The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth – 2006 THe first strains of “You Only Live Once”, the opening track of First Impressions of Earth, The Strokes’ 3rd album, is scarily reminiscent of Queen’s “I Want to Break Free”. And the more it plays, the less like the Strokes it Continue Reading
Listening Post: The Strokes – Room On Fire
The Strokes – Room On Fire – 2003 This is the first album I bought digitally on iTunes. I remember it like it was yesterday. Weird. Dunno what that means, if it means anything. Milestones….. When The Cars first album came out it was such a masterwork of stripped down Continue Reading
Listening Post: The Strokes – Is This It
The Strokes – Is This It – 2001 Fall, 2001. It’s early morning. Actually, more like 10 am. I’m flipping the dials and come to MTV. I still watch the channel every once in a while but I’m not sure why anymore. Popular music has become a vast wasteland of Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – David Byrne – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today – 2008 My first exposure to this record was through the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Or Ridiculous things said by ridiculous people in a ridiculous movie). I found the song, “Home” pleasant enough but it reminds Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – Naked
Talking Heads – Naked – 1988 Take one part Tom Tom Club’s poppines, latter day Heads songcrafting, a little Remain in Light esoteria/polyrhythm dance grooves and swirl it around with soul and you get the last Talking Heads record: Naked.As opposed to the last two records this was recorded much Continue Reading