Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments-never could get past Ron House's voice when these guys came out, but I'm older and humbler now and I appreciate the nasty middle age groping tone and even embrace it. A much punkier and quirkier GBV if the singer were the crazy uncle with real booze and molestation problems and the nasally nerd voice of great losers everywhere. Winner.
Laughing Hyenas- will they or won't they stand the test of time, those memory-laced bastions of your younger listening self? They will, in this case, but only with the lights off, the blinds closed and after an English Department meeting. I can't speak for other contexts, at least today.
Ray Davies- flog the dead horse, cuz I'm holding the cat o' nine tails and smiling the smile of the understood. Nobody does Camus' Absurd like Davies.
Dirtbombs- We Have You Surrounded- I had no expectations and so six good songs out of twelve sounds good enough to me. This sent me deep into the back catalogue to discover that all my old prejudices are right- 1)the Gories are good but not godhead 2) Blacktop is a solid one-off but let's leave it at that 3) the Dirtbombs are a much better singles and live band
Crypt Records circa 1990's- this is it- ain't nothing matched it- line 'em up and count 'em, sister, but the votes are counted. If you can top this with one rnr's label's output in a short time span besides Sun, I'm all ears and then loudmouths. But where's the goddamned second Revelators' record, for the love of Howlin' Wolf? By the way, he's selling off some outstanding vinyl for six and seven bucks at http://www.cryptrecords.com/. Really. Get the Bantam Rooster, dude. Totally.
CCR- currently, "Ramble Tamble" is the greatest song ever written, at least this week- check in next time when we evaluate the relative merits of "Who'll Stop the Rain?"
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