Chris Taylor – Down Goes The Day

Wait a minute here, isn’t MY name Chris Taylor?
Why yes it is. This is a fact I have carried with me ever since I could remember, which is why it was a trip to see, at a Christian Bookseller’s convention in Dallas, on a really big screen near the Diamante Publishing booth, a music video [...]

Amy Winehouse – Back To Black

What’s this? You say, a Grammy-award-winning pop album?! Indeed, today I am going to talk about an album by someone of whom nobody would shut up about forever and ever… until now:

Despite that pesky ever-presence of British music in our country, apparently every time someone from England takes over the charts for a while, it’s [...]

The Mars Volta – Amputechture

It’s time again, as it should be more often, to visit our little busy bees of rock, The Mars Volta. This time, we’re going to take a look at their seemingly second-most-beloved album, Amputechture:

Now, I mentioned in my other The Mars Volta writeup that the band can be characterized by lots and lots of rock, [...]

Common Children – Delicate Fade

Today is a cold, rainy day, and I was outside for a good portion of it. It also rained in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where my sister resides, and when I posed the question “What should I write about today?” she replied “something rainy”, so I picked the rainiest album that both her and I [...]

Rage Against The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles

It’s been a bit of a fantasy of mine, for a few months now, to stand in front of a group of people say at a show or event or something, and greet them with one of the most popular phrases of the last decade:
“Hey guys, impeach Bush am I right?“
If I were to do [...]

Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band – Hulk Rules

Ok, I promised I’d do a terrible album weekly now, and it’s hard to imagine with our feeble human minds an album more terrible than one done by a wrestler. It’s actually quite the tradition for wrestlers to pile-drive their way into other forms of media, whether it be terrible movies, music, television, the Philips [...]

Weird Al Yankovic – Straight Outta Lynwood

Weird Al and I go way back, all the way back, actually. A 90’s compilation of his called The Food Album (aptly named because it was a sample of the deep pool of songs he had done up to that point that contained direct references to food) was the first CD I ever owned. Interestingly [...]

Coldplay – Parachutes

Continuing on yet again with this “I have no time to talk about albums I’m listening to lately so here are some artists I’ve already covered” theme I seem to have going, we’re going to talk about the largest overlap between the population of people who listen to music and those who get made fun [...]

Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom

Since we’re on the topic of re-visiting old friends, let’s take another stone-hard rock-cold look at my favorite deep jazz slackers, Soul Coughing:
This time we’re talking about Ruby Vroom, the band’s debut and possibly their most varied album of the three. I always have a hard time deciding between this and El Oso as a [...]

Beck – Mutations

And now, we’re back to Beck. A weirdo’s musician and a musician’s weirdo, last we left our hero, he had just composed an album of pure eccentric brilliance, combing rap, country, folk, metal, rock, outer space, wombats, and loungey pop to an already strange set of songs. How, exactly, does one follow that up?
How about [...]