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The FACES – ” You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything ” Box Set

Posted: August 29, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces’ First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album.  The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections.  In total, 17 bonus tracks are previously unreleased!  The collection will also be available as a 180-gram vinyl box with the bonus disc but without the previously unreleased tracks appended to each album.  ‘1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything’ – which is named after their final single – will also feature a variety of extras, such as outtakes and rehearsal recordings. Having disbanded in 1975, The Faces reunited in 2010 and played a number of shows with Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall on lead vocals in place of original singer Rod Stewart, including a headline performance at the Vintage at Goodwood Festival.

The box is named after their last single, a disco song given the unwieldy name of “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or any Other Domestic Short Comings).” It featured new bassist Tetsu Yamauchi, who had replaced Ronnie Lane, and reached No. 12 in the U.K. in 1974. The Faces approved the mixes , The band — which included Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood – was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Jones, Lane and McLagan had earlier been in the Small Faces; Stewart and Wood were members of the Jeff Beck Group. Lane died of multiple sclerosis in 1997; McLagan passed after suffering a stroke in 2014.


You Can Make Me Dance will be pressed onto 180-gram vinyl, with artwork that faithfully recreates the original releases, including the moving eyes and opening mouth from Ooh La La. The four albums are First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse (1971) and Ooh La La (1973). 1974′s Live — Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners is not included.

In 2012, Hucknall sang ‘Stay With Me’ at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio. Stewart had planned to perform with the band, but came down with the flu ahead of the event.

Faces

The collection also features a bonus disc that gathers up nine tracks that didn’t appear on proper albums, including the 1973 single “Pool Hall Richard“, a live performance of the Temptations’ “I Wish It Would Rain” from the 1973 Reading Festival, and “Dishevelment Blues“, a song that came free as a flexi-disc in copies of NME.

The track listing for You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (1970 – 1975) is:

THE FIRST STEP
1. “Wicked Messenger”
2. “Devotion”
3. “Shake, Shudder, Shiver”
4. “Stone”
5. “Around The Plynth”
6. “Flying”
7. “Pineapple And The Monkey”
8. “Nobody Knows”
9. “Looking Out The Window”
10. “Three Button Hand Me Down”
11. “Behind The Sun” (Outtake) *
12. “Mona – The Blues” (Outtake) *
13. “Shake, Shudder, Shiver” (BBC Session) *
14. “Flying” (Take 3) *
15. “Nobody Knows” (Take 2) *

LONG PLAYER
1. “Bad ‘n’ Ruin”
2. “Tell Everyone”
3. “Sweet Lady Mary”
4. “Richmond”
5. “Maybe I’m Amazed”
6. “Had Me A Real Good Time”
7. “On The Beach”
8. “I Feel So Good”
9. “Jerusalem”
10. “Whole Lotta Woman” (Outtake) *
11. “Tell Everyone” (Take 1) *
12. “Sham-Mozzal” (Instrumental – Outtake) *
13. “Too Much Woman” (Live) *
14. “Love In Vain” (Live) *

A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK…TO A BLIND HORSE
1. “Miss Judy’s Farm”
2. “You’re So Rude”
3. “Love Lives Here”
4. “Last Orders Please”
5. “Stay With Me”
6. “Debris”
7. “Memphis”
8. “Too Bad”
9. “That’s All You Need”
10. “Miss Judy’s Farm” (BBC Session) *
11. “Stay With Me” (BBC Session) *

OOH LA LA
1. “Silicone Grown”
2. “Cindy Incidentally”
3. “Flags And Banners”
4. “My Fault”
5. “Borstal Boys”
6. “Fly In The Ointment”
7. “If I’m On The Late Side”
8. “Glad And Sorry”
9. “Just Another Honky”
10. “Ooh La La”
11. “Cindy Incidentally” (BBC Session) *
12. “Borstal Boys” (Rehearsal) *
13. “Silicone Grown” (Rehearsal) *
14. “Glad And Sorry” (Rehearsal) *
15. “Jealous Guy” (Live) *

* previously unreleased

BONUS LP
1. “Pool Hall Richard”
2. “I Wish It Would Rain” (With A Trumpet)
3. “Rear Wheel Skid”
4. “Maybe I’m Amazed”
5. “Oh Lord I’m Browned Off”
6. “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Short Comings)” (UK Single Version)
7. “As Long As You Tell Him”
8. “Skewiff (Mend The Fuse)”
9. “Dishevelment Blues”

 

VAN MORRISON – ” Astral Weeks, His Band and the Street Choir ” Rhino Reissues

Posted: August 29, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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There’s even more coming from Van Morrison! Legacy Recordings, a catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, just landed a deal that gave them the rights to the largest Van Morrison discography under one label. Many of Van Morrison’s tracks have been out of print for years, never been available through iTunes, and even less available via streaming sites. Legacy plans to begin a “digital rollout” of the entire Morrison discography, starting with 33 album titles to be released . They will also be releasing a series of compilation albums, the first of which, Essential Van Morrison, will also be available  It will be a 37-track anthology that has classics from Morrison’s early days up to his latest works. Legacy stated that fans can expect songs from Morrison’s Them years available through the company later this year.

Following up on 2013’s multi-disc deluxe edition of the Northern Irish soul man’s 1970 classic “Moondance” and on the heels of Legacy Recordings’ announcement earlier this week that the Sony imprint has acquired the majority of Van Morrison’s post-1971 catalogue, Rhino has just announced two new deluxe editions drawn from Morrison’s seminal early Warner Bros. discography.  Both 1968’s label debut “Astral Weeks” and 1970’s jubilant His Band and the Street Choir will get remastered and expanded editions on October 30th.

Astral Weeks failed to dent the charts when it was released in the fall of 1968, but the hypnotic song cycle’s singular fusion of folk, jazz, soul, blues and beyond has earned Astral Weeks its status as an ahead-of-its-time classic.   The upcoming deluxe edition presents four previously unreleased recordings offering a fly-on-the-wall view of the interplay between Van Morrison and the quartet that joined him in the studio: bassist Richard Davis, guitarist Jay Berliner, percussionist Warren Smith, Jr., and Modern Jazz Quartet drummer Connie Kay. These bonus tracks include the first take of “Beside You,” extended versions of “Slim Slow Slider” and “Ballerina,” and a stripped-back alternate take of “Madame George” that emphasizes the vibraphone.

Van Morrison - His Band

Van Morrison, of course, followed up the mystical Astral Weeks with the much more commercial Moondance.  How to follow Moondance?  He returned a few months later in 1970 with His Band and the Street Choir, featuring some of his most loose and fresh songs like the hit “Domino” and “Blue Money.”  This remastered version of the album is expanded with five previously unreleased bonus tracks, including an early, raw take of “Give Me a Kiss” without piano, horns or backing vocals. Morrison’s falsetto shines on Take 3 of “Gypsy Queen,” while the alternate version of “I’ve Been Working” ratchets up the funk quotient.  Take 10 of “Call Me Up in Dreamland” and an alternate of “I’ll Be Your Lover Too” round out the reissue.

Both single-disc titles are due from Warner Bros. Records and Rhino on October 30th at which time they will also be available digitally.  Pre-order links are not yet active, but watch this space!

Van Morrison, Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. WS 1768, 1968 – reissued Rhino, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Links TBD)

  1. “Astral Weeks”
  2. “Beside You”
  3. “Sweet Thing”
  4. “Cyprus Avenue”
  5. “The Way Young Lovers Do”
  6. “Madame George”
  7. “Ballerina”
  8. “Slim Slow Slider”
  9. “Beside You” (Take 1)
  10. “Madame George” (Take 4)
  11. “Ballerina” (Long Version)
  12. “Slim Slow Slider” (Long Version)

Tracks 9-12 are previously unreleased.

Van Morrison, His Band and the Street Choir (Warner Bros. WS 1884, 1970 – reissued Rhino, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Links TBD)

  1. “Domino”
  2. “Crazy Face”
  3. “Give Me a Kiss”
  4. “I’ve Been Working”
  5. “Call Me Up In Dreamland”
  6. “I’ll Be Your Lover, Too”
  7. “Blue Money”
  8. “Virgo Clowns”
  9. “Gypsy Queen”
  10. “Sweet Jannie”
  11. “If I Ever Needed Someone”
  12. “Street Choir”
  13. “Call Me Up In Dreamland” (Take 10)
  14. “Give Me a Kiss” (Take 3)
  15. “Gypsy Queen” (Take 3)
  16. “I’ve Been Working” (Alternate Version)
  17. “I’ll Be Your Lover, Too” (Alternate Version)

Tracks 13-17 are previously unreleased.

ALANIS MORISSETTE – ” Jagged Little Pill ” with 4-CD Box Rhino Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Posted: August 29, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This October, Rhino Records is celebrating one of the biggest albums of the 1990s: Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. To commemorate the album’s 20th anniversary, a newly remastered 4-CD Collector’s Edition and 2-CD Deluxe edition will be released on October 30th.

Alanis Morissette’s first two albums did not indicate the direction her music would take for her biggest smash record. Released on MCA in her native Canada, 1991’s Alanis and 1992’s Now is the Time had critics comparing her to Debbie Gibson or Tiffany. While Alanis was a hit, Now is the Time did not fare as well and MCA did not extend her two album contract. Undeterred, she graduated high school and moved to Toronto and began writing with producer Glen Ballard. The result would be Jagged Little Pill.

Morissette signed a deal with Maverick Records and on June 13th, 1995, Pill was released. Expectations may have been muted, but they were soon far exceeded. Morissette’s personal lyrics and songs about anger, love, loss and apathy struck a chord with audiences and came amid the alternative movement of the 1990s. Pill took off like a rocket and would eventually sell over 33 million copies. It was named the “Top Pop Album of the 1990s” by Billboard and hit the No. 1 spot in numerous countries around the world. Six singles were released, with the most successful being “Ironic,” which hit No. 4 in the U.S. The album also garnered much critical praise and Morissette and the album received four Grammy awards.

The new edition by Rhino Records features a fresh remastering of the original album overseen by Glen Ballard. The second disc contains ten previously unreleased demos personally chosen by Alanis Morissette. None are demos of songs from the album. While a few of those have surfaced over the years, all of these songs are cut material in consideration for the album, or songs written just after its release. Those two disc make up the Deluxe Edition. On the Collector’s Edition, you get those two discs and on the third disc, you’ll find Morissette’s 2005 acoustic re-recording of “Jagged Little Pill”. The set is rounded out by a previously unreleased 1995 show from London. B-sides from the various Pill singles and the live DVD released at the time have not been included in either edition.

If you’re a fan of Alanis and want to explore some of the unreleased material from her landmark album.

Alanis – Jagged Little Pill Deluxe

LOS ANGELES – Alanis Morissette was just a few months shy of her 20th birthday when she started recording Jagged Little Pill. This year, the legendary album has reached that same landmark. To celebrate the double-decade milestone, the multiple Grammy winning singer-songwriter has curated a special collector’s edition of her debut, an album that’s sold more than 33 million copies around the world and ranks as one of the best-selling albums of all time.

This new four-disc Jagged Little Pill: Collector’s Edition includes remastered audio of the original album plus an entire disc of 10 unreleased demos from the era handpicked by Morissette from her archives, offering a deeper and more personal look at the classic album. Also included is a previously unreleased concert from 1995 as well as 2005’s Jagged Little Pill Acoustic . Limited to 30,000 copies worldwide, Jagged Little Pill: Collector’s Edition will be available from Rhino on October 30th.

“I’m super excited to share this music with a whole new generation of peeps, as well as people who have grown along with me over the last two decades,” says Morissette. “Thankfully, these songs have stood the test of time for me, and in their timelessness, I am thrilled to honor and reflect on them as well as the last twenty years of my life and career.”

In addition to selecting music for the set, Morissette dug into her personal collection to include never-before-seen photos and other ephemera from the time. She also contributes a new essay reflecting back on this time in her life along with stories behind the 10 demos she recorded between 1994-98, all of which are making their official debut here. The track “The Bottom Line” is possibly the most historically significant-it’s the first song Morissette and album producer Glen Ballard wrote together within an hour of their very first meeting in 1994. Other early tracks from those sessions include “Superstar Wonderful Weirdos” and “Closer Than You Might Believe.” Also featured are several tracks Morissette wrote while touring the world and ascending into a global phenomenon following the album’s release including “King Of Intimidation” and “Death Of Cinderella.”

Ballard also oversaw mixing and mastering for this collector’s edition. “Twenty years has not diminished the energy and excitement we captured on these recordings from 1994,” says Ballard. “It’s been a joy to sit with these tracks after two decades and to find them in such good shape. The power of digital recording gives us this time machine and, although we are twenty years older, this music still sounds fresh!”

The third disc of Jagged Little Pill: Collector’s Edition features Jagged Little Pill Acoustic . Released in 2005 to celebrate the album’s 10th Anniversary, this collection finds Morissette delivering “unplugged” and alternate interpretations of every song from the original album.

The set concludes with an unreleased complete concert from the Jagged Little Pill tour. Recorded in London at Subterranea on September 28th, 1995, the show captures Morissette at the peak of her success as she makes her highly anticipated UK concert debut. For this powerhouse performance, she was backed by her touring band (dubbed Sexual Chocolate), which featured a stellar rhythm section with bassist Chris Chaney (Jane’s Addiction) and drummer Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters).

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Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill: Collector’s Edition (Rhino, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

CD 1 (Jagged Little Pill 2015 Remaster – Original album released on Maverick CD 9 45901-2, 1995)
1.All I Really Want
2.You Oughta Know
3.Perfect
4.Hand In My Pocket
5.Right Through You
6.Forgiven
7.You Learn
8.Head Over Feet
9.Mary Jane
10.Ironic
11.Not The Doctor
12.Wake Up
13.You Oughta Know (Jimmy The Saint Blend) / Your House (A Capella)

CD 2 (Demos – Previously Unreleased)
1.The Bottom Line
2.Superstar Wonderful Weirdos
3.Closer Than You Might Believe
4.No Avalon
5.Comfort
6.Gorgeous
7.King Of Intimidation
8.Death Of Cinderella
9.London
10.These Are The Thoughts

CD 3 (Jagged Little Pill Acoustic – Originally released on Maverick CD 49345-2, 2005)
1.All I Really Want
2.You Oughta Know
3.Perfect
4.Hand In My Pocket
5.Right Through You
6.Forgiven
7.You Learn
8.Head Over Feet
9.Mary Jane
10.Ironic
11.Not The Doctor
12.Wake Up / Your House

CD 4 (Live at Subterranea, London 09/28/95 – Previously Unreleased)
1.All I Really Want
2.Right Through You
3.Not The Doctor
4.Hand In My Pocket
5.Mary Jane
6.Ironic
7.You Learn
8.Forgiven
9.You Oughta Know
10.Wake Up
11.Head Over Feet
12.Perfect

VELVET UNDERGROUND – ” Loaded ” Re-Loaded” For 6-Disc Deluxe Box Set

Posted: August 29, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Rhino has a fully loaded slate for this autumn. On October 30th, the same date as the recently-announced 20th anniversary edition of Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill”, the label will give the deluxe treatment to The Velvet Underground’s fourth studio album. Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition will follow in the footsteps and format of the deluxe sets previously released by UMe for the VU’s first three albums The Velvet Underground and Nico, White Light/White Heat, and The Velvet Underground. This 6-disc box will feature:
•The original 1970 album remastered in both its stereo and mono mixes;
Demos, singles, early versions and alternate takes from the Loaded era;
•A previously unreleased Philadelphia concert from May 1970 featuring seven songs from Loaded;
•A newly-remastered and re-edited version of Live at Max’s Kansas City containing tracks from the original 1972 album plus selections from Rhino’s expanded 2004 edition; and
•Stereo and surround mixes of the original Loaded album on DVD.

By the time of the original release of Loaded on Atlantic Records’ Cotillion imprint in November 1970, Lou Reed had already departed The Velvet Underground. But the album contains some of his most beloved songs for the band including “Sweet Jane” and “Rock and Roll.” With the increased participation of Doug Yule (including on the lead vocals on four songs) and without the credited Maureen Tucker, who was pregnant at the time of the album’s recording, Loaded has a very different – and unabashedly commercially-oriented – feel than its predecessors in the group’s catalogue. (VU guitarist Sterling Morrison does play on the record. Guest drummers including Doug Yule’s brother Billy subbed for Tucker.) Remastered stereo and mono versions of the album fill out the first two discs, along with various outtakes, and the mono mix for the unissued single: “Rock & Roll” b/w “Lonesome Cowboy Bill.” The third disc explores the creative process behind many of the songs on the album with more than 20 demos, early versions and alternate mixes. An unreleased club performance feature on the fifth disc. It was recorded on May 9th, 1970 at the Second Fret in Philadelphia. The band was down to a trio that night: Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and Doug Yule, who alternated between bass and drums to fill in for Moe Tucker, who was pregnant at the time. Loaded, which came out six months after the show, is well represented with seven songs, including: “Cool It Down,” “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’” and “Sweet Jane”.


In 1997, Rhino Records released the Fully Loaded 2-CD reissue, with 23 outtakes, demos and alternate mixes. This release forms the basis of the additional material on Disc Three of Re-Loaded, with the outtakes appended to Disc One and the single versions (including two previously unreleased mono single mixes) on Disc Two. Note that, per Rhino, for the surround and stereo downmix on the DVD, the original album track listing has been slightly re-sequenced to include the segue originally planned for “I Found a Reason/Head Held High.” The press release also indicates that the album’s surround mix (the first surround release for the Velvets) will be playable in DTS and Dolby Digital.

Rhino re-loads on October 30th with this deluxe set. You can peruse the track listing and pre-order below! A single-disc remastered edition of the album will also be available at Amazon U.S. that same day. (Amazon U.K. link is TBD.)

The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino/Atlantic, 2015) Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD)

CD 1: Loaded – Remastered Stereo LP plus bonus tracks
1.Who Loves the Sun
2.Sweet Jane (Full Length Version)
3.Rock and Roll (Full Length Version)
4.Cool It Down
5.New Age
6.Head Held High
7.Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8.I Found a Reason
9 Train Round the Bend
10.Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
11.I’m Sticking with You (Outtake – New Remix)
12.Ocean (Outtake)
13.I Love You (Outtake)
14.Ride Into the Sun (Outtake)

CD 2: Loaded – Promotional Mono Version, Singles and B-Sides
1.Who Loves the Sun
2.Sweet Jane (Full Length Version)
3.Rock and Roll (Full Length Version)
4.Cool It Down
5.New Age
6.Head Held High
7.Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8.I Found a Reason
9.Train Round the Bend
10.Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
11.Who Loves the Sun Single)
12.Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (Single)
13.Rock and Roll (*)
14.Lonesome Cowboy Bill (*)

CD 3: Demos, Early Versions and Alternate Mixes
1.Rock and Roll Demo)
2.Sad Song (Demo)
3 Satellite of Love (Demo)
4.Walk and Talk (Demo)
5.Oh Gin (Demo)
6.Ocean (Demo)
7.I Love You (Demo)
8.Love Makes You Feel Ten Feet Tall (Demo)
9.I Found a Reason (Demo)
10.Cool It Down (Early Version – Remix)
11.Sweet Jane (Early Version – Remix)
12.Lonesome Cowboy Bill (Early Version -Remix)
13.Head Held High (Early Version – Remix)
14.Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (Early Version -Remix)
15.Who Loves the Sun (Alternate Mix)
16.Sweet Jane (Alternate Mix)
17.Cool It Down (Alternate Mix)
18.Lonesome Cowboy Bill (Alternate Mix)
19 Train Round the Bend (Alternate Mix)
20.Head Held High (Alternate Mix)
21.Rock and Roll (Alternate Mix)

CD 4: Live at Max’s Kansas City – Remastered and Re-Edited
1.I’m Waiting for the Man
2.White Light/White Heat
3.I’m Set Free
4.Sweet Jane
5.Lonesome Cowboy Bill
6.New Age
7.Beginning to See the Light
8.I’ll Be Your Mirror
9.Pale Blue Eyes
10.Candy Says
11.Sunday Morning
12.After Hours
13.Femme Fatale
14.Some Kinda Love
15.Lonesome Cowboy Bill (Version 2)

CD 5: Live at Second Fret, Philadelphia 1970 (*)
1.I’m Waiting for the Man
2.What Goes On
3.Cool It Down
4.Sweet Jane
5.Rock and Roll
6.Some Kinda Love
7.New Age
8.Candy Says
9.Head Held High
10.Train Round the Bend
11.Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

DVD: (*)
1.96/24 Hi-Resolution Surround Sound Mix (DTS, Dolby Digital)
2.96/24 Hi-Resolution Stereo Downmix
3.96/24 Original Stereo Mix

(*) denotes previously unreleased track

JULIA HOLTER – ” Sea Calls Me Home “

Posted: August 28, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“Have You In My Wilderness”, released on 25th September 2015, is the fourth full length album by Los Angeles artist Julia Holter and her most intimate album yet.

Recorded in her hometown over the last year and once again crafted with Grammy-winning producer and engineer Cole Greif-Neill, the album follows 2013’s Loud City Song and two much-lauded previous titles – Ekstasis and Tragedy. Album opener, ‘Feel You’, is the first single also released on 25th September 2015.

Have You in My Wilderness was written from the heart – warm, dark and raw – and explores love, trust, and power in human relationships. While love songs are familiar in pop music, Holter manages to stay fascinatingly oblique and enigmatic, with some of the most sublime and transcendent music she has ever written.

Like Holter’s previous albums, Have You in My Wilderness is multi-layered and texturally rich, featuring an array of electronic and acoustic instruments played by an ensemble of gifted Los Angeles musicians.

Have You in My Wilderness is also Holter’s most sonically intimate album, with her vocals front and centre in the mix, lifted out of the layers of smeared, hazy effects. The result is striking: clear and vivid, but disarmingly personal.

Previously, Loud City Songs arrived an album of enormous ambition taking inspiration from Collette’s 1944 novella Gigi and using it as a prism through which to explore her relationship with her hometown of Los Angeles and modern life universally, taking cues from the work of Joni Mitchell and the poetry of Frank O’Hara but forging those touch-points into something resolutely unique.

“Sea Calls Me Home” isn’t really a new Julia Holter song: It first appeared on 2010’s Live Recordings (released through NNA Tapes), where its evident magic was buried beneath waves of burbling hiss. Holter floods the L.A. artist’s extraordinary vocals in piercing light, foregrounding her songwriterly qualities—and all the better to evoke her infectious wonder at the ocean’s clarity. Every syllable of the chorus—”I can’t swim! Its lucidity! So clear!”—is a perfect swan dive. Every strand of the accompanying harpsichord trill glimmers like a dewy frond articulated by the breeze, recalling the baroque sparkle of Holter’s sea-gazing California forebears the Beach Boys circa Smile. As a recording, it’s completely ravishing.

So much of Holter’s recent work—“Feel You”, much of 2013’s Loud City Song—takes place in the city, a place of pursuit, missed appointments, and surveillance, where one’s identity must be constantly navigated like unfamiliar streets. “Sea Calls Me Home” is a moment of escape, of casting off social expectations and submitting to the water’s easy, joyful oblivion. Holter captures the familiar relief that every coastal-born person feels when they see the water, of embrace rather than chilly shock: “Wear the fog, I’ll forget the rules I’ve known/ Look in cloud’s mirror/ When the sea calls me home.” Just in case the shore wasn’t far enough in the distance, a wild saxophone blows in to clear it from memory. That boisterous blare aligns it with the avant-garde tag that tends to follow Holter, but there’s no mistaking it: “Sea Calls Me Home” is a miniature pop symphony.

BOB DYLAN – ” Shelter From A Hard Rain ” Fort Collins Colorado 1976

Posted: August 28, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“SHELTER FROM A HARD RAIN” deluxe vinyl available from plastichead.com order link below

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This recording captures Bob Dylan live at the Fort Collins Stadium in Colorado on May 23rd 1976, on the penultimate date of the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Review.
Playing alongside Dylan were Mick Ronson, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles and David Mansfield all on various guitars – although T Bone also handled keyboard duties – with Rob Stoner on bass, Howard Wyeth on drums and Scarlet Rivera on violin.
Joan Baez was on-board too of course and the four cuts (Blowin’ In The Wind, Railroad Boy, the unrecorded Woody Guthrie number, Deportee, and I Pity The Poor Immigrant) on which she duets with Bob Dylan are amongst the show’s highlights.

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SIDE A
1. A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall
2. Blowin’ In The Wind
3. Railroad Boy
4. Deportee
5. I Pity The Poor Immigrant
SIDE B
6. Shelter From The Storm
7. Maggie’s Farm
8. One Too Many Morning
9. Mozambique
10. Idiot Wind

TOM PETTY and the HEARTBREAKERS – ” The New York Shuffle ” My Father’s Place New York

Posted: August 28, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“THE NEW YORK SHUFFLE – MY FATHERS PLACE, ROSLYN 1977” deluxe double clear vinyl available from http://www.plastichead.com order link below

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DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!!
1977 TOM PETTY BROADCAST FROM MY FATHER’S PLACE, NEW YORK. What this fine show, broadcast as it was on WMIR FM New York, illustrates nicely and to full effect is that while Tom Petty and the Boys were largely influenced by the music of the previous decade they were not immune to the energy and dynamism of the punk and new wave genres then making waves in the UK, Europe and in New York, and this show reveals a unit as tight and punchy as any then knocking ‘em dead at CBGB’s or at London’s Vortex club.

SIDE A
1.I Need to Know (Live)
2.American Girl (Live)
3.Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It) [Live]

SIDE B
4.Breakdown (Live)
5.Listen to Her Heart (Live)
6.Strangered in the Night (Live)

SIDE C
7.Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll (Live)
8.Dogs on the Run (Live)

SIDE D
9.Shout (Live)
10.Route 66 (Live)
11.Surrender (Live)
12.Jaguar & Thunderbird (Live)

R.E.M – ” Chronic Town ” Released 10th August 1982

Posted: August 14, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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R.E.M.-Chronic-Town

On this day (August. 10th) in 1982: Athens, Georgia alternative rock band R.E.M. released the ‘Chronic Town’ EP, the first result of their signing with IRS Records the previous May; the tracks had been recorded with producer Mitch Easter back in October, 1981 when the group was considering setting up their own label; the disc provided the first extended illustration of R.E.M.’s signature musical style – jangling guitars, chords played in arpeggio, murmured vocals & obscure lyrics – & introduced such early, lo-fi classics as “Gardening At Night” & “Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)”.

I.R.S. released Chronic Town in August 1982 as its first American release. Reaction to the EP varied; one I.R.S. radio promoter said that many of his contacts at universities radio didn’t know what to make of the record, but added, “The Georgia stations and some of the more together college stations across the country jumped on it.” The band filmed its first video for “Wolves, Lower” to promote the record. The EP sold 20,000 copies in its first year.

“Chronic Town” is five songs that spring to life full of immediacy and action and healthy impatience. Songs that won’t be denied.” NME praised the songs’ auras of mystery, and concluded, “R.E.M. ring true, and it’s great to hear something as unforced and cunning as this.

The debut 5 track EP from R.E.M. titled ‘Chronic Town’ was the beginning of a long love affair for many of us with the boys from Athens, GA. The original vinyl EP R.E.M. labeled the A side (tracks 1–3) as the “Chronic Town” side and the B side (tracks 4 and 5) as the “Poster Torn” side.

 

All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

Side one – “Chronic Town”
  1. “Wolves, Lower” – 4:10
  2. “Gardening at Night“ – 3:29
  3. “Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)” – 3:54
Side two – “Poster Torn”
  1. “1,000,000” – 3:06
  2. “Stumble” – 5:40

NATHANIEL RATELIFF and the NIGHT SWEATS – ” Son Of A Bitch “

Posted: August 14, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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From unsigned folker to Stax recording artist, Nathaniel Rateliff has taken the long road to recognition. Growing up in rural Missouri, he had a television with one channel; he didn’t have a phone; his family ate venison and foods from their garden. His simple life changed when his father died in a car accident on the way to church, and a young Rateliff was forced to quit school and go to work.

In the downtime between jobs, Rateliff grew an attachment to his mom’s acoustic guitar and developed as a musician by dabbling in a variety of sounds and genres — like any curious musician who’s yet to find their voice as a songwriter and performer. In an interview with Folk Radio, he detailed his earliest attempts (jokey songs about pizza parties, shoegaze bands, psychedelic blues) and his journey to Denver in the hopes of fulfilling his dreams. It’s an archetypal tale in the vein of Kerouac: boy leaves his empty setting for new experiences and opportunities with no expectations of where any of it will lead. Through all this, he had his parents’ record collection to keep him company, to inform and give meaning to his surroundings. “It was weird because it was my parents’ records that got me into making music,” he told Folk Radio. “I found my own more modern music, but then I drifted back into playing my parents’ music and taking even older influences.”

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Those influences can be heard on Rateliff and his band’s self-titled Stax debut. Opener “I Never Get Old” is a romping, horn-driven affair with a simple message: Live and never look back. When Rateliff opens his pipes and howls, he evokes Van Morrison at his most charismatic. The singer is an absolute force, and it’s no wonder big labels came calling. Hot-mic’d for just the right amount of distortion, his screams and moans are both soulful and aggressive. There are tinges of anger when he lets loose on “S.O.B.”, which is as direct as its title implies: “I’m gonna writhe and shake my body/ I’ll start pulling out my hair/ I’m going to cover myself with the ashes of you and nobody’s gonna give a damn.” At other times, like on “Howlin at Nothing”, his raspy croon recalls Sam Cooke behind a raucous horn section. To be sure, Rateliff wears his influences openly.

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Rateliff sustains this sound for the duration of the record, which grows repetitive near the end of its 40-minute runtime. Produced by Richard Swift (The Shins, Foxygen), the horns and strings are bathed in subtle reverb, as if the songs were being played in a cavernous theatre. Though it adds allure to the sonics, it doesn’t mask the conventionality of Rateliff’s songwriting, which is vehemently rooted in the standard folk rock tradition. The album would fit snuggly next to Morrison, Otis Redding, and Bruce Springsteen LPs, though the strong vocal performances distinguish Rateliff from other retro-inspired folk rock acts. Rateliff’s charisma is a rare commodity. It’s what turned Jimmy Fallon into a giddy fan when the band made its network television debut. He’s a passionate performer with a gift for singing and winning over an audience, and that comes through on this record.

ARCADE FIRE – ” The Reflektor Tapes ” Documetary

Posted: August 12, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Arcade Fire release their first feature film, The Reflektor Tapes, in theaters September 23 for a limited time.

Arcade Fire’s fourth album Reflektor is a sprawling, 75 minute double album featuring James Murphy, Jonathan Ross, voodoo, disco, dub reggae, bobbleheads and disco balls. To debunk, or perhaps further demystify the album released in 2013, the Canadian group have created The Reflektor Tapes, a film that arrives in cinemas in America on 23rd September and worldwide on 24th September. 

Directed by 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Short Films winner Kahlil Joseph, and produced by award-winning studio Pulse Films (20,000 Days on Earth, Shut Up And Play The Hits) and What Matters Most, it is a hybrid of documentary, music and art which explores the making of Reflektor. Using personal footage and interviews tracing back to its initial beginnings in Jamaica, to the recording sessions in Montreal and an impromptu gig at a Haitian hotel on the first night of carnival, the film also takes a peek behind the curtain of their tour, capturing footage from their arena dates in Los Angeles and London.

Arcade Fire said of the film: “There were parts of the Reflektor tour where I think we, Arcade Fire, came the closest in our careers to putting on stage what we imagined in our heads. We were insanely lucky to have Kahlil Joseph documenting from the very beginning.”

 

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