Bob Dylan:Nashville Skyline

Nashville Skyline is an album by Bob Dylan, released in 1969. Building on John Wesley Harding's artistic shift towards simpler music, Dylan used Nashville Skyline as a springboard for complete immersion into country music.

The result received some mixed reaction from critics at the time, but Nashville Skyline, despite its brevity (it is Dylan's shortest album), was a commercial success. Reaching #3 in the US, the album also scored Dylan his 4th UK #1 album.

At the beginning of "Girl of the North Country" either Bob Dylan or Johnny Cash can be heard swallowing a drink of water.

There's no discounting that Nashville Skyline, arriving in the spring of 1969, established country-rock as a vital force in pop music, as well as a commercially viable genre.

Bob Dylan:Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited, widely regarded as one of the greatest albums ever, was the sixth album released by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It includes nine original songs, including Dylan's first U.S. top ten single, "Like A Rolling Stone".

It was regularly featured in blues songs, notably Mississippi Fred McDowell's "61 Highway" and James "Son" Thomas's "Highway 61."

Opening with the epic "Like a Rolling Stone," Highway 61 Revisited careens through nine songs that range from reflective folk-rock ("Desolation Row") and blues ("It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry") to flat-out garage rock ("Tombstone Blues," "From a Buick 6," "Highway 61 Revisited").

The Most Modern 10 (3)

1.Frank Black - It's Just Not Your Moment buy this
2.Mojave 3 - Breaking the icebuy this
3.The walkmen - Louisiana
4.Sonic Youth - Incineratebuy this
5.Phoenix - Long Distance Callbuy this (New)
6.Primal Scream - Country girlbuy this
7.Tom Verlaine - Documentarybuy this
8.Scott Walker - Cossacks Arebuy this
9.Barzin - just more drugsbuy this (New)
10.The Red Krayola - cruise boatbuy this

This is the week's important album is My Life In Rooms from Barzin.if you love melancholic lyrics like Tindersticks,Leonard cohen,Mojave 3 this album is to full you.

News!

James Blunt banned
Manics pen song for The June Brides
Details on new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy record emerge
Prince Honoured For His Online Music Policy
East 17: We Influenced The Streets
The Go! Team want Kevin Shields
Pete Doherty 'held on EasyJet flight'
Reunited Slits record new music
Brian Eno reunites with Roxy Music (for real)
Editors delay work on new album

Thom Yorke's Album Leaks Online(News!)

Thom Yorke’s solo album ‘The Eraser’ has leaked over a month ahead of its release.

Limited copies of the albums have been sent out to various agencies and according to atease.com, one has slipped through the net and appeared online.

Promotional copies of the album have been uniquely coded with the receiver’s details, but it’s not known whether the person who leaked the album is being traced.

‘The Eraser’ hits the shelves in the UK on July 10 and a day later Stateside.

Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' Voted Greatest Album Of All Time(News!)

The 1994 album was voted ahead of the likes of The Beatles’ ‘Sgt Pepper’ in second and ‘Revolver’ in third.

The poll voted for by was conducted by the book of British Albums and Hit Singles to celebrate 50 years of the Official UK album chart.

Other albums that charted high were Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ in fourth, Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ in eighth and The Smiths’ ‘The Queen Is Dead’ in tenth.

Surprise entries came from The Killers with ‘Hot Fuss’ at 21, Kaiser Chiefs’ ‘Employment’ at 27 and Green Day with ‘American Idiot’ at 32. Shocking.

British Hit Singles and Albums editor David Roberts said: “Usually these polls are full of records that people have only just bought because they are freshest in the mind.

“But this poll shows that the truly great albums always have longevity.

“Only two albums in the Top 20 were released in the last five years, so the voters have clearly thought long and hard about their decision.

“We believe our readers are the most knowledgeable music fans in the country so for them to have decided that Definitely Maybe should be the Number One album is really something.
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Short notes:Thom Yorke's new Album

Really exciting for listen his first solo album The Eraser.But there isn't too much guitars.Vocals are very succesfull as usual.Album's sounds indie electronic,indie pop.There are nine songs in this album.For now,i chose my favorite songs from album Analyse and The Clock.But i think we'll prefer Radiohead,because band means power of working together.

Spotlight :The Lucksmiths

Australian indie-pop trio the Lucksmiths teamed singer/percussionist Tali White, guitarist Marty Donald, and bassist Mark Monnone, longtime school friends who initially bonded over their mutual admiration for the Smiths. After going their separate ways to attend university and travel, the threesome reconvened in their native Melbourne in early 1993, playing their debut gig that April opening for the Sugargliders.

The Lucksmiths' debut tape was soon released, and in 1994 the group resurfaced with an EP, Boondoggle. After signing with the local Candle imprint, the Lucksmiths released their first CD effort, The Green Bicycle Case. What Bird Is That? followed a year later, and in 1997 the band made its American debut with the single "The Invention of Ordinary Everyday Things," released via the small Michigan label Drive-In Records. Following the release of the 1998 full-length A Good Kind of Nervous, the Lucksmiths played a handful of European dates in support of Belle & Sebastian, a frequent reference point not only in light of the Lucksmiths' wispy folk-pop sound but also their self-effacingly witty lyrics.

I can recommend to you their last two album Why doesn't that surprise me and Warmer Corners (buy).Especially,Why doesn't that surprise me is great to meet with their music.I think their best song is music to hold hands to.You can listen their four song from Myspace
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Morrissey - Maladjusted

Maladjusted was Morrissey's attempt to integrate the prog rock that he experimented with on 1995's Southpaw Grammar with the indie rock of his earlier career. His efforts were largely successful. In addition to "Alma Matters", the tracks "Trouble Loves Me", "Ammunition, and "Roy's Keen" stand out as high-quality songs reminiscent of the Vauxhall and I and Your Arsenal era. As such, the album met with mixed but generally positive reviews and is considered a strong work by fans. Despite this, the album was not a commercial success, bowing at a disappointing #8 in the UK. The follow-up singles, "Roy's Keen" and "Satan Rejected My Soul" peaked at #42 and #39, respectively. Still, the album reached #61 in the US and has sold 88,000 copies to Southpaw Grammar's 65,000.

Album Of Week:Royal City - Alone At The Microphone

Alone At The Microphone was released in 2001.You can listen alternative country and lo-fi styles in this album.If you listen indie i'm sure you know this band.The main focus of Royal City's singer/songwriter, Aaron Riches, was to write the songs on Alone at the Microphone.Mostly ,this album lyrical expression.But you can also see their pretentious song from this album like Bad Luck.This song is more indie rock and seperating other songs its style.The end result is a lo-fi recording with fair-quality alternative/punk songs featuring a certain folk influence. Absolutely,You can see country melodies on everysong while listening.The most important songs are Bad Luck,Dank Is the Air of Death and Loathing from this record.
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David Bowie makes suprise appearance in London(News!)

The star sings some Pink Floyd classics

David Bowie stunned fans by making his first appearance on a UK stage in nearly two years last night (May 29) at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The singer, who has been relatively quiet since undergoing emergency heart surgery in summer 2004, came on as a surprise guest during the encore at former Pink Floyd man David Gilmour's first of three sold-out nights at the venue.

Long time Floyd fanatic Bowie received a standing ovation after performing classics tracks 'Arnold Layne' and 'Comfortably Numb'.

Bowie last played the UK in June 2004, at the Isle Of Wight festival.

Other guests on the evening included David Crosby and Graham Nash, who sang on the title track of Gilmour's recent UK Number One album 'On An Island' as well as 'The Blue', Pink Floyd's 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and their own 'Find The Cost Of Freedom'.

Meanwhile long time collaborator Robert Wyatt also dropped to reprise his role from the recent album, playing cornet on 'Then I Close my Eyes'.

Gilmour plays another two nights the venue - tonight and tomorrow (May 30/31).

Radiohead deny playing song for Tory leader(News!)

They say David Cameron is mistaken

Radiohead have denied playing a request for the Conservative Party leader David Cameron at a concert in London earlier this month.

Cameron has often cited Radiohead as one of his favourite bands, and he was invited along to the Friends Of The Earth benefit show that singer Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood were headlining at KOKO in Camden on May 1.

The politician appeared on Sunday's (May 28) Desert Island Discs programme on BBC Radio 4, choosing the songs he would take with him if he was a castaway. When choosing Radiohead's 1995 single 'Fake Plastic Trees', Cameron told host Sue Lawley that Yorke and Greenwood performed the song at his request at the concert.

After Lawley had asked if they had played the song especially for him, Cameron revealed: "Yes he (Yorke) did. I sent this rather sad letter saying I'd love to come to the concert, thank you for asking. PS please play this, my favourite song - and he did."

But a spokesman for Radiohead told The Independent: "The set list was chosen to reflect the fact that it was just Thom and Jonny playing and the choice of songs was what they wanted to play - nothing to do with any special requests."

Radiohead have just completed the UK leg of a European tour where they premiered a raft of new material set to feature on the follow-up to 2003's 'Hail To The Thief'.
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Supergrass - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Smiths cover)
I made a mistake yesterday sorry about fall the smiths cover.

Now let's listen Supergrass...I prefer to listen the original version but you may like this cover too.
Supergrass putted the begining of original song to middle of the song,so you can think that song is finished middle of it but it isn't.Volume is going down and becaming mute then volume is rising...
When i first listen Smiths version i thought that it was a record fault,but it wasn't.One of my fav. smith song...Click for listen

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (2006)

Rating:9.0
Modern Music Album Review:
After sonic nurse it's a great feeling to see that they are going on with their music.

Opening song Reena which contains high and low guitar melodies.Kim gordon's vocal is bringin more impression to this song.At the half of the song,guitars are starting to fly and they're flying with you and suddenly it's turning same ordinary melody.

Incinerate is first single and it has a calm melody,great but really it isn't best song from this album.You are slowing with Do You Believe In Rapture.This song is containing more experimental tunes.Sleepin Around is starting with restless and noisy guitar and really it has a wanderful opening.

After three Thurston Moore vocal,Kim gordon's singing What A Waste.It's a more regular melody,there's not any marked guitar melodies.In song Jams Run Free while Kim is singing normally and singing like a boring song,suddenly is changing and You're seeing a sound choke with a great noise theme.This is what we expecting from Sonic Youth,you think that you're listening an ordinary song,but it isn't an ordinary song.Music is changing suddenly and you're hooking up.

This album is really cramfull.You can see on Rats best vocal permormance on this album.On this song,melody suddenly changing to a brilliant and hot light.This changing is a guaranty which makes you falling love with this album.

Pink Steam is an indie song with no vocal and also we can say it's only instrumantel(but you'll see it's not) song ,airy,attractive.But Thursten Moore entering with his voice near end of the song and i suprised when first listen this song.There isn't a order melody on this song.all the time it's changing and i wanna say it's the best song on this album.Rather Ripped shows us music is still not dead and still there are good musicians.

Talk About Album Covers:Nick Drake

This weekend,we'll look Nick Drake - Pink Moon(1972) album cover.First of all,It is a big honor to put Nick's cover to this post.The cover is telling content of album,certainly yes it's telling the truth.it's telling misery,coffee,leaf...Look at the cup it shows this album is filled with full of art.

Info About th album:
Pink Moon was recorded at midnight in two two-hour sessions over two days in October of 1971 featuring only Nick Drake's vocals and guitar, as well as some piano arrangement later overdubbed on the title track.

While lookin' my music archive:The Dude

Yes while looking my huge music archive,i chose one of them to listen and it was The Dude.I'm listening their Specially for You album.It was very sad there aren't too many infos on internet so i wanted to write about them.Their song named Dawn is interesting,succesfull.They haven't bad sound.Their songs are worth listen,i'm sure you'll like them.Their the most unforgetable work is Sunday 3AM.If you like to explore new music,you can search about them,but really it was a chance to find and listen them.
Their official website