Tommy Bolin, Private Eyes (1976)

You've probably never heard of Tommy Bolin, right? No worries, nor had I until a good friend of mine played it for me one night when I was over at his place helping him kill a pesky bottle of Scotch that had been hanging around since we'd bought it earlier that afternoon.

My pal Rusty was always into weird...

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Soundtrack, The Darjeeling Limited, 2007

My wife and I have very different tastes when it comes to a lot of films. I'm an Apocalypse Now: Redux, The Conversation, Blade Runner, Conan The Barbarian, Planet of the Apes, City of Industry, The Big Sleep, Sweet Smell of Success, Night and The City kind of guy. She's more Apocalypse Now (the Original), The Hours, Atonement, Blazing Saddles,...

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Talking Heads, Remain In Light, 1980

i don't know about other folks who were kicking the can around in 1980 but for me this album was what Kurtz said: "like being shot in the head with a diamond."

commentators on the music scene prattle on about David Byrne's abstracted lyrics and the intellectual at-arms-length-ness of the writing making the material inaccessible but for me those...

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Brian Eno, Here Come The Warm Jets, 1974.

ever to be the iconoclast Eno's debut solo album was a sign of things to come: aggressively innovative yet derivative too, catchy but strangely inaccessible, the stuff of daydreams and nightmares. i first heard this album almost 30 years ago and i still murmur off the odd line of it now and again, air-guitaring Robert Fripp's zonky riffs.
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