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.”
A couple of my favorite Stevie Wonder songs here make this an essential part of his phenomenal run of releases he put out from 72 – 76. I usually listen to the next couple if I put on one of his albums so I am…
What a tremendously enjoyable album. I think if you’re going to listen to good old Chicago Blues you probably should start right here with Muddy Waters, and “Mannish Boy” with that killer repeating riff that kicks things off. These songs set a mood and it’s…
Gina listened to this with me and we really enjoyed it. As with most other non-english language albums my inability to understand the lyrics makes me really rely on the music to gauge the mood or intention of the song, and this was a delightful…
I do try to keep an open mind when I listen to these albums, and I do listen to at least the first minute of every song to give everything a chance. With that said, I know myself and my musical tastes so I feel…
If they keep putting Bob Dylan albums up for me I am going to run out of superlatives to use in my reviews. Bringing It All Back Home is a pivotal album for Dylan with the half electric / half acoustic format. It’s a lyrical…
I really do enjoy quite a lot of the music of this era but The Everly Brothers were never really my thing. I actually found this to be pretty lackluster and boring. I didn’t know that “Love Hurts” was their song originally so this loses…
When I am listening to an album for this project that I have never heard before I tend to think about what I want to say in my review as it plays, like pre-writing it in my head. While listening to Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro…
In today’s episode of Gee – Scott’s brain is weird, in yesterday’s post about music nostalgia I mentioned a series of radio promos that ran in the 70’s and 80’s promoting all sorts of events in the Chicagoland area that I remembered but couldn’t recall the specific…
I know this is only day 81 of this challenge but this album by Little Simz was by far the least enjoyable thing that I have been served up so far. It even made me hate a British accent. I couldn’t wait to hit the…
I believe that Otis Redding was one of those rare talents that arrives only once in a lifetime, which makes his death atage 26 even more tragic. His voice was incomparable and he was a performer of tremendous energy and passion. There was, and never…
I remember when this came out in 1984, and 40 years later I still don’t care for it. I kind of thought their song “It’s Tricky” was catchy but that’s not on this album. Besides, I can never forgive Run-D.M.C. for reviving Aerosmith’s career with…
I mean, this is the real deal here. It is sometimes easy to forget just how great these songs are when Little Richard became kind of a caricature of himself later in his life and career. My wife and I enjoyed the hell out of…
I am admittedly a greatest hits sort of Bob Marley / Wailers listener and fan. I like some reggae music but I don’t listen to a lot of it so when things pop in to my mixes it’s usually the hits that I have listened…
With the network tv shows on hiatus we ran through some of the other shows we were watching. We finished Paradise a bit ago which was great and we absolutely loved this season of Hacks. We’re still working our way through A Million Little Things…
My wonderful writerly wife Gina writes about her experience at Ghost Ranch and her identification with rocks and geodes. Look at this geode. That’s fun to say – geode, geode.
