Ginger Baker, drummer of Cream, notable for extended solo-song “Toad” and for being somewhat of a “scoundrel,” [1] [2] left us for the stars last October. Clapton, though, Cream’s lead guitarist, assembled famous musicians like Roger Waters, Ron Wood and Steve Winwood in London just last night, presumably for London being the origin of Cream, […]
Today on DD I thought maybe I’d lighten things up a little bit and reach into our history for some tokens of cognitive oblivion and hummable lore, to have a little light-hearted fun on a Saturday. I attempted to find all the songs on YouTube and attach the corresponding URL’s. For anybody who’s actually decent […]
Score: 10/10 Leave it to me to get on Ghostface Killah’s case for pewtering out a wimpy little 40-minute hip-hop album last year only to completely let it slide in the case of his New York cohort Navy Blue. But Ada Irin, which is rife with samples, deep with a guest appearance from Ka and […]
For some reason the thought just dawned on me this past week that a car might actually be a PERFECT place in which to listen to music. Think about it — all that space on the dashboard allows for a pretty good sound system setup and pair of speakers and the close, fairly well-rounded space […]
Granted, it might have been that stupefyingly ugly outfit she’d wear on this tour that was like attempting to be Britain’s answer to American whoredom. For whatever reason, anyway, after receiving what was basically unanimous critical adoration upon its release, PJ Harvey’s third album, 1995’s To Bring You My Love, has been discursively lost in […]
And so the proletariat American clothing saga continues. It’s funny: just as little as a few months ago, when footballs were being thrown by sun-kissed creeks, leaves were falling and those baggy jeans went just perfect with a light flannel on those crisp days, Wrangler Jeans seemed to be on top of the world. I […]
Score: 8.5/10 For how storied and how championed this band has been for a decade and a half as part of indie rock’s very elite, it seems jilting in a way that it’s only their fifth album we’re now getting in this year’s Thin Mind. The album comes from the band’s already standing record label, […]
Is it possible for an album to be “classic” but not “listenable”? Yes — it’s Mule Variations by Tom Waits, his ’98 “comeback album” (albeit one which found him handling the lyrical topic of sleeping in a graveyard) which is so full of unforgettable songs as to put it on par with Abbey Road or […]
16 “The Power of Jazz” This song, granted, does have one thing commendable about it: you get a narrative of Ira Kaplan professing that “I thought I’d go to New York / And see what Doug was up to”. This little anecdote is perhaps marginally entertaining because it implies the proximity of YLT’s native Hoboken, […]
I enjoy various musics like Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Salt ‘n Pepa. I buy my clothes from reputable establishments. My limbs can be distended and replaced by electronic smoking devices, at the immediate convenience of any and sundry. But I’m deaf to The Shins. I can’t hear them. Indie rock is a […]