135. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in it for The Money
Who listens to Frank Zappa? Seriously? Who is it that decides to set the mood for a quiet night in…
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134. The Beatles – The White Album – Side D
Arguably, side D is where it all unravels. It certainly feels shorter than the other sides, and more disparate, disobedient…
134. The Beatles – The White Album – Side C
Like I said in my last review, each side of “The White Album” has a unique character, and for me,…
134. The Beatles – The White Album – Side B
The adventure continues on side B with the charming “Martha my Dear”, another one of Macca’s ditties to Jane Asher,…
134. The Beatles – The Beatles (aka The White Album) – Side A
NOTE: This is a behemoth of an album, and as such I’ve broken my review into four pieces to save…
133. The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
I’m not going to do it this time. Honest I’m not. Last time I reviewed a Byrds album I went…
132. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
“What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is…
131. The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
There’s something romantic about the idea of a band that’s already decided to implode putting an album together. No commercial…
130. Scott Walker – Scott 2
I discovered Scott Walker through a random Our Price bargain bin purchase of “Scott Walker sings Jacques Brel” back when…
129. Caetano Veloso – Caetano Veloso
Discussing with a colleague the other day, we thought of the idea of music as a revolutionary force with pretty…
128. Jeff Beck – Truth
Quarkmonkey starts gearing up for the 1970s with this under appreciated blues gem from the similarly underrated Jeff Beck (with Rod Stewart on vocals too).
127. The Band – Music from Big Pink
“That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it’s the most influential record in the history of rock…
126. The Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
I love being British sometimes. I’m not really the flag-waving type, but after listening to a lot of west coast…
125. Simon and Garfunkel – Bookends
It sort of faded as they got more confident, and thankfully it’s pretty much absent by “Bridge Over Troubled Water”,…
124. The Pretty Things – SF Sorrow
The Pretty Things would seem at first glance to be an epitome of 60s also-rans. Coming from a background of…
123. Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda Da Vida
Even the review in the book skips past Side A, and given the fact that it’s Iron Butterfly and the…
122. Dr John, The Night Tripper – Gris Gris
If only… There’s a sort of musical holy grail (at least for me) that becomes visible when I listen to,…
121. The United States of America – The United States of America
It must have taken some balls. For all the countercultural mood of the late sixties, it’s worth remembering that the…
120. Big Brother and the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
It arrived on a massive wave of anticipation, launched the all-too-brief career of a legendary artist, and was still at…
119. The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Of course, being both an aspiring muso and a socially paranoid chump, one of the obstacles with this blog is…
118. Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
Now things are getting interesting. It feels like only yesterday that I was writing about Sinatra and bossa nova albums,…
117. Aretha Franklin – Aretha: Lady Soul
One of the big questions I ask myself when I do these reviews is “what constitutes listening to an album”?…
116. Laura Nyro – Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
First off, I didn’t know shit about Laura Nyro before I listened to this one. When the book’s review talked…
115. Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
“Hello I’m Johnny Cash” There was a period in about 2006 when I was massively into Johnny Cash. Maybe it…