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Your Cash Ain't Nothin But Trash: Their Greatest Hits 1951-55
The Clovers
Rev-Ola, 2006
What R'n'B vocal style is all about,
This is a wonderful collection of Clovers' songs including some that aren't so easily found on other compilations. Mostly vintage Clovers' songs with a few pop tunes included. This group was one of the coolest, bluesiest, and most talented vocal groups of all. 1951-1955 was really the golden age of ...
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Tony Hazzard Sings
Tony Hazzard
Rev-Ola, 2007
Great Songs! but Poor Remastering...
I'm not giving 5 stars just because the people of Rev-Ola instead of releasing the CD from the original stereo masters they used a non-mint vinyl copy to produce this CD. You can hear clicks and clacks and the sound is a little distorted. Nothing that a Sound Forge or similar couldn't repair. But ...
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Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
Geffen Records, 1993
Daydream Nation - Noise Perfected
+ One of the best of "alternative" of all-time...SERIOUSLY!!!
If you're one to follow along with the music critics and read those painfully subjective "Best Albums of all Time" lists, chances are you have seen "Daydream Nation" listed pretty high on some of them. Sonic Youth have always been a critics' darling, and at times it's difficult to understand why. ...
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Are You Hep to the Jive?
Cab Calloway
Sony, 1994
Cab Calloway =- the 1940's
+ Unique, Fun, Irrepressible
+ Wonderful high precision band music terrific sections!
+ Solid boys, I dig!!
+ Love This!
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Afro-Harping
Dorothy Ashby
Verve, 2003
Simply the BEST jazz harp album in history !
+ Loved it!!!
+ go, Dorothy, go!!
+ you can't go wrong with this beautiful and timeless recording
+ before there was "downtempo"
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Like Her
The Volebeats
Turquoise Mountain, 2005
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An Apple a Day: More Pop Psych Sounds from the Apple Era 1968-1970
Various Artists
RPM UK, 2006
Fine Second Volume of Obscure Apple Recordings!
This is the second volume of recordings of songs by writers signed to the Beatles Apple Music Publishing company. Though most of the artists contributing to the CD are pretty obscure with a very limited recorded material behind them, there are a few exceptions.
The Iveys, who later changed ...
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Neon
The Cyrkle
Sundazed Music Inc., 2001
Worth it for Two Rooms
+ Neon - A personal view
The Cyrkle had some great songs, but none better than the very short "Two Rooms." This song has terrific lyrics, an interesting musical arrangement and a great tune, with a unique tone colour. The album, Red Rubber Ball had several good songs, especially the title track and [on the Best Hits album ...
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Veedon Fleece
Van Morrison
Polydor / Umgd, 1997
Stunning, and close to perfection
+ Recommended if you like 'Astral Weeks'
+ BEST ALBUM EVER MADE
+ an early 70's treasure.
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Drum's Not Dead (CD + DVD)
Liars
Mute U.S., 2006
A Beautiful Work
+ They get better and better
In a musical climate increasingly geared toward the mp3/single song format, Drum's Not Dead is an Album with a capitol A. It is a sprawling masterwork that demands total immersion, sincere consideration, and yes, some initial patience. Much like a Rothko painting, this record is about textures and ...
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From a Compound Eye
Robert Pollard
Merge Records, 2006
How many songs a year does Bob write?
+ Patient, adventurous listeners will be rewarded
+ A Sprawling and Surreal Opus !
+ ...his first "real" solo record
+ very good
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Breakaway
Gallagher & Lyle
River, 2004
A Classic Album !
+ great memories
+ Hasn't anyone else got this one?
Driving around England in 1976, "Breakaway" came on the radio, and I got the LP and brought it home to San Francisco. Amazing songs, great production. No wonder Art Garfunkel "borrowed" the song AND the album title for his own solo record. He covered several of their songs, including "A Heart In ...
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In Person at the Whisky a Go Go
Otis Redding
Elektra / Wea, 1992
Exhilarating!
+ 60's Soul Music
+ Otis, My Man!
+ OTIS LIVE
+ A great album, but not perfect...
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Because of the Times
Kings of Leon
RCA, 2007
Very interesting, deep record
+ DENSE, INTENSE, JUST GREAT!
+ Just as good as the more well known cd.
+ This album's no cookie cutter
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Multiples
Keith Fullerton (aka Hravatski) Whitman
Kranky, 2005
A great composer in the making?
+ A journey
KFW's influences are pretty obvious, and he's happy to reveal them - Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Christoph Heeman. He knows all about tone clusters, overtones and shifting minimal rhythms. But the textures on 'Multiples' are so beautiful that it's never just an academic exercise. This is somewhere ...
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