The Dropbox Ate My Homework

Special note to Sandor - I will revise this post after I listen to Brad Brooks.


Gimme Back My Bullets – Lynyrd Skynyrd.

If you simply rate this album on its own, you might think that it was a great record, but when you consider that the first three Skynyrd albums were REALLY great records, this is just a good record, if that. This was the first Skynyrd LP that Tom Dowd produced, and while he’s a great producer, he was too polished for the sound that made Skynyrd great. The only reason that this deserves to be ‘up there’ is because it’s still with the original line-up. 3 ½.


White Hills – Frying on This Rock

Throbbing, like a sinus headache. And that’s in the good parts. I found myself just wanting the riff and rhythm to change and it never would soon enough. If you’re not a “space rock” fan this is torture. If melody is important to you, this is pointless. Mercifully, it was only 5 tracks of pointless torture. 1



Foxy Shazam – Foxy Shazam

This review was paraphrased from …

http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=1678642

Swagger. Foxy Shazam has swagger. They are doing what they do and they doing it with a big smirk on their face. Confidence exudes from the very first song. Eric Sean Nally is Freddie Mercury-like…and he sings with a ferocity, an urgency, and an insanity that isn't quite paralleled by anyone around today. This CD has hook-laden anthems and no lack of spine-tingling vocal moments. The musicianship shouldn't be left unmentioned either, as guitar licks on "Count Me Out" and Sky White's piano and Alex Nauth's horn parts throughout the record make for light-hearted and easy-to-listen-to melodies. The group displays an astounding amount of creativity…gospel and beatboxing really shouldn't mix, but Foxy Shazam pulls it off.
They play like some sort of fusion of Meat Loaf and Queen but they do it in a compact way that results in radio-friendly songs that also lend themselves to the population of music listeners that hate the radio. They aren't quite rock and roll but they aren't far from it, either. This album has the capacity to appeal to fans of almost any genre, and should definitely not be overlooked. 4


GH – The Jam

"Wow, these guys were great. No wonder they sold so many records in
England. Weller was a genius - accent on the was."




Topic:

You’re elected to the R&R HOF. Who do you want to induct you?

Bruce Springsteen. His 1970’s albums are the music and lyrics with which I most identify and if I were elected to the R&R HOF it would be because of that music inspiring me to do great things.

You can sit down with one living rock and roll figure and talk for two hours. Who do you choose and what do you want to know?

Berry Gordy.

I’d want to know how he was able to build Motown from scratch…how he was able to cultivate such a stable of talent, get everyone at certain points in time to get their genius to wax…how he knew what those records had to sound like in order to be mass appeal…when he knew that his Company was bigger than he was…what it was like to hear Stevie Wonder for the first time…where did James Jamerson and Benny Benjamin come from…how did you get them to do what you need them to do…why he felt he had to move to LA…and thousands of other things about his crop of original stars, like Smokey, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, etc…