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[Music] Introduce a Personal Favourite Album of Yours
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The Modfather
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Seagull kimchi
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burnee54
East Upper Hermit
Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm
Not a bad track on it.
Not a bad track on it.
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Machiavelli
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Small Change by Tom Waits for me
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Some others:
Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, the last track 'Cowgirl in the Sand' is him at his best
Thanks to Kitty Empire's review today on this: Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes and Hallowed Ground
and, just for a laugh, The Cult -- Electric
Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, the last track 'Cowgirl in the Sand' is him at his best
Thanks to Kitty Empire's review today on this: Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes and Hallowed Ground
and, just for a laugh, The Cult -- Electric
A great AC/DC by numbers album. And I am not being derogatory.
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Agree with that. It's a completely stupid album, but there's a very big place for stupidity in rock 'n' roll. It's my boy's current favourite album too.
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Joe Nobody
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Forge & Flagon - Skinny Lister
Worried Man Blues
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Michael Quatro In collaboration with the Gods I am sure this is crass and shallow, probably very poor musically but it is one of those things that I love.
Yep. This was on my short list too. Their best in my view and not a weak track on it.
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Sleater Kinney – The Woods
Released: 2005
Label: Sub Pop
For Fans Of: Bikini Kill, L7, Hole, Nirvana, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
Reccomended Tracks: Entertainment, Rollercoaster, Long Time For Love/Night Light
Very few artists leave us on the frustrating high of producing their most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album but that is exactly what all girl three-piece Sleater Kinney did with their final album The Woods one of the finest albums produced by rock bands of either gender in the naughties. It’s now left as a tease of where this outrageously talented outfit could have gone.
Formed in 1994 by Carrie Brownstein (currently starring in ace American comedy Portlandia) and Corin Tucker - both of whom had paid their dues in various Riot Grrrl outfits orbiting Kathleen Hanna’s game changing group Bikini Kill – the band had slowly moved away from their Olympia, Washington punk roots to a sound closer to Sonic Youth at their commercial peak across their 6 previous albums. However, despite this ongoing evolution, The Woods was a step further than anyone would have anticipated.
Featuring an ear-breakingly big production courtesy of Flaming Lips, Mogwai and future Tame Impala producer Dave Fridmann it’s one of those rare records that manages to sound comparatively mainstream whilst not abandoning the band’s previous ideals. It’s hard to work out who or what is the star. Janet Weiss, now Stephen Malkmus’s drummer of choice, is super humanly powerful behind the drum kit, Brownstein and Tucker’s guitars riff and snake around each other like they’re telepathic and as always with Sleater-Kinney the juxtaposition of Tucker’s Tina Turner-esque howl and Brownstein’s detached, childlike, sneer is a joy to behold. The left-leaning feminist lyrics are typical of their output, bullish and outspoken, yet at times heart-breakingly tender especially on the ironic-yet-vulnerable Brownstein-fronted 'Modern Girl.'
Critically adored and peaking at number 80 in the Billboard chart the album was far from a failure but deserved to reach a far greater level of mainstream acceptance. Sleater-Kinney really could have been the new Nirvana.
Released: 2005
Label: Sub Pop
For Fans Of: Bikini Kill, L7, Hole, Nirvana, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
Reccomended Tracks: Entertainment, Rollercoaster, Long Time For Love/Night Light
Very few artists leave us on the frustrating high of producing their most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album but that is exactly what all girl three-piece Sleater Kinney did with their final album The Woods one of the finest albums produced by rock bands of either gender in the naughties. It’s now left as a tease of where this outrageously talented outfit could have gone.
Formed in 1994 by Carrie Brownstein (currently starring in ace American comedy Portlandia) and Corin Tucker - both of whom had paid their dues in various Riot Grrrl outfits orbiting Kathleen Hanna’s game changing group Bikini Kill – the band had slowly moved away from their Olympia, Washington punk roots to a sound closer to Sonic Youth at their commercial peak across their 6 previous albums. However, despite this ongoing evolution, The Woods was a step further than anyone would have anticipated.
Featuring an ear-breakingly big production courtesy of Flaming Lips, Mogwai and future Tame Impala producer Dave Fridmann it’s one of those rare records that manages to sound comparatively mainstream whilst not abandoning the band’s previous ideals. It’s hard to work out who or what is the star. Janet Weiss, now Stephen Malkmus’s drummer of choice, is super humanly powerful behind the drum kit, Brownstein and Tucker’s guitars riff and snake around each other like they’re telepathic and as always with Sleater-Kinney the juxtaposition of Tucker’s Tina Turner-esque howl and Brownstein’s detached, childlike, sneer is a joy to behold. The left-leaning feminist lyrics are typical of their output, bullish and outspoken, yet at times heart-breakingly tender especially on the ironic-yet-vulnerable Brownstein-fronted 'Modern Girl.'
Critically adored and peaking at number 80 in the Billboard chart the album was far from a failure but deserved to reach a far greater level of mainstream acceptance. Sleater-Kinney really could have been the new Nirvana.
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http://www.last.fm/music/Joe+Walsh/Barnstorm
Thought of this thread because I have just been reminded of Barnstorm by Joe Walsh.
First released in 1972 and a minor classic, in my view. Better than any of his subsequent solo albums, and much better than anything he did with the eagles, of whom I have never been a great fan anyway.
Thought of this thread because I have just been reminded of Barnstorm by Joe Walsh.
First released in 1972 and a minor classic, in my view. Better than any of his subsequent solo albums, and much better than anything he did with the eagles, of whom I have never been a great fan anyway.