Blues Brothers - Blues Brothers and Friends: Live from Chicago's House of Blues (A&M, 1997)

Blues Brothers - Blues Brothers and Friends: Live from Chicago's House of Blues
Ol' Belushi curses scab duo from grave. Briefs full, he boos dishonest "brethren."



Notes

1. On this 1997 live release, the late John Belushi is replaced on lead vocals by his younger brother, actor Jim Belushi. 

Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine (Cooking Vinyl, 2012)

Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)
Adam sang covers; tunes ruined! We can't churn out our own shit now. I'm worried!



Notes

1. "After 18 years on the Geffen label, the band have decamped to the much smaller Cooking Vinyl. Surprisingly, it's a move that hasn't fired their creativity. Instead, Duritz and co have delivered a 61-minute, 15-track covers album that doesn't feature a single original composition."  --Irish Independent

John Cale - The Academy in Peril (Reprise, 1972)

John Cale - The Academy in Peril
J.C.: "Pain! Melancholy! I hate Reed!"

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (Columbia, 1973)

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
In the trite, then-recent LP, the new "Boss" fed us thin gruel & feces.

John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Ribbon, 2011)

John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Let's see if Mr. M. rejects his own vacuous tunes. (Some boos help?)



Notes

1. This title was suggested by Acapulco Rodriguez.

New Riders of the Purple Sage - Who Are Those Guys? (MCA, 1977)

New Riders of the Purple Sage - Who Are Those Guys?
We're the Grateful D.'s heroin pushers. Pay...woes go!

Whitehouse - Right to Kill (Come Organisation, 1983)

Whitehouse - Right to Kill (Dedicated To Denis Andrew Nilsen)
"Wild English noise artist liked death. Not on CD!"  --The Wire



Notes

1. "Not on CD": According to the band's website, "Right To Kill was originally released in a very limited number...as it was of a particularly clandestine nature. The label feels that to preserve its original intent is of great importance, despite an obvious desire to be able to widen its availability in the new digital format."
2. Alternative anagram: English white-noise elite wanks to child torture. Added din!
3. Twice is not enough:  London noise-addicts' death rut: "We like it when the girls die."

Bush - Razorblade Suitcase (Trauma Records, 1996)

Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
Our ersatz bile. Bad, as such.

Pavement - Brighten the Corners (Matador, 1997)

Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Reverent hepcats: "Bring them on!"

Mötley Crüe - Live: Entertainment or Death (Mötley, 1999)

Mötley Crüe - Live: Entertainment or Death
Ruint memento! They altered entire vocal.



Notes

1. "They altered entire vocal": According to a reviewer at Metal Sludge, "All the vocals from Perkins Palace, 11/19/82, are touched up. I have a bootlegs of that show and the vocals are totally different than what appears on this album."
2. Alternative anagram: Teetotal Vince Neil? Myth! Atone, murderer!
3. "Teetotal": Our sources inform us that "to curb Vince's drinking, Nikki had the idea of fining band members $25,000 if they were caught drunk on tour. After a show in San Francisco, Vince's taxi driver told Nikki that Vince had been drinking the night before, which caused a fight between Nikki and Vince in the lobby of their hotel."
4. "Murderer": See our anagram for Theatre of Pain.
5. Another version: Tatty murderer Vince Neil: "Oh, let me atone!"

Yes - The Ladder (Eagle Records, 1999)

Yes - The Ladder
They resaddle.

Mick Jagger - She's the Boss (Columbia, 1985)

Mick Jagger - She's the Boss
M.J. cheers. Keith gags, sobs.



Notes

1. According to Wikipedia, "When the Stones signed with CBS Records in 1983, one of the options available to them was for individual projects, and Jagger—ready to turn his back on his friends after recording exclusively with them for 20 years—eagerly began working on She's the Boss....Keith Richards, Jagger's longtime musical partner in the Rolling Stones, was not pleased that Jagger was pursuing solo work, feeling that their band should be each others' first priority."

Elvis Costello - Mighty Like a Rose (Warner Brothers, 1991)

Elvis Costello - Mighty Like a Rose
Logy voice tells his irksome tale.

Glenn Branca - Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses (Atavistic, 2007)

Glenn Branca - Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses
Avant-garde album, man! I entertain scenesters in city lofts.



Notes

1. Alternative anagram: Cage avers I'm a nasty fascist brute in intent. Relent, old man! 
2. As Dan Ruccia explains in his review of this album, "In the middle of July 1982, Glenn Branca had a piece, 'Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses,' performed at the New Music America Festival in Chicago. John Cage was at the performance. The following day Cage had a taped conversation with Wim Mertons [sic] of the Belgian label Les Disques du Crepuscule on Chicago’s Navy Pier, where he basically called Branca a fascist, a quip that gets mentioned to this day any time anything is written about Branca."
3. Another alternative: I give drab NYC scenesters tinnitus at art mall. No mean feat!
4. This title was suggested by Ruth Zeg.

Jackson Browne - Lives in the Balance (Asylum, 1986)

Jackson Browne - Lives in the Balance
"War can kill," notes novice banshee J.B.



Notes

1. On the title track of this hard-hitting political album, Browne takes a long, hard look at U.S. foreign policy and concludes that there are "lives in the balance."

Bob Dylan - Infidels (Columbia, 1983)

Bob Dylan - Infidels

Flabby idol sinned.

Notes

1. As Wikipedia notes, "Infidels is seen as [Dylan's] return to secular music, following a conversion to Christianity."

Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace, 2007)

Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
To me, tedium. Yet to dunces, he's a hero or star!

 

Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! (One Way, 1981)

Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy
We gaze upon cover. Now, we ogle leggy jailbait. O joy! We nearly saw young ochre jugs!

 

Notes

1. "Jailbait": Bow Wow Wow vocalist Annabella Lwin was 14 when she posed for the cover of this album. As Wikipedia notes, "her mother alleged exploitation of a minor for immoral purposes, and instigated a Scotland Yard investigation."