Grinderman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinderman_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinderman_(album)

Grinderman:

..Nick Cave has the "Midas Touch" with anything he turns his hands to, a very unique person who also inspires to bring the best out of his loyal accomplished musician friends, he never fails to please the listener in what he does and that's write and produce some of the best music around in my own opinion.Grinderman2.his lyrics are very john lennon-esk in places, If you like Nick Cave and the Bad seeds then you will be drawn to grinderman instantly...some of the best lyrics his done for years, which you don't get at first..they are like a magic eye picture..you don't see it at first..and then it hits you like a piledriver...go and give them a try.it'll be well worth the effort.

Enjoy.:)

Beautiful People.

http://www.discogs.com/Beautiful-People-If-60s-Were-90s/release/725803

Beautiful people-If 60's were 90's

Back in the late 90's some friends of mine dragged me along to see Hawkwind when i lived in London, and what a night it was to remember..the first backing band was called "Beautiful people", like most backing bands it's normally just a time filler to get the crowd in the mood for the main act, but what i witnessed, on that night was one of the best gigs i've ever been to..the lights went down and flashing lights & lazers burn't our eye balls out to a frazzle..then appeared a back drop with Jimi Hendrix on it,.followed by his voice & this amazing hendrix sounding guitar sound..i was totally blown away with this band..i thought to myself..they are sampling Hendrix guitar solo's but i was wrong it was this unknown little band who had a passion for Jimi Hendrix...i was that impressed by them, that i bought the album at the concert, after the gig..Hawkwind where excellent, but Beautiful People..stole the night for me..outstanding gig.

Tracklisting:

1.Comin' to get you.

2.Get your mind together.

3.If 60's were 90's.

4.Stone crazy.

5.Rilly groovy.

6.Happiness on the wind.

7.Sock it to me.

8.Feel the heat.

9.The sea...eventually.

this really is a excellent album, the band got permission from the Hendrix family to use the samples of his voice before recording the album...a hidden gem from the 90's which didn't get the credit it so rightly deserved.

enjoy.:)

Soulsavers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_(Soulsavers_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Not_How_Far_You_Fall,_It's_the_Way_You_Land
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tough_Guys_Don't_Dance_(Soulsavers_album)

Soulsavers:

let me start this posting by saying i haven't gave my blog much attention in 2010, it was only with the kind comments which i recently received on it, that has gave me a kick up the backside to add a few more of my faves before "Big ben" strikes it's charms and leads us into 2011...i shall commence.

Soulsavers where introduced to me 2 years ago by a friend, who told me to give them a try,well the outcome of the try will stay with me for a long, long, time..the music which they create is just astounding you've got passion, trip/hop, rock folk, soul jazz, mixed all together to create something that isn't just to make a fast couple of quid..but music of an arrangement of collaborative artists that will keep us the listener very happy for a long, long time.

You will be totally impressed by the amount of artists that contribute to this unit, do yourself a musical favour and give them a try. you'll be totally astounded by this band...

Enjoy.:)

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks .1968

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_Weeks

I was first introduced to this album by a old guy i use to work with many years ago..we where having a chin-wag about different albums and artists we liked..and i said to him what's one of his all-time favourites?..he replied Van Morrison's Astral weeks..i said as in the poppy tra-la-la-la's brown-eyed girl song?..which to be honest wasn't my cup of tea at the time..anyway he said to me,he had a spare copy of the album and would bring it into work for me to listen to..he brought it in and i had it for what must have been months,gathering dust before i played it..so one evening i finally got round to listening to it..from the first opening line's of Astral weeks..which are "If I ventured in the slipstream,between the Viaducts of a dream" i was totally amazed..i don't like all of Van morrisons music but this album is just one of the best he recorded in my own opinion..when ever i listen to it, i always think of the old guy who first told me about it.he obviously knew his stuff..with out him, i would be missing this musical masterpiece..i should also like to mention..as i looked into the origins of astral weeks it was voted as one of the best albums ever recorded..a huge statement..but i can see why some music listeners thought so at the time of its release.

tracklisting.

1.Astral weeks.

2.Beside you.

3.Sweet thing.

4.Cyprus Avenue.

5.The way young lover do.

6.Madame George.

7.Ballerina.

8.Slim slow slider.

Enjoy.:)

Joy Division.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_and_Soul_(Joy_Division_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peel_Sessions_(Joy_Division_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_(Joy_Division_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_(Joy_Division_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer_(Joy_Division_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures

The emotionaI impact of this bands music was shattering, their records an icy collision of romance and alienation. Between 1977 and 1980, they recorded the two most affecting and influential albums of their generation - and on May 18, 1980 the lifetime of both the band and their lead singer Ian Curtis was tragically cut short by suicide, an appalling end to one of Britain's greatest groups.

In the aftermath of punk, Joy Division invented a new sound which dramatically connected with a country lurching towards an unforgiving era of Thatcherism. A band capable of touching the outer reaches of human emotion, they were driven by the wired and spinning music created by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris and the starkly personal, often depressive, lyrics of their troubled vocalist, Ian Curtis.

Even today, their music and darkly powerful sentiments echo through the work of contemporary groups such as The Verve, Radiohead, Spiritualized and Primal Scream...they will always remain one of my favourites purely because there straight forward honesty in the music that they created..what i also should mention the music would not have had this impact if it wasn't for the engineering genius of Martin Hannett..sadly no longer with use..who created the sound for this outstandingly wonderful band.....the track that always sends a shiver down my spine is 'Atmosphere'..if you haven't heard joy division before,then i highly recommend them,they have influenced so many bands.The above albums are all classics in my opinion..they show just what a wonderful band Joy division where..at the time of Ian's death it would of been easy to understand for the rest of the band just to throw the towel in and say that's it!..but they went on and formed a band called New Order..it speaks for itself doesn't it....

Enjoy.:)

David Bowie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity_(album)#Composition
David bowie:Space Oddity 1969.

this album to my knowledge was one of the first i bought when i was a kid in the early seventies..i saved up my paper round money to buy it..i was amazed by the 'Space Oddity'single when i first heard it..i was taken back when i first seen an appearance of david on Top of the Pops..yes folks i was a avid watcher in them days.,i always thought the opening lines to the song where "Ground control to ginger tom"..then i thought,hang on how would a ginger tom cat be in space.?..remember i was only a kid...still learning about the wonders of music...anyway,,i couldnt comprehend that the image that i was seeing was the same person who sang this wonderful song..i had a image of a old crooner with a suit on been very presentable..how wrong i was..once i started to introduce myself to the album gradually i learnt from a early age that someone's appearance in music is the least important thing..it's the music that's the most important issue...my train of thought has been the same to this very day.

Tracklisting:

1.space oddity.

2.unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed.

3.don't sit down.

4.Letter to hermione.

5.Cygnet Committee.

6.Janine.

7.An occasional Dream.

8.Wild eyed boy from free cloud.

9.God knows i'm good.

10.memory of a free festival.

David bowie has the midas touch in what ever he touches..his still one of the godfathers in modern music in my opinion, and this album alone show his sheer craft of musical brilliance,If you haven't heard this album,give it a try..it set the standard of how music should be and still does to this day.

Enjoy.:)

Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Devil_Softly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Fruit_Bread

let me start by saying Hope Sandoval may not have one of the best voices in music,but it's certainly one of the most memorable....My own personal opinion i consider this wonderful artist as one of the most beautiful elegant female vocalists, that puts the music across in the most mystical dream-like way...this as been noticed by Air,The Jesus and Mary Chain,Massive Attack,Death in Vegas,the Chemical Brothers..who she's contributed her wonderful singing brilliance to... some listeners they may find this music a little dreary or boring,..but each to there own that's what i say.anough has been said,apart from if you have a open mind towards music and you want to broaden your musical horizons..then this is a band i recommend you try out.

Enjoy. :)

Mazzy Star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_My_Swan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Tonight_That_I_Might_See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Hangs_Brightly

Here's my first entry for 2010 folks..it's only since the early 2000 that i was introduced to this wonderful band..yes it's hard to believe i've been missing this wonderful music for so many years, it's typical of me to get into a band when they are no longer together..or should i say haven't done another album for a long period of time...lets commence shall we.If psychedelic music had a voice in '90s post-punk, Mazzy Star may have been its strongest reincarnation. That doesn't necessarily mean that fans of the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead will find the band to their liking, however. Mazzy Star much prefered the dark side of psychedelia, as exemplified by the most distended tracks of the Doors and the Velvet Underground. Their fuzzy guitar workouts and plaintive folky compositions are often suffused in a dissociative ennui that is very much of the 1990s, however much their textures may recall the drug-induced states of vintage psychedelia.

Although Mazzy Star was a full band, they were basically the core duo of guitarist David Roback and singer Hope Sandoval with backing musicians. Roback boasts a long history in the paisley underground, with the Rain Parade and Opal. He came across Sandoval after hearing a tape she had made as part of a folky duo, Going Home. (The Going Home album that Roback subsequently produced remains unissued.) Sandoval ended up replacing Kendra Smith on Opal's final tours. After Opal dissolved, Roback and Sandoval continued to work together as Mazzy Star, and released their first album for Rough Trade, She Hangs Brightly, in 1990.

Rough Trade's U.S. branch went under shortly afterwards, but luckily Mazzy Star were picked up by Capitol, who kept the debut in print and issued their follow-up, 1993's So Tonight That I Might See. There isn't much to differentiate the two albums, though that's not necessarily a criticism. Both share similar strengths and weaknesses: appealingly dreamy and atmospheric arrangements, rambling distorted guitar workouts, and lyrics that mix the haunting and the meaninglessly vague. Tonight That I Might See had been around for about a year before it suddenly got hot, reaching the Top 40, and spinning off a small hit single, "Fade Into You." Even in the wake of this surprise success, Roback and Sandoval remained as enigmatic and aloof as their music, rarely submitting to interviews, and offering mysterious, unhelpful replies when journalists did manage to talk with them....this insight into Mazzy Star is from a magazine i have on them..Once you've heard the entrancing 'Into Dust'..you'll be addicted to this dreamy timeless music.

A absolutely highly recommended band.if you like your neo-folky psychedelic sounds..check them out.

Enjoy.