Music video by Jeff Lynne’s ELO performing “When I Was A Boy”. (C) 2015 Big Trilby Records, under exclusive license to Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.
Jeff Lynne fans have a lot to be excited about. he annouced that Jeff Lynne’s ELO will release the first ELO album in over a decade.
The long player represents the first new music from the (one man?) band in over a decade and you can already listen to a typically Beatlesy song from the album.
The deluxe CD edition of Alone in the Universe adds two bonus tracks to the standard ten-track album – Faultline and Blue.
Called “Alone in the Universe”, the album will debut November. 13th via Columbia Records and is available for pre-order Friday. He also dropped the collection’s first single, “When I Was A Boy,”
“Music is such a powerful force in our lives. A good song can make people feel much less alone in this universe,” Lynne said in a press release. “And trying to create one of those songs somehow makes me feel less alone too. My whole life—from being that kid with a dream in Birmingham right until today—proves how much music can do.”
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on September 11th, 1973, by Columbia Records. It was recorded by Springsteen with theE Street Bandat 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York. The album includes the song “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)“, the band’s most-used set-closing song for the first 10 years of its career.
As with Bruce Springsteen’s first album released earlier in the year, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was well-received critically but had little commercial success at the time. However, once Springsteen achieved popularity with the album Born To Run , several songs from this album became popular FM radio airplay and concert favorites. On November 7th, 2009, Springsteen and the E Street Band played the album in its entirety for the first time ever in a concert at Madison Square Gardens and in Brisbane Australia,
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The E Street Band is known to have taken its name from keyboard player David Sancious home in Belmar New Jersey. The back cover photo on the album has the six band members standing in a doorway. The picture was of an antique store on Sairs Ave in the West End section of Long Branch, New Jersey.
Springsteen had developed a renewed passion for full-band rock ‘n’ roll” when he began to record The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle in May 1973. The album departed from the folk influences of Springsteen’s 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and was instead characterized by “a grand fusion of nostalgic rock ‘n’ roll and soulful R&B”.
Springsteen recorded many songs for this album; at least eleven are known not to have made the final cut. Out of those eleven, “Zero and Blind Terry”, “Thundercrack”, “Seaside Bar Song” and “Santa Ana” were released on the Box set Tracks , whereas The Fever a song which had also been recorded by Southside Johnny, was released on 18 Tracks.
songs from the album’s recording sessions remain officially unreleased:
“Evacuation of the West”. Recorded without Sancious and with no overdubs. It circulates in several bootlegs.
“Phantoms” (aka “Over the Hills of St George”). An early version of “Zero and Blind Terry”. It circulates in the bootleg Deep Down in the Vaults.
“Fire on the Wing”. Considered for inclusion in Tracks. The song remains uncirculated.
“New York Song”. An early version of “New York City Serenade”, which also included parts of an earlier song called “Vibes Man”. The song remains uncirculated.
“Secret to the Blues”. Reworking of a previous Springsteen song called “The Band’s Just Boppin’ the Blues”. The song remains uncirculated.
“Angel’s Blues” (aka “She So Fine” or “Ride On Sweet William”). Another uncirculated song.
Lucy Rose is one of the UK’s biggest pop up-and-comers—there’s no denying that. She’s racking up millions of plays on her tracks and she’s being covered by other artists constantly, and that’s because her music is very easy to fall in love with. Now today, she’s a brand-new single to share alongside upcoming tour dates, and best of all, she’s announcing her forthcoming second album.
Lucy Rose’s past efforts (most notably, “Cover Up“) have set the stage for a standout track, and that’s just what we have here with “Our Eyes”. It’s the quintessential track if you’re a pop lover, and with a high-arching chorus begging you to sing along with it, elegant arrangements, and just that extra bit of percussive punch and additional synth work, it’s more that just your typical one-dimensional pop effort. “Our Eyes” is an all-encompassing track that will please you as it did us.
“Our Eyes” will be released April 26th via Columbia Records,
Perhaps no tune moves here like Patti Smith‘s reading of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” with help from Sam Shepherd and John Cohen on banjo, Peter Stampfel on fiddle, and Kaye and Duncan Webster on guitar in a strange dreamscape driven by a standup bass. Patti Smith digs into the lyric and then offers a poem that is as much an early American folk song elegy to the environment Kurt Cobain grew up in as it is to what’s happening to America itself, but with current touches. Her poet’s heart not only complements the original but makes the song timeless and brings Cobain‘s mature spirit to flesh once more. It is the most moving track on the set and the most visionary. From the album of cover versions titled Twelve an album by Patti Smith, released April 17th, 2007 on Columbia Records. As the title suggests, the album contains twelve tracks, all of which are cover versions. It debuted on USA Billboard charts200 at number 60, with 11,000 copies sold in its first week. A promotional EP entitled Two More was also released, featuring two tracks that are not on the album: “Perfect Day” byLou Reed and “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect” byThe Decemberists.
Like a waif of translucent and yet tangible light comes Peace’snew album. “Happy People” is Peace at their lighter than air best, still maintaining their 90’s influences with gaunt and fur-coat-wearing exuberance but this time with a little more refinement. Being allowed the time and money to create something big bold and brassy by a huge label like Columbia clearly allows bands to create stellar pieces of work – Castles’ guitar work especially benefitting and standing him out amongst his peers. Happy People is a great record and a must-have for any u21, the irony is though only ‘O You’ and ‘World Pleasures’ are about happy people.
“Fifth Dimension” is the third album by the American folk rockbandThe Byrdsand was released in July 1966 on Columbia Records .On December 22, 1965, shortly after the release of their second albumTurn! Turn! Turn!, The Byrds entered RCA Studios in Los Angeles to record “Eight Miles High” and “Why“, the two new songs that they had recently composed. Both songs represented a creative leap forward for the band and were instrumental in developing the musical styles of psychedelic rock and raga rock.However, the band ran into trouble with their record company, Columbia Records, who refused to release either song because they had not been recorded at a Columbia owned studio. As a result, the band were forced to re-record both songs in their entirety at Columbia Studios, Hollywood and it was these re-recordings that would see release on the “Eight Miles High” single and the Fifth Dimension album.
“Greetings from Asbury Park NJ” is the first studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1973. It only sold about 25,000 copies in the first year of its release, but had significant critical impact. It was ranked at #379 by Rolling Stone on its list of 500 greatest albums of all time. Released 6th January 1973 on Columbia/CBS Records recorded between July and September 1972 at Sound Studios in Blauvelt New York City and produced by Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos,
I think it’s an album brimming with potential. It has many great songs but I think it sounds under produced. I like the record, but I just think that it should have been so much better given the material.The best things about it are the lyrics, the humour and the promise of things to come.
Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel decided to record the album at the low-priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of the Columbia Recordsadvance and cut most of the songs in a single week. There was a dispute not long after the record was recorded—Appel and John Hammond preferred the solo tracks, while Springsteen preferred the band songs. As such, a compromise was reached—the album was to have five songs with the band (“For You”, “Growin’ Up”, “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?” “It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City”, and “Lost in the Flood”) and five solo songs (“Mary Queen of Arkansas”, “The Angel”, “Jazz Musician”, “Arabian Nights”, and “Visitation at Fort Horn”
However, when Columbia Records president Clive Davis heard the album, he felt that it lacked a hit single. As such, Springsteen wrote and recorded “Blinded by the Light” and “Spirit in the Night“. Because pianist David Sancious and bassist Garry Tallent were unavailable to record these songs, a three man band was used—Vini Lopez on drums, Springsteen on guitar, bass, and piano, and the previously missing Clarence Clemons on saxophone
These two songs bumped “Jazz Musician”, “Arabian Nights”, and “Visitation at Fort Horn”, leaving a total of seven band songs and two solo songs. The album was originally slated to be released in the fall of 1972, but it was moved back to early 1973 to avoid the pre-Christmas crush.
With a new album and a new label deal signing with a major Columbia Records it was announced that She & Him had left independent label Merge Records, with their fifth studio album, titled “Classics” scheduled to be released 2nd December 2014 , Zooey Deschanel and M Ward were photographed with Brian Wilson of Beach Boys fame in the studio recording his forthcoming album which features Zooey Deschanel as a guest vocalist.
The Fat Angel Sings 