ALL, "Long Distance" A thing you can say about ALL is how incredibly consistent the sound of the band was across records. The guitar, bass, and drums all sound exactly the same across every record. They had the sound they liked, and they...
ALL, "Honey Peeps" You know, I never really gave this album a real shot. The previous album seemed so sour and included some really bad lyrics, so after buying this one due to inertia, I never really engaged with it. This is a...
The Afghan Whigs, "Neglekted" I always wonder a bit about song titles like this one. What does the spelling here represent? It's not a common alternate spelling or anything, so what was it that they were choosing to capture here? A...
ALL, "Honey Peeps" By the time they hit 1997's Mass Nerder, ALL was on their third singer across seven albums, but the band still basically sounded the same. This was finally the album where I realized that I was very much...
The Magnetic Fields, "Two Kinds of People" There are two kinds of people: those with the patience to pick through 69 Love Songs to find the good bits, and those who cannot be bothered. The Skatalites, "Woman A Come" The Skatalites...
