Willllma! Where is my MB83?
Everlovely Lightningheart
— Everlovely Lightningheart (Hydra Head) :: A single 40-minute track consisting of a tinny piano-cored music box melody that weaves through myriad underwater caverns before cross-fading into a convergent realm of mysterious melodies and concrete sounds in the haunting tradition of Basil Kirchin and Gavin Bryers.The Cinematics
— “Break” (TVT) :: I bet the new Roxy Music record isn’t half as hip as this glamatronic go-round.Tommy Emmanuel
— The Mystery (Favored Nations) :: Finally, the virtuoso acoustic guitar equivalent of Rick Wakeman’s The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth.Snoop Dogg
— Love Don’t Live Here No More (Atria) :: “Street lit” mah azz. But I can’t find it in me to hate a guy who took his name from Hanna-Barbara’s classic cartoon characters Super Snooper and Doggie Daddy.Pete Townshend
— Horse’s Neck (Faber & Faber) :: And as Billy Altman astutely pointed out, Cyrano nicked his guitar smashing act from Hanna-Barbara’s classic cartoon character El Kabong — aka “Queeks Draw” McGraw.Desi Arnaz
— “Babalu” (Desilu) :: Baba Looey, geddit?Roman Candle
— The Wee Hours Review (V2) :: Springstonesish anthemic storytelling rock. Bonus points for having a guitarist named Nick Jaeger. Really.The Flintstones
— Original TV Soundtracks! (Colpix) :: Didja know that back in the early ’60s — a half century before the luxury of complete season DVD box sets — Columbia released a series of long-playing original sound track albums of Hanna-Barbera’s most popular cartoon shows?Keith Richards
— “I Could Have Stood You Up” (Virgin) :: He had a gay old time. Really; listened to the lyrics lately?SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Milky Ways
— Milky Ways (Alive) :: Back in punk’s halcyonic heyday, I used to spend every night lurching from one dingy, rat-infested hellhole to another, listening to a buncha snotbox bands who sounded just like these wonderfully wasted kids. So if you like your rock served raw with a side order of primitive cool, you’re gonna love these guys ’n’ dolls to deaf, ’cause these Milky Ways ain’t no Milky Duds — and that’s nothing to Snickers at.Be seeing you!
Jeffrey Morgan is a freelance writer. Send comments to letters@metrotimes.com
This article appears in Aug 23-29, 2006.
