So now we’re on boxset number three – the period that truly defined The Who, as they transitioned from “pop” band to “rock legends”. After their one year stint with…
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With all the recent talk and writing about the return of the original Zombies, touring and performing their 1968 masterpiece Odessey & Oracle, I thought it might be nice to…
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A few things to get right out there: I love this album. I love Paul McCartney – from McCartney until this one. This was the last album of his that…
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This second box set of 45 singles, restored to their original label pressings by The Who for “The Who Hits 50” series, is now playing loudly for the third time…
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Ted Asregadoo
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Is there anything revelatory in the deluxe edition of Led Zeppelin’s “In Through The Out Door?” Yes and no.
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Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology turned 100 a few days ago, and Merge Records marked the occasion by re-releasing the oft-overlooked indie-folk gem it inspired, Richard Buckner’s majestic homage,…
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One of my earliest and most loved musical recollections is “No Milk Today”; I still have my original M-G-M Records 45 with “There’s A Kind Of Hush” on the flipside. …
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Jeff Beck is my one guitar hero; that’s a known fact. I have all his albums, right through to Flash and have tried to incorporate some of his sound into…
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This is pure gold. I’m speaking both as a fan and as a music critic (!); this is a small, but perfect reminder of how a record company can do…
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The brilliance – musically and conceptually – of The Who’s third album, humorously titled The Who Sell Out, cannot be overstated or underestimated. Only two years on in their contracted…
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Started in September of 1966, the second album by The Who was to be a very different affair from their debut, My Generation, for several reasons: gone was producer Shel…
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With The Who’s 50th anniversary here, Universal, the owners of The Who’s catalog, have seen fit to bring out vinyl reissues of the band’s landmark first three albums. Geffen Records…
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Dw. Dunphy
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A gem from the ’80s college rock scene gets a brand new run.
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Dave Lifton
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The Staple Singers’ 1965 album, recorded shortly after the Selma marches, gets expanded and reissued.
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1979’s Setting Sons is probably the second finest piece of work released by The Jam during their career, which, on record, spanned from 1977 to 1982 – the finest being…
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1977’s Two Sides To Every Story by the late Gene Clark, the erstwhile co-founder of The Byrds, has been long considered his finest solo effort (in the singer’s opinion). It’s…
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As it stands, the R.E.M. nostalgia/reissues campaign hasn’t slowed a bit, although this is definitely one for the completist/hardcore fan – and I should preface this by saying I certainly…
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Justin Vellucci
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Experiencing Captain Beefheart always has felt like a bit of an acid trip to me. Shape-shifting, mysterious and occasionally frenzied, Don van Vliet’s gravel-voiced Beefheart persona and his aptly named…
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The music and artistry of Don Van Vliet, known to all and sundry as Captain Beefheart is very black and white – there are no greys here – you either…
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What was technically recorded as Arthur Lee’s second solo album after the dissolution of Love in 1971 became viewed as the “great lost Love album”, as the album was going…
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This is one of those albums where I cannot even remotely pretend to be objective – The Monkees was the first album I ever owned in my life, so it…
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Ken Shane
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The legendary sessions finally get a complete release
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I don’t know how to find the right words for two albums that were almost “standard issue” when I was a teen and starting to move towards playing guitar and…
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That much of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles efforts have been unavailable for so long remains something of a mystery to me. His output with Wings and his solo albums during the…
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Justin Vellucci
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The single guitar note, all fragile and frosted glass, falls on the foot of the kick drum. And then, as the notes continue to unfurl and the metronomic drum spurs…
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The perfect companion piece – the sensible companion piece to the earlier The Dark Horse Years 1976 – 1992. This beautifully styled 6 CD plus DVD and hardcover book set…
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The headline for this article is misleading. There is no way that I could pretend this is a bias-free, completely objective analysis of the 30th anniversary edition of Electric Eye,…
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Make no mistake about it. Daniel Amos’ second effort of the Alarma Chronicles, Doppelganger, was weird. In order to cut through the preconceptions, the clatter, and the propaganda, it had to be.
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The way I’m going to approach this is to pretend that I’ve never heard #1 Record or Radio City. I’m going to write this as if these two vital albums…