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 […]
10 Juga-Naut – “Dropping Hints” A jaunty, jazzy but tense beat help this UK rapper sustain an overall vibe on “Dropping Hints” with the ambience of work music and the verbose energy to soundtrack your solitary nights or train rides. .. 9 La Milagrosa – “Asesinos” Amongst what seems to be a litany of Hispanic […]
In sitting down and getting to writing about the albums for my year-end list, I almost always feel a certain element of anxiety. This snag was in the works big time for 2021, the year we’re emerging from the doldrums and entropy of the COVID nightmare, and are finally supposed to be regrowing all our […]
25 “We Can Be Together” (Volunteers) 1969’s Volunteers is a significant album in the Jefferson Airplane history for, primarily, being their most politically subversive statement, at least explicitly, and also, marking the last band project that guitarist/singer Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden would partake in. Perhaps appropriately, it’s a confusing hodgepodge of stylistic array […]
50 “Falling from Above” (Greendale) 49 “See the Sky about to Rain” (On the Beach) 48 “War of Man” (Harvest Moon) 47 “New Mama” (Tonight’s the Night) 46 “Soldier” (Decade) 45 “Sail away” (Rust Never Sleeps) 44 “Ride My Llama” (Rust Never Sleeps) 43 “Helpless” (Unplugged) 42 “Saddle up the Palomino” (American Stars ’n Bars) […]
Truth be told, Phil Lesh is going to bear the brunt of this verbal prong here pretty good, but this has been a long time coming. For every Relix article detailing Lesh and Friends “covering Cream” only to unveil it as the desultory, anticlimactic blues jam of “Sunshine of Your Love,” there’s been an upstart […]
All I remember about Oasis from when I was really young was everybody I knew hating them and thinking they sucked, even my Dad. Granted, his reasoning toward this conclusion, as I’m sure pretty much everybody else’s of that disposition, was that they were “arrogant,” and had really nothing to do with the music. The […]