The Flaming Lips, "The Sparrow"
King's Mouth: Music and Songs is a bit of a return to a previous style for the Lips, sonically sounding a lot more like The Soft Bulletin than The Terror. But it's also a big concept album, and I think...
Soundgarden, "Swallow My Pride"
A collision of early grunge elements here! This is from the second Soundgarden EP, Fopp, from 1988. It's a time when Soundgarden was still figuring out who they were, and their sound was still mostly a melding of hard rock and...
The Sound Stylistics, "Get Ya Some"
From the Mocambo Funk Forty Fives, a comp collecting, uh, funk forty fives from Mocambo Records. The label is a reliable source for this kind of stuff, so this collection is a very fun time. Listen to this, the...
The Flaming Lips, "The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine"
They should have kept that noise from the first few seconds going throughout. Just go full abrasive. It would make me happy, anyway.
Mudhoney, "Burn It Clean"
One of the delightful bits of early Mudhoney...
Well, this blog officially turns five today! There have been 1137 posts on this site, if my tagging is to be trusted, so a pace better than every other day. More than five thousand little capsules on songs and bands, and that's a dang lot...