PoOPlist '04
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Green Day – American Idiot
Green Day jubilantly explore and explode the punk/post-punk dictionary to exhilarating effect, resulting in a ‘Who Sells Out’ / ‘London Calling’ / ‘Rocket To Russia’/ ‘Nevermind’ joyride through Red State Amerika.
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Elvis Costello – The Delivery Man
EC’s most significant release in years, period. While you’re at it, check out his Gershwinly classical disc ‘Il Sogno’, wherein he teaches many his aspiring peers – McCartney, Joel, and Joe Jackson among them – a thing or three about how this orchestral stuff works.
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Diana Krall – The Girl In The Other Room
Mrs. EC, who needn’t be Mrs. Anybody to get attention, scores big with this strong dose of jazz-blues singer/songwriting.
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Patti Smith – trampin’
Wanna know why Patti Smith still commands our attention? ‘Stride Of The Mind’, ‘Mother Rose’, ‘My Blakean Year’ and the fire breathin’ CBGB flashbacks ‘Ghandi’ and ‘Radio Baghdad’ that’s why.
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John Lennon – Acoustic
Timing out at just under 45 minutes, Yoko, the bootleggers and I all know this disc could have been 30 minutes longer and stronger. But it’s John, so I’ll take it.
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Bob Dylan – Live 1964
C’mon, does it get any better than this?
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Mindy Smith - One Moment More
I surely hope Smith doesn’t fade out any time soon. It would be a damn shame if ‘Come To Jesus’, ‘Raggedy Ann’, the title tune and her searing take on Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ is all we’re left with.
I’ll take another tall stack, please.
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David Byrne – Growin’ Backwards
Even when devolving, Byrne makes more headway then most.
Tie Dyed Tie:
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Jerry Garcia Band – After Mindnight (Kean College, 2/28/80) Buy from amazon
Lunt-Fontaine Theater 10/31/87 Best of the Rest (Lunt-Fontaine 10-15-31/87)
Garcia himself would say “I played like shit too many times.” These collective 9 discs weren’t any of those times.
POOPer Bomb # 1:
Gwen Stefani – Love Dance Music Baby
Everyone’s favorite little girl hands herself over too easily
to the trendsetters and hip-hop moguls for an urban-empty exercise in
early Madonna vamp. I was expecting so much more.
POOPer Bomb #2:
U2 – How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Fellow POOP-ologist Bob Fino and I prayed that ‘Vertigo’
wouldn’t be the best song on this new disc. It would appear
that every once in a while prayers don’t get answered as you’d
like them to.
POOPer Bomb #3:
Tom Waits – Real Gone
Bombing Waits is like bombing my own home but what can I say? Waits
gets wired, wilder and weirder without maintaining that
scorched-earth genius we’ve all voyeuristically thrilled in for
decades.
Still On The Fence With a Picket In Me Britches: Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
Here’s to better listening in ’05:
Jude Johnstone – On A Good Day
Wondering where that early Jackson Browne, Southern California pathos disappeared to? Look no further, oh my Poopies.