Hear Ye On Spotify: what rock nyc is listening to 11-28-13

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1. Thanksgiving Theme – Vince Guaraldi Trio – I tend to go along with Pauline Kael, who loathed the movies and loathed the twee twinkie doodley music. Vastly preferred the comic strip. No thanks – D+

2. Long Long Long – Waves And Waves – rock nyc pin up gal Lael  Neale gives a haunting vocal to this excellent Harrison cover, the mood modulates and doesn’t but raises itself and then lulls – B+

3. Let It Go – Demi Lovato – The arrangement is better than Idina’s original, the vocal isn’t – C

4.  Evergreen (Theme From A Star Is Born) – Barbra Streisand – Her voice is sublime and this is pretty and a remainder the millionth time. – B

5. Revolution Number Zero – The Brian Jonestown Experience – The Beatle reference is a bluff, it is a superb fuzzed out garage rock melodic 60s rocker style masterpiece – A

6. Colorblind – Margot Macdonald – Mid-album, deep-album cut filled with haunting atmospherics – B+

7. Speak To Me/Breathe (In The Air) – Tom Stoppard and Pink Floyd – sets up the premise, Ethics man saves the people on the train but knocks off a young bioy in the process – A

8.Hop Is back – Hopsin – Anybody who compares West unfavorably to Lamar doesn’t know what he is talking about. I said talking not rapping – B+

9. Fitzpleasure -Dave Sitek remix – House beats aplenty – B+

10. High street – Blood Orange – Ends the album with a haunting ballad plus grimey rap – B+

 

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