This is a story about your friend and mine(“Who is it, who is it, who is it?”)There you stand with your L.A. tanAnd your New York walk and your New York talkYour mother left you when you were smallBut you’re going to wish you wasn’t born at allSteel and glass, steel and glass… OK, so……
Yellow matter custardDripping from a dead dog’s eyeCrabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestessBoy, you’ve been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down I am the Egg ManThey are the Egg MenI am the WalrusGoo goo g’joob! Because it’s October 31st, we return with our second of three Halloween Day additions to our Buttkickin Halloween Songs. We…
Introduction I’m not gonna hype this post as some kind of EPIC SHOWDOWN when comparing two essentially similiar Beatles records, because in almost any configuration, the UK Beatles albums were superior to their US counterparts, and that’s pretty much all there is to it. Except for Rubber Soul, which may be the only exception, and…
If you want to get Beatle Nerd gums a-flapping wildly and passionately and incessantly, just bring up the topic of the band’s American LP releases from the mid 60s. I’m not even kidding. This is a subject I myself love to geek out over, and why not? If you were born of a certain era,…
As of when this album review was published, it has been just around 50 years since the legendary Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in North America (it was released a week earlier in the UK), and I’m going to avoid the easy “It was 50 years ago today…” H1 headline because that…
Ram may have been unfairly targeted as pabulum in 1971, but Paul McCartney ultimately produced one of the strongest albums of his career and a now-acknowledged indie pop classic.
I like being born into the last generation that was able to appreciate vinyl LPs in a non-retro, non-ironic manner. I got my first CD player in 1988 and that was just the beginning of the end of vinyl for me (and for vinyl as a whole, which gave up the ghost to CDs soon…