ALLMUSIC – 2009-2010
Beast has a website, www.bobyeazel.com/Beast.htm , but scarcely any mention at all on Allmusic and nothing yet on Wikipedia.
(December 2009)
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While Allmusichas considerable information on her, Wikipedia does not have so much as a stub on Wendy Waldman, a talented and experimental singer/songwriter who has released several well-regarded albums beginning in the 1970’s.
Until I created a short article a couple of months ago, Cindy Bullens would have a natural choice as an Under-Appreciated Rock Artist of the Month, since she had also languished without any Wikipedia recognition. Her 1978 debut album, Desire Wire is one of the great lost rock albums of the 1970’s – and that is Allmusic’s opinion as well as mine.
(January 2010)
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In most places, bands formed and kept a stable line-up for years, sometimes decades; but in Cleveland, musicians were constantly being lured from one band to another in order to get the freshest sound and keep the locals’ respect. Nowhere was this truer than with the Choir: Allmusic referred to the large number of fine musicians who went through “the Choir turnstile”.
(February 2010)
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Allmusichas even less: “Bang was a rock trio from Florida led by singer Frank Ferrera that charted with its self-titled debut album and the single ‘Questions’ in 1972.”
(March 2010)
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There is a little more on Waterlillies now than there was when I first considered them for a monthly piece, but there is still only a stub in both Wikipedia and Allmusic now. A diligent search in Allmusic will even bring up a fairly lengthy though back-handed review (by Rick Anderson) of Tempted; while allowing that they “subversive[ly]” go beyond the typical electronic formula and granting the album four stars, the review closes by calling the album “a borderline essential album of basically inconsequential music”.
(June 2010)
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Predictably, despite what the liner notes in What? Stuff describe as the “all-star lineup” of the Eyes, Wikipedia has nothing about them. In Allmusic and also in Wikipedia, there is a short article on a mid-1960’s Mod band from London called the Eyes, along with references to several other bands of that name; of the punk band the Eyes though, there is nothing at all, except that the cover for one of their 45’s is mistakenly included on the Mod band’s Allmusic page.
(July 2010)
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Speaking of under-appreciated, the article on the Beatles album Magical Mystery Tour is short and fairly well hidden on the Allmusic website, but there is a long dissertation on the curious song “I Am the Walrus” from that album/film. There is a listing for Queen Anne’s Lace on Allmusic, but with hardly any info.
(August 2010)
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The entry in Allmusic (by Chris True) for the band Slovenly starts off: “Loved by those who were lucky to hear them”.
Following their move to the well-regarded SST Records label, their second album, Thinking of Empire is described (by Patrick Foster) in Allmusic as a “flowering of art-punk influences and California punk mindset that is one of the great lost classics of the 1980’s”.
(November 2010)
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The comprehensive website Allmusic (specifically, Mark Deming) says of the Poppees: “[T]hey lasted just long enough to provide a link from the first stirrings of the power pop movement to the dawn of New York’s New Wave scene.”
(December 2010)
