Took me forever to collect anythingfrom The Rolling Stones. My love forthem has always been luke-warm at best. I have early childhood memories of listeningto my sister’s records, many of which wereStones records, the earliest ones, andthose albums did float my little rock androll boat. “Under My Thumb,” “Satisfaction,”“Get Off My Cloud,” were undeniably coolContinue reading “#847: R is for The Rolling Stones”
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#839: P is for Project MA
The second time moving throughthe collection A to Z and findingmyself. Both literally and figuratively, I find myself in the music I make, and I findmy friends, my most favoritepeople on the planet. It’s true. With very few exceptions, my deepest relationships with other human beings have comefrom making music with them. A few yearsContinue reading “#839: P is for Project MA”
#834: The Polyphonic Spree Gatefold Swallowed One of My Oingo Boingo Records
I recently wondered to myself:it’s not in my CD collection, why don’t I have Oingo Boingo’s Good for Your Soul on vinyl? The notion seemed ridiculous. Somehow, I had never found a copy to replace the one I lostduring the great vinyl purge of 1988, and my record store friendtells me it’s become hard toContinue reading “#834: The Polyphonic Spree Gatefold Swallowed One of My Oingo Boingo Records”
#827: P is for Paramore
Hayley Williams is a force.I have only one, the latest, album by Paramore, and if this one recordis any indicator, these cats form a incredibly talented and versatile band, but Hayley’s vocal performances areunhinged and over the top in the mostwonderful way, bursting with energy, as wild and as spunky as anything Debbie Harry everContinue reading “#827: P is for Paramore”
#820: O is for Of Montreal
I’ve pulled this album out, the only one I have by this American psychedelic pop “band” called Of Montreal, which is really the creative brainchild of one Kevin Barnes, a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter,visual artist, and provocateur. There is no identifyinginformation on the album cover, on the spine, or on the disc labels. Not even the linerContinue reading “#820: O is for Of Montreal”
#817: N is for Nilsson, Harry
Before I became educatedabout this guy, if you would havetold me that “Coconut” (you know, put the lime in the____ and call mein the morning), “Everybody’s Talking”(at me, and I don’t hear a word they’resaying), and (I can’t live, if living is “Without You” were all songs written by the same guy, I would haveContinue reading “#817: N is for Nilsson, Harry”
#815: N is for Newman, Randy
My first introduction to Randy Newman, as a 13 year old boy of diminutive stature,was “Short People,” and then, probably decades later, it was “You Got A Friend in Me,” the soundtrack tune for the Toy Story film. And then, sometime afterthat, it came to my attention that RandyNewman was a significant figure, not justContinue reading “#815: N is for Newman, Randy”
#813: M is Still for The Mountain Goats (20, 21, 22, 23, 25)
Prologue The last five albums in my collection of records by The Mountain Goats bringsme to the end of the letter M and a littlepast the half way point of my entire storeof vinyl LPs, but it brings me also to a place of turntable crisis. Everything sounds likeshit. I can’t get that stylus cleanContinue reading “#813: M is Still for The Mountain Goats (20, 21, 22, 23, 25)”
#812: M is for The Mountain Goats (15, 17, 19)
The next three albums in my MountainGoats collection, consecutively released, serve as a tidy little trilogy. Unrelated to each other, but I’m guessing each deeply personal to the lyricist, we have three concept albums in a row, albums that aren’t narrative necessarily, but all revolvequite specifically and rigorously arounda single subject matter. Not because ofthisContinue reading “#812: M is for The Mountain Goats (15, 17, 19)”
#810: M is for Mould, Bob (with Sugar)
The first in a series of box sets chronicling the entire recordingoutput of the grandfather of grunge, Bob Mould, Distortion: 1989-1995contains his first two solo albums post Hüsker Dü, and then three consecutive records from his next group, Sugar. Despite the factthat Sugar would normally be filedunder S, I decide to listen and writeabout themContinue reading “#810: M is for Mould, Bob (with Sugar)”
