Bob Dylan - "Catfish" From the CDs Bootleg Series Vol. 1 - 3
on Mar 8, 2010 in Outtakes Baseball Songs It's somewhere to the west of a darned shame, and someplace just east of a moral outrage, that there aren't more good songs about my second great hobby.Nothing against John Fogerty, and the great songs he's written, "Commotion," and "Eye of the Zombi...

Ween - "Buckingham Green" from the CD The Mollusk and Dungen - "Sluta Följa Efter" from the CD Ta Det Lugnt
on Feb 28, 2010 in Psych/Prog Parody Psych/Prog Revival To understand the circumstances of today's missive, it might be helpful first to understand, as McLovin might say, how I roll.You see, here at the La Historia home offices, the death of the album is not just another fuzzy sociological conceit: it's...

Beatallica - "The Thing That Should Not Let it Be" from the Web Download Garage Dayz Nite
on Feb 14, 2010 in Bigger Than Chthulhu Back in '04, it seemed worth a flyer, anyhow.Who don't love the Beatles? And I like SOME rap, even if they'd all call it old school by now.So, yeah, I thought, what the fuck, let's download the Danger Mouse Grey Album, this amalgamation of the Beatl...

John Denver - "Calypso" from the album Windsong and The Butthole Surfers - "Bar-B-Q Pope" from the album Butthole Surfers
on Feb 7, 2010 in Granolaheads Posts That Started Out Being About Something Else Entirely Pigfuck the Dreaded Ironic Detachment Singer-songwriter My Melanie is going through another one of her Heino phases. For the past two weeks, she's been running around saying ridiculous things like, "Heino is the greatest singer of the free world," and "I can't imagine a world without Heino." And just th...

Fugazi - "Promises" from the CD 13 Songs
on Jan 31, 2010 in We Grab Anything Post-Hardcore I commandeered a word for songs like "Promises" and "Sometimes Salvation." The word was "internalized," and I still use it as a kind of shorthand to describe the way a powerful song can get hardwired into your very guts, when the lyrics and the drum...

Tangerine Dream - "Betrayal" - from the Sorcerer Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
on Jan 24, 2010 in Spooky Electronic Stuff So here it is, for anyone who may have wondered: my nominee in the category of Greatest Original Soundtrack Album.Funny, that the movie which nearly destroyed its director's career also was most responsible for elevating the career of its soundtrack...

Ink - "Reflectors" From the CD Ink
on Jan 15, 2010 in Postrock minimalist/art Some years ago I wrote a user review of the album pictured above for Insound. Years pass, as they do, and then, a little bit before the holidays just past, I had the notion of maybe bringing the review onto La Historia, for completion's sake if for n...

Earth - "Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine" from the CD Earth 2 and Steve Fitch - "In Hell" from the mp3 Album Manned Drones
on Jan 10, 2010 in Drone/Doom One characteristic that the tracks presented tonight have in common is their abrupt endpoints. Both start as if they've been in a process of generation for some time, and after extended running times, both end bluntly, when it seems as if they could...

U2 - "New Year's Day" From the Album War
on Jan 1, 2010 in Post-punk Happy New Year Another snow song, right?Right? I wonder how many people get the reference. Probably lots, I'm guessing. Certainly anybody who was around and watching cable TV in the early- to mid- eighties is gonna know I'm referencing the promotional video to U2...

Cream - "Passing the Time" from the album Wheels of Fire
on Dec 25, 2009 in Supergroup Rock Merry Christmas First off, Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. May you each get the EP, LP, CD, DVD or iStore gift card you've been coveting.Next, let me be frank: while I've certainly tried to get in the spirit of the season with the snowy roof I've installed...