Edith Piaf -- Tete-A-Tete Avec Piaf

  The ill-fated Parisian national treasure chanteuse Edith Piaf's final Lp.  Honestly the music on this album isn't that great, it has it's moments but the songs hardly touch her early brilliance.  The real meat on this record sits in her monologues between numbers, her tragic optimism about love, loss, hope and youth gives the sense of a woman facing her own mortality finding solace on the last leg of the race, while putting me in a bout with existentialism about my own life, clinging whatever hope I might have for happiness. 

Shuggie Otis -- Inspiration Information

  Shuggie Otis perches himself between Sly Stone's Funky Psychedelia and smooth Stevie Wonder'd tenderness.  

SNFU -- ... And No One Else Wanted To Play

  SNFU's debut and debatebly their best album ... unfortunately lead singer and focal point became somewhat of a Punk Rock lifestyle legendary victim, as we all have from time to time, well if you're hardcore enough, but Mr. Chi Pig took it to another level, although I'm sure his eclectic ways helped in keeping his song writing fresh, vibrant and completely original.  So let's all go to the Cannibal Cafe, "where you can be the special of the day?"

Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica

  Phil Spector's crowning achievement led by the sultry and beautiful Veronica.  The Ronettes seem to have the ability to seep themselves into my and hopefully everyone's imagination, making us all remember when a beautiful woman loved and longed for us in this very way!

Chet Baker -- Let's Get Lost

  Before becoming the famous heroin fueled troubled troubadour who lost and then regained his embouchure, living a life of self torture and torment, Baker had previously recorded these numbers which were to become the soundtrack to a documentary about his life.  What you hear here is the soft pangs of a destroyed man, using his own voice and trumpet to create the sound and atmosphere of what he was feeling inside, it's funny sometimes how a man's pain can be so beautiful and enticing which is a talent on it's own.       

Stereolab -- Emperor Tomato Ketchup

  What a killer French Popped Kraut Electro Funk'd mish-mash of futura sweetness.  Man after listening to this you can tell they were heavily influenced by Gainsbourg's Melody Nelson, and  clearly had it on continuous repeat, drawing from it's greatness, while tossing their own interpretation, so ALL hail Emperor Tomato Ketchup!

Weezer

  Jock Rock extraordinaires, as much as the hit tracks are annoying and over-played, some of the oddball numbers aren't that bad, they've sound like slowed down Buzzcocks, but in the end I don't give a shit about this band.