Streaming services create an illusion that their catalog includes the entire history of recorded music. Not so fast! Hold that beer! Many amazing albums and songs have never made their way to streaming services. This means that curious listeners and already fans need to find other ways to hear the music. The search can be rewarding, and a reminder that music sounds better on vinyl. This blog focuses on the best we cannot easily find.
When the band began working with Brian Wilson in earnest, it meant the end of their run putting out their own records. They were still around and not around. This is how Wondermints disappeared in plain sight.
How a number of bands and artists came together to envision their future sound for a movie soundtrack in the early 1990s. The result: A timeless album that became a classic.
The Wondermints listening experience creates a sensation of warm sun, cool water, and at times strangely enough, outer space and multiple dimensions.
A college kid falls out of his dormitory building in this cut from Human Sexual Response, but what actually went down during his descent?
How a wordless song from the 1968 Candy movie soundtrack by a band that wasn’t a band may have spelled the end of an era of 60s sunshine pop.
Heartfelt desire spelled out by a longing look on the English countryside as autumn retreats into winter in a spellbinding song by XTC.