Henry Rollins - Eric the Pilot

Henry Rollins, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
Now with the major ass-kissing out of the way, here is another solid Rollins spoken word/stand-up album. An engaging and hilarious account of a strange pilot and the Midwest, Rollins is in his usual form. Brutally honest, and bringing a dose of reality into an otherwise hazy existence, every Rollins set leaves you wanting more, wishing he would never step off the stage. Fantastic.
I also highly recommend reading his journal entry based books if you like his stand-up stuff, very similar. If you like his audiobooks too, you should get his other stories.

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The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap

I initially assumed this was a doom album. This album is nowhere near doom, much more along the lines of a throwback band (ie. Priestess, Wolfmother) Although they did have a prominent Sabbath influence (like most doom bands), this album feels more like it belongs with Sabbath in the late 70s than present day. The extensive occult and satanic imagery fits in perfectly with modern metal bands who have a tendency to overdo things, but somehow, it works here. . Only 5 songs, this is a throwback tribute that does those late-70s metal bands justice.

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Walter/Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach

Stolen from Kaptain Carbon on waffles:
Many people today know the name Walter/Wendy Carlos through many movie scores including "The Shining," "Split Second" and "Tron."
The name Walter, or Wendy Carlos, is associated with a dense patchwork made of classical music and synthesizers. It is perhaps the movie "A Clockwork Orange" and the processed vocal climax of the Ninth Symphony that Carlos style and legacy is most known. Switched On Bach also represents one of the first landmarks in the complicated and rudimentary birth of electronic music. Carlos was not the first electronic musician in the 60s, however, it could be argued that he was among the most popular. Switched On Bach went on to win three Grammy awards in the next year and become the highest selling classical album to date. The late 60's was a time of great social change when many old institutions were being questioned and destroyed. Carlos' electronic reinterpretation of Johan Sebastian Bach is unlikely to remembered as socially revolutionary as other musical acts or events at the time. However, the popularity of Moog-based classical music, for better or worse, represented a shift in consciousness on the nature of traditions. Sure, there were older reinterpretations on classical pieces including Spike Jones' zany pillaging of the classics. However, Carlos' works are based off of sound rather than comedy. Switched on Bach remains one of the most popular Moog-based classical albums. For Carlos, the sound of Switched on Bach spawned many sequels and variations and remains artistically tied to the composer. It is the polarity between the electronic sound and baroque composition that makes the album timeless, or rather caught in a vacuum, vortex or hyper-dimension.

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Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea

So long without an update. I haven't really downloaded much of anything recently. My HD is running out of space and I need to upgrade to a 1 TB. The problem with that is I'm a little short on money and have to wait. So, one of very few downloads these past five days, funeral doom band Ahab's The Call of the Wretched Sea. The album is a retelling of Melville's classic Moby Dick through the medium of funeral doom metal. Doom itself may be some heavy shit, but funeral doom is heavy to the max. All you can feel when you listen to this is despair. Ahab does funeral doom so well it could literally crush the entire horrible nu-metal genre with one of these songs.

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Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna

Ringo Starr, former Beatles drummer, had a very inconsistent career musically after the Beatles called it quits. An okay solo debut, followed by a good album and two excellent ones, followed by a long string of okay albums and the occasional good one in between. In comparison to (almost) everything else he did in the 70s, Goodnight Vienna was a star-studded masterpiece, featuring the likes of former bandmate John Lennon, Elton John, Dr. John, and others. Although the only two Top 10 tracks aren't written by anyone on the record, this proves to be an enjoyable record, even if it doesn't quite match up to it's predecessor.

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Michael Jackson - 3 albums

Again with the threes! Anyways, I realized I had no Michael Jackson as I was digging through three boxes of records my local record store gave me for free and I happened upon a compilation album from 1980, a sort of Now! That's What I Call Music of hits from 1979. First track, "I Wanna Rock With You". It was then I realized, "Damn, Michael Jackson is fun to listen to!" A fact clearly evident to the rest of the world, it explains was such a HUGE world star in the 80's, and still has a huge influence on pop today. That said, I don't care how "metal" or "punk" you may be, or how much you claim to hate Michael Jackson, you want to dance when this stuff comes on.

Off the Wall (Special Edition)
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Thriller (Special Edition)
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Bad
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Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

It's hard to believe (in today's world) that in the past people were into pop music that was entirely instrumental. Often times I'll show friends an amazing instrumental piece and they'll call it boring. Other times I'll show them this and they'll ask me why I'm into elevator music. The thing is, they don't realize what they're missing out on. Herb Alpert is a Grammy-winning, Top 10 artist who can really play the easy listening. If you're into lounge and easy listening, and you don't have this, you're not into lounge and easy listening.

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