The Skatalites, "Black Sunday" I've mentioned it before, but Stretching Out is probably the best single Skatalites album. This is a double live album from 1983, during a time when all of the eight surviving original members were back together in...
Mary Wells, "My Guy" Another classic Motown tune. I wish I could set up all my music streaming to just inject periodic Motown songs into whatever I'm listening to. Having a Four Tops song pop up in the middle of some...
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...
Mephiskapheles, "Satanic Debris" As a statement of purpose for a band, it doesn't get a whole lot stronger than this one. From the opening backwards masked vocals, to the dark lyrics, the subtle distortion of the guitar lending some additional menace,...
Today! Daft Punk, "Give Life Back To Music" As a teenager, I took it for granted that disco sucked. Everybody knew it sucked, right? It was shiny and for dancing! I didn't really interrogate the reasons why there was a cultural...
