FUN FACT / DID YOU KNOW : 'Ain't No Shunshine' was released as the B-side to another song called "Harlem." Disc jockeys played this as the single instead and it became a hit. LINER NOTES : Track One / Love : This song by far is my favourite song and holds such an important value to it. Very popular song with over 50+ versions made but the original is always the best! ---------- Track Two / Breakup : This [...]
Duke Robillard, a sideman on the celebrated Time Out of Mind, will team up with Bob Dylan again for select dates on his forthcoming tour, which kicks off in Buffalo on April 5, 2013 and continues through May in St. Augustine, Florida. Dawes is set as to open for Dylan for most dates. More recently, Robillard did a scalding, slide-driven [...]
flyer stolen from vintage richmond top of the day! it is st patty's day after all, but then again i say top of whatever pretty much every day. anyway, now that couch by couchwest is over i can sort of get back into this here joint. although i may take a few days off cause that was pretty damn tiring. think probably ended up with more than 500 submissions, but i dont know that for sure. next year, its intern time! going to repost this super chunk show from the whisky that took [...]
It's St. Patrick's Day! Time to go all Kermit on you and name our Top 10 Green Songs. The post Top 10 Green Songs appeared first on Fusion 45 .
Bill Frisell's appearance last Saturday with Marianne Faithfull at Paris' New Morning club was another reminder of the jazz guitarist's often underrated affinity for pop and rock music. It goes beyond reinterpretating everyone from John Lennon to Madonna. Frisell sat in, of course, on Faithfull's 1987 album Strange Weather. He's also appeared on albums with Elvis Costello, Living Colour's Vernon [...]
A mix of hip-hop, Motown and gospel, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was a massively popular Best Seller from the ’90?s. Taking cues from her band, the Fugees , 23-year old Lauryn Hill bust onto the music scene as a solo artist with the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998 . The centerpiece of the record is “Doo Wop (That Thing),” a cut that exemplified the album’s genre-spanning mix of gospel-like choirs, rapped verses and classic R&B horn licks. It was the first single from the set [...]
I consider 11 Tracks of Whack an uneven record with several good moments and even a few brilliant ones. But it's not until Track 5 where it takes its first real dip. "Lucky Henry" is of a handful of songs on Whack where Becker uses one harmonic idea in the verses and a completely unrelated one in the chorus. It's [...]
Ace Of Base - The Sign (Arista 1993) One might think ABBA was the first Swedish band to Top the US album chart but, in fact, it was Ace of Base ‘s The Sign that holds that distinction. Once the single “All That She Wants” had been released to the sound of a platinum performance, Arista Records bought up the rights to Ace of Base’s first album, Happy Nation , added four songs and re-released it as The Sign . The album ended up yielding four hits in the US: along with [...]
This is GriffDawg checking in from the Basque Country- Discovering new music is one of the raddest things around. Rediscovering music is just as cool. I love finding an album that I used to listen to all the time but have not heard in years. Listening to that music takes me back to a different point in my life. It helps provide me with perspective. And, most of the time, I can still sing all the words! [...]
> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** A romantic, tear-jerking ballad is the last kind of song anyone would expect from Walter Becker. "Book Of Liars" is a ballad alright, but the other two adjectives don't apply, not when Becker is telling his subject about what a legendary bullshitter she is. [...]
Any connection between this cover and the Velvet Underground might seem tenuous at best, at first glance. John Cale (1973) Yo La Tengo (1990) Whoa, what's this? Blogging on a Saturday? I haven't done that in . . . in . . . ages. Not since my "Comment Spam of the Week" days. And in case that brings up a long-simmering pot of discontent for you, one that is filled with such thoughts as "Why did you stop [...]
Formed in 1985, the Optic Nerve garnered more attention and accolades in death than in life. Hailing from New York City, the band tooled about the local underground circuit and put out a couple of singles, but struggled to get arrested. Chalk it up to bad timing, anemic promotion and the usual sad circumstances that prevent good music from being [...]
I like days when we get a bunch of great songs that somehow magically all gel together. That or the RS fans are getting smarter of what they send us. Anyway, here's are two videos by bands we dig: Speedy Ortiz and Sex Jams filtered for your auditory and listening sonic loving pleasure. First up is a 902s guitarist wet dream in the very capable hands of the indie band Speedy Ortiz with their video debut of "tiger tank" via Wreckroom. This is from a coming record of their's I would assume. Real solid playing [...]
With their regular producers in tow, U2 retreated to Berlin in 1991 to re-imagine their sound in the form of Achtung Baby . The eighth album in their repertoire, Achtung Baby was produced by U2 regulars Steve Lillywhite, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, the latter of which was key to transforming David Bowie ‘s sound on the Berlin trilogies. Transformation is the name of the game here, as well, as the band’s knob turners soaked Bono’s vox in gallons of distortion, ran yards of 40 grit sand paper over The Edge’s guitar and submerged the group’s rhythm section [...]
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Art by Steve Canaday We're long time fans of the Quarterstick Records band from Michigan known as MULE. We got to see them a bunch and even played a show with them on their first tour at The Court Tavern in New Brunswick NJ when all they had was a casette. Those were the days. Now it would be cool I guess to just release a cassette that no one would be able to listen too. Here's a couple tunes from their first EP with illustrations by Steve Canaday . Nobody plays like [...]
> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** Next to Lennon and McCartney, Becker and Fagen is, in my view, the highest quality songwriting partnership in rock. But for Lennon/McCartney songs from around 1965 on, you can always tell which ones were primarily written by John and which ones bore the [...]
Sitting at Starbucks while the kid plays soccer, reading David Byrne's How Music Works and letting Media Monkey talk to my head at random. 1. "Life During Wartime" 2. "Air" 3. "Burning Down The House" (Stop Making sense) 4. "Don't Worry About The Government" 5. "Ruby Dear" 5XTH - Five Records By Talking Heads
Media Monkey rolled this set for me last night while I was laying on the bedroom floor, getting fleeced at poker by my 10-year old daughter. A good mix of classic, newer and middle-era U2. 1. Vertigo 2. In God's Country 3. Walk On 4. New Year's Day 5. Wire Records At Random - 5 x U2
Imagine guitarist Andy Summers' surprise when he heard his iconic riff from the Police's "Every Breath You Take" for the first time as part of a Puff Daddy song - on his kid's radio. There's still no small amount of resentment about it. Summers now calls "I'll Be Missing You" one of the biggest rip offs of all time. An [...]
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