Thursday, November 05, 2009
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
1001. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
Track Listing
1. Blue Orchid
2. The Nurse
3. My Doorbell
4. Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
5. Little Ghost
6. The Denial Twist
7. White Moon
8. Instinct Blues
9. Passive Manipulation
10. Take, Take, Take
11. As Ugly As I Seem
12. Red Rain
13. I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
Review
FINALLY! 1001 Albums! Woohoo! But it ain't over yet, going back to Jack Elliott and Hugh Masekela in the next few days to completely finish stage one of this insane project! But it is finally done!
So Get Behind Me Satan is not the best of The White Stripes albums, but this still means that it is better than 99% of the stuff out there. Here they go for more experimental things, putting a lot of noise in the middle of their tracks while keeping their very organic sound.
This is not to say that they are in any way less melodic, it is full of tracks you can sing along to from Little Ghost to My Doorbell. So in the end even if doesn't live up to White Blood Cells or Elephant it is still something I'll be very happy to add to my ipod.
Track Highlights
1. Little Ghost
2. Blue Orchid
3. Red Rain
4. My Doorbell
Final Grade
9/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
The album cover was used in the Gilmore Girls episode "I Get a Sidekick Out of You", with Lane and Zach in Meg and Jack's positions, respectively. It was also used for the 2008 Ozy and Millie calendar as both the front cover and for the month of January with the characters Ozy and Mille replacing Jack and Meg.
Blue Orchid:
Track Listing
1. Blue Orchid
2. The Nurse
3. My Doorbell
4. Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
5. Little Ghost
6. The Denial Twist
7. White Moon
8. Instinct Blues
9. Passive Manipulation
10. Take, Take, Take
11. As Ugly As I Seem
12. Red Rain
13. I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
Review
FINALLY! 1001 Albums! Woohoo! But it ain't over yet, going back to Jack Elliott and Hugh Masekela in the next few days to completely finish stage one of this insane project! But it is finally done!
So Get Behind Me Satan is not the best of The White Stripes albums, but this still means that it is better than 99% of the stuff out there. Here they go for more experimental things, putting a lot of noise in the middle of their tracks while keeping their very organic sound.
This is not to say that they are in any way less melodic, it is full of tracks you can sing along to from Little Ghost to My Doorbell. So in the end even if doesn't live up to White Blood Cells or Elephant it is still something I'll be very happy to add to my ipod.
Track Highlights
1. Little Ghost
2. Blue Orchid
3. Red Rain
4. My Doorbell
Final Grade
9/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
The album cover was used in the Gilmore Girls episode "I Get a Sidekick Out of You", with Lane and Zach in Meg and Jack's positions, respectively. It was also used for the 2008 Ozy and Millie calendar as both the front cover and for the month of January with the characters Ozy and Mille replacing Jack and Meg.
Blue Orchid:
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
1000. Beck - Guero (2005)
Track Listing
1. E-Pro
2. Que' Onda Guero
3. Girl
4. Missing
5. Black Tambourine
6. Earthquake Weather
7. Hell Yes
8. Broken Drum
9. Scarecrow
10. Go It Alone
11. Farewell Ride
12. Rental Car
13. Emergency Exit
Review
1000 albums! Let's party like it's 1999! But really we should save it for tomorrow where I'm actually getting to 1001! And then filling up two older reviews! And we can celebrate then again! And then the updates 20 albums which will require another celebration. Oh and I got some money I was owed today! Yay!
So Beck has given us innovative sample music, great acoustic stuff and with Guero he pretty much mashes these two together to make something new and yet strangely reminiscing of his previous stuff.
So I am again quite weary of recognising the crazy scientologist's quality. But he is good and you need only put on E-Pro to realise it. That being said this isn't really the strongest of his albums. So fun and all but not really up there with his best stuff, Odelay will always be Odelay.
Track Highlights
1. E-Pro
2. Girl
3. Missing
4. Rental Car
Final Grade
8/10
Trivia
From Wikpedia:
Jack White of The White Stripes plays bass on "Go It Alone". Money Mark, solo artist and keyboardist for the Beastie Boys, plays the organ on "Earthquake Weather". Petra Haden, formerly of that dog. and The Rentals, provides an intricate backing vocal track for "Rental Car". Christina Ricci provides the cameo voice in "Hell Yes".
E-Pro:
Track Listing
1. E-Pro
2. Que' Onda Guero
3. Girl
4. Missing
5. Black Tambourine
6. Earthquake Weather
7. Hell Yes
8. Broken Drum
9. Scarecrow
10. Go It Alone
11. Farewell Ride
12. Rental Car
13. Emergency Exit
Review
1000 albums! Let's party like it's 1999! But really we should save it for tomorrow where I'm actually getting to 1001! And then filling up two older reviews! And we can celebrate then again! And then the updates 20 albums which will require another celebration. Oh and I got some money I was owed today! Yay!
So Beck has given us innovative sample music, great acoustic stuff and with Guero he pretty much mashes these two together to make something new and yet strangely reminiscing of his previous stuff.
So I am again quite weary of recognising the crazy scientologist's quality. But he is good and you need only put on E-Pro to realise it. That being said this isn't really the strongest of his albums. So fun and all but not really up there with his best stuff, Odelay will always be Odelay.
Track Highlights
1. E-Pro
2. Girl
3. Missing
4. Rental Car
Final Grade
8/10
Trivia
From Wikpedia:
Jack White of The White Stripes plays bass on "Go It Alone". Money Mark, solo artist and keyboardist for the Beastie Boys, plays the organ on "Earthquake Weather". Petra Haden, formerly of that dog. and The Rentals, provides an intricate backing vocal track for "Rental Car". Christina Ricci provides the cameo voice in "Hell Yes".
E-Pro:
Monday, November 02, 2009
999. M.I.A. - Arular (2005)
Track Listing
1. Banana Skit
2. Pull Up The People
3. Bucky Done Gun
4. Sunshowers
5. Fire, Fire
6. Dash The Curry Skit
7. Amazon
8. Bingo
9. Hombre
10. One For The Head Skit
11. 10 Dollar
12. U.R.A.Q.T.
13. Galang
Review
Down to 2 albums to finish this! I will then be going back to two albums in the past that I didn't get in time to review and do the updates for the new edition of the list! And then this will go on with other stuff... I'm getting the Mojo Collection book and doing all the albums that do not overlap here. So loads of new music coming in again. I might be doing this until I die.
Now lets get to M.I.A.! She mixes all kinds of stuff and makes a pleasing cacophony indeed! She is basically helping develop what might be called "guerilla pop" a kind of world-influenced, politically aware dancy hip-hop/pop. She isn't the first but she is definitely the first to get some wider recognition.
Since M.I.A. other bands have moved the "genre" further, people like Buraka Som Sistema draw from a different continent but are nevertheless developing a pretty worthy and well rounded musical style. No surprise M.I.A. would later collaborate with them. Great fun and deep stuff.
Track Highlights
1. Pull Up The People
2. Galang
3. Bucky Done Gun
4. Hombre
Final Grade
9/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
M.I.A. wrote or co-wrote all the songs on the album and created the basic backing tracks using a Roland MC-505 sequencer/drum machine given to her by long-time friend Justine Frischmann. Collaborators included Switch, Diplo, and Richard X. The album's title is the political code name used by her father, Arul Pragasam, during his involvement with Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, and themes of conflict and revolution feature heavily in the lyrics. Musically, the album incorporates styles that range from hip hop and electroclash to funk carioca and punk rock.
Pull Up The People:
Track Listing
1. Banana Skit
2. Pull Up The People
3. Bucky Done Gun
4. Sunshowers
5. Fire, Fire
6. Dash The Curry Skit
7. Amazon
8. Bingo
9. Hombre
10. One For The Head Skit
11. 10 Dollar
12. U.R.A.Q.T.
13. Galang
Review
Down to 2 albums to finish this! I will then be going back to two albums in the past that I didn't get in time to review and do the updates for the new edition of the list! And then this will go on with other stuff... I'm getting the Mojo Collection book and doing all the albums that do not overlap here. So loads of new music coming in again. I might be doing this until I die.
Now lets get to M.I.A.! She mixes all kinds of stuff and makes a pleasing cacophony indeed! She is basically helping develop what might be called "guerilla pop" a kind of world-influenced, politically aware dancy hip-hop/pop. She isn't the first but she is definitely the first to get some wider recognition.
Since M.I.A. other bands have moved the "genre" further, people like Buraka Som Sistema draw from a different continent but are nevertheless developing a pretty worthy and well rounded musical style. No surprise M.I.A. would later collaborate with them. Great fun and deep stuff.
Track Highlights
1. Pull Up The People
2. Galang
3. Bucky Done Gun
4. Hombre
Final Grade
9/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
M.I.A. wrote or co-wrote all the songs on the album and created the basic backing tracks using a Roland MC-505 sequencer/drum machine given to her by long-time friend Justine Frischmann. Collaborators included Switch, Diplo, and Richard X. The album's title is the political code name used by her father, Arul Pragasam, during his involvement with Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, and themes of conflict and revolution feature heavily in the lyrics. Musically, the album incorporates styles that range from hip hop and electroclash to funk carioca and punk rock.
Pull Up The People:
Sunday, November 01, 2009
998. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004)
Track Listing
1. Slow Night, So Long
2. King Of The Rodeo
3. Taper Jean Girl
4. Pistol Of Fire
5. Milk
6. The Bucket
7. Soft
8. Razz
9. Day Old Blues
10. Four Kicks
11. Velvet Snow
12. Rememo
Review
Another album by the Kings of Leon which is frankly a bit redundant. This is not to say it isn't great stuff or that it doesn't live up to their first album but it does feel like more of the same with an added dose of pretension.
Their whole gimmick of Southern backwoods boys who are "natural hipsters" stinks a bit as the music is clearly inspired from sources much further afield. Of course there is some CCR here, but there is even more Strokes.
So to me the sheen that I could see in their first album has slightly worn off by now, and good as it is, and there is in some ways slight improvements, the novelty value has worn off.
Track Highlights
1. The Bucket
2. Slow Night, So Long
3. Taper Jean Girl
4. Four Kicks
Final Grade
8/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
The original version of the album featured a white background and an orchid, the second featured a black cover with a different kind of orchid. The second also contained the bonus track "Where Nobody Knows", and on both albums the flower is positioned in a suggestively sexual position.
The Bucket:
Track Listing
1. Slow Night, So Long
2. King Of The Rodeo
3. Taper Jean Girl
4. Pistol Of Fire
5. Milk
6. The Bucket
7. Soft
8. Razz
9. Day Old Blues
10. Four Kicks
11. Velvet Snow
12. Rememo
Review
Another album by the Kings of Leon which is frankly a bit redundant. This is not to say it isn't great stuff or that it doesn't live up to their first album but it does feel like more of the same with an added dose of pretension.
Their whole gimmick of Southern backwoods boys who are "natural hipsters" stinks a bit as the music is clearly inspired from sources much further afield. Of course there is some CCR here, but there is even more Strokes.
So to me the sheen that I could see in their first album has slightly worn off by now, and good as it is, and there is in some ways slight improvements, the novelty value has worn off.
Track Highlights
1. The Bucket
2. Slow Night, So Long
3. Taper Jean Girl
4. Four Kicks
Final Grade
8/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
The original version of the album featured a white background and an orchid, the second featured a black cover with a different kind of orchid. The second also contained the bonus track "Where Nobody Knows", and on both albums the flower is positioned in a suggestively sexual position.
The Bucket:
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