Fin

Three Hundred Sixty-Five

Artist - Nirvana
Album - Unplugged in New York
Released - 1994
Label - Geffen
Genre - Alternative Rock

Tracks:
1
About A Girl
Come As You Are
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam
The Man Who Sold The World
Pennyroyal Tea
Dumb
2
On A Plain
Something In The Way
Plateau
Oh Me
Lake of Fire
All Apologies
Where Did You Sleep Last Night

Well there you go.  365 days of vinyl COMPLETE!  I guess I would like to thank all the people who have encouraged me and all the interesting and phenomenal artists out there who made music.  I had a great access to records thanks to my roommates and also from store hoping all over the place, from the East Coast to the West Coast.  The thing I enjoyed about this was discovering a lot of new music and also finally being able to discover a whole new world of music -- vinyl records.  I will not give up listening and purchasing vinyl records, but I probably won't post as much.  

365 days - I made it.  So here I bring to you Nirvana's Unplugged in New York, one of my FAVORITE RECORDS OF ALL TIME!  This is a record that I can listen to over and over and over no matter what, when and where.  This is the record that has stripped down and changed the way I felt about live music (I was born in the 80's and my musical knowledge basically started in the late 80's).  Anyway, enjoy this masterpiece as I will always continue to enjoy it, for the rest of my life.  I also want to thank the ones who are near and  dear to me.  This has been such an amazing year.  Now it's time to go hide for about a week until I decide to display my top 12 records  from this past year.

Enjoy!

Southern Sounds

Three Hundred Sixty-Four

Artist - The Allman Brothers Band
Album - At Fillmore East
Released - 1971
Label - Capricorn
Genre - Blues-Rock/Southern Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Statesboro Blues
Done Somebody Wrong
Stormy Monday
Side Two
You Don't Love Me
Side Three
Hot 'Lanta
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Side Four
Whipping Post

What a great album to listen to when you want to relax.  Southern/Blues rock at it's finest, The Allman Brothers Band will get you into a groove to dance.  The sensational guitars, harmonica and uptempo drum beats are very, very soothing.

Enjoy!

Food for Thought

Three Hundred Sixty-Three

Artist - Hot Tuna
Album - Burgers
Released - 1972
Label - Grunt
Genre - Folk Rock

Tracks:
Side 1
True Religion
Highway Song
99 Year Blue
Sea Child
Side 2
Keep On Truckin'
Water Song
Ode for Billy Dean
Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
Sunny Day Strut

Enjoy!

A Village of Little Creatures

Three Hundred Sixty-Two

Artist - Talking Heads
Album - Little Creatures
Released - 1985
Label - Sire/EMI
Genre - New Wave Pop

Tracks:
A
And She Was
Give Me Back My Name
Creatures of Love
The Lady Don't Mind
Perfect World
B
Stay Up Late
Walk It Down
Television Man
Road to Nowhere

Enjoy!

Numbers

Three Hundred Sixty-One

Artist - Rush
Album - 2112
Released - 1976
Label - Anthem/Atlantic/Epic
Genre - Progressive Rock

Tracks:
Side One
"2112"
I. Overture
II. The Temples of Syrinx
III.  Discovery
IV. Presentation
V. Oracle: The Dream
VI. Soliloquy
VII. Grande Finale
Side Two
A Passage to Bangkok
The Twilight Zone
Lessons
Tears
Something for Nothing

Enjoy!

...And So It Begins

Three Hundred Sixty

Artist(s) - Ike and Tina Turner
Album - Workin' Together
Released - 1971
Label - Liberty Records
Genre - Pop/Funk/Soul/Blues Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Workin' Together
(As Long As I Can) Get You When I Want You
Get Back
The Way You Love Me
You Can Have It
Game of Love
Side Two
Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter
Ohh Poo Pah Doo
Proud Mary
Goodbye, So Long
Let It Be

Enjoy!

Meeting of the Minds

Three Hundred Fifty-Eight

Artist - Menomena
Album - Friend and Foe
Released - 2007
Label - Barsuk
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Muscle'n 'Flo
The Pelican
Wet and Rusting
Air Aid
Rotten Hell
Running
My My
Boyscout'n
Evil Bee
Ghostship
West

Enjoy!

Drawings of Houses

Three Hundred Fifty-Eight

Artist - Built to Spill
Album - Perfect from Now On
Released - 1997
Label - Warner Bros
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Side 1
Randy Described Eternity
I Would Hurt A Fly
Stop the Show
Side 2
Made-Up Dreams
Velvet Waltz
Kicked in the Sun
Side 3
Out of Site
Untrustable/Part 2 (About someone else)
Side 4
Easy Way

Enjoy!

Just A Little Bit Of Air

Three Hundred Fifty-Seven

Artist - Air Supply
Album - Air Supply
Released - 1985
Label - Arista
Genre - Soft Rock

Tracks:
Just As I Am
I Can't Let Go
The Power of Love
Make It Right
I Wanna Hold You Tonight
Black and Blue
When The Time is Right
Sandy
Great Pioneer
Sunset
After All
Never Fade Away

Enjoy!

Adieu

Three Hundred Fifty-Six

Artist - Edith Piaf
Album - Adieu, Little Sparrow
Released - 1964
Label - Phillips
Genre - Pop (French)

Tracks:
Side 1
Mon Legionnaire
Un Jeune Homme Chantait
Elle Frequentait La Rue Pigalle
La Fanion De La Legion
Le Disque
De L'Autre Cote De La Rue
Side 2
L'Etranger
C'est Toujours La Meme Histoire
C'etait Un Jour De Fete
Y'a Pas De Printemps
L'Accordeoniste
J'ai Qu'a L'Regarder

Enjoy!

De Plane Boss, De Plane

Three Hundred Fifty-Five

Artist - Jefferson Starship
Album - Freedom At Point Zero
Released - 1979
Label - Grunt/RCA
Genre - Rock

Track:
Jane
Awakening
Rock Music
Just the Same
Things to Come
Lightening Rose
Fading Lady Light
Freedom at Point Zero
Girl With the Hungry Eyes

Enjoy!

A Dog and his Stereo

Three Hundred Fifty-Four

Artist - Glenn Miller
Album - The Best of Glenn Miller
Released - 1979
Label - RCA 
Genre - Jazz

Tracks:
Side A
Moonlight Serenade
Chattanooga Choo Choo
A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square
In The Mood
Tuxedo Junction
Glen Island Special
That Old Black Magic
Little Brown Jug
Blueberry Hill
Juke Box Saturday Night
There'll Be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs of Dover
Side 2
American Patrol
Moonlight Cocktail
Elmer's Tune
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
The Nearness of You
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Imagination
A String of Pearls
Moonlight Becomes You
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
Sunrise Serenade

Enjoy!

Grateful Live

Three Hundred Fifty-Three

Artist - Grateful Dead
Album - History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)
Released - 1973
Label - Warner Bros
Genre - Jam/Folk Rock

Tracks:
Side I
Katie Mae
Dark Hollow
I've Been All Around This World
Wake Up Little Susie
Black Peter
Side II
Smokestack Lightnin (Howlin' Wolf)
Hard to Handle

So after listening to this record, I fell in love with Black Peter.  A slow, quaint song that hypnotized me under its spell.  A lovely live version of songs from the Grateful Dead, History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) is the bands ninth album and fourth live album.  Jerry Garcia plays one MEAN guitar and when I mean MEAN, I mean awesome.

Enjoy!

Hymn to Rock

Three Hundred Fifty-Two

Artist - Jethro Tull
Album - Aqualung
Released - 1971
Label - Chrysalis/Reprise
Genre - Progressive Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Aqualung
Cross-Eyed Mary
Cheap Day Return
Mother Goose
Wond'ring Around
Up To Me
Side Two
My God
Hymn 43
Slipstream
Locomotive Breath
Wind Up

An interesting "concept album" as British rockers Jethro Tull would call this album, I believe it flows great together.  Maybe it is the different sounds, but the progressiveness of what is projected out of the speakers SPEAKS to me.  I always enjoy a rock band that has a flute  and as I read the back cover, I also see instruments such as descant recorder, mellotron and alto recorder. Ha, how interesting is that?

Enjoy!

Red Music

Three Hundred Fifty-One

Artist - Mogwai
Album - Rock Action 
Released - 2001
Label -Matador
Genre - Post Rock

Tracks:
Side 1
Sine Wave
Take Me Somewhere Nice
O I Sleep
Dial: Revenge
Side 2
You Don't Know Jesus
Robot Chant
2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Secret Pint

Enjoy!

Without a Sleeve

Three Hundred Fifty

Artist - Al Green
Album - Truth N' Time
Released - 1978
Label - Cream Records, Inc.
Genre - Soul

Tracks:
Side One
Blow Me Down
Lo and Behold
Wait Here
To Sir with Love
Side Two
Truth N' Time
King of All
Say A Little Prayer
Happy Days

Enjoy!

Nature At It's Best

Three Hundred Forty-Nine

Artist - If These Trees Could Talk
Album - Red Forest
Released - 2012
Label - Science of Silence Records
Genre - Post Rock

Tracks:
Side A
Breath of Life
The First Fire
Barren Lands of the Modern Dinosaur
They Speak with Knives
The Gift of Two Rivers
Side B
Red Forest
Aleutian Clouds
Left to Rust and Rot
When the Big Hand Buries the Twelve

Enjoy!

Identity Crisis

Three Hundred Forty-Nine

Artist - Cat Stevens
Album - Greatest Hits
Released - 1975
Label - A&M
Genre - Folk Rock

Tracks:
Wild World
Oh Very Young
Can't Keep It In
Hard Headed Woman
Moonshadow
Two Fine People
Peace Train
Ready
Father & Son
Sitting
Morning Has Broken
Another Saturday Night

I went above and beyond to look for this one particular song and I found it on this album.  A compilation of the best of what Cat Stevens has to offer, this Greatest Hits album drew me in with the first song Wild One.  I don't know how many Cat Steven records I turned over in record stores just to find that one song.

Enjoy!

A Feather Writing Utensil

Artist - Arcade Fire
Album - Funeral
Released - 2004
Label - Merge, Rough Trade
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Side A
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Une Annee Aans Lumiere
Side B
Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Crown of Love
Wake Up
Haiti
Rebellion (Lies)
In the Backseat

The debut album by Canadian Indie Rockers Arcade Fire, Funeral surely made a name for them.  A raw, powerful record, this album is amazing, even listening to it 9 years later.  Some of my favorite tracks are Rebellion (Lies)  and the soft voice singing in In the Backseat.  But of course, the main song that is and probably will always be my all-time favorite by Arcade Fire is Wake Up.  Everything about this song will not only WAKE you UP, but it's almost as if it is a sing-a-long anthem of sorts.  Definitely THE song to check out, turn up and play loud on this record.

Enjoy!

Animals They Are Not

Three Hundred Forty-Six

Artist - The Turtles
Album - Greatest Hits
Released - 1967
Label - White Whale
Genre - Psychedelic/Classic Rock

Tracks:
Side One
You Baby
So Goes Love
She'd Rather Be With Me
Is It Any Wonder?
Let Me Be
Grim Reaper of Love
Side Two
It Ain't Me Babe
Can I Get To Know You Better?
Happy Together
Outside Chance
You Know What I Mean

Enjoy!

Smoke from the Subway

Three Hundred Forty-Five

Artist - The Velvet Underground
Album - Loaded
Released - 1970
Label - Cotillion
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Who Loves the Sun
Sweet Jane
Rock & Roll
Cool It Down
New Age
Side Two
Head Held High
Lonesome Cowboy Bill
I Found A Reason
Train Round the Bend
Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!!!! A wonderful, fantastic, incredible album.  They don't make music like this anymore, so please enjoy this as much as you can.  Lou Reed's voice will cast a spell on you!!

Enjoy!

All Day, Any Day

Three Hundred Forty-Three

Artist - Johnny Mathis with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra
Album - I'll Buy You A Star
Released - 1961
Label - Columbia
Genre - Pop/Orchestra

Tracks:
Side 1
I'll Buy You A Star
Stairway to the Stars
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
Magic Garden
Smile
Oh How I Try
Side 2
Ring the Bell
Love Look Away
Sudden Love
The Best Is Yet to Come
Warm and Willing
My Heart and I

The fourteenth album by this sensational artist Johnny Mathis, I'll Buy You a Star is a joyous album.  Having displayed Johnny Mathis previously along the way, I really do enjoy his music a lot.  He has such talent and to bring upon an orchestra on top of his talent just makes it that much better.

Enjoy!

Persuade Me Anytime

Three Hundred Forty-Three

Artist - Billie Holiday
Album - Greatest Hits!
Released - 1967
Label - MCA
Genre - Jazz/Blues

Tracks:
Side One
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
Don't Explain
Solitude
Easy Living
Good Morning Heartache
Crazy He Calls
Side Two
God Bless the Child
That Ole Devil Called Love
Them There Eyes
You're My Thrill
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Enjoy!

Is It Really?

Three Hundred Forty-Two

Artist - Lou Rawls
Album - That's Lou
Released - 1967
Label - Capitol
Genre - Funk/Soul

Tracks:
Side One
When Love Goes Wrong
Problems
Reminiscing Monologue
They Don't Give Medals (To Yesterday's Heroes)
Ear Bender Monologue
What Are You Doing About Today
Show Business Monologue
Show Business
Side Two
Please Give Me Someone to Love
Hard To Get Thing Called Love
(How Do You Say) I Don't Love You Anymore
Street Dreams
The Love That I Give

Not since the great Ray Charles burst into the musical firmament has an entertainer illuminated contemporary music with the brilliance of Lou Rawls.  Having a string of smash hit albums to his credit, Lou approaches the materials in tis album with supreme confidence and self-assuredness of a "star."  He knows what to do.  He knows he's right.  And when you know you're right, you an hardly ever go wrong.  And the combining of Lou Rawls with H.B. Barnum's music is a stroke of genius or good fortune (or both) unparalleled since someone at Capitol thought of putting Nelson Riddle together with Frank Sinatra.

What great things to come out of Lou Rawls and what amazing things he has done for this record.

Enjoy!

King of Pop

Three Hundred Forty-One

Artist - Michael Jackson
Album - Thriller
Released - 1982
Label - Epic
Genre - Pop

Tracks:
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Baby Be Mine
The Girl is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
Thriller
Beat It
Billie Jean
Human Nature
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
The Lady In My Life

He wasn't coined the King of Pop for no reason.  Michael Jackson was on top of the world when Thriller was released, which was his sixth studio album.  A star as a child with the Jackson Five, Michael Jackson was no stranger to fame and being on stage.  As this album portrays a variety of different genres, (i.e., Pop, R&B, Rock, Disco), it quanifies the musical ability and also brings a distinct label to Michael Jackson's style.

Enjoy!

Is It Summer Yet?

Three Hundred Forty

Artist - The Beach Boys
Album - All Summer Long
Released - 1964
Label - Capitol
Genre - Rock, Surf Rock

Tracks:
Side One
I Get Around
All Summer Long
Hushabye
Little Honda
We'll Run Away
Side Two
Wendy
Do You Remember?
Girls On The Beach
Drive-In
Don't Back Down

It definitely felt like Summer when I decided to play this record first thing in the morning.  That was, of course, until I stepped outside to about 40 degrees of cold weather smacking me in my face.  The sixth album by SURF ROCKERS The Beach Boys, All Summer Long is very in tune with the Summer and being on the beach.  I guess that is why you would categorize them as Surf Rock, which is a term I laugh at because I guess you can pretty much name any type of rock.  Brian Wilson is pretty much the mastermind behind all of The Beach Boys' hits.  Such a talented writer and musician.

Enjoy!

When We Were Young

Three Hundred Thirty-Nine

Artist - Wolf Parade
Album - Expo 86
Released - 2010
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Cloud Shadow on the Mountain
Palm Road
What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had to Go This Way)
Little Golden Age
In The Direction of the Moon
Ghost Pressure
Pobody's Nerfect
Two Men in New Tuxedos
Oh You, Old Thing
Yulia
Cave-O-Sapien

Enjoy!

The Future is Yours....or Ours

Three Hundred Thirty-Eight

Artist - And So I Watch You From Afar
Album - All Hail Bright Futures
Released - 2013
Label - Sargent House
Genre - Post-Rock

Tracks:
Eunoia
Big Think Do Remarkable
Like a Mouse
Ambulance!
The Stay Golden Pt. 1
The Stay Golden Pt. 2 (Rats on a Rock)
The Stay Golden Pt. 3 (Trails...)
Mend and Make Safe
Ka Ba Ta Bo Da Ka
Things Amazing
All Hail Bright Futures
Young Brave Minds

To a band that I discovered online, spread the word to a friend and a week later we saw them live.  Nearly ripping my face off with their enormous sound, And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA) just released their third album on Sargent House Records.  They have a unique post-rock with a little bit of a math rock vibe. I do have to say, after seeing them and buying a shirt, to this day, months later, I still wear that shirt almost every day.

Enjoy!

Blues-Y

Three Hundred Thirty-Seven

Artist - B.B. King
Album - Back In The Alley (The Classic Blues of B.B. King)
Released - 1970
Label - MCA Records
Genre - Blues

Tracks:
Side One
Sweet Little Angel
Watch Yourself
Don't Answer the Door
Paying the Cost to be the Boss
Sweet Sixteen
Side Two
Gambler's Blues
I'm Gonna Do What They Do To Me
Lucille
Please Love Me

After a long day of being lazy and finally making my way out of the house, I bring to  you this gem of gems that I found while searching through records at a local shop.  B.B. King's greatest songs from 1964 and 1967, each one is quite a delight to listen.  As much as I enjoy blues and I think B.B. King's style is truth.

Enjoy!

Mother Nature Approves

Three Hundred Thirty-Six

Artist - If These Trees Could Talk
Album - Above The Earth
Released - 2009
Label - The Mylene Sheath
Genre - Post-Rock

Tracks:
From the Roots to Needles
What's In The Ground Belongs To You
Terra Incognita
Above the Earth
Below the Sky
The Sun in the North
Thirty-Six Silos
The Flames of Herostratus
Rebuilding the Temple of Artemis
Deus  Ex Machina

Enjoy!!

Now For a Little Color

Three Hundred Thirty-Five

Artist - Maps & Atlases
Album - Perch Patchwork
Released - 2010
Label - Barsuk Records
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Will
The Charm
Living Decorations
Solid Ground
Is
Israeli Caves
Banished Be Cavalier
Carrying the Wet Wood
Pigeon
If This Is
Was
Perch Patchwork

Enjoy!

Babies with Laser Eyes

Three Hundred Thirty-Four

Artist - The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Henry Rollins and Peaches
Album - The Dark Side of the Moon
Released - 2010
Label - Warner Bros.
Genre - Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Alternative Rock

Tracks:
Speak to Me
Breathe
On the Run
Time
Breathe Reprise
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Just a short blurb I wanted to write about before getting into this album, which by the way is magnificent.  Today, as I was roaming around the streets of Austin, I realized I have ONE MORE MONTH left if this year long expedition.  To think that it almost seemed like yesterday that I started this and realized it was going to be such an enjoyable trek.  THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR albums I've listened to from April 20th, 2012 until today.  I can honestly say that this has been a commitment I've enjoyed and I will be sad when it comes to an end.  But don't cry tears of joy now because we have thirty-one records left to enjoy together.

I can't take all the credit for today's choice since it came from the immaculate collection of my roommates.  He gave me a few records to pick from and when I started flipping through them, this one caught my eye.  One, being The Flaming Lips and two, the cover tripped me out because there is a baby on it holding the guitar with laser eyes in the colors of the rainbow.  For those of you who do not know much of who The Flaming Lips are, they are such a fun, trippy, psychedelic and unpredictable band.  For a band as experimental as The Flaming Lips to cover Pink Floyd's 1973 masterpiece The Dark Side of the Moon, you have to tip your hat to them.  I say that because I believe, Pink Floyd's rendition of The Dark Side of the Moon is so perfect and amazing and for a band like The Flaming Lips to cover it, they did a spectacular job.  Incorporating acts like Henry Rollins and Peaches (who is a favorite of mine) with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, this album is a great cover.  Every song, from the first to the last, puts a perfect pitch on each song.  From the trippy sounds to the clear vinyl it came on.

Enjoy!

Only on the Cheek

Three Hundred Thirty-Three

Artist - Kiss
Album - Destroyer
Released - 1976
Label - Casablanca
Genre - Hard Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Detroit Rock
King of the Night Time World
God of Thunder
Great Expectations
Side Two
Flaming Youth
Sweet Pain
Should It Out Loud
Beth
Do You Love Me

Enjoy!

Not Sons, Daughters

Three Hundred Thirty-Two

Artist - Joni Mitchell
Album - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Released - 1977
Label - Asylum
Genre - Folk/Pop

Tracks:
Side One
Overture - Cotton Avenue
Talk to Me
Jericho
Side Two
Paprika Plans
Side Three
Otis and Marlena
The Tenth World
Dreamland
Side Four
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Off Night Backstreet
The Silky Veils of Ardor

Enjoy!

Estranged Covers

Three Hundred Thirty-One

Artist - Mogwai
Album - The Hawk is Howling
Released - 2008
Label - Wall of Sound
Genre - Post Rock

Tracks:
A
I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
Batcat
Danphe and the Brain
B
Local Authority
The Sun Smells Too Loud
Kings Meadow
C
I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
Scotland's Shame
D
Thank You Space Expert
The Precipice

To like is to like and to love is to love.  With like, it's something you can tolerate or accept for a brief period of time, but to love is something you are willing to withstand through the test of time.  I like a lot of artists and their music, but it takes something special for me to love it and I know that I love Mogwai.  I think the more I listen to post-rock, the more I appreciate music without lyrics.  Hearing the sounds of the instruments; guitar, drums, bass allows you to make up what you wish to think about at that moment.  Mogwai's sixth album, The Hawk is Howling is one of those albums.

Enjoy!

ReIssue Issues

Three Hundred Thirty

Artist - The Beatles
Album - Revolver
Released - 1966 (Reissue 2009)
Label - Parlophone/Capitol/EMI
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Taxman
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
Love You To
Here, There and Everywhere
Yellow Submarine
She Said She Said
Side Two
Good Day Sunshine
And Your Bird Can Sing
For No One
Doctor Robert
I Want to Tell You
Got to Get You Into My Life
Tomorrow Never Knows

Thirty-Four more records to go and the year long expedition will end.  I guess I have thirty-four more days to figure out what I want to do next or maybe I can continue to post records and think of another adventure to embark on.  Until then, here I bring you The Beatles' Revolver which was a reissue that was released in 2009.  Originally released in 1966, this was The Beatles' seventh studio album.  A band with such great magnitude, each song on this album is absolutely superb.  

Enjoy!

A Lady Appears

Three Hundred Twenty-Nine

Artist - Rita Coolidge
Album - Anytime...Anywhere
Released - 1977
Label - A&M
Genre - Pop

Tracks:
Side One
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
The Way You Do The Things You Do
We're All Alone
I Feel The Burden (Being Lifted Off My Shoulders)
I Don't Want To Talk About It
Side Two
Words
Good Times
Who's To Bless and Who's To Blame
Southern Lady
The Hungry Years

Enjoy!

Speed of Light

Three Hundred Twenty-Eight

Artist - Electric Light Orchestra
Album - Out of the Blue
Released - 1977
Label - Jet/United Artists
Genre - Symphonic Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Turn to Stone
It's Over
Sweet Talkin' Woman
Across the Border
Side Two
Night in the City
Starlight
Jungle
Believe Me Now
Steppin' Out
Side Three
Standin' in the Rain
Big Wheels
Summer and Lightening
Mr. Blue Sky
Side Four
Sweet is the Night
The Whale
Birmingham Blues
Wild West Hero

Enjoy!!

No, No, No

Three Hundred Twenty-Seven

Artist - Yes
Album - The Yes Album
Released - 1971
Label - Atlantic
Genre - Progressive Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Yours is no disc
The Clap
Starship trooper;
  a. Life seeker
  b. Disillusion
  c. Wurm
Side Two
I've seen all good people:
  a. Your move
  b. All good people
A venture
Perpetual change

Enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES TAYLOR

Two Hundred Twenty-Six

Artist - James Taylor
Album - Sweet Baby James
Released - 1970
Label - Warner Bros.
Genre - Rock/Folk

Tracks:
Sweet Baby James
Lo and Behold
Sunny Skies
Steamroller
Country Road
Oh Susannah
Fire and Rain
Blossom
Anywhere Like Heaven
Oh Baby, Don't You Loose
Your Lip on Me
Suite for 20G

The second album by singer/songwriter James Taylor, I decided to play this Sweet Baby James on his birthday which was March 12, 2013.

Enjoy!

Red Lips with Sunglasses

Three Hundred Twenty-Five

Artist - Saga
Album - Worlds Apart
Released - 1981
Label - Portrait
Genre - Progressive/New Wave Rock

Tracks:
Side 1
On The Loose
Wind Him Up
Amnesia
Framed
Time's Up
Side 2
The Interview
No Regrets (Chapter V)
Conversations
No Stranger (Chapter VII)

Enjoy!

Bushels

Three Hundred Twenty-Four

Artist - Led Zeppelin
Album - IV
Released - 1971
Label - Atlantic
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Black Dog
Rock and Roll
The Battle of Evermore
Stairway to Heaven
Misty Mountain Hop
Four Sticks
Going to California
When the Levee Breaks

Enjoy!

A Man With a Feather

Three Hundred Twenty-Three

Artist - Dan Fogelberg
Album - Souvenirs
Released - 1974
Label - Epic
Genre - Rock/Soft Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Part of the Plan
Illinois
Changing Horses
Better Change
Souvenirs
The Long Way
Side Two
As The Raven Flies
Song from Half Mountain
Morning Sky
(Someone's Been) Telling You Stories
There's a Place in the World for a Gambler

Enjoy!

Not the Animal

Three Hundred Twenty-Three

Artist - T.Rex
Album - Electric Warrior
Released - 1971
Label - Reprise
Genre - Glam/Folk Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Mambo Sun
Cosmic Dancer
Jeepster
Monolith
Lean Woman Blues
Side Two
Bang A Gong (Get It On)
Planet Queen
Girl
The Motivator
Life's A Gas
Rip Off

Enjoy!

Vroom, Vroom

Three Hundred Twenty-One

Artist - The Cars
Album - Shake It Up
Released - 1981
Label - Elektra
Genre - New Wave/Pop Rock

Tracks:
1
Since You're Gone
Shake It Up
I'm Not The One
Victim of Love
Cruiser
2
A Dream Away
This Could Be Love
Think It Over
Maybe Baby

Enjoy!

Takin' It Back....WAY BACK

Three Hundred Twenty

Artist - Joe Tex
Album - Soul Country
Released - 1968
Label - Atlantic
Genre - Folk/Soul/Country

Tracks:
Side One
I'll Never Do You Wrong
Ode to Billie Joe
The Dark End of the Street
Funny How Time Slips Away
Engine Engine Number Nine
Side Two
Skip A Rope
Green Green Grass of Home
Set Me Free
By The Time I Get to Phoenix
Honey

The similarities between R&B and country music are deeper than generally realized by adherents of either field.  Country songs, like R&B songs are about events that touch the minds and hearts of ordinary people.  The main subject matter for both forms of music is love: love that brings joy or love that brings pain, love requited and love unrequited, young love, jealous love, true love.  Country songs may be more descriptive, R&B songs are more emotional.  But both tell it like it is -- without pretense, without adornment.

Perhaps that is why Joe Tex, one of the country's greatest R&B stars, whose recordings have graced the top of the best-selling charts throughout the world, can sing outstanding country hits of the past year and invest them with such warmth and feeling that in spite of their familiarity they sound fresh and new again.  It takes an extraordinary performer like Joe Tex to revitalize Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe, Glenn Campbell's By The Time I Get To Phoenix, or Bobby Goldsboro's Honey, let alone such well known country standards as Engine Engine Number None, Funny How Time Slips Away, Green Green Grass of Home and Set Me Free.

It is not surprising that Joe Tex should turn to country material for this new album.  He is closer to the country field tat most soul artists.  One of his earliest idols was Hank Williams.  His record company, Dial Records, is based in Nashville.  He has recorded all of his hits in Nashville, from Hold What You Got to Skinny Legs and All.  And Joe Tex's record produced, Buddy Killen, is one of the owners of a most successful music publishing firm, Tree Music, which handles a large number of top country songwriters.  (The other owner of Tree is Jack Stapp.)

In addition to the well known country songs in this album, there is a new Joe Tex song, I'll Never Do You Wrong.  Joe is a famous for his songs as his hit records; almost all of his hit singles (and he has had 20 in a row) have contained his own material.  I'll Never Do You Wrong adds another hit to his string.  This album adds a new facet to Joe Tex's career; it stakes out and validates his claim to "Soul Country."

Enjoy!

In Pursuit Of

Three Hundred Nineteen

Artist - Belle and Sebastian
Album - The Life Pursuit
Released - 2005
Label - Rough Trade/Matador
Genre - Indie Pop

Tracks:
Act of the Apostle
Another Sunny Day
White Collar Boy
The Blues are Still Blue
Dress Up In You
Sukie in the Graveyard
We Are the Sleepyheads
Song for Sunshine
Funny Little Frog
To Be Myself Completely
Act of the Apostle II
For the Price of a Cup of Tea
Mornington Cresent

I love Stuart Murdoch and his style of music.  Not only is Belle and Sebastian one of my favorites, but his other acts such as God Help The Girl (which was previously listed on this blog) is also my favorite.  This album is great and very relaxing.  Funny Little Frog is my favorite song on this album!

Enjoy!

Take a Ride

Three Hundred Eighteen

Artist - Journey
Album - Escape
Released - 1981
Label - Columbia
Genre - Hard Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Don't Stop Believin'
Stone in Love
Who's Crying Now
Keep on Runnin'
Still They Ride
Side Two
Escape
Lay It Down
Dead or Alive
Mother, Father
Open Arms

The seventh studio album by San Francisco rockers Journey, Escape catapulted one song into karaoke mainstream heaven.  Don't Stop Believin' has to be one of those songs that never seems to die.  It's the most powerful motivational song next to a few other greats out there, but for the most part you put this record on, pump up the volume and sing your lungs to capacity.  Another great song on this record which is a lovely love/sad song is Open Arms.

Enjoy!

A Delicate Touch

Three Hundred Seventeen

Artist - Neil Diamond
Album - Tap Root Manuscript
Released - 1970
Label - Uni Records
Genre - Rock

Tracks:
Side One
Cracklin' Rosie
Free Life
Coldwater Morning
Done Too Soon
He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother
Side Two
Childsong
I Am The Lion
Madgirl
Soolaimon
Missa
African Suite
Childsong (Reprise)

Enjoy!

Quality Own

Three Hundred Sixteen

Artist - Buddy Greco
Album - All-Time Favorites
Released - 1960
Label - Sutton
Genre - Jazz/Pop/Rock

Tracks:
I'm Lost
Lillette
Flamingo
My Old Kentucky Home
Gentle Annie
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Old Dog Tray
Old Folks At Home
Beautiful Dreamer
The Camptown Races
Ring, Ring de Banjo

Enjoy!