Various Chuck Berry tracks from a range of albums, following his mention by AMClark in another thread. Currentyly listeningto Rock and Roll Music, Johnny B Goode next up in a few minutes
Bandcamp was started in 2007, so that's probably a typo or something.
Speaking of which, at the moment I'm listening to this:
This is a compilation of Patrick Fitzgerald's first two self-released recordings (as "Stephenhero") after Kitchens of Distinction broke up - the second one, Lullaby, has been available on eMusic for at least 2-3 years, but I believe the first one (Landed) hasn't been available online until today. It's not all that consistent, nor is it anywhere near as spacey-guitar-driven as Kitchens of Distinction, but some of the tracks are quite good indeed.
I haven't listened to this album in a long time, but listening to it today reminds me just how good I think it is. At least 2 emusic members agree with me, giving it 5 stars. I agree with the last sentence of the review below (taken from the band's website) which says this album is best appreciated by taking some time and listening to the album in its entirety. Having said that, the absolute standout track is "Stoney Ridge (Tribute to Roger McGuinn)", followed by "Wolf" and "Stranger." So very good...
"The Damage" is full of emotion, actually it's bursting with it and the sorrow and sadness soon takes a firm grip on you. This man has got a voice, one of those that creep under your skin, and despite the album preferring the mid-tempo or the slow songs and employing the fiddle and mandolin as well as the electric and acoustic guitars it is a Rock record. Because it's not a complex record, theres's no complicated textures, no frilly arrangements, it's as simple as it can be, as direct as possible, as Adams avoids shallowness, avoids false pathos, he's ernest and sincere. He is a believer. Believing in the power of Rock music, universal Rock music, free from fashions and designs, Rock music that can overcome the failures of love. He's healing himself as much as he can heal us. But don't expect the new drug, the prophet, the guru. Contrary, he is as vulnerable as we are. But he has got a hold ... it has got six strings and a couple of vocal chords. And he has got hope, not like the lost traveller in the desert has hope to find a waterhole. It is hope spiritual, something that has to do with vibrations, something that the so-called primitive cultures are still experiencing, something we, stupified by civilisation, numbed by the media, crippled by politics, have long lost.
Chris Adams lyrics are easy to get, they've got to. He is singing about the basics of existence. About love. "The Damage" is telling us about the destructive power of love and negative emotions, of marks of weakness and marks of woe. It's also telling us about the strength of love and its ability to overcome.
By the way, don't hear "The Damage" in portions, take some time, play it once completely and then play it again. You'll be playing it again and again."
- 1974
ROBERT FRIPP: GUITAR AND MELLOTRON
JOHN WETTON: BASS AND VOICE
WILLIAM BRUFORD: PERCUSSIVES
with:
DAVID CROSS: VIOLIN
MEL COLLINS: SOPRANO SAXOPHONE
IAN McDONALD: ALTO SAXOPHONE
ROBIN MILLER: OBOE
MARC CHARIG: CORNET
Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.
Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.
Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING an observation by KING CRIMSON - 1969
ROBERT FRIPP: GUITAR
IAN McDONALD: REEDS, WOODWIND, VIBES, KEYBOARDS, MELLOTRON, VOCALS
GREG LAKE: BASS GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS
MICHAEL GILES: DRUMS, PERCUSSION, VOCALS
PETER SINFIELD: WORDS AND ILLUMINATION
I haven't heard that album in years BN! I only have it on LP but I have nothing to play it on! But I do have some other John Mayall so I'll start with the obvious
Back in 1999, Anna Domino and Michael Delory were hailed as the future of folk. They called themselves Snakefarm, and on their album Songs from My Funeral they dared to rework well-worn American traditional songs such as Frankie and Johnny, using electronica along with guitars, with reminders that Domino's earlier recordings had influenced the British trip-hop movement. Snakefarm were widely praised, but then disappeared, apparently because record companies in the US didn't realise how special they were. But now, 12 years on, comes their follow-up. Once again, they rework well-known American folk standards. Johnny now comes marching home to a shuffling, drifting backing, with Domino's cool, powerful vocals transforming the song into a contemporary lament for wounded soldiers. Darlin' Corey is treated to a quietly menacing work-over with dobro and banjo along with the synth and drum programming. They even tackle Michael (Row the Boat Ashore), with the old Peter, Paul and Mary sing-along given cool, shuffling guitar work and vocal effects. Inevitably, it doesn't sound quite as revolutionary as their debut, but it's a welcome return
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- Track 2 is awesome !
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@GP re: Infraction:
According to the RSS feed it has been on Bandcamp since 2004.
Speaking of which, at the moment I'm listening to this:
This is a compilation of Patrick Fitzgerald's first two self-released recordings (as "Stephenhero") after Kitchens of Distinction broke up - the second one, Lullaby, has been available on eMusic for at least 2-3 years, but I believe the first one (Landed) hasn't been available online until today. It's not all that consistent, nor is it anywhere near as spacey-guitar-driven as Kitchens of Distinction, but some of the tracks are quite good indeed.
Streaming from bandcamp. Another entry in the burgeoning occasional-piano-notes-and-strings-with-electronic-textures genre. Nice stuff though uneven.
emusic link
I haven't listened to this album in a long time, but listening to it today reminds me just how good I think it is. At least 2 emusic members agree with me, giving it 5 stars. I agree with the last sentence of the review below (taken from the band's website) which says this album is best appreciated by taking some time and listening to the album in its entirety. Having said that, the absolute standout track is "Stoney Ridge (Tribute to Roger McGuinn)", followed by "Wolf" and "Stranger." So very good...
Today's DotD, <Insert Flogging Molly BDSM joke here>. Great album, pretty angry at the man in a generally drunken Irish kinda way.
ROBERT FRIPP: GUITAR AND MELLOTRON
JOHN WETTON: BASS AND VOICE
WILLIAM BRUFORD: PERCUSSIVES
with:
DAVID CROSS: VIOLIN
MEL COLLINS: SOPRANO SAXOPHONE
IAN McDONALD: ALTO SAXOPHONE
ROBIN MILLER: OBOE
MARC CHARIG: CORNET
KING CRIMSON - LARKS' TONGUES IN ASPIC - 1973
DAVID CROSS: VIOLIN, VIOLA, MELLOTRON
ROBERT FRIPP: GUITAR, MELLOTRON & DEVICES
JOHN WETTON: BASS & VOCALS
BILL BRUFORD: DRUMS
JAMIE MUIR: PERCUSSIONS & ALLSORTS
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.
Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.
Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING an observation by KING CRIMSON - 1969
ROBERT FRIPP: GUITAR
IAN McDONALD: REEDS, WOODWIND, VIBES, KEYBOARDS, MELLOTRON, VOCALS
GREG LAKE: BASS GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS
MICHAEL GILES: DRUMS, PERCUSSION, VOCALS
PETER SINFIELD: WORDS AND ILLUMINATION
- From my 2011 Best Of . . . (is still beeing edited)
Jonah's influence with this, just downloaded
- Hot !
Guardian 30.09.11
Nicely priced at eMu
This is a great collection of Milt with various combos...recc'd for anybody who doesn't already have the albums from which this comp is drawn.