reissue Archive
30 Oct 2015
Album Review: Françoise Hardy Reissue Series (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… L’Amitié (yet again aka Françoise Hardy) By all accounts, the half-originals/half-covers approach was working well for Françoise Hardy. So was the idea of having twelve – […]
29 Oct 2015
Album Review: Françoise Hardy Reissue Series (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Le Premier Bonheur du Jour (aka Françoise Hardy) A critical and commercial success at home (and modestly so beyond France’s borders), Françoise Hardy‘s debut led quickly […]
28 Oct 2015
Album Review: Françoise Hardy Reissue Series (Part 1)
Looking back on the 1960s, it’s easy to understand why certain countries didn’t get whipped up in the era’s rock and pop revolution quite to the extent that we did […]
23 Oct 2015
Album Review: Bill Evans — The Complete Fantasy Recordings
Bill Evans was a singular figure in the world of music, and even more so within the context of the jazz idiom. His music could never quite be described as […]
19 Oct 2015
Album Review: Billy Joel — Streetlife Serenade (Hybrid Multichannel SACD)
I never bought Billy Joel‘s rock persona. I simply can’t stand the bulk of his Glass Houses era work; it feels forced and insincere to me. His earlier stints in […]
17 Sep 2015
Album Mini-review: Led Zeppelin — In Through the Out Door
File Next to: Thin Lizzy, Bad Company, Van Halen At the time of its original release, In Through the Out Door was problematic for some longtime Zep fans; it featured […]
11 Sep 2015
The Knack: Zooming Back from Oblivion, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Once the backlash set in, though, The Knack‘s record sales figures took a sharp nosedive. …But the Little Girls Understand reached #15 in 1980, but that […]
10 Sep 2015
The Knack: Zooming Back from Oblivion, Part 1
If you’re a rock music fan of a certain age, you know – or knew – The Knack. Their debut album, 1979’s Get the Knack – came out of nowhere […]
09 Sep 2015
Hundred-word Reviews for September, Part 8 of 8
This current round of hundred-word reviews wraps up with four archival/reissue releases from the fine folks at Omnivore Recordings, and a self-released retrospective form an overlooked Nashville group. Raging Fire […]
08 Sep 2015
Hundred-word Reviews for September, Part 7 of 8
Today features hundred word reviews of archival and reissue releases from American and overseas labels. The Brecker Brothers – The Bottom Line Archive This is the latest from the new […]