December's Reviews

I added on the Probot and Mendoza Line reviews since I finally had time to post today.

Probot – S/T:
I have to start this off by saying that I think the idea behind this album was brilliant. Grohl wrote the music and sent it off to his favorite metal vocalists to sing. While some songs were a bit too heavy for me, as some of the singers’ bands were never my cup of tea to begin with; other songs rocked! The Motorhead track was killer as were several others. 75% of this album is i-Pod worthy for me. Score: 3.5

Mendoza Line – 30 Year Low:
I couldn’t get into it. A little too Dylan-sounding…not so much in the vocals, but in the song structure…and at time the female vocals reminded me of Fleetwood Mac and that made me cringe a little. I gave it a couple listens and a few songs were good, but as a whole…not really something I would listen to much. Score: 2

Weakerthans – Reunion Tour:
Interesting lyrics and decent music. They had always been recommended to me by Amazon from other purchases I had made but I never dug enough of a few downloads to invest in them. Not terrible by any means, but I can’t really consider myself listening to it a lot. Score: 2

Richard Thompson:
He’s always been one of the musicians that I’ve always wanted to explore more of. I never really had much exposure to him and had always heard amazing things about his songwriting. I can’t find anything negative to say about it…loved every track.


Definitive Albums:
I had trouble with a few so I just picked albums I had heard of and in some cases I flat-out cannot listen to certain artists on this list - so again, I just picked albums I heard of since I don’t want bombs to detonate. Some albums I wouldn’t consider my personal favorite but would be the most definitive of their careers.

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
The Who – Quadrophenia
Beatles – Revolver
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
Prince – Purple Rain
U2 - Joshua Tree
REM – Automatic For the People
Lou Reed – Transformer
Kinks – Lola vs the Powerman
Cure – The Head on the Door
Neil Young – Harvest
Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Queen – Sheer Heart Attack
Tom Petty – Damn the Torpedoes
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
Pearl Jam – Ten
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run