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.”
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.
I’m a Mick Taylor guy. The run of albums by The Rolling Stones during his tenure marks their most expressive and most creative work and, to me, is just miles above what they had done prior, and have done since. Not that there aren’t great…
I guess I am at the age in my life where my musical heroes are just going to die. We’ve lost so many already and I am so not prepared for this. Each takes away a part of me, and even though their music and…
It’s so much easier to write a review of an album I dislike than an album I love. For the former it’s just pointing out the things that fail to click with me be it the lyrics or the style of music or whatever it…
When the first song of Is This It, the debut album by The Strokes started I didn’t like the music, when the vocals kicked in I liked it even less. I had previously heard the song “Last Nite” but even the familiarity of that didn’t…
I mean, it’s not On the Beach but Neil Young’s Harvest is pretty damn good. “The Needle and the Damage Done” is devastatingly honestly gorgeously painful to listen to. Easily a classic 5 star record. To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first…
I have to admit that before I sat down and listened to Metallica’s Master of Puppets in its entirety today, I really never saw their appeal. Now that I have listened though, it makes even less fucking sense to me. What a load of lifeless,…
