79: Van Halen – Van Halen

Cover of Van Halen If you've ever been to a local music store guitar solo contest, you know when it comes. You hear the first chord and know you're about to hear yet another sixteen-year-old grind out "Eruption" in hopes of winning the free guitar. No guitar solo contest would be complete without "Eruption" rehashed [...]

80: Gojira – The Way of All Flesh

Cover of The Way of All Flesh Gojira is a more recent discovery for me, but their sound wiped its feet in part of my brain I didn't know I had. I've never heard anything like them until a friend sent me a link to a video of theirs. Gojira's The Way of All Flesh [...]

83: Cake – Fashion Nugget

Cover of Fashion Nugget I find myself quoting songs from Cake's Fashion Nugget (1996) quite a bit. There is something about that album Cake hasn't quite recreated since. Fashion Nugget is a finely crafted album of art rock with poetic vision and catchy pop and rock hooks. It's solid from the opening track, "Frank Sinatra" [...]