Warren Zevon – The Wind

It’s been a long year here at Album Du Jour. From that first day when I had no idea what album to write about and wound up writing up American Woman by The Guess Who just because that was what I had been listening to lately, to just yesterday when I spoke at length about [...]

Brian Wilson – Smile

I actually had another idea for this penultimate entry in the Album Du Jour project, but it kind of fell through, so instead I came up with an even better idea. While we’re on the subject of albums, which if I’m not mistaken, we have been for the past entire year, we might as well [...]

Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways

I’m sure anyone who has read through this blog for any amount of time totally knew I was going to write about this album eventually. I have written about Johnny Cash more times than I care to count at this point, and I’m kicking myself slightly that I didn’t even write about some of his [...]

Mike Doughty – Haughty Melodic

Let’s take a break from the writeups about death and stuff and instead talk about ideas like second births. In my little world of music, there are hardly any more striking examples of musical re-invention than that of Mike Doughty, former lead singer of “deep slacker jazz” group Soul Coughing, who went from fronting the [...]

Nick Drake – Time Of No Reply

I didn’t think I would be speaking about Nick Drake again, since I had written about all three of his studio albums, and had intentionally steered away from speaking too much about his demise. Indeed, as I looked at what would be the final set of albums that I would write about in this project, [...]

Leonard Cohen – Dear Heather

First off, I’d like to thank the Bob Dylan website expectingrain.com for plugging yesterday’s entry as the top news item of today. That was pretty swell, and brought me a lot of views, which confirms my suspicion that I should have written about Dylan long ago. Well, today we’re not talking about Bob Dylan, but [...]

Bob Dylan – Christmas In The Heart

Bob Dylan, at least in my eyes, is an institution. I have never heard a single album or even full song by the man*, and I could not recall a single line of music he has ever done, unless it’s something that’s been covered by someone else, yet I know exactly what his voice sounded [...]

King Crimson – THRAK

Though I said I’d be visiting a lot of bands again by the time the year was out, this will be my last un-planned Album Du Jour entry. Until a few hours ago, I was racking my brain trying to think of what album would make a good Christmas Eve album, because I already know [...]

Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha

I’ll bet you thought I forgot about Supergrass, didn’t you? Well, I actually did, but not so much in this blog, I actually forgot that they existed for most of the time between the 90′s release of their self-titled album and the 2008 release of their newest album, the awesomely-named Diamond Hoo Ha. So, we [...]

David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

I just realized, when selecting this album, that I just did a “concept album” yesterday. Still, unlike yesterday’s album, today’s is a little more loose, a lot more popular, and a lot of fun. Let’s talk about David Bowie’s album with that most cumbersome name: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders [...]