Since the Scorpions' career was at its peak, World Wide Live could not have been recorded at a better time. This 19-track album contains all of their early-'80s hits, and while they aren't as energetic on-stage as they are in the studio, the band still perform with a great amount of flamboyance. The record is the Scorpions' only worthwhile live album and is a must for their fans.
Scorpions – World Wide Live - 12/05/06
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Pere Ubu - Cloudland
It's funny, this might be the most controversial recording Ubu ever made. After years of brilliant chunks of avant-garde garage rock tomfoolery, they release a pop record, one with smooth corners, and production help from Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys). It's not as if Ubu is unrecognizable; the familiar idiosyncracies are here and in full effect. It's more that the songs themselves -- love songs -- are very different from their usual dramas from the urban landscape. But David Thomas' pastoral mumblings and utopian visions remain central to the record's lyrical heart. Hardcore fans, a boring group who want everything to sound like Dub Housing, felt betrayed by this record, seeing it as the band's egregious attempt at selling out. But nothing could have been further from the truth. Cloudland is an amazing record that allows room for growth and change without sacrificing panache and attitude.
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REGINA SPEKTOR - begin to hope (2006)
Friday, May 12, 2006
I was only beggining rehab from the addiction Soviet Kitsch caused me and this superb singer/songwriter has a new album ready to come out. It's an album that floats around her previous work, because is has more catchy sounds but it also presents even more complex compositions from Regina. Don't miss one of the most brilliant composers around these days.The Pretenders - Pirate Radio 1979-2005 [2006]
To say that Warner/Rhino/Sire's 2006 four-CD, one-DVD box set Pirate Radio is for the die-hard Pretenders fan may be stating the obvious -- after all, career-spanning multi-disc sets heavy on rarities are by definition for diehards. But die-hard Pretenders fans are different than other die-hard fans, since they can be easily split into two separate camps: those who followed Chrissie Hynde throughout her career, and those who lost interest somewhere after 1983's Learning to Crawl, the triumphant third album that proved Hynde was above all a survivor. After that, Pretenders records were notoriously hit-or-miss affairs, sometimes holding together a little better than others, but patchy enough to whittle down their audience to just the dedicated, while still indicating that a killer comp could be pieced together from these records.
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The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off (2006)
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One of my fav. garage rock band is The walkmen.When i listened their album Everyone Who... they attracted my attention.It was awesome album.Now they released new album.I think it's their success to release such a good album when the other groups are released such crap things.There is two affecting melodies ''All Hands And The Cook'' and ''lost in boston''.A Hundred Miles Off is album which you shouldn't miss in this year.
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Automatic for the People is R.E.M.'s eighth album, and their third major label release for Warner Bros., released in 1992.
Mostly acoustic and typified by its dark lyrics (many of which ruminate on
mortality, death and those departed), Automatic for the People is generally considered to be among R.E.M.'s best albums, and one of the finest releases of the 1990's. The album name refers to the motto of Athens, Georgia eatery "Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods." The photograph on the front cover is not related to the restaurant: it shows a sign on a motel in Miami, where part of the album was recorded.
Arriving on the heels of the previous year's breakthrough album Out of Time, Automatic for the People entered the United States charts at #2, selling over four million copies there, and spent several weeks at #1 in the United Kingdom. As a consequence, R.E.M. were marketed alongside new acts such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam as purveyors of the "alternative" scene, despite obvious differences in outlook, style and musical influences between the older band and the newer ones. Despite the album's success, they declined to tour in support of Automatic for the People, as they had for Out of Time the previous year.
Many of Automatic for the People's songs proved to be very popular: "Drive", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", "Everybody Hurts", "Nightswimming" and the Andy Kaufman tribute "Man on the Moon", which would become the title of the late comedian's 1999 biographical movie starring Jim Carrey.
John Paul Jones, formerly the bassist for Led Zeppelin, in his second career in string arrangement, scored the strings for "Drive," "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite," "Everybody Hurts" and "Nightswimming."
'Automatic for the People captures the group at a crossroads, as they moved from cult heroes to elder statesmen, and the album is a graceful transition into their new status.'Amg
It has subsequently been revealed that Kurt Cobain was likely listening to Automatic for the People before committing suicide on April 5, 1994. The song "Everybody Hurts" had in fact been composed by Michael Stipe (its music was written by Bill Berry) as a reaction to an epidemic of suicides among young people. Stipe would later write the song "Let Me In" about Cobain's death.
In 1997 Automatic for the People was named the 18th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at number 3. In 2003, the album was ranked number 247 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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Arcade Fire - Funeral
One of the best indie rock album which was released last year.I said best because songs in this
album are in harmonious.when you are listening all the songs in order you'll understand why.''Crown Of Love'' and ''Laika'' are my fav. songs from this album.You should also like the first single ''Rebellion (Lies)'' and i think it was a true choice to choose this song for first single.there is an another song which is more good-humoured ''Power Out''.They sang ''Wake Up'' with David bowie at live performance.I think this album worth to buying.
Brand New Muse Single
Here is the 1st single out of the upcoming album "Black Holes and Revelations", that will be released in July.
I waited a long time for this! But I still feel strange when I hear it but I believe the album will be another masterpiece.
Muse - Super Massive Black Hole
Bruce Springsteen - The River
 Imbedded within the double-disc running time of The River is a single-disc album that follows up on the themes and sound of Darkness on the Edge of Town -- wide-screen, mid-tempo rock and stories of the disillusionment of working-class life and the conflicts within families. In these songs, which include the title track, "Independence Day," and "Point Blank," Bruce Springsteen's world view is just as dire as it had become on Darkness, but less judgmental. "Independence Day," for example, is a father-and-son ballad that has little of the anger of its hard rock counterpart on Darkness, "Adam Raised a Cain." | |
Status Quo - Rocking All Over The Years
| Artist: | Status Quo |
| Title: | Rocking All Over The Years |
| Date: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Rock |
Status Quo is one of Britain's longest-lived bands, staying together for over 30 years. During much of that time, the band was only successful in the UK, where they racked up a string of Top Ten singles that ran into the '90s. In America, the group was ignored after they abandoned psychedelia for heavy boogie rock in the early '70s. Before that, the Quo managed to reach number 12 in the US with the psychedelic classic "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (a Top Ten hit in the UK). Following that single, the band suffered a lean period for the next few years, before deciding to refashion themselves as a hard-rock boogie band in 1970 with their Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon album. Over the next 25 years, the Quo have basically recycled the same simple boogie on each successive album and single, yet their popularity has never waned in Britain. If anything, their very predictability has ensured the group a large following....
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ELVIS (30 #1 HITS) - Elvis Presley (2002)
1-Heartbreak Hotel
2-Don't Be Cruel
3-Hound Dog
4-Love Me Tender
5-Too Much
6-All Shook Up
7-(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
8-Jailhouse Rock
9-Don't
10-Hard Headed Woman
11-One Night
12-(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
13-A Big Hunk O' Love
14-Stuck On You
15-It's Now Or Never
16-Are You Lonesome Tonight?
17-Wooden Heart
18-Surrender
19-(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
20-Can't Help Falling In Love
21-Good Luck Charm
22-She's Not You
23-Return To Sender
24-(You're The) Devil In Disguise
25-Crying In The Chapel
26-In The Ghetto
27-Suspicious Minds
28-The Wonder Of You
29-Burning Love
30-Way Down
31-A Little Less Conversation (Junkie XL Remix) (Bonus Track)
about: Elvis Presley may be the single most important figure in American 20th century popular music. Not necessarily the best, and certainly not the most consistent. But no one could argue with the fact that he was the musician most responsible for popularizing rock & roll on an international level. Viewed in cold sales figures, his impact was phenomenal. Dozens upon dozens of international smashes from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s, as well as the steady sales of his catalog and reissues since his death in 1977, may make him the single highest-selling performer in history.
Guillemots - From the cliffs (ep) 2006
Hello to all, this is my debut post on Modern Music and I'm really glad Bulut gave me the chance to be a contributor of this Blog. Hope you enjoy the music I'll share with you.
I'll start my participation with a Guillemots EP. I didn't know this band until I met them when they played as a support band for Rufus Wainwright in Manchester. I find them very refreshing (specially live where they're very inventive), with delicious pop tunes, involved in non-usual arrangements. They are surely a band to keep an eye on because they're only starting to grow now.
Nazareth - The Very Best Of
| Track List 1. Walk By Yourself 2. Telegram (Edited Version) 3. This Flight Tonight (Single) 4. When The Lights Come Down (Live Version) 5. My White Bicycle (Single) 6. Dressed To Kill (Edited Version) 7. Hair Of The Dog (Single Version) 8. Star (Edited Version) 9. Holiday (Single) 10. Holy Roller (Single) 11. Razamanaz 12. Bad Bad Boy (Single) 13. I Want To Do Everything For You (Live) 14. Love Hurts (Single) 15. Shapes Of Things (Edited Version) 16. Hearts Grown Cold 17. Shanghaid In Shanghai (Single) 18. Broken Down Angel (Single) 19. Turn N Your Reciever 20. Hit The Fan (Edited Version) 21. Dream On (Single) 22. Laid To Waste (Newly Recorded Version) | T he Scottish hard rock quartet Nazareth had a handful of hard rock hits in the late '70s, including the proto-power ballad "Love Hurts." Formed in 1968, the band featured vocalist Dan McCafferty, guitarist Manny Charlton, bassist Pete Agnew, and drummer Darrell Sweet. The band had relocated to London by 1970, and they released their self-titled debut album in 1971. Both Nazareth and 1972's Exercises received favorable attention by British hard rockers, but it was 1973's Razamanaz that moved them into the U.K. Top Ten (both "Broken Down Angel" and "Bad Bad Boy" were hit singles). Loud 'n' ProudRampant (both 1974) followed the same formula, yet were slightly less successful.... |
Tracy Chapman - Let it rain
Tracy Chapman helped restore singer/songwriters to the spotlight in the '80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman's eponymous 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same confessional singer/songwriter foundation that had been popularized in the '70s, her songs were fresh and powerful, driven by simple melodies and affecting lyrics. At the time of her first album, there were only a handful of artists performing such a style successfully, and her success ushered in a new era of singer/songwriters that lasted well into the '90s.
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