At the same time as the great Genesis + discography I pored through the complete catalog of XTC and, to save my mental health, Motley Crue. Motley Crue – Too Fast For Love – 1981 What do you get if you take The Ramones, ram them hard into Van Halen, Continue Reading
Music Reviews
Listening Post: Genesis + Mike +the Mechanics
I couldn’t listen to The Living Years. I just couldn’t…….. Genesis – Calling All Stations – 1997 What. The. Fuck. Is. This?Peter Gabriel soundalike Ray Wilson was brought in by Rutherford and Banks to take Phil Collins’ place after he left for good. The result is, well, it’s nowhere near Continue Reading
Listening Post: Genesis + Phil Collins
Continuing the great Genesis Listening Post, we pick up with the Phil Collins Years. Genesis – A Trick of the Tail – 1976 A new lead singer (Phil Collins after over 300 auditioned) and a new producer (Ex-Elton John engineer David Hentschel) and a new collection of (7/8, 9/8 and Continue Reading
Listening Post: Genesis + Peter Gabriel
In May of 2010 I embarked on the epic Genesis retrospective. But I cheated. I started with their second album, Nursery Cryme, since that was the more acclaimed of the first two records and the first one seemed like…well, the pretensions of youth. To compensate I also did the bulk Continue Reading
Listening Post: Madonna
Originally posted at Allenlulu.comThe entire catalog was listened to during an April trip from LA to Corpus Christi, then an RV to Houston and a plane back to Los Angeles. This retrospective was the best thing about that trip. Madonna – Madonna – 1983 There is a programmed electronic hi-hat Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meat Loaf
These were originally posted earlier this year at allenlulu.com Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell – 1978 Here’s something I didn’t know: Writer Jim Steinman had been working on a sci-fi musical version of Peter Pan called Neverland. Three of the songs from Bat Out of Hell were from Continue Reading
Listening Post: David Bowie
I thought I was done with Listening Posts, to be honest. How many artists can one cover whose work spans the decades like AC/DC, Elvis Costello, Madonna, et al?And then a couple weeks ago I thought, hey, you know what? I’ve never really listened to Bowie. I had Scary Monsters Continue Reading
Listening Post: Elvis Costello
These reviews originally appeared at allenlulu.com Elvis Costello – My Aim is True – 1977 When I first read that Clover, a band that would count among its members American faux-soul, semi rocker Huey Lewis, was the backing group on Elvis Costello’s debut record, My Aim is True, I thought Continue Reading
The Reflecting Pool – Adam Ant
The entire Reflecting Pool series is now up and viewable at my personal blog.Like I said, for the time being, this place is being moved.The downside to my blog is that I am having trouble making comments work. iWeb is not cooperative unless you are a MobileMe subscriber.I know there Continue Reading
Listening Post – Gary Numan -Pure
Gary Numan – Pure – 2000 Numan wasted little time building on the success of Exile. Okay, three years. But what a nice three years those must have been. Numan excoriated many of his fans’ beliefs on Exile, attacking God and had his biggest success in a while. So, after Continue Reading