A review extravaganza:
Tim Buckley - Greetings From LA:
With Greetings From LA, Tim is pure sex cheating and slutting and thrusting his way through seven soul rock numbers. And, at the time, it was a shock. Before Greetings... Tim was a folkie through and through. Sure, he was a little more attractively esoteric, and he was far more willing to mix up his influences than others. But listening to his debut self-titled album on which he sings sad, innocent, wide-eyed, restrained folk-pop numbers its difficult to imagine he would come out with an album like Greetings.
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska:
Your blood will run cold when listening to the chilling title track, with its stark portrayal of innocence and murder. Its opening line I saw her standing on the front lawn / just twirlin her baton a beautiful thematic non-sequitur on an album filled with hate, greed, menace and murder. Your heart will sink listening to Highway Patrolman; the story of a policeman caught between his duty to the world around him and his duty to his brother. Youll be strangled by the surging menace of State Trooper, with its simple acoustic guitar riff lulling you into a world where you might die on a wet highway, your family shattered, just because you pulled someone over. My Fathers House will strike you as one of the most moving evocations of hope and loss ever recorded; the tale of a man searching for himself in a forest through of ugly secrets. Youll be stunned every time you hear Atlantic City, a stunning portrait of a man trying to deal with a world full of death and terrible madness.
Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan:
Like an impressionist painter, he can get it all in one stroke. Frustration (Maggies Farm), loss (Sara), hope (The Times They Are A-Changin), longing (I Want You). His music is the micro and the macro; the big picture and the little details; mass tragedy and personal loss; the cyclone and those in its path. Hurricane, from the spectacular Desire album, is the tale of one man wronged by the system, and simultaneously the tale of far too many like him.
Rolling Stones - Live Licks:
...it's the Rolling Stones. Like pizza, sex, and zombie movies, even when they're bad they're still pretty good. They may have lost it, but most bands have never even found it.
Tim Buckley - Greetings From LA:
With Greetings From LA, Tim is pure sex cheating and slutting and thrusting his way through seven soul rock numbers. And, at the time, it was a shock. Before Greetings... Tim was a folkie through and through. Sure, he was a little more attractively esoteric, and he was far more willing to mix up his influences than others. But listening to his debut self-titled album on which he sings sad, innocent, wide-eyed, restrained folk-pop numbers its difficult to imagine he would come out with an album like Greetings.
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska:
Your blood will run cold when listening to the chilling title track, with its stark portrayal of innocence and murder. Its opening line I saw her standing on the front lawn / just twirlin her baton a beautiful thematic non-sequitur on an album filled with hate, greed, menace and murder. Your heart will sink listening to Highway Patrolman; the story of a policeman caught between his duty to the world around him and his duty to his brother. Youll be strangled by the surging menace of State Trooper, with its simple acoustic guitar riff lulling you into a world where you might die on a wet highway, your family shattered, just because you pulled someone over. My Fathers House will strike you as one of the most moving evocations of hope and loss ever recorded; the tale of a man searching for himself in a forest through of ugly secrets. Youll be stunned every time you hear Atlantic City, a stunning portrait of a man trying to deal with a world full of death and terrible madness.
Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan:
Like an impressionist painter, he can get it all in one stroke. Frustration (Maggies Farm), loss (Sara), hope (The Times They Are A-Changin), longing (I Want You). His music is the micro and the macro; the big picture and the little details; mass tragedy and personal loss; the cyclone and those in its path. Hurricane, from the spectacular Desire album, is the tale of one man wronged by the system, and simultaneously the tale of far too many like him.
Rolling Stones - Live Licks:
...it's the Rolling Stones. Like pizza, sex, and zombie movies, even when they're bad they're still pretty good. They may have lost it, but most bands have never even found it.