[Review] The Who: A Quick One (1966)
The band’s second album is light on great material but heavy in everything else.
Tangerine Dream: Dreamtime – Selected Tracks From 220 Volt Live (1993)
A sampler featuring abbreviated bursts from 220 Volt Live plus a vocal version of “Dreamtime” that should have been an international hit. Granted,…
Jean-Luc Ponty/Stephane Grappelli: Violin Summit (1979)
The impulsive imp that sits on my shoulder when I go shopping spotted this in a supermarket display for four dollars and squealed,…
[Review] Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (1973)
Oldfield’s one-man symphony performance, masterfully overdubbed, is one of the great musical works of the twentieth century.
[Review] The Who: Odds & Sods (1974)
An uneven collection of unreleased songs, including material from the aborted Lifehouse and Long Live Rock concept albums.
Rick Wakeman: Almost Live In Europe (1995)
This thing has more aliases than Sean Combs: Almost Live In Europe (the original and, by far, most accurate of the titles), Rock…
Lou Reed: Mistrial (1986)
Lou Reed’s career has been marked by lapses into laziness, which he manages to shake off every few albums. Mistrial is the trail…
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Rick Wakeman In Concert (1996)
Terrible cover, great performance. As the liner notes from Bruce Pilato explain within, King Biscuit sought to bring the excitement of live performance…
The John Lennon Collection (1982)
This is the story of a boy what onsatime belonged in a band BEATLES. One day, he met a beautyfull woman, married her…
[Review] Bryan Ferry: Boys And Girls (1985)
The ultra-romantic sound of Avalon returns on Ferry’s brilliant and eminently danceable post-Roxy debut.
Tangerine Dream: Book of Dreams (1995)
The red meat of the matter lies between the pink and the blue, so how much tangerine fat should a tyger chew? If…
Tangerine Dream: Great Wall of China (2000)
There’s no stepping around it: the words “original motion picture soundtrack” warn of another tepid TD album. No band to my memory has…
[Review] Yes: Time And A Word (1970)
The heavily orchestrated second album topples over like an ambitious cake, underbaked in spots, overfrosted in others.
[Review] Buffalo Springfield (1966)
Sure, you knew about The Byrds and The Beatles, but these early Buffalo tracks are definitely worth hunting down.