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!