Get Lucky – Daft Punk – There isn’t enough words for the greatnest of Niles Rodgers guitar on this song. It is a great slice of disco any way, but that guitar man, Daft Punk ride the lick all the way to the finish line
The Dark Magus track comes to mind because I was discussing best live albums. It is great because of Favis, but it is one of the best with the addition of two electric guitars. Meanwhile… Laura Stevenson makes a mockery of Pitchfork’s tepid review, and Big Sean has a lot to live up to and on this first song off the newbie he manages.
“To think that our surname would be indelibly linked with London through the naming of a street after Amy is remarkable. “We’re a London family through and through and it would be a tremendous honor if we do become a literal part of the fabric of this great city.”
“I’m so happy that so many people have connected with the stories and the songs on the record, this really is our version of events now”
Daughter’s eagerly anticipated debut album is upon us and I am very excited over a new Hanni El Khattib but unless you are in the market for LL Cool J, not much else going on here. Did I ever mention that I take this list off Metacritic? Seven years ago I tried to put together a website that collated reviews of new albums from everywhere and was half way thru the process when somebody mentioned Metacritic. rock nyc is the grandchild of that idea.
Did you read Steve Crawford’s excellent “The Essential Songs Of George Jones”? “The Old Rugged Cross” is the song he choose off my fave Jones album. # 1 is from a phenomenal album Tomas Doncker turned me on to, part of Red+ Hot charity albums, this one is from Red+ Hot + Riot. A superb, like mind bending album I may actually review though it is years old.
Personal best was the great “Blocka” with all the reggae influences gone and song emerging as a singalong, but a scary one. Pusha T holds the stage very well, maybe better than Fab later in the evening, he is all attitude and intimidation.
“The sadness is of course there in the song “you’re gone”. And I think there’s a great deal of similar emotions in other songs of mine. The truth is that the performer is really only half of the relationship in an evening of song
Sure, the album was the definition of a disappointment and sure, yet again, Morrissey wipes Marrs clock BUT he is one of the greatest guitarists of his generation and he was born to do it live on stage so stop whining and check him out at Music Hall Of Williamsburg on a Friday no less.
OK, so They’ve been on the charts long enough I figured I’d give Bastille another shot People get things wrong, you know. But this album is completely horrible and I overestimate it with a “C+”.
Daft Punk’s single would be good any way but Niles Rodgers guitar lick is so good it overwhelms everything else it is perfect. Britain’s Got Talent runners up sound like Olly Murs only less so.
Both Dylan and the Band roar through this version off Before The Flood, he snarls, it spits, it feels political (Nixon is the mark). The entire album is not punk but gangsta rap in its lack of subtlety. He never stops. It never stops. I am thinking of writing some more about George Jones, I have written about him many times through the years, but every time I saw it feels as though I am rattling off cliches.
There’s a cool caginess about Fabolous, he doesn’t let you see him sweat and his performance has an edge of implied arrogance just because the effort seems so minimal. His connection to the band and to the audience is devoid of anything approaching a big gesture
This is what Scott does: he pounds order on to chaos, he changes the random chance of evil into the bordered form of art. It says, life is bad but through our abilities we can take Children’s Crusades and hurricanes and terrorists attacks and we can place order through art and through love
“From the beginning writing was always very therapeutic. A place to plop down all the mixed and passionate emotions of youth and love, returned and otherwise.”
Side Effects Of You – Fantasia – In the battle for American Idol diva supremacy, Fantasia always played suicidal kid sister to Jennifer Hudson’s late flowering superstar. But this is a terrific album, with three sure shots and handfuls of groove filled post-disco movers. Fantasia wins. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – Grade: A-
This is Fantasia’s week, here excellent new album has dominated my work all week. But as far as singles go, Talib’s single is closer to Motown than anything featured play Miguel has managed before. Makes em both worth taking seriously immediately, even the rap is excellent.
Half of these tracks were listened to in celebration of George Jones life, the other half a mix of Pusha T and Fabolous in celebration of the BB King gig. Fabolous’ “Into You” I had forgotten about but it sure sounds great a decade later. Jones I am getting a little obscure on but “The Gospel Collection” is awesome. He really wasn’t much of an album artist, was he?
From Macbeth to Haile Selasie, Kings abound, from King Kong to Caligula to Faust, monsters are around and from Al Bowly , Optical, Howling Wolf, Alicia Bridges and Tomas Doncker there is music in the cafes at night and revolution in the theatrics of Randy Weiner and Alfred Preisser
with their reunion album at the top of the charts and billets to their performance too hot to handle, the emo rockers have returned from bad marriages and good diets to take their place as the rock and roll band to beat. Save Rock and Roll is (debatably) their best album but that isn’t enough at all, they have given all the earnings from their Boston gig to benefit the victims of their marathon. yep, everything is coming up FOB
Tom should sing Dylan more often, #4 – # 5 were all recommended by Mary Magpie and Flatsound is a major find, and as for Pusha T… he is no good at intimacy. And a whole lotta George jones.
Everybody from Elvis C. to Emo rock owes their vocabulary of pain to the great man and nobody around today or yesterday for that matter can compare. Even Ray Charles loved him.
“I found my voice as a recording artist on those records. It was pretty much a flurry of activity; they were the first sort of burst of stuff I did after I didn’t do anything for four and a half years.”
I think the move to keyboards killed him, just killed him. If you listen to his 1990s live boots, like the awesome “Sensei” and go to his shows today, the difference is bizarre indeed. W’appen?
I begin dreading Monday around 11pm on Saturday nights. I don’t think I ever see the weekend on the horizon without a sense of existential dream. Of course, not having work the next day, is much much worse. Weekends mean nothing without a break from work. Monday is the death day, we dread it but without it the weekend has no meaning
I had a busy day at work, streamed the new Iggy Pop album on NPR but have no hard and fast feel for it right now, caught Maceo Parker at the Blue Note with Tomas Doncker, and felt lousy all day long
I dismissed Tom Jone’s Leonard Cohen cover earlier this week, but it caught up with me, his deep bass vocal is sturdier and more aggressive than Cohen’s stately bemusement. A like like “I was born with the gift of a golden voice” sounds like self-deprecation when Cohen sings it (in concert, it receives a roar of approval but also a few chuckles), when Tom Jones sings it it is all swagger. And the poetry of “the rich find their channels in the bedrooms of the poor” becomes political when the son of a Welsh coal miner sings it.
“It started with the celebration of the 40th anniversary but it has moved into the larger community, something broader has evolved.” An answer to what is hip hop.
As might be expected, a handful of classics(the “1+1” followed by “Irreplaceable” is money in the bank) and a whole lotta strutting. It starts off a little slow (she might wanna rejigger before she hits the US)
This has been Pink’s year, slowly the album has built and topped by the stuperdous live production Pink has done what she has needed to do, as taught by Katy Perry two years ago, to mine her album for all its worth. I love the Psy song, love it.
Congratulations to Fall Out Boy who deserve a hit with one of the best albums of the year under their belt, I wonder who Kid Cudi’s demo is? Male college kids is my bet, they started with him four years ago and haven’t left. White? Oh yes.
80% of this is new releases, some, who needs a live ELO?, are completely useless but fun, some, like Tom Jones cover, are less useless but not right at all, and some, Reese and Mike are just bizarre.
”According to people I’ve spoken to, there’s another album in the pipeline. There was, like, 29 songs or something ‘I don’t know what’s next for Bowie.”
The record was held by “Thrift Shop” in the US and Bastilles “Pompeii” in the UK which you gotta think, right? As Obelix might put it, “These English are crazy.”
Richie Havens – Forever immortalized at Woodstock for his “Motherless Child/Freedom” medley, the hippie folk singer gave a hard strummed acoustic guitar and a soulful vocal to bags full of 1960s classic covers. He was 72 years old when he died.
#9 and #10 is the beginning of a songlist I am thinking of, either a song for every day or 10 songs for each day, #1 and # 2 are some religion for you agnostics out there. Black Sabbath have the brains of a peanut and Shea had the voice of a god.
Yesterday we told you what shows would be available at 2013, today we are gonna tell you what you have to check out! So check en out, folks. Top pick in my book? Femi Kunti. There is more than this worth catching, but not a bad start!
Did I miss the meeting where we all decided Tom Jones wasn”t a first rate entertainer but a second rate artist? Anyway, in a three way tie for first between Phoenix, Buble and Fantasia, I am going with Fantasia because “Lose To Win” is the best of the three introductory singles. Also, I have a soft spot for Fantasia.
Scott Severin’s last album, which I am just getting into, is an old fashioned sprawl of thought on form, but “The Edge Is Gone” is a straight forward piano rollicking rocker. Plastic Visions are scuzzrockers from Nashville, all fuzzed out indieness. And #3 – #5 are a direct reflection of new releases today. At the time I didn’t much care for The Rainbow Concert, today it sounds better than Blind Faith.
While for the audience and maybe even the band, this might be an exercise in nostalgia, there is no working pop band who wouldn’t be better for a viewing of such precise and beautiful musicianship
Mary was a fan of the “Sk8er Boi” girl from back in 2002 which would have made Mary… FIVE YEARS OLD. There is a sense of betrayal in Mary’s reading here, and disdain.Best line “She’s older than Adele… which is ridiculous”.
The show is called “In This Generation: My Life with The Monkees And Beyond “ and is a multimedia extravaganza of film, pictures, stories, music and songs. a
The Buble album is released Stateside tomorrow but for now at least “It’s A Beautiful Day” is an excellent self-penned AOR pop song. Figure anything “B” or better is alright in my books, which means only two albums aren’t alright with me.
Will I Am is releasing his new album, a modern DJ EDM sounds plus guest star except he sings as well, and this is a real good one. Biever sounds brilliant, wonderful vocal. “Gentleman” is working its way into the national conscious but the bet is it will be no “Gangham Style”.
I have been reading Pete Townsend’s “Who I Am” and he writes about backing Clapton at the Rainbow Concert and just being on that zone during “Layla” -cut here from its original ten minutes. As for #10, that’s from the 2009 gig and it was wonderful and this is Blind Faith redux. Between the two is some 30 years and Clapton lost nothing in the interim.
The set didn’t work, the band wasn’t what I wanted to hear, and Krall, the coal miners daughter indeed from the rural small towns of British Columbia, is all blonde and rock star, but I will forgive a lot from a musician who tells me she enjoyed playing with me and sends me home with a lullaby
9-11’s greatest success was NOT killing 2000 people in the World Trade Center, it was the incredible inconvenience of fool security at airports throwing away people’s toothpaste.
The funkiest sax player of all time, living legend James Brown foil and self made icon of all things that move, the great Maceo Parker, will be be playing a week long residency at the Blue Note. I will be there to get down and get funk on Tuesday. I haven’t seen him on stage in years, since a great set at AVery Fisher Hall in the 1990s, and if that is anything to go by, this will be one long skronk!
The UK X Factor Winner is about the best you can hope for, a charming, smart, good looking pop product with the good old fashioned woman appeal to cut through generations and a handful of potential hits here to break him pop. “Troublemaker” has already set the tone and “Heart Skips A Beat” has built up the traction. They are both modern dance pop moves, but elsewhere Murs digs deeper, with calypso flavored rthyms and deep ingrained melodies. It should do the job – ALBUM OF THE WEEK -Grade: A-
Yes folks, the dream we all dream of: Shellshag release the album you always knew they had in em but they never quite pulled off –a melodic lo-fi masterpiece. And Paramore do the undoable, instead of falling apart they arrive with their best album to date.
