Ryan Adams Review / Louis Prima Preview (Album 19)

(Ryan Adams preview here) So yes, this was a heartbreak album. This album caught me off guard with how good it actually was. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, I guess more broody angst country music. But it wasn't that. It was actually mostly rock with acoustic...goodness. I like it, I'm not in the breakup mood though usually. Listening to people's songs who sing about breakups is usually pretty interpersonal. This album stays true with that belief.

Favorite Songs:
     To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
     Amy
     Bartering Lines

Album: The Wildest!

Artist: Louis Prima

Release Year: 1956

"A popular nightclub singer / trumpeter in the 1930s and '40s, initially in his native New Orleans and then in New York, Prima found work had dried up by 1954...[Later] success came immediately, this sparkling half-hour, cut live in the studio in April 1956, iced the cake. Jazz hounds often dismiss Prima as just an Italianate Louis Armstong impersonator...But that is to miss the point: this is simply irrepressible music that more than matches its glorious cover show." - Will Filford-Jones

01 - Medley: Just A Gigolo - I Ain't Got Nobody

02 - (Nothing's Too Good) For My Baby

03 - The Lip

04 - Body and Soul

05 - Oh Marie

06 - Medley: Basin Street Blues - When it's Sleepy Time Down South

07 - Jump, Jive, An' Wail

08 - Buona Sera

09 - Night Train

10 - (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Louis Prima

Spotify: The Wildest!

Jazz jazz jazz jazz jazz...

~mfm

Deee-Lite Review / Ryan Adams Preview (Album 18)

(Lite preview here) So...That album was exactly as I thought it would be. It was this strange combination between electronic beats and this strange singing / chanting. All jokes aside though, the album actually would be a pretty sweet album if you could take out the singing from the lady; not that I didn't like it, it just would have been better in my opinion. The electronic beats were actually pretty sweet to listen too. I liked the beats, but like I said...the entirety of it was less than to be desired. Actually, I didn't even notice that the band name is pronounced "delight" until a couple of days ago.

Favorite Songs:
     Deee-Lite Theme
     What Is Love
     Groove Is In The Heart

The double-oh's.

Album: Heartbreaker

Artist: Ryan Adams

Release Year: 2000

"Heartbreak and hard drink have inspired many great albums, but rarely one as tender as this, Ryan Adams' solo debut. Adams recorded Heartbreaker - a brutally honest chronical of the highs and lows of love - in the wake of two scarring breakups ... Heartbreak transforms Adams into the critics' darling - he was called a "visionary rock troubadour" by NME - but failed to win over a mass audience." - Theunis Bates

01 - Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey

02 - To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)

03 - My Winding Wheel

04 - AMY

05 - Oh My Sweet Carolina

06 - Bartering Lines

07 - Call Me On Your Way Back Home

08 - Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)

09 - Come Pick Me Up

10 - To Be The One

11 - Why Do They Leave?

12 - Shakedown On 9th Street

13 - Don't Ask For The Water

14 - In My Time Of Need

15 - Sweet Lil Gal

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Ryan Adams

Spotify: Heartbreaker

I hope that it's not country music. More heartbreak...

~mfm