M U S I C
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FROM 101 GREAT ALBUMS!
In chronological order,
one song per album.
Garage! Psychedelic! Jazz!
Folk! Bluegrass! Blues!
AltCountry! World! Nondescript!
From 2010 through 2019!
A crash course in crucial!
350 Albums: 1956-2020
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
The 2000s
one song each
from these 101 classic albums!
01) Soulive,
"Rubber Soulive"
Soulful instrumentals of classic Beatles songs.
02) Martina Topley-Bird,
"Some Place Simple"
The mercurial indie rethinks herself.
03) Fabienne DelSol,
"On My Mind"
Punchy Garage rock and dreamy Psyche.
4) Sharon Jones And The Dap-Tones,
"I Learned The Hard Way"
Real Soul by real people.
5) Darker My Love,
"18th Street Shuffle"
Moody Psyche by Tim Presley (Nerve Agents, White Fence).
6) Wendy James,
"I Came Here To Blow Minds"
Smart AltRock by the toughest mouth walking.
7) Louise Burns,
"Mellow Drama"
Lovely and organic Pop songcraft.
8) Tune-Yards,
"W H O K I L L"
Polyrhythmic and syllabic surprises that you can dance to.
9) Harriet Tubman,
"Ascension"
Angular Fusion, in the mode of Miles and McLaughlin.
10) Sleigh Bells,
"Reign Of Terror"
Like Black Sabbath backing punk cheerleaders.
11) The Heavy,
"The Glorious Dead"
Epic Rawk with Soul vocals.
12) St. Vincent,
"Strange Mercy"
Remolding all genres like a melodic alchemist.
13) Danger Mouse, Danielle Luppi,
"Rome"
That Morricone cinematic magic, with vocals from Jack White and Norah Jones.
14) Filhos da Judith,
"Filhos da Judith" (Brazil)
Beatlesque in português, as we deserve.
15) The Love Me Nots,
"Let's Get Wrecked"
Garage Rock party with fierce Farfisa.
16) Saidah Baba Talibah,
"(S)cream"
The eclectic epicenter of the AfroPunk movement.
17) Julianna Barwick,
"The Magic Place"
Ethereal ambience choirs.
18) The Civil Wars,
"Barton Hollow"
Soulful AltCountry.
19) The Honorable South,
"I Love My Tribe"
Country AltSoul.
20) Puta Madre Brothers,
"It's A Long Way To Meximotown" (Australia)
GarageSurfKickdrums.
21) The Funk Ark,
"High Noon"
Afrobeat Funk.
22) The Black Keys,
"El Camino"
Blues Rock with Glam and Soul.
23) Goat,
"World Music" (Sweden)
Ecstatic delirium.
24) Cody Chesnutt,
"Landing On A Hundred"
Conscious Soul, in the mode of Marvin and Lenny.
25) Tame Impala,
"Lonerism" (Australia)
"Abbey Road" and "Dark Side" bliss out at a Rave.
26) Ava Luna,
"Ice Level"
Angular Funk that swings your hips like a test tube carousel.
27) Galactic,
"Carnivale Electricos"
Nawlins FunkRockZydeco celebration.
28) Antibalas,
"Antibalas"
Political Afrobeat.
29) Georgia Anne Muldrow,
"Seeds"
Souladelica.
30) La Femme,
"Psycho Tropical Berlin" (France)
ElectroPsycheGroove.
31) Black Joe Lewis,
"Electric Slave"
Funky Blues Rock.
32) Savages,
"Silence Yourself"
Coldwave Postpunk par excellance.
33) Bombino,
"Nomad" (Niger)
Driving guitar rhythms touring through African and Western Blues at the same time.
34) Sarah Jarosz,
"Build Me Up From Bones"
Progressive Bluegrass prodigy.
35) Unknown Mortal Orchestra,
"II" (New Zealand)
Psyche dreamscapes with dancey groove.
36) Weyes Blood,
"The Innocents"
Madrigal folk that takes your breath and lifts your spirit.
37) Los Mambo Jambo,
"Impacto Imminente" (Spain)
Rockabilly Soul for dancehalls.
38) V V Brown,
"Samson & Delilah"
Emperious Coldwave with stirring vocals.
39) Melt Yourself Down,
"Melt Yourself Down"
Funky Jazz World music.
40) Valerie June,
"Pushin’ Against A Stone"
Soulful Americana.
41) The Liberators,
"Power Struggle" (Australia)
Aussie Afrobeat funkapalooza.
42) She Keeps Bees,
"Eight Houses"
Moody AltBlues.
43) Meatbodies,
"Mountain"
Noisy GaragePsyche.
44) Quilt,
"Held In Splendor"
Dream Popadelic.
45) D'Angelo,
"Black Messiah"
Like "There's A Riot Going On" and "Sign 'O The Times" tightly chopped.
46) Cibo Matto,
"Hotel Valentine"
Quicksilver duo returns to shake up AltDance again.
47) The Secret Sisters,
"Put Your Needle Down"
Golden Country Pop harmonies.
48) La Luz,
"Weirdo Shrine"
Lysergic Surf chorales.
49) Django Django,
"Born Under Saturn"
Imagine Depeche Mode possessed by a jangly Surf band, produced by Brian Wilson.
50) Lovebyrd,
"Lovebyrd" (Germany)
Shoegazadelic.
51) Pond,
"Man It Feels Like Space Again" (Australia)
A split-off of Tame Impala, ramping the hallucinatory groove.
52) Songhoy Blues,
"Music In Exile" (Mali)
Desert Blues with melodic lilt.
53) Destination Lonely,
"No One Can Save Me" (France)
Ornery Garage Rock.
54) The Soul Surfers,
"Soul Rock!"
Surfin' Soul, let's go!
55) Erase Errata,
"Lost Weekend"
PostPunk with zigzag jag and political punch.
56) Cola Jet Set,
"El Fin Del Mundo" (Spain)
Mod Pop for now people.
57) Diane Coffee,
"Everybody Is A Good Dog"
Prog Glam.
58) Calibro 35,
"S.P.A.C.E." (Italy)
I'll have Cosmic cinerama, with clang and gallop, please.
59) Lianne La Havas,
"Blood"
Angelic troubadour goes AltFolk.
60) Jacco Gardner,
"Hypnophobia" (Netherlands)
Sublime Psyche by the heair to Syd and Robyn.
61) Meta Meta,
"MM3" (Brazil)
JazzRockFolkWorldCountry.
62) Childish Gambino,
"Awaken, My Love!"
Funkadelic 1974.
63) Idris Ackamoor And The Pyramids,
"We Be All Africans"
Freeform Afrobeat.
64) The Claypool Lennon Delirium,
"Monolith Of Phobos"
P s y c h e d e l i c
P r o g .
65) Adia Victoria,
"Beyond The Bloodhounds"
Indie Rock spirit underlined by soulful Blues.
66) Heron Oblivion,
"Heron Oblivion"
Fiery Psyche guitar alternating with rhapsodic Freak Folk.
67) Guerilla Toss,
"Easer Stargazer"
Punk Zappa? Art Scronk? Electro smashed? Frenzy Disco? It's up to you.
68) The Monkees,
"Good Time!"
A pitch perfect reunion album with every right move.
69) Ty Segall,
"Emotional Mugger"
The King of Fuzz Rock leaning toward the catchy.
70) White Denim,
"Stiff"
Left field arrangements that move your hips and stick in your mind.
71) Anielle Reid,
"Free"
Bluegrass poet.
72) Benjamin Booker,
"Witness"
Ben sojourns further from Blues into edgy unknowns with each album.
73) Here Lies Man,
"Here Lies Man"
Afrobeat with Motorik crunch.
74) Las Cobras,
"Temporal" (Uruguay)
Garagedelic vision quests.
75) Algiers,
"Death March"
Experimental Rock band with melodic chops.
76) The Pink Tiles,
"#1 Fan" (Australia)
Filipino band strobing the Go-Go with Garage Pop.
77) The Como Mamas,
"Move Upstairs"
Pure, soulful Gospel.
78) Jeff Russo,
"LEGION" soundtrack
Like a secret early-'70s Pink Floyd album gifted by the Multiverse.
79) Samehada Shiriko and Dynamite,
"ダダダ大革命" (Japan)
Garage Mod wow!
80) Sunshine & The Rain,
"In The Darkness"
Pop with glow and trips and grit.
81) Jessica Lea Mayfield,
"Sorry Is Gone"
AltCountry with Spaghetti Western Grunge.
82) Mara Balls,
"Elava Kivi" (Finland)
Stoner Rock by the stunning guitarist, Maria Mattila.
83) Anderson East,
"Encore"
Muscle Shoals Soul, pure and undiluted.
84) Lisa Mychols,
"Sugar"
Mod Pop confection perfection.
85) Brownout,
"Fear Of A Brown Planet"
Funk instrumentals of classic Public Enemy songs.
86) Kadhja Bonet,
"Childqueen"
Lush NeoSoul.
87) Lera Lynn,
"Plays Well With Others"
Sharp songwriter crafts beautiful duets with luminaries like John Paul White (Civil Wars), Rodney Crowell, JD McPherson, and Nicole Atkins.
88) Guadalupe Plata,
"Guadalupe Plata (2018)" (Spain)
Raw clanging Blues.
89) Father John Misty,
"God's Favorite Customer"
1973 Elton John gets possessed by 1978 Tom Waits' outlook and exorcises a great record.
90) Gwenifer Raymond,
"You Never Were Much Of A Dancer"
Acoustic neck-romancer weaves guitar arias that kick your tookus.
91) The Putbacks,
"The Putbacks"
Funk soundtrack for your mind film.
92) The Limiñanas,
"Shadow People" (France)
Filmic vistas of ringing guitar, and guests like Evan Newcombe, Peter Hook, and Emmanuelle Seigner.
93) Twanguero,
"Electric Sunset" (Spain)
Lovely album of rockin' cumbia with flamenco twang.
94) The Darts (U.S.),
"I Like You But Not Like That"
Garage Rock collective, led by Nicole Lauren (The Love Me Nots).
95) Ikebe Shakedown,
"Kings Left Behind"
Cinematic Afrobeat.
96) The Bitchwaves,
"Bat Attack!!!" (Sweden?)
Garage Rawk.
97) Altin Gün,
"Gece" (Netherlands)
Turkish Psyche Folk.
98) L'Epee,
"Diabolique" (France)
Psycedelic dream band of The Limananas, Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre), and Emmanuelle Seigner.
99) Our Native Daughters,
"Songs Of Our Native Daughters"
Bluegrass dream group of Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell.
100) The Coathangers,
"The Devil You Know"
Punky snark with driving beats and killer guitar.
101) Hannah Williams And The Affirmations,
"50 Foot Woman"
Technicolor Soul.
© Tym Stevens
1) 350 GREAT ALBUMS That Will Change Your Life!
2) MUSIC 101: The 1950s
3) MUSIC 101: The 1960s
4) MUSIC 101: The 1970s
5) MUSIC 101: The 1980s
6) MUSIC 101: The 1990s
7) MUSIC 101: The 2000s
* The albums heard on the Decades series are different than the 350 Albums overview.
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