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Recollection Volume 14 – Wanna Be Your Friend: A Tribute to the Inbreds

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Wanna Be Your Friend: A Tribute to the Inbreds Artist: Various Artists Released: 2007 Format(s) I own it on: CD The Inbreds. I’m a big fan of The Inbreds, they didn’t always stick to their schtick of bass and drum, but even when they did, they succeeded in making interesting melodic pop that almost defies their instrumental limitations. That skill at crafting amazing melodies is what makes The Inbreds so spectacular. Mike O’Neill and Dave Ulrich deserve every accolade… Read More »Recollection Volume 14 – Wanna Be Your Friend: A Tribute to the Inbreds

Recollection Volume 13 – The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events Artist: The Gothic Archies Released: 2006 Format(s) I own it on: CD We are the Gothic Archies, death, tentacles, and pip. Took longer than I expected to get to a Stephin Merritt project. The Gothic Archies is Merritt’s project of depressing bubblegum pop. The Tragic Treasury is a collection of songs created by The Gothic Archies for the young adult novels A Series of Unfortunate Events. Each audio book in… Read More »Recollection Volume 13 – The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events

Doctor Who Serial 053 – The Ambassadors of Death

Synopsis: A space mission is sent to rescue a ship that hasn’t been responding. Something goes wrong and Earth loses contact with the space probe. Aliens send down some ambassadors while some secret agencies are working in secret. UNIT is advising the Space Command, while The Doctor and Liz Shaw are watching on TV. It’s weird to see The Doctor observing a big event on television. It’s not his thing. It makes me think The Doctor must be in misery due to his exile, but they don’t portray that. Instead The Doctor is just tinkering away in his TARDIS trying to override the lockouts that the Time Lords put on… Read More »Doctor Who Serial 053 – The Ambassadors of Death

Recollection Volume 12 – Rock of Ages

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Rock of Ages Artist: The Band Released: 1972 Format(s) I own it on: Vinyl I’ve owned this record on vinyl for a long time… a long, long time, and never really listened to it. I like The Band, I swear, I’m just not a huge fan. Never loved them. I also don’t really like live albums. That being said, Rock of Ages is damn good! When I first started writing this, I didn’t realize that there was an inconsistency between what was on… Read More »Recollection Volume 12 – Rock of Ages

Recollection Volume 11 – The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More…

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More… Artist: Various Artists Released: 2004 Format(s) I own it on: CD Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants, of course. For the purpose of stats, I will count this record as male and American, as the vast majority of the contents are both. Sorry Avril. I should also state for the record, that this was a promo disc. The album starts off with a cover of the theme… Read More »Recollection Volume 11 – The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More…

Recollection Volume 10 – Expressions

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Expressions Artist: Music Go Music Released: 2009 Format(s) I own it on: Vinyl At some point Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney/Wild Flag/Portlandia fame tweeted about a band called Music Go Music. I listened to the song, and bought the album on vinyl. The record was pieced together from three different EPs, but works pretty well as an album. The album is a cross between Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and Abba. It’s addictive and fun, but didn’t seem to stay much in rotation. I… Read More »Recollection Volume 10 – Expressions

Recollection Volume 9 – Ready For The Flood

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Ready For The Flood Artist: Mark Olson & Gary Louris Released: 2008 Format(s) I own it on: Vinyl I like the ampersand on the cover. For those unaware, Mark Olson & Gary Louris are the two primary members of the original line-up for The Jayhawks. After the release of their best record, Tomorrow the Green Grass, Olson left the band leaving Louris to front The Jayhawks on his own. I really like Olson and Louris, which is why I feel so much disappointment in this album.… Read More »Recollection Volume 9 – Ready For The Flood

Recollection Volume 8 – The Eric’s Trip Show

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: The Eric’s Trip Show Artist: Eric’s Trip Released: 2001 Format(s) I own it on: CD “Used to wonder if you understood the way I felt about the stove.” What the hell does that even mean? Why is “Stove” one of the best Eric’s Trip songs, and yet, it’s about… a stove? In 2001, Eric’s Trip reunited and toured Canada. They played in Toronto at the Opera House, and it was my first visit to that venue, and to Riverdale. It was an… Read More »Recollection Volume 8 – The Eric’s Trip Show

Recollection Volume 7 – Be True Newfoundlanders

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Be True Newfoundlanders Artist: Dick Nolan Released: 1968 Format(s) I own it on: Vinyl I’m pretty sure this album came into my collection one day when my father dropped off a few boxes of vinyl records that had been sitting in his parent’s house since the ’60s. I had never heard of Dick Nolan before or since. I never got around to listening to this record, and this is kind of the point of this project, to listen to everything. Nolan, a… Read More »Recollection Volume 7 – Be True Newfoundlanders

Recollection Volume 6 – Vertical Man

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Vertical Man Artist: Ringo Starr Released: 1998 Format(s) I own it on: CD Oh god. Back in 1998, The Beatles were riding high on the post-Anthology wave. They made a huge TV event out of a documentary on their career and released three double albums of rarities and outtakes. Included were two new songs “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love,” both of which did quite well in the charts. It was the motherflippin’ Beatles. Ringo Starr, famed Beatle drummer, released this… Read More »Recollection Volume 6 – Vertical Man