Back In Tha Day

  So my Halloween costume this year was a 1980's break dancer, and Back In Tha Day was my soundtrack to get in character.  This comp features, almost, all the great rappers of the golden years ... but what gives ... no Run DMC ... bummer.  Down to the brass tacks I do not like Rap music, I have my few exceptions and guilty pleasures, which, some, are featured on this album.  Otherwise I fell like the music had it's time and it's place, late 70's, 80's and early to mid 90's.  After that the genre turned onto itself and became a fat, bloated, greedy marketing idiot, tossing it's integrity out of the window and becoming part of the corporate machine! BEH!

Bad Brains -- S/T

  KAAAAABOOOOOM!!!!!  Is probably the best way to describe Bad Brains's debut album, Christ they even put it on the cover.  They took what the Ramones had started and cranked it to maximum velocity.  Funny how once again in music history a genre is started with creative black men, and then whitey decides to copy cat them, not that there weren't any good creative white Hardcore bands, but there were sure as hell tons of terrible ones.  What makes this record even better is that there are a couple of killer Dub style Reggae tunes, just to remind you what they are really about!

Spacemen 3 -- The Perfect Prescription

  Super stoner conceptual album by Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription.  Word is the record is about some kind of drug induced trip, something which I would know nothing about ... well maybe ... honestly I have a hard time deciphering the lyrics, but the song titles kinda tell it all, the high, the plateau, the comedown and a possible OD.  Musically it's like shoegaze  mega drone Psychedelic lazy Blues.  Anyway this album is an instant classic and should be on every vinylhead's main list!

Chicago Blues Anthology

  Double album set of Delta and urban Blues.  Don't get me wrong, it's a killer collection, I just find the list of players a little uneven, for example there's Buddy Guy and no Muddy Waters, meaning, it's hardly a Chicago Blues Anthology of Chess masters without the main man.  But honestly who cares, the music is great and the Bluesmen are legendary!!

Lynyrd Skynyrd -- (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)

  Yes that's right I actually like Lynyrd Skynyrd, and I love this debut album.  These guys took what the Allman Brothers started and turned it up to 11.  Oh and the record is Sweet Home Alabama-less, which is great because I hate that f*cking song!!

FRREEEEEEBIIIRDD!!

Happy Mondays -- Live

  All the songs are present, but the production on this Live album sucks ... the big one!  It sounds like a half fast demo with a completely wasted singer ... no point in going on, I'm selling it ASAP!  Any takers?

New Order -- 1981 - 1982

  Still living in the shadow of Joy Division, New Order's early EP 1981 - 1982 sounds just like it's predecessor, with the exception of opening track Temptation.  This tune marked a bit of a departure of their traditional early sound.  The drum track has more of a Madchester groove goin' on, with less Ian Curtis carbon-copy vocals and it seems, well to me, that Modest Mouse based their entire sound on this number ...  

The Flying Lizards -- S/T

  Initially I assumed The Flying Lizards were just a typical 80's Electro band, and they are for the most part, but then I played the flipside which has four Electro-Clash'd Dub styled Trip Hop numbers, not a type of music I am always partial to, but when you discover things like these, you feel like a chisel wielding rock and roll archeologist who just found something deep in the ground.

Nirvana -- Nevermind

You know what??  Fuck this album, fuck this band, I can't stand nerdvana, I have no clue how this angsty juvenile garbage has made it to such classic status ... if you want the real, so called, "grunge" it's called Mudhoney!  Oh and this is by far their best album!