Feature: Liner Notables

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Gordon Hauptfleisch

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• Liner Notables #5: The Byrds' Greatest Hits

  "Their thing was beautiful and heavy and will be as it is." Hipper-than-thou, perhaps, but the freak flag's only at half-mast.

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 30, 2006

• Liner Notables #4: The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle

  It was the time of the season for "well-timed diminished chords leaping through warm melodic tapestries.” Not "flat submediant key switches in Aeolian cadence!”

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 22, 2006

• Liner Notables #3: The Velvet Underground And Nico

  "The product of a secret marriage between Bob Dylan and the Marquis de Sade."

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 06, 2006

• Liner Notables #2: The Best of Love

  Of Arthur Lee and Company: "It was music from your brain, from your heart. That’s why it was so great."

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 23, 2006

• Liner Notables #1 - Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

  “It's been said many times that the world needs another rock and roll band. This could well be the one of which the pundits spoke."

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 07, 2006