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1990 – SIRE
Produced By ANDY PALEY, JOHN WESLEY HARDING & TOM ROBINSON

1. Here Comes The Groom
2. Cathy’s New Clown
3. Spaced Cowgirl
4. Scared Of Guns
5. You’re No Good
6. When The Sun Comes Up
7. The Devil In Me
8. An Audience With You
9. Dark Dark Heart
10. Same Thing Twice
11. Affairs Of The Heart
12. Nothing I’d Rather Do
13. Things Snowball
14. The Red Rose And The Briar
15. Bastard Son

Lost in the rush of albums that came out in the nineties was one of the very first, Here Comes The Groom, released on January 5th of 1990. John Wesley Harding was really Englishman Wesley Stace. He caught a lot of flack for using not just the name from the famous Bob Dylan album, but for also the main line in his song “Bastard Son”, which stated “Bob Dylan was my father, Joan Baez was my mother, and I’m their bastard son”. He didn’t mean it literally, guys. But for whatever reason, this, his first studio album, was buried in the sea of the nineties. Which is a shame, because this is a pretty terrific album. Harding’s band, the Good Liars, included two of Elvis Costello’s Attractions, which may be why it has such a Costello feel to it. But what makes this such a fine record is the songwriting. Musically and lyrically, this is one hell of a sharp, catchy and intelligent gem.

Harding reels off one great song after another, many of which rock gleefully. “Scared Of Guns”, “Cathy’s New Clown”, the fine title track…why was this not a hit in 1990? Well, it should have been. Hooks and high points are everywhere, including a perfect acoustic duet with Peter Case (“Things Snowball”), the burning “Dark, Dark Heart”, touches of country, smart ballads, great lyrics. Harding’s upfront vocals suit the material well, and this band is really good. Stace started recording under his real name in 2013, and he’s released several sadly unnoticed discs over what is now 30 plus years. He’s also written four novels as Wesley Stace. If you can find it (it shouldn’t be too hard these days), check out Here Comes The Groom. This should have been the first hit album of the nineties. Unfortunately, it was not. Fortunately, it’s still out there, waiting to be heard.
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1990
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1993-REPRISE
Produced By FRANK FILIPETTI

1. I Don't Know
2. You Hold The Key
3. Dance With Me Slow
4. Say It To Me Now
5. When I Feel This Way
6. Rage On Rage
7. Only So Many Tears
8. In The Time It Takes
9. You Say You Will
10. The Moment You Were Mine
11. Faithful Heart
12. Dancer To The Drum

Beth Nielsen Chapman is known primarily for two things. She replaced Tommy Shaw in the band Harmony when Shaw left to join Styx. And her songs are much better, and have been more successful, in the hands of other artists. Having written many hits for mostly country artists, Chapman's own recordings are straight Adult Contemporary...in other words, pretty boring. You Hold The Key is her second album, and it's about as inoffensive, slick and forgettable as AC gets. She has a nice voice, but not a spectacular one. The songs are weighed down with AC keyboards, and there are too many ballads. "You Say You Will" is the highlight, a song where she drops the schmooze and sounds a lot like Bonnie Raitt. The best known song from this is "In The Time It Takes"...a duet with Paul Carrack.

Better left alone. Unless you're trying to read yourself to sleep with background noise.
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1993
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2009
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1,820
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1994 – SUGAR HILL
Produced By GARRY VELLETRI

1. Think It Over One Time
2. Tom Ames’ Prayer
3. Gringo Honeymoon
4. The Raven And The Coyote
5. Lonely Feeling
6. Merry Christmas From The Family
7. Barbeque
8. Lynnville Train
9. I’m Coming Home
10. Dreadful Selfish Crime

Robert Earl Keen should be designated as a national treasure. What a great songwriter he is, and if you listen to alt country at all, you know that voice anywhere. Gringo Honeymoon is Keen’s fourth album. It‘s his last on Sugar Hill Records, and the last before he started to become well known. Actually, his song “The Road Goes On Forever” had been recorded by Joe Ely the year before…and word of his songs was spreading across Nashville and Austin. Gringo Honeymoon is loaded with such great songs that were not big hits, but should have been. And the musicians on this record are so good. Steel player Tommy Spurlock and guitarist Gurf Morlix. Springsteen’s longtime bassist Garry Tallent. And backup singers that include Gillian Welch and the great Dennis Locorriere. And then there are the songs.

“Think It Over One Time” and “Gringo Honeymoon” have become alt country must haves. “I’m Coming Home” is just a thing of beauty. His sense of humor explodes on maybe the greatest trailer park holiday song of all time, “Merry Christmas From The Family”. He expertly covers Steve Earle’s “Tom Ames’ Prayer”. And the closer, “Dreadful Selfish Crime” is so good, you’ll want to play the whole album one more time just to hear it again. What an overlooked classic this record is. Keen called it a day in 2022, but he’s left a truly impressive body of work that will stand for years to come. So many great songs, by himself and others. Some really terrific studio albums, and quite a few live ones too. Robert Earl Keen is one of the greats. More people should know about that. Without question.
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1994
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1979 – ARISTA
Produced By JACK NITZSCHE

1. Discovering Japan
2. Local Girls
3. Nobody Hurts You
4. You Can’t Be Too Strong
5. Passion Is No Ordinary Word
6. Saturday Night Is Dead
7. Love gets You Twisted
8. Protection
9. Waiting For The UFO’s
10. Don’t Get Excited

In the late seventies, there were three angry young musicians who emerged from the ashes of punk. One was Elvis Costello. The second was Joe Jackson. And then there was Graham Parker. Squeezing Out Sparks, his fourth album, was a departure from his previous soul sound. Bringing in guitarist Brinsley Schwartz, this record was edgier and focused on Parker’s almost dangerous sounding vocals. It was, unfortunately, not as big of a hit as Costello’s My Aim Is True or Jackson’s Look Sharp. But this is a fine album by parker, maybe the high point of his career. Parker figured out very quickly how to sneer his way through a set of songs, and it works quite well. You know you’re in for a good time at about the halfway point of “Discovering Japan”, and it rarely lets up from there. A Couple of tracks don’t quite fit the setting, but for the most part, it’s right on the mark.

“Discovering Japan” was a single, as were “Protection” and “Local Girls”. But you also get songs like the fine “Nobody Hurts You” and “Saturday Nite Is Dead”, sneering shots of don’t really give a shit rock and roll. Schwartz plays a stinging guitar throughout to complement Parker’s acidic singing, but best of all, on most tracks, they never lose sight of the pop allure of these songs. Hooks are seemingly everywhere, and they take good advantage of them. It’s not perfect…songs like “Waiting For The UFO’s and the ballad “You Can’t Be Too Strong” don’t quite seem to fit. But overall, this album is a lost almost classic from the end of the seventies. If you’re a fan of Elvis and Joe, then you’ll love Squeezing Out Sparks. It could have been, and should have been, much bigger than it was.
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1979
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1993 – PARLOPHONE
Produced By PAUL MCCARTNEY

1. Drive My Car
2. Let Me Roll It
3. Looking For Changes
4. Peace In The Neighbourhood
5. All My Loving
6. Robbie’s Bit (Thanks Chet)
7. Good Rockin’ Tonight
8. We Can Work It Out
9. Hope Of Deliverance
10. Michelle
11. Biker Like An Icon
12. Here, There And Everywhere
13. My Love
14. Magical Mystery Tour
15. C’Mon People
16. Lady Madonna
17. Paperback Writer
18. Penny Lane
19. Live And Let Die
20. Kansas City
21. Welcome To Soundcheck
22. Hotel In Benidorm
23. I Wanna Be Your Man
24. A Fine Day

When The Beatles broke up in 1970, we all began waiting for that first really great Paul McCartney solo album. Nearly 50 years later, it’s pretty safe to say that it’s never going to come. But bless Paul for continuing to try, and for continuing to tour relentlessly. The result of his touring is that there are plenty of live albums to choose from. Paul Is Live was snatched off of his New World Tour in 1993, and because that tour was in support of his album from the same year, Off The Ground, this disc is immediately grounded in dull material from that album. It’s peppered with lesser tracks like “Peace In The Neighbourhood”, “Hope Of Deliverance” and “Biker Like An Icon”, one of those maddening songs that Paul was convinced was a major hit.

The band here, which includes his wife Linda, is a transitional one. Post Wings, and before his current solid band led by drummer Abe Laboriel Jr., this band is serviceable but bland. McCartney relies unusually heavily on Beatles material (almost half of the songs are from that period), and much less on his better solo songs. The results come down to this: Paul Is Live is, if you must have a McCartney live album, not the one to have. For the earlier years, you’ll want Wings Over America, and for his later period, Back In The USA will do nicely. The most interesting thing about Paul Is Live is the video (sold separately), which features graphic animal abuse footage (the McCartneys were big into animal rights). That, and the album cover, which updates Abbey Road and takes aim at the whole “Paul Is Dead” circus from the 60’s. Otherwise, you may want to pass on this one.
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1993
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1975
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1,063
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1995
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1969-STRAIGHT
Produced By FRANK ZAPPA

1. Frownland
2. The Dust Blows Forward ‘N The Dust Blows Back
3. Dachau Blues
4. Ella Guru
5. Hair Pie: Bake 1
6. Moonlight On Vermont
7. Pachuco Cadaver
8. Bills Corpse
9. Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
11. China Pig
12. My Human Gets Me Blues
13. Dali’s Car
14. Hair Pie: Bake 2
15. Pena
16. Well
17. When Big Joan Sets Up
18. Fallin’ Ditch
19. Sugar ‘N Spikes
20. Ant Man Bee
21. Orange Claw Hammer
22. Wild Life
23. She’s Too Much For My Mirror
24. Hobo Chang Ba
25. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)
26. Steal Softly Thru Snow
27. Old Fart At Play
28. Veteran’s Day Poppy

One of the great debates in music is the importance of Trout Mask Replica: is it one of the greatest albums ever made, or is it simply a complete pile of rubbish? Listening casually may cause you to think the latter…but serious and closer inspections might just win you over. Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) was a high school friend of Frank Zappa, who gave him free studio reign in 1968 after 2 failed albums. The results are stunning, and on a par with (and at times, even better than) Zappa’s best early experimental work. Make no mistake: Trout Mask Replica is nowhere near the mainstream, and it’s nothing you could ever call normal. In Beefhearts own words, this album can be maybe best decribed as “fast and bulbous”.

There are times when things just sound like disjointed noise. Then you suddenly realize that the music has morphed into something beautiful like “Pachuco Cadaver”. Crazy ramblings turn into amazing jams, and Beefheart goes from nut job to genius in less than a song. Zappa put his name on this for a reason… this is a stunning piece of work, and as a whole, makes more sense than any single part should. Beefheart never got close to repeating the genius of this album, and was done recording altogether by 1983. But he did get it all right one time, which is good enough. One of the most accurate album reviews ever written said simply this: “Forty plus years later, Trout Mask Replica still sounds as if it was made tomorrow”. Amen to that.
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1969
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[First added to this chart: 03/11/2026]
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1994
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