little voice inside my head says,
“don’t look back, you can never look back….”
(or: june 16 — a thumbnail sketch)
posted at 11:15 pm by brandon in tuesdays in the record store with brandon
A plethora of greatest hits collections punctuates this week’s (inexcusably tardy) record store report. Take a look:
They always deserved a great deal more commercial success than they managed to achieve, and this week, Jakob Dylan’s acclaimed ’90s band The Wallflowers receive their first career-spanning best-of set with the new 16-track Collected: 1996-2005. Everything you’d expect to be here is, from the band’s terrific breakthrough smashes “6th Avenue Heartache” (which features a heartbreaking, song-making harmony vocal from head Crow Counter Adam Duritz) and “One Headlight” (which, in retrospect, set a bar of triumph they’d never be able to clear again) to great lesser-known later singles like “Sleepwalker” and “When You’re On Top.” (And if you pick this up at Best Buy, you get a bonus DVD of Wallflowers videos.)
