Saturday, August 24, 2024
JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #955JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #955.589.223! Ray Charles – A Message From The People (Concord) :: I don’t care if the sun
don’t shine—but if I hear this flamboyant, cloying, overwrought, terminally maudlin, tear-jerkin’ melodramatic
version of “America The Beautiful” one more time, I’m gonna kill something. Chris Velan – Solidago (New Song Recordings) :: Looking to score? Then match a few
candles and play these sensitive songs, which’ll woo any weepy woman on the rebound. Works for me! Dee Dee Ramone – History On My Arms (MVD Visual) :: You’ll wanna buy this Dee-V-Dee
for the three filmed documentaries but you’re gonna keep it for the bonus home-recorded album Dee Dee Blues on which
the man who gave us the speaker-shredding “Wart Hog” redefines abrasive with a monocaustic mind-numbing set that
makes Unca Lou’s overdrive antics on “I Heard Her Call My Name” sound like Jeanine Deckers plucking “Dominique”
on downers. Then Dee Dee takes a well-deserved break to berate his cat while he skillets some eggs for breakfast.
SIZZLING MODERN PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Ray Charles – Modern
Sounds In Country And Western Music: Volumes 1 & 2 (Concord) :: Half of these two dozen tracks sound like a Jackie
Gleason string seduction session while the other half swings in kinetic “And away we go!” akimbo mode. Mercifully
devoid of his usual annoying vocal mannerisms, this is Raymond’s finest auditory hour. SIZZLING POST-MODERN PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Big D And The Kids Table – Fluent In Stroll
(Side One Dummy) :: Chirpy chicks chirpin’ Linda McCartneyesque backing vocals against a horny horn backing while the
suave Romeo upfront sells you the goods with a punky swagger worthy of a singin’ Stooge in sidewinder Soldier
mode. The first song is called “Doped Up Dollies On A One Way Ticket To Blood,” which tells you all you need to
know about how mentally stable these cool cats are. Add an overflowing side platter of ska slathered with a hot throbbing
organ and you’ve got an album that’s so fulla fun you’ll plotz your pud. Be seeing you!
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