THE BEATLES
A HARD DAYS NIGHT
1964-PARLOPHONE
Produced By GEORGE MARTIN
1. A Hard Day's Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love
8. Any Time At All
9. I'll Cry Instead
10. Things We Said Today
11. When I Get Home
12. You Can't Do That
13. I'll Be Back
A Hard Days Night was the third studio album by The Beatles. It was also the soundtrack for their first film. The first seven tracks were used in the movie, with the last six recorded for it but excluded. This was the first Beatles album to include only original songs, all of them written by Lennon & McCartney. Definite signs of growth are heard here, with the members expanding instrumentally and the songwriting showing a maturity that was lacking on the first two albums. Maybe the strongest of the early Beatles albums, it's still a great listen today. This was, more than any other Beatles album, a Lennon record, as he wrote the majority of the songs.
The American version of A Hard Day's Night featured 4 instrumental orchestral tracks from George Martin, along with misspellings of song titles ("Tell Me Who", "I Cry Instead"). That version was finally released on CD in 2014. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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1. A Hard Day's Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
This is one of their finest 3-song streaks for sure. Harmony vocals in If I Fell are amazing.
I've revised that album not that long ago and was surprised not to find any filler... well, maybe When I Get Home. _________________ Always shouts out something obscene
THE KNACK
GET THE KNACK
1979-CAPITOL
Produced By MIKE CHAPMAN
1. Let Me Out
2. Your Number Or Your Name
3. Oh Tara
4. (She's So) Selfish
5. Maybe Tonight
6. Good Girls Don't
7. My Sharona
8. Heartbeat
9. Siamese Twins (The Monkey And Me)
10. Lucinda
11. That's What The Little Girls Do
12. Frustrated
Bonus Tracks
13. Don't Look Back
14. That's What The Little Girls Do (Demo)
15. Maybe Tonight (Rehearsal)
16. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock & Roll) (Rehearsal)
17. My Sharona (Songwriting Demo)
It's not likely that a band has ever been so heralded, then turned on by the media as The Knack. They were so destroyed by the press that their star was pretty much destroyed by the time "My Sharona" slipped off the charts. But Get The Knack is a pretty terrific album. Full of angst and sex, this album rates as one of the better debut albums of the rock era. Even after "Sharona", which is a great song, there are powerful tracks here..."Good Girls Don't", "Frustrated", "Your Number Or Your Name", and a great remake of Buddy Holly's "Heartbeat" all sound great. A couple of weak tracks be damned...this is a solid debut album, and should have made The Knack stars for years to come. But the press said otherwise. Too bad the people listened.
Of the bonus tracks, all but one are pure crap. Rehearsals and songwriting demos don't belong on albums, and the ones here are horrible. "Don't Look Back", however, is a gift from one of their biggest fans, Bruce Springsteen. They fit his syle well, and rock it harder than the Boss probably could have. Get The Knack. Really. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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1. Dimension
2. White Unicorn
3. Woman
4. Where Eagles Have Been
5. Apple Tree
6. Joker & The Thief
7. Colossal
8. Mind's Eye
9. Pyramid
10. Witchcraft
11. Tales
12. Love Train
13. Vagabond
When Wolfmother's "Woman" came blaring out of the speakers in 2006, it seemed like someone had finally hit the time warp and brought back some good old 70's rock & roll. But if you listen closer, it wasn't just Led Zeppelin's sound that they were channeling. Lyrically, Zeppelin can be a place you'd want to not stay too close to, but Wolfmother went there full bore. Not always a good thing. And there are moments when the Zeppelin influence is thrown out the window for lesser 70's bands...Uriah Heep, Supertramp, and Yes. Andrew Stockdale's vocals are way over the top and way in the front, and some of the album sounds just...ridiculous.
Not that it's all bad. There are some good moments as well. "Love Train" is pretty terrific, and "Mother" is satisfying as long as you tune out the lyrics. But it's not all it was hyped up to be. Stockdale is already the only remaining member of the band today (he's been through a whopping 7 drummers already) and their second album wasn't nearly what people thought it would be. But then, this isn't what people thought it was, either. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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THE EVERLY BROTHERS
CADENCE CLASSICS: THEIR 20 GREATEST HITS
1985-RHINO
Produced By BILL INGLOT
1. Bye Bye Love
2. I Wonder If I Care As Much
3. Wake Up Little Susie
4. This Little Girl Of Mine
5. Brand New Heartache
6. Hey Doll Baby
7. All I Have To Do Is Dream
8. Claudette
9. Bird Dog
10. Devoted To You
11. Problems
12. Love Of My Life
13. I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
14. Take A Message To Mary
15. Poor Jenny
16. ('Til) I Kissed You
17. Let It Be Me
18. Since You Broke My Heart
19. Like Strangers
20. When Will I Be Loved
Before The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, and any number of groups with great harmonies, there were The Everly Brothers. If great vocals are your thing, then this should be a gold mine for you. Between 1957 and 1960, Phil and Don released gem after gem, and the ones collected here are all excellent. Not a single second rate track on the disc. These guys may be almost forgotten, but this music should be listened to. Classic stuff all the way.
After the period covered on this disc, they went on to more success in the 60's with Warner Brothers. They broke up in 1973 and got back together in 1983. Phil Everly died in 2014. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
LEFT OF THE MIDDLE
1997-RCA
VARIOUS PRODUCERS
1. Torn
2. One More Addiction
3. Big Mistake
4. Leave Me Alone
5. Wishing I Was There
6. Smoke
7. Pigeons And Crumbs
8. Don't You Think?
9. Impressed
10. Intuition
11. City
12. Left Of The Middle
Natalie Imbruglia was a soap opera star in Australia when she decided to give it up for music. Her debut album, Left Of The Middle, was a huge smash, thanks to the massive single "Torn" and four other single releases. The rest is an artist trying to find herself, with mixed results. A lot of it sounds like background Adult Contemporary music, with a few bright spots. A lot was expected from her...a lot never came. This was as good as she got, which is too bad...there was some potential there.
Her second album did not have a hit like "Torn", and her music career has hit the skids, although she is still trying. This is an okay record, not a lot to recommend it. At least she tries to rock, and doesn't go down the completely bland path. This one falls pretty much square in the middle. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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JIMI HENDRIX
BLUE WILD ANGEL: LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT
2002-EXPERIENCE HENDRIX
Produced By JANIE HENDRIX, EDDIE KRAMER & JOHN MCDERMOTT
1. God Save The Queen
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. All Along The Watchtower
5. Machine Gun
6. Lover Man
7. Freedom
8. Red House
9. Dolly Dagger
10. Midnight Lightning
1. Foxey Lady
2. Message To Love
3. Hey Baby (New Rising Star)
4. Ezy Rider
5. Hey Joe
6. Purple Haze
7. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
8. In From The Storm
This is pretty sweet. Recorded less than 3 weeks before Hendrix died, this Isle Of Wight show at first sounds like way too much over the top guitar. But listen more, and you'll find some unbelieveable stuff. Blue Wild Angel is Hendrix at his thunderous best. The Experience songs are great, as is the newer material he was trying out. The dude was a monster, to be sure. The album opens with a couple of odd covers before he goes all Hendrix on your ass. "Machine Gun" is 22 minutes of fire, including security walkie-talkie feedback. If you're a fan of Jimi, you've got to have this.
The DVD and the highlight disc contain fewer songs. This is really the one to have...the packaging is great with liner notes, and the music is amazing. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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IVY
APARTMENT LIFE
1997-UNFILTERED
Produced By IVY
1. The Best Thing
2. I've Got A Feeling
3. This Is The Day
4. Never Do That Again
5. I Get The Message
6. Baker
7. You Don't Know Anything
8. Ba Ba Ba
9. Get Out Of The City
10. These Are The Things About You
11. Quick, Painless And Easy
12. Back In Our Town
Former Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlessinger and Andy Chase formed this band around Domonique Durand, a Paris born singer who had never been in a band before. Apartment Life is their second album, and while not a huge hit, it's a surprisingly well made album. Lots of guest musicians (including Smashing Pumpkins James Iha) help out on a group of songs that rank as some of the best in the wave of Sundays wannabees. In fact, the songs and the instrumentation are a perfect fit for Durant's vocal style (which does wear a bit thin after awhile). "The Best Thing" was the single, but the whole thing is surprisingly pleasant. Very nice work, indeed.
Ivy still records, and Durant and Chase have been romantically involved since the band started. They've carved out a nice low key career for themselves. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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IVY
APARTMENT LIFE
1997-UNFILTERED
Produced By IVY
1. The Best Thing
2. I've Got A Feeling
3. This Is The Day
4. Never Do That Again
5. I Get The Message
6. Baker
7. You Don't Know Anything
8. Ba Ba Ba
9. Get Out Of The City
10. These Are The Things About You
11. Quick, Painless And Easy
12. Back In Our Town
Former Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlessinger and Andy Chase formed this band around Domonique Durand, a Paris born singer who had never been in a band before. Apartment Life is their second album, and while not a huge hit, it's a surprisingly well made album. Lots of guest musicians (including Smashing Pumpkins James Iha) help out on a group of songs that rank as some of the best in the wave of Sundays wannabees. In fact, the songs and the instrumentation are a perfect fit for Durant's vocal style (which does wear a bit thin after awhile). "The Best Thing" was the single, but the whole thing is surprisingly pleasant. Very nice work, indeed.
Ivy still records, and Durant and Chase have been romantically involved since the band started. They've carved out a nice low key career for themselves.
They're responsible for a lover cover of Orange Juice's 'I Guess I'm Just a Little Too Sensitive'. Never heard this record, though. Will check it out. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
THE RACONTEURS
CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY
2008-THIRD MAN
Produced By JACK WHITE III & BRENDAN BENSON
1. Consoler Of The Lonely
2. Salute Your Solution
3. You Don't Understand Me
4. Old Enough
5. The Switch And The Spur
6. Hold Up
7. Top Yourself
8. Many Shades Of Black
9. Five On The Five
10. Attention
11. Pull This Blanket Off
12. Rich Kid Blues
13. These Stones Will Shout
14. Carolina Drama
A good old fashioned supergroup. The Raconteurs (The Saboteurs in Australia) are mainly the combined works of Jack White and Brendan Benson. Consolers Of The Lonely is their second album, which was released with absolutely no advertising. It rocks, and most of the songs are very good. "Salute Your Solution" was the single. A very interesting and listenable album, heavy and tuneful. Nice to see in the midst of "rock is dead" speculation. You can hear the influences...Zeppelin, Who, throughout.
The Raconteurs have no plans to record again, and have been on hiatus since 2011. Let's hope they bring it back sometime soon. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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