This Week In Music: 12/3-12/9

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

L.A. Guns: Vicious Circle – lyrically disturbing
Genesis: We Can’t Dance – wildly boring
Juliana Hatfield: Love & Peace – stripped down
Kix: Show Business – slick guitars
Ministry: Twitch – pounding beats
Tindersticks: Tindersticks (1993) – chamber pop
Tindersticks: Tindersticks (1995) – booming baritone
Queensryche: Tribe – still works
Queensryche: Queensryche EP – interesting beginnings
Poison: Open Up And Say…Ahh! – good time
Poison: Poison’d – mostly forgettable
Rush: Presto – matured songwriting
Rush: Roll The Bones – evolved prog
Rush: Rush – Zep influences
Rush: Signals – superior synth
Rush: Snakes & Arrows – textured sound
Rush: Test For Echo – decent score
Quiet Riot: Quiet Riot – loud nonsense

This Week In Music: 11/19-11/25

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews (shortened week due to Thanksgiving holiday:

Cabaret Voltaire: Micro-Phonies – pulsing beats
Lita Ford: Wicked Wonderland – not wonderful
Funkadelic: Uncle Jam Wants You – deep funk
Genesis: Wind & Wuthering – more complexities
Juliana Hatfield: Made In China – edgy Juliana
Kix: Midnight Dynamite – pop metal
L.A. Guns: Waking the Dead – better effort
Ministry: Work for Love – light weight
Mr. Big: Mr. Big – addictive rush

This Week In Music: 10/29-11/4

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

Genesis: Trespass – Floyd-esque prog
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Ska-Core The Devil And More – boss tones
Cabaret Voltaire: Groovy, Laidback & Nasty – club friendly
Firehouse: O2 – average rockers
Lita Ford: Out For Blood – decent debut
Rush: Hold Your Fire – lacking heaviness
Pete Townshend: White City – emotionally wrought
Warrant: Cherry Pie – genre nadir
Saigon Kick: The Lizard – variety overkill
Dancing On Your Graves: A Rockabilly Tribute To The Hellacopters – interesting interpretations
Kingdom Come: Kingdom Come – Zeppelin riffage
Mike + The Mechanics: Mike + The Mechanics – satisfying soft-rock
Juliana Hatfield: In Exile Deo – mature pop
House of Heroes: What You Want Is Now – emo riffage
Funkadelic: One Nation Under A Groove – booty duty
Kix: Kix – poppy metal
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: You’re Gonna Get It – mutliple classics
Quiet Riot: Metal Health – uneven quality
Ministry: Pslam 69 – evil industrialized
L.A. Guns – Shrinking Violet – misfired Guns

This Week In Music: 10/15-10/21

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

Cabaret Voltaire: Eight Crepescule Tracks - early insight
Mike & the Mechanics: M6 - symphonic pop
Queensryche: Promised Land - big sound
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound – progressive wankery
The Jeff Healey Band: See The Light - bluesy jams
Kix: Hot Wire – catchy riffs
Ministry: The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste – occasional inspiration
Warrant: Born Again – unnecessary rebirth
Skid Row: Slave to the Grind – classic metal

This Week In Music: 8/6-8/12

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

Redd Kross: Researching the Blues – masterful powerpop
Ministry: The Land of Rape & Honey – industrial metal
Poison: Flesh & Blood – unexpected growth
Mike + The Mechanics: The Living Years – mostly fluff
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Pin Points & Gin Joints – suprisingly upbeat
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – early gems
Medicine: Shot Forth Self Living – repetitive shoegaze
KIX: Cool Kids – expanded sound
Mercury Rev: Strange Attractor – lesser Rev
Parliament: Gloryhallastoopid – songs suffered
Monster Magnet: Mastermind – mighty metal
Mr. Big: Actual Size – lacking originality
Ours: Precious – familiar territory
Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff – grungy goodness
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime II – successful follow-up
Steelheart: Wait – mellow affair
Bloc Party: Four – excitingly diverse
The Posies: At Least at Last – serious undertaking
Jon Chinn and the 1803: The Tiniest Light (Sampler) – want more
Robert Pollard: Moses on a Snail – few clunkers
Stereolab: Peng! – lacks depth
XTC: Drums & Wires – brainy pop

This Week In Music (4/30-5/6)

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

Redd Kross: Neurotica – kitsch pop
Ministry: Dark Side of the Spoon – auto pilot
Kix: Blow My Fuse – acceptably derivative
Rush: Feedback – uninspired retreads
Mudhoney: Here Comes Sickness – Best of BBC Recordings – raw bursts
Juliana Hatfield: Bed – quirky pop
Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies – glorified demos
The Desert Sessions: Volumes 3 & 4 – true stoner
Robert Pollard: The Crawling Distance – psych-rock gems
The Jim Carroll Band: I Write Your Name – new-wave poetry
L.A. Guns: Cocked & Loaded – hair/glam classic
Medicine: Her Highness – blissed-out trippiness
Slaughter: Stick It to Ya – superior musicianship
Stereolab: Margerine Eclipse – groovy Frenchness
Survivor: Greatest Hits – montage heavy
Tindersticks: Can Our Love… – mellow weirdness
Monster Truck 005: Singles – indecipherable noise-rock