LWA Blog — vinyl

Who Let the Dogs Out is very feminist, queer, angry, funny, super catchy and punk as fuck. I don't know if I'm the target demo ( the hype sticker says "party music for gay angry sluts") but I love this album (I picked up this cool blue vinyl copy from my local earlier this summer). I think if you're human and angry about current events bullshit, you're more than halfway there. Great album. Put it in your ears, listen to the lyrics, feel the burn and get fucking pissed. 

Gonna try this Record of the Week thing, see how it goes. This Natalie Bergman album, My Home is Not in This World, dropped a couple months ago. It's a bit of a grower, I didn't click with it right away. I turned the corner one day when I was commuting to work and it came on randomly. I have a playlist of new stuff I'm interested in checking out, and I had been listening to the albums preceding this one on the list and was too preoccupied to change it. That's what I mean when I say randomly. So, yeah,...

Went to my local record store for some browsing. They had a Japanese pressing of Kate Bush's The Kick Inside which I absolutely did not need but, you know, I bought anyways. It's my third copy of the album. I have a US pressing, the one with Kate wearing the red boots, and I have a grey vinyl version, with the kite album cover. Very recommended, it's an excellent album front to back, no matter what version you have. 

One of my fave metal albums, Queensrÿche's Operation: Mindcrime (1988). I picked up this reissue a few years ago. I get obsessed with this album every so often and this week has been one of those weeks of listening to it at least once a day. It's a concept album about a heroin addict slash radical who is brainwashed into joining an anarchic group. It all goes downhill from there, as you can imagine. But, we get a pretty great album out of it. I'm gonna keep listening to it until I'm not, and then I'll come back to it...

Went to browse in a record store last weekend for the first time in ages. Found the first Bangles album, All Over the Place (1984), for $5. It's such a good album, I grabbed it without hesitation. Solid album with jangly guitars and tight, 60s-inspired power-pop songs. Hero Takes a Fall. James. A great cover of Katrina & The Waves' Going Down to Liverpool. I realize most people might only know them because of Walk Like an Egyptian, from their second album Different Light. But give All Over the Place a chance. It's definitely worth a listen in my book if...