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1998 - various artists - millenium funk party

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2011 - foo fighters - wasting light

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1979 - pink floyd - the wall (2011 "immersion" bonus discs 5 & 6)

my review of the foo.

it rocked. i can't deny it.

but.

there was no song that would harden on my feet and sink me to the bottom, i didn't even hear a hit. but you guys probably felt the same way about van halen's new album. i can see how a foo fan would really like this album, as it rocks, and fans of foo like the rock that foos do. but for me, still a non-fan, it was kinda faceless. rocking. but faceless. nothing stuck for me.

maybe i'm wrong. maybe you'll listen to the new van halen album and understand what i'm saying about a rock album with a face, versus one without one.

i hope so.

but that probably won't be the case.



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nevermind me.


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1975-1996 - levon helm - best of (ties that bind comp)

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2004 - s.o.s. band - greatest hits

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1994 - the whispers - christmas moments


ugh. and never mind those crossed out.

they made me long for the new foo fighters album.



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The best rap music video?

that, is truly magnificent.

I just discovered this guy this year and it has only strengthened my conviction (one I would have argued against just four or five years ago, probably, taking the opposite view even) that some of the greatest music ever made was made in the 1970s (and very early 80s). You have to dig a little deeper, but artists like This Heat, Exuma, Judee Sill, The Residents (in fact their stuff from this time period is their best even though they are still around), Renaldo & the Loaf and this list could go one and on and deeper down the rabbit hole, are hard to argue against as (somewhat) unsung giants of music history.

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Back to the sea."

"Goddamit, I love John Coltrane."

haven't heard that one yet; totes gonna listen to it soon though! thanks!

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THIS SHIT IS SO GOOD. I have it on vinyl, possibly the trippiest jazz record ever, up there with Sun Ra's stuff.

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i've got it, sun ship, transition, and infinity on deck for tomorrow...

EARLIER
1965 - John Coltrane - Sun Ship

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1965 - John Coltrane - Om

NEXT
1970 - John Coltrane - Transition

AFTER THAT
1972 - John Coltrane - Infinity

NOW
1982 - tav falco's panther burns - behind the magnolia curtain

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Behind the Magnolia Curtain was recorded at Memphis' Ardent Studios, and issued by Rough Trade in 1981. The lineup was Falco with Alex Chilton and Jim Duckworth alternating on guitars and drums (original drummer Ross Johnson had been kicked out just before recording), and bassist Ron Miller. Also on board for four tracks was the Tate County Fife & Drum Corps, which included Abe Young and Jesse Mae Hemphill. The music, simultaneously drenched in and made in reaction to Memphis music history is equal parts primal, early rock & roll, deviant Delta-style blues, and avant-garde art -- played without cynicism. In these songs, completely off-the-rails psychobilly, blues, tangos, wrecked '40s-era tunes, and more often co-exist in the same moment. The sound is dense, the time is elastic (if you're looking for a constant rhythm, forget it). This is ramshackle, raw, unholy, and utterly amazing; a timeless classic. It took the band a tad over six hours to record, and you can hear that. It sounds like swampy scraped mud, but somehow Falco's acoustic guitar comes through. The songs are all covers --in those days Falco felt there were too many songs in existence already. While it's true that the Cramps had an aesthetic that seemed similar, on the surface, Falco's Panther Burns was at least as much about conceptual art as it was about music -- this was revealed more in the band's live show. Behind the Magnolia Curtain is one of the great recordings to emerge from the post-punk era and remains the essential Panther Burns document. [In 2012, Fat Possum reissued the album with its follow-up EP, 1982's Blow Your Top, in a deluxe edition entitled Lore & Testament, Vol. 1 Behind the Magnolia Curtain. It contains rare photos and wonderful, lengthy essays by Falco, Miller, and even Johnson.

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That sounds really interesting, mike. I will have to check it out. And hey, it came out my birth year so cool.

Anyhow, this:

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Mississippi Records is my new obsession.

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That sounds really interesting, mike. I will have to check it out. And hey, it came out my birth year so cool.

Anyhow, this:

my favorite 1981 album is ozzy's "diary of a madman."

how you liking dna? i like to turn up dna real loud and have seizures on my kitchen floor in puddles of dish water. i pretend i'm damaged by 'lectrocution (bitchin' band name, no stealing!). lots of great stuff in that genre.

you must go get this, if you haven't already: [allmusic.com]

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1989 - the young gods - l'eau rouge

Yeah, I've been making it a point to dig as deeply as I an into the no wave bands (which is hard because it's not the late '70s/early '80s anymore and very few records were actually made). Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (and Lydia Lunch in general) I've been familiar with for a while. DNA was new to me, but I'm so glad I found them. Theoretical Girls still haven't quite caught on with me, but I like Glenn Branca's solo stuff A LOT. Still have yet to listen to Mars or James Chance & the Contortions, other than video clips of performances in a documentary, but I really want to. I hear great things about both of them.



In other listening news, after DNA, first it was this:

Serpent's Chalice - Materia Prima (2009) by Drastus

This is a French black metal "band" (one guy) that I basically only know about because of Last Plane to Jakarta, so thanks John. Really great EP. Just knowing that this is "black metal" doesn't really tell you that much about it. It's one of those things you ought to hear for yourself. I still need to find the full-length he put out.

...then it was this:

Blunderbuss (2012) by Jack White

Which I think I'm digging, but I really will have to listen to it again. I think my girlfriend will probably want to listen to it, so that works.

And right now it's:

Riddim Warfare (1998) DJ Spooky

I have four albums from this guy, which I've had for a while. I was trying to collect everything, but got distracted by other stuff. You know how it goes. Great for fans of Flying Lotus, Boards of Canada and Peanut Butter Wolf alike (I'm a fan of all of those, hence my love) but probably also appealing to fans of more out there experimentation. This album in particular is a bit more upbeat with more hip-hop and dance flavor. His first album Songs of a Dead Dreamer could easily be taken as experimental ambient noise for probably tracks at a time. These are, to my knowledge, the first and third albums, so you can imagine they run the gamut. For example, one of the other two I have, Optometry, is a collaboration with jazz musicians that the allmusic review rightly calls "fully a DJ outing and fully a jazz record" although I think there is much more to it than simply that. The other album I have is The Secret Song which just for example has dub reworkings of "No Quarter" and "Dazed and Confused" on it. Really worth your time if any of this sounds appealing.

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I don't really like the Smiths, but the exception to that rule is that I really like it when other people in this tower block play Smiths songs out loud.

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Allo Darlin - Europe.
Herman Dune - I hear strange moosic.

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let's get dressed up in costumes and dance by the bar.

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Yeah, I've been making it a point to dig as deeply as I an into the no wave bands...

Blunderbuss (2012) by Jack White

DJ SPOOKY, I have four albums from this guy, which I've had for a while.

mars sounds like they're from mars. and, here is the best thing to get re: james chance and the contortions: [allmusic.com]

will be checking out blunderbuss soon. i didn't like the single, but jack white doesn't go wrong too often. i've been told the single is the worst thing on the album. then why choose it as a single! anyway...i'll def check it out sometime soon.

dj spooky is bitchin, i like all his stuff. my favorite of his though, is this: [allmusic.com]

the scissor girls - we people space with phantoms

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Yeah, I've been making it a point to dig as deeply as I an into the no wave bands...

Blunderbuss (2012) by Jack White

DJ SPOOKY, I have four albums from this guy, which I've had for a while.

mars sounds like they're from mars. and, here is the best thing to get re: james chance and the contortions: [allmusic.com]

will be checking out blunderbuss soon. i didn't like the single, but jack white doesn't go wrong too often. i've been told the single is the worst thing on the album. then why choose it as a single! anyway...i'll def check it out sometime soon.

dj spooky is bitchin, i like all his stuff. my favorite of his though, is this: [allmusic.com]

Creation Rebel will be the next on my list from That Subliminal Kid then, I guess. You haven't steered me wrong so far.

Right now, this:

Parallelograms (1970) by Linda Perchas

It's been a last.fm recommendation for a while based mostly on my obsession with Judee Sill. I'm liking it so far. It sounds a little more like the work of a "typical female folk singer" (or "girl with [acoustic] guitar" if you prefer) than Judee Sill to me, but I kind of like her lyrics. Sort of have that romantic poet feel that some of the TFFSs/GWGs have but not as lame... there are some real speech patterns included that make it less pretentious. I think she's a little more like Joni Mitchell than Judee Sill, which shouldn't be bad, but after I heard Judee Sill it's been hard to go back and listen to Joni as much. I realize that both Judee is sometimes lumped in with the whole Laurel Canyon scene/sound (and compared with Laura Nyro so often that it's detrimental to both artists) but I think she sounds more like she's from Heaven or maybe Purgatory or maybe Nirvana than California. She is from California though, so..... I don't know. My point is that Linda Perchas sounds a lot more Laurel Canyon than Judee, but that's not such a bad thing, and there are a few songs that get way more psychedelic than Joni, so I'm giving it a thumbs up. So far the title track is the most interesting.

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1997 - radiohead - ok computer