In your CD player
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Jersey Boys Soundtrack
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The Whole Story Kate Bush
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Animals - Pink Floyd LP actually, from an 80s Pink Floyd Collection box set. I wonder if I bought it used in the early 90s. Not a bad record but anyway one of these albums I've never managed to really get into. I can't sing along to it. Pink Floyd had a great period in the 70s but my favorite album remains Syd Barretts' 1967 masterpiece "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". Perhaps the greatest psychedelic album ever.
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Thrive - Casting Crowns
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Beautiful Now ~ Zedd a great band that I found at the Firefly Festival
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Lost in the Dream - The War on Drugs Remember I read some good reviews last year when this album came out. It triggered my interest, maybe something for me... but I forgot and recently read about it again and decided to check it out. A new band, some new music.. And hey, my intuition was with me here. This is rather good, think I can hear influences from bands like The Waterboys and Mercury Rev... My finest discovery in a while.
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You - Gong A remastred 2004 reissue of this progressive hippie classic from 1974. A band formed by Daevid Allen, as part of the Canterbury scene in the late 60s/early 70s. He played with Robert Waytt (another favorite artist of mine) in an early formation of Soft Machine. It's trippy music with a sense of humor.
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Press - Paul McCartney 12" maxi-single from 1986 with an instrumental track called "Hanglide", written by McCartney/Stewart. I think most single b-sides was included on CD reissues of "Press to Play", but as far as I know is this song only to be found on this vinyl release. It's a pretty cool track. A bit Jean Michel Jarre-ish to my ears. Or at least in that kind of genre.
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Different Every Time - Robert Wyatt A double disc compilation with his own stuff solo and as band leader on disc one and collaborations and guest appearances on disc two. It was released simultanously with an autobiography of the same name in 2014. Robert Wyatt is one of my favorite musicians of all time, he's got such a lovely spirit. I always wished he and McCartney did something together. Wyatt was as a drummer and lead voalist with legendary Soft Machine in the 60s but broke his back in 1973 and was bound to a weelchair. No more virtuoso drumming but he found a new pace and ways of making music with the classic "Rock Bottom" in 1974. A dreamy type of progressive jazzy rock and psychedelic pop with more space to breathe.
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Cuckooland - Robert Wyatt 2003 studio album. After a couple of minimalist one-man band albums in the 80s-90s, Wyatt came back with the musician filled "Shleep" in 1997. A record of jazzy psychedelic pop, rock beauty, This is the sequel, maybe with a little more world music inspiration.
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´..........For The Ghosts Within´ - Wyatt / Atzmon / Stephen Robert Wyatt's 2010 collaboration with Ros Stephen and Gilad Atzom. Atzmon is a jazz saxophonist who played on other Wyatt records. It's a jazzy album with a 'Sgt. Pepper' production. "Where Are They Now?" is a hip hop track featuring Stormtrap. It's got jazz covers... with Wyatt whisteling "Lush Life" and a lovely version of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful world". And a cover of Wyatt's own 1981 cover of Chic's "At last I am Free". One of my favorite albums in the 10s' so far.
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Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India - Ravi Shankar 1976. Produced by George Harrison. Harrison was the Beatle with the most exotic taste in music, he wrote pop songs but also introduced pop culture to Hindustani Classical Music. I might say thanks to Olivia Harrison who put together the Ravi Shankar / George Harrison "Collaborations" box set in 2010 that has made me discover this side of Harrison's musical persona in a way I hadn't before it.
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Listening to Seventh Sojourn...They played a lot of songs from this album when I just saw them
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Voormann & Friends: A Sideman's Journey - Klaus Voormann 2009 release. Klaus Voorman's first and (so far) only solo album. He played bass on many recordings by John, George and Ringo in the 70s. He also made the cover art for "Revolver" and became friends with The Beatles in their early Hamburg days. Paul McCartney is a guest artist on Fats Domino's "I'm In Love Again", playing various instruments and singing lead vocals with Ringo Starr on drums and Klaus Voormann on bass. Other guest artists on "A Sideman's Journey" includes Don Preston, Yusuf Islam, John Fohl, Bonnie Bramlett, The Manfreds, Max Buskohl and Dr. John. It's a rocking and popping album of well played musicianship. I got it out of curiosity when it came out. And it's become a record I've played quite a lot.
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Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
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Radiohead -In Rainbows
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Live at the Jive Hive, March 1960 - Rory Storm and the Hurricanes 2012 release. A live recording with supposedly Ringo Starr on drums. Ringo has denied this and said that he had quit the band to play in The Beatles. Which makes no sense, March 1960... I'm also pretty sure I recognize his drums... It's not amazingly well played, but one has to start somewhere. This is apparently the only recording that is found from the Merseybeat scene before "Love Me Do". Fun to hear, I think at least.
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George Harrison - George Harrison 2004 remaster. This 1979 solo Harrison album is close to a masterpiece to my ears. Not in the monumental mount everest-ish way of "All Things Must Pass" but as far as a summery feelgood pop album go, I think this has it all.
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Ween - 12 Country Golden Greats.
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The Album Collection Vol. 1, 1973-1984 - Bruce Springsteen 2014 box set with all his studio albums 73-84 remastered. I have all the records on LP, wich are much played and I have the CD's but I was never satisfied with "The River" on CD, it sounded flat, and "Born in the USA" thin. "The Wild, the Innocemt and the E Street Shuffle" sounded murky. And this is a nice price box set... With replica LP sleeves. I still follow his music career and find most he do well worth a listen. But there are something about this period in his recording career that he has never quite managed to capture again, after his 5 year hiatus and comeback in 1992. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973) The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle (1973) Born To Run (1975) Darkness On The Edge Of Town (197 The River (1980) Nebraska (1982) Born In The U.S.A. (1984)