Category: Record reviews
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Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet
Godsmack, “Love-Hate-Sex-Pain” (2010) Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” (1991) The Godfathers, “Birth, School, Work, Death” (1988) Today I’d like to bring to your attention a rather disturbing trend in the naming of songs and that is the assemblage of four consecutive nouns as the song’s name. The…
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Lord of the Hair Dyes
Toys in the Attic Aerosmith 1975 You don’t have to be a music critic to sense that Aerosmith sucks dead bears. If Led Zeppelin and AC/DC were battleships, Aerosmith would be barnacles. If my roof was leaking, I’d nail Aerosmith LPs over the leaks. Exposing their vinyl to acid rain…
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How’s that for suck: A fair and balanced look at Yes
“Owner of a Lonely Heart” Yes 1983 Yes has been around so long, they had to postpone their first gig until Sir Francis Drake could defeat the Spanish Armada. In the 1970s, Yes and a collection of art-school escapees including King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Traffic, Pink Floyd, and Emerson, Lake…
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Get yer covers out (take 2)
My learned colleague Clark Hays raises an excellent question about Cat Power and her cover of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Why didn’t I mention it in my round-up of Stones covers? Power released this song on The Covers Record (2000). On this disc she planes 12 mostly obscure tunes…
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Get yer covers out
As part of the grueling research methodology I employ to produce this blog, I just finished listening to 50 Rolling Stones covers. Results: The Italians win! Gold: Italy (Franco Battiato, “Ruby Tuesday”) Silver: France (Freedom Dub, “Emotional Rescue”) Bronze: USA (The Folksmen, “Start Me Up”) Runners-up: The Concretes, “Miss You”…
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