New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, "Haitian Fight Song" This version of the great Charles Mingus song is actually the version that got me to go look up Mingus and learn more about him and buy a bunch of his records. It's such...
Pyrrhon, "The Invisible Hand Holds A Whip" Every three years, discordant death metal masters Pyrrhon fire off a new album, and every three years, it whips. I first encountered them with their second record, The Mother of Virtues, and have eagerly followed them...
The Orb, "Into The Fourth Dimension: Essenes Beyond Control" Little Fluffy Clouds was one of the first things that ambient electronic artists The Orb released, and I picked it up as part of a foray into whether I liked electronic music at that...
Green Day, "Basket Case" I know they became clownish and bad, and that continuing to like them is evidence of creeping Boomerism, but I don't care, this album rules and this song rules. Yves Tumor, "Romanticist" I had my...
Samiam, "Head Trap" Samiam were part of the punk scene that would eventualy spawn Green Day. As the labels moved in, hunting for the next big thing, Samiam found themselves on Atlantic Records for a single album, which is as close as they...
