September 2010
3 posts
#11
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
What can be said about this that hasn’t been said for decades? Amazing. So glad I finally heard it. Way ahead of it’s time. Sad to say, the only thing I really knew of the Beach Boys was that they were the old guys that used to play with Jessie from The Rippers…
#10
The Stooges - Fun House
So I’m kind of cheating on this one. Did I sit down and listen to Fun House? No. But I did go see Iggy and the Stooges live. Never really listened to The Stooges. It was a weird experience. For the first time in many years, I was the youngest person at the show. It was 90% middle aged band guys and old punks. Certainly the most male ponytails I’ve...
#9 Solomon Burke - Don’t Give Up On Me
August 2010
10 posts
August 29th, 2010
Smoking Popes - Destination Failure
August 26th, 2010
#7 Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
In the interest of full disclosure, I had this on while we were playing Apples to Apples with some friends of ours. So I didn’t give it as close of a listen as it probably deserved. But it sounded nice. Good melodies. Really chill. Will listen again.
August 25th, 2010
#6 Radiohead - OK Computer
Another band/record that I would feel silly giving a proper review, as it’s been out for almost 15 years (yikes). But Radiohead is a band that I’ve never given a true chance. I’m not entirely sure why, but I know I was always annoyed at the collective boner that music critics had for them. It’s the same reason I never listened to Wilco. And...
August 24th, 2010
#5 Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
August 23rd, 2010
#4
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
The only thing that ran through my mind as I listened to this was “whoa, I am so not the kind of dude Chuck D had in mind when he was writing this”.
August 22nd, 2010
#3, Built to Spill - You in Reverse
August 21st, 2010
#2, Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Another record I never would’ve given the time of day, but I’m really glad I did. Granted, it’s not something I’d normally be into, but there are some real jams on this. I’d be lying if I said the horns in Sir Duke weren’t stuck in my head all day. Though, I have to say, the most shocking thing for me was to...
August 20th, 2011
#1 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
It’s records like this that made me want to start this project. I mean, who hasn’t heard Born to Run? This guy, thats who. Its slightly embarrassing that as a 28 year old man i’ve never heard one of the seminal, “most important” rock records ever recorded, but Springsteen has always been a mystery to me. Being a white male...
A record a day...
So after a few weeks of being bored with my music, and being completely overwhelmed at the amount of stuff that’s out there that I’ve never heard, I had an idea. A quick internet search tells me that I’m certainly not the first one to attempt it, but for 365 days I want to listen to one record every single day that I’ve never heard before. There are so many records, even...