This Weeks Releases
Well, I am currently at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, but figured I would throw this quick one out there:
1. 311 has a new one, Don't Tread on Me, and I suspect it will be like every other 311 release in that there will be a small number of standout tracks, and a whole lot of filler. Rarely is the filler *bad*, but rarely is it attention-grabbing either. It sort of just disappears into slightly funky elevator backdrop sound. Kind of like when I went with the missus to the Florist and they were playing an instrumental version of Genesis's In Too Deep, the original of which didn't need to be sanitized for muzak. OK, 311 isn't that bad. I still suspect this isn't the kind of album you buy, but pick up the better tunes off of iTunes or from the single releases.
2. The Click Five are an act I have never heard of before, but rumor is they have guests like Elliot Easton from the Cars and some guy from Fountains of Wayne. This might be worth looking into.
3. Forever, a postumous release from Rick James, will hopefully be a good last statement from the ambassador of skanky funk and soul. I hear that Howard Hewitt guests on it though, which makes me wonder if RJ was softening up in his later years.
4. Steve Lukather is usually best known as the occasionally lead singer and always lead guitarist for Toto, which could be seen as not a great pedigree for a guitar album. The fact is, when he is off the Toto clock, a bit of a shredder (I have seen some footage of him from the mid 80s with Jeff Beck, Santana, Doug Wimbish and Simon Phillips, and the guy was stylistically a little off-kilter but technically held his own). Well, he has made a X-Mas themed album of guitar noodling with some friends: Slash, Steve Vai, and Eddie Van Halen among them. It might be a stupid album, it might not. The title however, is very stupid: SantaMental.
5. There is a Madness release of some sort this month, but I don't know if it is a re-issue, new material, or just Sugg's mining the vaults for odds and ends.
6. Pras, formerly of the Fugees, has his sophomore release due, and like you all...I also do not care.
7. In other news about no one should give a damn about -especially metaphysically- Stryper has reformed and is releasing Reborn. I'd like to forgive the hambrained lyrics, cheesy -even by hair metal standards- posing and those God-awful bumblebee leather fetish outfits they sported throughout the 80s, but that is something beyond the realm of man. How they ever ended up with any airplay on Headbanger's Ball is still a mystery. I have heard that they one recorded a cover of Shining Star by Earth Wind and Fire. *That* is a sin.
1. 311 has a new one, Don't Tread on Me, and I suspect it will be like every other 311 release in that there will be a small number of standout tracks, and a whole lot of filler. Rarely is the filler *bad*, but rarely is it attention-grabbing either. It sort of just disappears into slightly funky elevator backdrop sound. Kind of like when I went with the missus to the Florist and they were playing an instrumental version of Genesis's In Too Deep, the original of which didn't need to be sanitized for muzak. OK, 311 isn't that bad. I still suspect this isn't the kind of album you buy, but pick up the better tunes off of iTunes or from the single releases.
2. The Click Five are an act I have never heard of before, but rumor is they have guests like Elliot Easton from the Cars and some guy from Fountains of Wayne. This might be worth looking into.
3. Forever, a postumous release from Rick James, will hopefully be a good last statement from the ambassador of skanky funk and soul. I hear that Howard Hewitt guests on it though, which makes me wonder if RJ was softening up in his later years.
4. Steve Lukather is usually best known as the occasionally lead singer and always lead guitarist for Toto, which could be seen as not a great pedigree for a guitar album. The fact is, when he is off the Toto clock, a bit of a shredder (I have seen some footage of him from the mid 80s with Jeff Beck, Santana, Doug Wimbish and Simon Phillips, and the guy was stylistically a little off-kilter but technically held his own). Well, he has made a X-Mas themed album of guitar noodling with some friends: Slash, Steve Vai, and Eddie Van Halen among them. It might be a stupid album, it might not. The title however, is very stupid: SantaMental.
5. There is a Madness release of some sort this month, but I don't know if it is a re-issue, new material, or just Sugg's mining the vaults for odds and ends.
6. Pras, formerly of the Fugees, has his sophomore release due, and like you all...I also do not care.
7. In other news about no one should give a damn about -especially metaphysically- Stryper has reformed and is releasing Reborn. I'd like to forgive the hambrained lyrics, cheesy -even by hair metal standards- posing and those God-awful bumblebee leather fetish outfits they sported throughout the 80s, but that is something beyond the realm of man. How they ever ended up with any airplay on Headbanger's Ball is still a mystery. I have heard that they one recorded a cover of Shining Star by Earth Wind and Fire. *That* is a sin.
posted by theloniusfunk at 2:08 PM
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