this is the fifth and final installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 1. R.E.M. – “Up” On these past four entries, when I’ve said “I was a huge so-and-so fan,” I’ve meant it, but it all pales in comparison to how huge of an R.E.M. fan I was. Quick rundown: […]
this is the fourth installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 2. Grant Lee Buffalo – “Copperopolis” These explanations are starting to get pretty formulaic and predictable. I loved a band, loved their music, loved their albums, new album came out, I hated it. So with each successive review revealing more […]
this is the third installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 3. Matthew Sweet – “Blue Sky on Mars” Matthew Sweet is like this icon of “alternative” music for me. In the early 90s, when KKNB-FM switched from B-104’s pop music format to “The Planet,” I discovered this radio station that […]
this is the second installment of my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 4. Super Furry Animals – “Rings Around the World” I remember picking up Fuzzy Logic, the first Super Furry Animals album released in America, and falling instantly in love with the noisy, melodic, crazy, distorted, abstracted, beautiful pop music. It […]
this is the first installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 5. Suede – “Head Music” I didn’t much care for Suede until Dog Man Star came out, at which point I was able to go back and get into their self-titled debut, which I couldn’t much get into at first. […]
Today begins my countdown of my personal Top 5 Biggest Letdown Albums of All Time. I was thinking about this while some friends and I were discussing who we would consider the greatest rock band of this decade, and it made me realize how many bands I used to really love put out really disappointing […]
If you’ve seen Built to Spill live within the past year to year and a half, you’ve no doubt heard the two songs on their new double A-side single. I thought they were two of the consistent stand-outs from all the shows I saw – “They Got Away,” their original dub composition, and “Rearrange,” the […]
I’ve finally digitized my poor VHS copy of the Kermit Keeshan mini-documentary I did back in early 2003. As I’ve written about before on here, the original DV copy and footage had been lost, and one surviving VHS copy remained. I discovered this afternoon that the VHS copy had been damaged, as some of the […]
…but my ranch dressing wrote the number “99” earlier today. If you’re having trouble seeing it, try this: I haven’t yet been able to figure out what the salad bar at the Cici’s Pizza on Saddle Creek was trying to tell me.
WOODSHAFT 2002