I’d be highly surprised if there were another rap group in the history of mankind with 1/10 the amount of non-rap songs in their repertoire that the Beastie Boys have. Starting with Check Your Head (1992), the group of New Yorker brats known as the Beasties would make it a regular practice to drizzle copious […]
“I dreamt that I was a snowman and I started walking and I walked in Long John Silver’s and they wouldn’t serve me, mang!”
100 Grateful Dead – “Man Smart, Woman Smarter” (Download Series Vol. 9: Live at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA / April 2, 1989) Wikipedia has “Man Smart (Woman Smarter)” slotted as a “calypso song… variously credited as being composed by Norman Span… D.L. Miller, F. Kuhn, and Charles Harris,” with Span being who “first recorded the […]
It’s impossible to overstate with words how strange it is to me that Jane’s Addiction didn’t lead with “Wrong Girl” for this album. At track seven, the song is just ridiculously cool, and plays as the album’s undeniable energetic and semantic centerpiece, painting seedy, enervating pictures of East LA in quintessential Jane’s Addiction fashion. Dave […]
“I dreamt that I rode an iguana across Puget Sound, mang!”
“I dreamt that the sky caved in and it turned into pizza, mang!”
For his own right, Phil Collins has built himself up a pretty decent repertoire of hip-hop samples. Most ubiquitous of these is probably the Bone Thugz’ “Home,” which samples “Take Me Home” from the British singer-songwriter’s catalogue. Then, just a second ago, I discovered that Lil’ Kim has a tune that uses “In the Air […]
I still remember the day in June of 2017 when I first heard the self-titled debut from El Paso’s Cigarettes after Sex, an album I’d end up granting a 10 out of 10 on this site. The only song I’d heard by them at the time was a single called “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” […]
My first impression of Modest Mouse, upon getting the Moon & Antarctica CD in 2004 (three months before I first heard “Float on,” amazingly), was like, man, this stuff is just BIG. It wasn’t like the music was really loud, fast, urgent or intense in any superficial sort of way, though. My initial take on […]
Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth’s album from 2006 and overall 14th studio LP proper [1], is an aural journey of unparalleled prowess. It feels like the glorious, succinct, perfect and even radio-friendly culimation of the trifecta of 2000s albums featuring it, Murray Street (2002) and Sonic Nurse (2004). What those two albums do in galvinizing speakers […]