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Capsule review: Mudhoney - My brother the cow (1995)

Great unheralded rock and roll record. You knew they had it in 'em. Bonus track is the entire record backwards.

Capsule review: Mudhoney - Piece of cake (1992)

Imagine if Neil Young had toured with these guys instead of Sonic Youth. Sleeps With Angels would've been 12 'Piece of crap''s.

Capsule review: Morphine - Good (1993)

If only more records were titled so self descriptively. Apart from this one, Michael Jackson's Bad and Tom Petty's Mediocre, it's a trend that never caught on. Sandman is a barroom zen philosopher. Life is empty but the glass is half full. The tunes would get better, but the mood is set.

Capsule review: Van Morrison - Veedon fleece (1974)

Communing with a wood spirit on sunday morning. Van directly plugged into the bucolic subconscious. Cultivates small wheatfield on his head.

Capsule review: Van Morrison - Bang masters (1967, 1991 released)

Van's the train conductor of rock, always showing up to remind us we've not nearly paid enough to be on this ride. Also would soon morph into (briefly) the Marcel Proust of guitar strummers. All of which raises the question if Proust had been a train conductor instead of a hypochondriac, would he have found the lost time between Brussels North and Central Station?
Here he's on the cusp and what a messy, thrilling place to be. Between 'Brown eyed girl' and 'T.B. sheets'.

Capsule review: Joni Mitchell - Dog eat dog (1985)

Different times, but it's still a little sickening to hear those cavernous Wall Street drums and a singer lamenting Ethiopia. Hey singer, you're part of the military-industrial complex now.

Capsule review: Joni Mitchell - Wild things run fast (1982)

Wild things run fast, unlike this record. I tried throwing it out several times but it doesn't fly any faster than other records.