Valentine Six, "Always Is My Name" Here's a little bit of an oddball. Valentine Six put out one album in 1997, full of this kind of lounge-y sort of thing. Clearly more than a little Tom Waits in the DNA here, maybe just a little...
Samiam, "Head Trap" Samiam were part of the punk scene that would eventualy spawn Green Day. As the labels moved in, hunting for the next big thing, Samiam found themselves on Atlantic Records for a single album, which is as close as they got to...
Tilt, "Annie Segall" This is from the last Tilt album, in 1999, and I'll be totally honest: I'm not entirely sure why I picked all of them up. It's not bad, it's just that it's not really any different from the other three albums. SWANS,...
400 Blows, "The Ugly Are So Beautiful" There's a ruthless, efficient logic at the heart of 400 Blows. The find their groove, riff, or idea and just hammer away at it. It's not that they're robotic or simplistic or anything, but they recognize that repetition...
Funkadelic, "Into You" The world is divided into two groups: those who think Mothership Connection is P-Funk's finest moment, and those who think One Nation Under A Groove is. (I'm ignoring Maggot Brain perverts.) My opinion largely rests on whichever one I've listened to most...
