A Bigger Bang for my buck
Here's what Eric buys with a $125 gift certificate at Amoeba Records:
*Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang - The best they've put out since Tattoo You. The only way it's not a great rock-and-roll album is when you compare it to their great rock-and-roll albums
*Joss Stone - Soul Sessions - and it has pictures of her inside.
*Ike and Tina Turner - The Best Of -- probably my fave of the purchases...You can't beat Tina Turner. Well, unless you're Ike.
*Aerosmith - Honkin' On Bobo - They finally got away from Bruckheimer balladry and back to the blues
*Skynyrd - The Essential - Turn it up.
*Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker - 5 out of 10 songs on this album were rock hits.
*Love - Forever Changes - The Doors wanted to be these guys. Classic psychedelic mariachi folk soul
*Nazareth - Classics - Screw Blue Oyster Cult; the best rock cowbell ever rings through "Hair of the Dog."
*Risque Rhythm - a compilation of innuendo-filled 50s jump blues. Lots of songs about big penises, including the original of the song "Big Ten-Inch Record" later redone by Aerosmith. Hey, it's the only thing longer than this list.
*Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul - as opposed to his other albums wherein he doesn't sing soul. Because he was inventing it.
*The Animals - Retrospective - They're just a band whose music was good; Aw, Lord, don't let it be misunderstood.
*Slade - Get Yer Boots On; The Best of - Quiet Riot was just a tribute band to these guys. Real, raucous rock and roll. And Noddy Holder has one of the coolest names and the best muttonchops in rock history.
*New York Dolls - self-titled- These ugly chicks palyed some ballsy rock.
*Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept - Because I can't live entirely in the past. Although, they are reminiscent of T. Rex's swaggering boogie.
*Blind Boys of Alabama - Atom Bomb - because I could use some churchin' after all this music about the temptations of the flesh. Even if it is churching via Norman Greenbaum and Eric Clapton.
By the way, the gift certificate was for $125. I spent $155.
*Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang - The best they've put out since Tattoo You. The only way it's not a great rock-and-roll album is when you compare it to their great rock-and-roll albums
*Joss Stone - Soul Sessions - and it has pictures of her inside.
*Ike and Tina Turner - The Best Of -- probably my fave of the purchases...You can't beat Tina Turner. Well, unless you're Ike.
*Aerosmith - Honkin' On Bobo - They finally got away from Bruckheimer balladry and back to the blues
*Skynyrd - The Essential - Turn it up.
*Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker - 5 out of 10 songs on this album were rock hits.
*Love - Forever Changes - The Doors wanted to be these guys. Classic psychedelic mariachi folk soul
*Nazareth - Classics - Screw Blue Oyster Cult; the best rock cowbell ever rings through "Hair of the Dog."
*Risque Rhythm - a compilation of innuendo-filled 50s jump blues. Lots of songs about big penises, including the original of the song "Big Ten-Inch Record" later redone by Aerosmith. Hey, it's the only thing longer than this list.
*Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul - as opposed to his other albums wherein he doesn't sing soul. Because he was inventing it.
*The Animals - Retrospective - They're just a band whose music was good; Aw, Lord, don't let it be misunderstood.
*Slade - Get Yer Boots On; The Best of - Quiet Riot was just a tribute band to these guys. Real, raucous rock and roll. And Noddy Holder has one of the coolest names and the best muttonchops in rock history.
*New York Dolls - self-titled- These ugly chicks palyed some ballsy rock.
*Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept - Because I can't live entirely in the past. Although, they are reminiscent of T. Rex's swaggering boogie.
*Blind Boys of Alabama - Atom Bomb - because I could use some churchin' after all this music about the temptations of the flesh. Even if it is churching via Norman Greenbaum and Eric Clapton.
By the way, the gift certificate was for $125. I spent $155.
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