Anyone who listened to top-40 radio in the 60’s has to remember the first time they heard “California Dreamin’”. The haunting lyrics and the tight, clear harmonies had a folkish sound that was clearly ahead ofits time. When their music finally became available on CD, the texturesbecame more apparent and the true artistic content was [...]
Who is Colbie Caillat? From the CD pix, she looks like a real pretty version of Jennifer Aniston, wholesome, all American girl.There’s a mention of her being from MySpaceMalibu, so you expect light and breezy, but it’s actually pretty mature and well thought out lyrics that gets your attention, even with the soothing acoustic guitar, [...]
The Who were at the top of their game when they recorded Quadrophenia and each member showcased his abilities to the fullest. This is Pete Townshend’s most concise work as a musical story teller. It also features some of the best songs he ever wrote. At least six of the pieces on this set exceed [...]
![The Very Best of the Doors [US Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xL1hY4+LL._SL500_AA240_.jpg "The Very Best of the Doors [US Version]")
If, like me, you’ve been a Doors fan since high school, but never an “uberfan”, you’ve probably had more than one of the studio albums and probably one of the anthologies/best ofs, etc.By first wife sto-, er, “permanently borrowed” and/or sold my copy of “LA Woman” (ironic, hunh?) and one of the anthologies.
Now the discs [...]
I know some of you are going to say it’s just plain sacrilegious but hey, just because everybody jumps into the lake….”Thriller” is a great album with great tracks and because of a variety of fortunate reasons e.g. timeliness, MTV etc, has become the biggest selling album of all-time but that doesn’t mean that everything [...]
“Who’s Next” is definitely The Who’s best! Released in 1971 by arguably one of the greatest bands of all time, it followed on the heels ofthe rock opera “Tommy,” andPete Townshend’sabandoned”Lifehouse” project.(“Lifehouse” was originallyintended as The Who’s crowning achievement – a combination science fictionfilm, rock opera, double album, and concert cycle, all connected to make [...]