Spinning Platters Picks Six: Albums That Were Pulled Before Release

In the year 2001, I was working at a Wherehouse Music in the Financial District of San Francisco, CA. During this time period, we received regular visits from representatives from major record labels who would drop off advance CD’s of the upcoming new releases. Mid-Summer, we got a record called In Search Of… by a band called N*E*R*D. This was a side project of popular producers The Neptunes, with Neptune Pharrell Williams handling all of the lead vocals. Yes, there was a time when people didn’t know who Pharrell Willams was! Continue reading “Spinning Platters Picks Six: Albums That Were Pulled Before Release”

Album Review: Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications

Further Complications sounds more like a midlife crisis than a record.  There are a couple of great classic Jarvis songs, some really good lyrics, and some really awful hard rock music.  I was nervous to hear that Jarvis Cocker was working with producer Steve Albini and my nervousness was founded.  There is some Jarvis left in there somewhere, but on some songs the vocals are mixed so low you can barely make out the lyrics; and what is the point of that when you are listening to a record from one of the world’s greatest lyricists!?!

Great cover = mediocre content
Great cover = mediocre content

Further Complications indeed. Continue reading “Album Review: Jarvis Cocker — Further Complications”