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Dream Theater - Train of Thought

2008-04-13T18:59:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the audience response to Dream Theater's heavier songs while on tour, Train of Thought is widely considered their heaviest album to date. The album was written in three weeks. It was engineered by Doug Oberkircher and mixed by Kevin Shirley.There are some connections to previous and following albums of the band:
The album has seven songs, while its predecessor (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence) has six and its successor (Octavarium) has eight.
The first song "As I Am" starts with the ending synth/orchestral chord of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and the ending piano note (F) of "In the Name of God" is the first note of Octavarium's "The Root of All Evil".
"This Dying Soul" continues Mike Portnoy's Alcoholics Anonymous suite, started with "The Glass Prison" on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and later continued with Octavarium's "The Root of All Evil" and Systematic Chaos "Repentance". The songs share some of the lyrics and melodies.

The Chant/Hymn at the end of "In the Name of God" (from 12:56 onwards, coming from the right-side speaker) is the American civil war hymn "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
"Honor Thy Father" was written about Mike Portnoy's stepfather. When asked about what inspired him to write that song, he stated in an IRC chat: "I'm not very good at writing love songs, so I decided to write a HATE song!!!"
Between 05:51 and 06:07 of the song "In the Name of God", there was a hidden composition buried beneath the far louder sounds of the song itself which lay undiscovered for over a year and a half. The band did not tell anyone that a hidden "nugget" (as it became known amongst Dream Theater fans) was present in the song, and only when Mike Portnoy mentioned it in his Mike Portnoy: Live at Budokan Drum-Cam DVD over a year later did someone find it. The Mike Portnoy message board was rife with fans scouring the song looking for what it might be, until a fan going by the pseudonymous name "DarrylRevok" mentioned that from 05:51 to 06:07 there appeared to be morse code audible, which Nick Bogovich (user handle "Bogie") isolated and discovered that when translated to English, the phrase "eat my ass and balls" (a Mike Portnoy catchphrase) was the result.
The bridge of "In the Name of God" contains references to several noted cult leaders, including David Koresh, Marshall Applewhite, and Jim Jones.
Stream of Consciousness is the longest Dream Theater instrumental to date (not counting live mash-ups such as Instrumedley).
Some lyrics of As I Am were inspired by Dream Theater's 2003 summer tour with Queensryche, described by Mike Portnoy as an "irksome series of shows." According to Portnoy, Queensryche guitarist Mike Stone tried giving John Petrucci tips on playing guitar, leading Petrucci to write the lyrics. Jordan Rudess played the final note in the album (In The Name of God minute 14:8) with his nose as shown in Making The Train of Thought documentary, Mike Portnoy approved the take in the video while he was filming.

Personnel:

James LaBrie – Vocals
John Myung – Bass
John Petrucci – Guitars, backing vocals
Mike Portnoy – Drums, backing vocals
Jordan Rudess – Keyboards

Song:
"As I Am" – 7:47 (Petrucci)
"This Dying Soul" – 11:28 (Portnoy)
"Endless Sacrifice" – 11:23 (Petrucci)
"Honor Thy Father" – 10:14 (Portnoy)
"Vacant" – 2:58 (LaBrie)
"Stream of Consciousness" – 11:16 (instrumental)
"In The Name of God" – 14:16 (Petrucci)

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Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh(1970)

2008-04-13T18:50:00.000-07:00

Weasels Ripped My Flesh is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music).
Conceptually, the album could be considered Phase Two of Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Both albums consist of previously unreleased Mothers tracks released after the demise of the original band. Whereas the pieces on Burnt Weeny Sandwich generally have a more rigid and planned feel captured by quality studio equipment, Weasels Ripped My Flesh mostly captures the Mothers on stage, where they employ frenetic and chaotic improvisation characteristic of avant-garde free jazz. The album's infamous closer and title track is nothing more than every man on stage producing as much noise and feedback as they can for two minutes. Interestingly, an audience member is heard yelling for more at its conclusion. The album also contains such surprising treats as Don "Sugarcane" Harris's straight-ahead blues violin and vocal performance of "Directly From My Heart to You".
Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh were also reissued together on vinyl as 2 Originals of the Mothers of Invention, with the original covers used as the left and right sides of the inner spread, and the front cover depicting a pistol shooting toothpaste onto a toothbrush.

Personnel:
Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – drums
Ray Collins – vocals
Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
Bunk Gardner – tenor sax
Lowell George – rhythm guitar, vocals
Don "Sugarcane" Harris – vocals, electric violin
Don Preston – organ, electronic effects
Buzz Gardner – trumpet and flugel horn
Motorhead Sherwood – baritone saxophone, snorks
Art Tripp – drums
Ian Underwood – alto saxophone

Songs:
Side one
"Didja Get Any Onya?" (live) – 6:51
Includes 'Charles Ives' on compact disc re-issue
"Directly from My Heart to You" (Richard Wayne Penniman) – 5:16
"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask" (live) – 3:47
"Toads of the Short Forest" – 4:47
Side two
"Get a Little" (live) – 2:31
"Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" – 6:52
"Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula" – 2:12
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" – 3:32
"Oh No" – 1:45
"The Orange County Lumber Truck" (live) – 3:21
"Weasels Ripped My Flesh" (live) – 2:08

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Frank Zappa - The Yellow Shark(1992)

2008-04-13T18:42:00.000-07:00

The Yellow Shark is an album of orchestral music by Frank Zappa, released in 1993. It features live recordings from the Ensemble Modern's 1992 performances of Zappa's compositions. It is the last Zappa album to be released before his death.It's Frank's Classical Work with huge sound quality.Really great album.

Personnel:
Frank Zappa – conductor, producer, performer
Peter Rundel – conductor, violin
Wolfgang Stryi – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, contrabass trombone, clarinet
Todd Yvega – synclavier assistance
Herman Kretzschmar – celeste, harpsichord, voices, piano
Uwe Dierksen – trombone
Friedemann Dahn – violoncello
Thomas Fichter- contrabass, fichter electric upright bass
William Formann – cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, trumpet
Rumi Ogawa-Helferich – cymbalom, percussion
Franck Ollu – horn
Jürgen Ruck – banjo, guitar
Claudia Sack – violin
Veit Scholz – bassoon, contrabassoon
Hilary Sturt – voices, violin
Michael Svoboda – euphonium, didjeridu, alphorn, trombone
Mathias Tacke – violin
Detlef Tewes – mandolin
Ellen Wegner – harp
Ueli Wiget – cello, harp, harpsichord, piano
Andreas Bottger – percussion
Ensemble Modern – main performer
Daryl Smith – tuba
Dietmar Wiesner – flute
Michael Gross – cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, trumpet

Songs:
"Intro"–1:43
"Dog Breath Variations"–2:07
"Uncle Meat"–3:24
"Outrage at Valdez"–3:27
"Times Beach II"–7:31
"III Revised"–1:45
"The Girl in the Magnesium Dress"–4:33
"Be-Bop Tango"–3:43
"Ruth Is Sleeping"–5:56
"None of the Above"–2:17
"Pentagon Afternoon"–2:28
"Questi Cazzi Di Piccione"–3:03
"Times Beach III"–4:26
"Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992"–2:52
"Welcome to the United States"–6:39
"Pound for a Brown"–2:12
"Exercise, No. 4"–1:37
"Get Whitey"–7:00
"G-Spot Tornado"–5:17

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The Mars Volta - Live Ep

2008-04-13T18:38:00.000-07:00

Live EP is the first officially released live recording from the band The Mars Volta. The EP was released in limited quantities in 2003 and is now difficult to find. Due to this, the EP has become a collectors item among Volta fans, sometimes selling for up to $150 on eBay. The first two tracks were recorded live at the XFM Studio in London, 2003. The last two tracks were recorded at the Electric Ballroom in London on July 9, 2003.
During the jam in "Drunkship," part of "Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus" from Frances the Mute is played.
The album artwork is from the fable of Arachne (also Arachné). It has also been used as the backdrop during the band's live performances.

Songs:
"Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)" – 9:29
"Drunkship of Lanterns" – 9:38
"Cicatriz ESP" – 16:03
"Televators" – 7:18

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The Mars Volta - Scabdates

2008-04-13T18:32:00.000-07:00

Scabdates is the second official live recording from the band The Mars Volta. It was released on November 8, 2005 and features music recorded between May 2004 and May 2005 during the 2004-2005 tour in support of Frances the Mute.
While the disc contains twelve tracks, only three of the band's songs are represented; many of the tracks constitute expansions on musical themes which appear elsewhere in their work, or entirely new segments altogether. For example, the lengthy exposition on "Cicatriz," which combined with its introduction "Haruspex", comprises 48 minutes of the disc and incorporates into its lengthy jam themes which would later be used in "Cassandra Gemini" (the performance excerpted here was recorded on May 12, 2004, almost a year before Frances the Mute was released). Oddly enough, while the renditions of "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" and "Cicatriz" are much longer than their album counterparts, the Scabdates version of "Concertina" is actually 37 seconds shorter than its Tremulant EP counterpart.
The Mars Volta have freely encouraged the trading of bootlegged live performances, but Scabdates was lauded by many fans for its superior sound quality and for being the first official recording that captured the Volta's lengthy experimental workouts during live performances. IGN however, described the experimentation as "sonic meandering which some regard as genius and others find to be a futile exercise in pretentious instrumental masturbation." No matter what one thinks of the band's avant-garde style of jamming, it is undeniably the source of the definitive split between the fans and critics of live Mars Volta performances.
While the material on Scabdates is drawn almost entirely from live performances, the music doesn't appear exactly as performed; Part IV of "Cicatriz" incorporates a full eight-minute, psychedelic sound collage of many other Mars Volta live performances (notably, performances of "Eunuch Provocateur" and "Cassandra Gemini") that was not featured in the original performance, along with edited recordings of what sounds like Omar laughing, Cedric and other people talking, coughing, laughing, etc. A voice can be heard saying "Don't you remind me of Jeremy", referring to former soundman Jeremy Ward. "Abrasions Mount the Timpani" also features sound samples of mewling babies and airliner announcements that Omar recorded while on the road with the band. The album ends with Cedric thanking the audience by telling them to "go home and take a bath."

Personnel:
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – producer, lead guitar
Cedric Bixler-Zavala – vocals
Jon Theodore – drums
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens – keyboards
Juan Alderete – bass
Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez – percussion
Paul Hinojos – sound manipulation
Adrián Terrazas-González – flute, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
John Frusciante – rhythm guitar, lead guitar

Songs:
"Abrasions Mount the Timpani" – 4:07
"Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" – 5:57
"A. Gust of Mutts" – 2:34
"B. And Ghosted Pouts" – 4:52
"Caviglia" – 2:46
"Concertina" – 4:17
"Haruspex" – 5:24
"Cicatriz" – 8:16
"A. Part I" – 2:34
"B. Part II" – 7:39
"C. Part III" – 4:29
"D. Part IV" – 20:00

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Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

2008-04-13T18:26:00.000-07:00

Lightbulb Sun is the sixth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in May 2000. There are four editions: the original release on Snapper records, a German 2 disc tour release on Snapper (with a blue cover), an Israeli 2 disc edition on Helicon records, and the 2 or 3 disc CD/DVD-A reissue on Kscope. Classic Rock magazine described it as "an album of stunning songs and startling musicianship… breathtaking"
The album is divided into two parts by half a minute gap between "Rest Will Flow" and "Hatesong". The first part concentrates more on melodic, poppy elements of Porcupine Tree's style, while the second has a more experimental character.
A CD/DVD-A remaster with 5.1 Surround Sound and a new stereo mix was released on April 7, 2008 from the Porcupine Tree store. Pre-orders of the Porcupine Tree store edition came with an exclusive 2 track bonus CD containing the tracks; "Novak" and "Buying New Soul (Instrumental Backing Track)". The CD/DVD-A album reissue is planned for a mass market release on April 21, 2008 through the Kscope label.
String arrangements in Lightbulb Sun were arranged and produced by Dave Gregory from XTC at Christchurch Studios, Clifton, Bristol in January 2000, recorded by John Waterhouse.

Personnel
Steven Wilson – Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Mellotron, Hammered Dulcimer, Samples, Banjo, Harp, Production
Richard Barbieri – Synthesizers, Hammond Organ, Fairground, Synthesized Percussion, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Mellotron, Insects
Colin Edwin – Fretless Bass, Saz, Drum Machine, Guimbri
Chris Maitland – Drums, Backing & Harmony Vocals, Floor Tom
Stuart Gordon – Violin, Viola
Nick Parry – Cello

Songs:
"Lightbulb Sun" – 5:31
"How Is Your Life Today?" – 2:46
"Four Chords That Made a Million" – 3:36
"She's moved on" – 5:14
"Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it Is Recycled" – 4:49
"The Rest Will Flow" – 3:18
"Hatesong" – 8:30
"Where We Would Be" – 4:13
"Russia on Ice" – 13:05
"Feel So Low" – 5:22

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The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

2008-04-13T18:18:00.000-07:00

De-Loused in the Comatorium is the first LP and concept album by the progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Based on a short story by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward, it is the hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who tries to kill himself by overdosing on morphine. The attempt lands him in a week-long coma during which he experiences visions of humanity and his own psyche. Upon waking, he is dissatisfied with the real world and jumps to his death. The story of Cerpin Taxt is based on the death of El Paso, Texas artist (and Bixler-Zavala's friend) Julio Venegas.
De-Loused became both critically and commercially their biggest hit, eventually selling in excess of 500,000 copies despite next-to-no promotion, and was featured on several critics' "Best of the Year" lists . The album was ranked number 55 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time.
The music contained in De-Loused is distinguished by its enigmatic lyrics, Jazz rhythms, odd time signatures, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's frenetic guitar riffs, which are often harshly dissonant. The title of this album is taken from the lyrics of the song "Eunuch Provocateur" on the band's previous release, Tremulant.

Personnel:
Cedric Bixler-Zavala – vocals
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – guitar
Jon Theodore – drums
Jeremy Michael Ward – sound manipulation
Isaiah Ikey Owens – keyboards
Lenny Castro – percussion
Flea – bass
John Frusciante – guitar, synthesizer on "Cicatriz ESP"
Justin Meldel Johnson – stand-up bass on "Televators"

Songs:
"Son et Lumière" – 1:35
"Inertiatic ESP" – 4:24
"Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)" – 7:31
"Tira Me a las Arañas" – 1:29
"Drunkship of Lanterns" – 7:06
Incorrectly listed as 6:20 on jewel case inlay
"Eriatarka" – 6:20
Incorrectly listed as 7:06 on jewel case inlay
"Cicatriz ESP" – 12:29
"This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed" – 4:58
"Televators" – 6:19
"Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" – 8:42

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Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat(1969)

2008-02-08T16:40:00.000-08:00

Uncle Meat, released in 1969, is the soundtrack to The Mothers of Invention's long-delayed film of the same name; the front cover included the words "(Most of the Music from the Mother's [sic] Movie of the Same Name Which We Haven't Got Enough Money to Finish Yet)". The film was released straight to video in 1987.
Uncle Meat marked an evolution in frontman Frank Zappa's career, moving further into jazz and classical music—as Zappa saw them. It also contains half-mocking, half-homage elements of doo-wop, blues, rock and roll, and sound clips from the movie. The album is united by its dreamy melodies, stream of consciousness lyrics (many about places and events in suburban LA teenagers' lives), and a set of musical themes and subthemes and variations idiomatic of film soundtracks. It also features Suzy Creamcheese.
The CD version was released in 1987, and contained a new song, "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" (meaning "I've Got a Big Cock" in Sicilian), sung in Italian by Massimo Bassoli, and nearly 40 minutes' worth of sound-bites from the movie. However, many fans have resented these additions, since "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" was recorded in an entirely different time period, and the movie soundbites are considered by some to be superfluous to the listening tracks. Additionally, their additions force the reissue to use two discs, when the album in its original form could fit on just one disc. Many fans refer to these so-called bonuses as "penalty tracks."

Personnel:
Frank Zappa – guitar, percussion, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums, poverty
Ray Collins – vocals
Roy Estrada – bass guitar, vocals
Bunk Gardner – clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Ruth Komanoff – marimba, vibes
Billy Mundi – drums
Don Preston – electric piano
Euclid James Sherwood – tenor saxophone, tambourine, voices, choreography
Art Tripp – percussion, chimes, drums, marimba, xylophone, bells, tympani, vibraphone, wood block
Ian Underwood – clarinet, flute, piano, celeste, harpsichord, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, wind, electronic organ
Nelcy Walker – soprano vocals
Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese

Songs:

Disc one
"Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" – 1:56
"The Voice of Cheese" – 0:26
"Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" – 6:00
"Zolar Czakl" – 0:54
"Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" – 3:59
"The Legend of the Golden Arches" – 3:28
"Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" (Richard Berry) – 2:19
"The Dog Breath Variations" – 1:48
"Sleeping in a Jar" – 0:50
"Our Bizarre Relationship" – 1:05
"The Uncle Meat Variations" – 4:46
"Electric Aunt Jemima" – 1:46
"Prelude to King Kong" – 3:38
"God Bless America" (Irving Berlin) – 1:10
"A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" – 1:29
"Ian Underwood Whips It Out" – 5:05
"Mr. Green Genes" – 3:14
"We Can Shoot You" – 2:03
"If We'd All Been Living in California..." – 1:14
"The Air" – 2:57
"Project X" – 4:48
"Cruisin' for Burgers" – 2:18

Disc two
"Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1" – 37:34
"Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" – 3:46
"Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 2" – 3:50
"King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)" – 0:49
"King Kong II (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)" – 1:21
"King Kong III (as Motorhead explains it)" – 1:44
"King Kong IV (the Gardner Varieties)" – 6:17
"King Kong V (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)" – 0:34
"King Kong VI (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival . . . the Underwood ramifications)" – 7:24

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Mike Oldfield - Amarok(1990)

2008-01-23T07:39:00.000-08:00

(When you listen to this album,you must listen it all,at once,in a good volume and never interrupt it,only when it's really necessary)

Amarok is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was his thirteenth album and is considered by fans to be his most distinctive work: a single sixty-minute track of continuous, uninterrupted but constantly-changing music. It is also noted for having almost none of the music or sound generated purely by electronic means, Oldfield eschewing synthesizers for "real" instruments and sound sources.

Background
Virgin Records had been trying to convince Oldfield to release a sequel to Tubular Bells, though probably more for the name recognition than anything else, particularly as Oldfield's contract was due to expire. Instead, he created an album that seems to have been designed to be as much a delight to his fans as it was a frustration to Virgin.

It is next to impossible to isolate any one short, radio-friendly section of Amarok without it seeming out of place, and thus no single could be cut and released separately, nor could the album ever be played on popular radio. Similarly, Amarok has never been performed live in its entirety, though Oldfield has played excerpts from time to time. Oldfield had expressed many times his displeasure at Virgin's lack of promotion of his works, and Amarok might have been his revenge: a completely unmarketable album that still showcased his talent as a composer and performer. Oldfield did attempt to circumvent Virgin and create publicity for the album by offering a prize of £1000 of his own money to the first person to find the "secret message" hidden within it,although the competition received little coverage and consequently its impact on sales was negligible.
The message was actually a piece of Morse code found 48 minutes into the piece and spelling out "FUCK OFF RB", a direct statement to Virgin chief Richard Branson.
In addition to his usual impressive list of instruments, Oldfield also employed a number of items in Amarok's creation such as shoes, spoons, a Hoover vacuum cleaner and "contents of aeromodeller's toolbox".

Both Amarok, along with Heaven's Open (Oldfield's final album for Virgin) can be seen as a definite "farewell" to the company, and not an overly polite one, either. Along with the aforementioned Morse code message, the album's back cover reads: " HEALTH WARNING - This record could be hazardous to the health of cloth-eared nincompoops. If you suffer from this condition, consult your Doctor immediately ".

Though tubular bells are used on the album, they are ambiguously listed in the liner notes as "long thin metallic hanging tubes," possibly a humorous way for Oldfield to avoid bringing to mind his first work. This may also have been one more snub at Virgin. Oldfield did not release the much-desired sequel to Tubular Bells until he was with Warner Bros. Records.
Many fans do claim that Amarok is to be considered "Ommadawn II", and certainly, Oldfield seems to have involved many of the same people that were a part of Ommadawn: Jabula, Clodagh Simmonds, and Paddy Maloney performed on both. Also, William Murray, who co-wrote the song "On Horseback" for Ommadawn, took the Amarok cover photo and wrote the short story included in the liner notes. Oldfield himself reportedly said in an interview, "It's not "Tubular Bells II"; if anything, it's "Ommadawn II".

The origin of the name has always been a point of contention. Oldfield has said in the past that it was chosen for its sound rather than any particular meaning, but numerous theories abound:
"Amaroq" is Inuktitut for "wolf" - in particular, Amarok is the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, reputed to hunt down lone travellers, and used by parents to frighten children.
"Amárach" is Irish for "tomorrow." It is pronounced with a long second 'a'.
The words "amarok" and "amadán" (the origin of Ommadawn) begin with roughly the same "ama" sound, and there is sufficient evidence that Amarok is a sequel of sorts to Ommadawn.
It could also be that since this was the next to last album that Oldfield did for Virgin Records, it may have been a pun on "(I) am a rock" that is, that Oldfield was stating that he was capable of standing on his own without Virgin.
The final part, "Africa", has the "Sondela" chorus sung in Xhosa. In this prefix-based African language, the language itself is isiXhosa, and the nation is amaXhosa (prefix ama- for many people). Hence, "amaRok" could also be pig Xhosa for "the people of Rock" or "the rock people".
Speaking to a Dutch journalist soon after Amarok's release, Mike Oldfield commented on the title: " It doesn't have a real meaning but it's similar to many Gaelic words, like those for morning or happy. And if you split the letters up, you get Am-a-rok... it could mean: am a rock. Maybe that implies I don't want to change anything by following trends. "

Track listing
The album-long track and its 'movement' names:
"Amarok" – 60:02
– 0:00 - Fast Riff Intro
– 2:32 - Intro
– 5:46 - Climax I - 12 Strings
– 6:18 - Soft Bodhran
– 7:20 - Rachmaninov I
– 8:35 - Soft Bodhran 2
– 9:29 - Rachmaninov II
– 9:56 - Roses
– 10:42 - Reprise I - Intro
– 12:45 - Scot
– 13:16 - Didlybom
– 15:00 - Mad Bit
– 15:56 - Run In
– 16:11 - Hoover
– 18:00 - Fast Riff
– 19:57 - Lion
– 21:57 - Fast Waltz
– 23:42 - Stop
– 24:33 - Mad Bit 2
– 24:46 - Fast Waltz 2
– 25:06 - Mandolin
– 26:07 - Intermission
– 26:23 - Boat
– 29:27 - Intro Reprise 2
– 32:07 - Big Roses
– 33:13 - Green Green
– 34:24 - Slow Waltz
– 36:04 - Lion Reprise
– 37:05 - Mandolin Reprise
– 37:47 - TV am/Hoover/Scot
– 39:50 - Fast Riff Reprise
– 42:22 - Boat Reprise
– 43:32 - 12 Rep / Intro Waltz
– 44:12 - Green Reprise
– 44:46 - Africa I: Far Build
– 48:00 - Africa I: Far Dip
– 48:46 - Africa I: Pre Climax
– 49:32 - Africa I: 12 Climax
– 50:24 - Africa I: Climax I
– 51:00 - Africa II: Bridge
– 51:17 - Africa II: Riff
– 51:34 - Africa II: Boats
– 51:52 - Africa II: Bridge II
– 52:10 - Africa II: Climax II
– 54:22 - Africa III: Baker

The "Sondela" finale of "Africa III" (from 58:44 to 60:02, the end), sung in the Xhosa language:
" Sondela / uSomandla / sukuma / wena / obengezela. "
Come closer / the Almighty / arise / you / shining one.
(Come closer to us, o Almighty: arise, you who shines.)

Personnel
Mike Oldfield - acoustic bass guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, bass guitar, bass whistles, bouzouki, bell tree, bodhran, bowed guitar, cabasa, classical guitar, electric guitars, Farfisa, Lowrey and Vox organs, Flamenco guitar, glockenspiel,high-string guitar, Jew's harp, kalimba, mandolin, marimba, melodica, Northumbrian bagpipes, penny whistles, percussion, piano, psaltery, rototom, electric sitar,spinet, timpani, tubular bells (listed as "long thin metallic hanging tubes"), twelve-string guitar, ukulele, violin, vocals, and wonga box.

Janet Brown - voice of "Margaret Thatcher"
Jabula - African choir and percussion
Paddy Moloney - tin whistle
Clodagh Simmonds - vocals
Bridget St John - vocals

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Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn(1975)

2008-01-23T07:33:00.000-08:00

Ommadawn is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It is his third album. The cover photograph was by David Bailey. It peaked at #4 on the UK albums chart.
As with Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells, Ommadawn is another two-movement work. Here Oldfield sought out the ancient Celtic influence on English music and composed for traditional instruments such as Northumbrian bagpipes on the original LP version.
When Oldfield remastered the work for compact disc release he inserted an Uilleann pipe. He also involved musicians noted for their work in folk music including Clodagh Simonds and Paddy Moloney. He combined this with heavy African influences, mainly by the use of the drummers of Jabula. This makes Ommadawn one of the first successful world music albums in Europe.
A Quadrophonic remix version of Ommadawn was released on Boxed a year later. The 1990 album Amarok is often seen as a sequel to Ommadawn.

Though the actual work Ommadawn is two parts, there is a third track found on the album, a short vocal song by Mike Oldfield and William Murray called "On Horseback". "On Horseback" relates to Oldfield, Murray and Leslie Penning's time riding ponies around the area of Hergest Ridge.
In December 1975 Mike released the single "In Dulci Jubilo", with "On Horseback" as the B-side. It reached number 4 in the UK in January 1976. In France, "In Dulci Jubilo" was coupled to a remix of the end of part 1 of Ommadawn. Some copies of the album also include "In Dulci Jubilo" at the end.

Personnel
Mike Oldfield – acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, bodhrán, classical guitar, electric bass, electric guitars, electronic organs, glockenspiel, harp, mandolin, percussion, piano, spinet, steel guitar, synthesizers, twelve-string guitar and vocals.
Don Blakeson - trumpet
Herbie - Northumbrian bagpipes
The Hereford City Band - brass
Jabula - African drums
Pierre Moerlen - timpani
Paddy Moloney - Uilleann pipes
William Murray - percussion
Sally Oldfield - vocals
Terry Oldfield - Panpipes
Leslie Penning - recorders
"The Penrhos Kids" (Abigail, Briony, Ivan and Jason Griffiths) - vocals on "On Horseback"
Clodagh Simonds - vocals
Bridget St John - vocals
David Strange - cello

Track listing
"Ommadawn part one" – 19:23
"Ommadawn part two" – 13:54
"On Horseback" (not actually titled on album) – 3:23

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Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

2008-01-03T13:48:00.000-08:00

WARNING: HATE IT OR LIKE IT!!!

Trout Mask Replica is the third studio album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. The album was produced by Frank Zappa, a friend and former schoolmate of Beefheart (also known as Don Van Vliet), and was originally released on Zappa's own Straight Records imprint in 1969. Combining blues, free jazz, and other apparently disparate genres of American music, it is regarded as an important work of experimental music and appears at number 58 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Production:

Trout Mask Replica was released in June 1969 on Frank Zappa's newly formed Straight Records label. By this time, the Magic Band included guitarist Bill Harkleroad and bassist Mark Boston. However, Van Vliet had also begun assigning nicknames to his band members, so Harkleroad is better known as "Zoot Horn Rollo," and Boston as "Rockette Morton," while John French becomes "Drumbo," and Jeff Cotton is "Antennae Jimmy Semens." According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were quickly written in a number of milliseconds, though band members have stated that he worked on the compositions for roughly 3 weeks using a piano as his writing tool. Drummer John French took the parts, transcribed them to musical notation, and assigned them to each instrument. The group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in conditions drummer John French described as "cultlike". The Magic Band was holed up in Van Vliet's home in Los Angeles, restricted from leaving the house, eating very little, and practicing for 14 or more hours a day. Van Vliet wanted the whole band to "live" the "Trout Mask Replica" album. When the time finally arrived to record, the band was able to knock out the pieces flawlessly and lead to a very brief recording process.
The 28 songs on Trout Mask Replica draw on blues music, Bo Diddley, free jazz, and sea shanties but the relentless practice blended the music into an iconoclastic whole of conflicting tempi, harsh slide guitar, loping drumming, and honking saxophone and bass clarinet. Van Vliet's vocals range from growling blues singing to frenzied falsetto to laconic, casual ramblings. His lyrics often seem impenetrably strange and nonsensical, but closer examination actually reveals complex poetic use of wordplay, metaphor and all manner of references: music history, American and international politics, the Holocaust, love and sexuality, Steve Reich, gospel music, conformity. Although the album was effectively recorded live, Van Vliet recorded much of the vocals whilst isolated from the rest of the band in a different room, only being in partial synch with the music by hearing the slight sound leakage through the studio window.
Van Vliet used the ensuing publicity, particularly with a 1970 Rolling Stone interview with Langdon Winner, to promulgate a number of myths which have subsequently been quoted as fact. Winner's article stated, for instance, that neither Van Vliet nor the members of the Magic Band ever took drugs, but guitarist Bill Harkleroad later discredited this. Van Vliet also claimed to have taught both Harkleroad and bassist Mark Boston from scratch; in fact the pair were already accomplished musicians before joining the band.

Legacy:

BBC DJ John Peel said of the album: "If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work."Peel's playing of the record on late-night radio in Britain was largely responsible for its reaching 21 in the UK charts.
Critic Steve Huey writes that the album's influence "was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless experiments in rock surrealism to follow, especially during the punk/new wave era."Matt Groening has written that his first reaction to Trout Mask Replica was that it was "the worst thing [he]'d ever heard", but now lists the album as one of his favorites. In his 1995 book, "The Alternative Music Almanac", Alan Cross placed the album in the #2 spot on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Albums'. In 1995, Mojo named it the 28th on their "The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made" list and 51st on their "The 100 Records That Changed the World" list.

Track listing:

All songs written by Van Vliet. The album was produced by Frank Zappa.

"Frownland" – 1:41
"The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back" – 1:53
"Dachau Blues" – 2:21
"Ella Guru" – 2:26
"Hair Pie: Bake 1" – 4:58
"Moonlight on Vermont" – 3:59
"Pachuco Cadaver" – 4:40
"Bills Corpse" – 1:48
"Sweet Sweet Bulbs" – 2:21
"Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish" – 2:25
"China Pig" – 4:02
"My Human Gets Me Blues" – 2:46
"Dali's Car" – 1:26
"Hair Pie: Bake 2" – 2:23
"Pena" – 2:33
"Well" – 2:07
"When Big Joan Sets Up" – 5:18
"Fallin' Ditch" – 2:08
"Sugar 'n Spikes" – 2:30
"Ant Man Bee" – 3:57
"Orange Claw Hammer" – 3:34
"Wild Life" – 3:09
"She's Too Much for My Mirror" – 1:40
"Hobo Chang Ba" – 2:02
"The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)" – 2:04
"Steal Softly thru Snow" – 2:18
"Old Fart at Play" – 1:51
"Veteran's Day Poppy" – 4:31

Personnel:

Captain Beefheart – vocals, harmonica, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, musette, simran horn, hunting horn, jingle bells
Bill Harkleroad (credited as Zoot Horn Rollo) – guitar, flute
Jeff Cotton (Antennae Jimmy Semens) – guitar, vocals on "Pena" and "The Blimp"
Victor Hayden (The Mascara Snake) – bass clarinet, additional vocals
Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) – bass guitar
John French (Drumbo) – drums, percussion
Doug Moon - guitar on "China Pig".
Gary "Magic" Marker - bass guitar on "Moonlight on Vermont", "Veteran's Day Poppy"
Frank Zappa - voice (not vocals) on "Pena", "The Blimp"
Roy Estrada - bass guitar on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
Arthur Tripp III - drums & percussion on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
Don Preston - piano on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
Ian Underwood and Bunk Gardner - alto and tenor saxophones on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
Buzz Gardner - trumpet on "The Blimp" (uncredited)

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Pink Floyd - The Wall(1979)

2008-01-02T09:54:00.000-08:00

The Wall is a concept album/rock opera by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in 1979. In 1999 the RIAA certified The Wall at 23x platinum, denoting sales of 11.5 million copies of the double album in the United States. The album reached #1 on the Billboard album charts in the US where it stayed for 15 consecutive weeks in early 1980, and it remained on the US charts for two years. The album peaked at #3 in the band's native UK.
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" was the band's only number one single, reaching #1 in both the UK and the US. Around the world, the album produced a number of hit singles for Pink Floyd, including "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", "Young Lust", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell". The Wall was the last Pink Floyd album to feature Rick Wright until his return in 1987. During the recording, Roger Waters demanded a great deal of artistic control, which led to tensions.The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and in 2003, Rolling Stone placed it 87th on their 500 greatest albums of all time list.

Songs:
"In the Flesh?"
"The Thin Ice"
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)"
"The Happiest Days of Our Lives"
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
"Mother"
"Goodbye Blue Sky"
"Empty Spaces"
"Young Lust"
"One of My Turns"
"Don't Leave Me Now"
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)"
"Goodbye Cruel World"
"Hey You"
"Is There Anybody Out There?"
"Nobody Home"
"Vera"
"Bring the Boys Back Home"
"Comfortably Numb"
"The Show Must Go On"
"In the Flesh"
"Run Like Hell"
"Waiting for the Worms"
"Stop"
"The Trial"
"Outside the Wall"

Personnel:
Roger Waters — vocals, bass guitar, co-producer, synthesiser, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, sleeve design
David Gilmour — guitars, vocals, co-producer, bass guitar, sequencer, synthesiser, clavinet, percussion
Richard Wright — piano, organ, synthesiser, clavinet, bass pedals
Nick Mason — drums, percussion

with
Lee Ritenour — Rhythm Guitar on "One of My Turns" and Acoustic Guitar on "Comfortably Numb"
Joe Porcaro — Marching Snare drum on "Bring the Boys Back Home"
Blue Ocean — Marching Snare drum on "Bring the Boys Back Home"
Freddie Mandell — Hammond Organ on "In The Flesh?" and "In the Flesh"
Bobbye Hall — Percussion
Ron di Blasi — Classical guitar on "Is There Anybody Out There?"
Larry Williams — Clarinet on "Outside the Wall"
Trevor Veitch — Mandolin
Frank Marrocco — Concertina
Bruce Johnston — Backing Vocals
Toni Tennille — Backing Vocals
Brian Wilson — Vocal Arrangements
Joe Chemay — Backing Vocals
Jon Joyce — Backing Vocals
Stan Farber — Backing Vocals
Jim Haas — Backing Vocals
Fourth Form Music Class, Islington Green School, London — Backing Vocals
Bob Ezrin — co-producer; Orchestra Arrangement; Keyboards
Michael Kamen — Orchestra Arrangement
James Guthrie — Co-Producer; Engineer; Percussion; Synthesiser on "Empty Spaces" (in collaboration with David Gilmour), Sequencer; Drums on "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" (in collaboration with Nick Mason), remastering producer
Nick Griffiths — Engineer
Patrice Queff — Engineer
Brian Christian — Engineer
John McClure — Engineer
Rick Hart — Engineer
Robert Hrycyna — Engineer
Phil Taylor — Sound Equipment
Gerald Scarfe — Sleeve Design
Doug Sax — Mastering and Remastering

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The Rolling Stones - Black And Blue

2008-01-02T06:05:00.000-08:00

Black And Blue is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1976. It is notable for being their first studio album following guitarist Mick Taylor's departure. Ron Wood became a full member of the band while this album was being produced. However, he only appears on about half the songs: Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel play lead guitar on the remaining tracks.

History:

With barely any time to catch their breath following Mick Taylor's quitting, The Rolling Stones returned to Munich, Germany - the site of It's Only Rock'n Roll's recording - in December 1974 and began the recording of their new album at Musicland Studios, with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (at the time under a heavy heroin addiction) - as The Glimmer Twins - producing again. With a view to have it released in time for the summer 1975 Tour of the Americas, the band broke for the holidays and returned in January in Rotterdam, Netherlands to continue the good work - all the while auditioning new guitarists as they recorded. Among the hopefuls were Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins, Peter Frampton, and Ron Wood, although only Mandel's, Perkins' and Wood's guitar work would appear on the finished album. With much work to follow, it was decided to delay the album for the following year and release the Made in the Shade compilation instead. "Cherry Oh Baby" (which was a cover version of an early reggae song) would be the only song from the upcoming album even sporadically played on the Americas Tour.
Following the conclusion of the tour, The Rolling Stones went to Montreux, Switzerland in October for some overdub work, while returning to Musicland Studios in Munich in December to perform similar duties. Upon their arrival at Musicland Studios, the Rolling Stones were reportedly amazed that Led Zeppelin had recorded and mixed their entire album Presence in a mere seventeen days, with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page having stayed awake for two days straight to perform all of the guitar overdubs just before the arrival of the Rolling Stones.
After some final touch-ups, Black and Blue was completed in New York City in February 1976.
Stylistically, Black and Blue - so named for its black music influences - embraces funk with "Hot Stuff", reggae with their cover of "Cherry Oh Baby" and jazz with "Melody", featuring the talents of Billy Preston - a heavy contributor to the album. Musical and thematic styles were merged on the seven-minute epic "Memory Motel", with both Jagger and Richards contributing lead vocals to a love song embedded within a life-on-the-road tale.
Released in April 1976 - with "Fool to Cry", a worldwide Top 10 hit, as its lead single - Black and Blue reached #2 in the UK and spent an interrupted four week spell at #1 in the US, going platinum there. Critical view was polarized, with some finding its emphasis on jamming a reflection of the perceived weak songwriting, while others consider it an undervalued gem.
The album was promoted with a controversial billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood that depicted a bruised, bound woman under the phrase "I'm Black and Blue from the Rolling Stones — and I love it!" The billboard was removed after protests by the feminist group Women Against Violence Against Women, although it earned the band widespread press coverage.[1]
Two extra tracks recorded in the Rotterdam sessions were later released on 1981's Tattoo You.
In 1994, Black and Blue was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.

Track listing:

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

"Hot Stuff" – 5:20
"Hand of Fate" – 4:28
"Cherry Oh Baby" (Eric Donaldson) – 3:53
"Memory Motel" – 7:07
"Hey Negrita" – 4:58
"Melody" – 5:47
"Fool to Cry" – 5:04
"Crazy Mama" – 4:34

Musicians:

Mick Jagger - Vocals, Backing Vocals, Percussion, Guitar, Piano, Electric Piano
Keith Richards - Guitar, Backing Vocals, Vocals, Electric Piano, Bass
Charlie Watts - Drums, Percussion
Bill Wyman - Bass, Percussion
Ron Wood - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Ollie Brown - Percussion
Nicky Hopkins - Electric Piano, Organ, String Synthesizer
Harvey Mandel - Electric Guitar
Wayne Perkins - Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Billy Preston - Backing Vocals, Piano, Vocals, Organ, Keyboards, String Synthesizer
Ian Stewart - Percussion

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Black Sabbath - Reunion

2007-12-30T06:17:00.000-08:00

After the departure of vocalist Ozzy Osbourne in 1979, Black Sabbath's line-up slowly lost stability in late 1983 and never quite recovered.
Following a couple of one-off reunions in 1985 and 1992, the original line-up of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward got back together for good in 1997. This 2-CD live album was put together from the first two shows after the reunion, at the Birmingham NEC. Along with live versions of tracks such as "Paranoid", "N.I.B.", "Black Sabbath" and "Iron Man", it also features two new studio tracks - "Selling My Soul" and "Psycho Man".
This was the only new material to have been officially released by Black Sabbath post-reunion until three new tracks appeared on the post-Ozzy compilation Black Sabbath: The Dio Years in 2007. The two new tracks on Reunion were also released on a single CD in the USA.
Though the band were considered legends by this time, this was the first "official" live album featuring Osbourne on vocals. 1980's Live at Last was not approved for release by the band.

Personnel:
Ozzy Osbourne - Vocals
Tony Iommi - Guitar
Geezer Butler - Bass
Bill Ward - Drums

Songs:
Disc 1
"War Pigs" – 8:28
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" – 4:07
"N.I.B." – 6:45
"Fairies Wear Boots" – 6:19
"Electric Funeral" – 5:02
"Sweet Leaf" – 5:07
"Spiral Architect" – 5:40
"Into the Void" – 6:32
"Snowblind" – 6:08

Disc 2
"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" – 4:36
"Orchid/Lord of This World" – 7:07
"Dirty Women" – 6:29
"Black Sabbath" – 7:29
"Iron Man" – 8:21
"Children of the Grave" – 6:30
"Paranoid" – 4:28
"Psycho Man" (Osbourne, Iommi) – 5:18
"Selling My Soul" (Osbourne, Iommi) – 3:10

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Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti(1990)

2007-12-29T17:34:00.000-08:00

Sheik Yerbouti (Shake Your Booty) is a double vinyl album by Frank Zappa featuring material recorded in 1977 and 1978. It was released on March 3, 1979 and re-issued on compact disc on May 9, 1995.
The title is a play on words; Zappa appears on the cover in character in Arab headdress, and the name, meant to resemble an Arabic transcription, is pronounced like the title of KC and the Sunshine Band's 1976 disco hit "Shake Your Booty".
Sheik Yerbouti represented a major turning point in Zappa's career. The first album to be released on his own eponymous label after his departure from Warner Bros. Records, it emphasized the comedic aspect of his lyrics more than ever before, beginning a period of increased record sales and mainstream media attention.
The album featured more of Zappa's satirical and otherwise humorous or offensive material. "I Have Been in You" pokes fun at Peter Frampton's 1977 hit "I'm in You" while maintaining a sexually driven structure. "Dancin' Fool", a Grammy nominee, became a popular disco hit despite its obvious parodical reflection of disco music."Flakes" parodies in parts Bob Dylan's Musical Style. "Jewish Princess", a humorous look at Jewish stereotyping, attracted attention from the Anti-Defamation League, to which Zappa denied an apology, arguing: "Well, I didn't make up the idea of a Jewish Princess. They exist, so I wrote a song about them".
Some of Zappa's solos from the album began life as improvisations from Zappa's earlier work. "Rat Tomago" was edited from a performance of "The Torture Never Stops", which originally appeared on Zoot Allures; "The Sheik Yerbouti Tango" likewise from a live "Little House I Used to Live In", originally a Burnt Weeny Sandwich track. The song "City of Tiny Lites" featured an animation video made by Bruce Bickford which featured on the Old Grey Whistle Test.
Almost entirely live, the album features two short studio recordings, both falling under a minute, which open and close "Rat Tomago". "Rubber Shirt" was heavily doctored by Zappa in the studio using bits and pieces of Terry Bozzio and Patrick O'Hearn's drum and bass playing, respectively. Aside from some overdubs, these are the only exceptions.

Personnel
Adrian Belew – Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Ed Mann – Percussion, Vocals
Bob Stone – Digital Remastering
Terry Bozzio – Drums, Vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock – Vocals (bckgr)
Joe Chiccarelli – Remixing, Overdub Engineer
Frank Zappa – Guitar, Arranger, Composer, Vocals, Producer, Remixing
Lynn Goldsmith – Photography, Cover Photo
Peter Henderson – Engineer
Andre Lewis – Keyboards, Vocals (bckgr)
Bob Ludwig – Mastering Engineer
Tommy Mars – Keyboards, Vocals
Kerry McNabb – Engineer
Davey Moire – Vocals, Engineer
Patrick O'Hearn – Bass, Vocals
David Ocker – Clarinet
Randy Thornton [1] – Vocals (bckgr)
John Williams – Art Direction
Gail Zappa – Photography
Amy Bernstein – Artwork, Layout Design
Peter Wolf – Keyboards
Barbara Isaak – Assistant
Randy Thornton – Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Songs:
"I Have Been in You" – 3:33
"Flakes" – 6:41
"Broken Hearts Are for Assholes" – 3:42
"I'm So Cute" – 3:09 (1995 CD) 4:20 (Vinyl and EMI CD)
"Jones Crusher" – 2:49
"What Ever Happened to All the Fun in the World" – 0:33
"Rat Tomago" – 5:15
"Wait a Minute" – 0:33
"Rubber Shirt" – 2:45
"The Sheik Yerbouti Tango" – 3:56
"Baby Snakes" – 1:50
"Tryin' to Grow a Chin" – 3:31
"City of Tiny Lites" – 5:32
"Dancin' Fool" – 3:43
"Jewish Princess" – 3:16
"Wild Love" – 4:09
"Yo' Mama" – 12:36

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Peter Hammill - Fools Mate(1971)

2007-12-29T17:08:00.000-08:00

Fool's Mate is the debut solo album by Peter Hammill of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. It was produced by Trident Studios' in-house producer John Anthony. The album was recorded in 1971, in the midst of one of VdGG's most prolific periods, shortly before the production of their "magnum opus" Pawn Hearts. Hammill used the album to record a backlog of songs which were much shorter and simpler than his VdGG material, and declared on the original album sleeve: "This isn't intended to be any kind of statement of my present musical position, but at the same time, it is an album which involves a great deal of me, the person, basically a return to the roots."
Fool's Mate includes one of Hammill's most celebrated love songs, "Vision", which he still performs regularly in concert to the present day. Guest musicians on the album included the members of VdGG, members of his label mates Lindisfarne, and guitarist Robert Fripp.
The UK music press was generally very positive about Fool's Mate. Melody Maker saw "one of THE albums of the year".
The cover was designed by Paul Whitehead who at the time was the favourite cover artist for Charisma bands Genesis and Van der Graaf Generator.
In 2005 the album was issued in remastered form by EMI Virgin Records, supplemented with bonus demo recordings of several songs.

Songs:
"Imperial Zeppelin"
"Candle"
"Happy"
"Solitude"
"Vision"
"Re-Awakening"
"Sunshine"
"Child"
"Summer Song (In The Autumn)"
"Viking"
"The Birds"
"I Once Wrote Some Poems"

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Peter Hammil - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage(1974)

2007-12-29T16:55:00.000-08:00

The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage is an album by British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was released on Charisma Records in 1974, during a hiatus in the activities of Hammill's progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. However, like many of Hammill's "solo" albums of this period, all the members of Van der Graaf Generator perform on the recording, blurring the distinction between solo and group work.
Hammill has often performed the song "Modern" in concert.
"Red Shift" features Spirit guitarist Randy California on lead guitar.
The lengthy "A Louse is not a Home" is a full blown prog rock epic, featuring melodramatic lyrics reminiscent of gothic horror writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher, upon which Hammill would later base an opera.
The enigmatic cover was designed by Bettina Hohls, ex-member of the psychedelic German rock band Ash Ra Tempel. Bettina Hohls had also contributed to the cover of Hammill's earlier album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night.

Personnel
Peter Hammill – Guitars, piano, bass guitar (on 1, 2, and 6), harmonium, keyboards, vocals, mellotron, and oscillator
Randy California – Lead guitar on 5
Hugh Banton – Organ, bass (on 3, 4, and 7), keyboards, background vocals
Guy Evans – Percussion, drums
David Jackson – Flute, alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones

Songs:
"Modern" – 7:28
"Wilhelmina" – 5:17
"The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)" – 5:40
"Forsaken Gardens" – 6:15
"Red Shift" – 8.11
"Rubicon" – 4:11
"A Louse Is Not a Home" – 12:13

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Ten Years After - A Space in Time (1971)

2007-12-29T16:48:00.000-08:00

A Space in Time is the seventh album by the British blues rock band, Ten Years After. It was released in October 1971 by Capitol Records. A departure in style from their previous albums, A Space in Time is more of a Pop album. It also contains their biggest hit, I'd Love To Change The World, the third track on the album. It is a song protesting capitalism and war, and features a speedy, 30-second guitar solo by lead vocalist Alvin Lee. Even though this was their biggest hit they rarely played it live.

Personnel:
Alvin Lee - Guitar, Vocals
Leo Lyons - Bass
Ric Lee - Drums
Chick Churchill - Organ

Songs:

"One Of These Days" – 5:52
"Here They Come" – 4:36
"I'd Love To Change The World" – 3:44
"Over The Hill" – 2:28
"Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You" – 2:16
"Once There Was A Time" – 3:22
"Let The Sky Fall" – 4:19
"Hard Monkeys" – 3:10
"I've Been There Too" – 5:44
"Uncle Jam" – 1:57

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Johnny Winter - Live Johnny Winter And

2007-12-29T15:26:00.000-08:00

Live Johnny Winter And is a 1971 album by Johnny Winter recorded live at various locations during the fall of 1970 including the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester,
New York and Pirate's World in Dania, Florida.

It contains a version of jumping jack flash and a rock n roll medley with some classic blues-rock compositions like Great Balls of Fire.

Personnel
Johnny Winter - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Rick Derringer - Vocals, Guitar
Randy Jo Hobbs - Vocals, Bass
Bobby Caldwell - Percussion

Songs:
1 - Good Morning Little School Girl - 4:35
2 - Its My Own Fault - 12:14
3 - Jumpin Jack Flash - 4:26
4 - Rock And Roll Medley - 6:46
a)Great Balls Of Fire
b)Long Tall Sally
c)Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
5 - Mean Town Blues - 8:59
6 - Johnny B. Goode - 3:22

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AC/DC - Powerage

2007-12-21T09:13:00.000-08:00

Powerage is the fifth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in May 1978. It is also AC/DC's fourth international studio album. All songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott. Angus and Malcom Young have cited the album as their favorite. Many die-hard fans agree it's one of their strongest if not their best.
It was originally released on Atlantic Records, and reached #133 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in the US, eventually going platinum there. The album was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.
Overview:

Powerage is the first AC/DC album to be released nearly simultaneously in both Australian and international markets, and the first to use just one cover image for both. It was also the first to feature the same track listing on all versions, with the exception of European vinyl editions. These included "Cold Hearted Man", a song that has not been officially released on any other AC/DC album, and some omitted "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation".
Powerage marked the studio debut of bassist Cliff Williams. It was the first AC/DC album to be co-produced by Angus Young, and the band's last Bon Scott-era studio release to feature production work by Harry Vanda and George Young.

Track listing:

Australian / US & all CD releases:

"Rock 'n' Roll Damnation" – 3:37
"Down Payment Blues" – 6:03
"Gimme A Bullet" – 3:21
"Riff Raff" – 5:11
"Sin City" – 4:45
"What's Next to the Moon" – 3:31
"Gone Shootin'" – 5:05
"Up to My Neck in You" – 4:13
"Kicked in the Teeth" – 4:03

All songs composed by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott.
Some cassette copies, such as the original Canadian issue had an alternate track listing. For example, "Sin City" was the first song on side 1, while "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation" was the first song on side 2. All other tracks appear in the order of the original Australian/US release.
In some European territories, early copies omitted "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation."
For the European market several tracks were remixed, with small variations in vocals and/or guitar tracks, and occasionally extra sections and longer or shorter fades.

Personnel:

Bon Scott - lead vocals
Angus Young - lead guitar
Malcolm Young - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Cliff Williams - bass, backing vocals
Phil Rudd - drums

Production:

Producers: Harry Vanda, George Young
Engineer: Mark Opitz

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AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

2007-12-21T09:07:00.001-08:00

Let There Be Rock is the third international studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in June 1977. All songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott.
Originally released on Atlantic Records, this edition has sold over 2 million copies in the United States. The album was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.

Overview:

Let There Be Rock is considered one of AC/DC's best albums. The studio version of "Whole Lotta Rosie" is frequently referenced as one of the greatest rock guitar tracks of all time. It was also the last AC/DC recording to feature bassist Mark Evans, who previously played on the international versions of High Voltage (May 1976) and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (December 1976).
As with AC/DC's previous albums, there were differences between the international and Australian edition of Let There Be Rock, released in March 1977. For the US market (and later for the CD releases), the Australian version's racy "Crabsody In Blue" was replaced with a shortened version of "Problem Child" from AC/DC's Dirty Deeds Done Cheap, released in September 1976. The international version also has a slightly modified track order.
Additionally, the international version of Let There Be Rock featured a different cover from that of the original. This cover marked the debut of AC/DC's classic logo. The Australian edition was eventually repackaged with the international version's cover, marking the first time an Australian AC/DC album cover was matched to its corresponding international edition.
In 1980, AC/DC released a live concert motion picture entitled AC/DC: Let There Be Rock. In 1997, an expanded audio recording of this concert was released on CD as Let There Be Rock: The Movie, on discs 2-3 of the Bonfire box set.

Track listing:

"Go Down" – 5:18 (vinyl), 5:31 (CD)
"Dog Eat Dog" – 3:34
"Let There Be Rock" – 6:06
"Bad Boy Boogie" – 4:27
"Problem Child" – 5:24
"Overdose" – 6:09
"Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" – 4:21
"Whole Lotta Rosie" – 5:24

All songs composed by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott.
Most CD releases feature this track listing along with a slightly longer version of "Go Down".
Track 5 ("Problem Child") originally released on Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap in 1976. This is a shortened version of the original.
For the original vinyl release, in all markets other than the USA and Japan, "Crabsody In Blue" was featured instead of "Problem Child".

Personnel:

Bon Scott - lead vocals
Angus Young - lead guitar
Malcolm Young - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Mark Evans - bass
Phil Rudd - drums
Cliff Williams- bass guitar/backing vocals on videos

Production:

Producers: Harry Vanda, George Young
Engineer: Mark Opitz
Mastering supervisor: Michael Fraser, Al Quaglieri
Mastering: George Marino
Digital assembly: Eugene Nastasi
Art direction: Bob Defrin
Liner notes: Murray Engleheart

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AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

2007-12-21T09:00:00.000-08:00

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is the second international studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in December 1976 in Europe and delayed for release in the U.S. until April 1981. All songs were written by Angus Young , Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott.
Originally released on Atlantic Records, it peaked at #3 and is currently 6 times platinum. The album was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.

Overview:

This edition of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is considerably different from the original Australian edition released in September 1976, featuring a different cover and track order.
On this album, the Australian version's "R.I.P. (Rock in Peace)" and "Jailbreak" are replaced by "Rocker" (from 1975's T.N.T.) and "Love at First Feel", the latter being one of only two tracks from international AC/DC albums not available on the band's Australian albums. (The other is "Cold Hearted Man", released on European pressings of Powerage.) Conversely, several songs that are available on Australian AC/DC albums have not seen overseas release. However, "Love at First Feel" was released in Australia as a single.
Two songs on the international album were edited from the full length versions on the original Australian album. The full length "Dirty Deeds" has the title of the song chanted 4 times starting at 3:09, but on the edited version the chant is heard only 2 times. "Ain't No Fun" lasted 7:29 on the Australian album but was faded out early to 6:57 on the international version. However, both these full length versions were restored on the 1994 Atco Records remastered CD of the international album. The most recent 2003 CD edition on Epic Records goes back to the edited versions as on the 1976 and 1981 international vinyl editions.
Though the international album was released by Atlantic Records in Europe in 1976 it was not picked up for U.S. release at the time. Following the American success of Highway To Hell in late 1979 copies of the international album, manufactured in Australia by Atlantic, began to appear as imports in the U.S. alongside the original Australian edition of the album on Albert Productions. Intense demand for both import versions led Atlantic to finally authorize the first U.S. release in April 1981.
Additionally, a song titled "I'm a Rebel" was recorded during the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap sessions in September 1976, with music and lyrics written by Angus and Malcolm Young's older brother, Alex Young. This song was never released and remains in Albert Productions' vaults.
Angus came up with the title of the album when he was watching an episode of Beany And Cecil. The antagonist, Dishonest John, carried a card that read: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Special Holidays, Sundays and Rates".

Track listing:

All songs composed by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott.
"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" – 4:11 (full length version) 3:51 (edited version)
"Love at First Feel" – 3:10
"Big Balls" – 2:38
"Rocker" – 2:49
"Problem Child" – 5:44
"There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'" – 3:17
"Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)" – 7:29 (full length version), 6:57 (edited version)
"Ride On" – 5:49
"Squealer" – 5:14

Most editions of this album contain edited versions of the title track and "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)." The 1994 remastered CD on Atco Records contains full length versions of both songs.
The track "Rocker" was originally released on T.N.T. in 1975.

Personnel:

Bon Scott – lead vocals
Angus Young – lead guitar
Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Mark Evans – bass
Phil Rudd – drums

Production:

Producers: Harry Vanda, George Young
Mastering supervisors: Michael Fraser, Al Quaglieri
Digital remastering: George Marino
Digital assembly: Eugene Nastasi
Cover design: Hipgnosis
Sleeve photo: Paul Canty
Photography: Hipgnosis, Philip Morris, Michael Putland, Neil Zlozower

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AC/DC - High Voltage

2007-12-21T08:50:00.000-08:00

High Voltage is the first internationally-released album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in May 1976. Eight of the album's nine songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott. "Can I Sit Next to You Girl" was written by Young & Young.
Originally released on Atlantic Records, this edition of High Voltage has proven popular, selling 3 million units in the United States alone. However, the album was panned by some critics upon its release, including a review by Rolling Stone magazine that called it an "all-time low" for the hard rock genre. It was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.

Overview:

The international version of High Voltage bears almost no relation to the Australian release. It is a compilation of songs from AC/DC's first two Australian studio albums, with only two tracks from the original High Voltage (released February 1975) and seven from T.N.T. (released December 1975).
This edition of High Voltage also has a strikingly different cover than the original, marking the first AC/DC album cover to prominently feature Angus Young. Additionally, a third cover (see image) was used on the international version's original European release.

Track listing:

All songs composed by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott, except where noted.

"It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" – 5:01 (vinyl), 5:12 (CD)
"Rock 'n' Roll Singer" – 5:03
"The Jack" – 5:52
"Live Wire" – 5:49
"T.N.T." – 3:34
"Can I Sit Next to You Girl" (Young, Young) – 4:11
"Little Lover" – 5:39
"She's Got Balls" – 4:51
"High Voltage" – 4:14

Tracks 1-6 & 9 originally released on T.N.T in December 1975.
Tracks 7 & 8 originally released on High Voltage in February 1975.
Vinyl releases (including the 2003 remastered CD) of High Voltage included an edited version of "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", CD releases include the original.

Personnel:

Bon Scott – lead vocals, bagpipes on "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n Roll)" (uncredited)
Angus Young – lead guitar
Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Mark Evans – bass
George Young – bass on "She's Got Balls" and "Little Lover"
Phil Rudd – drums
Tony Currenti – drums on "She's Got Balls" and "Little Lover"
Harry Vanda – production
George Young – production

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Soft Machine - The Soft Machine(1968)

2007-12-19T17:40:00.000-08:00

The Soft Machine, as reissue also titled "Volume One", is the debut album by the British psychedelic rock band Soft Machine, one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene.
The band, founded in 1966, recorded and released this studio album during their 1968 tour of the USA. It was produced by Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson.

Personnel:
Kevin Ayers - bass, vocals (on 10 & 11), backing vocals (on 7 & 9), piano (on 5)
Robert Wyatt - drums, lead vocals
Mike Ratledge - keyboards
Hugh Hopper - bass (on 13)
The Cake - backing vocals (on 12)

Songs:
"Hope for Happiness" (Kevin Ayers, Brian Hopper, Michael Ratledge) – 4:21
"Joy of a Toy" (Ayers, Ratledge) – 2:49
"Hope for Happiness (reprise)" (Ayers, B. Hopper, Ratledge) – 1:38
"Why Am I So Short?" (Ayers, Hugh Hopper, Ratledge) – 1:39
"So Boot if At All" (Ayers, Ratlege, Robert Wyatt) – 7:25
"A Certain Kind" (H. Hopper) – 4:11

"Save Yourself" (Wyatt) – 2:26
"Priscilla" (Ayers, Ratledge, Wyatt) – 1:03
"Lullabye Letter" (Ayers) – 4:32
"We Did It Again" (Ayers) – 3:46
"Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle" (Ayers) – 1:03
"Why Are We Sleeping?" (Ayers, Ratledge, Wyatt) – 5:30
"Box 25/4 Lid" (Ratledge, H. Hopper) – 0:49

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Caravan - Waterloo Lily

2007-12-19T17:05:00.000-08:00

Waterloo Lily is a 1972 released album by Caravan on the Deram label. It is the only album made by Caravan with Stephen Miller as the keyboard player. He brought a jazzier feel to the sound of Caravan than had been heard on the previous album.
The stand out track is "The Love in Your Eye" which has been featured as a live track for many years by the band.

Personnel
Pye Hastings - guitars & vocals
Steve Miller - electric piano, organ
Richard Sinclair - bass & vocals
Richard Coughlan - drums
Other Players:
Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone (1, 2)
Phil Miller - 2nd lead guitar (2)
Jimmy Hastings - flute (5)
Mike Cotton - trumpet (5)
Barry Robinson - oboe (5)

Songs:
Waterloo Lily - 6:48
Nothing at All / It's Coming Soon /Nothing at All(reprise) - 10:23
Songs and Signs - 3:40
Aristocracy - 3:03
The Love in Your Eye / To Catch Me a Brother / Subsultus / Debouchement / Tilbury Kecks - 12:32
The World is Yours - 3:40

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Status Quo - Blue For You

2007-12-19T05:13:00.002-08:00

Blue for You is an album by English Rock band Status Quo, released in March 1976. It entered the British album chart at No. 1 and stayed there for three weeks, making it one of their most successful long players.
'Rain', the first single from the album, reached No. 7 in the UK chart. An edited version of 'Mystery Song' was the second single and peaked at No. 11 a few months later.

Track listing:

"Is There a Better Way"* (Lancaster/Rossi) 3:31
"Mad About the Boy" (Rossi/Young) 3:31
"Ring of a Change" (Rossi/Young) 4:15
"Blue for You"* (Lancaster) 4:08
"Rain"º (Parfitt) 4:24
"Rolling Home" (Lancaster/Rossi) 3:01
"That's a Fact" (Rossi/Young) 4:20
"Ease Your Mind" (Lancaster) 3:12
"Mystery Song"º (Parfitt/Young) 6:44

Line-Up:

Francis Rossi -> Lead Guitar / Vocals
Rick Parfitt -> Guitar / Vocalsº
Alan Lancaster -> Bass Guitar / Vocals*
John Coghlan -> Drums

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Status Quo - On The Level

2007-12-18T06:42:00.000-08:00

On The Level is a Status Quo album featuring Francis Rossi, Richard Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan. Album cover art features band members in the Ames room, and on the original vinyl release, the inner gatefold sleeve consisted of informal photos members of the group had taken of each other.
When the album was released, the group were more or less at the peak of their career, record sales-wise. An edited version of Down Down had been released as a single in November 1974 and shortly after Christmas gave the group their only No. 1 single in the UK to date, and the album entered the chart at No. 1. All tracks were written or co-written by the group themselves apart from Bye Bye Johnny, a Chuck Berry song.

Track listing:

"Little Lady"º (Parfitt) 3:01
"Most of the Time" (Rossi/Young) 3:16
"I Saw the Light" (Rossi/Young) 3:37
"Over and Done" (Lancaster) 3:55
"Nightride" (Parfitt/Young) 3:50
"Down Down" (Rossi/Young) 5:24
"Broken Man"* (Lancaster) 4:14
"What to Do" (Rossi/Young) 3:05
"Where I Am"º (Parfitt) 2:43
"Bye Bye Johnny"* (Berry) 4:47

Line-Up:

Francis Rossi -> Lead Guitar / Vocals

Rick Parfitt -> Guitar / Vocalsº

Alan Lancaster -> Bass Guitar / Vocals*

John Coghlan -> Drums

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The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup

2007-12-17T06:38:00.000-08:00

Goats Head Soup is an album by The Rolling Stones released in 1973. It was recorded as the follow-up to 1972's critically acclaimed Exile on Main St.

History:
Goats Head Soup was a more polished production than the raw and ragged Exile on Main St. It reflected the resurgence of soul-pop and the rise of funk, while maintaining the Stones' distinctive rock sound and hazy production.
This was the last Rolling Stones album produced by Jimmy Miller, who had worked with the band since 1968's Beggars Banquet. Aside from the official band members, other musicians appearing on Goats Head Soup include keyboard players Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins, and unofficial member Ian Stewart.

The album cover was designed and photographed by David Bailey, an old friend of Mick Jagger's, who had worked with The Rolling Stones since 1965. The head shot of Mick Jagger on the front cover was approximately life size in the original 12 inch LP format.

The album is best known for its lead single, "Angie". Although it was a departure for The Rolling Stones as a ballad, it nonetheless sailed to #1 in the US and became a worldwide hit. Contrary to popular belief, the song was not about David Bowie's first wife Angela, but Richards' lover Anita Pallenberg. Many years after its release, Keith Richard's daughter with Pallenberg, Dandelion, would rename herself Angela after the song.

Despite its laid-back sound, many of Goats Head Soup's songs have a darker quality to them, whether through opener "Dancing With Mr. D" (D as in Death); the Top 20 US hit "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)", a rare political song criticizing the New York police for the accidental shooting of a ten-year-old they claimed they had mistaken for a bank robber; or the band's infamous tribute to groupies, "Star Star" — perhaps The Rolling Stones' sleaziest rocker.
The sessions for Goats Head Soup were abundant with outtakes, two of which, "Tops" and "Waiting on a Friend", would surface on Tattoo You in 1981, and feature Mick Taylor on guitar.
Released in late August, Goats Head Soup shot to #1 worldwide in time for The Rolling Stones' fall 1973 European Tour, where three slots in the set list were given to the new material. While it is generally considered to lack the energy and spark of their last few releases, the album has endured as a popular seller and has gone triple platinum in the US.
In 1994, Goats Head Soup was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. "Winter" is reportedly written by Mick Jagger and Mick Taylor, though Taylor never received any credit.

Songs:
"Dancing With Mr. D" – 4:53
"100 Years Ago" – 3:59
"Coming Down Again" – 5:54
"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" – 3:27
"Angie" – 4:33
"Silver Train" – 4:27
Hide Your Love – 4:12
"Winter" – 5:31
"Can You Hear The Music?" – 5:31
"Star Star" – 4:25

Personnel:

Mick Jagger - Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Harmonica
Keith Richards - Vocals, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass
Mick Taylor - Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Bass,
Charlie Watts - Drums
Bill Wyman - Bass
Chuck Finley - Trumpet
Nicky Harrison - String Arrangement
Nicky Hopkins - Piano
Jim Horn - Flute
Bobby Keys - Saxophone
Jimmy Miller - Percussion
Pascal - Percussion
Billy Preston - Piano, Organ, Clavinet, Percussion
Jim Price - Saxophone
Rebop - Percussion
Ian Stewart - Piano

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Jethro Tull - Christmas Album(2003)

2007-12-15T06:54:00.000-08:00

The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is an album released by Jethro Tull on September 30, 2003.
The songs are a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably-themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music.

Ian Anderson about the song Birthday Card at Christmas: " My daughter Gael, like millions of other unfortunates, celebrates her birthday within a gnat’s whisker of Christmas. Overshadowed by the Great Occasion, such birthdays can be flat, perfunctory and fleetingly token in their uneventful passing. The daunting party and festive celebration of the Christian calendar overshadows too, some might argue, the humble birthday of one Mr. J. Christ. Funny old 25ths, Decembers…"

Songs:
"Birthday Card at Christmas" – 3:37
"Holly Herald" (Instrumental) – 4:16
"A Christmas Song" – 2:47
"Another Christmas Song" – 3:31
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Instrumental) – 4:35
"Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow" – 3:37
"Last Man at the Party" – 4:48
"Weathercock" – 4:17
"Pavane" (Instrumental) – 4:19
"First Snow on Brooklyn" – 4:57
"Greensleeved" (Instrumental) – 2:39
"Fire at Midnight" – 2:26
"We Five Kings" (Instrumental) – 3:16
"Ring Out Solstice Bells" – 4:04
"Bourée" (Instrumental) – 4:25
"A Winter Snowscape" (Instrumental) – 4:57

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Status Quo - Quo

2007-12-12T11:55:00.001-08:00

Quo is a Vertigo album by Status Quo released in May, 1974. Like the previous album Hello, it consisted entirely of songs written or co-written by the group. The only guest musicians featured were Bob Young and Tom Parker, who played harmonica and piano respectively on Break The Rules. This was the only track to be released as a single, and peaked in the UK at No. 8. The album's highest position reached was No. 2.
In retrospect this album is regarded as one of their heaviest, due largely to the influence of bassist Alan Lancaster, who co-wrote six of the eight tracks.

Track listing:

Backwater (Parfitt/Lancaster) 4:22
Just Take Me (Parfitt/Lancaster) 3:31
Break The Rules (Rossi/Young/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan) 3:37
Drifting Away (Parfitt/Lancaster) 5:00
Don't Think It Matters (Parfitt/Lancaster) 4:48
Fine Fine Fine (Rossi/Young) 2:31
Lonely Man (Parfitt/Lancaster) 5:05
Slow Train (Rossi/Young) 7:55

Line-Up:

Francis Rossi - Guitar/Vocals
Richard Parfitt - Guitar/Vocals
Alan Lancaster - Bass Guitar/Vocals
John Coghlan - Drums

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Status Quo - Hello!

2007-12-12T11:42:00.000-08:00

Hello! is the sixth album by the British rock band, Status Quo. Released in September 1973, it was the first of three Quo albums to top the UK Albums Chart, as well as their first album on which all tracks had been written by the group themselves. (Bob Young was not an official member, but the group's roadie and harmonica player, as well as co-writer with Francis Rossi of several songs throughout their career).
Keyboard player Andy Bown and saxophonist Stewart Blandamer both played on "Forty-Five Hundred Times". This was Bown's first appearance on a Status Quo album, although he would guest on most subsequent releases, and become a permanent member of the line-up a few years later.
Initial copies of the record on vinyl came with a large black and white poster of the group.
A reissue of the album on CD in 2005 included a bonus track, "Joanne", which had been the B-side of "Caroline" when issued as a single in September 1973. "Caroline" was the group's first single to reach the UK top five. No other singles were issued from the album, although a live version of "Roll Over Lay Down" appeared on a three-track EP in May 1975, and reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing:

"Roll Over Lay Down" (Rossi/Young/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan) 5:45
"Claudie" (Rossi/Young) 4:06
"Reason For Living" (Rossi/Parfitt) 3:46
"Blue Eyed Lady" (Parfitt/Lancaster) 3:54
"Caroline" (Rossi/Young) 4:18
"Softer Ride" (Parfitt/Lancaster) 4:02
"And It's Better Now" (Rossi/Young) 3:20
"Forty-Five Hundred Times"* (Rossi/Parfitt) 9:53

Line-Up:

Francis Rossi - Guitar/Vocals
Rick Parfitt - Guitar/Vocals
Alan Lancaster - Bass Guitar/Vocals
John Coghlan - Drums
Andy Bown - Keyboards*
Stewart Blandamer - Saxophone*

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Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile

2007-12-11T11:11:00.000-08:00

Not Fragile is the third album by Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, released in 1974 (see 1974 in music). The title could be thought of as a response to Yes' Fragile. Some feel that the group achieved a more original sound in this album; it has been described as a cross between Black Sabbath and early ZZ Top. The arrival of Blair Thornton (replacing Tim Bachman) gave the band a true second lead guitar to pair with Randy Bachman, and dual-guitar solos are prominent features on many Not Fragile tracks. It proved to be the group's most popular album. "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" and "Roll On Down The Highway" were hit singles. Other cuts had significant airplay on FM rock radio.

Track listing:

"Not Fragile" (Turner) – 4:06 (Lead Vocals: Turner)
"Rock Is My Life, and This Is My Song" (Bachman) – 5:00 (Lead Vocals: Bachman)
"Roll on Down the Highway" (Bachman, Turner) – 3:58 (Lead Vocals: Turner)
"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (Bachman) – 3:54 (Lead Vocals: Bachman)
"Free Wheelin'" (Thornton) – 3:45 (instrumental)
"Sledgehammer" (Bachman) – 4:34 (Lead Vocals: Bachman and Turner)
"Blue Moanin'" (Turner) – 3:44 (Lead Vocals: Turner)
"Second Hand" (Bachman) – 3:24 (Lead Vocals: Bachman)
"Givin' It All Away" (Thornton) – 3:49 (Lead Vocals: Bachman and Turner)

Personnel:

Randy Bachman - guitar, vocals
Robbie Bachman - percussion, drums
Blair Thornton - guitar, background vocals
C.F. Turner - bass, vocals
Frank Trowbridge - slide guitar (on "Blue Moanin'")

Production:

Producer: Randy Bachman
Engineer: Mark Smith
Assistant engineer: Buzz Richmond
Mixing assistant: Richard Dashut
Mastering: Tom "Curly" Ruff
Design: Joe Kotleba
Art direction: Jim Ladwig
Photography: John Brott, Tom Zamiar

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Status Quo - Piledriver

2007-12-11T10:55:00.000-08:00

Piledriver is the fifth album by the English Rock Band Status Quo, released in December 1972. It was the first to be produced by the group themselves, their first on the Vertigo label after their departure from Pye Records, and the first to reach the UK charts, with a highest position of No. 5 and 37 weeks on the chart. The album features a cover version from Roadhouse Blues (The Doors).

I like to much this band, i hope you all like it, i'll post another albums!!! Enjoy!!!

Track Listing:

Don't Waste My Time (Rossi/Young) 4:22
Oh Baby (Rossi/Parfitt) 4:39
A Year (Lancaster/Frost) 5:51
Unspoken Words+ (Rossi/Young) 5:06
Big Fat Mama+ (Rossi/Parfitt) 5:53
Paper Plane (Rossi/Young) 2:52
All The Reasons+ (Parfitt/Lancaster) 3:42
Roadhouse Blues* (Morrison/Densmore/Krieger/Manzarek) 7:26

Credits:

Francis Rossi - Lead Guitar/Vocals
Rick Parfitt - Rhythm Guitar/Vocals+
Alan Lancaster - Bass Guitar/Vocals*
John Coghlan - Drums

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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon(1973)

2007-11-28T13:36:00.000-08:00

ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS IN THE BLOG PEOPLE!!!MAYBE THE BEST OF THE WORLD

The Dark Side of the Moon (titled in the 1993 CD release as Dark Side of the Moon, and often abbreviated as DSotM) is a concept album by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in 1973 and engineered by Alan Parsons. It is notable for its use of Musique concrète and philosophical lyrics, something that would eventually become a trademark of Pink Floyd's music. The album was a landmark in rock music, as it featured radio-friendly songs such as "Money", "Time", "Us and Them", and "Brain Damage/Eclipse". Some music critics use the album as a point of reference in determining between "classic" blues rock and the then-new genre of electronic music
The Dark Side of the Moon explores the nature of the human experience. For example, "Time" deals with aging and the overwhelmingly fast approach of death. "Money" deals with materialism with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and wealth-related sound effects. "Us and Them" deals with conflict, ethnocentrism, and the belief that a person's self is "always in the right".
The Dark Side of the Moon is widely hailed by many critics and fans as Pink Floyd's magnum opus, and is generally considered their definitive album. In 2006 it was voted "My Favourite Album" by viewers and listeners to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1990, Australian radio listeners voted it the best album to make love to, and in 2003, Rolling Stone heralded The Dark Side of the Moon as the 43rd greatest album of all time.
The only time there is a gap of silence on the whole album is between The Great Gig in the Sky and Money, where there is a side change on the LP; this pause was filled in with a barely audible transition by Alan Parsons for one CD release.

The Recordings:
Recorded by the band and engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road Studios between June 1972 and January 1973, the album sessions made use of the most advanced techniques available for recording instruments and sound effects in rock music at that time.
Along with the conventional rock band instrumentation, Pink Floyd added prominent synthesisers to their sound as well as some unconventional noises: an assistant engineer running around the studio's echo chamber (during "On the Run"), myriad antique clocks chiming simultaneously (as the intro to "Time"), and a specially-treated bass drum made to sound like a human heartbeat.The heartbeat is most audible as the intro and the outro to the album, but it can also be heard underneath most of the album—the song "Time" and "On the Run" has the low thudding underneath the rest.
Another novelty of the recording is the metronomic sequence of sound effects played during "Speak to Me" and "Money". This was achieved by laboriously splicing together recordings of ringing cash registers, clinking coins, tearing paper, and buzzing counting machines onto a two-track tape loop (later adapted to four tracks in order to create a unique "walk around the room" effect in quadrophonic presentations of the album). The sonic experimentation on the album required every member of the band to operate the faders simultaneously in order to mix down the intricately assembled multitrack recordings of several of the songs (particularly "On the Run").Pink Floyd also perfected the use of other studio techniques such as the doubletracking of vocals and guitars (allowing David Gilmour to harmonise flawlessly with himself), flanging effects, odd trickery with reverb and the panning of sounds between channels.
It is the first of five consecutive Pink Floyd albums with lyrics completely credited to Roger Waters.

Voices:
Clare Torry sang on "The Great Gig in the Sky". In 2004 she sued EMI and Pink Floyd for songwriting royalties, claiming that she co-wrote "The Great Gig in the Sky" with keyboardist Richard Wright. She was originally paid £30 for Sunday studio work. The High Court concluded that Torry was correct but the terms of the lawsuit have yet to be decided. On Pink Floyd's 2006 live DVD P*U*L*S*E, Torry is credited with the vocal composition for "The Great Gig in the Sky" segment
Snippets of dialogue between and over songs are also featured on the recording. Roger Waters devised a method of interviewing people, whereby questions were printed on flashcards in sequential order and the subject's responses were recorded uninterrupted. The questions related to central themes of the album such as madness, violence, and death. Participants were commandeered from around Abbey Road, placed in the darkened studio in front of a microphone, and told to answer the questions in the order which they were presented. This provoked some surprising responses to subsequent questions. For example, the question "When was the last time you were violent?" was immediately followed by "Were you in the right?
Pink Floyd's executive road manager Peter Watts (father of actress Naomi Watts) contributed the repeated laughter during "Brain Damage" and "Speak to Me". The monologue about "geezers" who were "cruisin' for a bruisin'" and the often-misheard "I never said I was frightened of dying" (during the middle of "The Great Gig in the Sky") came from Peter's wife, Myfanwy Watts.

Reception:
The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best-selling albums of all time worldwide, and the 20th-best-selling album in the United States. Though it held the №1 spot in America for only one week, it spent a total of 741 consecutive weeks, approximately fourteen years, on the list until April 23, 1988 only to be removed by a rule change. To this day, it occupies a prominent spot on Billboard's Pop Catalog Chart, reaching №1 when the 2003 hybrid CD/SACD edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the U.S. alone. On the week of May 5, 2006, The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1,500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalog charts.

Personnel
David Gilmour – vocals, guitar, VCS 3 synthesiser
Roger Waters – bass guitar, vocals, VCS 3 synthesiser, tape effects
Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals, VCS 3 synthesiser
Nick Mason – percussion, tape effects
Pink Floyd – producers

Additional personnel
Lesley Duncan – background vocals
Doris Troy – background vocals
Barry St. John – background vocals
Liza Strike – background vocals
Clare Torry – vocals (on "The Great Gig in the Sky")
Dick Parry – saxophone
Alan Parsons – engineer
Peter James – assistant engineer
Chris Thomas – mixing consultant
James Guthrie – remastering supervisor on 20th anniversary edition, remastering on 30 anniversary editions, 5.1 mixing on 30th anniversary edition
Doug Sax – remastering on 20th and 30th anniversary editions
Hipgnosis – design, photography
Storm Thorgerson – 20th and 30th anniversary edition designs
George Hardie – illustrations, sleeve art
Jill Furmanosky – photography
David Sinclair – liner notes in CD re-release
Drew Vogel – art and photography in CD re-release

Songs:
"Speak to Me/Breathe" - 3:59
"On the Run" - 3:35
"Time" - 7:04
"The Great Gig in the Sky" - 4:48
"Money" - 6:24
"Us and Them" - 7:49
"Any Colour You Like" - 3:26
"Brain Damage" - 3:50
"Eclipse" - 2:04

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Neu! - Neu!(1971)

2007-11-28T10:25:00.000-08:00

Neu! is the debut album by Krautrock band Neu!.
It was recorded in December 1971 at Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios, Hamburg, Germany, mixed at Star-Musik Studio, Hamburg, Germany, and released in 1972 by Brain Records. It was reissued by Astralwerks on May 29 2001.
This was Rother & Dinger's first recording together after they left Kraftwerk in 1971. They continued to work with Conny Plank, who had been producing the Kraftwerk recording sessions.
The track Negativland provided the name for a later group of American musical satirists.

There are two songs on the album which contain the influential "Motorik" beat. These are Hallogallo and Negativland.
The song Hallogallo was covered by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree on the Insignificance demos.

Personnel:
Konrad "Conny" Plank – Producer, engineer.
Michael Rother – Guitar, bass guitar.
Klaus Dinger – Japanese banjo, drums, guitar.

Songs:
Hallogallo - 10:07 ("Hallmark")
Sonderangebot - 4:51 ("Sale")
Weissensee - 6:46 ("White sea", Weissensee is a town in Carinthia, Austria)
Im Glück - 6:52 ("Lucky")
Negativland - 9:47 ("Negative land")
Lieber Honig - 7:18 ("Dear honey", or "Rather honey")

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Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere

2007-11-27T06:57:00.000-08:00

Roxy & Elsewhere is a live album by Frank Zappa & the Mothers which was released in 1974. Most of the songs were recorded at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California on December 10, 11 and 12, 1973. The material taken from the Roxy concerts was later amended with some overdubs in the studio, while the 'Elsewhere' tracks were recorded at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, and Edinboro State College, Pennsylvania and do not contain overdubbed material.
This album is considered a high-watermark recording of one of the most celebrated incarnations of the Mothers. It features an array of highly challenging instrumentals such as "Echidna's Arf (Of You)", "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?", and the opening theme of "Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church)". It also features "Cheepnis", Zappa's tribute to low-budget monster movies, and reworks of earlier tracks such as "More Trouble Every Day" and "Son of Orange County" (excerpted from the song "Oh No" and given an extended guitar solo). "Village of the Sun" is about Sun Village, California, an unincorporated area near Palmdale, and also makes references to Lancaster, California, twin city to Palmdale and Zappa's hometown.

The album primarily comprised recordings from three shows at the Roxy Theater in Hollywood, and featured tracks never before or thereafter released on any Zappa/Mothers album. Material from the Roxy performances were partially overdubbed. The other tracks came from the second show on Mothers Day 1974 in the Chicago Auditorium Theatre and the May 8th Show in Edinboro State College (also 1974).
The opening track, "Penguin in Bondage" is edited together from performances at the Roxy and the Chicago date. The guitar solo on "Son of Orange County" is one of the few Zappa guitar solos edited together from more than one concert, in this case the Edinboro and Chicago dates.

Unreleased DVD
There was a 3 minute trailer released in the new millennium advertising a Roxy DVD which could potentially contain the footage from all three nights. The trailer was later included on the Baby Snakes DVD as a bonus feature.
Joe Travers has stated that "It's sitting in the vault. Waiting for a budget to do it properly. Basically the film footage, the negatives were transferred by Frank in the '80s using '80s technology. What we want to do is go back to the original negatives and do it in High Definition and then create a 5.1 mix from the original masters so that we have surround sound as well as Frank's 2 channel stereo mix. Once we get all that together, then we need to cut the program. Edit the program together, camera angles, what shows, what we are going to include from what shows or include all the shows. I have no idea what Dweezil and Gail want to do. It's great stuff, but the process of just getting to that point is going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of time."
Two songs from the unreleased film ("Montana" and "Dupree's Paradise") were used as opener for the Zappa Plays Zappa concerts in 2006.

Personnel
Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, producer
Napoleon Murphy Brock – flute, saxophone, tenor saxophone, vocals
Robert "Frog" Camarena – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
Debbie – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
Lynn - backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
Ruben Ladron de Guevara – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
George Duke – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
Bruce Fowler – trombone, dancer
Tom Fowler – bass guitar
Walt Fowler – trumpet, bass trumpet
Ralph Humphrey – drums
Don Preston – synthesizer
Jeff Simmons – rhythm guitar, vocals
Chester Thompson – drums
Ruth Underwood – percussion

Songs:
''Penguin in Bondage" – 6:48
"Pygmy Twylyte" – 2:13
"Dummy Up" – 6:02
"Village of the Sun" – 4:17
"Echidna's Arf (Of You)" – 3:52
"Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" – 9:40
"Cheepnis" – 6:33
"Son of Orange County" – 5:53
"More Trouble Every Day" – 6:00
"Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)" – 16:41

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Frank Zappa - Just Another Band from L.A.

2007-11-27T06:54:00.001-08:00

Just Another Band from L.A. is an album by The Mothers, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music). It was recorded live in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA. Another live album released during the Flo and Eddie days, Just Another Band from L.A. features an edited version of the mini-opera "Billy the Mountain." A full version was later released on Playground Psychotics in the early 1990s. Often overlooked by reviewers, this album marks an important period in the band's career due to the extensive use of the Turtles band, soon to be dissolved with Zappa's stage fall. The song "Eddie, Are You Kidding?" refers to Edward Nalbandian.
It was reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995.

Personnel
Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
Mark Volman – lead vocals
Howard Kaylan – lead vocals
Ian Underwood – woodwinds, keyboards, vocals
Aynsley Dunbar – drums
Don Preston – keyboards
Jim Pons – bass guitar, vocals

Songs:
"Billy the Mountain" (Zappa) – 24:47
"Call Any Vegetable" (Zappa) – 7:22
"Eddie, Are You Kidding?" (Kaylan, Seiler, Volman, Zappa) – 3:10
"Magdalena" (Kaylan, Zappa) – 6:24
"Dog Breath" (Zappa) – 3:39

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Svenska Löd Ab! - Hörselmat

2007-11-24T17:51:00.001-08:00

Svenska Löd Ab! is a Jazz group in sweden,and to me,one of the best jazz albuns I ever heard.
It's full of energetic improvisations,with some Hammond solos in some songs.

In some songs,especiality En Mäktig Eldaregesäll,has beautiful passanges of the Hammond with an exotic bass making the base in G/C.Really Cool
The Second song,Den Dan Vi Sket I Hugo,has a beautiful brass section,and improvising in C/F with some stops with exotic and extraodinary riffs as the song goes.

A very rare record only made in 200 copies.
Maybe swedens best known guitar player are playing on this album,Janne Schaffer.
This album it's Jazz,it's Rock-Fusion,it's great and kicks ass!

Songs:

Introduktion - Ta Er I Brasan
Den Dan Vi Sket I Hugo
Teryleneblus 13 50 EPa
En Mäktig Eldaregesäll
Right On - Kliv På
Va Då Rå - Va E', Reö
Undrar Om Mona Och Kent Spelar
Riff á La Lindström

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Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)

2007-11-19T12:59:00.000-08:00

Tubular Bells is a record album, written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield (and later orchestrated by David Bedford for The Orchestral Tubular Bells version). The late Vivian Stanshall provided the voice of the "Master of Ceremonies" who reads off the list of instruments at the end of the first movement.

After Oldfield approached (and was rejected by) many other established record labels, Virgin Records released Oldfield's debut album Tubular Bells as its first album. So the story goes, after the original record became a success with Virgin, the A&R manager responsible for having reviewed Oldfield at EMI in London was subsequently fired
Mike Oldfield played most of the instruments on the album (see below), recording them one at a time and layering the recordings to create the finished work. Many of his subsequent albums feature this technique. Though fairly common in the music industry now, at the time of the production of Tubular Bells not many musicians made use of it, preferring multi-musician "session" recordings.
Tubular Bells is the album most identified with Oldfield and the reverse may be true as well as he has frequently returned to it in later works. The opening passage of the title track on the album Crises is clearly derived from the opening of Tubular Bells. The opening is also quoted directly in the song "Five Miles Out" from the album of the same name and the song also features his "trademark" instrument, "Piltdown Man" (referring to his singing like a caveman, first heard on Tubular Bells).
The coda at the end of Part Two, the "Sailor's Hornpipe", was originally created as a much longer production, with Vivian Stanshall providing comic narration as an obviously-inebriated tour guide showing the listener around the Manor House where the album was recorded. It was cut from the final version for being too strange to be put on an unknown artist's first album, though it can be heard "in all its magnificent foolishness" (from the liner notes) on the Mike Oldfield Boxed set

The opening theme, which was eventually chosen for The Exorcist, gained the record considerable publicity and is how most people have probably first heard the work. It was also used in the 1979 movie, The Space Movie, in several episodes of the Dutch Bassie en Adriaan children's series, in the 2002 movie The Master of Disguise, an episode ("Ghosts") of the BBC series My Family and in a television advertisement for Volkswagen in 2003. The opening theme has been sampled by many other artists such as Janet Jackson on her song "The Velvet Rope". The opening theme has also gained cultural significance as a 'haunting theme'; this is due to the association with the Exorcist

Personnel:
Mike Oldfield:
Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa, Hammond, and Lowrey organs; flageolet, fuzz guitars, glockenspiel, "honky tonk" piano (piano with detuned strings), mandolin, piano, "Piltdown Man", percussion, Spanish guitar, "double speed guitar", "taped motor drive amplifier organ chord", timpani, violin, vocals and of course, tubular bells.

Additional Personnel:
Steve Broughton — percussion
Lindsay L. Cooper — string basses
Mundy Ellis — vocals
Jon Field — flutes
Sally Oldfield — vocals
Vivian Stanshall — Master of Ceremonies
Nasal Choir
Manor Choir (Simon Heyworth, Tom Newman, Mike Oldfield)

Joke:
Normally, records have a small statement printed along the bottom to the effect that it is in stereo but may be played on mono record players (a holdover from the days before stereo). It normally reads:

This stereo record can be played on mono reproducers provided either a compatible or stereo cartridge wired for mono is fitted. Recent equipment may already be fitted with a suitable cartridge. If in doubt consult your dealer.

However, Tubular Bells pokes fun at this by having the following text printed on the bottom of the reverse of the LP.

This stereo record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what they are fitted with. If you are in possession of such equipment please hand it into the nearest police station.

Songs!!!:
"Tubular Bells" — part one — 25:36
"Tubular Bells" — part two — 23:20

Album progression:
Progression of part one
Part one opens with a soft minor key piano line in 15/8 eventually played verbatim by organ and glockenspiel. This riff is made up of two bars; the first bar is in 7/8, the second bar is in 8/8.
These are later joined by a different line in bass guitar. An occasional punchy organ chord, first heard at about 1:02 in, accents this piece, harmonized by variations of the anchor line and a later incorporated 3/4 chord sequence, both in piano. At around 3:00, a gentle flute line appears, which segues into a section of 4/4-7/8-7/8-4/4, and at 3:40 an electric guitar line, the latter entirely in 4/4.
After the electric guitar line ends, a softer, fast guitar line ("speed guitar," as listed in the liner notes) takes over, only to be interrupted by an acoustic guitar line overlaying the original piano phrase in major key. A gentle glockenspiel/piano piece takes over, but is later replaced with a fast piano section, occasionally accented with organ chords.
The mood of the first 6 minutes is soon replaced by edgy electric guitar and, afterward, a sinister organ chord, with various changes in pitch and duration. But, once again, a more refined, carefree section ensues, dominated by acoustic guitar and piano, eventually returning to the soft riff first heard just past four minutes into the piece.
A 3/4 variation of the original theme comes next, followed by eerie bass and organ playing, segueing into a bluesy shuffle on electric guitar. Once again, when it looks like the piece will be serene (when the nasal choir intervenes), another edgy guitar line ensues, with Oldfield incorporating both 4/4 and 7/8.
After that, a more folky acoustic line plays (with background tambourine), but is suddenly cut off by the tolling of bells. A weary acoustic guitar line follows, breaking into the eight-and-a-half minute "Finale" section, commencing with a double bass line in 5/4, polyrhythmically played with a 4/4 acoustic line. After the bass and guitar unite into the 4/4 line, the acoustic guitar tacets and is eventually replaced by soft pipe organ notes (usually lasting four or eight full beats) while the bass line plays.
After the 10-bar bass phrase is repeated several times, Stanshall introduces many of the instruments appearing in part one up to then, beginning with the keyboards, followed by glockenspiel and all guitars before the tubular bells are announced, the ensemble becoming more dynamic and full as more instruments are said. Finally, after the tubular bells enter, a wordless feminine chorus starts to sing. Farther down, the Finale ensemble fades out to an acoustic guitar solo, which takes up the remainder of part one.

Progression of part two
Part two begins where part one left off; a soft, simple piece, this time, beginning with bass guitar and working up with other guitars and keyboards. The opening time signature is 6/8, but a later line plays a similar melody in 3/4 on various instruments, beginning with guitar. The opening section builds for five minutes before the second section starts, another 3/4 section at half tempo on acoustic guitar, with accompaniment on organ, mandolin and female chorus.
At around 8:48, the piece becomes edgy and surreal again, as the "bagpipe guitars" enter the piece (electric guitars with added effects to give it the bagpipe-esque sound), playing a 12/8 piece of sorts. About 11 minutes in, the intensity of the section builds as the guitar pitches increase and a heavy piano "roll" plays, climaxed by a sudden ascending glissando on the piano.
What comes next is one of the more unusual parts of the entire album. Tympani rolls and drum kit commence this part, highlighted by unintelligible "lyrical" screams by Oldfield (who, according to rumours, was then intoxicated), in rebellion to how Richard Branson wanted him to include at least one part with lyrics to release as a single (at the time, Oldfield was not interested in adding lyrics to his music). This is listed in the liner notes as the "Piltdown Man". Oldfield's yelling is countered by various phrases on piano, guitars, and the "Moribund chorus," with this piece abruptly ending on one loud shout exactly 16:29 in.
As expected, another quiet section ensues, a 12/8 piece mostly dominated by guitars and organ. This section gives an excellent insight into the psychedelic, spacey side of Oldfield (a similar sound to that of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour), which would also be present in his third album, Ommadawn. After about five minutes, an optimistic organ line plays, segueing into a climatic arrangement of "Sailor's Hornpipe".
"Sailor's Hornpipe" begins with just one guitar playing at a moderately slow tempo, but quickly mutates into a gradually accented piece with multiple instruments (including an unlisted violin), ending with two loud, accented notes. In live performances, Oldfield would reach incredible tempos and "Sailor's Hornpipe" alone became a staple of his concerts.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness And Eternity(1973)

2007-11-18T17:07:00.000-08:00

Between Nothingness and Eternity (1973) is the first live album, and last with the original line-up of The Mahavishnu Orchestra.

The record, is a writing of musics of the album “The Lost Trident Sessions”, and as Mahavishnu Orchestra, you can expect great improvisations, virtuous ground of excellent quality, as much for the violin, when for the guitar or the Moog.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra has as style the Fusion, a jazz much more agitated (more based in the rock even), and more electric and loaded of great improvisations, without exceptions.

Its greater and huger album was Birds of Fire(1973), that it counts on the Mahavishnu Orchestra in its perfection, but this does not want to say that they alive are bad, and this disc proves this with much clarity.

Personnel
John McLaughlin - Guitar
Jan Hammer - Keyboards, Organ, Fender Rhodes
Jerry Goodman - Violin
Rick Laird - Bass
Billy Cobham - Percussion

Songs:
1. Trilogy - 12:16
2. Sister Andrea - 8:44
3. Dream 21:44

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Kiss - Destroyer

2007-11-18T16:22:00.000-08:00

Destroyer is the fourth studio album and fifth album overall by hard/glam rock band Kiss, released on March 15, 1976 in the United States. It was the second consecutive Kiss album to reach the Top 20 in the United States, as well as the first to chart in Germany and New Zealand. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on April 22, 1976.
It was certified platinum on November 11, 1976, the first Kiss album to achieve that distinction.
Coming on the heels of the group's breakthrough album Alive!, Destroyer is easily the most ambitious studio recording of Kiss's '70s catalogue. Bob Ezrin, who had previously worked with Alice Cooper, was brought in to produce the album. Among the production flourishes Ezrin introduced to Kiss were sound effects, strings, screaming children (on "God Of Thunder") backwards drums (Also on "God of Thunder") as well as a children's choir.

Destroyer is the first Kiss album to prominently feature outside musicians, such as members of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. However, one musician was not credited: Dick Wagner, from Alice Cooper's band, replaced Ace Frehley on tracks such as "Sweet Pain" (as Frehley didn't want to interrupt a card game he was playing during recording sessions for the song) and even on a song that Frehley himself co-wrote "Flaming Youth". Wagner also played the acoustic guitar found on the song "Beth".The success of Alive! and Destroyer enabled the band to embark on their first tour of Europe.

After attaining modest commercial success with their first three studio albums, Kiss achieved a commercial breakthrough with the 1975 concert album Alive! It was the first album by the band to be certified gold, and eventually went multi-platinum. The success of Alive!, which spent 110 weeks on the charts, benefited not only the struggling band but their cash-strapped label, Casablanca Records. Kiss signed a new contract with Casablanca in late 1975, partly because the label had been very supportive from the start of the band's career. The contract was only for two albums, however, an indication that Casablanca was unsure if the group could duplicate the accomplishments of Alive!

Destroyer sold well upon its release on March 15, 1976 and was certified gold on April 22. Although exact sales figures are not known, Paul Stanley stated that the album initially sold 850,000 copies in the U.S., well in excess of any of Kiss's first three studio albums.
After peaking at #11 on the Billboard album chart on May 15, however, Destroyer quickly fell and by August was at #192.
The first three singles — "Shout It Out Loud," "Flaming Youth," and "Detroit Rock City" — failed to ignite sales any further, leading the band and its management to view the album as a failure relative to Alive! The band and Ezrin cited fan backlash as the reason Destroyer did not meet sales expectations. Ezrin also stated that the "grassroots rock press" was particularly critical of the album. Rolling Stone referred to "bloated ballads," "pedestrian drumming," and "lackluster performances" in its review.
It was not until radio stations started playing the B-side of the "Detroit Rock City" single, "Beth," that the album started to sell as expected. The ballad, which according to Simmons was deliberately put on the B-side to force stations to play "Detroit Rock City," started receiving numerous listener requests and became an unexpected hit. "Beth" was re-released as the fourth single in late August, and it peaked at #7 on the Billboard singles chart on September 25. It was the group's first Top 10 song and re-ignited sales of the album. On November 11 Destroyer became the first Kiss album to be certified platinum.

Songs:

"Detroit Rock City" – 5:17
"King of the Night Time World"– 3:19
"God of Thunder" – 4:13
"Great Expectations" – 4:21
"Flaming Youth" – 2:59
"Sweet Pain" – 3:20
"Shout It Out Loud" – 2:49
"Beth" – 2:45
"Do You Love Me" – 3:33
untitled track (Simmons, Stanley, Ezrin) – 1:25
The last song is an untitled hidden track usually referred to as "Rock and Roll Party."[24] It is a loop made up of the choral melody from "Great Expectations" and a concert clip of Paul Stanley telling an audience, "I tell you all, it looks like, it looks like we're gonna have ourselves...a rock and roll party!" This quote is taken from "Alive!" and can be found between "Deuce" and "Strutter". On CD reissues, this track is often combined with "Do You Love Me" and not listed separately.

Personnel
Gene Simmons – bass guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Paul Stanley – rhythm guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Ace Frehley – lead guitar
Peter Criss – drums, lead vocals on "Beth," backing vocals

Additional musicians
Dick Wagner – guitar solos on "Flaming Youth" and "Sweet Pain"; acoustic guitar on "Beth"
Boys Choir of Harlem – vocals on "Great Expectations"
David and Josh Ezrin – voices on "God of Thunder"

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Kiss - Alive!

2007-11-18T16:15:00.000-08:00

Alive! was Kiss' fourth album and is considered their breakthrough, as well as a landmark for live albums. Released on September 10, 1975, the double-disc set contained live versions of selected tracks from their first three studio albums, Kiss, Hotter Than Hell, and Dressed to Kill. It peaked at #9 on the album charts and has, to date, sold over 4 million units although the RIAA only has it listed at Gold.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 159 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album charted for 110 weeks, by far the longest in the band's history.
It was certified Gold on December 4, 1975 when it sold 500,000 copies. By the end of January 1976, the album had gone Platinum.

Despite Kiss' reputation as a live act, which emphasized theatrics (such as explosions, smoking guitar solos, fire breathing, and blood spitting), as much as it did the music, their notoriety did not translate to increased record sales. Kiss was essentially surviving on then-manager Bill Aucoin's American Express card.

Complicating matters was the fact that their label, Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records, was having financial difficulties of its own stemming from a major misstep: the label had released a double album of Johnny Carson monologues earlier in the year. However, the album was a flop, and Casablanca Records had pressed millions of copies in anticipation. The band and Aucoin were nevertheless able to convince Bogart that a memento of a Kiss show would boost their album sales.

Years later, both guitarist Paul Stanley and bassist Gene Simmons recounted that in the weeks after the release, they saw a significant increase in concert attendance. In the documentary Kiss: X-treme Close Up, Stanley remembers that at one particular show in Dayton, Ohio, "the place was packed; I mean you couldn't have gotten another person in with a shoehorn."

Overdubbing controversy
There has been considerable debate as to how much use was made of studio overdubs. Gene Simmons states in his autobiography Kiss and Make-Up that very little corrective work was done in the studio and that most of the studio time was devoted strictly to mixing down the multi-track recordings. He also emphasized that Kiss could not have done extensive overdubbing even if they had wanted to; thanks in no small part to the Johnny Carson album fiasco, the extremely meager budget allotted to the band simply would not allow it.
According to Dale Sherman's book Black Diamond and Goldmine magazine, in the early 1990s, Eddie Kramer stated there were a few overdubs to correct the most obvious mistakes: strings breaking or off-key notes, for instance. However, in recent years, Kramer has stated that the only original live recording on the album is Ace Frehley's guitar. In a recent televised interview, he also stated the only original live recording on the album is Peter Criss's drums. Also to add to this fact is, on the recent VH1 special of the story of Kiss that aired in the last few years, the band members themselves make it more known, that the album was severely doctored in the studio, and also various musicians (ie: Fred Durst for one) comment on the album in this special, revealing how disappointed they were in finding out their heroes doctored the supposed "live" album in the studio.

Paul Stanley has noted that there's a bass mistake in the choruses of "C'mon and Love Me." He's also made comments that even though there have been live albums recorded later that make Alive! sound like it was recorded in a washroom, he has no qualms about it.
As evidenced by the track order on Alive!, "Rock and Roll All Nite" had not yet supplanted "Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll" as the band's closing number.

Songs:
"Deuce" – 3:32
"Strutter" – 3:12
"Got To Choose" – 3:35
"Hotter Than Hell" – 3:11
"Firehouse" – 3:42
"Nothin' To Lose" – 3:23
"C'mon and Love Me" – 2:52
"Parasite" – 3:21
"She" – 6:42
"Watchin' You" – 3:51
"100,000 Years" – 12:10
"Black Diamond" – 5:50
"Rock Bottom" – 4:59
"Cold Gin" – 5:43
"Rock and Roll All Nite" – 4:23
"Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll" – 5:45

Personnel:
Gene Simmons - bass guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Paul Stanley - guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Ace Frehley - lead guitar, backing vocals
Peter Criss - drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Nothin' To Lose" and "Black Diamond"

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Kiss - Dressed To Kill

2007-11-18T16:11:00.001-08:00

Dressed to Kill is a 1975 album from American hard rock group Kiss. It is the band's third studio album and is unique for having been produced by the president of Casablanca Records, Neil Bogart.
"C'mon And Love Me", and "Rock and Roll All Nite" were released as singles. Both failed to rise high on the charts until "Rock and Roll All Nite", was released in its live format as a single later that year off their double live album Alive!.
The album was re-released in 1997 (along with most of Kiss' earlier albums) in a remastered version.
It was certified Gold on February 28, 1977, when it sold 500,000 copies.
On the album cover each member is wearing a business suit, but none of them owned one at the time.

Songs:
"Room Service" – 2:59
"Two Timer" – 2:47
"Ladies in Waiting" – 2:35
"Getaway" - 2:43
"Rock Bottom" – 3:54
"C'mon and Love Me" – 2:57
"Anything for My Baby" – 2:35
"She" – 4:08
"Love Her All I Can" – 2:40
"Rock and Roll All Nite" – 2:49

Personnel:
Gene Simmons - bass guitar; guitar on 3; lead vocals, backing vocals
Paul Stanley - rhythm guitar; lead guitar on 6; lead vocals, backing vocals
Ace Frehley - lead guitar
Peter Criss - drums; lead vocals on 4, backing vocals

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Kiss - Hotter Than Hell

2007-11-18T16:05:00.000-08:00

Hotter Than Hell (1974) is the second album from the rock group Kiss.

Move to Los Angeles
The production team of Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise, who had produced the group's first album, was chosen for the follow up. Since the pair had relocated to Los Angeles, Kiss flew there to work with them. The band, all native New Yorkers, immediately developed a dislike for their new surroundings. Paul Stanley's guitar was stolen his first day in Los Angeles.

The music
Musically, Hotter Than Hell is darker than the band's first album. This is partly due to the murkier production values, but also to the lyrical content of some of the songs. "Goin' Blind," which details a doomed romance with an underage girl, was a song written by Gene Simmons and Stephen Coronel during Wicked Lester's existence. The original title was "Little Lady."

"Comin' Home" summed up the band's feelings about being in Los Angeles:
Oh girl, it seems the whole wide world seems to sayHotels that all look the sameJust seem to drive me insaneBut I can't get awayUntil I receive a call that tells me that will be allAnd then I hop a plane
Hotter Than Hell featured far more overdubs than the first album. While Kerner and Wise wanted to produce a record that captured Kiss as a live act, they decided to take advantage of the experience the band had gained as recording artists.
Although the album featured two songs penned solely by Ace Frehley, he did not sing on either one of them. His lack of confidence in his singing abilities led to lead vocal duties for "Parasite" and "Strange Ways" going to Gene Simmons and Peter Criss, respectively.

Photography session
The album is also known for its striking cover: the front featured Japanese manga-influenced artwork, and the back cover showed individual band shots taken by Norman Seef at a wild party, and a composite of all four band members' makeup designs. Everyone present at the session (with the exception of Simmons) was drunk for the entire photography session. Stanley was so drunk he had to be locked in his car. Paul's drunken state can easily be seen on the album's front cover as it appears Peter Criss is holding him up while Paul holds onto Peter's leg.
The Japanese character on the bottom of the album cover (力) is chikara, which means "power." It would later be used on various forms of Kiss material during the 1970s and 1980s, most prominently on Eric Carr's drum kit.
Ace Frehley's image on the front cover is actually airbrushed, as a side of his face was injured in a car accident and was without makeup on the afflicted area at the time of the photo shoot.

A commercial disappointment
Despite the intense touring schedule Kiss maintained in 1974, Hotter Than Hell failed to outperform the band's first album. In fact, it did considerably worse. This was due partly to the fact that Casablanca Records' distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records had ended. The publicity push behind the album was not nearly what it was for Kiss. One notable exception was a television commercial aired to promote the album. The only single released from the album, "Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll," was distributed in low numbers and failed to chart. Less than three months after the album was released, Kiss was called back into the studio to record a follow up. Hotter Than Hell was certified Gold on June 23, 1977, when it sold 500,000 copies

Track listing
"Got To Choose" (Paul Stanley) – 3:52
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley
"Parasite" (Ace Frehley) – 3:03
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons'
"Goin' Blind" (Gene Simmons, Stephen Coronel) – 3:34
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons
"Hotter Than Hell" (Stanley) – 3:30
Lead vocals - Paul Stanley
"Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll" (Stanley, Simmons) – 2:16
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons
"All The Way" (Simmons) – 3:17
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons
"Watchin' You" (Simmons) – 3:45
Lead vocals - Gene Simmons
"Mainline" (Stanley) – 3:50
Lead vocals - Peter Criss
"Comin' Home" (Stanley, Frehley) – 2:37
Lead Vocals - Paul Stanley
"Strange Ways" (Frehley) – 3:20
Lead vocals - Peter Criss

Personnel
Gene Simmons - bass guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Paul Stanley - guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Ace Frehley - lead guitar
Peter Criss - drums, lead vocals

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Kiss - Kiss (Debut album)

2007-11-18T15:36:00.000-08:00

Kiss is the self-titled debut album from the American hard rock band Kiss. When it was released, on February 8, 1974, Kiss had been a band for little more than one year. Much of the material on the album was written by Gene Simmons and/or Paul Stanley, as members of their pre-Kiss band, Wicked Lester. Simmons estimated that the entire process of recording and mixing took three weeks, while co-producer Richie Wise claimed it took just thirteen days.

The album was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, which was owned by the company that owned Buddah Records. Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, was an executive at Buddah prior to forming Casablanca.

Casablanca Records held a party at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to celebrate the West Coast release of Kiss (February 18) and to introduce the record company to the press and other record industry executives. In keeping with the Casablanca theme, the party included palm trees and a Humphrey Bogart lookalike. Kiss performed their usual loud and bombastic stage show, which turned Warner Bros. Records (Casablanca's record distributor) against the group.

Soon after the show, Warner Bros. Records contacted Neil Bogart and threatened to end their deal with Casablanca if Kiss didn't remove their makeup. With manager Bill Aucoin's backing, Kiss refused. Shortly after the release of Kiss, Warner Bros. released Casablanca from their contract.

Kiss sold approximately 75,000 copies after its initial release, without the presence of a hit single. The album was re-released in 1997 (along with most of Kiss' earlier albums) in a remastered version. It was certified Gold on June 8, 1977, when it sold 500,000 copies.

With the exception of "Kissin' Time," all of the material for Kiss was written before the band entered the studio. Some of the songs were written during Wicked Lester's brief existence, while "Firehouse" was written by Paul Stanley while he was attending Music and Art High School in NYC.

"Strutter"
"Strutter," which opens the album with a Peter Criss drum fill, is an uptempo rock song that was written before Ace Frehley joined Kiss. Paul Stanley wrote the lyrics, and the music was based on a song Gene Simmons had written years before, "Stanley the Parrot."Simmons and former Wicked Lester member Brooke Ostrander recorded a 45 rpm version of "Stanley the Parrot" in a New Jersey apartment. "Strutter" remains one of the few Kiss songs where Stanley and Simmons share songwriting credits, and was a standard number at Kiss concerts throughout the 1970s.

"Cold Gin"
This song was the first composed for Kiss by Frehley. Insecure in his own singing ability, Frehley turned over the vocals for the album to Simmons. "Cold Gin" was a concert staple throughout the 1970s.

"Let Me Know"
"Let Me Know," previously titled "Sunday Driver," was the song Paul Stanley played when he was first introduced to Gene Simmons, and it was later recorded by Wicked Lester. Simmons and Stanley shared lead vocal duties on the song, which was given a bridge and instrumental coda when recorded for Kiss. In later Kiss concerts this coda was moved to the end of "She."

"Kissin' Time"
"Kissin' Time" was not included on the original album; in fact it was not recorded until two months after the album's February release. By April, the album was clearly not the commercial success the band and Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart were hoping for. Bogart, who knew that a catchy single could save the album, ordered Kiss back into the studio to record "Kissin' Time," which was a Top 20 hit for Bobby Rydell in 1959. It was released as a single on May 10, but never reached any higher than #79. It did, however, boost sales of the album even though it was not added to the album until it was reissued in July 1974 (against the wishes of the band).

"Deuce"
Although Gene Simmons, "Deuce"'s songwriter, admits that he doesn't know what the lyrics mean, the song nevertheless has been a staple at the band's concerts, opening their shows from 1973-1976, reintroduced to their set for the 1990 Hot in the Shade tour, and again for their 1996 reunion.

The album's cover showed the group positioned against a black background in a pose visually reminiscent of The Beatles' With the Beatles album (Criss stated that this was the visual effect the band was looking for). Three of the four band members applied their own makeup for the album cover photo, as they usually did; but Peter Criss's makeup was applied by a professional, whose work came out looking quite a bit different from the look Criss had established, and to which he would return immediately afterward.
According to Criss, photographer Joel Brodsky thought Kiss were literally clowns, and wanted to place balloons behind the group for the shoot. Brodsky, however, has denied this, chalking it up to imagination.
The North Carolina glam metal band FireHouse takes its name from the song "Firehouse"."Strutter" was featured in the PS2 and Xbox360 videogame Guitar Hero II.

"Strutter" – 3:12
"Nothin' to Lose"– 3:29
"Firehouse" – 3:19
"Cold Gin" – 4:23
"Let Me Know"– 3:01
"Kissin' Time" – 3:54
"Deuce" – 3:08
"Love Theme from Kiss" – 2:26 - Instrumental
"100,000 Years" – 3:25
"Black Diamond''– 5:14

Gene Simmons – bass guitar, lead vocals
Paul Stanley – rhythm guitar, lead vocals
Ace Frehley – lead guitar
Peter Criss – drums, lead vocals
with Bruce Foster – piano on "Nothin' to Lose"

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The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus

2007-11-18T14:55:00.000-08:00

Rattus Norvegicus is the first album by The Stranglers, released in 1977. The band's name was printed as "The Stranglers IV" on the sleeve. The album was originally to be entitled "Dead on Arrival" but was changed at the last minute. It was one of the highest-selling albums of the punk era in Britain. Some websites incorrectly list the album as IV by a band called Rattus Norvegicus.

It was produced in one week by Martin Rushent, and was basically a snapshot of the band's live set at the time.
The original vinyl release included a free 7" single, containing "Peasant in the Big Shitty (live)" and "Choosie Susie". Two singles were taken from the album: "Grip", and "Peaches" (released as a double A-side with the non-album track "Go Buddy Go"), which gave the band their first major hit single. A remastered version of the album was reissued on CD in 2001, including these three additional tracks.

Songs:
"Sometimes" (4:56)
"Goodbye Toulouse" (3:12)
"London Lady" (2:25)
"Princess of the Streets" (4:34)
"Hanging Around" (4:25)
"Peaches" (4:03)
"(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)" (3:55)
"Ugly" (4:03)
"Down In The Sewer: Falling/Down In The Sewer/Trying To Get Out Again/Rat's Rally" (7:30)
"Choosey Susie" (CD bonus track)
"Go Buddy Go" (CD bonus track)
"Peasant In The Big Shitty (Live)" (CD bonus track)

Personnel:
Hugh Cornwell: guitars, lead vocals (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9) and backing vocals
JJ Burnel: bass guitar, lead vocals (3, 4, 8, 10, 11) and backing vocals
Dave Greenfield: keyboards (Hammond L100 Organ, Hohner Cembalet electric piano, Minimoog synthesizer), lead vocals (12) and backing vocals
Jet Black: drums
Eric Clarke: guest saxophone on "Grip"
Martin Rushent: producer
Alan Winstanley: engineering

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Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2

2007-11-18T06:55:00.000-08:00

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 is a live album by Frank Zappa. Despite the subtitle "The Helsinki Concert," the album is not one complete concert, but was, in fact, assembled from two (and possibly three) different concerts performed in Helsinki in 1974. The working title for this album was The Helsinki Tapes, a title more accurately reflecting the fact that the album was composed of performances from more than one show.
The track listing is similar to that of Roxy & Elsewhere, as are the core band personnel. The performance includes a double-speed version of "Village of the Sun", sandwiched between a later version of "RDNZL," the first being recorded in 1972, and "Echidna's Arf (Of You)", and "Montana (Whipping Floss)" — a spontaneously rewritten version of "Montana", following an audience member's request for The Allman Brothers Band's "Whipping Post". The guitar solo in the One Size Fits All version of "Inca Roads" is an edited extract of the solo presented here.

Personnel
Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, vocals
George Duke – keyboards, vocals
Ruth Underwood – percussion
Tom Fowler – bass guitar
Chester Thompson – drums

Songs:
Disc one
"Tush Tush Tush (A Token of My Extreme)" – 2:48
"Stinkfoot" – 4:18
"Inca Roads" – 10:54
"RDNZL" – 8:43
"Village of the Sun" – 4:33
"Echidna's Arf (Of You)" – 3:30
"Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" – 4:56
"Pygmy Twylyte" – 8:22
"Room Service" – 6:22
"The Idiot Bastard Son" – 2:39
"Cheepnis" – 4:29

Disc two
"Approximate" – 8:11
"Dupree's Paradise" – 23:59
"Satumaa (Finnish Tango)" (Mononen) – 3:51
"T'Mershi Duween" – 1:31
"The Dog Breath Variations" – 1:38
"Uncle Meat" – 2:28
"Building a Girl" – 1:00
"Montana (Whipping Floss)" – 10:15
"Big Swifty" – 2:17

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Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo

2007-11-15T17:26:00.000-08:00

The Grand Wazoo is a 1972 jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa. Composed and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence following his assault in London, the album, along with its "twin brother" Waka/Jawaka, represent Zappa's foray into big band fusion, the logical progression from Hot Rats, which used a much smaller lineup.
Has a lot of Jazz Fusion,great and complex works,likely Hot Rats but with more Jazz stuff that the other.The songs are full of ''confusion'' and complex rhythm that makes the Grand Wazoo

Personnel
Frank Zappa – guitar, percussion, vocals
Mike Altschul – woodwind
Billy Byers – trombone
Chunky (Lauren Wood)– vocals
Lee Clement – percussion
George Duke – keyboards, vocals
Earl Dumler – woodwind
Aynsley Dunbar – drums
Tony Duran – guitar, bottleneck guitar
Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) – bass
Alan Estes – percussion
Janet Neville-Ferguson – vocals
Fred Jackson, Jr. – woodwind
Sal Marquez – bass, trumpet, vocals, brass
Joanne Caldwell McNabb – vocals, brass, woodwind
Malcolm McNabb – trombone, horn
Janet Neville-Ferguson – vocals
Tony Ortega – woodwind
Joel Peskin – saxophone, woodwind
Don Preston – Mini Moog
Johnny Rotella – woodwind
Ken Shroyer – trombone, brass, contractor and spiritual guidance
Ernie Tack – brass
Ernie Watts – saxophone, woodwind
Robert Zimmitti – percussion

Songs:
– ''For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)" 6:06
– "The Grand Wazoo" – 13:20
– "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" – 2:57
– "Eat That Question" – 6:42
– "Blessed Relief" – 8:00

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Frank Zappa - Freak Out!(1966)

2007-11-15T08:27:00.000-08:00

Freak Out!, released June 27, 1966 on Verve/MGM Records, is the debut album of The Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa. Though often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the real unifying theme of the album is a satirical attitude based on Zappa's unique perception of American pop culture. It was also one of the earliest double albums in the history of rock music.
The album was produced by Tom Wilson, who had also produced albums by Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and The Velvet Underground. Wilson signed The Mothers, formerly a bar band called the Soul Giants, to a record deal in the belief that they were a white blues band.The album features vocalist Ray Collins, along with bass player Roy Estrada, drummer Jimmy Carl Black and guitar player Elliot Ingber, who would later join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band under the name Winged Eel Fingerling.
The band's original repertoire consisted entirely of cover songs. When Zappa joined the band, he not only changed their name, but also expanded their music to include a wide range of original material. The musical content of Freak Out! ranges from rhythm and blues, doo-wop and standard blues-influenced rock to orchestral arrangements and avant-garde sound collages. Although the album was initially poorly received in the United States, it was a success in Europe. It gained a cult following in America, where it continued to sell in substantial quantities until it was prematurely discontinued in the early 1970s.
The album influenced the production of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In 1999, it was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award,and in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it 243 in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.In 2006, The MOFO Project/Object, an audio documentary on the making of the album, was released in honor of its 40th anniversary.

Personnel:
Frank Zappa – guitar, harmonica, conductor, cymbals, tambourine, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums, vocals
Ray Collins – harmonica, cymbals, sound effects, tambourine, vocals, finger cymbals
Elliot Ingber – Alternate lead & rhythm guitar
Roy Estrada – bass, vocals, guitarron, soprano vocals
Gene Estes – percussion
Eugene Di Novi – piano
Neil Le Vang – guitar
John Rotella – clarinet, sax
Kurt Reher – cello
Raymond Kelley – cello
Paul Bergstrom – cello
Emmet Sargeant – cello
Joseph Saxon – cello
Edwin V. Beach – cello
Arthur Maebe – French horn, tuba
George Price – French horn
John Johnson – tuba
Carol Kaye – 12-string guitar
Virgil Evans – trumpet
David Wells – trombone
Kenneth Watson – percussion
Plas Johnson – sax, flute
Roy Caton – copyist
Carl Franzoni – voice
Vito – voice
Kim Fowley – (featured on hypophone)
Benjamin Barrett – contractor
David Anderle
Motorhead Sherwood – noises
Mac Rebennack – piano
Paul Butterfield
Les McCann – piano
Jeannie Vassoir – (the voice of Cheese)

Songs:
1-"Hungry Freaks, Daddy" – 3:32
2-"I Ain't Got No Heart" – 2:34
3-"Who Are the Brain Police?" – 3:25
4-"Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder" – 3:43
5-"Motherly Love" – 2:50
6-"How Could I Be Such a Fool?" – 2:16
7-"Wowie Zowie" – 2:55
8-"You Didn't Try to Call Me" – 3:21
9-"Any Way the Wind Blows" – 2:55
10-"I'm Not Satisfied" – 2:41
11-"You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" – 3:41
12-"Trouble Every Day" – 5:53
13-"Help, I'm a Rock" – 8:37
a)Okay To Tap Dance
b)In Memoriam, Edgar Varèse
c)It Can't Happen Here
14-"The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" (Unfinished Ballet in Two Tableaux) – 12:22
a)Ritual Dance of the Child-Killer
b)Nullis Pretii (No commercial potential)

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Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (1974)

2007-10-22T13:05:00.000-07:00

Apostrophe (’) is an album by Frank Zappa, released on April 22, 1974 in both stereo and quadraphonic formats. An edited version of its lead off track, “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow”, was Zappa’s first chart single, reaching position 86. Apostrophe (’) was Zappa’s biggest commercial success, reaching number 10 on the Billboard charts and going gold on March 7th, 1976.
Continuing from the commercial breakthrough of Over-Nite Sensation (1973), this album is a similar mix of short songs showcasing Zappa’s humor and musical arrangements. The record’s lyrical themes are often bizarre or obscure, with the exception of “Uncle Remus” which is an extension of Zappa’s feelings on racial disharmony featured on his earlier song "Trouble Every Day".
The first half of the album loosely follows a continuing theme. “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” tells of a dream the singer had where he saw himself as an eskimo named Nanook. A fur trapper comes up from behind Nanook’s igloo and begins to assault a baby seal. Nanook responds by rubbing yellow snow (or rather, snow which had been urinated on by huskies) in his eyes, blinding him. The fur trapper remembers an ancient eskimo legend and travels to “the parish of St. Alfonzo”. At this point the album takes an unexpected turn and instead tells of rambunctious antics (“wheedled on the bingo cards in lieu of the latrine”) and follows with a scenario in which a leprechaun “stroked it”.
As the album reaches “Cosmik Debris”, there are several references to earlier albums and songs. The “dust of the Grand Wazoo” is mentioned, as well as “the toads of the short forest” (featured previously on 1970’s Weasels Ripped My Flesh and on Over-Nite Sensation, specifically “Camarillo Brillo”). The title track is an instrumental featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Jim Gordon.
Cream bassist Jack Bruce, who plays on the album, is credited with bass guitar on the album cover and in most sources. However, in his interview for Polish rock magazine “Tylko Rock” he stated that he had not played any bass guitar parts on Apostrophe (') (despite them sounding at times very much like the parts he played in Cream), only the cello parts: (Tylko Rock, Oct. 1992, pp. 17)
"WW: Can you tell me something about your cooperation with Frank Zappa?
JB: Sure, what do you wish to know? (laughs)
WW: You appeared on his Apostrophe album...
JB: Yes, as you know, at the time I was recording an album with Carla Bley, far more interesting one... you heard that?
WW: Yes, Escalator Over The Hill...
JB: Right. So Frank, whom I met earlier, appeared one day in the studio and asked me: "Can you take your cello and go to my session?" So I turned up in a NY studio with my cello, I'm listening to his music, pretty awful, and just don't know what to do with myself, and Frank says to me: "Listen, I would like you to play a sound, like this... whaaaaaang!!!" So I did what he asked me to do. Whaaaaaang!!! That was all. That was my input to Frank Zappa's most popular record! (laughs) "
Apostrophe (') and the preceding release Over-Nite Sensation, recorded with the same group of musicians, are the subject of a Classic Albums series documentary from Eagle Rock Entertainment, released on DVD May 1, 2007.

Personnel:
Frank Zappa – arranger, vocals, producer, editing, guitar, bass
Lynn – vocals, backing vocals
Kerry McNabb – backing vocals, engineer, remixing
Ian Underwood – saxophone
Ruth Underwood – percussion
Sal Marquez – trumpet
Sue Glover – backing vocals
Jim Gordon – drums
Aynsley Dunbar – drums
Tom Fowler – bass guitar
Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, backing vocals
Robert “Frog” Camarena – vocals, backing vocals
Ruben Ladron de Guevara – vocals, backing vocals
Debbie – vocals, backing vocals
Tony Duran – rhythm guitar
Erroneous – bass guitar
Johnny Guerin – drums
Don “Sugarcane” Harris – violin
Ralph Humphrey – drums
Bob Ludwig – Technician
Jack Bruce – bass on “Apostrophe”
George Duke – keyboards, backing vocals
Bruce Fowler – trombone
Jean-Luc Ponty – violin
Cal Schenkel – artwork, graphic design

Songs:
“Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” – 2:07
“Nanook Rubs It” – 4:38
“St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast” – 1:50
“Father O’Blivion” – 2:18
“Cosmik Debris” – 4:14
“Excentrifugal Forz” – 1:33
“Apostrophe” – 5:50
“Uncle Remus” – 2:44
“Stink-Foot” – 6:33

Link:http://rapidshare.com/files/37811139/FZ_-_Apostrophe.rar

Roger Waters - Amused To Death (1992)

2007-10-22T10:40:00.000-07:00

Featuring Jeff Beck on guitar, Amused to Death further explores Waters' disillusionment with modern Western society, focusing specifically on the influence of television and the mass media. The album was inspired by the book Amusing Ourselves to Death, a critique of television and its related culture by Neil Postman.
In typical Waters fashion, Amused to Death is a concept album— this one organized loosely around the idea of a monkey randomly switching channels on a television— but explores numerous political and social themes, including a critique of the First Gulf War, in which Waters has a loud choir sing his "global anthem" : "Can't you see? It all makes perfect sense. Expressed in dollars and cents, pounds, shillings, and pence." The song "Watching TV" explores the influence of mass media on the Chinese protests for democracy in Tiananmen Square.
The album is mixed in QSound to enhance the spatial feel of the audio, and the many Waters-style sound effects on the album - rifle range ambience, sleighbells, cars, planes, distant horses and dogs all make use of the 3-D facility. This album's stellar audio quality also caught the attention of renowned audio mastering guru Bob Katz, who placed Amused to Death on his Honor Roll List of Good-Sounding Pop CDs (as seen at digido.com). A limited "MasterSound" edition was also made.
Amused to Death reached #21 on The Billboard 200, aided by "What God Wants, Part I", which hit #4 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1992.
There was no tour in support of this record, although Roger has performed several songs from it on his recent In the Flesh and Dark Side of the Moon tours.

The third song, Perfect Sense (Part I), begins with a loud, unintelligible rant, and after that one can hear backwards-uttered words scattered about for the first two minutes of the song. Played on reverse, this message tells that Roger has decided to record a backwards message. "Julia, however, in the light and visions of the issues of Stanley,we changed our minds. We have decided to include a backward message.Stanley,for you,and for all the other book partner's". The message climaxes with the loud screaming, which interestingly enough makes no more sense in reverse (although it can be said that it sounds angry in the way of cartoon swearing). Waters stated in an interview with Rockline on 8 February 1993 that he wanted to use samples of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey on the album. Stanley Kubrick, the director, turned him down on the basis that it would open the door to many other people using the sound sample. He has since then used audio of HAL describing his mind being taken away when performing the song live (as an intro, specifically during his In the Flesh concert tours, after Kubrick's death).
Also in Perfect Sense, Pt.2, Marv Albert gives a mock commentary on the destruction of an oil rig with torpedoes fired by a submarine.
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea recorded a part for the album (specifically for a different, more uptempo version of It's a Miracle), but this was not used.
Waters wrote portions of the lyrics by verbally improvising over the music.
In The Bravery of Being Out of Range, Waters sings, "I looked over Jordan and what did I see. Saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris" – which echoes his similar line in Sheep (from Pink Floyd's Animals (1977): "I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen things are not what they seem."

Personnel
Roger Waters - synthesizer, bass, guitars, vocals
Jeff Beck - guitar on tracks 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, and solos on tracks 10 and 14
Rita Coolidge - vocals
Don Henley - vocals on track 11
Michael Kamen - arranger, conductor
John Patitucci - bass and electric guitars
Andy Fairweather-Low - acoustic, rhythm and electric guitars, vocals
Geoff Whitehorn - guitar
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Marv Albert - voices
Charles Fleischer - voices
P.P. Arnold - vocals
Graham Broad - percussion & drums
Luis Conte - percussion
John "Rabbit" Bundrick - organ
Denny Fongheiser - drums
Jeff Porcaro - Drums
B.J. Cole - steel guitar
Bruce Gaitsch - guitars
Rick DiFonzo - guitar
James Johnson - bass
Randy Jackson - bass
Kenneth Bowen - conductor
John Dupree - arranger, conductor, string arrangements
Doreen Chanter - vocals
Linsey Fiddmont - vocals
N'Dea Davenport - vocals
Natalie Jackson - vocals
Steve Lukather - electric guitar
Jon Joyce - vocals
Katie Kissoon - vocals
Lynn Fiddmont - background vocals
Jim Haas - background vocals
Private William "Bill" Hubbard (1888-1917) - Eighth Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment; dedicatee
Alfred Razzel - voice; Royal Fusiliers

Songs:

"The Ballad of Bill Hubbard" – 4:19
"What God Wants, Part I" – 6:00
"Perfect Sense, Part I" – 4:16
"Perfect Sense, Part II" – 2:50
"The Bravery of Being Out of Range" – 4:43
"Late Home Tonight, Part I" – 4:00
"Late Home Tonight, Part II" – 2:13
"Too Much Rope" – 5:47
"What God Wants, Part II" – 3:41
"What God Wants, Part III" – 4:08
"Watching TV" – 6:07
"Three Wishes" – 6:50
"It's a Miracle" – 8:30
"Amused to Death" – 9:06

Link:

rapidshare.com/files/61619163/rw-amtode.part1.rar.html

rapidshare.com/files/61630164/rw-amtode.part2.rar.html

Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories(1975)

2007-10-20T13:45:00.000-07:00

Scheherazade And Other Stories was a 1975 album by progressive rock band Renaissance. It has often been considered their overall best album. This album marked the first time that Renaissance (Annie Haslam's version) did not use quotes from actual classical pieces in their songs. Song Of Scheherazade is not (as has been claimed) based on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, although it does include a recurring six-note motif that alludes to that work.

There has been some confusion over just where the sections of Song Of Scheherazade begin and end. This was caused by the fact that "Fanfare" and "The Betrayal" together sound like a single section, while "Festival Preparations" has two distinct parts of its own (4:00 and 1:11 in length). This confusion was reflected in the packaging and labels of original LP copies of this album, and in the mistitling of "Festival Preparations" (part 1) as "The Young Prince And Princess" on the 1990 Tales Of 1001 Nights, Volume I compilation.

Also, as has been admitted by the administrators of the official Renaissance site, Northern Lights, it is difficult to assign exact composing credits to the individual sections since the composers clearly borrowed themes from each other. For example, based on the official credits (which differ slightly between the actual album package and the official Renaissance site), a particular melodic phrase ends up being attributed to both Dunford ("The Sultan") and Tout ("Fugue For The Sultan"); and lyricist Betty Thatcher is, for some reason, not credited for her lyrics on "Finale" (which are repeated from "The Sultan").

Personnel
Annie Haslam - lead & backing vocals
Jon Camp - bass, bass pedals, backing vocals, lead vocal on "The Sultan"
Michael Dunford - acoustic guitars, backing vocals
John Tout - keyboards, backing vocals
Terence Sullivan - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Tony Cox - orchestral arrangements

Songs:
"Trip To The Fair" (Dunford-Thatcher-Tout) - 10:51
"The Vultures Fly High" (Dunford-Thatcher) - 3:04
"Ocean Gypsy" (Dunford-Thatcher) - 7:05
"Song Of Scheherazade" (Camp-Dunford-Thatcher-Tout) - 24:39
i. Fanfare - :38 (instrumental)
ii. The Betrayal - 2:05 (instrumental)
iii. The Sultan - 4:45
iv. Love Theme - 2:42 (instrumental)
v. The Young Prince And Princess as told by Scheherazade - 2:29
vi. Festival Preparations - 5:11 (instrumental)
vii. Fugue For The Sultan - 2:10 (instrumental)
viii. The Festival - 2:10
ix. Finale - 2:29

Link:http://www.badongo.com/file/2912005

Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock(1970)

2007-10-20T13:39:00.000-07:00

Deep Purple in Rock is a hard rock album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in 1970. It was their fourth studio album, and the first with the classic Mk II lineup (though "Concert for Group and Orchestra", a live album released in December 1969, did feature this lineup). It would peak at #4 in the UK, remaining in the charts for many months.
Their earlier work was much differently oriented, with orchestra-driven tracks and covers that ranged from The Beatles to Neil Diamond, among others, but on this record there are no compromises. All tracks are credited to the working efforts of the five members of the band. "Speed King" and "Flight of the Rat" are prime examples of hard rock songs, and the band's new style. "Child in Time" is perhaps the most famous song from this record. This song starts off as a ballad but then becomes a rocker with several solo improvisations and is famous for the high notes Ian Gillan hits in the song. Although "Into the Fire" and "Speed King" featured in the set lists at the time, "Child in Time" was the only song from this album that was included on Made in Japan two years later (although "Speed King" was the usual encore and is featured on the expanded CD re-issue, as is "Black Night" which was included in the "Deep Purple in Rock" reissue).

Trivia
The cover depicts the band in a rock sculpture inspired by Mount Rushmore.
In some countries including Mexico, Deep Purple in Rock also included "Black Night", a single recorded during the sessions.
"Bloodsucker" was re-recorded in 1998 for the Abandon album as "Bludsucker" and was reprised live on the world tour.
In 2000 Q magazine placed Deep Purple in Rock at number 78 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
In 2000, The Minus 5 released an album also titled In Rock. On the spine of the digipak case is a small picture of Mount Rushmore.
This is Ritchie Blackmore's favorite LP along with Machine Head.

Personnel:
Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
Ian Gillan - vocals
Roger Glover - bass
Jon Lord - keyboards
Ian Paice - drums

Songs:
"Speed King" – 5:49
"Bloodsucker" – 4:10
"Child in Time" – 10:14
"Flight of the Rat" – 7:51
"Into the Fire" – 3:28
"Living Wreck" – 4:27
"Hard Lovin' Man" – 7:11

Link:lix.in/6e84a6

King Crimson - Earthbound

2007-10-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

Earthbound is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in 1972 as a budget record shortly after the line-up which recorded it had broken up. It has been praised for its funky grooves (unusual for the band), and a blistering performance of "21st Century Schizoid Man", but widely criticized for its very poor sound quality, due to it being recorded onto cassette by live sound engineer Hunter MacDonald.
This is the firste King Crimson album that properly displays the name of the band and the title
The CD reissue does not significantly improve the overall sound quality of the album, due to its cassette origins.
The songs have great jazz Influences,and as you can see in Groon,it has a lot of Experimental Jazz Stuff going on live

Personnel
Robert Fripp - electric guitar
Boz Burrell - bass guitar, vocals
Mel Collins - baritone saxophone, mellotron
Ian Wallace - drums
Hunter MacDonald - VCS3

Songs:
"21st Century Schizoid Man" (Including: "Mirrors") (Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) – 11:45
Recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, USA, February 11, 1972
"Peoria" (Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, Fripp, Ian Wallace) – 7:30
Recorded at the Barn, Peoria, USA, March 10, 1972
"Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) – 4:45
Recorded at the Baseball Park, Jacksonville, USA, February 26, 1972
"Earthbound" (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) – 7:08
Recorded at Kemp Coliseum, Orlando, USA, February 27, 1972
"Groon" (Fripp) – 15:30
Recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, USA, February 11, 1972

Link:http://lix.in/693b93

Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (2002)

2007-10-15T07:29:00.000-07:00

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (often abbreviated to SDOIT or 6DOIT) is the sixth full-length studio album by progressive metal band Dream Theater. It was released on January 29, 2002 by Elektra Records.
Fans' reactions to the album were mixed, with many pointing to the obvious differences between the two CDs as two different types of Dream Theater style. The first disc is generally seen as experimental and heavy while the second disc is seen to be more in line with the previous Scenes from a Memory.

The first track of the first disc begins with the white noise that ended Scenes from a Memory, while the last track, Losing Time/Grand Finale ends with a long chord played by (synthesised) strings, which was also used as the intro to their next studio album, Train of Thought.

The entire second disc is occupied by the 42-minute title song broken into 8 tracks.

The first track of the album, "The Glass Prison," tells Mike Portnoy's story of rehabilitation from alcoholism. "The Glass Prison" is comprised of three parts and Portnoy intends to extend the song into twelve parts that mirror the twelve steps of the AA program by Bill W. for rehabilitation of alcoholics. This song is continued in tracks on the next albums ("This Dying Soul" on Train of Thought, "The Root of All Evil" on Octavarium and "Repentance" on Systematic Chaos, Dream Theater's newest album).

The Great Debate is a non-partisan song dealing with the topic of stem-cell research.
The recording is a type of concept album wherein the five songs which comprise the first disc explore different themes of lifetime struggle, such as Alcoholism, Loss of Faith and Death. The sixth song—-that is, the complete second disc—-explores the stories of six individuals suffering from various mental illnesses. Particularly represented are bipolar, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, post-partum depression, autism, and dissociative personality disorder.

The musical styles of each section of the title track are direct reflections of the band's large variety of influences. Indeed, classical, folk and metal styles combine effortlessly within the track. Additionally, certain parts of the track are direct nods to specific songs from influential artists. The end of "Goodnight Kiss" bears unquestionable resemblance to Kansas's "The Wall" from their Leftoverture album. "Solitary Shell" is a nod to Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" both in name and in musical style. Some fans see this as a citation, but others claim it's pure copying. Also, parts of "Solitary Shell" bear strong resistance to Billy Joel's song "The Entertainer," mainly due to the unique synth-organ which sounds alike in both songs, played over acoustic guitar.

Personnel:
James LaBrie – vocals
John Myung – bass
John Petrucci – guitars, vocals
Mike Portnoy – drums, vocals
Jordan Rudess – keyboards

Songs:
Disc 1
01. The Glass Prison - 13'52
02. Blind Faith - 10'21
03. Misunderstood - 9'32
04. The Great Debate - 13'45
05. Disappear - 6'45

Disc 2
01. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence(VIII Parts) - 42'02
Parts:
I-Overture
II-About To Crash
III-War Inside My Head
IV-The Test That Stumped Them All
V-Goodnight Kiss
VI-Solitary Shell
VII-About to Crash (Reprise)
VIII-Losing Time/Grand Finale

Link:http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id1484685241
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http://rapidshare.com/files/16722038/Six_Degrees_of_Inner_Turbulence__disc_1-_Part_1_.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/16724830/Six_Degrees_of_Inner_Turbulence__disc_1_-_Part_2_.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/16729051/Six_Degrees_of_Inner_Turbulence__disc_2_.rar

Dream Theater - Awake (1994)

2007-10-15T07:20:00.000-07:00

Released in 1994, this album is much darker and heavier than the band's previous full-lengths, and is the last album to feature keyboardist Kevin Moore.Often criticized for its heavier sound by fans who were drawn to the band by Images and Words, it nonetheless is a fan favorite with several of the songs remaining concert staples to this day. In addition, many consider it to be the band's finest hour, citing more concise and mature songwriting mixed with the increasingly proficient technical abilities of the instrumentalists. When the band was finishing the recording of the album, Kevin Moore announced his leaving of Dream Theater, which, according to John Petrucci, was unexpected. Moore was thus excluded from the rest of the album-making process (such as mixing), and doesn't appear in the two music videos produced from the album.
The band has never performed the final song "Space-Dye Vest" live; Mike Portnoy has said on the matter that the band is not willing to do it without Kevin Moore, insisting that "it's his song", and furthermore that they would not have included the song on the album had they known that Moore had wanted to leave the band.

Similarly, "The Mirror" and "Lie" can be said to be parts of a single song broken in half. They flow coherently into each other and have a very similar mood with the interlude in "The Mirror" repeating in an altered state as a solo section in "Lie". Despite each part being written by a different member, they share similar themes of betrayal, trust and loss of control.

The samples in "6:00" are taken from the John Huston film The Dead

The samples in "Space Dye Vest" are from the 1986 film, A Room with a View, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and from a news report following the O.J. Simpson freeway chase.

Perssonel:
James LaBrie — Voices
Kevin Moore — Keyboards
John Myung — Bass
John Petrucci — Guitar
Mike Portnoy — Drums & Percussion

Songs:
"6:00" – 5:31
"Caught in a Web" – 5:28
"Innocence Faded" – 5:43
A Mind Beside Itself: I. "Erotomania" – 6:45
A Mind Beside Itself: II. "Voices" – 9:53
A Mind Beside Itself: III. "The Silent Man" – 3:48
"The Mirror" – 6:45
"Lie" – 6:34
"Lifting Shadows off a Dream" – 6:05
"Scarred" – 11:00
"Space-Dye Vest" – 7:29

Link:http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=SFOL19VM
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http://www.divshare.com/download/674902-bfc
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http://rapidshare.com/files/33797793/DTAwakePt1_HardBlog_by_B.Bones.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/33807454/DTAwakePt2_HardBlog_by_B.Bones.rar

Rush - Rush (1974)

2007-10-13T17:26:00.000-07:00

Rush is the first studio album by the Canadian band Rush, released in 1974 (see 1974 in music) and remastered in 1997.
Rush's first release shows much of the hard rock/blues sound typical of many of the popular rock bands emerging from Britain earlier in the decade. Rush were fans of bands such as Led Zeppelin and Cream and these influences can be heard in most of the songs on this debut.
Due to a limited budget, the sessions were scheduled during the late night 'dead' time in studios which, due to lack of activity at those times, had lower rates. This is a common theme among rising rock stars (Queen was forced to do the same for their debut album). Originally the sessions were produced by Dave Stock at Eastern Sound in Toronto. Stock had also worked on the band's debut single (a cover of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" with an original composition "You Can't Fight It" on the B-side). These songs (plus what may be the unrecorded original song "Fancy Dancer" and/or "Garden Road" with "Fancy Dancer" being more likely) were going to be included on the album but were scrapped. Two of the Eastern Sound recordings, "In the Mood" and "Take A Friend" were included on the final album.

The album was first released on Moon Records in Canada. Only 3,500 copies of the original were pressed. The album was picked up by WMMS, a radio station in Cleveland, Ohio. Donna Halper, a DJ working at the station, selected "Working Man" for her regular play list. Copies of the Moon Records album were imported to the Cleveland area and quickly sold out. The song's blue collar theme resonated with hard rock fans and this new found popularity led to the album being re-released by Mercury Records in the U.S. Manager Ray Danniels scraped together an additional $9000 for producer Terry Brown to re-mix all of the recordings to improve the sound quality. The remix version was used for all later releases.

Personnel
Geddy Lee – Lead vocals and bass
Alex Lifeson – Guitars and vocals
John Rutsey – Drums and vocals

Songs:
"Finding My Way" – 5:06
"Need Some Love" – 2:19
"Take a Friend" – 4:24
"Here Again" – 7:35
"What You're Doing" – 4:22
"In the Mood" – 3:34
"Before and After" – 5:34
"Working Man" – 7:10

Link:lix.in/75915e

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side (1995)

2007-10-13T17:17:00.000-07:00

Imaginations from the Other Side is an album by Blind Guardian that was released in 1995. Is thought by many fans to be the most successful album by the band.[citation needed] This album also marks the first since their debut that Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray) had not guested on vocals or guitar. It is also the first album to have extracted singles from, "A Past and Future Secret" and "Bright Eyes". Remastered and re-released on 15th June 2007, with bonus tracks and videos.
Since Blind Guardian was always somewhat influenced by Metallica, the match is a natural one, and results in one of the band's better albums, balancing the epic, neo-classical elements of their sound nicely with the power-progressive-metal grooves. The band's compositional skill reaches its peak on Imaginations, making it their best and most complex work to date.

Personnel:
Hansi Kürsch - vocals and bass
André Olbrich - lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars
Marcus Siepen - rhythm guitar
Thomas Stauch - drums and percussion

Songs:
"Imaginations from the Other Side" – 7:18
"I'm Alive" – 5:29
"A Past and Future Secret" – 3:47
"The Script for my Requiem" – 6:08
"Mordred's Song" – 5:27
"Born in a Mourning Hall" – 5:12
"Bright Eyes" – 5:15
"Another Holy War" – 4:31
"And the Story Ends" – 5:59

Lyrical references:
"Imaginations from the Other Side" contains references to The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, The Lord of the Rings, Alice in Wonderland, The Sword in the Stone, Chronicles of Narnia and the Corum novels.
"I'm Alive" is about the Death Gate Cycle.
"A Past and Future Secret" is about T.H. White's The Once and Future King.
"Mordred's Song" is about the Mordred character from the same novel.
"The Script for My Requiem" is about The Holy Grail.
"Another Holy War" is about the last days of Jesus Christ.
"And the Story Ends" makes references to The Neverending Story (the book), although this is not the sole theme of the song.

Link:lix.in/3a18f8

Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy (1977)

2007-10-13T17:11:00.000-07:00

Elegant Gypsy is the second album by American jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola. This was a follow-on album to Al Di Meola's debut release, Land of the Midnight Sun. The distinctive music in this release is a speedy fusion of Jazz and Rock, with lightning-fast guitar riffs intermixed with lyrical acoustical passages. The songs include explorations of latin music themes, including acoustic genres like flamenco. Chick Corea, Jan Hammer & Paco de Lucía, and Anthony Jackson play with Di Meola on this album. Elegant Gypsy won an annual award for Best Guitar Album in Guitar Player Magazine.

Personnel
Al Di Meola: Guitars.
Paco de Lucía: Guitar.
Anthony Jackson: Bass guitar.
Chick Corea: Piano, keyboards.
Jan Hammer: Keyboards, synthesizer.
Mingo Lewis: Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion.
Barry Miles: Piano, keyboards.
Steve Gadd: Drums.
Lenny White: Drums.

Songs:
"Flight Over Rio" (Mingo Lewis)
"Midnight Tango" (Al Di Meola)
"Mediterranean Sundance" (Al Di Meola)
"Race With Devil on Spanish Highway" (Al Di Meola)
"Lady of Rome, Sister of Brazil" (Al Di Meola)
"Elegant Gypsy Suite" (Al Di Meola)

Link:lix.in/2f4779

Soft Machine - Third

2007-10-11T16:44:00.000-07:00

Incredible Album.I Listen to it several times and I still listen to it.Has very well-worked songs like Moon in June that show what Soft Machine has.Third is a 1970 double LP by Soft Machine, with each side of the original vinyl consisting of a single long composition. Its music explores the emerging fusion jazz of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which was released in the same year. Third is considered by many to be the seminal recording to emerge from the Canterbury scene, featuring incredible interplay between the band's members, led by keyboardist Mike Ratledge, Elton Dean on woodwinds, Robert Wyatt on drums and Hugh Hopper on bass. The song "Slighty All The Time" was used as the background for the syndicated "Realities" news program distributed by many 1970s-era "underground" radio stations. The album remained in print in the Columbia U.S. catalog throughout the 1970s and into the '80s despite its unusual format, based largely on word of mouth reviews.

Personnel:
Hugh Hopper - bass guitar
Robert Wyatt - drums, vocals, additional instruments on "Moon in June" (not credited for this)
Mike Ratledge - organ, piano
Elton Dean - alto saxophone, saxello
Rab Spall - violin
Lyn Dobson - flute, soprano saxophone
Nick Evans - trombone
Jimmy Hastings - flute, bass clarinet

Songs:
"Facelift" (Hugh Hopper) – 18:45
"Slightly All The Time/ Noisette/ Backwards/ Noisette (Reprise)" (Mike Ratledge) – 18:12
"Moon in June" (Robert Wyatt) – 19:08
"Out-Bloody-Rageous" (Mike Ratledge) – 19:10

Link:http://www.badongo.com/file/1906580

Here is a Link for a Video of Moon in June:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjHtOxUgEns