Category: Music in general
A Comment for Critics of Swervedriver and Jesus and Mary Chain
Trust me, I will be writing reviews of each band’s respective albums but I believe I have to say something about other criticisms of them. I’m not going to cite any specific reviews but I ... Read More
The Beauty of Unorthodox Lyric Writing
A long time ago, back in 1993 . . . Kurt Cobain wrote on a stone tablet . . . or recorded on analogue tape . . . . One day Kurt and his band were going to record a new album and call it “Verse C... Read More
The Lost Art of Listening
It’s funny how if you walked up to any person and said, “You don’t listen to music much, if at all,” you would probably be right most of the time. Yeah, you’d get a res... Read More
U2, Brian Eno (Passengers) 01: Original Soundtracks 1
Passengers was a little known side project that was composed and recorded between Zooropa and Pop. After Zooropa, U2 had hit a brick wall creatively so Brian Eno suggested they just improvise and se... Read More
A Time and a Place: John Coltrane, The Church and Yes in Their Own Time
One day I was driving to work and I was listening to the Church’s Further Deeper. I always skip “Toy Head.” I love the rest of the album but that one I can’t quite stomach... Read More
Thoughts on Sly and the Family Stone, Love, Last Poets and Modern Rap
It’s so funny going backward in music. Going back to the roots, so to speak. I once saw a mural that said,”From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop Respect your roots.” To that, I say, “AM... Read More
Alex Chilton and Chris Bell: Is This the Sound of Self-Destruction?
Caution: it is recommended that you listen to “#1 Record,” Radio City,” “I Am The Cosmos” and “Complete Third” (CD3) before reading this entry to avoid being ... Read More
Roger Waters 01: Is This The Life We Really Want?
I’ve had this album for over two months and, I must admit, it is a hard album to digest. Not because it isn’t good, not because it is hard to fathom . . . it’s because it is so imm... Read More