copyright up to about the mid-1950s is really something, isn't it? Long after the original artists and owners of their songs have done passed on, reissue houses like JSP RECORDS...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:18:00 PST |
THE AGONY SHORTHAND 100 |
A handful of times in my life, I've been asked to compile a "top albums" or "Desert Island Discs" sort of list, and usually it's pretty easy to get me to acquiesce to such a request. I'm nothing if no...
Posted by Agony Shorthand on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:50:00 PST |
