License To Drive is a new weekly segment at WTMD where we examine an album that is celebrating it’s Sweet 16th birthday, and take it for a test drive to see if it passes. Buckle up.
License To Drive: Ryan Adams’ Gold
16 years is a long time. But it can also feel like the blink of an eye. It seems like just yesterday that Ryan Adams was a young singer and [...]
License to Drive: Radiohead’s Amnesiac
Amnesiac is likely not your favorite Radiohead album. The band had just released Kid A in October of 2000 and people were still digesting that epic record when they got [...]
License To Drive: Zero 7’s Simple Things
With their debut full length album, 2001’s Simple Things, British downtempo production duo Zero 7 drew immediate comparisons to French duo Air. These comparisons weren’t wrong, but they weren’t entirely correct [...]
License To Drive: Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft
By the fall of 2001, Bob Dylan had already made a comeback. A couple of times. Most recently with 1997’s Grammy winning album, Time Out Of Mind. So four years [...]
License To Drive: Muse’s Origin Of Symmetry
This week we take a test drive of “Origin of Symmetry”. Muse’s sophomore album was released in their native land of England in July of 2001, but it was only [...]
License To Drive: Bjork’s Vespertine
This week we take a test drive and listen to Bjork’s fourth solo release, “Vespertine”. The mostly experimental and very personal album, did not have a true hit on it, [...]