The Byrds – Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
I had the hardest time finding Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde through blogspots a year ago when I was first getting into the Byrds and decided that I needed my hands on […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
As far as I’m concerned, Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the Byrds’ version of the Velvet Underground’s Squeeze. To wit: both are albums released by non-veteran (read: inconsequential) members of the band (Gram […]
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Byrds appeared on the scene in 1965, and I guess because they were several albums behind that of the Beatles, they felt like they needed to pump out two […]
Various Artists – The Best of the Girl Groups Volume 2
Completely destroyed my preconceived notions of what girl groups sounded like (I confess intimacy with only two of these eighteen songs before listening). I expected the handclaps, I expected the […]
Sam Cooke – Ain’t That Good News
Problem #1: this album is rendered obsolete with the existence of compilation Portrait of a Man 1951-1964 which contains six of Ain’t That Good News’ twelve songs. Problem #2: like […]
Herbie Hancock – Inventions & Dimensions
Between the “sophomore slump” (which I hasten to modify with quotation marks because his debut wasn’t exactly that much better as people would have you believe) of My Point of View and Empyrean Isles (his best […]
Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles
The short, non-hyperbolic version of the review: four great songs comprising one great album that’s one of the greatest albums of the 60s and the undoubtedly the greatest album in […]
