Albums for Eternity with Bottle, the Curmudgeon

Speaking of electro-pop and only trying to impress yourself, here's Billie Eilish and her brother Ferb. Oops, sorry, Finneas, her brother Finneas. This album plays by a different set of rules: 1) Don't Smile At Me, and conversely don't tell me i look prettier when i smile, it's condescending. 2) this is a bedroom EP, so the only valid question is if they did a good job or not. 3) what happens when they make the switch to major label LPs? We can't answer that question unless we listen to 'em, so i bought 'em and we'll do that next.  First though, hey Compy, what did i say about Ms. Bad Guy? Oh, crud, right, i used up all the brain power trying to collapse the Left/Right, he said/she said into a single bottle and all the minion cells went kapoof. Fine, i guess i'll do it myself.  "Musical Xanax ... I like Lorde and Eilish, but you have to admit they are $500 worth of amphetamines away from exciting."  Wowzers, that's harsh. I like them, t

Is it possible to experience 21 pilots without knowing the context of the band? I assume it is, but i can't because i already know the concept. This is a concept band. That's nothing like Mac Sabbath, or Okilly Dokilly, or Hayseed Dixie, who are gimmick bands, it's more like MLWTKK, or SPK, or KMFDM, or Coheed and Cambria, bands with an actual mythos inside which their being a band at all takes place. I suppose they also pair up with bands like Local H or my beloved Carpenters: duos comprised of an instrumentalist and a drummer. Twenty One Pilots has a whole lot of context, more on par with my previously mentioned Kult Kids and C&C comic book factory.  The band exists inside the reference to a play by Arthur Miller. Quick plot synopsis: Joe Keller makes airplane parts, finds out he made a bunch of crappy ones that will probably malfunction during some important part of WWII, and he has to decide if it's more important to recall those parts and spend the money to mak

Part 1  Hello? S? E? G? C? Am i alone in here?! ere? ear?  Oh. I guess i did toasterfy the place, didn't i? What did i expect? I mean, 42, Tears for Fears, Russia invading Ukraine even worse than the last time they invaded Ukraine, finishing the 4th and final book, burying my head in a big sand pit of albums i wasn't going to review, just a complete cataclysm of everything all at once. Way to go, Bottle, 'sploded yourself real good this time. Not even enough shrapnel to wish Carl was here.  It's fine, it had to happen eventually, maybe some records will cheer me up. Ah, at least Target's one disorganized shelf of records is an appropriately sad spectacle. No escaping the shape of that story, it's 21 Pilots. Yep, here's their most recent 6th album, Scaled & Icy. I'm jumping ahead a little bit, but i'm not gonna kill myself, so i guess we'll have to do something after that. Man this selection sucks. I guess the only real option is to do the ful

Tonight we're spinning a truly wonderful birthday present from my in-laws. The best part is i don't even have to put any brain power into the review: Believe it or not, some bands very much do deserve a Greatest Hits album.