Immensely popular (in Australia) debut platter from Beach-Boys-down-under features light hooks and catchy riffs with just a hint of the darkness to come. Highlights include the singles "Downhearted" and "Beautiful People", but James Reyne's automobile accident-inspired "Indisposed" is the strongest suggestion of what lay below the surface on these delicate pop structures. Boys remained on the Aussie pop charts for 104 weeks and 36 minutes. ~ Tomas Mureika, All Music Guide

CD $16.13

A double-disc set released for the holiday season of 2000, The Essential Bob Dylan is a fine choice for the casual listener who just wants all the songs they know on one collection -- it's Dylan's equivalent of Beatles 1. Outside of the remastering and the previously non-LP (and very good) "Things Have Changed," there's nothing here for collectors, but, then again, that's not who this was designed for. This collection is for the listener who wants "Blowin' in the Wind," {&"Like a Rolling Sto...   [ read more ]

CD $26.58

The doom rock card, the lounge jazz card, and the slow crawl card have all been played by various reviewers to describe Bohren & der Club of Gore's unique form of instrumental music. None of them has ever truly fit the band, and now even less than ever with Geisterfaust (Ghost Fist), their fourth effort, released three years after Black Earth. Even slower and more stripped down than before, the music loses its doom-laden atmosphere and becomes something eerily similar to {$the Necks...   [ read more ]

CD $17.08