two headless chicken

Closing Time

2007-06-25T03:28:00.000+01:00

this is my last post..

1/I am really busy..

2/This year is full of disappointments (Bjork, QUOTSA and many more)

3/I have No Fun..

Thanks to people who were reading this blog.

2007-06-05T01:44:00.001+01:00

War of Words pt1

2007-05-20T02:31:00.000+01:00

I wanted to write a long post about Frank Zappa. John Lydon and The Plastic People of the Universe, but:

1/Nobody would read it
2/I am too busy
3/or lazy

It meant to be about the music & politics, about the freedom of speech and the fight for it and other bollocks. It meant to be long and clever I wanted to be proud of it. Fuck it, here is Ze Linkz, Lebowski:

Frank Zappa
On September 19, 1985, Zappa testified before the US Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music censorship (though others would say watchdog) organization founded by then-Senator Al Gore's wife Tipper Gore and including many other political wives, including the wives of five members of the committee. In his prepared statement, Zappa said

“ The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal's design. It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC's demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation. (...) The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow "J" on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine? ”

And this video is really worth of watching...

and another one..

Hot Rats pt1
Hot Rats pt2

We're Only In It for The Money

Freak Out pt1
Freak Out pt2

Overnite Sensation

Apostrophe

Public Image Limited

Pil - debut

The Best of So Far pt1
The Best of So Far pt2

Compact Disc /in this case Mp3's :)/

Btw this album is absolutely fucking great, maybe the best Lydon's album actually. It's still him, crazy voice, great lyrics but Steve Vai plays guitar, Bill Laswell is on bass, Ginger Baker plays drums, Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards and the there is a rumour that Miles Davis recorded some parts which unfortunately weren't used.

I don't care...

2007-05-07T23:58:00.000+01:00

my favourite song ever is..

2007-04-27T10:50:00.000+01:00

Recovery Mode

2007-04-26T03:33:00.000+01:00

I didn't give up!! I just can't type.

Being there..

2007-04-17T03:11:00.000+01:00

Joan as Police Woman, Oran Mor, Glasgow 14,4,2007

When I saw that Joan is coming to Glasgow to play in Oran Mor, I went that very moment to buy a ticket. I bought it.. despite I don't like Glasgow. Maybe because the last time I was there I drove in different direction on the motorway for a while. It's a European kind of thing.

So saturday night in the kingdom of doom, I became lazy cat and was tempted to stay in warm sofa/garden and cuppa > tea/cofee/dvd (de fau de) profile but.. I had to go. Traffic suprisingly good, problems with parking and yes.. it's official > I am Eediot. Oran Mor is beautiful church which became a pub-art venue-restaurant after the Glaswegians lost their faith. So I was waiting at the wrong gate. It took me a while to notice that all the people who were waiting there were gone. Should give up daydreaming. Nevermind. I missed a few songs of the support singer. Don't know his name anyway.

She came on stage in pink dress, pink boots because "she loves vibrant colors". She started to sing alone with the fender piano and everybody was astonished by her strange "nasal" voice. Her skinny figure was balancing on the piano stool because she was pretty much working with the dynamics of her voice, it kept her on and off the microphone. After first song she was joined by her bandmates, bass player Rainy Orteca and drummer Ben Perowsky. Rainy is damn good bass player. I don't know anything about her orientation but she played the bass in very "man" style. Seemed to me. She looks like a Robert Smith's sister minus weird hair. I was tempted to fuck off back to the bar to buy her a choclit, because she looked so unhappy. Smile appeared on her face twice that night, while they played song which demanded an involvement of the audience (clapping) and then when they were playing the last "punky" song. Probably her intention. Ben's precise drumming just confirmed my opinion that good drummer makes 70% of the band.

Joan played all the songs from both her records and some new songs. She was responding to the audience after every song, having a small chat with the "brave" ones. I think that everybody was really pleased by her presence. She was very natural. One might say.. sweet. Especially when she said that she is going to play more love songs, becauase she fell in love recently /for the first time in her life, she says/. The girl in the crowd shouted on her, something like "I noticed the ring!" and Joan, with big smile on her face, showed engagement ring and went: "Oh.. what the fuck?" And she laughed, very amused.

It's very strange that Joan started to sing in her 30's. She says she was singing a lot as a child, but she stopped in her puberty, I appreciate that she released her own record more than 10 years after Jeff Buckley's death. Some people would be "milking" it, being in her position.

The only thing which was little bit annoying was her anti-Bush-iraqwar-Condoleeza Rice rant. Even it wasn't proper rant. It seems that every American artist is using that kind of politics to get the sympathy of the audience. I don't agree with that war - Bush, but why she is starting with that shit on the concert where 99% of the audience was pissed? I don't know.

Anyway her concert was GREAT. Unforgettable experience to see her/hear her sing Real Life. If you have a chance to see her, just go. She was better than Motorhead, and Motorhead are damn good.

30.000 visitors..

2007-04-14T07:48:00.000+01:00

THC blog Nr.1

01 Postal Service - Such a Great Hights
I love their melodies.. hate their rhythms! It's like a joke.. like Zisou's music for diving.
02 Sonic Youth - Reena
Such a great song and again.. absolutely overlooked by media.
03 Whitest Boy Alive - Burning
I found that song on Allan McGee's myspace site. It reminds me Boys Don't Cry by The Cure. Cheerful music with sad lyrics.
04 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with A Night
Being seventeen again, go out at night, get pissed and fuck the bones off the bodies. A date with a Night.
05 Primal Scream - Rocks
06 The Jam - Town Called Malice
Primal Scream and The Jam always make me feel good.
07 Roxy Music - More Than This
Mr.Bob Harris..
08 Mike Oldfield - In High Places
Oldfield sucks!! But there is always one song on every album which is great. This one is from Crises and Jon Anderson from Yes sings in it. I love Simon Philips drumming here... it's like reggae.
09 Texas - Summer Son
I hate Texas!!! But I like the bells in this song.
10 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
Oh Buzzcocks.. I never thought about them as a punk band. They are like Beatles. Every song is a smash.
11 Squeeze - Another Nail in My Heart
Squeeze are going to play some gigs again, which is great. This song is so brilliant..
12 Pixies - Is She Weird?
I don't like using the word Genius. But he is..

is she weird, is she white
is she promised to the night
and her head has no room
and her head has no room

13 Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Santana is the most recognizable guitar player ever. He speaks through it.
14 Lynda Lyndell - What a Man
Everyone knows it.. everyone loves it.
15 Blondie - Atomic
People know that song from Trainspotting, Sleeper's version. So this is the original.. much better.
16 Stereolab - Vonal Declosion
17 Slade - Far Far Away
I think that Slade were really weird, their clothes.. bloody hell. They were skinheads before that glam rock weirdness. Noddy Holder wrote this song about being homesick while they were touring USA in 70's. He's got really great voice.. and Dave Hill had a great haircut.
18 Stereo Total - I Love You, Ono
Song which is is about the refusal of being a part of our system (big system, big money, big brother) was used in the advert for Sony camcoders. How weird is that?

"No no no no I don't need it
Perfect system I am fallin"

19 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
I don't know why I like this song. Stupid lyrics, one melody again and again, even a recitation. Brilliant
20 The Greenhornes - Can't Stand It
They knew The Lost Art of Being Cool.
21 Karel Svoboda - Navstevnici

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Somebody deleted all music..

2007-04-10T04:04:00.000+01:00

I'm lazy..

2007-04-07T16:39:00.000+01:00

The weather was absolutely brilliant all week. So I was much more in the garden than behind the computer desk. Many people called the local Scottish councils to find out what's the shiny thing on the sky. Well now we all know that this is THE SUN.
Thanks to all the guys who posted some comments here. I am very surprised and happy because of that response. Some of you wrote some interesting details about the albums, somebody informed me about the name of one instrument (great!) and the others just came to say thank you. This is the way I like it. Cheers.

Uusitalo - Vapaa Muurari (2000)
Another project of Finnish Vladislav Delay (Luomo,AGF/Delay etc). This guy is producing so many different records so it's a little miracle that he still keeps the quality. His Uusistalo project is partly minimal techno.. partly some fucking ambient glitch whatever. It's organic, full of sex (seems to me) and it's estranged. Musicians claim that techno is just a beat and few sounds easily created on synths.. and it's a bollocks! I was trying to create some techno like music, but the melody came in and it wasn't techno anymore. And creating your own sounds? You have to spend ages to find something good. It's not easy and this is the reason why I admire the guys like Delay who are producing good IDM. Delay new record WHISTLEBLOWER (out in may 07 and you can download it from Delay's website for nice 6 EU) shows that he went even deeper into glitch, where the only rule is "there is no rules". If Luomo is very listener friendly project, than his collaborations with AGF is sometimes almost unlistenable (performances). It's music you need to find the KEY for.

Ry Cooder - Paris,Texas (1985)
This is an ideal record for people like me.. those who live at night. I am pretty sure that Batman has his copy in Batmobil and is enjoying this melancholy music while he drives through fucking Gotham City. Paris, Texas is a great film.. it's a long time since I saw it, and it's a long time since Wenders directed a good film.

Roxy Music - Viva! (1976)

I didn't like Roxy Music until the last month. And I LOVE them now because of Viva! Their studio records were a bit boring for me, but the live versions are so fucking powerful and moving. Some bands should record only live albums. Suddenly "Out of Blue" has the urgency which the original version never approached. Pyjamarama (released only as a single) was never so hype and funky. Now I like almost every RM album. Because there, under the cover of sophisticated producing, is hidden a lot of really great songs. Viva! was recorded in the period of 73-75. The concert band was enhanced by brilliant bassist John Wetton (King Crimson,UK,Asia...) or a keybord,strings by Eddie Jobson (Frank Zappa, King Crimson or Jethro Tull).

Portable - Version (2005)

Portable is Alan Abrahams (South Africa) project. Very rare mix of tribal rhythm structures and glitch, minimal techno. It sounds like a Aphex Twin jamming with African drummers.

Peter Gabriel III (1980)

The fundamental record of my childhood. I had a copy on the tape (who knows what it was nowadays?) recorded from some Polish radio broadcast. I was about 8yo and the only place I was listening to that record was my stepfather's car. I still remember the feelings I had when the ??marimbas?? came in "No Self Control". Shivers! I made up a story for myself about Gabriel. On that record is so many references to war or army, so I started to think that Gabriel was a man who went through every fucking war all around the world and now is singing about it, also I was convinced that he is very poor and hunted by police. I just kept the story with me and later, when I went to Germany, I realized that I was right. I found a music managazine on my father's desk. There were pictures of Gabriel posing in empty demolished house, sitting by the table being very very cold. My childish fantasy was satisfied.

This album is sometimes known as Melt. Because of the great cover. I can't stand Gabriel's lyrics and his self-expression. I just loads of shite, but his music is incredible. His ability to write all the songs, put together those musicians (Robert Fripp,Kate Bush,Paul Weller!!,and oh.. Phil fucking Collins) while using the latest recording technology, and Fairlight synth is a proof of being a real visionary. Back in 1980 he was well known ex-member of Genesis, but he went for infuences to punk (not using the cymbals is idea from PIL) or minimal music (Lead a Normal Life). There is Gabriels probably most famous song.. Biko. Pathetic.. but really powerful.

Panasonic - Vakio (1995)

Panasonic (now Pan Sonic, they had to remove "A" because of legal issues) is duo form Finland (again). Their music is real dark shite. For tough guys only. Noises, frequency oscillations and rhythm structures. Not an easy listening. I saw them in tv,, a music video for "Urania". One of the best videos ever. So industrial.

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)

Recently I noticed that I am listening to the soul music.. Marvin Gaye. Bill Withers, Diana Ross or Michael Jackson's Off The Wall. I don't know where it came from, but I am really enjoying it. Marvin's sad story (dead of gf,drugs,bankrupt,being killed by own father) is well known so there is no need to repeat it. It just a real shame that nobody knows that album now.

Mad Season - Above (1995)

Grunge was just a word. Just an excuse for not using then very unfashionable words like "metal, hard rock or punkrock". Mad Season were Above all of it. They weren't real band though. Just members of Pearl Jam,Alice in Chains and Screaming Trees recorded one of the most beautiful record. It's sad to listen what Layne was singing.

Wake up young man, it's time to wake up

Your love affair has got to go

For 10 long years, for 10 long years

The leaves to rake up

Slow suicide's no way to go, oh

Blue, clouded grey

You're not a crack up....

And 7 years later he was dead. Fuck.

Kronos Quartet-Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass (1995)

I think that the is the best of his work. Not so repetitive, more colourful.

King Crimson - Red (1974)

King Crimson's the darkest record. Wetton's distorted bass, Bruford seems to use all his 6 arms to play drums and Fripp is playing guitar so aggresively that even their contemporaries like Black Sabbath sound like coffee - table music. King Crimson recorded a lot of great albums. But Red is very different. It evokes the hell or something like that. The atmosphere is so urgent, there is no pressure relief. Providence is a nightmare even for arty wankers.. There is some mellotron in Starless, but again.. the song ends in metallic fury! King Crimson were trying to reinvent RED sound on 1995 comeback album Thrak and they were surprisingly successful however Thrak is more refined. Red has the real dirt.

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..3500 miles and all this solitude...

2007-03-20T14:42:00.000Z

Last 2 weeks I kept my guardian angel busy. I managed to cross the Europe without having an accident. 5500 kilometers on the roads took a lot of time, time for music!! I started with Cat Power/Joan as Police Woman as usual. Than AIR, Amy Winehouse (I hate her now), Bat for the Lashes (love it)and Crosby, Still and Nash through Scotland. ZZ Top all way down to Dover. Some Night Tales compilations in Belgium/Holland. I felt I was dead in Germany - silence. Jeff Buckley was looking after me to the Czech Republic. And then Kansas, Cinematic Orchestra, 2 Raumwohnung, Yes, Aimee Mann and Johnny Cash became my partners in vaga/bondage.

On my way back to UK.. I was yelling together with Alice in Chains :). Broken Flowers OST is an essential record for drivers!! I was knackered on M1 while passing Leeds so I listened to Suede and The Good,Bad and The Queen only to keep myself awake. It was hard. Really.

2raumwohnung - kommt zusammen (2001)
Brilliant duo aus Berlin. Who says that german language is not "musical"?
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Cinematic Orchestra - Motion (1999)

Cinematic Orchestra - Man with the Movie Camera (2003)
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Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday (2002)

Magnolia OST (songs by Aimee Mann) (1999)

Alice in Chains - SAP/Jar of Flies (1992/1994)

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I am away for holidays.. 2 weeks..

2007-03-01T06:09:00.000Z

Joan..

2007-02-16T08:51:00.000Z

don't push me cos i'm close to the edge...

2007-02-15T10:43:00.000Z

Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension (1996)
I don't have to play this album anymore. I know every seconds, every word. It so deeply written into my memory. The best album I have ever heard.

As many others I noticed Tricky on the first Massive Attack album "Blue Lines". He appeared on three tracks "Blue Lines", "Five Man Army" and "Daydreaming". I loved "Five Man Army" so when he started with "I take a small step now it's a giant stride People say I'm loud why should I hide..." it was kind of great moment.He was back on the second Massive Attack album "Protection" and again.. "Karmacoma", is great urban track with his brilliant lyrics: "Don't want to be on top of your listPhenomenally and properly kissedWe overcome in sixty secondsWith the strength we have to togetherBut for now, emotional ties they stay severedWhen there's trust there'll be treatsAnd when we funk we'll hear beats"
So when I noticed that he realeased an album (I didn't know that he already have released debut Maxinquaye and Nearly God album)I just expected some more Massive Attack like stuff and I bought it. The MA's "Protection" was then the essential album of triphop, it has all the elements of the style, hip hop, dub, electronica&samples etc. I thought that it was dark stuff(however Mad Professor put the dirt on "No Protection"). So what I expected from "Pre Millenium Tension" was another portion of this ingredients. Remain undelivered.

Pre-Millenium Tension is not a triphop album. It's very hard to categorize it. Tricky's roots are in hip hop, but his ability to absorb so many different infuences allowed him to create an album with sound which I haven't heard before. He mixed up elements which were seemingly in absolute antinomy. He put together tons of (mostly) unrecognizable samples, live musicians, dissonance and sound anarchy with his Rakim-based lyrical talent which was, most importantly, brilliantly used with his asthmatic rap and very flexible voice of Martina Topley-Bird.

PMT is not easily accesible album. I was tempted to return it to the store after first listening. PMT definitely doesn't work as a background music (if you are paranoid on crack, then it works). Listener must concentrate on the stream of sonic invasions, which makes the album ostensibly melody-less. But once you are focused, able to analyze all layers, everything is clear.

Tricky's main theme was fear. Fear in many different forms. Fear and paranoia. The first track on PMT is called "Vent" after ventolin inhaler and contains both of it. Music is based on nervous two-tone sample and backwards played guitar sounds with some percussive noises which are supporting the intention to create "under pressure" enviroment. It's about a fear of death, but not necessarily caused by asthma.It's about a fear of trusting to the others. Maybe the ventolin is also a woman he can't live/breathe without.

Tricky:
She's the one Makes me feel these ways
He's the one Needs sun rays
Can't stand to feel Hate to feel Gone insane, high jack a plane
Don't push me 'cause I'm close To the edge*1
Trying hard not to lose my head Can't hardly breathe
I've been and seen She hides my Ventolin
Can't hardly breathe Can't hardly breathe Can't hardly breathe
Martina:
(I'm the one), I'm the one
(Who hides his medicine), Who hides his medicine
(Watch him stop breathe), Watch him stop breathe
(Watch him leave), Watch him leave
(I right the wrongs and take his song), I right the wrongs and take his song
(And we'll all live happy ever after), And we'll all live happy ever after
(Can't hardly breathe), Can't hardly breathe Can't hardly breathe Can't hardly breathe
Can't hardly breathe And we all sing together Can't hardly breathe

Second track "Christiansands" was released as a first single from PMT. This absolute anti-hit is kind of anthem for me. Love every second of it, its decadent mood is brutally dominant. Bass deeply under the tune, sample from Doug E Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew - La Di Da Di, reggae drums and lines like: "I change my face And if you think I'm fake up Wait around till I take off my make-up". The contrast between Tricky's and Martina's voices is most noticable right here. It's a duet, and it's almost a miracle how brutal it sounds when they are together in line :"Wrote her a letter Ask me questions Baby steps in sections And we will take it slow I really don't know When you talk You make me cringe Silver means the messenger I let her go don't question her"
Also the wordplay of "I met a Christian in Christiansands And a devil in Helsinki" is damn good.

There is another face of Tricky (and Martina): violent and aggressive. Both another tracks on album "Tricky Kid" and cover version of Chill Rob G. - "Bad Dreams" are dealing with it. In "Tricky Kid" Tricky attacks media, which took interest on him because of his fucked up realationships and fighting with celebrity status.

wiki says: "He has also been concerned with racial stereotyping of the media. In the documentary Naked & Famous he explains how photographers want him to frown angrily in photos, because that's how black artists are marketed. He points to a recent cover of The Big Issue, where he has a more ambiguous, confused look on his face, as being more how he feels. In the song "Tricky Kid" from Pre-Millennium Tension, he writes "As long as you're humble/Let you be the king of jungle", indicating that all black music is still judged as music from "the African jungle" and that its black fans are "savages."

"Makes Me Wanna Die" is probably Tricky's biggest hit. It's a statement of bittersweetness. Catharsis in the middle of the road. Heavy hiphop beat and guitar, Martina's "sexual healing" voice.

If I'd be thinking about this record as a LP and split it for two sides, then "Makes Me Wanna Die" is the last song on side A. Side which is easier accesible. Fictional side B is much more dirty. Sex, money, ghetto and gangs (Ghetto Youth), guns. more violence. Tricky is choosing the ways how unfold his mind with bravura. Hip hop artist's.. rappers are rarely associated with sonic dissonance, chaos, distortion. They are in closed community and their roots and infuences are the same for many many years. The result is that whole hip hop scene is recycling itself because of the lack of infuences coming from outside. What was Kanye West speaking about, when he said that he loves that whole "Phil Collins drums sound" in the interview about Arctic Monkeys ? But Tricky, and it's maybe because he is british, was always above the music styles, sampling whatever he liked, using different musicians etc. His attitude was more artistic than others rappers. And PMT is masterpiece of that attitude.

Tricky nowadays is leading into oblivion. He tried to re-launch himself as americanlike mainstream artist, after he released his two last albums, which are both pure rubbish. He's got label Brown Punk, directed a film, appereared in some crap tv shows. Tricky, the magical phenomenon.. The Tricky Kid.. is gone.

Martina Topley Bird released an album in 2003 "Quixotic". Strangely it's much more better than Tricky's last solo albums. Quixotic won the Mercury prize.

*1Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge / Hijack a plane is a quote from Grandmaster Flash-The Message

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Join me you geek!!!

2007-02-10T01:57:00.000Z

Have to admit that I am addicted to http://www.last.fm/. It's such a amazing place to discover new music and people with similar (or completely different) musical taste (and also you can spy your friends "guilty pleasures tracks" and then ridicule them in their own shoutbox :D). I just discovered the possibility of using/sharing my radio last.fm player here on blog. It works perfectly, it really plays only the tracks I have listened to. So if you are real music geek as I am just join me, create your profile, install the plugin into your music player (wmp, winamp... ) and add me http://www.last.fm/user/pawnbroker/

Sometimes I feel so happy Sometimes I feel so sad Sometimes I feel so happy But mostly you just make me mad Baby you just make me mad..

2007-02-08T17:38:00.000Z

Fred's World Pt.1
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This is a playlist for the times I feel a bit low.

1/Angelo Badalamenti - Fred's World
2/Ani DiFranco - Studying Stones
3/Beck - Lonesome Tears
4/Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
5/Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
6/Cat Power - Names
7/Counting Crows - Colorblind
8/Dot Allison - Wishing Stone
9/Tricky - Broken Homes
10/Joan Osborne - St.Theresa
11/Johnny Cash - Help Me
12/Kansas - Dust In The Wind
13/Mad Season - Wake Up
14/Nick Cave - Into My Arms
15/Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren
16/PIL - Religion I
17/PJ Harvey - That Was My Veil
18/Pulp - Dishes
19/Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
20/R.Sakamoto/J.Morelenbaum/E.Nelson/G.Santaolalla - Bibi No Aozora/Endless Fight
21/Smashing Pumpkins - Never Let Me Down Again
22/St.Etienne - Heart Failed
23/The Cure - All Cats Are Grey
24/Thom Yorke - Black Swan
25/Vincent Gallo - When

Las weekend I went to see Bang on Can. They were brilliant, even the contert was 4 hours long. I fell asleep only once during Music for Airports. They played music by Steve Reich, Brian Eno etc,, but the best piece was an out-take from ShadowBang written by Bang on a Can member Evan Zyporin.I am a lot into Steve Reich music. Especially Music for 18 Musicians is a masterpiece. So it's time to play some Stevie.. I am posting his best works though, I can post more albums..just gimme a shout.

Bang on a Can/Brian Eno - Music for Airports

Steve Reich - Octet, Music for Large Ensemble

Various/Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Remixed

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Steve Reich - Phase Patterns/Pendulum Music/Piano Phase/Four Organs

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Steve Reich - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint

Steve Reich - You Are (Variations)

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are you lonesome tonight? be my wifey...

2007-01-30T04:03:00.000Z

David Bowie - Low (1977)

David Bowie is 60 in few days. I love his work so I am going to post his albums one by one. Low is my favourite, so I started with it.

Sometimes you get so lonely
Sometimes you get nowhere
I've lived all over the world
I've lived every place

Please be mine
Share my life
Stay with me
Be my wife

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Girl ya gotta love your man Take him by the hand Make him understand The world on you depends Our life will never end

2007-01-25T03:03:00.000Z

Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Life Begins Again (2004)
I was (and I am, as they are recording new album) big Smashing Pumpkins fan. I love every bloody song they ever released. So I was quite dissapointed with ZWAN album, it wasn't bad, but I expected more. Jimmy Chamberlin's drumming was always strong ingredient in Smashing Pumpkins chemistry. His wild but very elaborate style is definitely part of Pumpkins sound. I saw them play live in 1996 and it was the best concert I have ever seen. Joyride. But in the end of Pumpkins last tour they were different band. They played songs in very violent way. It sounded like storm. They played their songs so fast that they weren't even able to manage play all notes properly. So when I noticed that Jimmy started new band, I was really curious. Didn't know what to expect. One problem with drummer's solo albums is that there is too much drumming :).. and fucking drum solos. And yes... there is a lot of drumming on the record, but it doesn't play the lead role. I had two new albums that day > Jimmy's Complex and Jaga Jazzist's What We Must. The first I took was Jaga Jazzist and I enjoyed it very much. Especially the first song "All I Know Is Tonight" is amazing. Than I started to play Jimmy's album and the similarity with Jaga Jazzist was surprising!! I mean if he (and the band) would put some wind section lines into "Streetclawler".. he would get a proper Jaga Jazzist song! Jimmy's drumming is absolutely virtuoso, but whole album is loaded with strong musical themes, brilliant ideas. They are changing styles, moods so the album is keeping the listener focused. Of course Billy Corgan must be there, the song "Lokikat" is a small reminiscent of Smashing Pumpkins bittersweet ballads.

Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town (1995)
I don't know what so special about Kyuss. They sounded like Black Sabbath without Mr.Parkinson. But Sabbath (Tony rocks!!) was hard rock band, but how can you categorize Kyuss? I know about stoner rock.. but fuck it. They were special, because they played hard songs, but also they were pretty melancholic in weird way. Hard music doesn't get altogether with sadness too often. And they recorded whole album like that!! (now it's Queens of The Stone Age job) John Garcia brings that strange "paranoia ghost riders" feeling as Alan Vega did with Suicide. His lyrics are fucking great!! Metallica infamously tried to rip off Kyuss style on St.Anger and failed. No one of them is fucking JOSH HOMME!!

Huricanne
I feel nothin', said I don't feel nothin' And I won't feel nothing at all I found somethin', said I really found somethin' And I won't take nothin' at all Get me up, get me up, now I've suffered My life has blown me away I can't breathe, said I can't breathe nothin' And I won't fuckin' breathe at all I feel nothin', said I don't feel nothin' And I won't feel nothing at all Found somethin', said I really found somethin' And I won't take nothin' at all Get me up, get me up, I've suffered My life has done me away Can't breathe, said I can't breathe nothin' And I can't fuckin' breathe at all

Philip Rombi - The Swimming Pool (2003)

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Swimming Pool is kind of psychological thriller directed by François Ozon. The film is pretty good because Charlotte Rampling plays in it, but Rombi's score is a work of pure genius! He orchestrated my blood circulation with tenderness a crystal pureness of his music. I saw that film many times for two reasons >

1/Charlotte Rampling's beaver - really nice animal

2/Rombi's music - (anybody surprised?) the soundtrack was very hard to get, so few months ago one nice blogger re-posted it for me. Thanks again.

Gato Barbieri - Last Tango in Paris (1972)
I finished Marlon Brando's biography a week before I went to see Last Tango. He is using his own memories for his character Paul. I think there is nothing what I can say about that film. People say it's shocking and whatever.. no it's not.. it's beutiful and Vittorio Storaro is like a painter!! You just have to see it.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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Joel: It would be different if we could just give it another go-around.

Clementine: Remember me. Try your best. Maybe, we can.

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (1983)
The most hated P.F. album is my favourite one. The Final Cut might be taken as Roger Waters first solo album. His masterpiece. He never expressed his pain and fears that brilliantly again. It's well known fact that David Gilmour hates this album, but I think that he puts here his best guitar solos he ever did. With Michael Kamen conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the album is a little magalomaniac monster. But I don't have any other album which contains so big orchestrations and in the same time it's so intimate.

Dntel - Life Is Full of Possibilities (2001)
After Life is.. was released I though that electronic music, so strong in the nineties, is finally going somewhere, Dntel came with something new. Real songs, glitches, ambient music.. some nice "errors". But I was wrong. Now Life is Full of Possibilities became a classic, however no one follows them.

Umbrella

You can turn the city upside down if you want to but it won't keep you dry.

You can turn the city upside down, like an umbrella but it won't keep you dry.
When you wrap yourself in a highway strip, don't expect any warmth from it.

All it is is cold cement.
You can turn the city upside down, like an umbrella but who knows what you'll find.

Be careful if you try.
You can turn the city upside down if you want to but it won't keep you dry.

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i like the innocent type... deer in the headlight

2007-01-16T20:47:00.000Z

Cat Power - What Would The Community Think (1996)
10 years before she did The Greatest. She was closer to P.J.Harvey and Velvet Underground. It's one of the records made by person who is so fucked up that is almost impossible to go through the songs, lyrics without absorb its pessimism. But maybe this is what she wanted. Nowadays, when she is so famous, everybody knows her story.. about being poor, alcoholic and suicidal, so that strange feeling which is on every Chan's record is more or less inspired by her own life.. sad. Her changeover into soul/blues sober/bar queen is fascinating. It's good too see her being in such a good state.

Pixies - At the BBC (1990)

I hated Pixies for years. It was hard for me to listen Frank Black's voice. But then I've heard "Where is My Mind" and endless enduring love with Pixies started. I like every Pixies album, but At the BBC is so special. It's so joyful! Their songs are much wilder and powerful.

Kim Deal's voice in "There Goes My Gun" is so velvet. Think David Bowie is right when he is saying that Pixies are the best rock group ever. I don't know what's so special about them. They are just fucking great. Listen to Ana, what a simple melody, but so poweful! Hope I will have a chance to see them play live as they are touring again.

Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks (1977)

After I read John Lydon's (Rotten) biography No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs I became such a fan of him. I always liked PIL, but the book really started my interest in his person.I've got an affection for strong characters and he is definitely of them. Now after 30 years since Nevermind.. was released there is no doubt that Pistols were the most important band in British music ever. There is no other band which was so influental after them. They changed the whole situation in music industry. They brought lot of new stuff into the music. Now is evident the Pistols were mostly about John Rotten. His lyrics, attitude and genuine originality has no comparison in British music. He is a real artist even he probably hates this word.

Oval - 94 Diskont (1995)

Oval are the pioneers of glitch music. In 1997 I was in my dad's sitting room in Germany, watching some German music channel and while there was clip for Do While running. My father came to the sitting room, he saw me watching a listening to it with my mouth open. He sat down and started to listen with me. But after while he said:"What the fuck is this? That's not a music. It's just a bloody loop running again and again".Have to admit that Oval is hard to swallow music. They were using black markers to write on cd's to create loops sounds and noises deliberately.

Ennio Morriconne - Metti Una Sera A Cena (1969)
Ennio Morriconne - Le Foto Proibite di una Signora per Bene (1970)

Ennio is a genius of our age. I have almost 50 albums with his film scores and I can't still get enough. It's unbelievable how many scores he did. And every one of them is a little jewel. He is able to write in almost every style, so his work is pretty colorful. He is author of some of the most beautiful melodies I have ever heard. I am just an admirer. I chose two soundtracks from late 60' which are good illustration of his work with rock and pop influences into his own unmistakable way of composition. I love the way he is creating "the chaos". Think he is working with dischords more than any other score composer. His work was always a big inspiration for my own music.

Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells (2006)

Two Gallants are my discovery of 2006. Just two guys, one guitar, voice and drums. No White Stripes copy! It's hard to define their music, but in general they are alternative folk/country/rock band. Singer Tyson Vogel is one of "the lanegans" ripped-throat vocalists, emery paper in music.

Donnie Darko OST (2001)

When I started to watch Donnie Darko I expected some digital effects orgies with smart story, but crippled ending.. as usual these days. So it was really big surprise how good this film was!! Really really clever!!! I think that Donnie Darko is more like a music video. The picture is almost whole time led by music. Take the scene with Tear for Fears - Head Over Heels, it's so great, but turn the music off and watch the fim only. The magic is gone. From now the songs "Head Over Heels, Killing Moon or Love Will Tear Us Apart" will be associated with Donnie Darko for me.

Peaches - Teaches of The Peaches (2000)

Peaches - Impeach My Bush (2006)

Merrill Nisker (born 1968) aka Peaches is really crazy fuck.. her electro/clash music is catchy, although it's the lyrics and her voice what's in first line. Like this from her "biggest hit" Fuck the Pain Away:

Sucking on my titties like you wanted me

Calling me, all the time like Blondie

Check out my chrissy behind

It's fine all of the time

Like sex on the beaches

What else is in the teaches of peaches? Huh? What?

Is absolutely up to you to decide if it is just a silly joke or a just another view from woman who is mature.Impeach My Bush is more commercial and Josh Homme play some guitars on it.
Funny fact is that she shared house with folkie Feist. What they were doing wasn't reported.

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I am back.. not so healthy, but alive.

2007-01-04T07:04:00.000Z

Camille - Le Fil (2006)
Camille sounds like more conventional french version of Bjork. God bless her for not copying Bjork's melodies, that's Joanna Newsom's job. She comes with own creativity and builds the layers of her voices with minimal support of other acoustic or electric instruments. She is also using her voice as a "drone" - note sustained throughout the entire album. How annoying, bitch!

Husker Du - New Day Rising (1985)
The Buzzcocks are usually called "the Beatles of the punk".. bollocks.. it's Husker Du. Every single song of this album is such a hit for me! Post-punk music is rarely so melodic.. under all these distorted guitar and boozy voices is hidden real masterpiece of songwritting. Husker Du are known these days only because the other famous bands are often cited them as a big influence. You can hear Radiohead (pablo honey times) in "New Day Rising", Greenhornes in "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" or even Foo Fighters in "I Apologize".
and WIKI THE SMARTARSE SAYS:
Influence

Perhaps Hüsker Dü's most lasting legacy was in bridging the gap between hardcore and alternative rock. Also, many people credit Zen Arcade to be the first form of emo, even before Embrace and Rites of Spring. Many later musicians cite Hüsker Dü as an influence on their own work.
Green Day, Lifetime, Gravenhurst, Deacon Blue, Therapy? and 59 Times The Pain are among those who have recorded versions of Hüsker Dü songs. The Replacements, Foo Fighters, Buffalo Tom, Sebadoh, Trip Shakespeare, The Posies, Sonic Youth, Jason Anderson, The Wildhearts, and The Dead Milkmen have made reference to the band and its members in their own songs. The Pixies and Nirvana have also called Hüsker Dü a major influence. (In fact, the newspaper advertisement placed by Black Francis of the Pixies, which was answered by Kim Deal, described the band he wished to form as a Husker Du/Peter, Paul, and Mary-type band.)
VH1 has said that Hüsker Dü are one of the 2 most important American post-punk bands (along with R.E.M.).
Dennis Cooper's novel Try contains many references to, and lines from, New Day Rising.
fIREHOSE's 1987 album "If'n" features a photo of bassist Mike Watt's apartment wall, on which an enlarged photograph of Hüsker Dü can be clearly seen. The Hüskers are credited on the back cover as "cover models".
The inside cover of the Minutemen's seminal double album Double Nickels On The Dime says "Take That Hüskers!" in the lower right corner. This was placed there to tease the Huskers, who were about to release their own double album, Zen Arcade, around the same time.
The group's career is chronicled in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life, a study of several important American underground rock groups.

Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango (2001)
I saw an advert on telly, there was TV presenter Melanie Sykes walking on the street in some sexy dress. She is hot but it was the music what brought my attention.. nice "triphop" beat and apocalyptical melody played on ?accordion?. That time the only album from Gotan (tango) Project I knew was last year's Lunatico. Later I found out that the song from the advert was Epoca from their first album. French/Argentinian Gotan Project are now huge hit with Lunatico,surprisingly their debut is better.

Smoke City - Flying Away (1997)
I love "cinematic" albums. The music you can listen to and create own films in your head. Smoke City are very cinematic.. and they knew it. It's very hard to categorize their music, there is too many infuences like bossa-nova a samba, soundtrack music and electronica. They were very sophisticated and almost "liquid", because their music sounds so natural. The singer Nina Miranda is part English/Brazilian so she was singing in English,French and Brazilian Portuguese.. velvet voice. They had big hit.. Underwater Love, massive hip hop beat, latino guitars and dub! was thrilling combination. I love the fact that every song on the album is different.. like wild mood swings, I prefer their melancholic side.. Jamie Pan, Gulietta and "ultimate love song" With You are little diamonds.

Midaircondo - Shopping for Images (2005)
Lisa Nordström: flutes, voice, computer etc.

Lisen Rylander: saxophones, voice, computer etc.

Malin Dahlstrom: voice, computer etc.

This Swedish trio is really special. I love musical surprises, and they were huge suprise for me. Must say.. they entered the mens world somehow. I can't help myself, but I perceive a strong male element while I am am listening to their album. Maybe they are Milli Vanilli of this decade and the music is played by someone else. That's it. I am clever

Visage - The Anvil (1982)

As a teenager I hated New Romantics and that whole weird culture of the Eighties. Duran Duran still makes me sick. However there was a lot of interesting bands, must admit now. This album is dark and despite it's 25 years old (oh shit!!) still sounds relatively fresh. And Barry Adamson plays bass on it. And Midge Ure plays guitar on it. And that's all folks.

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The Big Lebowski - Fucking Short Version and The Lebowski Remix

2006-12-22T03:05:00.000Z

Wie Glauben!!!

2006-12-22T02:33:00.000Z

Big Lebowski OST (1998)
It's always good to know that you can be a loser as Lebowski.. But somewhere outhere is "Maude".

According to the "Which Big Lebowski character are you?" quiz:

Why don't you check it out? Or we cut off your Johnson!

Crash by Howard Shore (1996)
Cronenberg His Majestic Weirdness.. sex and death --- emptiness musicalized.

The Knife - Deep Cuts (2003)
Jose Gonzales first hit single "Heartbeats" is a cover version of song by swedish pop-weirdos The Knife. Jose's version is good, a bit "drake-ish", but the original is much better. It's real synthpop!!

'O' Rang - Herd of instinct (1995)
This record may change the christmas into a chaos!! Paul Webb and Lee Harris from Talk Talk went crazy!!!

and...

A FRENCH DUO WHICH BECAME FAMOUS WITH MOON SAFARI - P*o*c*k*e*t S*y*m*p*h*o*n*y (2007)
Well.. It's not superb as Walkie Talkie, and think it's more melancholic, but there is no surpise.It sounds like a record you have heard before. What do you think?

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NEW LINK for Cat Power The Greatest is in the comments under The Greatest post..

it looks smart.. and it's stinky too.. christmas according to chicken one

2006-12-18T05:00:00.000Z

Ren & Stimpy - Crock O' Christmas (1993)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (2006)

I wrote a lot about these albums, but fucking IE betrayed me again.

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this was in my mail today.. we are not alone

2006-12-13T18:38:00.000Z

Christmas gift...

2006-12-12T19:21:00.000Z

.. and that's 4U

2006-12-11T03:13:00.000Z

The Science of Sleep OST (2006)

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I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

2006-12-10T16:12:00.000Z

Life Aquatic OST (2004) version 1
Life Aquatic OST (2004) version 2

Life Aquatic is my favourite film. And I am SERIOUS. People usually say that their favourite film is some Bergman/ Tarkovskij/ Fellini/ Kubrick/ Scorcese stuff and there is no wondering about that, these guys are great. But Life Aquatic is my number one. I saw it so many times that I even stopped to count it. For lot of people is L.A. just one of the many funny films with Bill Murray, but for me there is a secret message. As a !devo!ted Devo fan I really love Mark Motherbaugh's score, these tracks are balancing between pure beauty and total rudiculousness. And I tell you something: Electro Ned Hero makes me cry. :) I would do some kind of "Robert Johnson pact" only for being able to write something so beautiful.
The another version of the soundtrack is enlarged with Bowie,Devo,Baez,De Lucia and The Stooges songs. There is nothing I can say about Bowie, I love his music but the real pearl is Devo's song Gut Feeling which makes me having such a good feelings, good mood.. brilliant.

21 Grams OST (2003)

The film is hard to watch, really hard. But Gustavo Santaolalla's music is even harder for me. Every note is a deep cut. I really don't want to exaggerate it, but I really feel the pain while I'm listening to his music

Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse (2004)

Stereolab were always branded as post-rock experimentists, but Margerine Eclipse is pure "pop" record. Every song could be released as a single. Singer Leatitia Sadier sings in both english/french and I can only regret that I don't understand that french part. (I can do french kisses though). This album is soft and yummy and makes me want to "cuddle" all the time.

Sudden Stars
Sweet smelling essences hugs and smiles sweet kisses movements towards me embrace reverie tenderness velvet skin treasured dreams intimate silk and goldnuit d'amour naked soul

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Damien Rice

2006-11-29T12:58:00.000Z

Damien Rice - 9
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Everything you would expect from second album of Damien Rice. He is aware of a thin line between a good song and a pathetic crap.

Compare it to his first thriving album:

Damine Rice - O
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O.S.T - The Million Dollar Hotel

2006-11-28T15:39:00.000Z

Including irresistible Satellite Of Love by Milla Jovovich.

O.S.T - The Million Dollar Hotel
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Joan as Police Woman - Real Life(2006) Jeff Buckley - Grace(1994)

2006-11-28T13:54:00.000Z

Joan as Police Woman - Real Life

I remember myself thinking about her advert of some gig I saw in some magazine: "Probably another yelling bitch with ancient synth and punk attitude". But only few weeks later I've read that she is actually a violinist. That was confusing. So I went to "check her sound" and I found this http://www.fabchannel.com/joanaspolicewoman,that's her concert in Amsterdam club. She came on stage with a cuppa.. sculpturesque figure&face, had few words with audience and started to sing, only her and fender piano. What a strange voice, rough but bittersweet and.. mature. I enjoyed her performance (later with bass/drums, her guitar playing), so I went to buy her album. And than it happened, fucking hell..that first song.. Real Life.. I was absolutely astonished.. her voice, piano, violin and the way how she lead the melody. That was the only song I've heard that evening.. I had enough.

The arrangements, the melody and the lyrics are very minimalistic, but altogether... it's massive emotional kick arse.

i freeze my hands as i close the door to wait in line so i can wait some more
and it's true what they say about love yes it's true what they say about life and i'm taking it for all it's worth
i watch the numbers register on the postal scale i think of your hands and calculate how a man, desired, feels the weight of a letter
it's true what they say about me that i'm out of my mind but i think that you like it so take the chance,be reckless with me
'cause i'm real life and you're real life and we're real life we're real life
is it pleasing?six hundred thousand miles and all this solitude?i know what is pleasing-what i'll find beneath your new pair of glasses
i've never included a name in a song but i'm changing my ways for you,
jonathan
i need you to know,i need you to know that i'm real life

Another day I went through the album, it's like a journey, every piece/road is different. I was little bit shocked when I found out that three songs on Real Life (Eternal Flame,Flushed Chest,The Beast) are some kinda tribute (or about) to Jeff Buckley, and that they were lovers in time of his death. I knew about Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins), but she claimed that her relationship with Jeff Buckley was "spiritual" (does it mean faked orgasms?hihi). That's even more mythic..

Jeff Buckley - Grace pt1
Jeff Buckley - Grace pt2

There was too many words said&written about Jeff Buckley's Grace. It's now all time classic. Three weeks ago I borrowed a book in library about Tim/JeffBuckley, but I didn't read it. I don't want to know. I managed Lydon's No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, nobody is dying in it, only Sid and he was Vicious so what the fuck?

btw my favourite is Mojo Pin.. he was an angel, wasn't he?

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Hurra Torpedo - Total Eclipse of the Heart

2006-11-26T08:51:00.000Z

Front242 - Mutage Mixage

2006-11-21T07:25:00.000Z

Front242 - Mutage Mixage

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This is the public announcement (without guitar)

2006-11-21T05:55:00.000Z

Almost 50 albums, 10.000 visitors.. but no further discussions, feelings.. no explorations. Everybody is just downloading.. Bollocks.

Sick and Tired

2006-11-21T05:30:00.000Z

Solaris OST by Cliff Martinez

Scorn - Logghi Barogghi

Mark Hollis

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2006-11-11T02:29:00.000Z

Cat Power - The Greatest

2006-11-11T02:27:00.000Z

Cat Power - Lived in Bars on Jools Holland

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (1986) The Spirit of Eden (1988) Laughing Stock (1991)

2006-11-04T04:52:00.000Z

It's a deviation: usually when I am in someone's home, I am trying to see what's in their cd/lp/whatever collection + bookcase. "Brother in Arms, Breakfast in America?" (oh lord!!). Then "But Seriously" and "No Jacket Required", "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" or anything from Sting (walking out). Maybe it's stupid, but I think that it is actually helping me to find out what kind of people i've met. I have never met people with Talk Talk records. But one day I will and I'll stay with them forever:).

For the preponderance of people are Talk Talk only another synthpop eighties group and it's „Such a Shame“:). Yes, it's true that their first two albums are rubbish, but it would be for your own loss not to discover their later records.

The Colour of Spring (1986)
After the succes of the previous record „It’s My Life“ they started to record another album with huge budget. Their record company expected another radio-friendly pop with highly rotating singles. But Talk Talk went to the different direction. You can still hear the zeitgeist of the eighties on it – electric fuckfish drums, but the synthetisers are used only for shading the music. The band, consisted of Mark Hollis (vocals, piano, organ, guitar, melodica,variophon, mellotron), Paul Webb bass, Lee Harris drums and producer Tim Friese-Greene piano, organ, variophon, kurzweil, mellotron, started to mix different elements and styles of music in one consisted complex which is above the genres. If the previous records were basicly pop songs for radios, their succesor is floating in „different waters“. Acoustic guitar, piano, double bass, harp and other colourful instruments were used for that jazz influenced music. It’s not a jazz music or blues, it’s still pop-rock which is arranged to sound like a jazz/blues record. However the the songs on this album are still balancing between two sides, like the band is not decided yet if they wanted to be jazzy pop-rockers or experimentating mood swingers. Three songs from „The Colour..“ could be defined as masterwork: „Happiness is Easy“ with beautiful mellotron arrangements (strings) and children choir, „April 5th“, warm and optimistic sad song and „Chameleon Day“, an intimate dark song. The rest is still on the another side, which doesn’t mean it‘s crap.

The Spirit of Eden (1988)

Spirit of Eden, that’s 41 minutes of magnificence. I remember the feelings I had when I’ve heard the album for the first time. The opening lines of „The Rainbow/Eden/Desire“, violins, piano, muted trumpet and guitar noises. I wasn’t sure if I am listening to Talk Talk, because the only record I knew before was „It’s My Life“. That intro was so beautiful that I was absolutely thrilled, then the killer guitar riff came to shiver and I fell in love. Can hardly describe the feelings I had by the words. It’s adventurous listening, coz you don’t know what’s going to happen next. It’s unpredictable. The wall of sounds which is dissapearing into solo for two clarinets or few seconds of total silence. The beauty of the music is almost tangible but nobody can reach it. They are calmly whispering, interlacing masses of the instruments into intimate music(rainbow/eden), storming with guitar feedback and wall of percussions (desire) or sadly swinging into the monumental melodies (inheritance) without descent into the pathos. If the first four track of album are keeping you uptight, than the rest two (believe in you/wealth) are pure catharsis.

Laughing Stock (1991)

Probably their best album. Their sound is now defined. It’s a logical succesor of The Spirit of Eden, the only changeover is in the way how they are manipulating with harmonies. There is more disonance and chaos, more sadness and elaboration. The arrangements are so refined that is absolutely impossible to play the album live.(They toured for the last time in 1986) It sounds too freeform, but the more I’ve listened to the album, the more I’ve realised how carefully constructed it is. While I listen to Laughing Stock, I’ve got a feeling that the musicians are in the same room with me, draw in.

Talk Talk disbanded after Laughing Stock. Mark Hollis released his only solo album in 1998. Paul Webb and Lee Harris went on to form the band .O.Rang, while Tim Friese-Greene started recording under the name Heligoland ((Heligoland (2000), Pitcher, Flask, & Foxy-Moxie (2006)). Paul Webb became Rustin Man and with Beth Gibbons (Portishead) released Out of Season in 2002. Lee Harris was also involved.

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Psí vojáci - Žiletky

2006-11-03T18:36:00.000Z

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

2006-11-01T12:34:00.000Z

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Sinead O'Connor - Universal Mother (1994)

2006-10-29T19:22:00.000Z

Sinead O'Connor - Universal Mother pt1
Sinead O'Connor -Universal Mother pt2
Sinead O'Connor -Universal Mother pt3

Universal Mother is in my top5. It´s different than other Sinead's albums. More intimate, more sad... almost depressive. I've listened to it on repeat program in my darkest hour. I've seen her performing these songs live.. and she took the essence of her music to absolutely different enviroment. She was singing it with shiny face.

I'll be glad if you let me know your opinion about this album. I think that Universal Mother is so exceptional, but basicly... that album was absolutely overlooked.

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Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)

2006-10-29T17:24:00.000Z

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

Melody is Gainsbourg's concept album.The Lolita-esque pseudo-autobiographical plot involves the middle-aged Gainsbourg unintentionally colliding his 260-horsepower Rolls Royce into teenage nymphet Melody Nelson's bicycle, and the subsequent seduction and romance that ensues. Histoire de Melody Nelson is considered by many critics and fans to be Gainsbourg's most influential and accomplished album.
At just under twenty-eight minutes, the short running time and the stylistic consistency and similarity throughout the album gives it qualities more in line with an EP or an extended musical piece with a number of movements. Histoire de Melody Nelson‘s mix of freewheeling guitar, funk style bass guitar, near spoken word vocal delivery, and lush, deep orchestrated string and choral arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier have proven to be highly influential amongst later francophone and anglophone musical performers including the French band Air, David Holmes, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Beck, whose 2002 track "Paper Tiger" from Sea Change is extremely close to the distinctive Histoire de Melody Nelson sound.

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Cat Power - The Greatest (2006)

2006-10-29T16:33:00.000Z

Cat Power - The Greatest

Chan Marshall's (aka Cat Power) music is so melancholic. I listen to her album a lot, almost every night. Can't help myself, but I think that she sounds like a shy person, absolutely not self-confident. She is not singing as a "poor girl", but there's something in her voice - fragile. On my way to work I play "Lived in Bars", that's my favourite.

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2006-10-21T01:41:00.000+01:00

i just want to say, that i had a lot of troubles with posting today.. so be fucking nice and say some thx..

Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go (2006)

2006-10-20T18:40:00.001+01:00

Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go

"When the numbers get too high/Of the dead pan flying to the sky/Oh I don't know why/Love comes too me."

Will Oldham's The Letting Go was recorded in Reykjavik with Bjork's engineer, string quartet and singer Dawn McCarthy. She is one of the highlights of the album, her voice is so cold and not from this place/time like.
Will wrote a song called "I See The Darkness", which became famous after Johnny Cash sang it on his album.
Will wrote a song called "You Have Cum in Your Hair and Your Cock is Hanging Out", which is not in J.Cash repertoire.

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Serge Gainsbourg - Initials SG (2003)

2006-10-20T17:36:00.000+01:00

Serge Gainsbourg - Initials SG pt1
Serge Gainsbourg - Initials SG pt2

Considering his appeal spanned several generations, fans approach the work of Serge Gainsbourg from a multitude of angles. Initials S.G. is the first widely available, single-disc compilation that treats his career as an artist and influence, not just a hitmaker. And with an entirely new audience of twenty-somethings attracted to his devilish grin and simmering productions, the time was certainly ripe for this "Ultimate Best Of." Boasting 23 tracks and spanning the years 1958 to 1980, Initials S.G. is the disc necessary for anyone who wants to know why artists from Jarvis Cocker to Beck to David Holmes to Momus have seized on his recordings. Previous collections, especially American releases, were overly focused on single time periods (with all the accumulating dross) and often made little attempt to help listeners decide which era they preferred. It's all laid out here, ranging from the brisk postwar jazz-pop of 1964's "Couleur Cafe" to the stoned funk pornography of 1971's "Ballade de Melody Nelson" -- only seven years apart technically, but separated by a vast cultural gulf that could be Johnny Mathis and Johnnie Taylor in comparison. Gainsbourg's power to fascinate later generations is especially powerful on the spare, funky soundtrack feature "Requiem Pour une C..."; the infamous "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus," a 1969 chart entry featuring the orgasmic vocal caressing of Jane Birkin; and an ace throwaway of yeh-yeh pop called "Bonnie and Clyde," featuring Brigitte Bardot. (The disc unfortunately brushes over "Lemon Incest," the source of his wildest controversy, a song on which Gainsbourg crooned with his daughter Charlotte, and in bed with her for the video.) The only buyer-beware caution necessary for Initials S.G. is that most purchasers will soon find themselves buying imports of original LP masterpieces like 1971's Histoire de Melody Nelson or 1969's Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin.

John Bush, All Music Guide

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Efterklang - Tripper (2004)

2006-10-20T17:30:00.000+01:00

Efterklang - Tripper

Efterklang is Danish post-rock group. The group consists of five core members and a sixth member who makes films for their songs. Tripper is not about songs, i think... it's about sounds a emotions, so... loads of strings arrangements and click-fuck-cuts are on it. Cold arses.

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Jesus Jones - Perverse

2006-10-15T14:38:00.000+01:00

Jesus Jones - Perverse
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Way To Blue - An Introduction To Nick Drake

2006-10-15T14:35:00.000+01:00

Way To Blue - An Introduction To Nick Drake - part1
Way To Blue - An Introduction To Nick Drake - part2
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Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk

2006-10-14T06:46:00.000+01:00

Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
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Sia - Colour the small one

2006-10-11T18:49:00.000+01:00

Sia - Colour the small one
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Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (2006)

2006-10-06T16:56:00.000+01:00

Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast

Former Bjork collaborators and psychos.

Guide:

Tracklisting
"Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein"
"Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan"
"Tract for Valerie Solanas"
"Public Sex for Boyd McDonald"
"Semen Song for James Bidgood"
"Snails and Lasers for Patricia Highsmith"
"Germs Burn for Darby Crash"
"Solo Buttons for Joe Meek"
"Rag for William S. Burroughs"
"Banquet for King Ludwig II of Bavaria"

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003) & Show Your Bones (2006)

2006-10-06T15:49:00.000+01:00

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Fever to Tell is pretty wild. Show Your Bones is more refined, like pop with hc guitars. I like Karen O voice, she reminds me PJ Harvey.

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Peter Björn and John - Writer's Block (2006)

2006-10-06T15:34:00.000+01:00

Peter Björn and John - Writer's Block

This 3piece swedish band is highly infectious. Their song "Young Folks" is out as a single, good clip is rotating and i hope that they'll be famous.. one day. Young Folks is a duet actually, Victoria Bergsman sings on it. Her voice is... uhhmm.. shagadelic. I love that moment when she started to sing... " i did before and had my share....." so beautiful. Ok, there it is..

Young Folks
if i told you things i did before told you how i used to be would you go along with someone like me if you knew my story word for word had all of my history would you go along with someone like me
i did before and had my shareit didn't lead nowhere i would go along with someone like you it doesn't matter what you did who you were hanging with we could stick around and see this night through
and we don't care about the young folks talkin' bout the young style and we don't care about the old folks talkin' 'bout the old style too and we don't care about their own faults talkin' 'bout our own style all we care 'bout is talking talking only me and you
usually when things has gone this far people tend to disappear no-one will surprise me unless you do
i can tell there's something goin' on hours seems to disappear everyone is leaving i'm still with you
it doesn't matter what we do where we are going to we can stick around and see this night through
and we don't care about the young folks talkin' bout the young style and we don't care about the old folks talkin' 'bout the old style too and we don't care about their own faults talkin' 'bout our own style all we care 'bout is talking talking only me and you
and we don't care about the young folks talkin' bout the young style and we don't care about the old folks talkin' 'bout the old style too and we don't care about their own faults talkin' 'bout our own style all we care 'bout is talking talking only me and you talking only me and you
talking only me and you talking only me and you

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Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (2005)

2006-10-06T15:07:00.000+01:00

Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now

Antony is brave. Listen and you'll see.

Pearl Jam - No Code

2006-10-03T08:03:00.000+01:00

Pearl Jam - No Code
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MASSIVE ATTACK at Wireless Festival London

2006-09-30T22:42:00.000+01:00

Three songs performed live by MASSIVE ATTACK at Wireless Festival London.

Future Proof
Angel
Safe From Harm (8min. version)

Total 20minutes length
534 MB size
DVD Quality

part 1
part 2
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The Cure - Faith (1981)

2006-09-30T19:33:00.000+01:00

The Cure - Faith

The front cover of the album features a picture of Bolton Abbey in the fog, where Robert Smith married his childhood sweetheart Mary. The album is basically about lead singer Robert Smit´s lack of faith and his desire to find it. Sound is foggy, fluently floating like the sweetest ambient. It´s a most peaceful Smith´s record. It´s a calm before the storm.

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998)

2006-09-30T14:05:00.000+01:00

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada is a Scottish electronic music duo comprised of brothers Michael Sandison (b. 10 June 1969) and Marcus Eoin Sandison (b. 21 Sep 1970). They have released a number of works, most notably Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, with little advertising and few interviews. Their sound has frequently made reference to sounds of the 1970s and the 1980s. It recalls, amongst other things, the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970s television, and indeed, band members Michael and Marcus admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which the group's name comes. The duo have recorded a few minor works as Hell Interface.

Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (1969)

2006-09-30T13:04:00.000+01:00

Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline

I like this album because it´s different than other Dylan´s records. Johnny Cash appeared on it and there is also Dylan´s best song.. uhmm.. Lay Lady Lay.

Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5.55 (2006)

2006-09-30T08:54:00.000+01:00

Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5.55

It´s like another AIR´s album with female vocalist. It´s actually more "AIR-ish" than Air´s own Jean-Benoît Dunckel new album "Darkel". The reviews are terrible. Most of them say that the album is "trendy"? WTF? What does it mean? As far as i know that arse Bluntie is trendy.

That album is beautiful. Produced by Nigel Godrich(radiohead), lyrics provided by Jarvis Cocker. He is unbealiveble. So fucking clever. Strings arrangements were written by Beck´s father David Cambell. Beautiful atmosphere guaranteed.

Vincent Gallo - When (2001)

2006-09-27T18:28:00.000+01:00

Vincent Gallo - When

It´s sad sad sad.

Fight - War of Words (1993)

2006-09-27T18:15:00.000+01:00

Fight - War of Word

When lead singer and heavy metal legend Rob Halford left Judas Priest in the early '90s (following two decades of service in the veteran band), he quickly rebounded with a ferocious new metal band called Fight, which he co-founded with Priest drummer Scott Travis. Fleshing out the group's lineup with guitarists Russ Parrish and Brian Tilse and bassist Jay Jay, Halford took Fight into the studio and recorded War of Words in 1993. Taking a deliberate step away from the old-school tendencies and cartoon metal lyrics of his former band, Halford based the Fight's sound on the more sleek, thrash-oriented approach of newer metal outfits like Pantera and matched the intense sound with decidedly more topical and socially relevant lyrics. Although it didn't make much of a splash in the mainstream world, War of Words proved to be a hit among Halford's fans, and Fight embarked on a successful tour in 1993 and 1994.

Isobel Cambell&Mark Lanegan - Ballad of The Broken Seas (2006)

2006-09-27T17:44:00.000+01:00

Isobel Cambell&Mark Lanegan - Ballad of The Broken Seas

HE is one of the most genuine vocalist ever, i love songs he sang with his trees, qotsa and his solo works.

SHE ruined Stuart Murdoch´s life which I appreciate. What a beautiful album for suicidal chicken.

Hurt

2006-09-26T16:44:00.000+01:00

MADELEINE PEYROUX - Half the Perfect World (2006)

2006-09-25T11:40:00.000+01:00

MADELEINE PEYROUX - Half the Perfect World

Music for chicken/alcoholics.

Beck - The Information (2006) for islandic Witherwings

2006-09-23T20:10:00.000+01:00

Beck - The Information

OK. I prefer Sea Change and Mellow Gold.. But this one isn´t bad either.

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (1974)

2006-09-23T18:34:00.000+01:00

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

That´s "strictly commercial" Zappa album. Continuing from the commercial breakthrough of Over-Nite Sensation (1973), this album is a similar mix of short songs showcasing Zappa's humor and musical arrangements. The record's lyrical themes are often bizarre or obscure, with the exception of "Uncle Remus" which is an extension of Zappa's feelings on racial disharmony featured on his earlier song "Trouble Every Day".
The first half of the album loosely follows a continuing theme. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" tells of a dream the singer had where he saw himself as an eskimo named Nanook. A fur trapper comes up from behind Nanook's igloo and begins to assault a baby seal. Nanook responds by rubbing yellow snow (or rather, snow which had been urinated on by huskies) in his eyes, blinding him. The fur trapper remembers an ancient eskimo legend and travels to "the parish of St. Alphonzo". At this point the album takes an unexpected turn and instead tells of rambunctious antics ("wheedled on the bingo cards in lieu of the latrine") and follows with a scenario in which a leprechaun "stroked it".
As the album reaches "Cosmik Debris", there are several references to earlier albums and songs. The "dust of the Grand Wazoo" is mentioned, as well as "the toads of the short forest" (featured previously on 1970's Weasels Ripped My Flesh and on Over-Nite Sensation, specifically "Camarillo Brillo"). The title track is an instrumental featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Jim Gordon.

The Books - Music for a French Elevator (2006)

2006-09-23T17:42:00.000+01:00

The Books - Music for a French Elevator

The Books are my favourite fucked-up duo. I really did enjoy The Lemon of Pink (2003).
Their music is a mix of aleatoric music, electronica, folk, acoustic music (Paul de Jong is a cellist and Nick Zammuto plays acoustic guitar and electric bass), using lots of samples of sounds, speech and music.

Bodysong O.S.T by Jonny Greenwood (2003)

2006-09-23T17:16:00.000+01:00

Bodysong O.S.T by Jonny Greenwood

Greenwood´s (Radiohead) Bodysong is a nervous chaotic mess. Absolutely not an easy listening. Although it´s a instrumental album, you can enjoy there plenty of "fatal" tunes which could be part of any radiohead album.

Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (1990)

2006-09-23T14:50:00.000+01:00

Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches

A swirling, neo-psychedelic kaleidoscope of hallucinogenic drugs, trippy beats, borrowed hooks, and veiled threats, Pills 'n' Thrills & Bellyaches is Happy Mondays' masterpiece and the peak of the entire Madchester craze. Where the Stone Roses were pop classicists, Happy Mondays pushed pop into the ecstasy age. The Mondays' cut-and-paste rhythms and melodies are clearly influenced by hip-hop and electronic dance music, and their songs have the same sort of twisted internal logic, subverting conventional pop song structures while reinterpreting oldies, occasionally stealing entire songs and claiming them as their own (John Kongos' "He's Gonna Step On You Again" is transformed into "Step On," LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" provides the basis for "Kinky Afro"). Most of the musical collage is the creation of producers Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne, but the vision of Pills 'n' Thrills & Bellyaches belongs to Shaun Ryder, who reveals himself as a surreally gifted lyricist. Lifting melodies at will, Ryder paints a bizarre vision of modern urban life, fueled by sex, drugs, violence, and dead-end jobs -- and instead of lamenting the state of affairs, he celebrates them in his hoarse, arrhythmic, tuneless holler. His thuggishly surreal sense of humor and appropriation of hooks became enormously influential on British rock & roll in the '90s, particularly on Oasis' sense of style.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Broken Flowers O.S.T

2006-09-23T07:16:00.000+01:00

Broken flowers OST

Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue (2005)

2006-09-21T11:51:00.000+01:00

Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue

I think that Moloko were boring, polished a cold. But i liked Róisín´s voice. Her "Ruby Blue" is ecstatic moving.... something lifeblooded by the producer Matthew Herbert (Bjork-Vespertine).

Taxi Driver O.S.T by Bernard Herrmann (1976)

2006-09-21T11:38:00.000+01:00

Taxi Driver O.S.T by Bernard Herrmann
If you are an insomniac psycho and your interest are murders and porn, i´ve got some nice tunes for your lonely nights.

Walker Brothers - Nite Flight (1977)

2006-09-21T11:18:00.000+01:00

Walker Brothers - Nite Flight
They were huge pop stars in ´60s. This is their last album which could be in the same category with Bowie´s Lodger or Byrne&Eno´s My Life in The Bush of Ghosts. One of the weirdest record ever, but still enjoyable.

Ulrich Schnauss

2006-09-21T07:01:00.000+01:00

Ulrich Schnauss
A Strangely Isolated PlaceFar Away Trains Passing By\

Sebastian Tellier - Politics (2004)

2006-09-17T12:31:00.000+01:00

Sebastian Tellier - Politics 04
That french guy is incredibly funny. Some stuff sounds like japanese pop, the other like 80´s pop or Air, but there is a lot of good tunes, humour and sadness.

ZZ Top -The Best of ZZ Top (1977)

2006-09-17T09:15:00.000+01:00

ZZ Top -The Best of ZZ Top
This album captured the best bits from their early five albums recorded for London Records. Forget about "Gimme All Your Lovin" shit, this is pre-MTV stuff!!!! No fuckin synths no shit - pure blues and boogie. It´s roaring out of the speakers. Haw haw haw haw. Play it loud!!!!

Skye Edwards - Mind How You Go

2006-09-16T22:45:00.000+01:00

Skye Edwards - Mind How You Go

Bonobo - Days to Come

2006-09-16T11:19:00.000+01:00

Bonobo - Days to Come