Throbbing Gristle, "Walkabout" As I was getting further into industrial and noise, around 1991 or so, a key thing I used to help out was Usenet. As I read newsgroups and learned more about bands, Throbbing Gristle would come up a lot as one of...
The Queers, "I Like Young Girls" There are a lot of questions raised by this blog, most of them unanswerable. Foremost among those questions is "why do I have so many damn albums from the Queers?" American Music Club, "Patriot's Heart" After ten years apart,...
Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators, "Light Years Ahead" With the strings here, this is reading very "late Stax" to me, or perhaps Curtis Mayfield. Interestingly, it's an era of soul that for the most part hasn't seen as much of a revival as earlier Stax...
Yo-Yo Ma, "Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010: I. Prélude" These pieces, which come up occasionally, really don't make a lot of sense in isolation. Shuffle is good at some things - surprises, shaking up your routine, serendipity - but is bad at...
The Queers, "Too Many Twinkies" Eh. Next! Guzzard, "Deaf Ears, Gamma Rays" As the world moved on from Amphetamine Reptile once Helmet was no longer there, the later bands never got much attention even from the alternative press. But there were some real gems from...
