Gang Starr, "Take It Personal" DJ Premier is one of the best to ever do it, and Daily Operation captures him near the top of his form. His beats are spare but bracing, with everything having a purpose, which is to hit hard....
Swingin' Utters, "Here We Are Nowhere" A while back, I wrote some code to pull data from Discogs for my collection to see what year albums were released for another project that I was working on. That project might still see the...
The Queers, "I Like Young Girls" There are a lot of questions raised by this blog, most of them unanswerable. Foremost among those questions is "why do I have so many damn albums from the Queers?" American Music Club, "Patriot&...
The Avalanches, "The Divine Chord" A thing I admire about Johnny Marr (who guested on this song) is that he's cheerfully helped on about a zillion things in his post-Smiths career, and they're pretty all over the map. And...
Hüsker Dü, "Divide and Conquer" A thing that is easy to forget about Hüsker Dü is how ridiculously productive they were in their salad days. Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, and Flip Your Wig all came out within a 14 month period, a...
