Thursday, May 2, 2019

Jan-March 2019 Post

For the sake of explination, if I do enjoy an album but don't think it's really better than a 6, I'll add it to these posts. That or if I think it's worth checking out. Also the selections in Yellow are a favorite record of mine

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  •  Elvis TV-Special
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  •  Jolene - Dolly Parton
  • Afrodisiac - Fela Ransome-Kuti & the Africa '70
  • I.T.T. - FEla Anikulapo Kuti and the Afrika 70
  • In London - B.B. King
  • A Street Called Straight - Roy Buchanan
  • Cliff Hanger - Jimmy Cliff
  • Guitarra de Venezuela - Alirio Diaz
  • Dig A Little Deeper - Latimore
  • Elvis (The Fool Album)
  • Saved - LaVern Baker
  • Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg - Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Sahara - McCoy Tyner
  • Love Letters from Elvis - Elvis Presley
  • Undead - Ten Years After
  • Tristeza on Guitar - Baden Powell
  • Teresa Brewer in London with Oily Rags
  • Elvis is Back!
  • Song for America - Kansas
  • The Temptations in Japan
  • Idlewild South - The Allman Brothers Band
  • Jackson Browne
  • Eagles
  • French Kiss - Bob Welch
  • Al Green Gets Next to You
  • Latimore
  • Rattlesnake - Ohio Players
  • Live in London - Flight of the Conchords
  • You Don't Mess Around with Jim - Jim Croce
  • Out of Step - Minor Threat
  • Larry Carlton
  • El Hombre - Pat Martino
  • Solid Rock - The Temptations
  • Anne, Man! - Ann Richards
  • Harlem Street Singer - Blind Gary Davis
  • You're the Man - Marvin Gaye
  • The Allman Brothers Band
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  •  Willy and the Poor Boys - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  •  Power-Fuerza - Ghetto Brothers
  • Yellow Fever - Fela Aníkú°ápó Kuti & Afrika 70
  • 120 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Tokyo Gala Concert - Saito Kinen Orchestra/Matheuz/Ozawa/Mutter
  • Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
  • The Doobie Brothers
  • Some Girls - The Rolling Stones
  • Blues Caravan - Buddy Rich and His Sextet
  • God Save Us/Do the Oz - Bill Elliott and the Elastic Oz Band
  • Brown and Roach Incorporated - Brown and Roach
  • Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs - Marty Robbins
  • Some Girls: Live in Texas 1978 - The Rolling Stones
  • Treat Him Right - Barbra Mandrell
  • Johnny Cash at San Quentin
  • The Bells Are Tolling - The Fairfield Four
  • Firefly - Uriah Jeep
  • The Fairy's Kiss  - Igor Stravinsky (1956)
  • Live in Japan - Chicago
  • Canned Heat
  • Another Life - Kano
  • Aretha Now
  • Indianola Mississippi Seeds - B.B. King
  • Last Exit - Traffic
  • On Air - The Rolling Stones
  • Time and a Word - Yes
  • Slaughter on 10th Avenue - Mick Ronson
  • This Means We Mean It - REO Speedwagon
  • L.A. Woman - The Doors
  • Chopin / Schumann - Aleksandra Hortensja Dabek
  • The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East
  • Don't Cry Now - Linda Ronstadt
  • Too Hot - Kool & The Gang
  • Czarface Meets Ghostface
  • Ace - Bob Weir
  • Hello Happines - Chaka Khan
  • Dog Days of Tomorrow - Czarface
  • Down to Earth - Rainbow
  • Entertainment! - Gang of Four
  • Diamond Life - Sade
  • My Sweet Summer Suite - Love Unlimited Orchestra
  • Diamond Touch - George McCrae
  • The Other One - Bob Welch
  • Fair Warning - Van Halen
  • Blues from the Gutter - Champion Jack Dupree
  • The Brussels Affair (Live 1973) - The Rolling Stones
  • Black Velvet - Charles Bradley
  • Heavy Jelly
  • Fighting - Thin Lizzy
  • Into the Music - Van Morrison
  • Silver Apples
  • Eargasm - Johnnie Taylor
  • Back for a Taste of Your Love - Syl Johnson
  • Five Live Yardbirds
  • On the Line - Jenny Lewis
  • Mal-1 - Mal Walrdron Quintet
  • Slow Dancer - Boz Scaggs
  • Connnie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs
  • Andy Nogger -Kraan
  • Funkadelic
  • Zietgeist - Denny Zeitlin
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  • L.A. Reggae - Johnny Rivers
  • Fever - Little Willie John
  • Shout! - The Isley Brothers
  • Nature Planned It - Four Tops
  • 17-11-70 - Elton John
  • Livetime - Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Check Your Head - Beastie Boys
  • Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye

Revisit
  •  Reincarnation of a Love Bird - Charles Mingus (1988)
  •  Future Games - Fleetwood Mac

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

October-December 2018 Post

This is the last round up for 2018, I probably won't have the next one out until April (but I might do a review in that time, Idk for sure. In the Bowie boxset I would probably have to give that Serious Moonlight album a 7-7.5

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  • Jazz Collaborations Vol. 1 - Charles Mingus & Thad Jones
  • Aoxomoxoa - Grateful Dead
  • Scheherazade and Other Stories - Renaissance
  • Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
  • Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
  • Makin' Music - Roy Clark & Gatemouth Brown
  • Blood, Chet and Tears - Chet Baker
  • The Dealer - Chico Hamilton introducing Larry Coryell
  • Oxnard - Anderson .Paak
  • Sound of Christmas - The Ramsey Lewis Trio
  • Exile on Main St. - The Rolling Stones
  • Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
  • Proof Positive - J.J. Johnson
  • Unplugged - Eric Clapton
  • Burnin' - The Wailers
  • I Feel Love Comin' On - Felice Taylor
  • Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead
  • Rape of the Bastard Nazarene - Akercocke
  • Stone Gon' - Barry White
  • Wolf - Bill Wolfer
  • Alright Again! - Clarence Gatemouth Brown

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  • Force It - UFO
  • Home Again - New Edition
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Pride - Robert Palmer
  • Get It  - Dave Edmunds
  • It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - Vince Guaraldi
  • Tonight - Savage
  • A Night on the Town - Rod Stewart
  • Together Through Life - Bob Dylan
  • Da Drought 3 - Lil Wayne
  • Mønk - Thelonious Monk
  • The Moldau; From Bohemia's Fields and Groves - New York Philharmonic/Szell - 
  • Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Wasteland - Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats
  • R.E.O./T.W.O. - REO Speedwagon
  • The Alternate Tango in the Night - Fleetwood Mac
  • Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
  • Thrice X - Big K.R.I.T.
  • Rossini: Stabat Mater - Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Arman
  • King, Does the King's Things - Albert King
  • H2O - Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Dark Days Ahead - Iron Reagan
  • MassEducation - St. Vincent
  • Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr. Seuss' The Grinch - Tyler, The Creator
  • One Bad M.F. Live!! - Marty Friedman
  • Train Kept a Rollin/Knockin Blues - Tiny Bradshaw
  • Fire on the Mountain - The Charlie Daniels Band
  • Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
  • Triumphant Hearts - Jason Becker
  • Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions - Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
  • FM! - Vince Staples
  • A Christmas Album - Barbra Striesand
  • Sunshine Superman - Donovan
  • The Prophet Speaks - Van Morrison
  • Liszt: Via Crucis - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Leeuw
  • Isolation - Kali Uchis
  • The Illinois Concert - Eric Dolphy
  • Unchained Melodies - Roy Orbison with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Dreamboat Annie - Heart
  • Little Feat
  • Shotgun Willie - Willie Nelson

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  • Night Moves - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
  • Loving the Alien [1983-1988] - David Bowie
  • Agent Provocateur - Foreigner


Revisit
  • Pride - Robert Palmer
  • Mirage - Fleetwood Mac
  • The Illinois Concert - Eric Dolphy
  • Dreamboat Annie - Heart

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

July-September 2018 Post

I'm going to try and finish this up, for 2018, and post 1 every two weeks or so.
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  •  Further Definitions - Benny Carter and his Orchestra
  • Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
  • The Poll Winners - Barney Kessel with Shelly Manne and Ray Brown
  • Tokyo Tapes - Scorpions
  • La traviata - Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Klieber
  • Moment of Glory - Scorpions & Berliner Philharmoniker
  • Acoustica - Scorpions
  • Sailin' Shoes - Little Feat
  • I'm A Resident! - The Residents
  • Struggling Man - Jimmy Cliff
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  •  Liszt: Athanor - Beatrice Berrut
  •  Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 - Black Thought
  • Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods - Dizzy Gillespie & Machito
  • Dark Endless - Marduk
  • The Outer View - George Russell
  • Brahms: Choral Works - Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner
  • Frampton
  • Don't Break the Oath - Mercyful Fate
  • Frampton Comes Alive!
  • Satori - Flower Travellin' Band
  • Poppy. Remixes
  • Backwards - Coil
  • Herzeleid - Rammstein
  • Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
  • Elegant Gypsy & More - Al Di Meola
  • What That Is! - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
  • Changes One - Charles Mingus
  • Undercurrents - Bill Evans & Jim Hall
  • Resurrection - Michael Schenker Fest
  • Snakebite - David Coverdale's Whitesnake
  • TA13OO - Denzel Curry
  • 10+ 8 - The Andrzej Kurylewicz Quintet
  • Swimming - Mac Miller
  • The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  • Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac
  • Manifesto - The Souljazz Orchestra
  • Sometimes I'm Blue - Kim Parker
  • Double Fun - Robert Palmer
  • Live in London  - Randy Newman
  • Miles Smiles - Miles Davis
  • Secrets - Robert Palmer
  • Nuovo Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone
  • Clues - Robert Palmer
  • Piano & A Microphone 1983 - Prince
  • Der Freischutz - Staatskapelle Dresden/Kleiber
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  • I'm In You - Peter Frampton
  • Cry Tough - Nils Lofgren

Revisit
  • The Outer View - George Russell
  • Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
  • Undercurrents - Bill Evans & Jim Hall
  • Double Fun - Robert Palmer

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

April-June 2018 Post

This time I decided to add albums I plan to revisit, that doesn't mean I don't like them but I'm unsure how I felt or the way I felt about it isn't a final feeling. I need more listens or time to say what I think for sure.

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  • Blues for Allah - Grateful Dead 
  • Stand By - Heldon
  • The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 - Miles Davis & John Coltrane
  • Beethoven: "Choral" Symphony - Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus / Furtwängler (1955)
  • The Exciting Debut of Andre Watts Playing Liszt
  • 9 Symphonien  - Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan (1963)
  • From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis - Elvis
  • The Harder They Come soundtrack
  • Standing Room Only - Frank Sinatra
  • Chocolate Factory - R. Kelly
  • Ives: Symphony No. 2 - New York Philharmonic/Bernstein
  • The Jaki Byard Experience
  • Terasoma - Avantist
  • Anthem of the Sun - Grateful Dead

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  • Gloria - I Barocchisti / Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera/Diego Fasolis
  • Flute Fever - The Jeremy Steig Quartet
  • Abandoned Lunchonette - Daryll Hall & John Oates
  • Brunch: Scottish Fantasy/Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No 5 - Jascha Heiftz
  • Nova - Steve Reid featuring The Ledendary Master Brotherhood
  • Nils Lofgren
  • Petrouchka - Deutsche Symphoni-Orchester Berlin/Fricsay
  • Earth Wind and Fire
  • Stravinsky Conducts The Fairy's Kiss
  • Jazz Studio Orchestra of Polish Radio
  • 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto - Piero Umiliani
  • Tristan und Isolde - Vienna Philharmonic/Solti
  • Street Survivors - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Live in Chicago - King Crimson
  • Verdi: Requiem/Quattro pezzi Sacri - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Gardiner
  • Peter and the Wolf - David Bowie
  • Schumann: Complete Symphonies - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Gardiner
  • Firebird Suite (New Augmented Version) - New York Philharmonic/Stravinsky
  • Welcome to the Blackout - David Bowie
  • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex - Deutsche Symphonie Orchester/Fricsay
  • 'Nuff Said! - Nina Simone
  • Primal Heart - Kimbra
  • La Boheme  - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra/Beecham
  • Live: You Get What You Pay For - REO Speedwagon
  • Face to Face - The Kinks
  • You're Driving Me Crazy - Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco
  • Messa a quattro voci et Salmi of 1650: Volume II - The Sixteen/Christophers
  • Blank Face LP - Schoolboy Q
  • Book of Dreams - Steve Miller Band
  • Destination Out! - Jackie McLean
  • Liszt - Lucille Chung
  • The Midnight Hour - Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge
  • Kids See Ghosts
  • In the Shadow of the Sword - Non
  • Done by the Forces of Nature - The Jungle Brothers
  • Stravinsky Conducts Cantata, Mass 1948 & In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Houston Symphony Orchestra/Stokowski
  • Coronation Mass - St. John's Sinfonia/Nethsingha
  • NASIR - Nas
  • Dune - Toto
  • Mingus Lives - Mal Waldron
  • Both Directions at the Once - John Coltrane
  • Gluck: Orpheus und Eurydike - RIAS Symphony Orchestra/Fricsay
Revisit
  • Symbiosis - Bill Evans
  • George McCrae