John Butler Trio - John Butler 2Pac - Live DMB - Live Stuff Bob Marley - Survival Michael Franti - Live Stuff Ben Harper - Live Stuff Agents of Good Roots - Straightaround
its all songs. it is a re-working of the beach boys album smile from 67. brian wilson had a nervous breakdown during the recording of this record and it was never properly released as he imagined it. wilson and his current band rerecorded the entire album as he wanted it earlier this year. the new record sounds just like it could have come out of the 60's, from the instrumentation to the recording. i think they even went to the same studio where they tried to do it back in the 60's. i still prefer the bootlegs of the original sessions.
Killswitch Engage- The End of Heartache Slipknot- Volume 3 (The Subliminal Voices) Underoath- They're Only Chasing Safety Head Automatica- Decadence Anadivine- Zoo Muse- Showbiz And two albums that seem to never leave the rotation: Coheed and Cambria- Second Stage Turbine Blade Dillinger Escape Plan- Miss Machine
FWIW http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rt9us35wa3dg~T1 The white whale of '60s record-making, the Beach Boys' aborted SMiLE album gradually gained a legend that not only inflated its importance and its complexity, but gave credence to an odd notion -- that completing it, then or ever, was impossible. In truth, SMiLE should have been released and forgotten, reissued and reappraised, and finally remastered for the digital era and ushered into the rock canon ever since Brian Wilson halted work on it in May 1967 (after an exhausting 85 recording sessions). Instead, it languished in the vaults and remained the perfect record -- perfect, of course, because it had never been finished. Reports that the recording of "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" had caused a nearby building to burn down and whispers of "inappropriate music" gave it the character of a monster, one that cursed all those who approached it and claimed the heart and mind of its closest participant. Wilson's love of "feels" -- short passages of cyclical music that could be overdubbed and rearranged countless times -- had made 1966's "Good Vibrations" the ultimate pocket symphony, but had also quickly spiralled into the instability that consumed him during its follow-up, "Heroes and Villains," projected to be the centerpiece of SMiLE. Happily, a new recording of SMiLE by Brian Wilson reveals the record as nothing more or less than a jaunty epic of psychedelic Americana, a rambling and discursive, playful and affectionate series of song cycles. Infectious and hummable, to be sure, and a remarkably unified, irresistible piece of pop music, but no musical watershed on par with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Wilson's masterpiece, Pet Sounds. For the first time ever, the program for SMiLE was compiled, after Brian Wilson listened to the original recordings with his musical midwife, Darian Sahanaja of the Wondermints (which has long functioned as Wilson's live backing band), and worked them into a live show, then an album recording. The work that evolved divides into three sections: SMiLE begins with Americana, which takes the dream of continental expansion from the old Spanish town saga of "Heroes and Villains" to the landing at Plymouth Rock and the end of the frontier at Hawaii; it continues with a Cycle of Life that progresses from the virginal grace of "Wonderful" to the simultaneous peak and decline of the creative life on "Surf's Up"; and ends with an environmental cycle called The Elements, which includes "Vega-Tables," (Earth), "Wind Chimes" (Air), "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" (Fire), and "In Blue Hawaii" (Water). Since Wilson himself was previously the most opposed to SMiLE appearing in any form, it's a considerable shock that this new recording justifies even half of the promise that fans had attached to it. Everything that Wilson and his band could control sounds nearly perfect. Every instrument, every note, and every intonation is nearly identical to the late-'60s tapes; one has to wonder whether vintage hand tools weren't acquired for "Workshop" and Paul McCartney wasn't flown in to add chewing noises to "Vega-Tables." (The players did, however, book time at one of Brian's old haunts, Sunset Sound, and utilized a '60s tube console to record their vocals.) No, the harmonies here aren't the Beach Boys' harmonies, and Brian's vocals aren't the vocals he was capable of 37 years ago, but they're excellent and (best of all) never distracting. Aside from the technical acumen on display, Wilson has also, amazingly, found a home -- the proper home -- for all of the brilliant instrumental snippets that lent the greatest part of the mystery to the unreleased SMiLE. Van Dyke Parks' new (or newly heard) lyrics fit into these compositions, and the work as a whole, like hand in glove. (The former instrumentals include "Barnyard"; "Holiday," which is here called "On a Holiday"; "Look," which is now "Song for Children"; and "I Love to Say Da-Da," which is now part of "In Blue Hawaii.") Most surprisingly, nearly all of this thematic unity was accomplished by merely reworking the original material already on tape, which proves that Wilson was never very far from finishing SMiLE in 1967. (It's very likely that the gulf was psychological; SMiLE had few supporters among Brian's closest friends and family.) Hopefully, Capitol is readying a Smile Sessions box set to release all of the vintage material, but it's clear that nothing they dig up from the vaults will be able to match the unity displayed by this attractive new recording of SMiLE. It's up to the standards of anyone who's ever scoured the bootlegs to create a SMiLE tape, and it beats them all, which is the highest compliment. So, if you've never been burdened with a friend's SMiLE tape before, count yourself lucky that Brian Wilson's is the first you'll hear. And if you have heard a few, prepare to listen to them much less religiously.
Green Day - International superhits Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits Hootie & the Blowfish - Best of Hootie 93-03 Stone Temple Pilots - Thank You Pearl Jam - Ten Sister Hazel - Chasing Daylight
past 2 weeks or so. lots of old stuff that ive been digging up to listen to again and some new stuff. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor The Pixies - Bossanova ESG - Ocean of Funk Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger Sonic Youth - Dirty Mediski, Martin and Wood - Your Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps) 7 Seconds - The Crew Black Eyes - Self Titled The Minutemen - different songs that I have here and there, not a whole album
I love AC. Those are all great. I personally like Cold Cuts and Too Many Dirty Dishes. That one cracks me up. "Looks like there's a little cigar or somethin'. I don't even smoke no cigars."
Chris Thile - Deceiver Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who Is This America? The Rosta Jazz Avengers - s/t Jeff Buckley - Grace The Roots - The Tipping Point Brian Wilson - Smile A bunch of Ghost albums
Keane - Bedshaped Tonic - If you could only see Chingy - Balla Baby Ciara - 1, 2 step Finger Eleven - one thing amongst the other 600 songs i skim through
In the car (need to change it out): "Animals" - Pink Floyd "Moving Pictures" - Rush "Agaetis Byrjun" - Sigur Ros "Volume 4" - Black Sabbath "War" - U2 "Core" - Stone Temple Pilots At work/home: "Incredible Jazz Guitar" - Wes Montgomery "The Sermon" - Jimmy Smith "Back to the Tracks" - Tina Brooks "Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet" - Miles Davis
Frank Zappa "Quaudiophiliac" Had to buy a new DVD-Audio player to enjoy the full surround effect. Awesome.
70's and 80's chinese pop songs, nothing most of you know, but would probably heard if your neighbors are chinese and sings karaoke. That and Hiphop (Jay Z, Tu - Pac, Black Star, Dead Prez).
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart This album was supposed to have been released last week, I believe, but was pushed under the rug to make room for releases from U2, Eminem, and I think No Doubt mad: ). It leaked onto Slsk and torrent networks though, and after a night of downloading finally got a chance to hear it. All I can say is, it is one of the best albums I've ever heard, a total departure from their old indie rock sound. This is one of the few times I've experienced a raw band sounding better with polish. For a taste, download "All White". "Worlds Apart", the new single, is also great. These Austinites have become my second favorite band with this record. Support local music!
Nelly - My Place Aventura - Obsesion Usher - Burn Outkast - Roses 411 - On my knees Rammstein - Amerika (anyone seen the video?) Green Day - American Idiot Some German ones: Juli - Perfekte Welle Silbermond - Durch die Nacht Feel free to start flaming .
He was a Houston Blues legend with the funkiest guitar tuning and style I've ever seen. A true original. They broke the mold after they made Albert Collins.
Maritime * glass floor Libertines * Libertines RJD2 * deadringer Martina Topley Bird * Quixotic Shins * figthing in a sack EP Jim White * drill a hole in that subs Lucky Jim * our troubles end tonight Nick Drake * made to love magic Love * da capo be good tanyas * blue horse Soundtrack of our Lives * behind the music
Tribe-Beats, Rhymes and Life Grateful Dead-American Beauty Dave Matthews Band-Before These Crowded Streets Nas-God's Son Incubus-Morning View Jane's Addiction-Ritual de lo Habitual Mofro-Backwater Disco Biscuits-Senor Boombox Also about to throw in a couple of burned Butch Walker/Marvelous 3 CDs sent to me by TheFreak!
