Feature: Vinyl Tap

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Gordon Hauptfleisch

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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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 05, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight

  “Hey, mister on the radio / Please play my favorite song / The one where she didn’t go away...”

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 15, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Aug 02, 2006

• 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!

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 19, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Todd Rundgren - Faithful

  Excitations, freak flags, and nothing to get hung about: Todd Rundgren faithfully covers some musical ground.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 12, 2006

• 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..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 04, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 28, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 16, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 09, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!

  “Instead of all this dumb, dumb insolence / I would be happier with amnesia.”

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 04, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Bob Dylan - Planet Waves

  “May you build a ladder to the stars / And climb on every rung..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 02, 2006

• 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..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 24, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Game Theory - Tinker To Evers To Chance

  Tough but tender power-pop hooks you can hang your heart on.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 20, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Roxy Music - Country Life

  "Oh here it comes again / That old ennui..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 12, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: The Replacements - Tim

  "We are the sons of no one, bastards of young..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 02, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Roxy Music - Stranded

  "Is it the end of another affair / An open engagement with gloom?"

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 27, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 24, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

  Sometimes he almost feels just like a human being. This isn't one of those times...

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 12, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 10, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Brute Force - I, Brute Force - Confections Of Love

  Eric Von Zipper sings Jimmy Webb. Kind of, and sort of.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 09, 2006