To say the Talking Heads were an original band is putting it mildly – they changed the landscape of music forever. Now with DVD-A, we can listen to their entire studio catalog which has just been reissued, along with bonus videos from the archives and alternate and unfinished takes of tracks you never heard before. It
30 Seconds to Mars combines the heartbreak and anguish of contemporary teen icons like Dashboard Confessional with all the sincerity of hair band power ballads, translating sunset strip fantasies to the 21st Century via self-doubt and impotence, and ending up blasting cock rock without the hard-on.
These are nice musical variations, and each artist retains their own style, but I Am The Resurrection isn
No Word From Tom, an album filled with B-sides, new material, covers, and live recordings, is Hem
Sing-Sing is not quite the musical equivalent of prison, but it
As the fancy-pants voice of power pop kings the New Pornographers, Dan Bejar
Security Screenings has arisen at the crest of a new (and probably the last) wave of activity for Heren under his Prefuse 73 moniker, and it feels especially frantic – if not like an afterthought then definitely a quick diversion before the next album.
Sun, Sun, Sun is a throwback record, chocked full of early 70s California rock – reminiscent of efforts of bands like Beachwood Sparks and The Thrills.
The take on “Thunder Road” is particularly impressive in that Oldham manages to quickly make the song his own while not sacrificing the elements that made it great for the boss when Born to Run was topping the charts.
This may sound like your grandpa
