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Much craziness this morning at Rule Forty-two World Headquarters, where we’re migrating all our files to our new computer and fighting off a nasty virus with nothing much more than hand-waving. So the next installment of the 1988 countdown will have to wait until Thursday. Until then, the final installment of my series of condensed […]
posted 16 September 2008 in Tasty Bits. 6 comments
(I’m on my way home from the Nevada desert today. Until I get back, here’s one more installment of my 2006 double-album series.)
If not being able to edit an album down to a single vinyl disc of about 45 minutes is self-indulgent, then what’s not being able to able to edit down to a single […]
posted 2 September 2008 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
Wow, The River has a lot of filler. How much? If you pare away all the generic rockers (e.g. “I’m a Rocker”) and other dross on Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 double album, you have plenty of room left over for “Roulette,” a thundering track about a nuclear accident. (It was recorded during the River sessions but […]
posted 29 August 2008 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
The conundrum for any music fan: would you rather have more songs from your favorite band on their new album, even if it meant the album wasn’t as good?
Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin’s 1975 double disc, epitomizes that paradox. The great tracks are among the band’s very best, but they get a bit lost when swamped […]
posted 27 August 2008 in Tasty Bits. 6 comments
Unforeseen side effects of the iPod: I probably couldn’t have put together Short Sharp Shocks without the help of iTunes breaking down my music library by length of song. And I wouldn’t have had the patience a couple of years ago to edit down classic double albums to single albums without being able to tinker […]
posted 25 August 2008 in Tasty Bits. 4 comments
