Prince Paul, "A Prince Among Thieves" Hearing this song out of context, the climax/punchline of Prince Paul's briliant album A Prince Among Thieves, really is kind of jarring. It makes so much sense in the original context but is a...
The Housemartins, "Flag Day" I don't want to profane this with my witless scribbling. Panopticon, "Trauerweide II" From a split release with Panopticon and Waldgeflüster, where the bands each contributed a long black metal song and a folk cover...
Prince Paul, "Psycho Linguistics (Convergent Thought)" Before his masterpiece, A Prince Among Thieves, Prince Paul released an uneven first solo record, Psychoanalysis: What Is It?. There are some good tunes on it, but a lot of kind of self-indulgent meandering, so it'...
Nine Inch Nails, "The Beginning Of The End" Year Zero marked the fastest followup that Trent Reznor had produced to date, with the album appearing a mere two years after With Teeth. At least five years had separated studio albums up to this...
The Presidents of the United States of America, "We Are Not Going To Make It" The Presidents were viewed as a novelty act, which is kind of inescapable when your hits are things like "Lump" and "Peaches". And, yeah,...
