(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 15: Horror Hiatus (A New Definition Shuffle)

9/22/2024 UPDATE: Don’t ask me how, but in my bleary, exhausted attempt to get Episode 16 out on time, I somehow wrote over Episode 16’s post instead of simply copying the post and using it as a template. So the TL;DR version: for the rest of September and probably most of October I will be participating in the annual Hooptober Horror Marathon, watching and writing reviews for 34 horror films based on a number of rules and criteria that change each marathon. Yo can see my list and the rules that built it here, and follow along over at Cinema Dual. In the meantime I’ll still be getting these playlists out, and will try to do a few capsule reviews in the meantime.

We’ll be back to normal programming in November!

ChrisSeptember 14, 2024September 22, 2024Leave a comment

Vinyl

ZZ Top: ZZ Top’s First Album (1971)

Day 20 of the #mayvinylchallenge asks for an unpopular album by a popular band. It’s crazy that as popular as ZZ Top, are there’s not a lot of talk about their debut, wonderfully titled ZZ Top’s First Album, as if they were certain there would be more. One listen to that singular guitar tone and I can understand why. There may not have been a huge hit on the album (their second, Rio Grande Mud, would kick off with “Francine” and “Just Got Paid”) but you can already hear that Gibbons’s tone is there, and the rough and tumble electric blues they would come to dominate for decades was fleshed out if not fully formed from a songwriting perspective from the get-go.

ChrisMay 22, 2022Leave a comment

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 15: Horror Hiatus (A New Definition Shuffle)

ZZ Top: ZZ Top’s First Album (1971)