A decent quality album, with some really nice, sultry vocals, and easy listening jazzy music. I quite liked the interplay between her vocals and the horns at certain times, and for most of the album the music did complement her vocals. The bluesy number in the middle of the album was a nice change too. Apart from that it seems to be a relatively standard '50s album. 7/10.
I am going with Trevor Swadling Jameth. If you can't find a way to listen to it (it's not on spotify or youtube for me), then Cristal Webb instead.
Top 62 Music Albums of the 1950s by Jameth (2 picks left)
2. Inca Taqui by Yma Sumac
3. I Wonder As I Wander (Carols And Love Songs) by John Jacob Niles
4. The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman
5. Billie Holiday (1959) by Billie Holiday
8. Lonely Girl by Julie London
10. Anita Sings The Most by Anita O'Day
11. The Original Talking Union With The Almanac Singers And Other Union Songs With Pete Seeger & Chorus by Pete Seeger & Chorus / The Almanac Singers
13. Little Girl Blue by Nina Simone
15. Tunes & Songs Of Finland by John Stark & Aino Karelia
16. Moondog by Moondog
I found it on Souncloud, which I didnโt know was free to listen. Yay! _________________ Can you play free, or in three, or agree to try something new?
This was loads of fun, even though it's over an hour long. Busdriver is a technically proficient rapper and the album is personality driven and very charismatic. His delivery is somewhere between Open Mike Eagle's comedy special, Eminem's Rap God and Danny Brown's unique vocal style. It may sound gimmicky to some, but I dig it. The production (mostly by Paris Zax and Daddy Kev) is equally quirky and weird, with masterful scratches by D-Styles, ocassional weird Middle-Eastern music motif and lots of jazz samples. Saxophones and pianos everywhere, a harph on Reality Sandwich, and an occasional flute too, for some reason. Stylin Under Pressure is an interlude which seriously cracked me up. It's just Busdriver freestyling his order to Carlโs Junior employee.
"Welcome to Carl's Junior, can I help you?
Yes, I am a head hunter
I am looking for the ultimate woman sex lover
But, it's hard to stay a lie
So I had to take the next number
I can't find anybody in the dead of summer
But you know what, I think I'll have the fries"
There's some great comedy-gone-political lyrics too, which corroborates the Open Mike Eagle comparison. Busdriver must've been a huge influence. The whole of Gun Control is like that, and Rheteric Ramirez verse on Somethingness is in that fashion too.
" "Go back to Compton, you dirty nigga, we don't sell watermelons here"
Is what I yell at the white folks on the way to gun show once a year
Nigga, some of my best friends are white, and I love mud sharks just the same
Except for the ones that come from Africa and got 'Johnson' for a last name
Darth Vader, Rheteric, Earl Jones James, by the way
What's another name for shit-colored in German? Take a guess
Melanin, you illiterate knuckle-dragging ethnic thief two-fifths of a person"
There's loads of great quotes. Loved it overall, it could've been a bit shorter but it's consistent and thoroughly enjoyable. 8.5/10
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
M.I.A. - Kala
Chromatics - Night Drive
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar
John Coltrane - Soultrane
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Floral Tattoo - You Can Never Have A Long Enough Head Start _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Awesome record! It'd be hard to call this folk...it's some kind of lo-fi, new wave-inflected roots rock, with Swadling singing like some other Dylan apostles (Jerry Garcia, in particular). It's a little surprising how American this sounds, given the guy is from Australia (but what do I know about the scene down there in the 80's?). At first, I thought he was a one man show with guitar, keys, and a drum machine, though I suppose the backing vocals give it away (turns out he had help from local musicians who came by his home studio). His guitar work and vocals don't necessarily stand out (the guitar might catch up to me), but his songwriting and delivery do. Most of the tracks feature some combo of vocals, guitar, organ, bass, drum machine, and backing vocals, with everything seemingly pushed to the back of the mix, giving a surreal quality that's further aided by a smoggy lo-fi envelope. Basically, it sounds like the Dead produced by Mac DeMarco.
2. Tara /--/ Rigs Of The Time
3. Sister Janet Mead /--/ The Lord's Prayer
5. Goliard /--/ Fortune My Foe
6. ๅฑฑๅดใใณ [Hako Yamasaki] /--/ ้ฃใปใณใปใพใปใ (Tobimasu)
7. Sue Walker /--/ The Bard And I
8. Ann Tholsted /--/ Ann Tholsted
9. Janelle Richey /--/ Remembering
11. Cristal Webb /โ/ Misty Morning
12. Nic Jones /--/ Ballads And Songs
13. Mossy Davidson's Alaska /--/ NorthWind Calling _________________ Can you play free, or in three, or agree to try something new?
You Can Never Have A Long Enough Head Start by Floral Tattoo
Well this was quite good. Emo, post-hardcore, noise pop and shoegaze all at once. I wasn't sure what to expect given the below average ratings on RYM and BEA, but it was awesome. Much more diverse than your usual Midwest emo album, very well written, with several highlights and not too many duds. And even some of those "duds" are decent songs, like the surprisingly clean and straightforward indie rock of Leaving. Vocals are decent but not too great, however they serve the purpose (and are often half drowned in the wall of noise). I loved this and don't understand the low ratings. "The production is muddy" seems to be the main concern, but it's noise and shoegaze, so that's kind of what you'd expect. Lyrics are mostly LGBT, growing up in the suburbs and the usual indie/emo stuff, and they may be a bit underwhelming, but to be honest I wasn't paying that close of an attention. Going straight to my top 40 of 2020. 8/10
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
M.I.A. - Kala
Chromatics - Night Drive
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar
John Coltrane - Soultrane
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Soft Machine - The Soft Machine _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
I think this might be my favorite of the three Peter Gabriel solo albums I've heard so far. Solid throughout with several standout tracks. For some reason his musical aesthetic has yet to really gel with me though. It's dated in a different way than the cheesy 80s pop that gets so much hate, but somehow that cheesy 80s pop feels more sonically relevant to me than this 'mature, sophisticated' 80s rock. They are more closely connected than I realized though - apparently this album was the genesis (sorry) of the gated reverb drum trend that defined the decade. 3.5/5.
131. Foo Fighters: 2. Wasting Light
132. The Band: 3. The Last Waltz
133. The Black Keys: 8. Let's Rock
134. Slint: 2. Tweez
135. Ramones: 3. Leave Home
136. Eminem: 2. The Eminem Show
137. The Killers: 2. Sam's Town
138. OutKast: N/A. Big Grams by Big Grams [discography exhausted]
139. Madvillain: 2. Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix
140. The Zombies: 3. Odessey And Oracle (Revisited): The 40th Anniversary Concert - Live At The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 2008 _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
Kala by M.I.A. (UK)
The first album of hers that I've heard. And I have to say that I was sceptical. It could've easily been just 3 hits and a lot of fillers. Glad that's not the case, the whole album was full of entertaining, groovy songs, with several bangers. Great gaana music samples, lots of drums, African chanting, Sri Lankan sounds... All in all the sampling's masterful. Lyrics are often repetitive which really fits the rhythym-oriented songs. They tackle a lot of interesting political and cultural topics, as well as an ocassional love story. And probably my favourite, Aboriginal kids group The Wilcannia Mob rapping about their childhood (I guess). Paper Planes too of course, one of the best pop songs of the new millennium. Great stuff, 8 or 8.5/10
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Wasting Light is fantastic if you're in the mood for some straight up no-nonsense rock.
Agreed it's a funky title, but it's also one of the only "Folktronica" albums I think I've enjoyed. I think fans of Animal Collective would like this. It has a little flavor of The Books as well. I wasn't paying attention to this as much as I probably should have, but what I heard was good.
Ledzep, I'm a big proponent of the Soft Machine's first album.
Alejandra & Aeron โ- Be Mine
Todd Edwards- Prima Edizione
Ragnar Grippe- Sand
Voice Crack- Earflash
Scald - Will Of The Gods Is Great Power
Carbonized - Disharmonization
Aviador Dro โโ Alas Sobre El Mundo
Untrance - Deleted Seniors
Patty Pravo- Concerto Per Patty
Ama Divers- Shadow Seeking Sun
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
Now that's what I'm talking about. I've found the album I would want to come back to if I was looking for some '50s vocal jazz. A fantastic voice with a lot of passion that I just wanted to keep paying attention to too. I believed her. Some great piano arrangements and emotive playing. I love what she did with You'll Never Walk Alone, and Don't Smoke In Bed, and Plain Gold Ring were also standouts. 8/10
At the end of the album I had to check out Nick Cave's version of Plain Gold Ring which I didn't know about and hadn't heard...what a great choice of a song for him to cover and it is unsurprisingly awesome! ๐
I'm liking choosing from this list...all unheard of but there always seems to be a few that sound interesting...try Scald - Will Of The Gods Is Great Power
Top 62 Music Albums of the 1950s by Jameth (last pick left)
2. Inca Taqui by Yma Sumac
3. I Wonder As I Wander (Carols And Love Songs) by John Jacob Niles
4. The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman
5. Billie Holiday (1959) by Billie Holiday
8. Lonely Girl by Julie London
10. Anita Sings The Most by Anita O'Day
11. The Original Talking Union With The Almanac Singers And Other Union Songs With Pete Seeger & Chorus by Pete Seeger & Chorus / The Almanac Singers
15. Tunes & Songs Of Finland by John Stark & Aino Karelia
16. Moondog by Moondog
17. Ratu Kembang Katjang by Waldjinah
Purple that Cave version of Plain Gold Ring is excellent! Sounds like he wrote the song.
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The Soft Machine by Soft Machine
While I liked it, I didn't think it was nearly as good as Third. Sorry chief ๐ Psychedelic soft rock, almost pop at times, without much flashy playing, and closer to typical Cantenbury prog sound than the epics like Facelift or Out-Bloody-Rageous. Also, there's a lot less jazz influences than I expected. Don't get me wrong, it's still instrumentally sublime, and the solo on Lullabye Letter was especially good. But it seems they were more song-oriented at this point. There's a lot of short instrumentals (I'm not sure I appreciated all of them), and the records flows very smoothly, with impressive songs transitions. Hope for Happiness, A Certain Kind, Save Yourself, Priscilla, Lullabye Letter and Why Are We Sleeping? were my faves. Organ sound was gorgeous, and I love how it often just hangs in the background, giving a unique feel to the songs. It's also important to note that this was one of the first Cantenbury prog albums, and a cornerstone in jazz rock and psychedelic rock. A solid release, 7.5/10
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Chromatics - Night Drive
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar
John Coltrane - Soultrane
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
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