Today's playlist (10/10/2007)

Bruce Springsteen- The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
David Bowie- ChangesBowie

Today's playlist (10/09/2007)

Bruce Springsteen- Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
REM- Eponymous

Today's playlist (10/08/2007)

Bruce Springsteen- Magic
A Place to Bury Strangers- A Place to Bury Strangers (Again!)

Today's playlist (10/5/2007)

A Place to Bury Strangers- A Place to Bury Strangers

Today's playlist (10/2/2007)

Cheap Trick- Music For Hangovers
Joy Division- Substance

Today's playlist (10/1/2007)

The Go! Team- Proof of Youth
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

Today's playlist (9/28/2007)

The Cure- Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures

Today's playlist (9/27/2007)

The Cure- The Top

Today's playlist (9/26/2007)

The Cure- Three Imaginary Boys
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin
I'm really glad that I listened to this again. I'd forgotten how good the first album was.

Today's Playlist (9/25/2007)

stellastarr*- stellastarr*

Today's playlist (9/24/2007)

Kings of Leon- Youth & Young Manhood
Cheap Trick- Silver

Today's Playlist (9/21/2007)

Primal Scream- Vanishing Point

Today's Playlist (9/20/2007)

Cheap Trick- The Essential

Everybody knows and loves Cheap Trick. What could be better than a greatest hits collection picked by the band? Nothing, except for the song 'Can't Stop Fallin' Into Love'. This has got be one of the worst songs ever. It just sucks in so many ways that I would need graphs and charts to explain its craptacularness. If I were Cheap Trick I would have totally disowned and repudiated and publicly denounced this song. I would deny that I had ever written it. It's that bad.

Today's Playlist (9/19/2007)

The Rolling Stones- Exile on Main Street

Today's playlist (9/17/2007)

Kings of Leon- Because of the Times
The Cure- The Head on the Door [Deluxe Edition]

Joe Strummer's Guitar

A lot of people revere Joe Strummer, myself included. I really don't think that he would have endorsed this signature guitar if he was still alive.

Furthermore, who is going to buy this guitar? What self-respecting punk is going to buy a guitar that's been pre-abused at some factory in Mexico?

What It Is!

I've been listening to What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves at work this week. Let me tell you, fellow citizens, that this 5 disc set lives up to its name! In fact, it's a big ol' funky surprise. Who knew that sitars were funky? Listen to 'Gossip' by Cyril Neville to see what I mean.

The Inexplicable Police

Why did the Police perform 'Message In A Bottle' with John Mayer and Kanye West at New York's Live Earth show? I've been reading Andy Summers' fascinating and hilarious autobiography One Train Later and can only assume based on Sting's egomaniac antics in the book that it's all his fault.

Also, while I'm on the topic of the music, the Perry Farrell's new disc is really disappointing. Come to think of it, the last Jane's Addiction disc was a bore too.

Some similarities exist between the two bands.
Jane's Addiction and The Police both broke up at the pinnacle of success.
Ritual de lo Habital = Synchronicity? Also, both groups were initially attached to the wrong musical genre. The Police were considered punk. Jane's Addiction got lumped into the grunge movement when they were really art/prog rock.

Elvis Sells Out? Say It Ain't So!

Saw Elvis Costello shilling for Lexus last night. Smells like a sell-out to me and Chicagoans agree.

Reckoning has always been my favorite R.E.M. album, followed closely by Fables of the Reconstruction. Remember when albums had two sides? For some reason I always thought that the first side of Reckoning was actually the second side. (Maybe that's because I taped the album or cassette from my friend Chan. Cassette tapes. That's a rumination for another time.) This meant that the album started with "Second Guessing" and ended with "Time After Time". In my opinion the album flows better in this order.