Album-of-the-week: 7-9-04

They had a huge single with “C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train)”, but it’s the rest of the songs that make this album really transcend space and time.

If your booty is stagnant, one dose of this will give it the shakes.

Side effects include happy earholes and paintings being shaken off the walls.

Album-of-the-week: 7-2-04

My favorite album from my favorite pop-goth-jokesters. Though, to be fair, they have a few that I haven’t listened to.

Their previous album, Bloody Kisses, is probably their critical success, but hey this is my blog.

Album-of-the-week: 6/17/04

My favorite Melvins album.

If you like heavy music, and don’t have this — Shame on you.

Album-of-the-week: 6-11-04

For all the suckers out there that think Bowie isn’t doing anything interesting nowadays, this is one of my favorites of his. The latest album is pretty great as well, but this one warms the cockles of my heart.

Album-of-the-week: 6/4/2004

Joy Division should need no introduction, but I have a feeling there are still music-loving people in the world that are missing out on their genius. You really can’t go wrong with any of their albums, but this is probably the place to start. It’s a collection of singles, many of which aren’t available on the albums.

Get ready to live!

Album-of-the-week: 5/27/04

This is my favorite Skinny Puppy album. It is beautifully demented. An industrial classic.

Album-of-the-week: 5-21-04

I would have posted this earlier in the week, but I was torturing myself over the ramifications of recommending an album with a song about venereal disease on it. Material seems to have become another name that Bill Laswell sticks on whatever he wants to. This incarnation is a bunch of his telltale beats and soundscapes with a slew of guest rappers. (Flava Flav spits out the VD Epic Burnin’).

Anyway, if you like rap, it’s definitely worth hearing.

Album-of-the-week: 5-12-04

John Linnell’s solo effort has a lot in common with his main band They Might Be Giants. If you like their sense of humor and skewed poppiness, then you probably already have this album. I just listened to it for the first time in years, and it cracked me up so much, I had to post it here.

How can you go wrong with such great lines as these: “Oregon is bad, stop them if you can” and “Iowa is a witch” ?

Album-of-the-week: 5-04-04

Praxis is a constantly changing group of musicians under the direction of the one-and-only Bill Laswell. He has spent his career breaking down genre barriers, and this album is the ultimate musical free-for-all. The band is a hodgepodge of guitar virtuosos, funk legends and turntable troubadours. Check out this cast of characters: Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Brain and Af Next Man Flip (from the Jungle Brothers).

And it sounds good too!

Album-of-the-week: 4-28-04

Secret Chiefs 3 is Mr. Bungle minus Mike Patton. This album is a positively insane instrumental genre-hopper. Killer.