Saturday, March 23, 2024
JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #933JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #933.567.200! FIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Thor – Keep The Dogs Away: 30th Anniversary Special Edition (Scratch)
:: Y’know what I hate? I hate reading an awkwardly worded press release that says: “And beyond simply being a
great Canadian album, easily Keep The Dogs Away holds it’s [sic] own nicely along the finest efforts of Sweet,
Ziggy-era Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Sweeney Todd, T-Rex and the like.” Which is a grievous insult to really great Canadian
albums like Neil Rush’s Tonight’s The Fly By Night. Thor’s the only musician on that list whose
record I never shoplifted because it’s as aurally anemic now as it was back then. Admittedly, the title track is a pretty
good power-pop bopper, but unfortunately, it’s stuck soaking in a static-strewn stew. With so many original unsold vinyl
copies lying around, you’d think that someone could’ve found a factory sealed one in mint condition and ripped
a new master from it. But no one did, which is why I’m mighty sore. FIZZLING
BOOK OF THE YEAR: Dave Thompson – I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto (Backbeat Books) ::
Y’know what I hate? I hate reading a wretchedly written press release that says: “If the title alone doesn’t
polarize a roomful of music critics than [sic] nothing will.” Take it from me: Anyone who writes dozens of chapter titles
like “Fat and forty-plus, or had your Phil of Collins yet?” and thinks that they’re witty is a talentless
deballed hack who isn’t even qualified to write a Thor press release. But what I really hate is reading an embarrassing
introduction by the once lucid Richard “Gulcher” Meltzer who sadly can’t write anymore and shouldn’t
even try to. File under: The Aesthetics Of Schlock. Be seeing you!
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