Pigs, "Wrap It Up" Just bottle that opening guitar sound and sell it by the case, I'll buy it and pour it directly into my nostrils. Dodecahedron, "Finale" Ooh, backwards vocals. So evil! I'm cowering! Boris, "Riot Sugar" I'll never get tired of mentioning this...
Charles Mingus, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" Ladies and gentlement, the pilot has illuminated the "JOSH IS NOT QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT JAZZ" light, please return to your social media app of choice and return your seats to the upright and locked position. Boris, "Hama" Amplifier...
Propagandhi, "Laplante/Smith Song (Live)" Where Quantity Is Job #1 is really an excellent title for a comp like this. Also, dig those Canadian accents! Beck, "The Golden Age" A little while back, we talked about Party Beck vs. Sad Beck. Please enjoy (?) peak Sad...
It's July 4th! Doesn't feel right to celebrate anything, though. Fugees, "Ready or Not" This album was really huge, driven by a rapturous critical reception (and, of course, some seriously bangin' singles). It represents a little bit of a path not taken for hip-hop at...
Matthew Sweet, "Divine Intervention" When someone says "power pop", this is the song that pops into my head. I know that there are plenty of other bands that really defined the genre, and that I should be thinking of them. But I don't. It's this...
