The Eagles are for me one of the most overplayed, overrated, boring highly successful acts in music history. For some reason their bland brand of country-infused rocks resonates with mass audiences. Bandmembers Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner, and others have released equally uninteresting material away from the band. The Eagles are really more of a product and a corporate marketing concept than they are a band. My recomendation is to avoid their music at all costs.

Former American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry is in a rock band that is name after his last name. You probably already know this by now, and you probably also already know this band is extremely bland, predictable, commercial, and formulaic...But a blockbuster success nonetheless. I cannot recommend the music of Daughty at this time. This sort of music industry nonsense never would have taken place in the past. If its frontman had never been overexposed to millions of gullible viewers on Fox TV's American Idol, this pretend band never would have even existed. The worst of the worst in American entertainment.

One of the greatest and most prolific house music producers of all time, his best records are probably the ones he released on the Cajual/Relief/Prescription/Balance family in the mid-1990's, though many of his Guidance and Nite Life Collective releases are worth picking up as well. Best known as a deep houser but also a good producer of tech-house and disco sample house. His "Wilderness EP" as CVO on Balance Records seems to have been recalled or withdrawn and is one of the most valuable and collectible Chicago house music records of its era.

Billy Joel is quite simply one of the most boring, overrated, overplayed musical performers of the last 100 years. Despite being a tremendously successful singer songwriter in commercial terms, the music of Billy Joel needs to be left in the past and man kind must start walking away from music such as Bill Joel that deserves to be buried in the sands of time. The most tolerable Billy Joel is the early Billy Joel, and the less singing and more commercial, the better.

This EP by the Scottish Deep House act was deeper than deep and certainly helped to establish Guidance Recordings from near downtown Chicago as a force to be reckoned with along with the mega-popular Blue Boy record that came out around the same time. While the record is probably best known for "Wind On Water" the quality level remains high throughout and furthermore this record seems to have stood the test of time particularly well and sounds much better than most of its deep house contemporaries. Fresh And Low would continue to release many records over the years on this and other labels under this and other names, but this release remains by far their best in my opinion.

"Music And Wine" is a vocal house classic in every sense of the word and was without a doubt one of the best vocal house songs of 1999, definitely one of the songs that defined the summer. Miguel Migs Petalpusher mix is more pumped up and more instrumental while staying true to the original. If this song would have been exposed to a wider audience it would have been a top 40 pop hit as this is one of the catchiest, most irresistible house music songs I've ever heard. This was perhaps one of Jay Denes' finest moments as a producer and one of Miguel Migs finest moments as a remixer, a great mix of the New York and San Francisco sounds of the era.

This is a fairly early Dave Lee/Joey Negro release on Zedd Records from the period when he was still working with Andrew "Doc" Livingstone. A number of Dave Lee Records in the late 1980's and early 1990's were techno records or had a strong techno influence but by this point almost all of his records could be described as "disco house", "garage house", or "deep house" and even "hard house" on the Seka label and as Hed Boys. This record has a strong spacey funky ambient techno feel that makes me think of a more commercial take on the kind of music Underground Resistance did in their "World to World"/"Nation to Nation"/"Galaxy to Galaxy" series and this is not surprising as Dave Lee has made it clear that he is a big fan of those records produced by Mad Mike Banks. "Soul Fire" is especially good but this entire EP is great and ranks among the best of the many good overlooked early Joey Negro records.

John "Julius" Knight and Brian Tappert released a ton of great garage and house records over the years on labels such as Bassline and Soulfuric. This truly awful release has none of the magic of their other releases and probably ranks among the worst records ever to appear on the Strictly Rhythm label or any of its sublabels. Avoid this one at all costs unless you are a Strictly Rhythm completist or absolutely need to have ever record Brian Tappert has ever been associated with.

Seka Records was a label where Joey Negro (Dave Lee & Andrew "Doc" Livingstone at the time) released their hard house output. This was in an era (the mid 1990's) when Junior Vasquez, X-Press II, and DJ Duke were all the rage so it's not surprising the versatile Dave Lee did several hard house records under various aliases on this label (the names Lee and Livingstone appear on none of these records). "Boys And Girls" from the label's 1st release was rereleased on Deconstruction and became a huge worldwide dancefloor smash. The Hed Boys alias was subsequently used by Lee & Livingstone as their monniker on several high-profile remix projects including M-People and Pet Shop Boys. This label would be of interest only to Joey Negro completists and fanatics.

This short-lived label was used as the platform for some rather dodgy but excellent Joey Negro material in the mid nineties, but at least the first 2 records make no mention of Dave Lee and/or Doc Livingstone whatsoever. The label also released a Lee Genesis song licensed from Sub-urban "Ya Can't Separate Me". Records on this label usually came with a Vicar Records sticker. A small but important chapter in the musical development of Dave Lee.