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This Week In Music: 11/12-11/18

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

Soundgarden: King Animal – welcome return
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill – much meandering
Paul Banks: Banks – Interpol interplay
Deftones: Koi No Yokan – dreamy metal
Ministry: Rio Grande Blood – politically charged
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail – pleasant enough
Guided By Voices: The Bears For Lunch – familiar territory
Pete Townshend: Psychoderelict – performance piece
Quiet Riot: Guilty Pleasures – barrel bottom
Poison: Native Tongue – bluesy reinvention
Queensrÿche: Q2K – streamlined sound
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead: Lost Songs – found sound
Lita Ford: Stiletto – familiar sounds
Funkadelic: Tales of Kidd Funkadelic – funky kids
Juliana Hatfield: Juliana’s Pony-Total System Failure – total failure
Mike + the Mechanics: Word of Mouth – weird religiosity
Mr. Big: Bump Ahead – bumpy road
Rush: Permanent Waves – permanently good
Cabaret Voltaire: JohnnyYesNo – interesting instrumentals
Grandaddy: B-Sides & Rarities – better forgotten
Parliament: Motor Booty Affair – successful affair
Saigon Kick: Water – more confusion
Tindersticks: Waiting For The Moon – still waiting
Skid Row: Thickskin – thin sound

This Week In Music: 11/5-11/11

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

FireHouse: Prime Time – heavier riffage
Cabaret Voltaire: Hai! – more disjointed
Mike + The Mechanics: Rewired – electronic indulgence
Tindersticks: Simple Pleasure – bare bones
Poison: Look What The Cat Dragged In – party rock
Rush: Moving Pictures – classic riffs
Soul Asylum: While You Were Out – ragged punk
Stereolab: Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements – noisy atmosphere
Queensrÿche: Rage For Order – intelligent metal
Pete Townshend: Scoop – demo indulgence
Winger: IV – political overkill
White Lion: Pride – essential listening
Warrant: Ultraphobic – grunge pandering
Vixen: Tangerine – trend following
Juliana Hatfield: Only Anything – classic alternative
L.A. Guns: Tales From The Strip – Tracii-less triumph
Grandaddy: Sumday – sharp pop
Brian Eno: Flux – rhythmic minimalism
Funkadelic: Stranding On The Verge of Getting It On – smooth grooves

This Week In Music: 10/22-10/28

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

Titus Andronicus: Local Business – anthemic punk
XTC: Go 2 – some good
Winger: Winger – attempted braininess
Stereolab: Switched On – noisy beats
Soul Asylum: Time’s Incinerator – raw beginnings
Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump – electronic hippiness