I now peek at the commercial takeover of Beck Enterprises Incorporated. It was at this point that Beck really began to pay severe attention to the 1967 musical comedy “How to Succeed in Business without really trying”. Things start to take a turn for the worse, but therein exists some worthwhile songs along the way… [...]

I go on an album-by-album basis, analyzing individual tracks of note. Some Beck albums will be worth your while. You decide based upon my song selections (just rethink your whole life, that’s all I ask). Beck ~ “Mellow Gold” A record with many highlights! LOSER, PAY NO MIND (SNOOZER), WHISKEY-CLONE: HOTEL CITY 1997 and NITEMARE [...]

It was 1969 when Skip Spence put out a confounding record that was unfortunately not mixed in mono. This is a lovely skeletal structure of a record, though, one that I will no doubt tell your grandparents about when I was a little boy. Say hello to plenty of acoustic guitar, bass and live percussion. [...]

I successfully end my ‘very best songs by’ trilogy by focusing on Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He was a man of many names, but I think that I’ll just stick with ODB. I am not really going to examine much Wu-Tang material, but rather focus on ODB’s two album solo career. The one Wu-Tang joint that [...]

The following songs will both include Syd Barrett Era Pink Floyd material and selected songs from his short-lived solo career as well. Pink Floyd as Syd’s baby often had a genuine immediacy that one finds in the very best of Pop songs. The successful single “See Emily Play” is both a catchy commercial jingle and [...]

Here are the rules: I start with “Rubber Soul” and end with “Abbey Road”. “In My Life” is an obvious choice. I hear a slight Buddy Holly influence on this song. A beautiful melancholy melody and pleasantly dreaming lead vocal performance from John Lennon. While the song “Rain” never appeared on any of The Beatles [...]

The new piece by Alice Kim Jenkins is aluminous and effervescent and just plain old calming. She figures in greatly and wildly, strange figures from outer-space. I enjoy her trifles and her other-worldly glue-gun apparatus of goodness. There are pleasant pauses in this piano-based instrumental composition from heaven. One does indeed wonder if Alice Kim [...]

Dear Alice Kim, I greatly enjoy “A Walk in the Park” and could listen to this song quite often. It almost reminds me of something that would have appeared in one of those Jill Clayburgh films of the 1970’s, such as “An Unmarried Woman”. There is something slightly melancholy about “A Walk in the Park”, [...]

This is the sort of band that causes one to take pause and to reevaluate one’s life, and quite sincerely so at that. It would appear that this is the sound persons in the city of Detroit choose to make or simply must make, and all this despite the fact that my period is late. [...]

It is Christmas in the Land of Stereolab, you delicious little devil-dogs! The new gem has arrived and Marquis De Sade is finally on your side, filled to the brim with prescription-drug pride. “Chemical Chords” is like a healthy bundle of raspberries slammed against your bosom in a most powerful manner. The party starts with [...]