Monthly Archives: October 2010

For Victory is amazingly okay. It never gets exceptionally bad, but it also never gets exceptionally good. It’s not unpleasant to listen to, but it’s no great thrill either. If you took every album ever made, and charted them from … Continue reading →

Celebrity deaths are often shrouded in mysterious evidence that seems to contradict the common belief. I’m sure you all know all about JFK, but there’s also a lot of weird stuff surrounding the death of Marilyn Monroe, I found out … Continue reading →

Oh dear. When Roger Ebert reviewed the shitty Alien ripoff Xtro in 1983, he said ‘Why was this movie made? What vision filled the filmmakers with a desire to share this work with an audience?… Most exploitation movies are bad, … Continue reading →

I think I know a lot of bands. I don’t know quite as much as some people, but I certainly ain’t no norm. Still, for every band I know of, there’s probably several thousand bands that I would like that … Continue reading →

Happy Halloween! Yesterday I discovered, via this blog post, a quintessential example of a long forgotten novelty record that makes even the most hardened fans of novelty raise and eyebrow. Freddy’s Greatest Hits, well, first of all, is it really … Continue reading →

The MRR Free Box Project has kind of fallen by the wayside, and I apologize for that. For the first time in almost a year, I’ve been actually busy with work, so my free time to blog constantly and listen … Continue reading →

This is a combination of two of my favorite things ever. Tom Waits has recorded a version of Tootie Ma Was A Big Fine Thing and Corrine Died On The Battlefield on a limited edition 78 RPM record, the first … Continue reading →

Nuito is what made me realize that Last.FM is generally a great website. I had recently picked up Sajjanu as I’m a huge fan of the odd tempo quick changing pace of Ruins and Naked City. Sajjanu was a great … Continue reading →

This man… The career of Little Brother Montgomery is nothing short of amazing. He began playing publically at age 11, and played at various odd venues (such as lumber and turpentine camps) in The South, until he moved to Chicago, … Continue reading →