I've got bad news folks. You're stuck with me again. Sad times! If anybody out there wants to have a whack at this thing, I guess just let me know.
Floor, "Downed Star"
This song, with the distant, buried vocals and deliberately thin drums, sounds...
Parliament, "Testify"
Up For the Down Stroke is the record where George Clinton brought back the Parliament name and it represented the band going big on party friendly funk tunes. It's the record where they really hit the big time, and the start of their...
The Roots, "Becoming Unwritten"
Rising Down is fantastic. But this song is just an interstitial thing.
Army of Juan, "Chicken"
We're deep into Moon Ska's bench here with this band, who released one album in 1997 and then disappeared. It never caught on with me...
Good one today!
Albert King, "Playing On Me"
This merger of King's blues guitar with the Stax horns, with funk folded in, is just delightful. I need to find some more shit like this. You can add blues to the long list of music that...
Five Songs took a little break there. Had to recharge our batteries. It's a grind getting out here and writing nothing of consequence about music nobody has heard or cares about! Well, we're back!
A programming note: I'm really tired of doing the "previously"s....