Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill

When I look at this title, even typing it into the subject bar up there, I get this sinking feeling of “oh no, not Licensed To Ill“, because I think about all the songs that I have to hear every single day on the radio. Any album that contains not one but four songs that [...]

Johnny Cash – Now, There Was A Song!

It’s a well known fact that Johnny Cash played a lot of covers. In fact, some folks not as hip to him would jab that he barely wrote any music at all. He wrote a lot of music, to be sure, but when your discography reaches over 100 albums, it’s a given that not all [...]

Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man

Ok, I’ll admit that I wanted to write about this album ever since I started this blog, but the antagonist for my choice of today is the fact that, in my desk, I have a ticket (a rather nice one too) for the first (or possibly second as they may have added another date) show [...]

Bleach – Space

One element of the somehow-unpopular-with-the-other-religions genre of Christian Rock that one has to accept before becoming any kind of a fan is the “Doppelganger Effect”. Basically, any “good” Christian band is invariably going to be compared to and even accused of ripping off a popular non-denominational band. If there were any shred of truth to [...]

Deep Purple – Fireball

Man, so I got the inspiration for writing about Deep Purple again, quite on a whim, on the 27th of this month, when I wrote about them on the 25th of January, and the 22nd of February. Apparently late in the month I tend to feel like I have to get my Deep Purple on!
Well, [...]

The Offspring – Smash

“What? You like The Offspring?”
This question has been drummed up in response to me talking about this band for about half my life now. Why yes, I do like The Offspring, sure I don’t own any of their albums other than the one I’m talking about, but the fact remains. You can blame my cousin, [...]

Warren Zevon – Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School

I woke up this morning in a terrible state, basically I had to take a very physical lesson in not eating lime-flavored shrimp ramen, no matter how broke you are. I now find myself with an entire day to sit around in pain, and it reminded me that we haven’t checked in on one of [...]

Primus – Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

I mentioned in my Cake writeup the other day that certain bands, at the risk of becoming entrenched in a certain sound, will defy the whole idea of “genres” and will mix so many things together that it becomes something entirely different. The “prime” example of this phenomenon would be Primus, a band that, if [...]

Flight Of The Conchords – Flight Of The Conchords

The occasionally updated and even more occasionally entertaining racial comedy blog Stuff White People Like considers “musical comedy”, that is, comedy set to music, to be something that only White Anglo-Saxon Protestant people of today find entertaining. Sure about 80-90% of rap music is comedy-based and Korean music IS comedy, but you know the guy’s [...]

Johnny Cash – The Fabulous Johnny Cash

Though many sources (including this one) may tell you that the American Recordings albums from Johnny Cash were his best, it’s actually probably not true. The American albums are certainly the most accessible albums by today’s standards, since the only thing most people like about Johnny Cash is his voice (actually apparently the only thing [...]