March Madness

Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf – 4.5

There is very little wrong with this album as far as I am concerned. Dave Grohl on drums. Josh Homme is a seriously bright guy. He has the right formula on this album. Even the title is brilliant, “Songs for the deaf”. It’s so ironic because deaf people can’t even hear this shit. Not one song seems out of place except for my favorite song, The Mosquito song. What a cool creating song “all of us food that hasn’t died” Brilliant. This cd never gets old for me.

Ringo Starr – 2012 - 4

Something tells me that Ringo didn’t have a lot to do with the core Beatles songs, but Anthem could have been right off of Abby Road. The song was a good song, just not too original. Not knowing a lot of solo Ringo stuff I was continually surprised how many drum riffs that he recycles from Beatles songs. Most of these songs could have worked just as well in the 80’s 90’s or the past generation. As for his voice, he does have one of the more unique voices and scoring Barbara Bach is a plus. This was my favorite cd this month.

Atmosphere – GH

When I first turned this on I lasted 20 or 30 seconds before I determined that I hated it and was going to pan it. I knew that I’d have to at some point give it a real go though. I did that this morning. I won’t say that I’ll listen to it again, and the disc could have been three songs and I would have been happy, but it really wasn’t that bad. Some of the instrumentation was really good and the lyrics were good too.

Peter Frampton - Peter Frampton

Great strong solid voice, but his tone and pitch seems off. Not like David Lee Roth off, but still. I liked every song and the guy can play the guitar.

The Angels – Dark Room - 2

These guys remind me of what Kiss would have been like if they decided to do pop instead of “Metal”. Nothing that blew me away other that the album cover.

Dr. Dog had an album called Sloan Ranger otherwise I got nothin

Sloan

Gomez