King Crimson – Islands

I was warned about Islands. Ever since I went on a bit of a collection spree with King Crimson, whose albums Larks’ Tongue In Aspic and In The Court Of The Crimson King intrigued me so. The albums made in the band’s unstable time between, oh who am I kidding, they’ve always been unstable. Either [...]

Deep Purple – The House Of Blue Light

Excellent news: I’ve finally been reunited with my Shure SE530 headphones! After procrastinating for months I finally sought out and found my sales receipt and mailed them in. Less than a week later, they sent me a brand new pair. Man, I really should have taken care of that sooner! I was expecting 6 to [...]

Johnny Cash – One Piece At A Time

Today, despite my initial resistance to it, and the fact that I have like 85% of the songs on it already, I purchased the Cash: The Legend boxset. I’m usually against compilations, but this one was good enough to warrant a purchase, given that it has those few songs I haven’t heard yet, which is [...]

ApologetiX – Grace Period

Happy birthday to me! If you remember yesterday’s post, and who doesn’t, I challenged the lot of you to come up with an album for me write up on my birthday. Though I got a suggestion for an album I actually really want to listen to (Nina Simone’s Pastel Blues), I couldn’t grab it in [...]

Poor Old Lu – A Picture Of The Eighth Wonder

SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM AUTHOR: Tomorrow is my 27th birthday, which apparently only happens once in your life (corresponding age and day of the month your birthday lands on), so it’s going to be pretty special. I know we’ve been friends for a while, so I feel no shame in asking you for something. More than [...]

Alice Cooper – Love It To Death

Yesterday I mentioned what happens when you take an established musical force and it’s held by gunpoint by a deranged producer, either something really terrible happens (like yesterday’s album), and sometimes something amazing happens. Today we’re going to talk about the latter, in Double-Album-Cover-Vision™: I went ahead and put up both album covers to see [...]

Leonard Cohen – Death Of A Ladies’ Man

There are a lot of bad ideas in music, even from music’s greatest artists. Who knows why it happens, perhaps it’s through causality associated with time travel, perhaps musicians aren’t as brilliant as we make them out to be, perhaps it’s because some producers are completely insane and hold artists at gunpoint to get their [...]

Common Children – Skywire

Some days, the weight of the world becomes too much, and you embark on an unscripted, 27 mile round trip bicycle ride from your small town to the even smaller rural area where you grew up (population: 238, it’s gone down since we left). At these times, with a sky abundant with the stars you [...]

Chuck Berry – Chuck Berry Is On Top

Today I got in a conversation with a friend over the Billy Haley & His Comets’ Rock Around The Clock today, and that really got me thinking about some true “Rock N’ Roll” classics, and thanks to my acquisition of a video game that is so “classic”-inspired that it’s practically text-based, I have been in [...]

Jars Of Clay – Much Afraid

As I approach another birfday, which is happening in less than a week, I’ve been reflecting on life and what I’ve been doing up to this point, so that I might have a clear idea of where I’m going. Indeed, it was around this time, in the year 1997,  that Jars Of Clay released an [...]