Feature: Vinyl Tap
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Vinyl Tap: Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary— Betcha can't play just once...
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Vinyl Tap: Sugar - Copper Blue— Bob Mould's sonic assault merges bracing buzz-saw power punk with manic pop thrill.
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Vinyl Tap: Crowded House - Temple of Low Men— "Into temptation / Safe in the wide open arms of hell..."
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Vinyl Tap: Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment— I’ve worn it out well.
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Vinyl Tap: The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk— This isn’t your mother’s Psychedelic Furs.
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Vinyl Tap: The Replacements - Let It Be— Accept no substitutes. The Replacements' Let It Be is a roarin’ little record I want my turntable to play and play again.
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Vinyl Tap: Jo Jo Gunne— From the primordial mist, in the land where Foghatsaurus and Grand Funk Triceratops roamed, the mighty Jo Jo Gunne emerged...
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Vinyl Tap: The Ventures - Walk Don't Run— Something Ventured, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gained.
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Vinyl Tap: Cindy Lee Berryhill - Garage Orchestra— Garage Orchestra’s ramshackle Pet Sounds-and-kettle drums core is complemented with Cindy Lee Berryhill’s loosey-goosey vocals and upfront guitar.
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Vinyl Tap: My Top Ten Album Reissues for 2007— Zevon on Fire, Twilley Sincerely, Lofgrenesque, Pretenders Crawl, Costello Aims, HaveWilbury-WillTravel, U2 up a Tree, ELO out of the Blue, Secondhand Magazine, Faces OohLaLa!
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Vinyl Tap: Bing Crosby - Hey Jude/Hey Bing!— When der Bingle covered das Beatles in 1969, he went through the motions with insouciance intact and ascot scarcely askew.
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Vinyl Tap: House of Freaks - Tantilla— The brutal slaying of Bryan Harvey, along his family, silenced an inspired, vital voice who could talk shop like he's speaking in tongues.
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Vinyl Tap: The Beatles' Second Album — Capitol’s vinyl connivance offers up a Merseyside pop thrill with blisters-on-me-fingers raucousness and harmony-driven R&B, Motown, and rock-and-roll.
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Vinyl Tap: Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream— Thunderclap Newman may be a one album wonder, but what a wonder, and what an album.
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Vinyl Tap: Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby— The Muse of 'Metal Machine Music' moves on, but the Glory of Love might see you through…
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Vinyl Tap: Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes— Ah, Precious Moments: "If it wasn't for your stiff little fingers / Nobody would know you were dead." --the Vibrators
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Vinyl Tap: Raspberries' Best— Despite the Raspberries' image as perfectly coiffed anachronistic throwbacks in matching suits and demeanor, I changed my tune when I changed the tuner...
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Vinyl Tap: Be-Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish— A showcase for guitarist Bill Nelson's soaring and sublime skills that can transport you with an enthralling force. He plays some mean tubular bells, too.
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Vinyl Tap: Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely— A power pop classic, inspired equally by Sun Sounds and A Hard Day's Night, is released in 1976.
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Vinyl Tap: Brian Wilson— It was 1988, the dreaded year of the Kokomo. We were musical miles from cruisin’ to the hamburger stand now, or the columnated ruins domino...
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Vinyl Tap: Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True— The mercurial Costello is on full display on one of the best debut albums in the history of, um, debut albums.
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Vinyl Tap: Lowell George - Thanks I'll Eat It Here— "...all things I left undone/ It comes from moment to moment, day to day/ Time seems to slip away."
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Vinyl Tap: Rickie Lee Jones - Girl At Her Volcano— Chuck E's no longer "in love with the little girl who's singing this song." Rickie Lee Jones erupts and recollects...
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Vinyl Tap: Elvis Costello - Taking Liberties— Twenty Songs - All Different! And all in an early treasure trove of obscurities, alternate versions, B-sides, and European LP tracks.
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Vinyl Tap: Buzzcocks - A New Kind Of Tension— "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" as an AARP jingle? Suddenly I feel very, very old...
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Vinyl Tap: Tom Waits - One From The Heart Soundtrack Album— "I gotta a bottle full of trumpet, a hatbox full of drum..."
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Vinyl Tap: X - Under The Big Black Sun— For an insistent and intense masterwork, X marks the spot.
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Vinyl Tap: The Dave Clark Five - Greatest Hits— These British Invasion troops will make you feel "Glad All Over."
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Vinyl Tap: Best Reissues of 2006— From the Pretenders to Bob Wills, Al Green to Spoon, 2006 saw a wide variety of artists being reissued new CD lives.
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Vinyl Tap: Mott The Hoople - Brain Capers— Including such holiday favorites as "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" and “Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception.”
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Vinyl Tap: Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram— McCartney's seemingly effortless pop-rock command is exhibited in abundance - even in the nooks and crannies of his songs’ hooks and canny ear-candy appeal.
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Vinyl Tap: Sam Phillips - The Indescribable Wow; Cruel Inventions; Martinis and Bikinis— The Sam Sessions: Unabashed Pop, cosmic discombobulation, Beatle-sonic nip-and-tuck. Something to wow everyone.
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Vinyl Tap: The Dukes Of Stratosphere - 25 O'Clock— Avatars of all things psychedelic, the Dukes of Stratosphere are ecstasy for the ears. The ones that are melting down your head right now.
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Vinyl Tap: Vanilla Fudge— The group's slowed-down psychedelic-sludge cover songs will keep you hanging on, and on, and on, and...
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Vinyl Tap: Sparks - Kimono My House— Sparks put a little Gilbert and Sullivan and British Music Hall into pop-rock, with a potent combination of witty wordplay and big dumb fun.
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Vinyl Tap: Graham Parker And The Rumour - Squeezing Out Sparks— "'Cause this is nothing else if not unreal / When I pretend to touch you, you pretend to feel..."
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Vinyl Tap: The Beach Boys Today!— Brian Wilson gives us a tantalizing foretaste of Pet Sounds. And no, it's not “Bull Session With The ‘Big Daddy.’”
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Vinyl Tap: Aztec Camera— "Every whisper that welcomes the inconceivable": Roddy Frame's biting and biding romanticism plays out in bipolar love songs for the bloodied but unbowed.
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Vinyl Tap: Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight— “Hey, mister on the radio / Please play my favorite song / The one where she didn’t go away...”
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Vinyl Tap: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs— I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy, too, but even better is this harrowing and heartfelt masterwork.
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Vinyl Tap: The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night— The music, the movies, the memories — the dueling-Beatles harmonic convergence with the T-Bird Teens across the street. Oh, and the Buggs!
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Vinyl Tap: Todd Rundgren - Faithful— Excitations, freak flags, and nothing to get hung about: Todd Rundgren faithfully covers some musical ground.
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Vinyl Tap: The Beach Boys - Endless Summer— "I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down this same old strip / I gotta finda new place where the kids are hip..."
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Vinyl Tap: Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire— A live recording from "The Dog Ate the Part We Didn't Like Tour." Everyone enjoyed every sandwich, though.
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Vinyl Tap: Television - Marquee Moon— "I was hearing, hearing something else." So was my pooch, but I get a chance to teach an old dog new tracks.
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Vinyl Tap: Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend— Fueled by the front-and-center guitar crunch of Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd, Matthew Sweet creates a Poptopian masterwork.
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Vinyl Tap: Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
— “Instead of all this dumb, dumb insolence / I would be happier with amnesia.”
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Vinyl Tap: Bob Dylan - Planet Waves— “May you build a ladder to the stars / And climb on every rung..."
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Vinyl Tap: Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town— "Tell her there's a spot out 'neath Abram's Bridge / And tell her, there's a darkness on the edge of town..."
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Vinyl Tap: Game Theory - Tinker To Evers To Chance— Tough but tender power-pop hooks you can hang your heart on.
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Vinyl Tap: Roxy Music - Country Life— "Oh here it comes again / That old ennui..."
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Vinyl Tap: The Replacements - Tim— "We are the sons of no one, bastards of young..."
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Vinyl Tap: Roxy Music - Stranded— "Is it the end of another affair / An open engagement with gloom?"
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Vinyl Tap: Mike McGear - McGear— Paul McCartney’s brother grabs onto some coattails and a little nepotism, and a whole lot of Beatle-esque help.
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Vinyl Tap: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model— Sometimes he almost feels just like a human being. This isn't one of those times...
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Vinyl Tap: 'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now— In the last 'Til Tuesday album, Aimee Mann considers the big picture and the small details of love and life.
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Vinyl Tap: Brute Force - I, Brute Force - Confections Of Love— Eric Von Zipper sings Jimmy Webb. Kind of, and sort of.
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Vinyl Tap: Thin White Rope - Moonhead— Coiled rattlesnakes on the two-lane blacktop: sinuous, sibilating guitar lines and death-rattle vocals resonate with insidious menace - and a lysergic surge.
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Vinyl Tap: The Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once— Transport yourself "A Million Miles Away": "I started drifting to a different place / I realized I was falling off the face of the world..."
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Vinyl Tap: Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady— Infectious and frenetic, a different kind of tension.
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