Week 49 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Freaky Styley Right. I didn’t love the first RHCP I listened to this year. I certainly don’t remember it very well here at the year’s end. But while I was researching that album, I saw that RHCP had an album produced by George Clinton. George Clinton is my…
Tag: Music
October Music Challenge 2020
Week 41 Filistine – Dirty Bomb Music seems to link to memories more than other arts. I seem to link music with the person or place I first encountered it pretty heavily. Case in point, Filistine’s album Dirty Bomb links to a classmate / roommate I had when I was doing my master’s. What’s particularly…
September Music Challenge 2020
Week 36 Control Machete – Solo Para Fanaticos Whoops! Well, shit… Ok, I probably should have figured this out. I mean, my Spanish is good enough to translate Solo Para Fanaticos, so the question really becomes whether or not I would have put together that Only for Fanatics would mean ‘Greatest hits’ album. I knew…
August Music Challenge 2020
Week 31 Ratata – LP3 Ratata is another band that I think I am lying to myself about. I got into it while working a job back when because and only because my coworkers were into it and it got heavy rotation in the work place (before you think this is some kind of weird…
July Music Challenge 2020
Week 26 Queen – Greatest Hits This was pretty much just vengeance out of the gate. Last year (I think. I am exhausted and my life/ the last several months is all a fucking blur) I had Queen on my to-listen list. But the person who recommended it to me did it in a weird…
June Music Challenge 2020
Week 22 The White Stripes – Elephant I kind of came at this with the worst foot forward. I pretty much expected this to be the band that did the football (soccer) hooligan song. And let’s face it – Seven Nation Army might be a king among the one hit wonders. It is a fantastic…
May Music Challenge 2020
Week 18 – Manu Chao – La Radiolina Manu Chao is the shit. I’ve been referring to him as my generation’s Bob Marley since listening to his first album, Clandestino. That is a statement I am willing to stand behind. His music is always satisfying, catchy and cool. The fact that he pulls off an album…
April Music Challenge 2020
Week 14 Animal Collective – Merryweather Post Pavillion The last time I reviewed an Animal Collective album I found it hard to do. This music is… well, weird. But it is a really good weird. One of the songs on that first album remains among my list of ‘seriously, best song ever’ list. But its…
March Music Challenge 2020
Week 9 – Milky Chance – Sadnecessary Why do we demonize one-hit wonders? I am not sure I do, but it seemed to be a common sentiment with some people I knew. We do this across the board (I knew I have done this with some movie directors, for instance), but it is making less…
February Music Challenge 2020
Week 5 Quintorigo – Rospo When I was younger someone turned me on to a band called Rasputina, which was an all women group of cello players who did lots of really sorrowful music. I liked it enough, and I learned that I lean towards music with exceptional sounds. I tend to find that bands…
January Music Challenge 2020
Week 1 Everlast – Whitey Ford’s House of Pain This album came from a recommendation from my brother. Our taste in music tends to align, and this one came with pretty high praise. However, I didn’t really find all that much merit to it. Not sure what it was about it. Many years ago I…
December Music Challenge
Week 49 – Tuesday 3rd December– Monday 9th December Mice Parade – Mice Parade I took one look at this album cover and said to myself “oh man this is going to get hiptery”. I definitely was not wrong, but it wasn’t horrific. I though some of the songs were pretty good, although not all…
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