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Archive for January, 2010
ZZ Top: La Grange
Well, I know this song pretty well, and know ZZ Top wrote and sing it, but what I didn’t know were the names of the three members of ZZ Top. I know of their beards (how is one able to sleep with such long facial hair), their tendency to always wear sunglasses in public [...]
The Yardbirds: Smokestack Lightning
The Yardbirds started the careers of three of the most influential guitarists of all time, namely Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. The trio never shared the stage together (what a super-group that would have been), though Beck and Page did combine to play a lead guitar duo for a brief stint [...]
The XX: Intro
The XX are a band on the rise, emerging from Southwest London, and categorized as dreamlike-Indie-Pop. The whispery trance-like songs on their debut album, “XX” are not really my cup of tea, they remind me of certain Moby songs, if played at half speed. But as I compile A Track A Day’s [...]
The White Stripes: Suzy Lee / We’re Going to be Friends
This is one of the few ‘love’ songs by Jack White of The White Stripes. Suzy Lee is heavily influenced by early Blues music, and you could almost imagine Led Zeppelin creating this song in the late 60’s… yes, this is the era this song belongs to. The White Stripes, a duo [...]
The Vines: Sun Child
In the early 2000’s, The Vines, along with fellow contemporaries such as The Strokes, The Hives, The White Stripes are regarded as bringing back Rock music to the mainstream audience, after the period of 90’s alternative and grunge music that plagued the airwaves. Much of The Vines early work has been compared to [...]
Uncle Tupelo: We’ve Been Had
hat is this – Led Zeppelin goes country? The bass in this song is strikingly familiar to the bass line of Zeppelin’s “House of the Holy”, and that is probably why I was able to listen beyond the first minute of this alt-country-rock song from Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo are not that [...]
Travis: Sing
Travis raged onto the UK music scene when their gritty debut album “Good Feeling” was released in 1997. Travis were previously named “Glass Onion”, after the Lennon/McCartney song on The Beatles White Album, but this was before lead singer and songwriter Fran Healy was a member. Healy joined the bad in 1991, [...]
