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CAN'T STOP TALKING and Mammoth Reviewed
July 9, 2025
CAN’T STOP TALKING – Make Those Eyes
Rock’ n’ roll has only ever reached its maximum potential for coolness precisely one time – during the 1950s, shortly after it had been born. The rest of it hasn’t exactly been a disappointment per se. After…
“Movin’ On Up” wasn’t just a colossal step forward for the ever-evolving, and always cool Primal Scream. The song just showed how well styles as different as gospel and rock could be blended together. It is one of the greatest alternative songs of…
"Ocean Man" Meaning by Ween Explained
July 1, 2025
Ween was a marvelously accomplished band with a bizarre sense of humour. Guess which one worked in the group’s advantage? The duo spent the 90s, seemingly, releasing classic album after classic album. Yet, they’re best known for one song that was featured on a…
Chatterbox and Gun-Shy Butterfly Reviewed
June 28, 2025
Chatterbox – Marionette
Put me in charge of the music world, if you dare! Make me God of all recorded songs, and I could come up with some ideas. I’m not saying that everyone’d like it. But it would certainly make following the charts easier and more…
Del Coda and Her Mountain Majesty Reviewed
June 26, 2025
Del Coda – It’s Always Love
They hung up notices in music stores forbidding guitar players from blasting out the solo to “Stairway to Heaven.” But they couldn’t stop all of the guitar players from learning it. And look where we are now?
Some cranks who…
The Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan finally let their progressive-rock ambitions dictate the band’s musical direction on “Tonight, Tonight.” And, in doing so, the group also created one of the most remarkable alternative songs of the 1990s.
But just…
Alice in Chains and its Seattle brethren first made heavy metal fans uneasy. It was “Man in the Box,” with its tortured singing and wah-wah guitar riff that forged an unlikely alliance between alt-rockers and metalheads. Quite rightly! This is one of the greatest…
The Setting Son - “Cul-De-Sac” Review
June 20, 2025
The problem with villains is not that every good story needs one, but with just how much time and honesty to the story that the writers telling it will allow them. Simply put: everyone wants a great villain that they can root against, and everyone hopes that they’ll lose…
"Friday I’m in Love" Meaning by The Cure Explained
June 18, 2025
The Cure had already acquired a reputation as the premier pusher of doom-laden gothic-rock, and its mournful albums were the stuff of legends. But then “Friday I’m in Love” gifted Robert Smith a hit the size of which nobody could have anticipated. It is one…