Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle A few months ago, I took the time to write some words concerning Mr. Bungle’s sophomore album, Disco Volante. My goal was to preach the gospel of Bungle to the masses, but apparently there are a few of you that are yet unconverted. Let’s go back a bit further, then, [...]
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Joni Mitchell – Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm In 1988, veteran pop singer Joni Mitchell was working through a contract with Geffen Records and trying to recapture some of the magic that she’d enjoyed with the successes earlier in her career. The success would prove fleeting, but Mitchell’s attempts would bring very clever experiments [...]
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I discovered the 1970′s country-rock outfit Mason Proffit on one of my many record-shopping trips. I found a copy of the 1973 release Bare Back Rider, for $1.99 and immediately locked onto their blend of Byrds-meet-Buffalo Springfield arrangements. After that I tracked down copies of every LP from the band: Movin’ Toward Happiness, Last Night [...]
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One of the few greatest-hits albums I ever bought was Deep Purple, Deepest Purple. On that record I discovered a wealth of the band’s early hits, with “Speed King” and “Child In Time” culled from In Rock, along with the pre-release single, “Black Night.” It was Deepest Purple that sent me back to In Rock, [...]
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Minutemen – Double Nickels On The Dime album review There are a few records in my collection that I not only feel I need to encourage any serious rock music fan reading this column to go out and purchase immediately, but also encourage the collector to purchase on vinyl. One of these is the 1984 [...]
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Audiophile Audition has posted a new review of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon 30th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl edition. Reviewer Robbie Gerson gives the LP a 5-star rating, saying, “the intricate complexity of the recording is captured vibrantly on the LP.” I haven’t had the chance to hear this version, but I’m a big [...]
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With the holidays soon upon us, I wanted to have a little fun and find out what music is on your want and wish lists this year? If someone put $250 into your hands and said you could spend it on any – but only – CDs or records, what would you buy? To make [...]
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Blue Oyster Cult was never – and has never been – a heavy metal band. For every torch-lit tune such as “Cities In Flame (With Rock and Roll)” and “Godzilla,” there were equal doses of poppy goodness (“Debbie Denise”), teen rock (“True Confessions”); and other massive radio hits “Burnin’ For You” and “(Don’t Fear) The [...]
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I’ve recently purchased a CD originally released in 1996 on A&M Records by a band from Denver, Colorado, – Sixteen Horsepower’s Sackcloth ‘n’ Ashes. I’d only ever heard one song by the band, but it’s stayed stuck in my brain since I’d first heard it. From what I’d read of the group, the rest of [...]
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