Monday, July 25, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #159 - Coasters – The Very Best of the Coasters

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Cult filmmaker John Waters once called the Beatles “those honky Beatles who ruined rock and roll” and while I think that’s absurd (but funn...
Monday, July 18, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #144 – Akira (1988, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo)

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"The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads. There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves."...
Monday, July 11, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #158 - Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy

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Prepare yourself for one of the most complicated and interesting stories in the history of modern popular music. In 1967 an executive from...
Monday, July 4, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #143 – Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz)

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People who know me know me to be fairly cynical. People who know me really well know me to have a sentimental streak a mile wide. If left ...
Monday, June 27, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #157 - Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

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Since Joanna Newsom released her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender in the spring of 2004, she has become a highly divisive figure in popul...
Monday, June 20, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #142 – Bad Boys (1983, dir. Rick Rosenthal)

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Sean Penn is a great actor. A lot of people don’t think he’s a great person, but I don’t care about that. In the early 80s, while the acto...
Monday, June 13, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #156 - Wussy – Wussy

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Maybe you’ve heard (or at least heard of) Cincinnati’s best rock band Wussy but, unfortunately, you probably haven’t. They’ve avoided tang...
Monday, June 6, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #142 – The Fall (2006, dir. Tarsem)

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In 1991, Tarsem directed the most popular and acclaimed music video of its era, R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” and helped catapult the ban...
Monday, May 30, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #155 - Mississippi John Hurt Avalon Blues The Complete 1928 Okeh Sessions

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 This CD (originally released in 1996) contains the entire original recorded output of John Hurt, who, after recording these sessions (most...
Monday, May 23, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #141 - The Man Who Would Be King (1975, dir. John Huston)

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John Huston’s 1975 adventure tale almost defies description. It so filled with important themes (power corrupts absolutely, British imperi...
Monday, May 16, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #154 - Ween – Quebec

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Ween released Quebec in August of 2003, when I first worked at Manifest Discs & Tapes in Greenville, South Carolina. At that time, Ma...
Monday, May 9, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #140 - Multiplicity (1996, dir. Harold Ramis)

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Doug 2 (talking on the phone with Doug 1) “Who the hell is this?” Doug 1 “It’s me, it’s you know, it’s you, it’s us. You know who it is”...
Monday, May 2, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #153 - Amy Rigby – 18 Again

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Have you heard of Amy Rigby? If so, you’re in a rare 1% - probably less, actually - of discerning rock music listeners of the late 1990s. ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #139 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986, dir. Tobe Hooper)

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In 1974, director Tobe Hooper released The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , a nightmarish and intense horror film about a family of murderous ca...