Stephen Malkmus is a former member of the indie-rock band Pavement. After the band disbanded, Malkmus went on to pursuit a solo career, and a very interesting one.
This is his first solo album and it sounds like pavement: creative and catchy indierock by un unquestionably talented fellow. Every song is good, believe me.
Roky Erickson is a lunatic. It's not even a metaphor, he's literally a complete loon. In mid sixties he was the leadsinger for the 13th Floor Elevators, the band that might have started psychedelia. That's a lot already, but it doesn't end here.
In 1968 he started acting weird and speaking nonsense stuff. Roky was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was sent to a mental hospital. From 1969 to 1972 he bounced from a sanatory to another receiving all kinds of wonderful treatments, such as this one:
Apparently all those lobotomies and shock treatments only made our dear Roky even more loonie. And this record, The Evil One, is its evidence.
Just look at those song titles: "Two Headed Dog", "I Think of Demons", "Don't Shake me Lucifer". I mean, you gotta be at least a bit crazy to write a slow romantic ballad entitled "I Walked With a Zombie".
Anyways, all those songs are pretty catchy and sound like postpunk meets psychedelic and heavymetal for a ride. It's pretty worthy, I promise.
1.Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) 2.I Think Of Demons 3.Creature With The Atom Brain 4.Wind And More, The 5.Don't Shake Me Lucifer 6.Bloody Hammer 7.Stand For The Fire Demon 8.Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play 9.If You Have Ghosts 10.I Walked With A Zombie 11.Night Of The Vampire 12.It's A Cold Night For Alligators 13.Mine Mine Mind 14.Sputnik 15.White Faces
Pogo is the pseudonymus of a musician who mixes sounds from children well-known movies (like Mary Poppins and HarryPotter) into great lounge and jazzy tunes.
In this download, I've put 6 of his tracks that are favourites of mine. But you can hear the rest on www.myspace.com/pogotracks
My two favourites are Expialidocious(the one from the video right below) and Scrumdiddlyumptious. Just listen to these two, m'kay?
Epic electronic music that screams "BIZARRE!". This is truly hard to describe. Just listen to the youtube video.
1. Build Voice 2. Red F 3. Paddling Ghost 4. Snookered 5. Of The Mountains 6. Surprise Stefani 7. Wet Wings 8. Woof Woof 9. Slow With Horns/Run For your Life 10. Baltihorse 11. Get Older Download 100mb
THIS IS A JAZZ ALBUM. A JAZZ ONE, YOU HEAR? THEN DON'T COME COMPLAINING TO ME LIKE A CERTAIN PERSON WHO HAS SENT ME A CERTAIN EMAIL LAST NIGHT:
"hey dudeess... i dawnloaded a record from yer blog and it was all like jazz and stuff!!! waddafuk, are you gay or sumthin?? lol fags"
Ok. Bearing that in mind, let's move on. From allmusic.com:
"When alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley culled together this quartet, he grabbed three champions from seemingly disparate schools to complement his flinty solos: Miles Davis, the king of cool; Art Blakey, the thundering force of hard bop; Hank Jones, a veteran of swing; and Sam Jones, a versatile bassist adaptable to nearly any setting. The results are one of Blue Note's most beloved albums. The midtempo title track provides the centerpiece of this classic as Adderley echoes Miles's swaggering melody before both unravel wonderful solos. A must-have Blue Note album. --John Murph"
1 - Autumn Leaves 2 - Love For Sale 3 - Somethin' Else 4 - One for Daddy'o 5 - Dancing in The Dark 6 - Alison's Uncle
I haven't heard to many australian bands in my life but Eddy Current is definitely my favourite one to have come out of the kangaroo island in the last decade.
Even though they aren't trying to create new rock tendencies, and, instead, are doing the good old garage rock thing with some bits of punk and rocknroll, they do it so well that every song here is a winner.
Colour Television is definitely my favourite. You can't go wrong when you use hypnotic-repeating bass riffs.
1- Memory Lane 2- Sunday's Coming 3- Wrapped Up 4- Colour Television 5- That's inside of Me 6- I admit my Faults 7- Which Way to Go 8- You Let me Be Honest With You 9- We'll be Turned on 10- I Don't Wanna Play No More
Amazon.com's Best of 1999: "The Lilys' music will instantly remind you of a handful of classic organ- and guitar-heavy combos from the '60s, but they're wholly unlike any other retro outfit on earth. Theirs is an alternate vision of '60s psychedelia. Neither pretentious nor full of itself, the stuff totally rocks, Nuggets-style, in spite of the disjointed lyrics and way-complicated song structures. --Mike McGonigal"
I love this record. My favourite 60's ripoff album ever. If you like The Kinks or Beatles, give it a listen.
"Musically, Adam Green is a pop craftsman par excellence. He seems to be a very gifted student of pop music's vast and intricate rule book. Thus his music is not especially original in any way, though often sophisticated, tuneful, and clever. On Gemstones, the third and best of his solo albums, Green seems to have perfected his art. Some of the tracks here rank among the finest pop songs that are made these days. There's the wonderfully melancholic ballads such as "Losing on a Tuesday" and "Before My Bedtime". There's the catchy and fun, almost '50s-styled rock & roll such as single "Emily," while "Carolina" is another slice of wonderful cabaret pop, and on "Over the Sunrise" he suddenly goes all Jim Morrison on you. In other words, there's something for everyone here. In fact, all 15 tracks have strong musical qualities. An unusually strong, well-produced album of classic songwriting."
1.Gemstones – 2:24 2.Down On The Street – 2:07 3.He's The Brat – 2:03 4.Over The Sunrise – 1:44 5.Crackhouse Blues – 2:07 6.Before My Bedtime – 2:40 7.Carolina – 2:51 8.Emily – 2:45 9.Who's Your Boyfriend – 1:42 10.Country Road – 2:27 11.Choke on a Cock – 1:38 12.Bible Club – 1:52 13.Chubby Princess – 1:43 14.Losing on a Tuesday – 1:46 15.Teddy Boys – 1:50
Undoubtely the best Dylan live album to me. The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famous concert tour assembled by Bob himself in 1975. These series of shows are notorious for having the mose intense versions of some songs (see Isis video below for example) and great guest musicians(Joan Baez, Roger Mcguinn from The Byrds and others).
The Rolling Thunder Revue culminated with the release of Desire, in early 1976, that, to many and to myself, is one of the best albuns in Dylan's career.
Disc one "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" – 3:55 "It Ain't Me Babe" – 5:25 "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" – 5:16 "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" – 5:25 "Romance in Durango" (Dylan/Levy) – 5:22 "Isis" (Dylan/Levy) – 5:11 "Mr. Tambourine Man" – 5:39 "Simple Twist of Fate"– 4:17 "Blowin' in the Wind" – 2:43 (with Joan Baez) "Mama, You Been on My Mind" – 3:11 (with Joan Baez) "I Shall Be Released" – 4:33 (with Joan Baez)
Disc two "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" – 4:34 "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" – 3:13 "Tangled Up in Blue" – 4:41 "The Water is Wide" (Traditional) - 5:16 (with Joan Baez) "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" – 3:12 "Oh, Sister" (Dylan/Levy) – 4:04 "Hurricane" (Dylan/Levy) – 8:15 "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" – 4:14 "Sara" – 4:29 "Just Like a Woman" – 4:31 "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"– 4:22 (with Roger McGuinn)
"This 1963 recording occupies a special place in Mingus's work, his most brilliantly realized extended composition. The six-part suite is a broad canvas for the bassist's tumultuous passions, ranging from islands of serenity for solo guitar and piano to waves of contrapuntal conflict and accelerating rhythms that pull the listener into the musical psychodrama. This is one of the greatest works in jazz composition, and it's remarkable that Mingus dredged this much emotional power from a group of just 11 musicians." --Stuart Broomer
"Track A — Solo Dancer" –6:20 Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!
"Track B — Duet Solo Dancers" –6:25 Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces
"Track C — Group Dancers" –7:00 (Soul Fusion) Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries
"Medley: Mode D-Trio and Group Dancers/Mode E- Single solos and Group Dance/ModeF-Group and Solo Dancer"
It's a great entertainment! Obvious joke is obvious.
Entertainment! is one of those records where germs of influence can be traced through many genres and countless bands, both favorably and unfavorably. From groups whose awareness of genealogy spreads wide enough to openly acknowledge Gang of Four's influence (Fugazi, Rage Against the Machine), to those not in touch with their ancestry enough to realize it (rap-metal, some indie rock) -- all have appropriated elements of their forefathers' trailblazing contribution. Its vaguely funky rhythmic twitch, its pungent, pointillistic guitar stoccados, and its spoken/shouted vocals have all been picked up by many. Lyrically, the album was apart from many of the day, and it still is. Review from allmusic.
1. Ether (3:51) 2. Natural's Not In It (3:06) 3. Not Great Men (3:05) 4. Damaged Goods (3:27) 5. Return the Gift (3:05) 6. Guns Before Butter (3:47) 7. I Found That Essence Rare (3:13) 8. Glass (2:28) 9. Contract (2:39) 10. At Home He's a Tourist (3:30) 11. 5.45 (3:43) 12. Anthrax (4:24)
In 1982, Killing Joke almost split up because their lead singer, Jaz Coleman started reading stuff related to occultism and Aleister Crowley. I don't know what's up with rock stars and Crowley's philosophy, but the two always find a way to get together.
Anyways, Jaz Coleman got convinced that the apocalypse was coming really fast and he disappeared to Iceland, where - he thought - he would be safe, because it is written in the Bible: "And then the Judgement Day shall come - and no creature shall receive My mercy. Pain shall be spread all around the earth. Except in Iceland, of course, who I like so much."
Waiting for the apocalypse is quite boring, though. So the rest of the band decided to fly to Iceland too and record a tribal post-punk album drenched in communist lyrics and great guitarwork. And It's darn good.
Setlist: 1 - The Gathering 2 - Fun & Games 3 - Rejuvenation 4 - Frenzy 5 - Harlequin 6 - Feast of Blaze 7 - Song & Dance 8 - Dominator 9 - Let's All Go 10 - Lust Almighty
This is one of my other favourite bands from the 60's garage movement. They made a very original sound that combined the traditional amateurish protopunk sound with very werid time signatures and strange riffs, to quote Mark Prindle: "their songs are WeIrD! I mean wEiRd! I mean WEird! weIRD! WeirD! wEIRd! WeiRd! wEIrD! God, the potential permutations are ENDLESS!!!!"
Although nearly every song here is top-notch, it may require a few more listens than usual to get you acquainted with their strange sound. Suffice to say they were leaded by THIS man:
"Mean sideburns and leather gloves, babe."
Setlist:
1. Bottom of the Soul 2. Absolutely Positively 3. Soul Love 4. Somethin Hurtin On Me 5. Affirmative No' 6. The Trap 7. The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly 8. No Girl Gonna Cry 9. Me, Myself and I 10. To the Light 11. Tin Can Beach 12. Time Out (For a Daydream) 13. Astrologically Incompatible 14. Discrepancy 15. Talk Me Down 16. I've Loved You 17. You'll Love Me Again 18. In My Neighborhood 19. Double Yellow Line 20. The Day Today
I'll quote Mark Prindle again because I'm at work right now and I better finish this post quick or boss will catch me "hangin' round", like the song in this album says. "Bullshit entertainment doesn't get much better than this! Screw Monkee input - Nesmith contributes a ridiculous "psychedelic" song and a wonderful lounge pop number, but the other guys don't do jack! Just oodles and oodles of fantastic tracks contributed by outside writers. You've probably only ever heard "Pleasant Valley Sunday," but you need to hear the rest. More Beatle guitar rock, moog pop, country, tapdance shimmy - hooahh! Even the Davy stuff is great! No ballads from Mr. Jones! What a great record. Buy it a lot! If it had "Last Train To Clarksville," it'd be darn near perfect!"
Track listing: 1) Salesman; 2) She Hangs Out; 3) The Door Into Summer; 4) Love Is Only Sleeping; 5) Cuddly Toy; 6) Words; 7) Hard To Believe; 8) What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round; 9) Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky; 10)Pleasant Valley Sunday; 11) Daily Nightly; 12) Don't Call On Me; 13) Star Collector;
One of my favourite hard-psychedelic albuns ever. I'll quote the words of the sage George Starostin to help me out:
"Christ!"
"This must be the worst production on any album I've ever heard. In fact, the first impression from this bunch of messy, disconnected, dissonant, rambling "songs" is that every single member of the band filled his innards with as much bourbon as possible, then avidly threw up on every single instrument and gadget, then recorded the album without even bothering to clear the vomit out of the speakers. Or something to that effect. The guitars are constantly out of tune, the drummer is constantly out of synch, and the volume level gives a very vivid impression of a busy groundhog merrily chewing on the knobs for lack of a better source of nutrition. Now d'ya get the picture?"
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