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Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums

#494: MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

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#494

MGMT, Oracular Spectacular

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The MGMT Lions
Release Date: 2007
Previously Owned: Sort of... have a bunch of MP3s from this one
Impressions: When this album first came out, someone threw MP3s from this album on my work server and I thought they were audio files from our company's management committee meeting.  It's got that now-popular '80s-via-'00s sound by Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann that features big drums and bigger keyboards and some nice hooks. Parts funky, trippy and sarcastic without getting too, too annoying, Oracular Spectacular is a definitely an product of … Continue Reading ››
Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums

#495: Bonnie Raitt – Give It Up

# 495

Bonnie Raitt/Give It Up

Release Date 1972
Previously Owned: No
First time listen? Yes
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt's for no man
Impressions: Having always heard Bonnie Raitt in the context of admirable but moderately boring blues/rock on WXRT, I was not really psyched for this one. But this record sort of hung in there as an admirable, nicely-performed California soft-rock/bluesy/folk/soul brew that went down pretty easily. The songs are short and had enough surprises to keep me interested (mostly in the form of fun New Orleans-flavored horns on tracks like "Give It … Continue Reading ››