Agony Shorthand


Friday, February 03, 2006
AGONY SHORTHAND MID-WINTER BREAK........



It was three years ago Sunday that I got wind of the blogging phenomenon & decided on a whim to post my own music-based rants and half-formed opinions. In commemoration, I’d like to take a couple weeks to stop the madness & lay low. In the meantime, here’s a selection of things that were written about over the past 36 months:

THE FORGOTTEN CLASSICS OF 1980s GARAGE
TOP TWELVE 45s FROM THE FOURTH WAVE OF PUNK
ICKY BOYFRIENDS
SKIP SPENCE
SCRATCH ACID
THE CONTROLLERS
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
COME
2005'S WORST ALBUM BY THE BEST BAND
WILLIE BROWN
THE BRENTWOODS
SEEMS TWICE
THE DOOR AND THE WINDOW
HAIR POLICE
CRIME
THE WARLOCKS
JOHN COLTRANE
CHRIS D. & THE DIVINE HORSEMEN
THE INTELLIGENCE
SYD BARRETT
MIDNIGHT CIRCUS
THE DICKENS
RAMONES
NATHANIEL MAYER
MECHT MENSCH vs. URBAN WASTE