Agree with it or not, we need political records like Neil Young’s Living With War
‘Living with War,’ released on May 8, 2006, once more found Neil Young sandblasting away at the problems he saw with America.
On Second Thought
Adrian Belew’s Mr. Music Head was more than ‘Oh Daddy’ : ‘Don’t think I’ve played it again’
“Oh Daddy” got Adrian Belew a solo deal with Atlantic, who released ‘Mr. Music Head’ on April 28, 1989. The worry was that he’d be forever saddled with it.
How I learned to love (or at least tolerate) Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
A confession: I never fully appreciated the overpraised ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,’ released by Wilco this week in 2002. Not until much later, anyway.
Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers boasts an underrated complexity
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Sticky Fingers,’ released on April 23, 1971, might just be better – shhhhh! – than the far-more-heralded album that followed it.
Tommy Roe – Greatest Hits (1993): On Second Thought
Tommy Roe created pure and natural pop rock songs that were fun to sing along with, dance to, or simply make people feel good.
David Bowie’s Let’s Dance illustrated the durability of Chic’s hitmaking sound
Credit David Bowie for understanding how to cast his latest iteration. But also Chic for having the goods to make that nascent vision a reality.
Fleetwood Mac’s overlong Say You Will sorely missed Christine McVie
Christine McVie’s absence from ‘Say You Will,’ released this week in 2003, left Fleetwood Mac critically unbalanced. They could have used an editor, too.
Fleetwood Mac hit big with Tango in the Night, then imploded: ‘It was difficult for everybody’
Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tango in the Night,’ released this week in 1987, grew out of another trampled project by Lindsey Buckingham. He’d be gone for 10 years afterward.
There was more to Supertramp’s Even in the Quietest Moments than ‘Give a Little Bit’
Supertramp’s ‘Even in the Quietest Moments,’ released in April 1977, became a gold-selling hit behind the Roger Hodgson anthem “Give a Little Bit.”
Toto IV found Toto at an early career crossroads: ‘We wanted to make something great’
The story of Toto can be divided to before April 8, 1982, and after. That’s when they released ‘Toto IV,’ still the biggest album of their lengthy career.
