Name: Kevin
Email: drkmiller@mediaone.net
Location: Lomita, California, USA
 
1. Wonderful World Of The Wondermints
2. Odds & Sods The Who
3. Yes Yes
4. Author Unknown Jason Falkner
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
(Soundtrack) Angelo Badalamenti
6.Cabaret Manana Esquivel


Comments: Wonderful World of Wondermints is a great collection of obscure pop covers and one great original. The Wondermints are fantastic and have given me
hope that good pop music can still be made today. I also recommend their other albums of original material also.

I bought Odds & Sods on vinyl years ago and I see that the CD has even more tracks (like double!) on it that my American version didn't have (Americans are notorious for making 2 shorter albums out of one normal album and trying to make more profit). I had some of those extra songs on bootleg vinyl (Who's Zoo). More rare stuff makes even a better experience! I only really liked the Who during their early days to the early 1970's, especially their live stuff and this album typifies that sound for the most part. Real nice pop tunes on this album that a lot of people haven't heard before.

A great album by a really cool guy who should be way more popular than he is. Jason did all the instruments and vocals too. He was in Jellyfish (one of my favorite bands) the Grays and the 3 o'clock also, all whose albums I recommend listening to.

Before they made 10+ minute musical excursions, Yes was a jazzy, psychadelic, poppy English band. Their first albums are nice little classics worth listening to. They even do a cool Beatles cover on their eponymous album.


I don't know if this one is really a pop album, but it grooves in a film
noir way and it is usually addictive because of that. David Lynch made a cool TV series and a wild movie prequal and the music is "lounge-pop" at its finest. Fix yourself a dry martini before you listen to this one.

Esquivel is (I think he's still alive and living in Mexico) a band leader whose style was labeled "space age bachelor" because he used a lot of stereophonic effects & wild vocalizations. He is definitely worth checking out. I don't find a lot of his music on the internet though.

Odds & Sods The Who

1. I'm The Face
2. Leaving Here
3. Baby Don't You Do It
4. Summertime Blues
5. Under My Thumb
6. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hands
7. My Way
8. Faith In Something Bigger
9. Glow Girl
10. Little Billy
11. Young Man Blues (Studio Version)
12. Cousin Kevin Model Child
13. Love Ain't For Keeping
14. Pure And Easy
15. Too Much Of Anything
16. Long Live Rock
17. Put The Money Down
18. We Close Tonight
19. Postcard
20. Now I'm A Farmer
21. Water
22. Naked Eye