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Three Friends (2011 Remaster)
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
Big Star - #1 Record
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Paul Simon - Paul Simon
Brinsley Schwarz - Nervous on the Road
Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson
Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment
Elton John - Honky Chateau
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Badfinger - Straight Up
Randy Newman - Sail Away
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Brinsley Schwarz - Silver Pistol
Dave Edmunds - Rockpile
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
T. Rex - The Slider
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Whole Oats
Ringo Starr - "Back Off Boogaloo"
The Move - "California Man"
Humble Pie - "30 Days in the Hole"
Slade - "Mama Weeer All Crazee Now"
Big Star - #1 Record
Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
Terry Callier - Occasional Rain
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Amazing Blondel - England
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Yes - Fragile
Lal and Mike Waterson - Bright Phoebus
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Michael Martin Murphey - Geronimo's Cadillac
NRBQ - Scraps
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
Joe Walsh - Barnstorm
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Elton John - Honky Chateau
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Would You?
R.I.P. at 41, 2018
And all the angels sing 'Que Sera Sera.'” “Today the world lost one of the most talented musicians I know,” Dan Auerbach, Swift’s bandmate in the Black Keys and the Arcs, wrote in an Instagram post. “I will miss you my friend.”
Last month, it was revealed that Swift had been hospitalized due to a “life-threatening condition,” and a fund had been launched to cover his medical bills.
In addition to releasing music as a solo artist, Swift was also a member of the Shins from 2011 to 2016, was the touring bassist for the Black Keys in 2014, and played drums for the Arcs. He also played keyboards for Starflyer 59 early in his career. As a producer, he worked with Foxygen, Guster, the Mynabirds, Sharon Van Etten, Damien Jurado, Pure Bathing Culture, and many others. Swift founded and owned National Freedom, a recording studio in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Swift was born in California. He grew up living in Minnesota, Utah, and Oregon before eventually moving back to Southern California to pursue music. While working at a studio called the Green Room in Huntington Beach, Swift made his first records—Walking Without Effort and The Novelist—during his off hours in the early 2000s. (A self-taught musician and producer, he played most instruments and engineered the entire project). He signed to Secretly Canadian and re-released the projects as The Richard Swift Collection Vol. 1 in 2005. Swift’s last solo full-length under his own name was 2009’s The Atlantic Ocean. In 2016, he released a collaborative covers album with Damien Jurado
12/09/2020
SOUNDS - KRAFTWERK
The term "cold wave" appeared in the 26 November 1977 issue of UK weekly music paper Sounds: The caption of its cover picture, showing Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider was "New musick: The cold wave". That year, Kraftwerk released Trans-Europe Express
DAVID BOWIE
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Phoebe Bridgers x Arlo Parks - Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) - Radio 1 ...
Arlo Parks and Phoebe Bridgers have shared a stunning cover of Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees'.
The duo linked for a session on BBC Radio 1's Chillest Show , taking hold of the show's Piano Session.
Online now, Arlo Parks stars on piano, while Phoebe Bridgers handles vocals.
The two re-work Bridgers' new song 'Kyoto', taken from her recent album 'Punisher'
06/09/2020
Alma Matters
2010 - Morrissey
Morrissey caused controversy after he claimed that the Chinese were a "sub-species" because of the way they treat animals. In an interview with UK paper The Guardian, the former The Smiths frontman said: "Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a sub-species."
Comsat Angels - The Eye Dance
Underrated band ... With three major recording contracts and no hit singles, this expressive UK guitar band survived more than 15 years.
Erroneously regarded as a synth pop band - and, every now and then, as a band that peaked with a song placed in a scene of Real Genius - the Comsat Angels were one of the finest bands of the post-punk / new wave was.
Often as moody if less dramatic than Joy Division, their first and best albums - 1980's Waiting for a Miracle, 1981's Sleep No More, and 1982's Fiction - featured abstract pop songs with sparse instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with some form of heartache. The albums were almost unrelentingly sullen, but they were always transfixing. The band then fell prey to various commercial pressures for several years. In the '90s they resurfaced with a pair of powerful albums that resembled logical extensions of their earliest work, and then they vanished again.
After numerous incarnations and name changes, the Sheffield-based Radio Earth - guitarist and vocalist Stephen Fellows, drummer Mik Glaisher, keyboardist Andy Peake, bassist Kevin Bacon - found themselves opening for Pere Ubu in Newcastle.
After the gig, the quartet realized that they had been blown off the stage and intimidated by the headliners' sense of focus and ability to confuse. Following a rethink, they came back as the less self-conscious Comsat Angels (the name referenced a short story by J.G. Ballard).
They took a loan from Glaisher's father to record and release the Red Planet EP in 1979; BBC DJ John Peel, who was sent a copy, liked what he heard, requested a few more copies and booked the band for one of his famous Peel Sessions.
Sleep No More, the second Comsat Angels album, is a confident follow-up that contains a tighter and more cutting version of Waiting for a Miracle's alluring insularity. Going by "Eye Dance," the torrid opener, one might expect a more aggressive affair, but that's not necessarily the case.
The album turns out to be neither as pop nor as fast, with a majority of the material playing out at a dirge-like pace. There were no singles. Like Magazine's Secondhand Daylight, or the Sound's All Fall Down, Sleep No More can be a trudge and quite bleak, perhaps even impenetrable at times. However, as with Waiting for a Miracle, the dynamics of the album become increasingly perceptible with each play, and the slowest, austerest passages begin to seem as intense as the few that slam and punch
With the exception of "Restless," a mood piece of harmonic flickers, light whispers, and low throb, the album is driven by Mik Glaisher's booming drums, which were recorded in a manner - near a lift shaft, to be precise, with microphones placed on six surrounding floors - that makes the album wholly enveloping and, occasionally, imposing. (Imagine Joy Division's "I Remember Nothing" and Talking Heads' "The Overload" on top of one another, doubled in heaviness.)
Col. Bruce Hampton Fixin' To Die (Live)
Equal parts psychedelicized Allman Brothers and boogiefied Grateful Dead (with a dash of Commander Cody thrown in), Col. Bruce Hampton and his various groups, particularly the Aquarium Rescue Unit, played a key role in the jam band scene that began sweeping through America beginning in the early '90s.
The Atlanta-born Hampton had been an eccentric figure on the Southern music circuit beginning in the early '60s; as the Hampton Grease Band, he released Music to Eat on Columbia Records in 1969. After the Grease Band folded, Hampton released a solo effort (One Ruined Life of a Bronze Tourist in 1978) and then founded New Ice Age, which soon evolved into the Late Bronze Age.
The Late Bronze Age released two albums, Outside Looking Out (1980) and Isles of Langerhan (1982). The Colonel recorded a second solo album, Arkansas, in 1984 and by 1987 the group had broken up.
Hampton then formed the Aquarium Rescue Unit, an eclectic congregation adept at everything from country-swing jazz to meltdown Southern boogie and over-amped gospel bluegrass.
By the time of 1992's Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit, the band featured Oteil Burbridge on bass and vocals, guitarist Jimmy Herring, Matt Mundy on electric mandolin and vocals, and drummer Apt. Q258; the record documented a live date from the previous September.
The band's first studio album, Mirrors of Embarrassment, was released in mid-1993, concurrent with an appearance on the H.O.R.D.E. (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere) tour. Shortly after the release of Mirrors of Embarrassment, Hampton left the group, but the Aquarium Rescue Unit continued touring and recording without him, releasing In a Perfect World in 1996.
Hampton Grease Band - Evans
underrrated bands ... there are, and will continue to be, bands that deserved to be known, and recognized for their albums.
Hampton Grease Band may have ultimately been a band easier to appreciate in concept than to listen to in practice.
They are also, for most listeners, a band that's much more fun to read about than to hear.
Hampton Grease Band's only album, now reissued as a double CD, is a one-of-a-kind item, drawing upon jazz, progressive/psychedelic guitar rock, and a generally surrealist bent to back Bruce Hampton's idiot-savant ravings. Comparisons with Zappa and Beefheart are really inevitable, though Hampton Grease Band really weren't on the level of those two fellow weirdos.
For a brief period, though, they were offering some of the wackiest rock ever to be found on a major label. Clearly influenced by both Zappa and Beefheart, but more grating and even less accessible to the rock underground, they took early-'70s avant-rock aesthetics near to their extremes.
This guaranteed an eternal cult reputation for the group, but also ensured that their commercial success in their own time was virtually nil.
Hampton Grease Band began as a blues-rock-oriented outfit in the late '60s in Atlanta, where the underground rock scene was barely big enough to support them. They managed to carve a reputation at a local underground club, as well as by playing support to psychedelic/progressive acts like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Procol Harum, and the Allman Brothers.
The group steadily developed a more original sound, emphasizing intricate, Zappa-esque guitar lines and Bruce Hampton's off-the-cuff, non-sequitur lyrics, usually shouted in a throaty, scratchy wheeze that made Beefheart sound like Pavarotti.
The band often betrayed the Zappa influence in their theatrical, sometimes confrontational stage show, in which Hampton would throw chairs at the audience, or sing while standing on a pizza.
They polarized audiences, to say the least; they were pelted with cups of ice at one memorable gig that found them playing to a crowd of 10,000 as the warm-up act for Three Dog Night (a bill that must have been devised by Salvador Dali).
Confronted with the tapes, Columbia reacted most unpredictably, deciding to make the band's debut (and, as it turned out, only) record a double album, Music to Eat.
Legend has it that it was, at the time of its release, the second-lowest selling LP in the Columbia catalog (beaten only by a yoga record).
Columbia itself didn't help matters by marketing Music to Eat as a comedy album. Shortly after its release, Hampton Grease Band began to disintegrate, with the departure of guitarist Harold Kelling.
Columbia itself didn't help matters by marketing Music to Eat as a comedy album. Shortly after its release, Hampton Grease Band began to disintegrate, with the departure of guitarist Harold Kelling.
05/09/2020
The Doors Hello, I Love You German TV show, 1968
OTD,1968, on their first ever visit to the UK The Doors appeared on Top Of The Pops performing 'Hello I Love You' live on the TV show.
Intuition (Remastered 2010)
1966 - John Lennon
started work on his role as Private Gripweed in the film 'How I Won The War'. The black comedy directed by Richard Lester, was filmed in Spain in Almería Province and saw Lennon, taking a long-overdue break from The Beatles after nearly four years of constant touring.
02/09/2020
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