In your CD player
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The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones LP. 1964. Their debut album, coming out a year later than "Please Please Me". The Rolling Stones have a lead singer and their beat music has more blues in it, Muddy Waters and Howlin 'Wolf. I'm fond of this early 60s era of beat bands, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, The Who.... Even Bob Dylan would go beat in 1965. A few years later they'd be more artistic but this early to mid-60s period is all about youtful exitement. Not "My Generation" but my favorite generation in rock and pop ever.
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Starship Trooper ~ YES The encore song from their concert last night!
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Day & Night: Big Band - Chicago
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Believe What You Say (single version) - Rick Nelson
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Bridges to Babylon - The Rolling Stones LP. 1997. An attempt to seamlessly combine Mick Jagger's desire to use the latest technology and Keith Richard's need for a more basic sound. Song quality may vary depending on the mood but I think the album is primarily a bit too long. Only Tindersticks managed to fill up the CD with meaning and not just fill up more space in the 90s. 45 minutes I think is perfect for Stones rock. Otherwise, it's an album I might like better now than when it came out. Just the sound they create collectively, it sounds like no other. I sends shivers up and down my spine.
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Brain damage -pink floyd
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2 Hours Of Fantasy Music...
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Chants of India - Ravi Shankar 1997. Produced by George Harrison. Of the fab four, I've always felt the closest to Harrison and his World Music view. He wrote genius pop songs but also had a need to do something completely different once in while, something exotic that was not pop/rock at all or chasing the Billboard Charts. Like producing Ravi Shankar. "Chants of Inida" is meditative music. Maybe I would have liked something more uptempo occasionally but I think the meaning is sinking into the music and join in a trance. In this sense it is an albums that might seem boring if one is not in the mood but relaxing if you are.
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Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys
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Give my regards to broad street
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Me And You - Ringo
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Band on the run
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Blue Suede Shoes > A Rockabilly Session - Carl Perkins & Friends 1986. Recorded 21 October 1985. A televised concert. Featuring Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Dave Edmunds, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom of Stray Cats, etc. + +. It may not be the tightest rockabilly band with so many guest artists but the joy of performing the music is contagious.
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New - Paul McCartney 2013. Standard version. Four producers and an army of engineers but remains nevertheless on the right side of overproduced. Already two years ago it came out but still feels fresh after sensation of hearing a new McCartney album is gone. It stands up well so far. Some of the songs are perhaps more ambient than memorable but works fine in totality.
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^ Ironically and synchronistically... I am listening to that album right now with headphones on...started about ten minutes ago.
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The Something Rain - Tindersticks 2012. I've been a fan of Tindersticks since their 1993 debut. They made three epic albums in a row where they used the CD's value of more space than on a LP to a full extent. They split up in 2003 but returned in 2008 with a mix of original members and new. "The Something Rain" may not be a collection of the most memorable songs Stuart A. Staples has written but it is like a world of its own in the ambient soundscape. The album starts with a 10 minute long prose poem set to music. Nothing is designed to make it easier for the listener, this is a room for music, take it or leave it. I love their particualar sound, the instrumentation and the moods... For me Tindersticks are kings of melancholia. You can hear traces of Roxy Music, David Bowie and Hot Chocolate in it. Some of their appointed influences.
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Dondestan - Robert Wyatt 1991. In 1998 he reissued it as "Dondestan (Revisted)". The original 1991 release ran over budget and he had to rush the final mix. It was deleted when Wyatt seven years later got a chance to mix the album satisfactory. I still think this is nice, although the re-release is maybe a little tighter. It's still a piece of ambient and new-age like sounding music with Wyatt in his one-man band minimalist period. Maybe not the best introduction to his music but essential for fans. It was supposedly "Dondestan" which led to the verb "Wyatting". This is written in Wikipedia: The verb "Wyatting" appeared in some blogs and music magazines to describe the practice of playing unusual tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers, in particular Dondestan. Wyatt was quoted in 2006 in The Guardian as saying "I think it's really funny" and "I'm very honoured at the idea of becoming a verb." However, when asked if he would ever try it himself, he said: "I don't really like disconcerting people, but even when I try to be normal I disconcert anyway." However, Alfreda Benge said it made her angry "that Robert should be used as a means of clever dicks asserting their superiority in pubs ... It's so unlike Robert, because he's so appreciative of the strengths of pop music. So that, I think, is a real unfairness. The man who coined it, I should like to punch him in the nose."
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Wow, looks like there is finally a brand new Joanna Newsom album "Divers" coming out October 23, 2015. It's been five years since the last one. I found a teaser on youtube, an official video of "Sapokanikan". It may sound like the Kate Bush influence on the previous "Have One On Me" album is no less here. This is one of autumn's most exciting releases!
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Pleasant Valley Sunday (demo) - Carol King
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The Whole Love - Wilco 2011. A new Wilco album "Star Wars" is coming out in a few days (21 Aug. 2015) so I thought it was a good idea to warm up with some back catalog. "The Whole Love" are still their latest. There are so much to love about Wilco for a listener like me. Much of their way to make music is rooted in the late 60s - early 70s. The Beatles... A musical playfulness but always with the good songs as a mainstay. Jeff Tweedy has also a poet in him that makes his lyrics distinctive.