You back? Great! On with the show . . .
7. The Best Day - Thurston Moore
Hot Damn! Another Sonic Youth album! What? Just Thurston Moore? Same diff. Both he and Hiss Golden Messenger get extra points for dogs on the covers. Damn, I'm easy.
Moore has perfected the art of the hypnotic riff - hanging on to tension just a little too long to be comfortable until he hooks you into shifting from wondering when the riff will resolve to hoping it never does. Check out the end of 'Forevermore'.
6. Acoustic Classics - Richard Thompson
This one just squeaked by the 'No Best of' rule. There's no original material here. Live acoustic versions of these classics abound - but these are all new recordings of Thompson's best known solo material - and man it's good.
As luck would have it, no cuts for this have survived on YouTube, so I'll give you the closest thing.
5. Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath - Brownout
Your favorite Black Sabbath tunes with congas & horns - a Latin Funk tribute to Ozzy & gang. Not as silly as Dread Zeppelin (who, by the way, will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their album Un-Led-Ed in 2015. Let the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame lobbying begin), but not as reverential as, say, The Other Side of Abbey Road. This is probably the funnest album of the list, at home in your headphones and at a pool party.
Tomorrow? You guessed it - #4-2
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