- Symphony Espontex (Pascal Comelade, 2006)
Pascal is desperate: must have taken fifty records officers and none can be categorized under the masterpiece. Since it was first Détail Monochrome , engraved (yes) in mono, so far, its sound universe can only be described as brilliant: version imprescindoble, Shrimp proofreader of the Modern Lovers, The Stones, of the Kins, the Clash, Sisa, Ovidi Montllor and fifty more, brilliant composer and stir constantly returning to their own tracks versions also incessantly to the extent that none of them has canonical version. Comelade does not stand still. The choice of this album is almost arbitrary: a cover kitsch, toy instruments always, music for the stage version of the Plaza del Diamante of Rodoreda (please, read the novel: Imre Krétenz said that she was the best ever written in Europe during the postwar period) and for a ballet by Cesc Gelabert. It also includes a version played by the brass bands of Three Vents Desemparats Sardana dels , one of their most beautiful.
- Back to Black (Amy Winehouse, 2009)
Perhaps the best soul album recorded in recent decades. Amy Winehouse is a singer wit and exceptional vocal talent. Now the thing look bad: the crack and have provoked tacabo pulmonary emphysema has irretrievably wretched voice. If you still singing have to be otherwise. He composes his own songs, with lyrics nihilists who recreate in their excesses.
- ii Grinderman (Grinderman, 2010)
The last record of the last group founded by Nick Cave, an abstraction of the Bad Seeds where, especially, shines a Warren Ellis become years ago in his right hand. Rounding out the group bassist Martyn P. Casey and drummer Jim Sclavunos. Raw, direct, virtuous, a point punks. The album has a sound very hard, furious. Do not be fooled by the ordinal: it is up to at least the first, if not surpasses it.
- With the Modern Rock n'Roll s Lover (The Modern Lovers, 1977)
The band's second album, the first controlled directly by them after having fallen prey John Cale, who produced their first (with the name of the group title.) The Modern Lovers have a lot of history: its founding year is 1968, and his alma mater Jonathan Richman, one of the spectators of the performances of the Velvet Underground (the group of groups is said that anyone who attended one of his concerts he founded his own band.) A Richman is called "the Godfather of Punk", and began to sing in this style before the Ramones, the Sex Pistols before (they did a version of delirious, chaotic, their Roadrunner ). From 1968 to 1974, the group does not record, and when they did, the John Cale produced a pre-Patti Smith (Horses produced its one year later), that simultaneously with its spectacular The ACADEMY in Peril, a their best records, to cover (the one that made him) by Andy Warhol. The Modern Lovers unnoticed for being too punk three years before Never Mind the Bollocks and four too late to have coincided with the Velvet Underground. Contains essential titles like Roadrunner own or Pablo Picasso, a song which has covered worldwide. Rock n'Roll
With ... react against all this. The drums are just pots, small batteries, triangles. All the guitars are acoustic. Sometimes it is played without bass. It was recorded live. And yet, the instrumentation, the playing is full rock. Richman is a very capable guitarist, a real block group, the climate of naive happiness fun. The hit of the album is an instrumental song entitled Egipthian Reggae , one of the favorite titles of Pascal Comelade that the version at almost every concert.
- Cuckooland (Robert Wyatt, 2003)
Loud and clear: Wyatt is one of the best musicians in the history of rock. His personal history is marked by a misfortune that separated his career in two very identifiable: 1973, drunk and drugged, falls backwards through a window and left a paraplegic. Before: battery of the Soft Machine, Syd Barrett with whom he accompanied on some songs from his first solo album The Madcap Laughs . Accompanied, too, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. Is separated from the group (they were too close to jazz) and founded the Matching Mole, the maximum considered rivals of Pink Floyd to the accident Wyatt. With the Matching Mole gets two discs, the first of the group name and the second, Little Red Record , is produced by Robert Fripp, who also play. There Wyatt will play the piano, trumpet and, of course, the battery, your natural instrument. The two albums are essential jewels (Pascal Comelade, which, as you have already guessed, is one of my main reference, considered the first album by the group as one of the best in rock history, and has versions both Or, as Caroline Signed Curtain, his most famous song.
is rescued after the accident to the music, precisely, the members of Pink Floyd, which, among other things, he mounted a benefit concert first and become your support group afterwards, and, just a year evening of the tragedy are now recording. His second album after the accident, Ruth is Stranger Than Richard , is a masterpiece comparable to Sgt Pepper's . Wyatt continued to record the highest level, with stable partners as Nick Mason and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Paul Weller, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, Robert Fripp and Pascal himself Comelade, who grag disc halves with one of the best versions Septembre memory of Song, Kurt Weill. One of his latest disc is Cuckooland I recommend. As always plays the piano, trumpet and drums. As always Weller, Gilmour, Eno, Manzanera. As always the average level is exceptional. Notice the version that opens the album, a sad ballad entitled Stay Tuned. More than one disk, I recommend his entire career.
- Sky Blue Sky (Wilco, 2008)
What about Wilco? Who knows you can not go ordering his entire discography. So easy. Rock elegant, pure, hard, strong, a Jeff Twwedy (group leader) that has the quality to become a writer if one day run out of ideas to keep writing songs.
The record before this was A Ghost is Born, the group's first with Tweedy doing guitar solo after his colleagues and the producer convinced him of their quality (so far been limited to acting as the rhythm guitarist group). Now the guitar solo Nels Cline is concerned, and the group has managed with a gradient curious: just guitar virtuosos and ultravirtuosos. Sky Blue Sky In alone there are enough double that, live, triples, and some of the most beautiful songs of the band. Highlight two, Impossible Germany, and, above all, Hate it here, a song of heartbreak torn, more soul than rock, which reaches some haunting expression levels of a beautiful letter.
- Academia dels Somnis (Quimi Portet, 2001)
For the clueless, Quimi Portet is the other's Last Line, also known as "handsome." Separate group, their musical career was separated from everything he had done at any time without denying Elo, and was to land more abstract, more delicate, more rock. Portet recorded many of his records alone, with occasional contributions from friends of a lifetime. The exception is the album that I recommend. Probably the most conventional has ever taken, the most pure form of songs, the more rock. Which has a fixed band, formed in this case, Antonio Fidel (Latino Frankenstein), his partner des of the Rapids, slim and elegant bass, and Angel Celada, battery status. We add employees as Pau Dones (musician infectious, founding member of one of the worst groups in recent years and yet, a negligible singer), Gerard Quintana Puntí Adrià or genius. The album is an absolute masterpiece, without more, to know and love.
- Maria (Puntí Adrià, 2002)
Puntí Adrià is the story of an absolute disgrace. Maria eight. This is his last album, and has been hanging around this time. His recent videos posted on YouTube as humorous videos: most are so drunk he can not sing, starts the songs three times, he forgets the lyrics, stick fights to live musicians, pull the mic ... and yet, perhaps the most talented Catalan musician. Puntí falls short of Comelade Pascal, Albert Pla, the first Pau Riba. Musicians at the level of either: Tom Waits, Robert Wyatt, Jacques Brel.
Maria is a thrilling drive. One of the best I know. The first second to last straw there. All you hear is exceptional, to the extent that there is almost nothing to highlight. Collaborate Bunbury, good friend, Txe Arana, Gerard Quintana. The production is Quimi Portet, who lends his support group and his guitar. Puntí plays guitar, piano, arranged. His singing style is personal, challenging. Weaknesses
mine: on the disc are two songs that move me to the edge of tears: a version of Flors i Violes , Portet Quimi beautiful song that plays on your hard Hoquei on Peter (yes, the Rambla ), acoustic, played with a twelve-string guitar, which turns completely original theme, and Maria , the album's title track, dedicated to his grandmother! One of the most beautiful lyrics I've heard in my life. The choirs are Bunbury, perhaps best who has ever sung.
- Cançons d'Amor i Drugs (Albert Pla, 2003)
If there is one, is another. Pla is a genius. A genius at the height of Puntí, Waits, whomever. I can not think who to compare. This disk was found (yeah!) with Quimi Portet, who produced it and got the bar even more musical.
Pepe Sales: Joan's son, Aim these names. Will come later. Pepe Sales: poet heroin addict, died of AIDS last 80. On his verses gravitating disk. Pla is a great performer, as good as composer (Well, Puntí also: just remember your version of New Year's Day , of \u200b\u200bU2, which many people preferred the original, and, most recently, of On the Nickel, of Tom Waits, who always makes me mourn . Cuandoo is sober enough to touch more than two minutes is up to the original). It is an easy drive, but essential.
- Wicked Grin (John Hammond, 2001)
Do not be deceived: John Hammond is white. An aristocrat of the mid-west, the son of a wealthy family, which plays like a black man who has the voice of black, feels like a black.
did not know how to recommend some Tom Waits. Waits is one of my favorite singers. My reference. Waits. He who does not give interviews. The songs did not subside. One of the best friends of John Hammond. He asked her to do a cover album. Waits not only said yes: she came and gave him his musicians. Unreleased tracks. He sang a song with him. Hammond has worked with Waits Mule Variations in , playing the harmonica. Hammond: white bluesman. Guitarist and harmonica virtuoso. Endowed with an exceptional voice. Hammond: playing with Stephen Arvizu Hodges. With Auggie Meyers. With Larry Taylor. Making us forget that 2:19 is a matter of Waits. Singing duo Lord I've Been Changed. Meyers doing look to anyone else. Throw the disc
Scarlett Johanson (we all have our weaknesses, if she should ask permission to unversioned items that this blog should also say yes) and stay with it. Quevedo paraphrase: If you stop listening to Tom Waits to listen to John Hammond, you will have listened to Tom Waits ia John Hammond.
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