I've definately filled my quota for albums this month, as of today. earlier this month I bought the sheer awesomeness that is Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited". if you don't own the album you should go out and buy it right now... seriously I would reccomend it to anyone, there's so much poetry in the lyrics and music and even the album insert was full of beat poetry. Bob Dylan is one of the masters of lyric writing and this is apparant from pretty much the first song, "Like a Rolling Stone", where he talks about some high society girl who lost it all and now is living on the streets like the bums she looked down on all her life and Dylan is basically asking the question "how does it feel?" to be alone, unknown, looked down on, without a home, invisible, and of course like a rolling stone. the rest of the songs are awesome as well of course. Then today I bought The White Stripes first album and "London Calling" by the Clash. I haven't listened to the clash yet, but i just finished the stripes album and it was pretty sweet. definately a lot more raw than their other stuff and definately classified as garage rock (while stuff like "Get Behind Me Satan" was like... I dunno, pretty wierd I guess.). There was a few bluesy covers on the album, "Stop Breaking Down" by Robert Johnson, "St. James Infirmary Blues"(unknown origin, but lots of people have covered it before), and even a Bob Dylan cover "One More Cup of Coffee". then of course there were some awesome Jack White bluesy tunes like "I Fought Piranhas" and "Cannon", and some slightly less bluesy, but equally awesome songs like "The Big Three Killed My Baby" and "Screwdriver". overall I liked it a lot better than any of their other albums I've bought and that's saying something because I really do like the Stripes. I still haven't listened to the clash album, so I unfortunately can't say anything about it, but I've got a feeling it's gonna be good. peace, love, and good vibes.
park ranger
