A Podcast of Album Discussions
Stevie Wonder cannot be stopped.
Coming hot on the heels of his Album of The Year win for Innervisions, Stevie pulls a double with Fulfillingness First Finale.
Bear witness the continued ascension of an icon.
Robert Christgau in 1974 referred to this album as “a waste”.
However!
Given time, commonsense, two ears, and a 2001 re-release on David Burn’s record label;
Shuggie Otis’ Inspiration Information finally gets the attention and respect it deserves.
Self-produced, almost exclusively self-tracked, borrowing from funk, psych, soul, and lounge; this album stands as testament to Shug’s singular vision.
The end of an era for Genesis becomes the end of Genesis in the book, and some of us aren’t feeling it.
Let’s talk the weirdness that is: Genesis, The lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Pretty sure the working title for this record was: Boomer Dad Music For Well Lit Garages.
Birch, Ben, Ann, Rob, and Jon talk the first record ever put out by Zeppelin’s record label:
Bad Company, Bad Company
Known Yamaha DX-7 enthusiast and self-described “non-musician”, Brian Eno, brings us his solo debut record, Here Comes The Warm Jets.
Coming hot on the heels of leaving Roxy Music but before starting to paint with sound, this record threads the needle of glam and experimental all while indicating his future musical trajectory; surprising absolutely no one, it rules.
Lets talk Eno!
EPISODE 300!!!!!!!
Who better to bring us 3/10ths the way through this project than a bunch of wasted dudes dressed as beautiful ladies being produced by Todd Rundgren ?
Is this punk?
Lets tuck into New York Dolls, New York Dolls!
Known brothers named Isely and varied cousins, Isely Brothers bring the thunder with their 11th album.
Blood harmonies, blood bass, a 17 year old guitar prodigy; suffice it to say, this album cooks.
Rob, Ben, Birch, and Jon talk 3 + 3
This album absolutely shreds and we feel sorry for you if you disagree.
Bowie mix < > Iggy mix
Let’s talk Iggy and The Stooges, Raw Power!
Hello! Hooray! It’s good to hear more, better Alice Copper being represented in this book!
Let’s talk Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies!
WHAAAAAA?! The crew finds out about a brand new (to them) glam rock band, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band!
The book delivers a very happy surprise and most of us are here for it.
Birch, Solange, Ben, Jon, and Rob discuss
In the summer of 73, known vegetarian and former professional bassist, Paul McCartney and wife Linda (henceforth known as McCartney2) booked studio time in Lagos, Nigeria for the recording of Wings’ third album.
Mere days before recording was to take place, both the drummer and guitarist yelled “Wings suuuuuccckkks” and quit the band. With no time to hire new lackeys, McCartney2 decided they would do it themselves.
Gather round, children, and hear this tale of woe
Rich people bitching about studio conditions in a war-torn country.
Knife-point robbery of baubles, riches, and the lesser valuable lyrics/demos.
Potential heatstroke.
Ginger Baker playing a can full of gravel on Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me).
And so much more…
Jon, Ben, Solange, Rob & Birch discuss McCartney’s best output since The Beatles imploded.
Tres Hombres is the third record from ZZ Top (the longest running rock n roll act of all time).
It may lack in Legs and cheap sunglasses but still, we found it to be a passable…
Kidding, y’all. This is one of the greatest records of all time!
Come for the amazing tunes, stay for the gatefold
There is an amazing documentary that came about them you should check out too.
annnnnd since we are link crazy today and refuse to stop talking about them, go check out The Coke Dares
Stevie Wonder continues (or begins depending on what jerk is talking) what is the greatest back to back run of recordings ever put to wax with, Innervisions.
This album of the year winner has everything; weird whole tone solos, macking on ladies using fake Spanish, a golden lady , and the continually prescient and horribly sad tale of a black man getting framed by dirty cops.
Rob, Birch, Ben, Solange, and Jon discuss.
Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.
Waylon had always been looking, perhaps unintentionally, for a common ground between country and rock, and Shaver’s songs — sketching an outlaw stance with near defiance, borrowing rock attitude to create the hardest country tunes imaginable
Can’t Buy a Thrill became an unexpected hit, and as a response, Donald Fagen became the group’s full-time lead vocalist, and he and Walter Becker acted like Steely Dan was a rock & roll band for the group’s second album, Countdown to Ecstasy.
It was designed to be a blockbuster and it was spilling over two LPs, which was all the better to showcase every element of John’s spangled personality. It is good but is it double album good?
Patti Smith was enthusiastic in her review : “Blasphemy even the gods smile on. Rock and roll for the skull. A very noble concept. Past present and tomorrow in one glance. Understanding through musical sensation. Todd Rundgren is preparing us for a generation of frenzied children who will dream in animation.”
Mike Oldfield’s groundbreaking album Tubular Bells is arguably the finest conglomeration of off-centered instruments concerted together to form a single unique piece. A variety of instruments are combined to create an excitable multitude of rhythms, tones, pitches, and harmonies that all fuse neatly into each other, resulting in an astounding plethora of music. – Mike DeGagne
All the Young Dudes actually brought Mott the Hoople success, but you wouldn’t know that from its sequel, Mott. Ian Hunter’s songs are a set of road tales fraught with exhaustion, disillusionment, and dashed dreams, all told with a wry sense of humor so evident on Mott’s earlier work. -AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
I began to feel that I had been spending so much time exploring the upper atmosphere of music and the more ethereal kind of far-out spacey stuff. Now there was this need to take some more of the earth and to feel a little more tethered; a connection to the earth. … I was beginning to feel that we (the sextet) were playing this heavy kind of music, and I was tired of everything being heavy. I wanted to play something lighter.
— Hancock’s sleeve notes: 1997 CD reissue
Coming on the heels of the cut-and-paste sound-collage schizophrenia of The Faust Tapes, Faust IV seems relatively subdued and conventional, though it’s still a far cry from what anyone outside the German avant-garde rock scene was doing.
On Roxy Music’s debut, the tensions between Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry propelled their music to great, unexpected heights, and for most of the group’s second album, For Your Pleasure, the band equals, if not surpasses, those expectations.
The album was recorded over eight days and features instrumental contributions by bassist Danny Thompson and members of Fairport Convention.[4][5] “Solid Air”, the title track, was dedicated to a friend of Martyn’s, Nick Drake, who would die of an antidepressant overdose 18 months after the album was released. – wikipedia
