The Everly Brothers Review / Spirit Preview (Album 21)

(Everly Brothers preview here) So The Everly Brothers was probably what I was expecting. Sounds like early Beach Boys and  Simon & Garfunkel  and other vocalists like that. After a brief look around the internet, I don't think that their other stuff sounds like this. This album comes from before they turned into a "country-influenced rock and roll" performance. But that's alright. Maybe we will see some more of them in the future. I doubt that any of this will be staying on my iPod. Maybe I'll make my grandpa sit down and listen to it and see if he knows it. That would be cool.

Favorite Songs:
     Made To Love
     Baby What Do You Want Me To Do

Album: Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Artist: Spirit

Release Year: 1970

"Feelins could not have been worse when Spirit recorded Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus. Luckily, David Briggs [producer], who worked with Neol Young, managed to harness all the animosity into Spirit's masterwork. The album was enriched with meaty horn arrangements ("Morning Will Come"), imaginative vocal harmonies ("Nothin' To Hide") and a structured approach to psychedelic studio trickery such as stereo panning and tapes run backwards...Oh, and "Dr. Sardonicus?" It is the nickname Spirit coined for the mixing desk at the studio." - Jamie Gonzalo

 01 - Prelude - Nothin' To Hide

02 - Nature's Way

03 - Animal Zoo

04 - Love Has Found A Way

05 - Why Can't I Be Free

06 - Mr. Skin

07 - Space Child

08 - When I Touch You

09 - Street Worm

10 - Life Has Just Begun

11 - Morning Will Come

12 - Soldier

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Spirit

Spotify: Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

This sounds pretty cool. I've never heard of them before, but here's to hoping.

~mfm

Louis Prima Review / The Everly Brothers Preview (Album 20)

(Louis Prima preview here) Jazz jazz jazz jazz jazz...It's so silly. I like jazz, but I don't think that I will ever be able to rap my head around it. Especially if there doesn't seem to be a cohesive sound or melody or tempo. It's all very confusing. Anyways, that's mostly what I feel about Louis Prima. Skills: yes. My understanding of his creative venture: no. A couple of his songs reminded me of The Jungle Book, and when Baloo seems to go all be-bop.

Favorite Songs:
     Melody: Basin Street Blues - When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Album: A Date With The Everly Brothers

Artist: The Everly Brothers

Release Year: 1960

"It would have been reasonable to expect the cupboard to be bare, and the first tracks recorded, "Lucille" and "Baby What Do You Want Me To Do," suggest that material was in short supply. But the radical reinterpretations showed the Everly harmonies could refresh the most familiar songs." - David Hucheon

01 - Made To Love

02 - That's Just Too Much

03 - Stick With Me Baby

04 - Baby What Do You Want Me To Do

05 - Sigh, Cry, Almost Die

06 - Always It's You

07 - Love Hurts

08 - Lucille

09 - So How Come (No One Loves Me)

10 - Donna, Donna

11 - A Change Of Heart

12 - Cathy's Clown

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: A Date With The Everly Brothers

Spotify: The Everly Brothers

This looks like a 60s version of a boy band. Also it's weird, in the book they usually have strange pictures (at least not what seems to be the most common picture) for an album. Weird Britts.

~mfm

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

AC/DC Review / Deee-Lite Preview (Album 17)

(AC/DC preview here) AC/DC is considered by many a classic rock and roll band. This album came out the same year that the previous lead singer died. They didn't waste very much time getting back into the groove of things, and subsequently created one of the greatest rock and roll albums of all time. The songs are all pretty similar, but that isn't a bad thing. They hit their stride of heavy riffs that many people will air-guitar, catchy lyrics for pretty much every song, and in most a guitar solo that can still compete with the greats, not to mention the not-so-subtle sexual references in almost all the song names. The only complaint that I have for part of the album is the studio fade-out. This isn't just for AC/DC though, it just stuck out to me for this album in particular. It doesn't seem very 'musician' to me to make a song end by simply fading into the background. It's ok guys, just write an ending to the song. Other than that, this album has stood the test of time rather grandly.

Edit: I recently picked up this vinyl for about 8 bucks. It still reeks of that 'classic rock-n-roll' smell

Favorite Songs:
     Shoot To Thrill
     Back In Black
     You Shook Me All Night Long
     Rock & Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

Album: World Clique

Artist: Deee-Lite

Release Year: 1990

"Recent history has not been been kind to this New York City-raised group that took its name from Cole Porter's "It's Delovely." The trio is commonly remembered as a one-hit wonder, but the gold-certified debut World Clique still stands as a convincing argument that Deee-Lite deserves to be more than just a Trivial Pursuit answer." - Jim Harrington

01 - Good Beat

02 - Power Of Love

03 - Try Me On...I'm Very You

04 - Smile On

05 - What Is Love

06 - World Clique

07 - E.S.P.

08 - Groove Is In The Heart

09 - Who Was That

10 - Deep Ending

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: World Clique

Spotify: World Clique

I am not looking forward to this album honestly. It looks ridiculous.

~mfm

Miles Davis Review / AC/DC Preview (Album 16)

(Miles preview here) Miles Davis, a classic and one of the best jazz players ever. It's hard to listen to a whole album of free-form jazz though. As good as jazz is, ever time I listen to it, it's hard not to think of a quote I heard once. "Jazz is about 5 different people getting together and playing 5 different songs all at the same time." And that, is the hard truth. There are some parts of the songs that I really enjoy, and some parts that I don't really enjoy. That's another problem with having 20-minute adventures musically. It's also very...dissident. I don't know. It's just hard to enjoy when you don't know what to listen to.

Favorite Songs:
     ...

Album: Back In Black

Artist: AC/DC

Release Year: 1980

"By the time of original vocalist Bon Scotts; February 1980 death, AC/DC had conquered Europe, but the United States were still to be convinced. The group was fiercely ambitious, and had recruited singer Brian Johnson on the recommendation of producer Robert Lange... AC/DC finally broke the United States with Back In Black, notching up a million sales annually over the next five years. They - and all those buyers who boogied to the album - never looked back." - Seth Jacobson

01 - Hells Bells

02 - Shoot To Thrill

03 - What You Do For Money Honey

04 - Givin The Dog A Bone

05 - Let Me Put My Love Into You

06 - Back In Black

07 - You Shook Me All Night Long

08 - Have A Drink On Me

09 - Shake A Leg

10 - Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: You can't get AC/DC on iTunes, which I respect. The artists see very little of the money when someone buys something on iTunes

Spotify: ...hmmm. Doesn't seem to be AC/DC on Spotify either. Good thing it's one of the best selling rock albums of all time. You should be able to find it in your dad's old record collection.

This is supposed to be one of the best albums of rock history. Let it be so.

~mfm

Louvin Brothers Review / Miles Davis Preview (Album 15)

(Louvin preview here) Country Music. I don't know, I suppose that they tell you to listen to this album because it must be the first country album...But I don't think that is true. There has got to be country music from before this. Either way, I just can't find myself ever ever ever listening to this. It's not that its bad necessarily, it just doesn't do anything for me. Ever. I've tried. I listened to the whole thing. Some of the songs were fun for sure. This is country music at it's finest, the two voices are so...country. There is no other way to say it.

Favorite Songs:
     Let Her Go, God Bless Her

Back to my favorite decade.

Album: Bitches Brew

Artist: Miles Davis

Release Year: 1970

"Recording sessions for Bitches Brew began at 8 a.m. on August 18, 1969, a few hours after Jimi Hendrix had demolished "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, and it is Hendrix's incendiary voice that haunts this double album...Bitches Brew sold half a million copies within a year and made Miles "relevant" in a way that he had not been in more than a decade. He had reclaimed his crown as the king of jazz, something he retained until his death 20 years later."

01 - Pharoh's Dance

02 - Bitches Brew

03 - Spanish Key

04 - John McLaughlin

05 - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

06 - Sanctuary

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Bitches Brew

Spotify: Bitches Brew

A free form improv jazz session from one of the greatest in the game. Should be exciting. Also a bad-ass name for an album.

~mfm