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Sunday, December 17, 2017

BEST MUSIC: 2017, with Music Players!


Curtis Harding




ALL THE
REAL MUSIC!


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Julie Byrne
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BEST ALBUMS 2017
by Tym Stevens
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This music player has songs from the following albums, in the same order.




-Curtis Harding, "Face Your Fear"
Psychedelic Soul.

-JD McPherson, "UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL"
Rockabilly and Soul.

-Julie Byrne, "Not Even Happiness"
Ethereal Folk.

-Thundercat, "Drunk"
Eclectic Soul.




-Temples, "Volcano"
Psychedelic Pop.

-St. Vincent, "MASSEDUCTION"
Future Rock.

-Father John Misty, "Pure Comedy"
Lacerating Folk commentary.

-Here Lies Man, "Here Lies Man"
Afrobeat Rock.




-Groovy Uncle, "A Clip Around The Ears"
Beatlesque Pop.

-Dan Auerbach, "Waiting On A Song"
Country Soul from Black Keys leader.

-Bootsy Collins, "World Wide Funk"
Hybrid Funk.

-Deerhoof, "Mountain Moves"
Melodic Noize Pop.




-The New Pornographers, "Whiteout Conditions"
Complex Pop from Indie supergroup.

-Zara McFarlane, "Arise"
SoulJazz angel chorales.

-Las Cobras, "Temporal"
Moody trance-adelic from Uruguay.

-The Secret Sisters, "You Don't Own Me Anymore"
(The secret sisters of the Everly brothers?)




-Songhoy Blues, "Resistance"
Desert Blues from Mali.

-Las Odio, "Futuras Esposas"
Garage Punk from Spain.

-Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm, "Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm"
Memphis Soul.

-Feist, "Pleasure"
Edgy Chamber Folk.




-Satellite Jockey, "Modern Life, Vol.1"
Psyche Pop.

-Nicole Atkins, "Goodnight Rhonda Lee"
Multifaceted Soul, Country, and Dream Pop.

-Ariel Pink, "Dedicated To Bobby Jameson"
Electrodelic.

-D/troit, "Soul Sound System"
Funky Soul from Denmark.




-Queens Of The Stone Age, "Villains"
Cold Glam with Boogie.

-The Pen Friend Club, "Wonderful World Of The Pen Friend Club"
A happy world of Pet Sounds from Japan.

-Childhood, "Universal High"
Sunshine Soul.

-Nicole Willis, "My Name Is Nicole Willis"
Soulful Funk.




-Roger Waters, "Is This The Life We Really Want?"
The Wall for the FakePrez era.

-Mavis Staples, "If All I Was Was Black"
Compassionate Gospel Soul.

-The Darts (U.S.), "The Darts"
A Garage Punk spin-off of The Love Me Nots.

-Jeb Loy Nichols, "Country Hustle"
Soul Country Folk Reggae Blues.




-Antibalas, "Where The Gods Are In Peace"
Political Afrobeat.

-Don Bryant, "Don't Give Up On Love"
Memphis Soul.

-Liam Gallagher, "As You Were"
Let It Be some more.

-Chicano Batman, "Freedom Is Free"
Latin Funk.




-Tashaki Miyaki, "The Dream"
Like Slowdive jamming with Crazy Horse.

-Nick Hakim, "Green Twins"
Kaleidoscopic Soul.

-Jane Weaver, "Modern Kosmology"
Harmonious Kraut Psyche.

-Perfume Genius, "No Shape"
Coldwave Soul Rock.




-The Claypool Lennon Delirium, "Lime And Limpid Green"
Covers E.P. of Psyche and Prog gems.

-Benjamin Booker, "Witness"
Soul Blues.

-Samehada Shiriko And Dynamite, "Brand New Dynamite"
Refracted Psyche maelstrom.

-The Como Mamas, "Move Upstairs"
Gospel.




-Glim Spanky, "Bizarre Carnival"
Baroque Pop.

-Guadalupe Plata, "Guadalupe Plata 2017"
Scary Spaghetti-billy.

-The Coathangers, "Parasite"
Punk trio with Pop hooks.

-Sunshine & The Rain, "In The Darkness Of My Nights"
Girl Group Buzz Punk.




-The Kaisers, "Wishing Street"
Perfect Merseybeat.

-Jessica Lea Mayfield, "Sorry Is Gone"
Alt-Country with a Grunge edge.

-Spoon, "Hot Thoughts"
Austin's finest Alt-Rock.

-Robert Plant, "Carry Fire"
Roots to the future.




-Angelo Badalamenti, +, "TWIN PEAKS (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)"
From the darkness of future past.

-Chrysta Bell, "We Dissolve"
David Lynch's protege graduates.

-Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks, "Morte di Seeburg"
Terse Cinecitta-style soundtrack chills.

-Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings, "Soul Of A Woman"
The swan song of the true queen of modern Soul.
Rest In Power.


Sharon Jones







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All the REAL MUSIC
beyond the box!


Nevermind Gloss Pop, Stepford Idols, Karaoke Choruses, Ego Brats, Brittle Bombast, and Robot-o-Tune schlock!

Here's the
D R E A M
J U K E B O X !

COOL SONGS 2017
by Tym Stevens
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This year's jukebox is sequenced into groups of sound, instead of randomly.
All the songs elasticize their genres.
Get your groove on in this sonic order.:

Ethereal! Soul! Rockabilly! Garage!

Psychedelic! Glam! RESIST! Covers!

Country! Funk! AfroBeat! Riot Grrrl!

Alt-Rap! Electro! Soundtracks!

Nicole Atkins; Thundercat;
The Darts; Glim Spanky


20 hours of mind-staggering, booty-swiveling music, featuring:

Julie Byrne, Chrysta Bell, Chuck Berry, The Secret Sisters, CTMF, The Shelters, Charlotte Gainesbourg, Thee Oh Sees, Beck, Louise Burns, Melvins, Nick Hakim, The Heliocentrics, Fleet Foxes, The Dirtbombs, of Montreal, Moon Duo, Sampha, THEEE BAT, Ruby Velle And The Soulphonics, Las Rosas, Tinariwen, Tony Allen, Sleater-Kinney, Beth Ditto, EMA, Moses Sumney, Wire,
and throngs more songs!






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Quality is timeless.

The act
you've known
for all
these years.


BEST REISSUES 2017
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This music player has songs from the following albums, in the same order.



1950s

-Little Richard, "Here's Little Richard" (1957)
The Voice of Rock'n'Roll.



1960s

-Various Artists, "Girls With Guitars, Vol. 4"
Rock grrrls of the '60s.

-The Golliwogs, "Fight Fire: The Complete Recordings 1964-1967"
The early Beat and Garage songs of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

-The Creation, "Action Painting" (1967-'68)
Mod/ Garage.

-The Monks, "Hamburg Recordings 1967"
Garage.

-The Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967)
The Greatest Rock Album Of All Time.

-The Rolling Stones, "Their Satanic Majesties Request" (1967)
Psyche response to Sgt. Pepper.

-The Beach Boys, "1967- Sunshine Tomorrow"
Box set of all their 1967 works.

-The Moody Blues, "Days Of Future Past" (1967)
Chamber Psyche.

-Tages, "Studio" (1967)
Swedish Psyche response to Sgt. Pepper.

-Various Artists, "Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration Of STAX" (1960-1976)
Stax Records box set.

-Marta Kubisova, "Songy a Balady" (1968)
Czech Soul balladeer.

-Sunny And The Sunliners, "Mr. Brown-Eyed Soul"
Latin Soul.

-Os Brazoes, "Os Brazoes" (1969)
Brazilian Psyche.




1970s

-P.P. Arnold, "The Turning Tide" (c. 1970)
Lost Rock album produced by Barry Gibb.

-Pink Floyd, "1970 Devi/ation"
All their 1970 works.

-Chris Bell +, "Looking Forward: The Roots Of Big Star"
Chris Bell's various projects before Big Star.

-Piero Piccioni, "Puppets On A Chain" (1970)
Groovy soundtrack.

-Pappo's Blues, "Pappo's Blues, Vol. 1" (1971)
Argentinian Blues-rock.

-The Stylistics, "The Stylistics" (1971)
Debut album produced by Thom Bell.

-Rain, "Rain" (1972)
Beatlesque Prog.

-Mulatu Astatke, "Mulatu of Ethiopia" (1972)
Ethiopian Jazz.

-The Delfonics, "Tell Me This Is A Dream" (1972)
Philly Soul.

-Isaac Hayes, "The Spirit Of Memphis (1962-1976)"
A box set overview of the Soul Man.

-Yoko Ono, "Fly", "Approximately Infinite Universe" , "Feeling The Space" (1971, 1973, 1973)
Crucial experimental Rock.
Approximately Infinite Universe is one of the greatest Rock double-albums ever made.

-Minnie Riperton, "Perfect Angel" (1974)
Produced by Stevie Wonder.

-The Stooges, "Heavy Liquid: "The Album" (1974)
The great lost follow-up to Raw Power.

-Sly Stone, "High On You" (1975)
Underrated Funk classic.

-Neil Young, "Hitchhiker" (1976)
Legendary unreleased acoustic demos album.

-The Jam, "1977"
All of their 1977 works.

-The Cars, "Candy-O", "Panorama" (1979, 1980)
The brilliant second record and the underappreciated third.

-The Pop Group, "Y" (1979)
PostPunk/DubNoize protest album for the ages.




1980s

-Tradition, "Captain Ganja And The Space Patrol" (1980)
Essential breakthrough Dub album.

-Maximum Joy, "I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights: Singles 1981-82"
PostPunk Funk from the early-'80s NYC revolution.>

-The Rain Parade, "Emergency Third Rail Power Trip" (1983)
Neo-Psyche from the Paisley Underground scene.

-Annie Anxiety, "Soul Possession" (1984)
Damaged Spoken Punk.

-Prince And The Revolution, "Purple Rain" (1984)
A massive expansion of the best album of the '80s.

-Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit, "The Rose Of England" (1985)
Rockabilly.

-INXS, "Kick" (1987)
Aussie Funk.

-Paul McCartney, "Flowers In The Dirt" (1989)
Now expanded with all of the terrific unreleased demos with Elvis Costello.




1990s

-L7, "Detroit" (1990)
Unreleased live album.

-Angelo Badalamenti, "TWIN PEAKS: Fire Walk With Me" (1992)
Hallucinatory demon Jazz.



2000s

-Anna And The Psychomen, "2002-2004 Complete Recordings"
Garage Punk from Italy.

-Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Fever To Tell" (demos) (2003)
NYC Art-Punk.




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Monday, May 2, 2016

MUSIC 101: The 2000s


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MUSIC 101: The 2000s
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101 SONGS
FROM 101 GREAT ALBUMS!

In chronological order,
one album per act,
one song per album.

Garage Rock! Psychedelic! Beatlesque!
Soul! HipHop! Electro!
Country! Blues! Folk!
World! PostPunk! Indie!



From 2000 through 2009!
A crash course in crucial!


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The 1950s
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The Music Player contains one song each
from these 101 classic albums!




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01) Goldfrapp, "Felt Mountain"
Electro HipHop.

02) Queens Of The Stone Age, "Rated R"
Stoner Rock.

03) Elliott Smith, "Figure 8"
Indie Beatles.>

04) The Sprague Brothers, "Forever And A Day"
Rockabilly and Beat Music.>

05) Shelby Lynne, "I Am Shelby Lynne"
Country Soul.

06) Spaceways Inc., "Thirteen Cosmic Standards By Sun Ra And Funkadelic"
Casmic Jazz Funk.

07) Original Soundtrack, "O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?"
Americana overview.

08) The Apples In Stereo, "The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone"
Beat Pop.

09) Elastica, "The Menace"
BritPunk.

10) Calexico, "Hot Rail"
Indie Tex-Mex.


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11) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, "B.R.M.C."
Alt Fuzz.

12) Sam Phillips, "Fan Dance"
Alt songwriter.

13) Los Super 7, "Canto"
Alt Mexicana supergroup.

14) Swag, "Catchall"
"Abbey Road"-esque Pop.>

15) The Dirtbombs, "Ultraglide In Black"
Garage Rock.>

16) Finley Quaye, "Vanguard"
TripHop Folk.

17) Ex-Girl, "Back To The Mono Kero!"
Japanese Noizerock.

18) Sloan, "Pretty Together"
Power Pop.


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19) The Raveonettes, "Whip It On"
Biker Fuzz Dream Pop.

20) Johnny Cash, "The Man Comes Around"
Unplugged Country.

21) Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings, "Dap-Dippin' With..."
Timeless Soul.

22) Elvis Costello, "When I Was Cruel"
Punk maturity.

23) Lee Fields And The Expressions, "Problems"
Classic Soul.

24) The Black Keys, "The Big Come Up"
New Blues.

25) Antipop Consortium, "Arrythmia"
Alt Rap.

26) Los Lobos, "Good Morning Aztlan"
Alt Roots.

27) Floetry, "Floetic"
English Conscious Rap.

28) The Kaisers, "Shake Me"
Early-'60s Meek and Beatles Rock.

29) Spoon, "Kill The Moonlight"
Alt Rock.

30) George Harrison, "Brainwashed"
Swan song master class.


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31) Martina Topley-Bird, "Quixotic"
Alt TripHop.

32) Ry Cooder/ Manuel Galban, "Mambo Sinuendo"
East L.A. Surf and Twang.

33) Wanda Jackson, "Heart Trouble"
Rockabilly Queen.>

34) Komeda, "Kokomemedada"
Perfect Pop for Now People.

35) The Jayhawks, "Rainy Day Music"
Indie Americana.>

36) Cesária Évora, "Voz D'Amor"
Cape Verdean singer-songwriter.

37) Gillian Welch, "Soul Journey"
Folk Soul.

38) The White Stripes, "Elephant"
Garage Rock.


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2 0 0 4

39) Le Tigre, "This Island"
Electro Grrrl.

40) Rachid Taha, "Tekitoi"
Algerian Rai Rock.

41) The A-Lines, "You Can Touch"
Garage Punk supergroup.

42) Air, "Talkie Walkie"
TripFunk.

43) Melissa Auf Der Maur, "Auf Der Maur"
Sabbath meets Grunge.

44) Daniele Luppi, "An Italian Story"
Imaginary '60s Cinecitta soundtracks.

45) Mr. Airplane Man, "C'Mon DJ"
Garage Blues.

46) Alif, "Dakamerap"
Dakar/Senegal Rap.

47) Keren Ann, "Nolita"
Israeli Indie Folk.

48) Earlimart, "Treble And Tremble"
LoFi Psyche.

49) Electrocute, "Troublesome Bubblegum"
Electro Pop.


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50) Tracy Bonham, "Blink The Brightest"
Grunge and Classic Rock.

51) The Budos Band, "The Budos Band"
AfroFunk.

52) Petra Haden, "Petra Haden Sings 'The Who Sell Out'"
Acapella cover songs.

53) Dengue Fever, "Escape From Dragon House"
Cambodian Prog Rock.

54) Stevie Wonder, "A Time To Love"
Motown King.

55) M.I.A., "Arular"
Sri Lankan Rap.

56) Wau Y Los Arrrghs!, "Canten En Espanol"
Spanish Garage Rock.

57) Of Montreal, "The Sunlandic Twins"
Baroque Psyche Pop.


"Go crazy/ Punch a higher floor!"



58) Gorillaz, "Demon Days"
ArtHop.

59) Von Iva, "Von Iva"
Electro Soul.

60) Kaiser Chiefs, "Employment"
BritBeat.

61) Vashti Bunyan, "Lookaftering"
Ethereal Folk.

62) Public Enemy, "New Whirl Odor"
Conscious Rap.

63) Robbers On High Street, "Tree City"
Latter Beatles.>

64) The Kills, "No Wow"
Punk Blues.

65) Franz Ferdinand, "You Could've Had It So Much Better"
Indie PostPunk.

66) Edan, "Beauty and the Beat"
Classic HipHop.


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67) Curlee Wurlee, "Oui Oui..."
French Garage Rock.

68) Kasabian, "Empire"
Alt BritRock.

69) The Bamboos, "Step It Up"
Funky Soul.

70) Autonervous, "Autonervous"
Coldwave Electro.

71) Sean Lennon, "Friendly Fire"
Indie songwriter.

72) Erase Errata, "Night Life"
PostPunk rethunk.


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73) The Micragirls, "Feeling Dizzy, Honey?"
Japanese Garage Pop.

74) Bikeride, "The Kiss"
Baroque Pop.

75) Fabienne DelSoul, "Between You And Me"
Garage and Psyche.

76) Robert Plant/ Allison Krauss, "Raising Sand"
Alt Roots.

77) Meshell Ndegeocello, "The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams"
Noir Soul.

78) Black Moth Super Rainbow, "Dandelion Gum"
Electrodelic.

79) Mary Weiss, "Dangerous Game"
Shangri-La Queen.

80) Mavis Staples, "We'll Never Turn Back"
Gospel Soul.

81) The Sound Stylistics, "Play Deep Funk"
Soulful Funk.

82) Noisettes, "What's The Time, Mr. Wolf?"
Indie Rock.

83) Amy Winehouse, "Back To Black"
Girl Group and Motown.


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2 0 0 8

84) Pas/Cal, "I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke And Laura"
Indie Pop.

85) Portishead, "3rd"
Downtempo TripHop.

86) The Fireman, "Electric Arguments"
McCartney Experimental.

87) Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground, "Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground"
"Sgt. Pepper"-esque Pop.

88) Jessy Bulbo, "Taras Bulba"
Mexican Riot Grrrl.

89) Ty Segall, "Ty Segall"
Garage Fuzz.

90) The B-52s, "Funplex"
Electro Wave perfection.


"The Sound Of Young America."



91) Isobel Campbell/ Mark Lanegan, "Sunday At Devil Dirt"
Dreams and Rust.

92) The Duke Spirit, "Neptune"
Indie Rock.

93) Fleet Foxes, "Fleet Foxes"
Choral Folk.

94) Beach House, "Devotion"
Dream Surf.

95) The Ettes, "Look At Life Again Soon"
Garage Rock.

96) Raphael Saadiq, "The Way I See It"
New Soul.

97) Wendy And Lisa, "White Flags Of Winter Chimneys"
Paisley Indie.

98) The Explorers Club, "Freedom Wind"
Classic Surf and Beat.>


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99) Kylie Auldist, "Made Of Stone"
Australian Soul.

100) Babe Ruth, "Que Pasa"
ProgHop.

101) Fiona Boyes, "Blues Woman"
Australian Blues.



Helping good Rocky's revival.


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The Music Primer Series:*

1) 350 GREAT ALBUMS That Will Change Your Life!: 1956-2020

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


* The albums heard on the Decades series are different than the 350 Albums overview.

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Monday, January 5, 2015

BEST MUSIC: 2014, with Music Players!


T E M P L E S





ALL THE
REAL MUSIC!


Swipe away all those trendy-indie
'Best Music' lists that taste like envelopes!


These jams will displace your cabeza
and unloose your caboose!


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B E S T
N E W
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BEST ALBUMS 2016
by Tym Stevens


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This music player has songs from the following albums, in the same order.



The Shakers, "A Whole Lotta Shakers"
MerseyBeat.
Perfect early-'60s jangle pop made now.

(See also: The Beatles, The Spongetones, The Kaisers)

Temples, "Sun Structures"
Psyche Pop.
1967 was so lush that its sonic possibilities are still expanding in new acts.

(See also: Flaming Lips, Jacco Gardner, Claypool Lennon Delirium)

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, "Midnight Sun"
French Baroque Pop.
Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl take up where Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin left off.

(See also: Jacques Dutronc, La Femme, French Boutik)

Cibo Matto, "Hotel Valentine"
Indie Eclectic.
Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda return, blenderizing every style into smart pop you can dance to.

(See also: Beastie Boys, Super Junky Monkey, eX-Girl)



Tackhead, "For the Love of Money"
Timeless Funk.
The Rap/Industrial pioneers return with an album of classic cover songs.

(See also: The Pop Group, Adrian Sherwood, Living Colour)

Pixies, "Indie Cindy"
Alt-Rock redux.
The return album for the hargingers of Alternative Rock.

(See also: Sonic Youth, Breeders, Nirvana)

Thee Oh Sees, "Drop"
Prog Psyche.
In the sense of progressively mercurial with sliquid chops.

(See also: Primus, Ty Segall, Meatbodies)

Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, "Give the People What They Want"
Classic Soul.
Real Soul for right now.

(See also: Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Durand Jones And The Indications)



Stephen Rennicks, "Frank" (soundtrack)
Experimental Rock.
Michael Fassbender and The Soronprfbs tearing it all up to collage something new.

(See also: Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, Chris Sievey/Frank Sidebottom)

The Love Me Nots, "Sucker"
Garage Rock.
Gutpunch guitarz, screaching farfisa, and righteous yowl.

(See also: Thee Headcoatees, Motobunny, The Darts [U.S.])

Karl Hector And The Malcouns, "Unstraight Ahead"
German AfroBeat.
A slippery combo zoomeranging through German Prog, Psyche, and African Funk.

(See also: Fela, Antibalas, Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra)

The New Pornographers, "Brill Bruisers"
Pop 2.0.
If catchy Pop were math, this smart band is doing calculus with it.

(See also: Sloan, Spoon, Neko Case, A.J. Newman)



Calibro 35, "Sogni Di Gloria" (soundtrack)
Italian Soundtrack.
The band who sounds like '60s-'70s Cinecitta soundtracks makes an actual soundtrack.

(See also: Ennio Morricone, Danniele Luppi, Guess What)

Kandle, "In Flames"
TripHop 2.0.
Kandle Osborne makes cinematic moodscapes, both seductive and eerie.

(See also: John Barry, Portishead, Unloved)

St. Vincent, "St. Vincent"
Indie Rock.
Annie Clark keeps reinventing what you can do with modern approaches to alternative songcraft.

(See also: Anne Peacock, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Angel Olsen)

Lee Fields and The Expressions, "Emma Jean"
Classic Soul.
That perfect sound from the early-'70s, fresh as oxygen.

(See also: Bobby "Blue" Bland, O.V. Wright, Bobby King and Terry Evans)



La Sera, "Hour of the Dawn"
Lofi Power Pop.
This time, Katy Goodman's (Vivian Girls) side-project radiates with slashing fuzz and glowing harmonies.

(See also: Tacocat, Las Robertas, Bleached)

Morgan Delt, "Morgan Delt"
Psychedelicatessen.
Sharp tunes, mindwarp atmospherics, and a timeless odyssey.

(See also: Black Moth Super Rainbow, Fay Hallam, Caleb Landry Jones)

Dum Dum Girls, "Too True"
Lofi Pop.
The lofi garage seems more shiny, cleaner, and hooky this time around.

(See also: The Jesus And Mary Chain, Transvision Vamp, The Raveonettes)

Rival Sons, "Great Western Valkyrie"
Classic Rock.
Huge blues-rock riffs with Viking vocals and Paul Bunyan stomp.

(See also: Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Wolfmother)



Kae Tempest, "Everybody Down"
HipHop Next.
The smartest Rap album yet made, telling a cycle of intricate short stories that quietly become a mosaic novel told out of sequence. No one has done that before, and few could match.

(See also: Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Nikki Giovanni)

Curtis Harding, "Soul Power"
Psyche Soul.
Gritty as Pickett, smooth as Cooke, varied as Whitfield, fearless as Sly.

(See also: The Temptations, The Black Lips, Black Pumas)

The Black Keys, "Turn Blue"
Psyche Soul.
Relaxing sidelong off of the Blues swagger, our duo go on a blissful and soulful holiday.

(See also: Pink Floyd, The Undisputed Truth, The Shelters)

Vashti Bunyan, "Heartleap"
Ethereal Folk.
Vashti made a classic folk album (1970), returned timeless with another in 2005, and now bows out with this lovely song cycle.

(See also: Linda Perhacs, Sandy Denny, Weyes Blood)



Liam Bailey, "Definitely Now"
Soulful cornucopia.
A sandy singer from Engand at home in any style, always passionate and moving.

(See also: Roy Harper, Paul Weller, Michael Kiwanuka)

Beverly, "Careers"
Noisy Pop.
Frankie Rose and Drew Citron go sidebar with a solo outing, with guitar hooks and upbeat drums.

(See also: Vivian Girls, The She's, September Girls)

Wilko Johnson And Roger Daltrey, "Going Back Home"
Maximum R'n'B.
Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood) and Roger Daltrey (you know Who) go back to R'n'B basics and kick the paint right off the walls.

(See also: The Animals, The Pretty Things, The Bluesbreakers)

Ibibio Sound Machine, "Ibibio Sound Machine"
World Electro.
Sounds like the best AfroBeat TechnoFunk Electroclash band from the '80s that should have existed, and now does.

(See also: The Lijadu Sisters, William Onyeabor, Fantasma)



Danielia Cotton, "The Real Book"
Blues Rock.
Danielia is one of the toughest Blues guitarists and soulful singers around, and this collection of cover versions expands her breadth.

(See also: Shemekia Copeland, Samantha Fish, Thornetta Davis)

Jim Noir, "Finnish Line"
Beat Pop.
Canny popsmith goes full late-Beatles in his latest exploration.

(See also: The Moons, Diamond Hands, Sitcom Neighbor)

The Absolude, "The Silence Between Two Steps"
Mod / Garage.
Japanese quartet turns this go-go club inside out.

(See also: The Jikens, The Midnight TV Programs, Bigmama Shockin' 3)

Lake Street Drive, "Bad Self Portraits"
New Soul.
Catchy songs, acerbic wit, brassy vocals, and grab-bag grooves sound like a 1973 band recorded a bit too smoothly in 1979.

(See also: Bonnie Raitt, Leon Bridges, Mayer Hawthorne)



Goat, "Commune"
WorldBeat Psyche.
A mysterious Swedish collective, churning out psychedelic epics with all the percussive rhythms on the planet at once.

(See also: the drummers of Burundi, Can, Kikagaku Moyo)

Linda Perhacs, "The Soul Of All Natural Things"
Angel Folk.
Like Vashti Bunyan, Linda released a classic Folk album in 1970 that everyone missed. A growing cult following across time has brought her back, with more angelic harmonies.

(See also: early Joni Mitchell, Julianna Barwick, Weyes Blood)

Young Fathers, "Dead"
Indie Word.
Scottish trio go beyond Alt-Rap to vistas of electronica, abrasion, and ambient.

(See also: Chocolate Genius, Kae Tempest)

Noura Mint Seymali, "Tzenni"
Desert Blues.
An actual Mauritanian griot, the singer soars in shifting tones over quick-step rhythms.

(See also: Oumou Sangaré, Tinariwen, Les Amazones d'Afrique)



St. Paul And The Broken Bones, "Half The City"
New Soul.
The Alabama army brashly flexes their Muscle Shoals, with smokey vocals, blast horns, and bounding grooves.

(See also: JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound, Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats, Kyle Lacy)

The Grits, "Make A Sound"
Garage-y Soul.
Hickory-smoked funkiness with strung snarl and touches of TripHop electronics.

(See also: Morcheeba, Ikebe Showdown, Seratones)

Cambodian Space Project, "Whiskey Cambodia"
Cambodia Psyche.
Produced by famed psyche-soul guitarist Dennis Coffey, these party-stompers exude groove from a whole new angle.

(See also: Ros Sereysothea, Dengue Fever)

Kelis, "Food"
Are And Be.
As chameleonic as Janelle Monae without the press, the chef graduate concocts refreshment out of traditional ingredients.

(See also: The Neptunes, TV On The Radio)



Lana Del Rey, "Ultraviolence"
TripPop.
No one-hit wonder, Lana emerges as a fully-rounded songwriter of moody melodies and arch wit.

(See also: Tori Amos, Portishead, Fionna Apple)

Elephant Stone, "Three Poisons"
India Psyche.
Rishi Dhir (The High Dials) spliffs psychedelia with it natural ancestor, Indian classical, to waft on tripscapes.

(See also: George Harrison, Ananda Shankar, Mien)

Deerhoof, "La Isla Bonita"
Algebraic Pop.
Like candy wrapped up in a tesseract box, more happy melodies refracted into new dimensions by every style that's ever happened.

(See also: Captain Beefheart, Guerilla Toss, White Denim)

The Bots, "Pink Palms"
Alt Rock.
The young Lei brothers branch out, going beyond garage thrash-outs into Indie territory.

(See also: Bad Brains, Yeah Yeah Yeahs)


Beck, "Morning Phase"
Indie Folk.
After an absence, Beck makes a spiritual bookend to his "Sea Change" (2001). This time the introspective Folk is mellower, warmer, quietly more optimistic.

(See also: Nick Drake, Serge Gainsbourg, Julie Byrne)

Flying Lotus, "You're Dead"
Abstract HipHop.
If Coltrane was 'sheets of sound', mixmaster Steven Ellison torrents sheets of noize. Complex maelstroms of dub, avant jazz, EDM, and hiphop, this time with special guests like Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington.

(See also: Gettovetts, Nephlim Modulation Systems, Thundercat)

Quilt, "Held In Splendor"
Psyche Pop.
The trio finds themselves, advancing their dreamy folk with fresh dynamics and varied range.

(See also: The Mamas And The Papas, Daughters Of Albion, Melody's Echo Chamber)

Weyes Blood, "The Innocents"
Choral Folk.
Natalie Mering is unique, creating new beauty. She builds Folk foundations into stately madrigals, soaring on ambient waves.

(See also: "Songs To Aging Children Come", "Both Sides Now", "Orinoco Flow")







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beyond the box!


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by Tym Stevens


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This jukebox is sequenced into groups of sound, instead of randomly.
All the songs elasticize their genres.
Get your groove on in this sonic order.:

Rockabilly! Surf! Beat! Garage!

Psyche! Classic Rock! Glam! Alt-Roots!

Blues! Soul! Funk! World!

Africanarama! Riot Grrrl! Alt-Rock! Electro!

Alt-Rap! Cinematic! Cover Songs!


The She's; Tinariwen;
Flying Lotus; 'Frank'


12 hours of mind-spasmic, elastic-ass music, featuring the following fine folks in this exact order!:

Rockabilly!
Pike Cavalero, JW Jones, Dex Romweber Duo, Imelda May, Lee Bains III And The Glory Fires, Black Lips, The Coathangers.

Surf / Girl Group!
Beverly, The She's, Allah-Las, The Concussions, The Terrorsaurs, and Bell And Sebastian

Beat / Garage!
The Beat Rats, Blaire Alise And The Bombshells, The Shakers, The Muffs, The Absolude, Nikki Lane, La Sera, The Fleshtones, Miss Chain And The Broken Heels, The Love Me Nots, MotoBunny, Las Aspiradoras, King Tuff, Reigning Sound, and Suzi Chunk + Groovy Uncle.

Beatlesque / Psyche!
Quilt, Angel Olsen, The Proper Ornaments, Marianne Faithfull, Linus Of Hollywood, New Electric Ride, Temples, Hangabouts, Doug Tuttle, Morgan Delt, Jim Noir, Paul McCartney, The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Doug Gillard, The Soronprfbs feat. Michael Fassbender, Foxygen, FREEMAN, Tame Impala, Gruff Rhys, Triggerfinger, Meatbodies, The Flaming Lips, Elephant Stone, Blues Pills, and Ex Hex.

Classic Rock / Glam!
Rival Sons, Liam Bailey, Sallie Ford, Lenny Kravitz, Thee Oh Sees, Electric Wurms, Burning Palms, Electric Wizard, Gong, The Oath, The Socks, The Budos Band, Decoders, and Goat.

Alt-Roots!
The Secret Sisters, Father John Misty, Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, Weyes Blood, Beck, Lana Del Rey, Moses Sumney, Jesca Hoop, Neil Young, Lanie Lane, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Hozier, and Sharon Van Etten.

Blues!
The Preatures, She Keeps Bees, Gary Clark Jr, Andrea Schroeder, Jack White, Thorbjørn Risager, Vintage Trouble, Benjamin Booker, The Holmes Brothers, Bobby Rush, Jarekus Singleton, Lucky Peterson, The Claudettes, and Naomi Shelton And The Gospel Queens.

Soul!
Eden Brent, Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, D'Angelo, The Black Keys, Lee Fields And The Expressions, Metronomy, Avery*Sunshine, St. Paul And The Broken Bones, Lake Street Dive, Aloe Blacc, Flearoy, Wilko Johnson, Curtis Harding, and Janiva Magness.

Funk!
Ava Luna, Analog Son, The Getup, Shawn Lee, The New Mastersounds, Cibo Matto, The Ting Tings, Big Ol' Dirty Bucket, Earphunk, Kung Fu, The Grits, Rock Candy Funk Party, Frank Deruytter, Freekbass, Elizabeth Shepherd, Mingo FishtrapKelis, Damaged Bug, and Joan As Police Woman.

World!
Hollie Cook, Toumani Diabaté, Glenn Tilbrook, Olga Bell, Noura Mint Seymali, The Cambodian Space Project, and Toulouse Engelhardt.

Africanarama!
Tony Allen, Sinéad O'Connor with Seun Kuti, Seun Kuti, Eno • Hyde, Ibibio Sound Machine, Karl Hector And The Malcouns, Tune-Yards, Wildbirds And Peacedrums, Kasai Allstars, Tinariwen, and Goat.

Riot Grrrl!
The Reprobettes, Girlpool, Shonen Knife, Slutever, Bleached, Arum Rae, The Love Me Nots, Sleater-Kinney, Ex Hex, and The Pack a.d.

Alt-Rock!
Pixies, Majestico, Deerhoof, Band Of Skulls, Dum Dum Girls, The New Pornographers, The Bots, St. Vincent, Liam Finn, The Julie Ruin.

Electro!
Damien Jurado, OOIOO, Moon Duo, Cold Specks, and Damaged Bug.

Alt-Rap!
Kae Tempest, THEESatisfaction, Sleaford Mods, Prince, Young Fathers, Courtney Barnett, and Flying Lotus.

Cinematic!
The Soundcarriers, Shawn Lee, Jakob Skøtt, Timber Timbre, Groovy Uncle, Caro Emerald, Kandle, Cold Specks, Little May, Calibro 35, Sabina, Whitehorse, La Sera, and Bear McCreary.

Cover Songs!
List = Original By / Cover Artist
Songs are sequenced in the chronological order of the Originals.


Screamin' Jay Hawkins / Annie LennoxThe Chantays / Bill FrisellChuck Berry / The ShakersJimmy Hughes / JD McPhersonThe Beatles / The Cactus BlossomsThe Beatles / Bob DylanBob Dylan / Kočani OrkestarThe Beatles / The Flaming Lips, ft. Miley Cyrus + MobyGene Clark / MiriamLinda Lyndell / Jessica MauboyThe Small Faces / La La BrooksThe Rolling Stones / Danielia CottonBlack Sabbath / Brownout"Willie Wonka" / PrimusJohn Lennon / Orenda FinkThe O'Jays / TackheadThe Spinners / Devon AllmanPaul McCartney + Wings / Rapper's DelightBootsy's Rubber Band / FunkadelicThe Rolling Stones / The Mighty Mocambos, with Afrika Bambaataa, Charlie Funk, and Deejay SnoopSuicide / Anna CalviTears For Fears / LuciusPeter Gabriel / The Brand New HeaviesTy Segall / Nick Waterhouse






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Quality is timeless.



"Many have forgotten what we came here for
Never knew or had a clue so you're on the floor
Just growin', not knowin' about your past
Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass!"

-Public Enemy (1986)



BEST REISSUES 2014
by Tym Stevens

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1960s



Phil Phillips, "Sea Of Love: The Collection" (late '50s-early '60s)
He sued his shady publishers, and his album went unreleased... until now.

Bob Dylan and The Band, "The Basement Tapes: The Bootlet Series, Vol. 11" (1967)
An offical expansion of the famed sessions, which changed his career, ignited theirs, and shifted everyone from Psyche to Roots.

Barbara Lynn, "Here Is Barbara Lynn" (1968)
Texas Blues guitarist and Soul singer's classic album.

George Harrison, "The Apple Years 1968-75" box set
The albums from the first half of George's solo years, with added tracks.

Various Artists, "I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-1970"
The great Funk singles Sly produced for acts like Little Sister, Joe Hicks, and 6ix.




1970s



Led Zeppelin, "Led Zeppelin I", "Led Zeppelin II", "Led Zeppelin III", "Led Zeppelin IV", "Houses of the Holy" (1969-1973)
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove!
New remasters of the albums, supplemented with alternate versions of each album composed of unused takes.

Donny Hathaway, "Never My Love: The Anthology" (1970s)
The soulful piana man getting props.

Victor Brady, "Brown Rain" (1970)
An Acid Rock album of various styles, centered around a steel drummer.

Miles Davis, , "Miles at the Fillmore: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 3" (1970)
The big bang of Fusion, live and mutating.

Lee Moses, , "Free And Easy" (1971)
Unsung Soul man gets some spotlight.

Various Artists, "SOUL JAZZ Records Presents: New Orleans Funk 3" (1970s)
With its syncopated rhythms and rollicking spirit, New Orleans Funk is vital and unique.

Elton John, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (1973)
One of Rock's most essential and successful double-albums.

Wings, "Venus and Mars" (1975), "At the Speed of Sound" (1976)
New remasters of McCartney's band. The unsung "Venus and Mars" finds him crossing "Abbey Road" with Prog Rock verve.

Various Artists, "PUNK ON 45: Sick On You! One Way Spit! After the Love and Before the Revolution, Vol. 3: Proto-Punk 1969-76"
Another volume proving Punk was a direct child of all the trash rock movements before it.

Various Artists, "Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1" (soundtrack)
The smart and fun film got much of its bounce from this canny soundtrack of '70s classics.

Various Artists, "Angola Soundtrack: The Unique Sounds of Luanda 1968-1976"
African rock bands, who lasted longer here while movements in sister nations succumbed to oppression.

Wire, "Document and Eyewitness" (1979, 1980)
A reissue of the rare 'fourth' album, a live recording in which the band played exclusive songs that didn't get captured in the studio.



1980s



Grace Jones, "Nightclubbing (1980)
THE Grace Jones record, with covers of Bill Withers, Iggy Pop, Sting, and Marianne Faithfull.

Cybotron, "Enter" (1983)
Original School Electro, with cut-up beats and vocoders galore.

Plasticland, "Plasticland" (1986)
Garage Psyche from subversive punks parallel to the Paisley Underground.

Public Enemy, "It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back" (1988), "Fear of a Black Planet" (1990)
The apex of the best Rap band of all time.

Pixies, "Doolittle 25: B Sides, Peel Sessions, and Demos" (1989)
A deluxe remastering and expansion of the essential Pixies album.



1990s, 2000s



Soundgarden, "Superunknown" (1994), "Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path" (1990s)
The essential album, plus a new 3-disc retrospective of rarities, live, and unreleased songs.

The Jayhawks, "Rainy Day Music" (2003)
Americana Rock at its finest, with sterling melodies and stirring harmonies.


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