Video of the Week: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Xmas Is You”

I’m not dead….not yet in any case, though as a cylon I cannot die……..
Our internet here at the dragon’s lair has been on the fritz for the past week and the cable co. won’t come to fix it ’til after Xmas!  so that’s why I’ve been absent (for those 2 people who missed me).  There’s [...]

At The Half-way Point: Best/Worst Music

Oh music.
Contrary to how it may seem by reading this blog, I’m more interested in music than movies or TV. The problem this year–as opposed to every other year–is that 2009 just hasn’t given me much music worth talking or getting excited about!  Which is a shame, really.  I don’t even have enough to make a [...]

The Now Lists: Best Opening Tracks To An Album

As you know, we here at the Dragon Lair love a good list every now and then, and since we haven’t done one in a while and seeing how we’ve been posting a bit much about movies lately, it feels right to bring the attention back to music and this particular subject.
It would appear to us [...]

Quality Assessment: Abnormally Attracted To Sin

Lots of people celebrated Tori Amos’ last release: AMERICAN DOLL POSSE because it gave us back warrior-woman Tori, who has been MIA since (officially) STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS but technically TO VENUS AND BACK. On the other hand there were those who hated the record for being *too* all over the place and a bit un-focused.  [...]

Report Card: Tori Amos

To celebrate the release of Tori Amos’ tenth studio album: ABNORMALLY ATTRACTED TO SIN, of which I will be posting a review about shortly, lets take a look back at her catalog.  But first let me give you a brief summation of my relationship with Tori:
I may be a bit bias when it comes to [...]

Incoming: Tori Amos’ “Abnormally Attracted to Sin”

As soon as I heard that Tori Amos was releasing a new album a few months back, and after the release of AMERICAN DOLL POSSE, I thought for sure that she was going to continue on that same vein and keep rocking out.  Tori’s last album to have any sort of rock out song was [...]

The Now Lists: Female Voices

One can’t really do a list of male singers without the companion female singers list so here we are.
Once again, without much discussion as to why, here are the top 17 female voices:
 
1) BJORK
2) NEKO CASE 
3) FIONA APPLE
4) MONICA NARANJO
5) MARTA SANCHEZ
6) TORI AMOS 
7) PJ HARVEY 
8) MADONNA
9) LUCINDA WILLIAMS
10) AMY WINEHOUSE  
11) LORETTA LYNN [...]

The Classics: Music–Yearbook 97-98: “Homogenic” “Ray of Light” “Impossible Princess” “From the Choirgirl Hotel” “Ok Computer”

This is our last post on the Yearkbook 97-98 and as it is tradition, we’ve save the best for last.  The five albums here are nothing short of timeless masterpieces; five acts working at the zenith of their creativity, pulling all the stops to treat us to extremely personal, completely radical and groundbreaking works of art.  Which isn’t [...]