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I’m gonna bet that Trent Reznor is a ‘glass-is-half-empty’ kind of guy. It’s weird to think that he’s gotten rich and ...read more
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Here they are, only one studio album into their career, and for their second album, the Grateful Dead decide to dive ...read more
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As the title suggests, Fish Altieri is a relatively unknown singer/songwriter from the Bronx. I met him a few years back ...read more
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With their third album, the Grateful Dead continued to experiment in the studio, neglecting any attempt to reproduce ...read more
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”Aphasia” is what happens when you lose the ability to speak, or to remember words, so it seems an odd name choice for ...read more
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One thing that can certainly be said about Neil Young’s approach to making music is that he is passionate. Whether ...read more
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Today’s episode finds our hero, Robert Pollard, sharing the billing with a band of unknowns, who will probably remain ...read more
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I’m glad that I can get to hear this music from the comfort of my air-conditioned living room, because I don’t think I’d ...read more
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Say what you will, but it’s patently unfair to say that the Backstreet Boys ‘suck’. Granted, those of us who have been ...read more
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Charted: #8 in November 1970
People who were pining for the days when the Beatles were an active recording unit ...read more
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Like shards of broken glass that are arranged into a stained-glass window, this is the record where all the pieces first ...read more
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I can’t believe I just spent over an hour of my life listening to ten (TEN!!) different mixes of this not too remarkable ...read more
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“Caught in a trap, and they can’t back out…”
Any way you cut it, these guys have got a tough row to hoe. They had ...read more
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For the first time in his career, Bowie has made an album that relies as much on his sax playing as it does on his ...read more
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I feel sorry for the people who can’t listen to Tom Waits because they find his voice too gruff, or his music too ...read more
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‘Beeb’ is a British affectation for the BBC, the state-run media which plans (or planned) all television and radio for ...read more
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CLASSIC ALBUM REVIEW – 1980
“I Will Follow” is not exactly a punk rock sentiment, but U2 turned it into an ...read more
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Charted: #14 in April 1980
Chrissie Hynde renders impotent those “women in rock” magazine features that appear ...read more
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I can remember a time when rock and roll was all about rebellion. Now, it’s all about whining, and complaining. ...read more
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Nobody would ever accuse D’Angelo of going anywhere in a hurry. Believe me, Brown Sugar owes nothing to the Rolling ...read more
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I will start this review with the only complaint that can I can muster when discussing any live recording of Bruce and ...read more
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As far as first albums go, this is a beauty. Willy DeVille seemed to appear out of nowhere, emerging from the smoky haze ...read more
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Charted: #1 in March 1964
One advantage the Beatles had by breaking more than a year later in America than in their ...read more
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When Tobin Sprout was an active member of Guided By Voices, it was usually difficult to discern which songs were his and ...read more
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Charted: #1 in May 1960
Isaac Donald Everly was born on February 1, 1937, and his brother Philip followed on ...read more
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I bet you think it’s easy being a music critic. We get lots of new releases, we sit around listening to music all day to ...read more
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It’s albums like this that prove beyond a doubt that our world is getting smaller. Clandestino blends languages as if ...read more
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Charted: #6 in July 1959
Performed By: Ray Charles
As the United States began the second half of the twentieth ...read more
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Charted: #1 in October 1960
Performed By: Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson was born on September 23, 1930, in ...read more
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Classic Album Review 1982
On their second album, U2 inadvertently proved that they still had some ways to go as ...read more
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