This Week In Music: 7/30-8/5

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Lita Ford: Lita – artistic best
Firehouse: Firehouse – strong debut
Cabaret Voltaire: The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord – choppy electronics
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers – pop hooks
Disastroid: Money & Guilt – Soundgarden-ish stoner
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – strange brilliance
Funkadelic: Let’s Take It to the Stage – peak Funk
Gaza Strippers: Laced Candy – hi-octane rock
Peter Gabriel: Us – occasional meandering
Jim Carroll: Praying Mantis – broken beat
The Get Up Kids: Something to Write Home About – melodic punk
Jetboy: Make Some More Noise – mostly misses
The Jeff Healey Band: Hell to Pay – ripping blues
Kingdom Come: Hands Of Time – excessive slowness

This Week In Music (3/19-3/25)

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

For Love Not Lisa: The Lost Elephant – interesting afterthoughts
Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu – spikey hardcore
Fountains of Wayne: Fountains of Wayne – smart powerpop
Funkadelic: Funkadelic – missing songs
House of Heroes: House of Heroes – original emo
Mudhoney: Mudhoney – proto grunge
Peter Gabriel: Untitled 2 (Scratch) – less engaging
Ace Frehley: Ace Frehley – special spaceman