Folks, we've got a special thing today! Our first ever Five Songs Guest Post! That's right! For the first time ever, Five Songs is an actual "we" instead of a royal "we"! This guest track listing was provided by Col. Hector Bravado, founder of Breakup...
Run-D.M.C., "Raising Hell" I'm sure I've told the story before, but Raising Hell was the first album I remember buying for myself. I heard "Peter Piper" on the radio while we were driving to Pullman, WA, and I was entranced. I didn't know...
The Chemical Brothers, "Where Do I Begin" We've talked before about how "Block Rockin' Beats" was (deservedly) a galactic scale hit. I have to wonder how people who bought the record thought about the rest of the album, which is excellent, but which gleefully throws...
Albert King, "Born Under a Bad Sign" Majestic. I'm just going to fuck this up if I try and write something. Chemical Brothers, "Block Rockin' Beats" Last time we had a track from this album, I expressed mystification that the Chemical Brothers had a moment....
Panopticon, "Blåtimen" Panopticon, the band that is actually just Austin Lunn, gained attention with Kentucky, where Lunn merged his love of Appalachian folk music with his love of black metal and produced an amalagam of the two, creating one of the most distinctive and interesting...
