This could just as easily be called "More Songs About Lumberjacks and Spam." If you like Monty Python, you'll love it; if you don't, you'll hate it. Original Python member Eric Idle recently performed at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, and here's the result. It's a best-of packed with songs, poems, and arcana from the 30-plus years of Monty Python, with amusing Idle banter between songs. Idle's droll voice isn't bad for a comedian, and with his chorus of background singers, it...   [ read more ]

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Dreams to Remember is 50 sweat-soaked tracks on two CDs. Included here are not just the obvious hits, but top-of-the-line album cuts, Reddings' very first (and little-heard) pre-Stax/Volt single, "Shout Bamalama," and his legendary 1967 live set at the Monterey International Pop Festival in its entirety. If you already own this stuff, keep in mind that it's great to have all these tracks in one place. And if you don't, what are you waiting for?

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Thin White Rope's second album, Moonhead, is the edge-of-chaos masterpiece of the paisley underground, an album that sounds like Neil Young & Crazy Horse tackling Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. All of the 14 songs, even a pounding cover of Jimmy Reed's blues classic "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby," are so wound up and tense that they sound like they could explode at any point; the fact that they don't, not even on extended guitar workouts like "Crawl Piss Freeze" and the epic ...   [ read more ]

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