#350 The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers

The Modern Lovers were a proto-punk band that played hard and quickly quit. Their self-titled album was not released until 1976, four years after it was recorded and two years after they broke up. John Cale produced six of the songs. David Robinson would join The Cars after they broke up. “Roadrunner” and “Pablo Picasso” […]

#262 Paul Simon

Paul Simon‘s self-titled second album is his first solo since mid-60s and his first without Art Garfunkel. I have admitted previously to not liking Simon’s vocals so I have little hope for this album. It is terrible that people cannot get along with each other, but we all have ourselves in the way. Simon was […]

#192 Ananda Shankar

Robert Dimery‘s book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die has some weird choices for best albums. Ananda Shankar‘s debut album is another of the weird ones. Why does he promote Indian music, but not much from other European countries? This album is a fusion of rock and Indian sitar music. Sitar Rock? It is so […]

#179 & #180 Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath & Paranoid

Black Sabbath is a band that I have heard of, but I have never heard their music. I only know of their lead singer Ozzy Osbourne because he is married to Sharon Osbourne from the X Factor UK and I have heard of him biting a bat’s head off. That did not entice me to listen to his […]

#134 The Beatles

The Beatles ninth album is self-titled, but it became known as The White Album. It was riddled with turmoil and Yoko Ono-ism. John Lennon had started dating her and she already had influence over him. He must have been a weak man. The album explodes with a Paul McCartney tune “Back in the U.S.S.R.“. This song […]

#129 Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso released his second album self-titled in 1968. I am fairly certain I will hate this album because it is Brazilian tropicália music. Veloso has stated that he did not like it either so we have something in common. I started and stopped this album a few times. It is so boring, especially the […]

#101 The Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes have an interesting yet sad story. Isn’t that the story of rock and roll? Their self-titled debut album also known as I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) came out in 1967, but by 1968 the band changed drastically. The Electric Prunes were discovered literally in their garage. They were great as musicians, but lacked as songwriters. Of course, the record studio hired songwriters Annette Tucker and Nancie […]

#93 The Doors

The only things I knew about The Doors were that Jim Morrison died in Paris at a young age, he is buried there, the band had the overly long hit “Light My Fire” and Morrison was some type of sex symbol. This is the first time I will listen to their eponymous debut album. I […]

#92 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

I thought I was done with Frank Sinatra and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Hopefully, this will be it for both of them. I want to rock. “The Girl from Ipanema” is the first track. I did not like it at all. I think I am tired of all the cover versions now. Everything in the 60s […]

1001 Albums #82

Moby Grape released a self-titled album in 1967 to critical acclaim, but not to a buying public. Everything from then on is another downhill story in the books of rock and roll. If I did not live in the land of depression, then these biographies that I have read about the artists in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die would make me […]