Sensory Dispensary
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
For some reason I don’t often just put on Jimi Hendrix albums even though he will play in my mixes. I have listened, and liked, but the urge just doesn’t seem to hit me. Listening to this I think I understand why. While I love…
I have listened to Parliament in the past but usually it’s been Maggot Brain so I wasn’t really familiar with this one. That will change as this is incredible stuff here. Start to finish it’s got more funk per minute than anything has a right…
We listened to this album by Q-Tip on our way back to Santa Fe from Abiquiu and even the driver who does like hip-hop said she was tired of it and put on a Classic Rock Road Trip playlist. I am conceding that generally hip-hop…
Having listened to this from a-ha, I can finally mark as completed the task “decide if I like Norwegian synth-pop” that has been sitting on my to-do list for the last 40 years. Apparently the answer is no.
I wasn’t familiar with today’s album by D’Angelo. I can’t wait until I finish this in three years so I can read the book this challenge is based on to see what the criteria for inclusion is. Anyway, I thought he had a decent enough…
In 1982, fourteen year old me listened to some heavy metal and this album was certainly required if you wanted to be a freshman in highschool. Thankfully I soon decided that my musical tastes were non-negotiable and I moved on to better things. I seem…
After two albums that I struggled to get through, I was so relieved to see this Keith Jarret come up as my assignment for the day. This album is an absolute treasure that I have listened to an astounding number of times. I really don’t…
There is a part in Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant where he has the audience sing the chorus and when they finish he says “that was horrible” and that’s my thought about Goo by Sonic Youth, but in Arlo Guthrie’s voice.
Listening to this Pixies album was a really unpleasant experience. I didn’t enjoy anything enough to feature it. To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first wrote about it here.
I think I came pretty close to liking this one by Doves. There were moments when things would get interesting and I would think “this is good” but then the vocals would start or it would shift in to something else and it would lose…
I really miss Conan and Andy, they brought such humor and joy in to my life. Andy was the best sidekick ever and Andy Richter Controls the Universe was an absolute treasure of a show, the world just wasn’t ready for it yet.
As we reach 100 days of our ongoing national nightmare, Jon Stewart, as usual, hits Trump’s nail right on the head. “His negotiating skills aren’t the real danger to this country. What’s gonna f*** us up is his obsession with the concept of the leverage…
A landmark album I honestly had never listened to before. I certainly was aware of them and Iggy Pop but just hadn’t taken the time to give it a spin until it came up here. I get the impact and influence but at 34 minutes,…
I imagine that it wasn’t expected that The Band would, or could, top Music From Big Pink but damn if they didn’t pull it off. Robbie Robertson steps in to the lead songwriting role but everyone plays an important role and together they create a(nother)…
Gina discovered the comedian Ismo Leikola via Facebook and he’s a riot. I thought this was particularly funny and appropriate for my audience here…
