Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium

Genre
Progressive
Post hardcore


year: 2003 - review: Its only real flaw is that it exists as one complete listening experience rather than a collection of songs and it's easy to lose track of where they begin and end. The variety in each song is such that it cancels out the variety in the record as a whole. This doesn't detract wholly from the album, although it makes the emotional accompaniment far more memorable than the sounds themselves. However, it's a minor fault in a majorly impressive record. For the most part, 'Deloused In The Comatorium' is truly exquisite and well worth the wait.

Talking Heads - Little Creatures

Genre
Album Rock
College Rock


year: 85 - review: The overall result: ear candy. Little Creatures was a pop album, and an accomplished one, by a band that knew what it was doing. True, Byrne's lyrics were still intriguingly quirky, but even his subject matter was becoming more mature. "I've seen sex and I think it's okay," he sang on "Creatures of Love," and suddenly the geek had become a man. Where he had once pondered the hopes of boys and girls, he was now making observations about children. And even if his impulses remained strange -- "I wanna make him stay up all night," he declared about a baby (presumably not his own) in "Stay Up Late" -- he retained his charm and inventiveness. Little Creatures was, in a sense, Talking Heads lite. It was hard to think of this as the same band that produced "Psycho Killer." But for the band's expanding audience, who made this their second platinum album, that was okay. And their popularity was being accomplished with no diminution in their creativity.