When it was announced that Pixar was in development to create a sequel to the massively successful Toy Story, there were a lot of question marks. Sequels in the film industry usually fall into two categories. They could be entertaining, with a few changes but typically with a similar plot with less ambition resulting […]
After the great success of Toy Story, Pixar was anxious to prove that it wasn’t a one picture fluke. From music to cinema, there are plenty of one hit wonders and the studio understandably didn’t want to be come another member of that club. Also raising the stakes was that the animation landscape had changed. […]
The year was 1995, at this point the state of Disney animation was still at it’s peak in popularity and quality. The Lion King was released the previous year enjoying massive acclaim and with Pocahontas coming out in the summer, Disney had a lot to smite about it’s animation department. Once looked upon as a […]
It was a dark and stormy night when the Assignment Editor here at Sound Vapors knocked on the office door wearing a fedora and smoking a cigar. He said, “look kid, we want you to start looking back at old award shows, be like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap and put right what once went […]
February 12, 1990 marked the release of one of the biggest selling albums of the entire decade. Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em is a diamond awarded album that sold over 10 million copies in the United States alone. Some estimates have it easily over 20 million worldwide. It was the first hip-hop album to be […]
The time has come once again for award show retribution to set its sights on another victim. Who will it be this time? Oscar, Emmy, Grammy. Perhaps I will pretend to have even a miniscule amount of knowledge about Broadway, and set my sights on the Tony Awards. Well no, I’m not doing that. Although, […]
Bush – Sixteen Stone Original Release Date: December 6, 1994 This is the album that started it all. This was also the album that just kept growing and growing in popularity. Even though it was released in December of 1994, the album was so popular, singles were still being released nearly a year and a […]
This is the one where I rank the epic Thanksgiving themed episodes of Friends. I was way late to the Friends party. I never saw an episode until three years ago when I got the boxed set for Christmas. Having the good fortune of being able to binge on the entire series was a gift […]
Pearl Jam – Vitalogy Release date: November 22, 1994 I’ve written hundreds of album reviews, dozens of retrospective reviews but I’m not sure there are many albums that I’ve listened to more than Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy. In fact, I just published a look back at the Incubus album, Make Yourself. The reason why I bring […]
Make Yourself turned twenty years old a couple of weeks ago. TWENTY YEARS! This masterpiece from Incubus was released on October 26, 1999 and remains one of my favorite albums of all time and is my top choice from the band’s catalog – which I find hard to say given their body of work. When Morning […]