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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.”

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Dec 15, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Dec 09, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 13, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 03, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Vanilla Fudge

  The group's slowed-down psychedelic-sludge cover songs will keep you hanging on, and on, and on, and...

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Oct 11, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Oct 05, 2006

• 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..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 28, 2006

• 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.’”

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 16, 2006

• 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