speaking of MC Solaar

Somewhere Kurt Cobain remarked that when he was young what he really loved were albums that just had one great song after another, ceaselessly.

There are a number of albums regarded that way by many people: Sgt. Pepper’s is an obvious case (and would be on my short list too). One of the best examples that I don’t actually like very much would be AC DC’s Back in Black: a fairly obnoxious collection that also reminds me of the most obnoxious of my high school classmates, but undeniably jam-packed with music of the highest quality for that particular genre. And of course, Michael Jackson’s Thriller makes a lot of short lists, though I find that I only like a few of the songs.

But if I had to name albums that are nearly impossible for me to stop listening to all the way through once I’ve heard the first track, two immediately come to mind:

*MC Solaar, Prose Combat (never heard anything else like it)

*Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced (Hendrix was a freak of nature: how can anyone be that good on an instrument?)

Which reminds me of the funniest thing ever said by Camille Paglia: “America never needed deconstruction; we had Jimi Hendrix.”