Well, it's been an interesting seven months, I guess. I stopped updating Five Random Songs because I was doing another blog (Game & Tonic) and that was taking up my time. And then, uh, a global pandemic hit (you may have heard about it!), and my...
Parliament, "(You're A Fish And I'm A) Water Sign" While I always prefer the more upbeat stuff from Parliament, their ballads were also often great, certainly during their peak period. This comes from the last great Parliament record (Motor Booty Affair), but not the last...
Prince, "All The Critics Love U In New York" Somehow, 23 years before their first record, Prince laid a pretty savage burn on LCD Soundsystem. Jawbox, "Meathook" Jawbox put together a comp, My Scrapbook Of Fatal Accidents, which gathered together most of their non-album releases...
Sam & Dave, "Said I Wasn't Going To Tell Nobody" Seems like it's been a long time since we've had any Stax stuff up in here. So, it's a delight to get some Sam & Dave, which I just tried to write Save & Dam. Which is a...
Next to the bass / turn up the radio! J Church, "The Heroic Trio" Cat Food is a quickie album that J Church threw together by recording some songs in a day, adding in a couple compilation tracks, and calling it good. But punk never really...
