new CDs

[rone]

Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs Look, this is really good. There isn't a bad track on this double CD of outtakes, compilation tracks, and rarities. It even has a fair amount of stuff from the Ten era, for those of you weenies who whine because Pearl Jam hasn't put out another Ten. Now that Pearl Jam has finished its contract with Epic, i am definitely looking forward to what they're going to do.

Burden Brothers - Buried In Your Black Heart This is a fine, fine recording. Good, fast rock with just a touch of country twang in places, it features some tracks from their previous EPs but also a fair amount of new stuff. You'll likely find this full-length album for an EP price; you won't be disappointed. If you haven't been reading my blatherings for long, i'll just mention again that this Todd Vaden Lewis's post-Toadies band, plus Taz Bentley, the drummer from The Reverend Horton Heat. And they have, not one, but two Web sites.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless It sounds so goddamned familiar... it's like they're an influence to a significant chunk of my music collection. Catherine Wheel comes to mind. Maybe Peach. Nothing particularly memorable... but moody and enjoyable. I think the mix squelches the vocals too much.

Trey Gunn - Untune The Sky A 'best of' collection; it features a couple of alternate mixes and an unreleased track, as well as a track off the Rieflin/Fripp/Gunn album, The Repercussion of Angelic Behavior. It also includes a DVD with seven performances, four video montages, and various behind-the-scenes features. One of them uses "Untune The Sky" as its score. Not bad, but i wouldn't recommend this to non-Gunn fans -- they should start with The Joy of Molybdenum.

(on loan) VitcheV - Lost In A Fairy Tale Hristo Vitchev, one of the guys in the jazz guitar trio that played at my party, and his brother, Vladimir, put together this record. It's well done, the guitar work is very good, but there's a slight `80s feel to it imparted by the speed-lick leads and the synthesizers. Luckily, it's slight enough that it doesn't drag the music down. Warning: their Web site is Java-riffic.

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

You know, whenever I play Loveless for people who haven't heard it before, they tend to say, "Boy, the vocals sure are quiet..." That's a weird album-- you have to be in a pretty specific mindset to listen to it, but if you are, it's one of the most rewarding albums ever. It's truly a strange and obsessive thing, though. It even influenced albums that came out before it was released, just on the rumors of what was happening in the studio. It took close to three years to record, with hundreds over guitar overdubs and, according to at least one interview, an entire year of recording basslines.

Listen to that one really closely...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, only listened to it once. We'll see what repeated listenings produce. It took me a while to 'get' the Pixies' Surfer Rosa.

as one of those weenies

[palecur.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to take this time to express my doubts about Pearl Jam ever curing its musical cranio-rectal inversion.

But I'll have a listen, anyway, cause I wuvvle you oogles.

In other news, the Foo Fighters cover of 'Darling Nikki' is competent in a workmanlike way, but fails to capture the sizzling ingenue/slut ethos of the original. And without that, baby, it's just a song about fuckin'.

Re: as one of those weenies

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I heard it. I was not impressed. Dave Grohl is godlike behind the drumset, but he just doesn't have, as a frontman, the sort of swagger required to cover a Prince tune of that tenor.

Now, Tom Jones covering "Little Red Corvette"... that might be interesting.

Re: as one of those weenies

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Now, Tom Jones covering "Little Red Corvette"...

Hey, why not get Pat Boone, pull out ALL the stops.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Er, last i checked, ladies didn't throw their underwear at Pat Boone.