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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! A Rock'n'Soul Music Player


Hear hundreds of great Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa songs, all in order from 1947 to Today!




Rockabilly! Jazz! Blues! Soundtracks! Soul! Country! Garage! Psychedelic! Funk! Glam! Reggae! Punk! New Wave! HipHop! Electro! and more!

Spotify playlist title= HAPPY HOLIDAYS!: Rock'n'Soul Playlist
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Featuring:
Julie London, Elvis, LaVern Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Ramsey Lewis, John Coltrane, The Everly Brothers, Aretha Franklin, The Ronettes, The Surfaris, The Beach Boys, Jimmy Smith, The Sonics, Stevie Wonder, Booker T & The MGs, James Brown, The Who, Isaac Hayes, Jimi Hendrix, Donny Hathaway, The Temptations, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Laura Nyro, Marvin Gaye, Johnny Cash, Big Star, David Bowie, The Damned, Kurtis Blow, The Yobs, Al Green, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Queen, Prince, Fishbone, Run DMC, The Bangles, U2, Los Lobos, Ramones, El Vez, Luscious Jackson, The Fall, Reigning Sound, The Flaming Lips, William "Bootsy" Collins, The Smithereens, The Hives, Bob Dylan, Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings, 45 Grave, Jeff Buckley, The Black Keys, and many more!



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Sunday, December 17, 2017

BEST MUSIC: 2017, with Music Players!


Curtis Harding




ALL THE
REAL MUSIC!


Nevermind all those suburban-angst
"Best Music" lists that taste like paste!


These tunes will altitude your attitude
and amok your badonkadonk!


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Julie Byrne
(photo by Tonje Thilesen)


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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!






B E S T
R E I S S U E S :

2 0 1 7


Quality is timeless.

The act
you've known
for all
these years.


BEST REISSUES 2017
by Tym Stevens
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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.




© Tym Stevens







"A splendid time is guaranteed for all!"






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Sunday, January 1, 2017

BEST MUSIC: 2016, with Music Players!


Weyes Blood






Nevermind those suburban-angst
"Best Music" lists that taste like paste!

These tunes will unhook your outlook
and hijack your sacroiliac!


Shortcut to Music Players:
BEST ALBUMS: 2016
COOL SONGS: 2016
BEST REISSUES: 2016






Savages
(photo by Colin Lane)

B E S T
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A L B U M S : 2 0 1 6

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BEST ALBUMS 2016



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




-Hannah Williams And The Affirmations, "Late Nights And Heartbreak"

-The Claypool Lennon Delirium, "Monolith Of Phobos"

-Stereo Total, "Les Hormones"

-Electrocute, "Double Diamond"




-Charles Bradley, "Changes"

-Sonny & The Sunsets, "Moods Baby Moods"

-Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, "Miss Sharon Jones!" (soundtrack)

-L7, "Wireless (Radio Session)"




-Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band, "55"

-The Monkees, "Good Times!"

-The Coathangers, "Nosebleed Weekend"

-Heron Oblivion, "Heron Oblivion"




-Ramin Djawadi, "Westworld: Season 1" (Soundtrack)

-David Bowie, "Blackstar"

-Iggy Pop, "Post Pop Depression"

-Weyes Blood, "Front Row Seat To Earth"




-Lee Fields And The Expressions, "Special Night"

-White Denim, "Stiff"

-PJ Harvey, "The Hope Six Demolition Project"

-Ultimate Painting, "Dusk"




-Pixies, "Head Carrier"

-Lake Street Drive, "Side Pony"

-Deerhoof, "The Magic"

-Childish Gambino, "Awaken, My Love!"




-Angel Olsen, "My Woman"

-Savages, "Adore Life"

-The Jayhawks, "Paging Mr. Proust"

-Thao And The Get Down Stay Down, "A Man Alive"




-William Bell, "This Is Where I Live"

-Pretenders, "Alone"

-Fantastic Negrito, "The Last Days Of Oakland"

-Kate Tempest, "Let Them Eat Chaos"




-La Femme, "Mystere"

-Esperanza Spalding, "Emily's D+Evolution"

-The Mystery Lights, "The Mystery Lights"

-Marta Ren And The Groovelvets, "Stop Look Listen"




-The Julie Ruin, "Hit Reset"

-Adrian Younge & Ali Rasheed Muhammad, "Luke Cage: Season 1" (Soundtrack)

-The Shelters, "The Shelters"

-The Kills, "Ash & Ice"




-Guerilla Toss, "Eraser Stargazer"

-Death Valley Girls, "Glow In The Dark"

-Xiu Xiu, "Plays The Music Of TWIN PEAKS"

-Barrence Witfield And The Savages, "On Audiotree Live"







C O O L
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2 0 1 6
*



Rockabilly! Funk! Psychedelic!
Soul! Spaghetti Western! PostPunk!
Electro! Riot Grrrl! Dementia!

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COOL SONGS 2016



*(The Player is limited to the first 200 songs.
Hear the unlimited Playlist here.)


Cody Chesnutt; Pussy Riot;
Kate Tempest; Thao And The Get Down Stay Down


11 hours of mind-whomping, booty-stomping music, featuring:

Bleached, Goat, Le Tigre, Baaba Maal, Radiohead, Calibro 35, Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra, Melvins, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Santigold, The New Mastersounds, Neil Young, Lush, Deep Street Soul, and The Real Gone Tones!






B E S T
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Quality is timeless.


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BEST REISSUES 2016




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



1960s

-The Beatles, "Live At The Hollywood Bowl" (1964-'65)

-Various Artists, "Pebbles, Vol. 4: Africa, Part 2" (African garage rock)

-Dan Penn, "Close To Me: More Fame Recordings"

-Bob Dylan, "The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert"

-The Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds: The 50th Anniversary Edition"

-Otis Redding, "Live At The Whiskey A Go Go"

-Pink Floyd, "The Early Years: 1967-1972, Cre/ation"

-Betty Harris, "The Lost Queen Of New Orleans Soul" (late '60s compilation)

-Betty Davis, "The Columbia Years, 1968-1969"

-Led Zeppelin, "The Complete BBC Sessions" (1969-'71)




1970s

-Bruce Haack, "The Electric Lucifer" (electronic psyche)

-Yoko Ono, "Plastic Ono Band" (1970)

-Black Sabbath, "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid", "Master Of Reality" (expanded editions)

-Arthur Verocai, "Arthur Verocai" (1972 Brazilian psyche-jazz)

-David Bowie, "Bowie At The Beeb" (early '70s BBC sessions)

-Various Artists, "Venezuela 70: Cosmic Visoins Of A Latin American Earth" ('70s Venezuelan experimental rock)

-Various Artists, "Wake Up You!: The Rise And Fall Of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (1972-1977)"

-Devo, "Hardcore" (mid-'70s art-punk)

-The Headhunters, "Survival Of The Fittest" (1975)

-David Bowie, "Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976)" (mid'70s remasters and unreleased)

-Various Artists, "Space Oddities: Studio Ganaro (1972-1982)" (French/German electronic pop)

-Various Artists, "Cosmic Machine: The Sequel - A Voyage Across French Cosmic & Electronic Avantgarde ('70s-'80s)" (French electronic music)



1980s

-Various Artists, "Boombox: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro, And Disco Rap (1979-1982)"

-Lizzy Mercier Descloux, "Mambo Nassau" (1981 World Funk)

-Tom Tom Club, "Tom Tom Club" (1981)

-African Head Charge, "My Life In A Hole In The Ground" (1981)




1990s

-Jeff Buckley, "You And I" (unreleased cover versions)

-Gillian Welch, "Boots No.1: The Official Revival Bootleg" (1996, expansion)

-L7, "Slap Happy" (1999)




2000s

-Connie Price And The Keystones, "Wildflowers" (2004)

-Angry Angles, "Angry Angles" (2005)

-Barrence Whitfield And The Savages, "Savage Kings" (2011)



© Tym Stevens






"A splendid time is guaranteed for all!"






See also:


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BEST MUSIC: 2024
BEST COMICS: 2024

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BEST MUSIC: 2023
BEST COMICS: 2023

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BEST COMICS: 2019

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BEST COMICS: 2018

BEST MOVIES + TV: 2017
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BEST MOVIES + TV: 2016
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture, with Music Player!

How SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Revolutionized Rock Music!, with 3 Music Players!

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The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: The Music Player Checklist


_______________


THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Culture, with Music Player

THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture, with Music Player

THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Culture, with Music Player




Monday, May 2, 2016

MUSIC 101: The 2000s


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P L A Y E R
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The MUSIC PRIMER Series!

A fun INTRO into the great musics
of each decade
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M U S I C
1 0 1 :

2 0 0 0 s !


MUSIC 101: The 2000s
by Tym Stevens

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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!


Music Primer series:
350 Albums: 1956-2020
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s





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




2 0 0 0

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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2 0 0 1

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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2 0 0 2

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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2 0 0 3

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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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.


© Tym Stevens



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