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SHE WANTS TO SIT ON YOUR FACE AND GIVE YOU A SUSHI MEAL YOU STUPID LAZY MOTHERFUCKER.
ARTIST`````KAREN FINLEY
ALBUM`````THE TRUTH IS HARD TO SWALLOW
GENRE`````VOCAL, EXPERIMENTAL, VIOLENT, ART DIRECT
YEAR````````1988
WHY:
I can understand when critics say 'Damn, this is musical crap." But hey, its not music - its just Karen Finley fiddling her nipples with milk pouring everywhere and cursing everything from men and animals to plants.
If you like this screamy arty-weirdo album you will definetly like this one - OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ AND LYDIA LUNCH
"Here's a woman who gets naked, covers herself completely in chocolate and sings. Does that appeal to you?"
SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
New York-based Karen Finley is best known for her controversial performance art career, but she has exercised her talents in virtually every creative medium, publishing several books of prose and poetry, displaying collections of visual art, acting in several films, and recording albums of poetic musings with dance-based backing tracks.
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Here's a nice article on Karen.
THIS GUY IS ONE OF THE STRANGEST SLEEPTALKERS EVER...
ALBUM````THE DREAM WORLD OF DION McGREGOR
GENRE````SPOKEN WORD
YEAR``````1964
MY VIEW:
It's sad that a man with such a rare "talent" (curse?) has to be promoted on personal blogs, myspace pages and stupid fan-forums which nobody acctualy visits. In short - Dion McGregor is a very strange man that talks OUTLOUD while asleep.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Dion McGregor dreamt out loud, fully narrating his vivid and often bizarre dreams, which were recorded by his roommate from 1961 to 1967. By his late '30s, McGregor's sleep talking had grown beyond the usual mumblings of somniloquists, he was speaking out loud and clear. McGregor was raised in NYC, but moved to Hollywood after dropping out of college. By 1953, the aspiring song lyricist was back in NYC, collaborating with Bob Cobert (who later scored for the Dark Shadow T.V. series). In 1955, he met Mike Barr, and the two began collaborating exclusively as songwriting partners.
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REDISCOVERED YOUNG GENIUS FROM THE 1960's BRITAIN WHO RESHAPED THE PROGRESSIVE SINGER/SONGWRITER GENRE - 30 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH.ARTIST`````````````NICK DRAKE
ALBUM`````````````SOLO PIANO
GENRE`````````````VOCAL/ BRITISH PROG-FOLK
YEAR```````````````1969
RICHIE UNTERBERGER SAID IT BEST:In the manner of the young Romantic poets of the 19th century who died before their time, Drake is revered by many listeners today, with a following that spans generations. Baby boomers who missed him the first time around found much to revisit once they discovered him, and his pensive loneliness speaks directly to contemporary alternative rockers who share his sense of morose alienation.
ALBUM REVIEW:from allmusic
It's little wonder why Drake felt frustrated at the lack of commercial success his music initially gathered, considering the help he had on his debut record. Besides fine production from Joe Boyd and assistance from folks like Fairport Convention's Richard Thompson and his unrelated bass counterpart from Pentangle, Danny Thompson, Drake also recruited school friend Robert Kirby to create most of the just-right string and wind arrangements. His own performance itself steered a careful balance between too-easy accessibility and maudlin self-reflection, combining the best of both worlds while avoiding the pitfalls on either side. The result was a fantastic debut appearance, and if the cult of Drake consistently reads more into his work than is perhaps deserved, Five Leaves Left is still a most successful effort.
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THIS ALBUM IS NOT OUT YET! GET IT HERE BEFORE I GET FUCKED. JOSE'S SECOND PROMISING ALBUM. I DIDNT HAVE MUCH TIME TO LISTEN IN DETAIL BUT IT SEEMS QUITE GOOD. ARTIST`````````````JOSE GONZALES
ALBUM`````````````IN OUR NATURE
GENRE`````````````INDIE POP
YEAR```````````````2007 (25th SEPTEMBER)
MY VIEW:
Considering the simplicity, quality and lush emotial experience of his debut album "Veneer", this album better be good. I've listen to it but not in detail and it sounds quite good. As I've noticed, this time, Jose is singing about the primitive side of humans. He is still using only his acoustic guitar occasionaly mixed with some simple tasteful percussions.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Swedish singer/songwriter José González is a star in his native land. His album Veneer was released there in the early 2000s and has achieved gold status. Far from the pop album you might expect from such a statement, the album is an entirely acoustic affair that reflects a childhood spent listening to equal parts bossa nova, classical, and post-punk by the likes of Joy Division. Touchstones for González's sound include Nick Drake, Paul Simon, Red House Painters, and Elliott Smith, all artists who are literate, quiet, and melancholy but also create memorable songs as well.
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SOPHISTICATED "LOW ART" OPERA MASTERPIECE
ARTIST`````````````OSVALDO GOLIJOV
ALBUM`````````````AINADAMAR
GENRE`````````````OPERA/FUSION
YEAR```````````````2006
MY VIEW:
Coppola said it better:
"There are two sides of Osvaldo Golijov that attracted me: consummate musicianship and classical training, and as well a sense of modern life, clashing cultures and the integration of past and present into a generous musical canvas. As it turned out there was a third side – a kind and interesting human being and a wonderful friend."
Francis Ford Coppola
COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY:
After his Grammy-nominated debut album Ayre, here is the second world-premiere recording of Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar.
Golijov is today’s hottest composer – young, innovative, creatively versatile, and rooted in different cultures and styles. “Like his fellow Argentinean Astor Piazzolla, Mr. Golijov does not harness popular music; he liberates it. The energy is freed from a simple dance band function and allowed to wander into modulating keys and new meters. This is ‘low art’ arranged in sophisticated sentences.
The one-act opera Ainadamar was composed in 2003 and revised in 2005. The plot centres on Federico García Lorca and his tragic death; the Spanish author was executed by Fascist soldiers early in the Spanish Civil War in a place the Moors called Ainadamar, or “Fountain of Tears”. As in the song cycle Ayre, the female title role is interpreted by Golijov’s muse, Dawn Upshaw.
Ainadamar was recorded in Atlanta with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano after a number of performances in the US. The respected critic Alex Ross of The New Yorker wrote, “the music is sensationally beautiful throughout!
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THE MOST EXOTIC AND ORIGINAL VOICE EVER. THE FIRST AND THE BEST ALBUM BY A WOMAN-WONDER-DEMON-FREAK. MASTERPIECE COMPOSITIONS BY LES BAXTER.
ARTIST`````````````YMA SUMAC
ALBUM`````````````VOICE OF XTABAY
GENRE`````````````EXOTICA/VOCAL
YEAR```````````````1950
MY VIEW:
Shit. She can sing in offbeat, scream like an animal and be beautiful. What more do you want? I bet she cooks good...
SHORT BIOGRAPHY:A singer with an amazing four-octave range, Yma Sumac was said to have been a descendant of Inca kings, an Incan princess that was one of the Golden Virgins. Her offbeat stylings became a phenomenon of early-'50s pop music. While her album covers took advantage of her strange costumes and voluptuous figure, rumors abounded that she was, in actuality, a housewife named Amy Camus. It mattered little because there has been no one like her before or since in the annals of popular music.
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MUSIC FOR THE STRAIGHT AMERICAN YOUTH - LOVE YOUR COUNTRY, EAT THAT BURGER AND GET MARRIED. LOVE YOUR MAN BY THE WAY.ARTIST`````````````THE CHORDETTES
ALBUM`````````````THE FABULOUS CHORDETTES
GENRE`````````````DOO WOOP/GIRL POP/VOCAL
YEAR```````````````1991
MY VIEW:
"Sweeter than a candy on a stick" is the best way to describe this lovely popular girl vocal band. If you were a straight guy or a girl in Middle America living in the 1950's, this would have been your favourite band.
Big thank you to O! Jelena for posting their video "Lollipop". It inspired this warm upload.
SHORT ARTIST INFO (by Richie Unterberger):
The Chordettes were one of the longest-lived vocal groups with roots in the mainstream pop and vocal harmonies of the 1940s and early 1950s. Although the four women's arrangements owed more to the Andrews Sisters than doo wop, they did, unlike many of their peers, prove fairly adaptable to the rock era. First establishing themselves with the huge (and non-rock) pop hit "Mr. Sandman" in 1954, they continued to chart in the last half of the 1950s and the early 1960s, often with covers of rock and R&B songs. The 2 1958 hit "Lollipop" was the biggest of these. Although the group sound (at least in retrospect) among the Whitest and squarest of rock artists, they introduced enough rock into their repertoire and production to sound more contemporary than they had on discs such as "Mr. Sandman."
ALBUM REVIEW (by Richie Unterberger):
allmusic.com
Fabulous Chordettes is a 12-song best-of with all of their biggest hits: "Lollipop," "Mister Sandman," "Zorro," "Never on Sunday," "Born to Be With You," "Eddie My Love," "Just Between You and Me," and more. All of the songs appear on the 32-song compilation Mainly Rock'n'Roll, also on Ace. Since that anthology is so much more comprehensive, and since it has liner notes, unlike this collection, it would seem a very strange decision indeed to give The Fabulous Chordettes precedence over the more extensive collection, even if it comes down to saving a few bucks.
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SHE WANTS TO SIT ON YOUR FACE AND GIVE YOU A SUSHI MEAL YOU STUPID LAZY MOTHERFUCKER.
