999 -- Concrete

    The fifth release for one of the original 77 Punk bands 999.  This album works more like a Garage Rock Revival record rather than a Punk album, featuring many 60's covers ... I'd like to say I liked it ... but I didn't ... I'll stick with my compilation with Homicide on it instead ...

Led Zeppelin -- III

  Forget the hits, this acoustic, written in a 18th century cottage, is Zeppelin's greatest effort, plus you've got the volvelle packaging, which makes this album a must have in every record collection ... no matter what's your taste!

Howlin' Wolf -- Chester Burnett Aka

  A trailblazer deluxe, a man who has been cited by Sam Phillips as his greatest discovery, Elvis being the second ... The Howlin' Wolf!  His persona was as big as his stature, and his sound was enormous, 60's music would have been a real boring if the Wolf didn't exist to influence all the kiddies, and show em' how it's really done!  I could waste my time and write about his countless accolades, performances and great songs, but that tells you nothing unless you've heard the music.  All this meaning, get some Howlin' Wolf ... he is one of the greatest artists of all-time!!

Pearl Jam -- Backspacer

  Jock Rock wanna-be's latest release is less sludgy than usual with a couple acoustic numbers, but as always very forgettable ... the kids like it (and I don't mean the youth of Today!!) ... so i say it's good!

A Christmas Gift For You From Philles Records

  This is the best Christmas album of all-time, and unlike most, it isn't a joke!  I am sad to announce that I do not have this record!  I was going to buy it on e-bay, but I felt that the price tag was way too high, I thought there'd be millions of copies floating around, but being released the same day as JFK's assassination probably brought the album sales way way down, I might pay the hefty price after all ... I almost cheaped out and bought the dinky CD ... but why would I insult the artists and producer by doing that!?  As well as being the ultimate X-mas record, it is Brian Wilson's favorite LP ... which makes a must have into a ............. ME WANTEE!


update: MEEEE GOT-EEE!

Tommy James And the Shondells -- The Best of ...

  Total Bubblegum Rock 'n' Roll bananahead Tommy James and his Shondells.  As much as this music is like a cheese factory, these tunes are all recognizable, and you can't help but love 'em -- well most of 'em!

Patti Smith -- Easter

  Punk poet extraordinaire Patti Smith!  Her usual brilliance is, in my opinion, not present on this record.  Other than hugely offensive, Rock N Roll Ni**er, the album just sounds like sloppy Classic Rock ... it's not that I'm too offended by their use of the dreaded N word, I get the poetic shock Warholian outrageousness, but do they have to scream it over and over and over, it kinda looses it's power and becomes shock for shocks sake, and why does it sound so separate from the rest of the album ... the tune is a wickedly sharp punk number, reminiscent of the MC5, while the rest of the record is a Springsteened biblical diatribe, who co-wrote Because The Night, and rejected it for his own record ... yikes ... is that the caliber of songs we have here ... rejects?  I wish I had found Horses instead, this review would have been totally different, the hit song is good but the album is a miss ...