Album A Day: Dane Cook – Harmful If Swallowed

Artist: Dane Cook Album: Harmful If Swallowed Release Date: July 22, 2003 Dane Cook makes me nuts. He’s not particularly funny once you get past the first couple of jokes, and he mistakes spastic gestures and movements for genuine comedic delivery. There’s also the argument that everything he did as a standup comic, Louis CK [...]

Album A Day: Muse – Black Holes and Revelations

Artist: Muse Album: Black Holes and Revelations Release Date: June 3, 2006 In case you missed it when I reviewed Muse’s new album or when I covered Absolution in this series, I love Muse. Unabashedly. Yes, they are over the top, heavy on the cheese at times, and so ridiculously high-concept it makes 30 Seconds [...]

Album A Day: Pink Floyd – The Wall

Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Wall Release Date: November 30, 1979 Another album that had been sitting in the queue of albums I wanted to include in this project, but kept putting off time and again. And given that this is generally the most stressful week in the lives of college students everywhere (finals week), [...]

Album A Day: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers Album: Blood Sugar Sex Magik Release Date: September 24, 1991 I like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I do. I just can’t for the life of me explain why. Anthony Kiedis sucks as a songwriter; his lyrics are, as a rule, nonsensical or pointless.  Their guitarist du jour is OK, [...]

Album A Day: Jay-Z + Linkin Park – Collision Course

Artist: Jay-Z + Linkin Park Album: Collision Course Release Date: November 30, 2004 Not much to say about this one, other than the fact that it’s a terrific, short burst of songs to play in the background while you and your friends do what college students do on Friday nights. Which is exactly what’s going [...]

Album A Day: Dr. Dre – The Chronic

Artist: Dr. Dre Album: The Chronic Release Date: December 15, 1992 No, this isn’t a joke. I did, in fact, listen to a Dr. Dre album. From start to finish. And you know what? I kinda liked it. There I said it. Not all “gangsta rap” is purely terrible. Offensive? Yeah, maybe. Lyrics about violence [...]

Album A Day: Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy

Artist: Warren Zevon Album: Excitable Boy Release Date: January 18, 1978 I must confess; I hadn’t heard a single song by Warren Zevon until after he died. In fact, the first song I heard was “Keep Me In Your Heart” from his deathbed album The Wind. My roommate Justin lamented earlier this week that Warren [...]

30 Seconds to Mars Set Their Sight On The Heavens, Declare War

After 30 Seconds to Mars’s 2005 hit album A Beautiful Lie was rewarded with a $30 million lawsuit that tied the band up in legal wranglings for four years, an album title like This is War sounds perfectly appropriate. Likewise, it would make sense for 30 Seconds to Mars to spare no expense and waste [...]

Album A Day: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Artist: The Beach Boys Album: Pet Sounds Release Date: May 16, 1966 This album has so much story and mythology behind it that I had to cover it sooner or later. For starters, it’s borne out of my favorite Beatles album ever recorded (Rubber Soul), is in turn considered to be essential listenings by Sir [...]

Album A Day: Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless

Artist: Good Charlotte Album: The Young and the Hopeless Release Date: October 1, 2002 The Young and the Hopeless was an early lesson for me in not judging band’s by their asshole fans. When this album came out in 2002 and “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, I couldn’t have been less of a fan. [...]