Judy and the Loadies, "I'm Not Drunk" I am, Judy and the Loadies! Lambchop, "Steve McQueen" I've poked fun at some artists for cloying strings, but somehow Lambchop's syrupy approach to same never bothers me....
Two two twenty two. Neat date! Guided by Voices, "Hot Freaks" Bee Thousand, the Guided By Voices breakthrough record, isn't really notably different from their previous records. It's as ramshackle and distracted as their previous albums, with the same...
Jurassic 5, "Gotta Understand" Feedback is one of the most disappointing albums I can remember buying. I adored the first couple LPs from J5, and then this album just kind of thudded to the ground. It seemed so leaden and joyless at the...
Modest Mouse, "Tundra/Desert" Before what I consider their breakthrough, The Lonesome Crowded West, Modest Mouse was making jagged, interesting music that sometimes was too much of a mess to really be great. But, I have to say, the older I get, the...
Nirvana, "About A Girl" "About A Girl" might be the song on Bleach that would best fit in on Nevermind, which makes it a little surprising that it didn't get a single release at the time. It did eventually...
