Today’s Music Acquisitions
- Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
- Gwen Stefani: The Sweet Escape
- Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
- Synthesizer Greatest Vol. 2
- Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
(via Rasputin)
(via Rasputin)
As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Sounds like the bastard child of Rock and Techno. There’s only one track on it that
I really like, and I already had it on PureMoods II
Score: 0
Choice tracks: Teardrop
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Early synth-ey new-age music. Very mellow and ambient in some sections, more
upbeat in others.
Score: 1
Choice tracks: Part IV
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
Heavy metal, though somewhat of a departure from the metal-rap fusion of their
previous albums. This is a little less heavy overall, and barely even metal on a few
songs. The rap element is almost absent.
Score: 1
Choice tracks: Given Up, Leave Out All the Rest
The Who Sings My Generation
Their first album, as released in the US (with a slightly different track listing and a
few minor edits.) Some early hard rock tunes, while others sound a lot like early
Beatles tunes, and a couple are downright bluesy. Overall I liked it better than
‘Sells Out’ but it doesn’t really stand out.
Score: 1
Choice tracks: My Generation
(via Rasputin’s)
As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale.
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Very similar in style to late-pre-breakup Pink Floyd, such as The Wall or The Final Cut.
Actually, it’s what late-pre-breakup Pink Floyd would sound like if you replaced David Gilmour
with Eric Clapton (who plays guitar on this album)
Rating: 1
Choice tracks: “Sexual Revolution”
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Often billed as “industrial”, Manson just sounds like metal to me. Not constant, cover-to-cover
goodness, but enough good songs to make it a worthwhile purchase
Rating: 1
Choice tracks: “Great Big White World”, “The Dope Show”, “Mechanical Animals”,
“I Don’t Like The Drugs”, “The Last Day On Earth”
The Who - Who’s Next
It’s The Who. How far wrong can you go?
Rating: 1
Choice Tracks: “Baba O’Riley”, “Bargain”, “Behind Blue Eyes”, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
System of a Down - Toxicity
More metal. I like it, but not as much as the other two SoaD albums (Mesmerize, Hypnotize)
that I have.
Rating: 1
Choice Tracks: “Prison Song”, “Chop Suey!”
No Doubt - Return of Saturn
I’ve decided that I don’t really like No Doubt very much. There’s only a few songs, across
several albums, that I even remotely like. There’s only one on this album, “Ex-girlfriend”, but I
do really like it.
Rating: 0
Choice Tracks: “Ex-girlfriend”
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
I’ve had this on tape since I was a kid, but I’ve long since lost the tape and have been
looking for it on CD ever since. It finally showed up at Rasputin’s this week. I liked it then,
and I still like it now.
Rating: 1
Choice Tracks: “Change of Heart”, “Calm Inside the Storm”, “One Track Mind”
The Best of Santana
The Latin-rock classics you’re all familiar with, plus some more 80s-rock style tracks.
Rating: 1
Choice Tracks: “Evil Ways”, “Black Magic Woman”, “Oye Como Va”
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
More classics, with their distinctive (yet not quite definable) style
Rating: 1
Choice Tracks: “Go Your Own Way”, “Little Lies”
More Abba Gold
I’ve discovered that I don’t really like Abba either. Between the first “Gold” compilation
and this one, there’s only a handful of songs I like.
Rating: 0
Choice Tracks: “Eagle”, “Angeleyes”
The Who Sell Out
I recant what I said above. There’s only a couple tracks on this one that I really like.
Rael, one of the bonus tracks on the remastered CD, features a passage that would
eventually evolve into one of the recurring themes in “Tommy.”
Rating: 0 (Much as it pains me)
Choice Tracks: “I Can See for Miles”, “Rael 1”
Kitaro - The Light of the Spirit
Moody new-age music, a combination of synth, orchestra, and even a tinge of rock.
Rating: 1
Choice Tracks: “Sundance”, “Howling Thunder”
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