Rachel Anderson, Author at Kittysneezes

Review: They Might Be Giants – Join Us

On July 20, 2011 by Rachel Anderson

I want to like this album more. This album makes me want to like it more. Join Us is an excitable album. It jumps up, bounces around the room, and says, “Hey! Look what I can do! I’m everything you could possibly…

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Forgotten Records: Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club – English Garden

On July 18, 2011 by Rachel Anderson

Cover of English Garden Is it really a trivia question when everyone and their grandmother knows the answer? If the question is “What was the first video played on MTV?” I would have to say the answer is no.[1] Babies fresh from the…

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Frustration

On May 18, 2011 by Rachel Anderson

Image by Andk1987 via Flickr A blank sheet of paper, and a stubby pencil were all he had at this point. He should have brought a spare pencil. Didn’t his mother, or his teacher, or someone say something about space pencils? There…

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The Hangover Lunch of the Gods

On April 29, 2011 by Rachel Anderson

Image by panduh via Flickr How many times has this happened to you? You go out in the middle of the work week, mostly because of a social obligation. Maybe your friend is performing, and it’s at a bar, and hell, you’re…

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Review: The Human League – Credo

On March 23, 2011 by Rachel Anderson

In the last few years, the music world has seen comebacks by a number of bands and artists often categorized, not terribly accurately, as “80’s” music. The covers a varied lists of acts like The B-52’s, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Gang…

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Review: Content

On January 21, 2011 by Rachel Anderson

It’s been 16 years since Gang of Four released an album of new material, and a good 28 years since what is considered to be their last good album, 1983’s Hard. They did put out a couple albums in the early 90s,…

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Forgotten Records: The Wipeouters – P’Twaaang!

On October 5, 2010 by Rachel Anderson

With the recent release of DEVO’s new album, Something for Everybody, it’s important not to lose sight of that two decade gap when new DEVO material was rarer than diamond encrusted, gold plated diamonds. In 2001, however, there was a slight glint…

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Forgotten Records: The Akron Compilation

On September 7, 2010 by Rachel Anderson

If there was any period in music I wish I had been around for, I would have to pick the period from 1975 to 1985. Though, I technically was around for the last two years of that grouping, I was far too…

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On the DEVO Song Study [Now With Song Streams!]

On April 14, 2010 by Rachel Anderson

Image by SansPoint via Flickr Recently, DEVO, along with Warner Brothers, has deigned to give us listeners a chance to help them decide which twelve songs out of sixteen should go on the first new DEVO record in twenty years. This is…

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Review: Strange Overtones

On August 6, 2008 by Rachel Anderson

Cover via Amazon [Download Single] I’m very anal about how I organize my music. It’s a simple system: Albums are organized by artist, and by date of release. If an album is by a artist with a proper name, say, David Byrne,…

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