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I see you've sent my letters back And my LP records and they're all scratched This album spoke to me. From the moment I heard that l...

I thought I'd follow up CCR with a band that really is from the Bayou. This is true, literal heavy metal. I mean heavy in a "walkin...

I heard Born on the Bayou on my way into work yesterday and I thought "I can't believe I forgot how awesome these guys were."...

I bought this album on a whim - I'd only heard passing things about it, mostly from the local DJ who was a big Doors fan and pushed the ...

Iron Maiden is like the SchoolHouse Rock of metal. My sister actually passed an English course in high school because her make up work (for...

I liked this album before I hated it. I liked it for the hardness and I liked it because it made Korn come up with a great tour and I got to...

Let's face it; Christmas is not all Ho Ho Ho and holly jolly and good will toward men. Some of us get cranky around this time of year. S...

1976. I was 14 years old. My parents had just pulled me out of public school and sent me to Catholic high school for "my own good....

I love compilations, they're a great way to find new music. This is a CD that I came to own by stealing it out of the collection Todd b...

I have this weird relationship with Steely Dan, which started with Aja . I tried really hard to like them, because I thought I was supposed...

I bought thisisnotpitchfork.com. Some time over the weekend, I will be importing all these reviews over to a new WordPress blog, hosted by ...

What can I say? It's Huey Lewis. How can you not love this guy, with his charming smile and skinny tie and earnest pop songs? I was wor...

There are not a whole lot of women in my record collection. I don't know why this is, I guess I just never took to girl groups (or even ...

It's funny how so many people dismiss Fear as a bunch of noise. They probably never really listened to the music. Beneath the sometimes ...

Considering this band was made up mostly of former members of Bauhaus, they were surprisingly un-Bauhaus. Which is a good thing. Aside from ...

Do you know how many great songs this band had? It's really a shame that so few people mention them when making lists of the greatest r...

This is my happy music. When I need to find that happy, sunny place where everything is rainbows and fluffy bunnies and kittens, this is wha...

Country rock, southern rock, redneck rock. It was called a lot of things and given a lot of names in the 70s and we stuck with "souther...

I love Neil Diamond. I love him in the same way I like Abba and Air Supply and Death Cab for Cutie. Sometimes four chords or shouting at the...

Sad to say, this is not the only King Diamond record I own. I have no idea why I have these; I only listen to two songs of his, and both in...

I was rummaging around in my mother's attic yesterday and came across this album. Memories of the Michael everyone loved and adored came...

Liking Billy Joel was almost a prerequisite in high school. Our school, after all, was in the town Joel grew up in. We hung out at the villa...

I loved this album first, because it was Talking Heads and at that point in their career, they could do no wrong. I also loved the album for...

Imagine, if you will, a bunch of hillbillies drunk on moonshine and looking for trouble. Now imagine they have a band. With two bass players...

There is only one reason I have this album. That's right. Sister Christian . That song is my albatross. There are people who know me sol...

It doesn't matter what else is on this album. All that matters is I Want You to Want Me and Surrender . Despite those two songs being ...

This album was the culmination of my mental affair with Michael Hutchence. Ever since Shabooh Shoobah and The One Thing , I had been carryi...

My parents had this album. They played it mostly on Saturday mornings while we were doing chores and I spent a long time dusting the wooden ...

Hard to believe there was a time when I thought Phil Collins was a genius, but there was. Long before Sussudio , there was early Genesis and...