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The records on this page are ones I wish were better known and/or I'm posting them for my friends (all are trimmed 2/3 in, except for John Kessel) | The records on this page are ones I wish were better known and/or I'm posting them for my friends (all are trimmed 2/3 in, except for John Kessel) | ||
- | John Kessel | + | ====== John Kessel ====== |
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An amazing songwriter and guitar player, John Kessel, a friend of mine, has developed a unique style and plays with a passion, fury even, that really shouldn't be missed | An amazing songwriter and guitar player, John Kessel, a friend of mine, has developed a unique style and plays with a passion, fury even, that really shouldn't be missed | ||
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+ | ====== You: Listen to These Records ====== | ||
- | Two Dance-y Trance-y Covers of 60s | + | ==== ==== |
- | Tunes | + | |
+ | {{:pressure-cooking_labelle.mp3|Pressure Cooking, Labelle}} | ||
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+ | The human-voice equivalent of Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing | ||
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+ | Date Added: 3/21/2010 | ||
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+ | {{:kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3|kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3}} | ||
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+ | ==== A Pair of Paradoxes ==== | ||
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+ | {{:breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3|breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3}} | ||
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+ | harmony all the way through | ||
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+ | {{:no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3|no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3}} | ||
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+ | slow-build thriller | ||
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+ | {{:gypsy_moody-blues.mp3|gypsy_moody-blues.mp3}} | ||
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+ | Date Added: 3/13/2010 | ||
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+ | ====== Two Dance-y Trance-y Covers of 60s Tunes ====== | ||
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{{:can_tfindmywayhome-torchsong-edit.mp3|Can't Find My Way Home - Torch Song}} | {{:can_tfindmywayhome-torchsong-edit.mp3|Can't Find My Way Home - Torch Song}} | ||
- | {{:special_areas:lindalaw.jpg|}} | + | {{:lindalaw.jpg|}} |
- | <img src="imags/" alt="Linda Law, Nights in White Satin" style="width: 155px; height: 156px;"></a> | ||
+ | {{:nightsinwhitesatin-lindalaw-edit.mp3|Nights In White Satin - Linda Law}} | ||
+ | ====== Mad Violets, World of ... (1986) ====== | ||
- | {{:nightsinwhitesatin-lindalaw-edit.mp3|Nights In White Satin - Linda Law}} | ||
- | alt="Mad Violets - World of" src="imags/MadViolets-WorldOf.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="30">Mad Violets, World of ... | + | {{:madviolets-worldof.jpg|}} |
- | This is an awesome EP of 80s | + | This is an awesome EP of 80s neopsychedelia. Four originals and a cover of The Move's I Can Hear the Grass Grow. |
- | neopsychedelia (1986). Four | + | |
- | originals and a cover of The Move's I Can Hear the Grass Grow. | + | |
Track list: | Track list: | ||
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{{:blacklightsoundreality-madviolets-edit.mp3|Black Light Sound Reality}} | {{:blacklightsoundreality-madviolets-edit.mp3|Black Light Sound Reality}} | ||
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{{:crystalchandelier-madviolets-edit.mp3|Crystal Chandelier}} | {{:crystalchandelier-madviolets-edit.mp3|Crystal Chandelier}} | ||
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{{:comeoutandplay-madviolets-edit.mp3|Come Out and Play?}} | {{:comeoutandplay-madviolets-edit.mp3|Come Out and Play?}} | ||
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- | Jr. Gone Wild, Less Art More | ||
- | Pop! | ||
- | Catchy, fun, idiosyncratic band from | + | |
- | Canada with a couple proto-genius songwriters. Second only to the | + | ====== Jr. Gone Wild, Less Art More Pop! (1986) ====== |
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+ | {{:jr_gonewild.jpg|}} | ||
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+ | Catchy, fun, idiosyncratic band from Canada with a couple proto-genius songwriters. Second only to the | ||
Association in sophomoric but still impressive lyrical glossolalia | Association in sophomoric but still impressive lyrical glossolalia | ||
- | (1986). | ||
- | The first song I'm posting shows | + | The first song I'm posting shows their popcraft, and a little craziness in the lyrics: |
- | their popcraft, and a little craziness in the lyrics: | + | |
{{:she_llneverknow-jr_gonewild-edit.mp3|She'll Never Know}} | {{:she_llneverknow-jr_gonewild-edit.mp3|She'll Never Know}} | ||
- | This second tune has some truly crazy | + | This second tune has some truly crazy lyrics (2nd verse, esp.), which are reprinted below: |
- | lyrics (2nd verse, esp.), which are reprinted below: | + | |
{{:heatheronabadday-jr_gonewild-edit.mp3|Heather on a Bad Day}} | {{:heatheronabadday-jr_gonewild-edit.mp3|Heather on a Bad Day}} | ||
- | Lyrics to Jr. Gone Wild, Heather on a Bad Day (M. McDonald) | + | === Lyrics to Jr. Gone Wild, Heather on a Bad Day (M. McDonald) === |
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- | Sitting by the fountain protecting | + | Sitting by the fountain protecting her skin from the mist |
- | her skin from the mist | + | |
And her entourage respects her, on that she must insist | And her entourage respects her, on that she must insist | ||
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Cuz she controls her atmosphere and she's not in a very good mood | Cuz she controls her atmosphere and she's not in a very good mood | ||
- | And there are pictures in behind her eyes she's dreaming of where she | + | And there are pictures in behind her eyes she's dreaming of where she should be |
- | should be | + | |
Should be hailed as a princess cuz she's royalty | Should be hailed as a princess cuz she's royalty | ||
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And the rancid badly timed statements from men don't warrant a response | And the rancid badly timed statements from men don't warrant a response | ||
- | Unflinchingly she discards these fools like clothes cuz they don't have | + | Unflinchingly she discards these fools like clothes cuz they don't have what she needs |
- | what she needs | + | |
- | And the watery eyed adolescents with their hearts torn out see her as a | + | And the watery eyed adolescents with their hearts torn out see her as a taloned vixen |
- | taloned vixen | + | |
Heather's gaze is far away she's catching herself wishing, she's wishing | Heather's gaze is far away she's catching herself wishing, she's wishing | ||
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It's her private truth something she doesn't want to show | It's her private truth something she doesn't want to show | ||
- | And as sure as the sky is blue that cumulus spectacle there belongs to | + | And as sure as the sky is blue that cumulus spectacle there belongs to her |
- | her | + | |
The world is her ring her entourage are her bangles | The world is her ring her entourage are her bangles | ||
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+ | ====== Green, self-titled first alb (1986) ====== | ||
- | <p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Green, self-titled" src="imags/Green.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="30">Green, self-titled first alb | + | {{:green.jpg|}} |
- | (1986) | + | |
- | I'm posting this whole album (songs | + | I'm posting this whole album (songs trimmed 2/3 in). Great Beatle-ish/Kinks-ish/Prince-ish! power pop. Jeff Lescher shoulda been as big as Paul Westerberg. If you don't listen to everything, don't miss the ones with |
- | trimmed 2/3 in). Great Beatle-ish/Kinks-ish/Prince-ish! | + | |
- | power pop. Jeff Lescher shoulda been as big as Paul Westerberg. If you | + | |
- | don't listen to everything, don't miss the ones with | + | |
asterisks. | asterisks. | ||
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{{:she_probably-green-edit.mp3|She, Probably}} | {{:she_probably-green-edit.mp3|She, Probably}} | ||
- | {{:notgoingdown(anymore)-green-edit.mp3|Not Going Down (Anymore)}} | + | {{:notgoingdownanymore-green-edit.mp3|Not Going Down (Anymore)}} |
- | {{:biginjapan-green-edit.mp3|Big | + | {{:biginjapan-green-edit.mp3|Big In Japan}} |
- | In Japan}} | + | |
- | <p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="After 7" src="imags/After7.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">After | ||
- | 7, self-titled first | ||
- | alb (1989) | ||
+ | ====== After 7, self-titled first alb (1989) ====== | ||
- | At the turn of the 90s there was a | + | |
- | certain amount of quietly traditionalist R&B, of the Anita | + | |
- | Baker sort. Can't Stop has the kind of groove you never want | + | {{:after7.jpg|}} |
- | to end, and when I got the single, I was pleasantly surprised to find | + | |
- | Ready or Not on the B side. It seemed familiar, I thought | + | |
- | maybe it was a cover | + | |
- | of a mid-70s or late-60s tune. But it's not. | + | At the turn of the 90s there was a certain amount of quietly traditionalist R&B, of the Anita Baker sort. Can't Stop has the kind of groove you never want to end, and when I got the single, I was pleasantly surprised to find Ready or Not on the B side. It seemed familiar, I thought maybe it was a cover of a mid-70s or late-60s tune. But it's not. |
{{:can_tstop-after7-edit.mp3|Can't Stop}} | {{:can_tstop-after7-edit.mp3|Can't Stop}} | ||
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- | <p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Blue Hippos" src="imags/BueHippos.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">Blue Hippos, self-titled first record, EP (1987) | ||
+ | ====== Blue Hippos ====== | ||
- | This guy, Paul Osby, singer | + | |
- | guitarist, oozes | + | |
- | attitude, undoubtedly too much. He was gonna die before he got old. But | + | {{:bluehippos.jpg|}} |
- | the main attraction is his guitar playing, effortless. I saw them in | + | |
- | Iowa City at the time and Osby was so cool. He peeled off | + | |
- | these | + | Paul Osby the singer/guitarist of this group and an earlier one, oozes attitude, undoubtedly too much. He was gonna die before he got old. But the main attraction is his guitar playing, effortless. I saw them in Iowa City at the time and Osby was so cool. He peeled off these wicked snarly guitar lines, from ultra-low-slung guitar, cigarette in mouth, while singing! |
- | wicked snarly guitar lines, from ultra-low-slung guitar, with | + | |
- | a | + | |
- | cigarette in his mouth, while singing! | + | |
{{:can_tstopsweating-bluehippos-edit.mp3|Can't Stop Sweating}} | {{:can_tstopsweating-bluehippos-edit.mp3|Can't Stop Sweating}} | ||
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- | <p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Tamia" src="imags/Tamia.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">Tamia | ||
- | (1998), song originally recorded w/Quincy Jones (1994) | ||
- | Her voice is perfect, pure, clear, | + | ====== Tamia (1998), song originally recorded w/Quincy Jones (1994) ====== |
- | relaxed but completely in control. Like a certain other | + | |
- | perfect-voicester (initials WH), but with added sweetness | + | |
+ | {{:tamia.jpg|}} | ||
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+ | Her voice is perfect, pure, clear, relaxed but completely in control. Like a certain other perfect-voicester (initials WH), but with added sweetness | ||
{{:youputamoveonmyheart-tamia-edit.mp3|You Put A Move On My Heart}} | {{:youputamoveonmyheart-tamia-edit.mp3|You Put A Move On My Heart}} | ||
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- | <p class="Categ">Random stuff you should listen to if you | + | ====== Random stuff you should listen to if you don't know it ====== |
- | don't know it | + | |
+ | {{:deadcandance-withintherealmofadyingsun.jpg|}} | ||
- | <p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Dead Can Dance, Within The Realm Of A Dying Su" src="imags/DeadCanDance-WithinTheRealmOfADyingSun.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">Dead Can Dance, Within the | + | Dead Can Dance, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987) |
- | Realm of a Dying Sun (1987) | + | |
- | I was surprised in 1990 to hear | + | I was surprised in 1990 to hear from a friend that she was going to see these folks play. Now somewhat well-known, I guess this band's gothic-ness saved it from the dustbin of history |
- | from a | + | |
- | friend that she was going to see these folks play. Now somewhat | + | |
- | well-known, | + | |
- | I guess this band's gothic-ness saved it from the dustbin of history | + | |
{{:cantara-deadcandance-edit.mp3|Cantara}} | {{:cantara-deadcandance-edit.mp3|Cantara}} | ||
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{{:whichwayisup-stargard-edit.mp3|Which Way Is Up - Stargard}} | {{:whichwayisup-stargard-edit.mp3|Which Way Is Up - Stargard}} | ||
- | {{:darlin_darlin_baby(sweet_tender_love)-o_jays-edit.mp3|Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender Love) - O-Jays}} | + | {{:darlindarlinbabysweettenderlove-ojays-edit.mp3|Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender Love) - O-Jays}} |
{{:fortheloveofmoney-o-jays-edit.mp3|For the Love of Money - O-Jays}} | {{:fortheloveofmoney-o-jays-edit.mp3|For the Love of Money - O-Jays}} | ||
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{{:highlifetime-georgedarko-edit.mp3|Highlife Time - George Darko}} | {{:highlifetime-georgedarko-edit.mp3|Highlife Time - George Darko}} | ||
- | 80s supergroup with R.E.M.'s Michael | + | 80s supergroup with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe singing and Richard Thompson, elect. lead guitar: |
- | Stipe singing and Richard Thompson, elect. lead guitar: | + | |
- | {{:boy(go)-goldenpalominos-edit.mp3|Boy (Go) - Golden Palominos}} | + | {{:boygo-goldenpalominos-edit.mp3|Boy (Go) - Golden Palominos}} |
{{:lullabyofbroadway-bramtchaikovsky-edit.mp3|Lullaby of Broadway - Bram Tchaikovsky}} | {{:lullabyofbroadway-bramtchaikovsky-edit.mp3|Lullaby of Broadway - Bram Tchaikovsky}} | ||
- | {{:meltingpot-bookert_andthem_g__s-edit.mp3|Melting Pot - Booker T. & the MGs}} | + | {{:meltingpot-bookertandthemgs-edit.mp3|Melting Pot - Booker T. & the MGs}} |
- | {{:boogiewoogiewaltz[edit]-weatherreport.mp3|Boogie Woogie Waltz [starts midway thru 12 min tune] - Weather Report}} | + | {{:boogiewoogiewaltz-edit-weatherreport.mp3|Boogie Woogie Waltz [starts midway thru 12 min tune] - Weather Report}} |