Released after his first flush of 1970s fame had died down but before his revival as curmudgeonly elder statesman, George Carlin's ingenious 1981 LP, A PLACE FOR MY STUFF, plays like a demented television program. Carlin's standup is broken...
Personnel: Michael Prophet; Bo Pee, Adan Bassford (guitar); Dean Fraser (saxophone); Nambo Robinson (trombone); Gladdie Anderson (piano); Style Scott, Santa Davis (drums); Sky Juice, Skully (percussion).
The cover on this one tells you pretty much all you need to know about the dominant subject material here -- drugs. The beginning of the album dwells fairly directly on the subject (you'll never look at the Seven Dwarves the same way again)...
Simply put, Michael Schenker's Doctor Doctor is a covers album. It features his own backing band with notable vocalists and instrumentalists like Paul Di'Anno, Sebastian Bach, Joe Lynn Turner, Leslie West, Tommy Shaw, and others. The sound ...
Photographer: Andy Earl.Songs about matters of the heart are Michael McDonald's bread and butter. In fact, the word "heart" is used several times on this and other McDonald releases (another of the artist's favorite words is "fool," whic...
Two months after the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, and still fresh from a spate of memorials and celebrations to his genius, Universal Motown began releasing a series of download "suites" (remixed versions of classic MJ and Jackson 5 t...
Originally intended as a chronicle of Michael Jackson's possible reascension to the pop king throne by way of a massive 50-date tour, the documentary THIS IS IT became something much different when Jackson suddenly died mere weeks before it...
Appearing just eight years after IN THE SPIRIT: A CHRISTMAS ALBUM, THIS CHRISTMAS recycles a heavy chunk of that 2001 holiday affair, repeating "White Christmas/Winter Wonderland," "Peace," "On This Night," and "Children Go Where We Send Th...
Personnel: Michael Hedges (vocals, various instruments); Michael Manring (fretless bass).ORACLE won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.Michael Hedges's Grammy-winning 1996 release contains the lush guitar lines, absorbing me...
Personnel: Michael Hurley (vocals, guitar, viola, Wurlitzer piano); Dan Littleton (vocals, guitar); Karla Shickele (vocals); Jean Cook (violin).Michael Hurley's 2009 album IDA CON SNOCK continued to cement his standing as an elder states...