GUIDED BY VOICES - HALF SMILES OF THE DECOMPOSED
Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm not Looking)
[3:20]5.8 Mb
Sleep Over Jack
[3:04]5 Mb
Girls of Wild Strawberries
[2:29]4.5 Mb
Gonna Never Have to Die
[2:17]3.8 Mb
Window of My World
[2:57]4.1 Mb
The Closets of Henry
[2:30]4.1 Mb
Tour Guide at the Winston Churchill Memorial
[3:01]4.5 Mb
Asia Minor
[2:23]3.7 Mb
Sons of Apollo
[4:04]6.4 Mb
Sing for Your Meat
[4:03]6.4 Mb
Asphyxiated Circle
[2:49]4.7 Mb
A Second Spurt of Growth
[2:45]3.9 Mb
(S)Mothering and Coaching
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Huffman Prarie Flying Field
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Guided by Voices "Half Smiles of the Decomposed" Album Review
Full Smiles for the Undecomposed
Nothing wrong at all with this. I hope history is kind to Guided By Voices. Because this album is nothing short of amazing. I think the only thing that kept Guided By Voices from superstardom (or Semisuperstardom) was A--lack of proper promotion (wheres the damn billboard? You know what, I wouldnt mind hearing some GBV hocking some Target store bulls99t) People need to hear this!....and B. artistic integrity. How can you market Pollards lyrics? You Cant! "please refer to the wedding cake" and all of the lyrics to all the other GBV songs. They are too emotionally invested in something--no one has quite figured it out. But they strike some kind of chord....at least for me and alot of other people--
Guided By Voices was The Who and The Beatles for me (I love both bands but they didnt exist in the current moment--no way to anticipate the release of WHOS NEXT if you werent born yet!). This album, no matter how melancholy and far removed from the original incarnation of Guided By Voices it is--is awesome. Any naysayers need not submit for they not know not what they are saying and I feel bad for em.
BRIAN ENO - TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY)
Burning Airlines Give You So Much
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Back in Judys Jungle
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The Fat Lady of Limbourg
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Mother Whale Eyeless
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The Great Pretender
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Third Uncle
[4:47]8.4 Mb
Put A Straw Under Baby
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The True Wheel
[5:10]8.5 Mb
China My China
[4:43]7.9 Mb
Taking Tiger Mountain
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Brian Eno "Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)" Album Review
The Jellyfish Kiss
Remaking a famous album, note-for note? Sounds tedious in the extreme, no? Well, it's not -- for two very good reasons. First and foremost, this is Eno we're talking about, and his music has become part of the lives of millions of us. His music is crying out for re-examination, re-evaluation and re-integration.
Second, that's pretty much what Hilsinger & Beatty provide -- although this is a faithful note-for-note recreation, the instrumentation is changed around substantially, some of the moods are markedly different, and the drumming has a harder edge, bringing the 1974 masterpiece into an up-to-the-minute sound. Eno is reborn as indy rock circa 2004, and it serves the material well, very well indeed.
Maybe this is the first* of a series of re-examinations of Eno's body of work. Maybe he will get his due among younger musicians who speak the languages he developed without knowing the founder. Maybe Hilsinger & Beatty will go on to remake the other three classic song-oriented albums. Maybe somebody will will be turned onto Brian's work through this release. Hey, we can hope.
* - Technically this may be the THIRD re-examination I suppose, if you consider Bang on a Can's "Music for Airports" and Arturo Stalteri's "coolAugustMoon."
BRYAN FERRY AND ROXY MUSIC - THE PLATINUM COLLECTION
Virginia Plain
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Pyjamarama
[2:52]4.1 Mb
Do the Strand
[4:01]5.8 Mb
A Hard Rains Gonna Fall
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Street Life
[3:28]4.9 Mb
All I Want is You
[2:52]4.1 Mb
The in Crowd
[4:34]6.5 Mb
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
[2:54]4.1 Mb
You Go to My Head
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Love is the Drug
[4:08]6 Mb
Both Ends Burning
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Let's Stick Together
[3:00]4.3 Mb
The Price of Love
[3:27]4.9 Mb
This is Tomorrow
[3:40]5.2 Mb
Tokyo Joe
[3:54]5.6 Mb
Sign of the Times
[2:28]3.6 Mb
What Goes on
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Carrickfergus
[3:48]5.4 Mb
Trash
[2:12]3.1 Mb
Dance Away
[3:46]5.4 Mb
Angel Eyes
[2:52]4.1 Mb
Over You
[3:27]4.9 Mb
Oh Yeah
[4:50]6.9 Mb
The Same Old Scene
[3:58]5.7 Mb
Jealous Guy
[4:57]7.1 Mb
More than this
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Avalon
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Take A Chance with Me
[4:43]6.7 Mb
Don't Stop the Dance
[4:21]6.2 Mb
Windswept
[4:36]6.6 Mb
Slave to Love
[4:26]6.4 Mb
Is Your Love Strong Enough
[4:52]7 Mb
The Right Stuff
[4:22]6.3 Mb
Kiss and Tell
[4:53]7 Mb
Limbo
[5:00]7.1 Mb
Hell Have to Go
[4:04]5.9 Mb
I Put A Spell on You
[5:26]7.7 Mb
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
[4:19]6.2 Mb
Girl of My Best Friend
[3:26]4.9 Mb
Your Painted Smile
[3:13]4.6 Mb
Mamouna
[5:11]7.4 Mb
As Time Goes by
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Goddess of Love
[3:32]5 Mb
All Over Now Baby Blue
[4:06]5.9 Mb
A Fool for Love
[4:42]6.7 Mb
Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music "The Platinum Collection" Album Review
Platinum Review
Very good introduction to Bryan Ferry. However, it is missing "Everytime You Go Away".
