You know how Weezer always aspired to be Cheap Trick? Well it now seems that on their major label debut, White Reaper aspires to be Weezer being Cheap Trick. So, second-wave...
This is the first CD we ever bought. I say "we" because it was actually purchased by my parents at my behest. Technically it's probably still their CD, but I hi...
Despite the creepy cover, you can tell after the first two tracks that this is going to be a special album. One album into his solo career and Black has already...
The first solo effort from former Pixies leadman, Black Francis, finds him trolling through similar neighborhoods and sounds as the band's swansong, Trompe Le M...
I was caught in a strange time in my life when I bought this album. It was college, from what I recall, and we were all stuck in the Spin Doctors, Blues Travele...
I can remember when I first got this album on tape way back in the day. I sat in the Carl's Jr. parking lot next to Rip City Skateboards, listening to my car st...
It's not a good sign that they open the album with an instrumental. I don't really like instrumentals. In fact, they always feel like filler to me. If you absol...
I'm not sure what's up with all the foreign language stuff, but this debut by a weird college art rock band is stunning in its pure energy and innovative take o...
"Debaser" is my second favorite Pixies song. I f'n love it. I will play it on any jukebox I find just to piss people off. It's a great, great song. And it start...
They've obviously turned the page here. Where as Bossanova sounded tired, Trompe le Monde sounded refreshed. Refreshed—but different. It's Black Francis emergin...
It's obvious the boys at the record label sat these guys down and told them to rein it in, buy some new equipment and at least try to make an album the radio ki...
I generally hate remix albums. I mean if the thing sucked so bad to begin with, why do you need to remix it? I mean I don't mind when somebody remixes shit and ...
It's like punk turned on its ear. I guess it's post-punk. It's spare and dark and claustrophobic in its spookiness. This is The Cure. I can't say the boys sound...
When was it considered okay to only have eight tracks on an album? Today that's called an EP, but what the hell do I know; The Cure seemed to get away with it o...
My favorite track on this, and honestly one of favorite Cure tracks is "Primary." If only the rest of the album sounded like this one. Instead it sounds as if t...
There isn't a jukebox on earth (or at least Manhattan) that doesn't have this album in it. It captures the best of The Cure's earliest music, and is the best ju...
There wasn't a single party in the early 90's that didn't feature at least a couple spins of "Groove Is in the Heart." I'm not even sure what other songs are on...
