I've worked through a fair bit of my earlier memories in terms of music in earlier posts. These "memories" posts are piling up now so I won't back-reference every one, but the “Memories” tab in Categories on the sidebar will direct you to any older ones you may wish to peruse. For today, I'll pick …
Month: September 2021
Album Of The Week – September 27, 2021
Sometimes I don't get to things right away in music. Ok, sometimes I don't get to things right away at all. But hey, this is about the music so let's keep on topic. I've often been very guilty of not checking things out in a timely fashion. It is easier than ever to explore unheard …
The Importance Of Being Idle – Will Oasis Ever Reunite?
It's time to wrap up Oasis week here on The Crooked Wanderer. I've enjoyed going through what I have so far, remembering Definitely Maybe and gifting S-Tier status to Don't Look Back In Anger. I would have loved to write up a discussion of the Knebworth documentary that hit theaters yesterday, but sadly no theater …
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S-Tier Songs, Vol. 3
It's time for the third installment of S-Tier Songs. For an outline of the parameters and a master list of every S-Tier song, head to this page. This week is Oasis week on the blog, a day ahead of the theatrical release of the Knebworth documentary. On that note, my next pick for induction into …
Album Of The Week – September 20, 2021
This weeks marks the theatrical release of the Oasis – Knebworth documentary. It chronicles the two historic nights Oasis played in England at the height of their immense popularity in 1996. So I felt it fitting to make this week Oasis week around here. We'll start with the usual Album Of The Week, and I'll …
My 5 Favorite Songs From The Use Your Illusion Albums
I spent the week paring down the monstrous Use Your Illusion albums from Guns N Roses into one lean, mean fighting disc. Here is Part One and Part Two of that effort, and here you can find the results of my labor. With that out of the way but the topic still fresh in my …
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Use Your Illusion – My Final Cut
This is the pivotal part of my arduous task to cut the Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion albums into one leaner, more epic record. For those posts, check out where I carved up Use Your Illusion I and then over here for Use Your Illusion II. Let's begin with a list of the songs …
Cutting Room Floor – Use Your Illusion II
Yesterday I began the daunting task of turning the two massive Guns N Roses records from 1991, the Use Your Illusion series, into one awesome album. I'm playing with a run time of 70 minutes so that I get a bit of a challenge out of it. Before I get busy on the cutting room …
Cutting Room Floor – Use Your Illusion I
Don't you just love when a band releases a double album? It's two albums' worth of stuff, it has to be twice as good as just one, right? Right? I'm sure good double albums exist that don't need an editor's touch. I'm not sure I'd do anything to The White Album. We now have legacy …
Album Of The Week – September 13, 2021
Programming note – I was unable to post last Friday due to technical difficulties with pictures. That post, which is just a look at my Iron Maiden collection, will come at another time. But this week there will be a post every day of the week. September of 1991 was a watershed month in music …