After Alibis And Other Lies failed to truly impress me with its silly and outdated pastiche of arena rock and Australian folk blues, I began to lose hope in probably one of my favorite international bands of all time. After making their masterpieces Easy and New Detention, the latter significant enough to eventually earn a [...]
11
Dec
2009
Grinspoon’s Six To Midnight
Tags: 1997, 2004, 2009, Album, Alibis And Other Lies, Alternative Metal, Arena Rock, Australian, Blues Rock, Chicago Transit Authority, Comeback, Dogs, Easy, Grinspoon, New Detention, Pat Davern, Phil Jamieson, Six To Midnight, Summer, Thrills Kills & Sunday Pills, Tonight, Trout Mask Replica
21
Oct
2009
Mark Cetera Reviews “Ice Cream For Crow”
Tags: Album, Beefheart, Bluejeans And Moonbeams, Blues Rock, Captain Beefheart, Chicago Transit Authority, Doc At The Radar Station, Don Van Vliet, Frank Zappa, Ice Cream For Crow, Lick My Decals Off, Music Reviews, Review, Safe As Milk, Shiver, Strictly Personal, Trout Mask Replica
Actually, it was written by Shane/Malkmusian.
Captain Beefheart: who in the hell is that man, anyhoo? Is he just the brainchild of abstract artist Don Van Vliet, who wanted to play free-form saxophone over disjointed blues-rock rehearsed under harsh conditions? Or is he his own entity, aging at an unhealthy rate from his chubby youthful demeanor [...]
22
Sep
2009
Chicago III by Chicago
Written by Malkmusian
I thought that when I first heard The Chicago Transit Authority by the band that soon would become rock’s worst nightmare because of pressure from their label, Columbia, and bassist/egomaniac Peter Cetera, Chicago could never top it. CTA had so many perfect areas in it (the noise rock forefather “Free Form Guitar”, the [...]