Jerry Harrison’s Casual Gods was a big album for me. I had first heard a few tracks in the movie Something Wild (which to this day is the only Melanie Griffith movie I can watch without being sick) but hadn’t bothered to buy the soundtrack. When a full album came out a few months later [...]
In my experience people either love or hate the Dandy Warhols. Their forays into TV soundtracks attract some folks but they wind up at odds with the early indie fans. The band members themselves don’t always make friends wherever they go (the lead singer of I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House wrote a [...]
Sir Mix-A-Lot wasn’t famous for his ‘big’ song just yet but he was making a name for himself. He had done a version of Iron Man with the original samples but decided to bring on the guys from Metal Church to back him up and play the riffs live on this version. If I recall [...]