The Rewind Button – Final five album extravaganza wrap up!
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) It’s 2013 and I have five albums left to review. I promised myself that, if 2012 was a year of retro music for me, 2013 would see me return to today’s music. I’m a...
The Rewind Button – David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) There are many pitfalls to the concept album. The first and greatest is the possibility that people just won’t get it. Then comes the fear that they get it, but don’t identify with it. ...
The Rewind Button – The Band, Music From Big Pink
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) I want to like Music From Big Pink. Heck, I want to like all of the albums on this list. So many respected musicians and music aficionados contributed to the rankings that I generally...
The Rewind Button – Ramones, Ramones
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) In July, I was on a booze cruise in English Bay, sipping a Corona on the starboard bow and watching the million dollar mansions of West Van bounce up and down with every wave....
The Rewind Button – The Rolling Stones, Let it bleed
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) There’s some irony to the fact that the opening track on Let it Bleed, Gimme Shelter, is comforting to me. As a guitar lover, the first 50 seconds of Gimme Shelter is one of...
The Rewind Button – Bob Dylan, Bringing it all back home
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) Sometimes, the better you get to know someone the greater your appreciation grows. Sometimes the opposite is true. Bringing it all back home is Dylan’s fourth entry on Rolling Stone’s greatest albums list. It...
The Rewind Button – Joni Mitchell, Blue
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) Good lord, can you hear the steel wheels of the train screeching? Can you hear the rails groaning under the immense pressure of this locomotive coming right off the tracks? What manner of madness...
The Rewind Button, Led Zeppelin, ‘Led Zeppelin’
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) It was 1994 and my musical mind couldn’t possibly handle any more revelations. This was back in the days when the internet was nothing more than a bunch of databases and Hotmail was the...
The Rewind Button – The Who, Who’s Next
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) And then there were three. When we started the Rewind Button, we had a baker’s dozen bloggers dedicated to reviewing the 40 greatest albums of all time according to Rolling Stone. We made it...
The Rewind Button – U2, The Joshua Tree
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) Every game night in Vancouver, the Canucks skate onto the ice to the tune of Where the streets have no name. If you read the lyrics to this song, they have absolutely nothing to...
The Rewind Button – Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) Something happened when I started playing Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours for this review, a watershed moment of sorts for me. For the first time I felt like I was no longer passively listening to an...
The Rewind Button – James Brown, Live at the Apollo
(The Rewind Button is a group blogging project. Every week we review an album from Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest albums list.) There’s something about the way James Brown Live at the Apollo begins, with the double introduction followed by James screaming “You know I feel alright!”, that immediately takes you right inside the Apollo theatre...
