#garage rock funk soul

[chaoticdesertdweller]

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: September 9, 1991

Lyrics:

I love you

Show me

Something got me started

You know that I will love you

Lately since we parted

I truly know that I need you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

Totally broken-hearted

Guilty of what I did to you

Lately since we parted

I truly know that I need you

Yes a little because

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

C'mon

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I really love you

C'mon

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

I'd give it all up for you (yes, I would)

Yes, I would, yeah

Yes, I would

Yes, I would

Yes, I would, hey yeah

Songwriter:

Yes, I would (something got me started)

Hey, ayy (something got me started)

You've got to help me now (something got me started)

You've got to help me now (something got me started)

You've got to help me now (something got me started)

You've got to help me now (something got me started)

I'll take it out

Fritz Mcintyre / Michael James Hucknall

SongFacts:

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Homepage:

Simply Red

[preciousskipy]

Chancho en Piedra - Funkybarítico, Hedoníco, Fantástico (2016)

[popculturefiles]

[uneasylisteningradio]

Fate and Destiny October 14, 2023

listen on Mixcloud Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Trusty - "Goodbye, Dr. Fate"

DJ speaks over Sounds Orchestral - Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Slade - The Shape of Things to Come Wipers - Born With a Curse Chaka Khan - Fate Fastbacks - My Destiny Jazz Destroyers - Love Meant To Die

DJ speaks over Tin Tin - Our Destiny

Child's Pose - Ella's Fate Manu Chao - Clandestino Wendy Rene - What Will Tomorrow Bring Julian Cope - I Have Always Been Here Before Upright Citizens - Feel My Fate Peace De Résistance - Manifest Destiny

DJ speaks over Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth - Tell Me (Instrumental)

Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End The Kinks - What's In Store for Me Kelly Harrell - Charles Giteau Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate Last Cry - Life of Fate The Babies - The Hand of Fate

DJ speaks over Freedom Sounds - People Get Ready

Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma Hellkrusher - Destined to Die Hot Chocolate - Could Have Been Born In the Ghetto Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward - Fate Is On Our Side Daedelus - Fates Say Tumbas - Destinado a Perder

DJ speaks over NoMeansNo - The Night Nothing Became Everything

The Incredible String Band - The Eyes of Fate Talib Kweli & Hi Tek : Reflection Eternal - Memories Live Handbag - You Are My Destiny Blondie - Accidents Never Happen Krystal Generation - Is It Meant to Be

Mel Tormé - Cast Your Fate to the Winds The Cotton Brothers - This World (Is Coming to an End) Let's Active - Writing the Book of Last Pages

Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There Is a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go

[pinkpigtailsprincess]

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[evilthotiana]

I hate Abstract Hip Hop African Music Afrobeats Alt-Country Alté Alternative Dance Alternative R&B Alternative Rock Alt-Pop Ambient Ambient Dub Ambient Pop Ambient Techno Americana Art Pop Art Punk Art Rock Avant-Garde Jazz Ballroom Baltimore Club Bedroom Pop Blues Boom Bap Brazilian Music Breakbeat Breakbeat Hardcore Bubblegum Bass Caribbean Music Central African Music Chamber Folk Chamber Pop Chicago Drill Chillout Chillwave Classical Music Cloud Rap Conscious Hip Hop Contemporary Folk Contemporary R&B Country Country Soul Dance Dancehall Dance-Pop Deconstructed Club Deep House Detroit Techno Disco Downtempo Dream Pop Drill Drill and Bass Drone Drum and Bass Drumless Dubstep Dub Techno East Coast Club East Coast Hip Hop Electro Electroacoustic Electronic Electronic Dance Music Electropop Emo Emo Rap Experimental Experimental Hip Hop Experimental Rock Film Soundtrack Folk Folk Rock Footwork French Hip Hop Funk Funk brasileiro Funk Rock Future Garage Gangsta Rap Garage Punk Garage Rock Ghetto House Ghettotech Glitch Glitch Hop Glitch Pop Grime Hard Bop Hardcore [EDM] Hardcore Hip Hop Hardcore [Punk] Hardcore Punk Hip Hop Hip Hop Soul Hip House Hispanic American Music Hispanic Music Horrorcore House Hyperpop Hypnagogic Pop IDM Indie Folk Indie Pop Indie Rock Indietronica Industrial Industrial & Noise Industrial Hip Hop Industrial Techno Instrumental Hip Hop Jamaican Music Jangle Pop Jazz Jazz-Funk Jazz Fusion Jazz Rap Juke Jungle Krautrock Math Pop Math Rock Memphis Rap Microhouse Midwest Emo Minimal Synth Minimal Techno Minimal Wave Modern Classical MPB Neo-Psychedelia Neo-Soul New Wave Noise Pop Noise Rock Northern American Music Nu Jazz Outsider House Plugg PluggnB Plunderphonics Political Hip Hop Pop Pop Rap Pop Rock Pop Soul Post-Bop Post-Hardcore Post-Industrial Post-Punk Post-Punk Revival Post-Rock Power Pop Progressive Breaks Progressive Electronic Progressive Pop Psychedelia Psychedelic Folk Psychedelic Pop Psychedelic Rock Psychedelic Soul Punk Punk Rock R&B Reggae Regional Music Rock Shoegaze Singer-Songwriter Slacker Rock Slowcore Smooth Soul Sophisti-Pop Soul Soul Jazz Sound Collage Soundtrack South American Music Southern African Music Southern Hip Hop Southern Soul Spiritual Jazz Spoken Word Synth Funk Synthpop Tech House Techno Traditional Folk Music Trap Trap Soul Trip Hop UK Bass UK Funky UK Garage UK Hip Hop West African Music West Coast Hip Hop Western Classical Music Wonky

[maxiemartmanager]

Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals.

[theygotlost]

austin's awesomesauce playlist masterpost 2.0!

Fandom

Samuel Vimes (Discworld)

Soul Music (Discworld)

Moist von Lipwig �� Adora Belle Dearheart (Discworld)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Zaphod Beeblebrox (THHGTTG)

Disco Elysium

Golden Kamuy

Black Sails

Catch-22

(loosely inspired by) Malcolm in the Middle

My OCs

Caoimhe Bishop (Sentimental Value)

Bishop × Harper toxic yuri

Prudence, Julius, & Oleander

Dex

Genre

💥 The Punch - Alt/dark pop

🎸 The Crunch - Contemporary energetic garage rock. it's fast, it's fun, and most importantly, it's CRUNCHY

🚀 The Gunk - Early Beck and similar. the idiosyncratic blend of indie folk, electronic, and white boy hip hop unique to the Y2K era

🎹 Piano Party - Power pop with a boogie piano flair

💎 - Contemporary blues rock

🎺 - Funk, soul & blues faves (classic and contemporary)

🌟 - Fun synth/dance pop (mostly female artists)

👽 - Electro/hyperpop/EDM

💅 - Cunty rap by women

☣ - Industrial/hardcore rap

🤘 - Rap rock/metal

Artist Compilations

Best of TMBG - All my favorites by They Might Be Giants

Doomtree Mastermix - All my favorites by Doomtree and its members (P.O.S., Dessa, Mike Mictlan, Sims, and Cecil Otter)

Seasonal

🎃 - Halloween mix

Merry Crisis - For a silly and irreverent Xmas

In the Bleak Midwinter - A more somber and reflective Christmas observance

Bonus

They're Pretty Underground, You Probably Haven't Heard of Them - A collaborative collection of our favorite obscure artists. Feel free to ask me for a new collaboration link if it won't let you contribute!

Hot Swingin' Mommas - A reconstrution of a mixtape my dad burned in the early oughts. features some lesser known female indie singers

[trevlad-sounds]

even more tags:

Invisible Club 25

07.08.2024

🎧 https://trevor.se/2024/08/05/invisible-club-025/

Intro 00:00 Lone Bison-Talk About It (Concretism Mix) 01:21 Pye Corner Audio-Walk In The Forest Acid 06:38 Donny Benét-Hold On Tonight 13:54 Worriedaboutsatan-Oh, It’s You. What Do You Want? 17:36 Sula Bassana-Tropfsteinhöhle 24:23 Quiet Dawn-It’s All About Freedom 27:52 Kevin Pearce-Memory Loss 33:00 Vulfmon-Ucla 37:52 Alber Jupiter-Daddy’s spaceship 40:18 The Routes-The Robots 47:22 Seefeel-Climactic Phase No.3 49:51 Ginger Root-Loneliness 57:56 Kanot-Ama’s Sun 1:01:06 Onepointwo-Obscurity 1:05:11 Kraak & Smaak, iogi-All I Need 1:09:07 Bibio-Odd Paws 1:13:19 Outro 1:15:35

[rabbitechoes]

wow!!! august was a pretty stacked month for new releases and it seems like september will be pretty busy too. there were quite a few great records this month - one being my current album of the year. also trying out a new format so these posts will be easier to navigate. i've started linking to the full reviews on my rym page instead of just pasting them over here. i figure it's much easier to get through that way!! to check out my thoughts on some of the songs that dropped this month click here!!! also feel free to follow me on rate your music and twitter <3

Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay

🥇 BEST ALBUM OF THE MONTH

◇ released: Aug. 23, 2024 ◇ genres: neo-psychedelia, synthpop, chillwave, dance-pop

to call it a triumph would be an understatement, the sophomore album from Magdalena Bay is a delicately detailed experience that doubles as an immensely enjoyable pop record. to put it simply, i'm feeling diskinserted 💿

my review of Imaginal Disk

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Sky Hundred - Parannoul

◇ released: Aug. 3, 2024 ◇ genres: shoegaze, noise pop, emo, indietronica

on his strongest album yet, Parannoul further refines his sound without sacrificing the scrappiness that made his music so endearing in the first place. my review of Sky Hundred

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NO NAME - Jack White

◇ released: July 19, 2024 / Aug. 2, 2024 ◇ genres: garage rock revival, hard rock, garage punk

Jack White has crafted a staggering garage rock record that perfectly soundtracks a world on fire. my review of NO NAME

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Wild God - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

◇ released: Aug. 30, 2024 ◇ genres: singer-songwriter, art rock, gospel, baroque pop

unlike the more meditative approach of 2019's Ghosteen, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with a renewed sense of urgency and a striking crop of songs that are sure to make u feel something. my review of Wild God

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cheshire days - ashley ninelives

◇ released: Aug. 10, 2024 ◇ genres: glitch pop, neo-psychedelia, synthpop

the long-awaited new album from ashley ninelives is filled to the brim with exciting ideas and vibrant production that's easy to get lost in.

my review of cheshire days

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I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU - JPEGMAFIA

◇ released: Aug. 1, 2024 ◇ genres: experimental hip hop, hardcore hip hop, rap rock

JPEGMAFIA is here to stay … whether u like it or not. my review of I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

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Romance - Fontaines D.C.

◇ released: Aug. 23, 2024 ◇ genres: indie rock, alternative rock, post-britpop

Fontaines D.C. shed their gothic veneer in favor of warmer sounds on their new record, while unfortunately stumbling into style over substance territory amidst a few incredible tunes.

my review of Romance

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Flight b741 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

◇ released: Aug. 9, 2024 ◇ genres: boogie rock, roots rock, blues rock

the refreshing collaborative spirit of this new King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard record is its biggest strength, but not enough to make this an essential project in their vast discography. my review of Flight b741

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Paradise State of Mind - Foster the People

◇ released: Aug. 16, 2024 ◇ genres: synthpop, nu-disco, chillwave

the fourth album from Foster the People, my favorite band when i was in 6th grade, is an existential ode to synth funk and disco of the 70s/80s that sounds great, but doesn't leave much of a lasting impression.

my review of Paradise State of Mind

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Quantum Baby - Tinashe

◇ released: Aug. 16, 2024 ◇ genres: alternative r&b, trap soul, pop rap

the second installment in Tinashe's BB/ANG3L trilogy is a substantial step down from the first primarily due to its reliance on more mainstream pop/r&b sounds.

my review of Quantum Baby

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Cellophane Memories - Chrystabell & David Lynch

◇ released: Aug. 2, 2024 ◇ genres: ambient pop, ethereal wave, ambient, drone

David Lynch always has a strong vision for what he wants to convey in his art, but unfortunately, this new collaboration with Chrystabell isn't one of his most worthwhile endeavors. my review of Cellophane Memories

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Short n' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter

◇ released: Aug. 23, 2024 ◇ genre: pop

Sabrina Carpenter's new album should be a bold statement priming her to be the next big thing, but instead it just falls into the same exhausted clichés we've all come to expect with big mainstream pop releases.

my review of Short n' Sweet

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Aghori mhori mei - Smashing Pumpkins

◇ released: Aug. 2, 2024 ◇ genre: alternative rock

Smashing Pumpkins' surprise new album isn't as horrible as their garish rock opera ATUM, but it's just as self-indulgent and outright boring as what we’ve come to expect from the band.

my review of Aghori mhori mei

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F-1 Trillion (Long Bed) - Post Malone

◇ released: Aug. 16, 2024 ◇ genres: contemporary country, country pop

Post Malone sticks out like a sore thumb in every genre he inhabits and that continues to be the case with his first full-length country album - his worst record thus far by a considerable margin.

my review of F-1 Trillion (Long Bed)

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Vultures 2 - Ye & Ty Dolla $ign

◇ released: Aug. 3, 2024 ◇ genres: pop rap, trap, alternative r&b

Ye and Ty Dolla Sign return with a disastrous album full of anthems for divorced dads who were most certainly in the wrong.

my review of Vultures 2

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Popular Monster - Falling in Reverse

◇ released: Aug. 16, 2024 ◇ genres: alternative metal, trap, rap metal

no.

my review of Popular Monster

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this section will be used on occasion to briefly discuss projects i didn't write full reviews for, but i still think are worth checking out. beginning with ...

Sophcore - Moses Sumney

A decent EP, but I would be lying if I said I was a little letdown. Still very pleasant on the ears, just lacking in substance. Sumney still has a very striking voice. Here's hoping the next project is a bit more substantial.

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Some Songs I Wish I Wrote Vol. 1 - This Is The Glasshouse

I didn't have high expectations for a covers EP, but this one really floored me. I really loved his album from last year, As Small As Ants, and it seems as though he's only getting better. He has a really good ear for layered instrumentation, it's certainly this EP's strongest aspect. The arrangements for his cover of Xiu Xiu's "Sad Pony Guerilla Girl" and Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" were big highlights in particular. Definitely give this a listen!

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The Vault - Maruja

A few months after their Connla's Well EP, Maruja surprise dropped a compilation full of improv jam sessions. It's a bit of an undertaking, but for those who are fans of the band this is definitely a treat. There are so many cool instrumental passages here and it brilliantly showcases how many brilliant ideas are swarming around when the band is in the studio. Their chemistry is off the charts. Here's hoping we get some weird jam stuff on their full-lenght debut, whenever that comes out.

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[burlveneer-music]

Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon - new album out today; they just keep getting better at their Cinematic Soul thing

Coming off the heels of 2022's A New Kind of Love, A Trip To The Moon sees GFO diving even deeper in the worlds of film music, exotica, and psychedelic surf rock. The aim is to create a layered and collaged listening experience with more elements than you could possibly pick out in a single listen. The guitars are fuzzy and flooded with spring reverb, and the horns are arranged in a studio big band fashion. It's full of big compositions with garage rock attitude. Influences range everywhere from Eddie Palmieri and Esquivel to The Lively Ones, Dusty Springfield, and War. The tracks are tied together by real recorded transmissions from the Apollo moon missions. The concept for the album is a story about a woman stranded on earth by her cosmonaut partner, left to ponder his whereabouts and whether or not he'll make it back from the cosmos alive.

[cherrylng]

Muse Disc Guide - Black Holes and Revelations [STYLE Series #004 - Muse (August 2010)]

Black Holes and Revelations

IN MUSIC The success of their last album made them an international arena band in the UK and beyond, and after a two-year world tour, which included a triumphant Glastonbury Festival (2004), they decided to spend nearly a year and a half working on a new album. Produced by Rich Costey, as on the previous album. The band had never stuck to the established framework of guitar rock, but with no set deadlines and plenty of free time, their diverse tastes and ideas were given concrete expression on this album.

During the early stages of production in the south of France and most of the remainder in New York, they digested and absorbed a wide range of genres (from progressive rock, space rock and world music to R&B, soul and electronica). The electro-funk-tinged first single (3/ Supermassive Black Hole), in particular, was born out of their club experience in New York (although it is the only song along the same lines), and its bold transformation took the world by surprise. The song, which exposed their enterprising nature, reached their highest UK chart position to date by 4th place.

The songs feature different instrumentation, but also more versatility within a single song than ever before. The flamboyant (Queen-esque) choruses that were suppressed on the previous album are back in many places, including the rich and viscous (1/ Take A Bow). The romantic pop (2/ Starlight), the melancholy new wave (4/ Map of the Problematique), (8/ Exo-Politics), the jazzy (5/ Soldier's Poem), the march-like rhythm with slide guitar of (6/ Invincible), the aggressive guitar of (7/ Assassin), the exotic rock number (9/ City of Delusion) with acoustic guitar, strings and trumpet. The band has succeeded in creating a new innovation, expressing a grand and profound worldview through a variety of songs and a strange compositional style. "Knights of Cydonia" with a western-like space opera is a masterpiece. With this album, which naturally reached number one in the UK, the band took to the stage at the newly refurbished Wembley Stadium in 2007 as one of the UK's leading bands. —Sumi Imai

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2006 Hit Albums

The UK scene saw the emergence of a number of energetic young bands this year. Arctic Monkeys' (A/ Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not) was a prime example. With their garage-tinged guitar sound and lyrics written by frontman Alex Turner, their debut album reached No.1 in the UK charts for the first time. Other releases that year included The Kooks' debut and Razorlight's second album, both of which were hits. Meanwhile, Snow Patrol, who had made their international debut in 2003 with their major label debut Final Straw, finally became one of the biggest bands of the year, selling 1.2 million copies of (B/ Eyes Open) in the US.

Meanwhile, the biggest US presence of the year was Gnarls Barkley, the unit consisting of Danger Mouse and Cee Lo, who also produced Gorillaz. "Crazy", also on the album (C/ St. Elsewhere), was an even bigger hit in the UK than in the US, where it held the top spot for 11 consecutive weeks. Nelly Furtado's single ‘Maneater’ from (D/ Loose) was also a big hit in the UK. The album was produced entirely by Timbaland, but Justin Timberlake's (E/ FutureSex/LoveSounds), also from Timbaland, was also one of the most popular albums of the year.

In October of the same year, Amy Winehouse's (F/ Back To Black) was also released, which went on to smash the charts all over the world the following year. In the UK, the reunited Take That's Beautiful World, released at the end of the year, spent a total of eight weeks at number one over the next year.

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IN LYRICS

In a situation where the real world is being equated with dystopia in the tradition of science fiction, Matthew tried to inspire people's consciousness by giving them an epic story. In this sense, the lyrics of the album can be read as a vivid history book of the present time. The protagonists of the stories, such as (5/ Soldier's Poem), a lament of an unknown soldier, are ordinary people who do not appear on the stage of history.

History offers a conspiracy infested with neoconservatism, neoliberalism, wars without cause, surveillance societies, etc. Citizens without a voice in the face of this conspiracy will one day forget that they are free. Although in fact they are being deprived of their freedom by the conspirators, (1/ Take A Bow) brings to the foreground the present without freedom and at the same time condemns the conspirators by singing that ‘our freedom's consuming itself, what we've become is contrary to what we want’. In (7/ Assassin), he also condemns the mastermind of the conspiracy while describing the end of the conspiracy - the eventual birth of the assassin from the citizens' egg of despair. In other words, throughout the album, Matthew is trying to give a voice to the voiceless citizens.

However, Matthew does not degenerate into a mischievous agitator, but rather a voice that emerges from citizens asking themselves ‘who are we as individuals? This is summed up in the album title ‘Black Holes and Revelations’, which refers to how the protagonist and the history he is confronted with operate in an unknown imagination (=black hole), and how the listener's identity is revealed through the protagonist (=revelations). The lyrics tell us about the individual identity of each listener, which is revealed through the protagonist.

Matthew couldn't help but agree with the Daily Telegraph's point about the similarities between this album and Monty Python, but the black humour of Exo-Politics, which depicts an alien invasion, certainly has a distinctly British sense of humour. —Abe Kaoru

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YEAR 2006 January - Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank merged to form The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU). February - 20th Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy. Shizuka Arakawa wins gold in the women's single figure skating event. The name of her fascinating move, ‘Ina Bauer’, became the most popular word of the year. March - New Kitakyushu Airport opened and a new airline, StarFlyer, operated between Haneda and Kitakyushu. April - Lily Franky's Tokyo Tower: Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton (Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad) won the Honya Taisho (Japan Booksellers' Award). - Digital terrestrial television broadcasting, 1seg, was launched. May - An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film by former US Vice-President Al Gore, was released in US theatres, raising awareness of global warming prevention worldwide. June - Montenegro declares independence from Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia also recognises it. - Muse's 4th album Black Holes and Revelations is released, topping the UK charts. - North American tour begins. 2006 - FIFA World Cup held in Germany, with Italy winning for the first time in 24 years. July - Hidetoshi Nakata of the Japanese national football team announces his retirement. August - Summer Sonic ‘06, where the band wowed the crowds with a spectacular performance. After returning to Japan, Muse performs at and headlines the Reading & Leeds Festival. September - Junichiro Koizumi retires as Prime Minister and Shinzo Abe's Cabinet is formed. October - European tour begins. - The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters won the Japan Series in professional baseball for the first time in 44 years. November - Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe announced his retirement. December - Nintendo launched the Wii.

Translator's Note: I actually didn't know or remember that BHAR had a story to the album itself. Well, today I learned from translating these articles.

[cinenthusiast]

recent album listens

i can actually listen to music while i work again, it's been over a year of not being able to swing it. anyways, some recent first-time listens the last couple of months

my ancestors - chrissy zebby tempo & ngozi family (1976, psych rock) panoramic feelings - alessandro alessandroni (1971, library music / lounge) small medium large - sml (2024, nu jazz) keesh mountain - wombo (2021, post-punk / slacker rock) we be all africans - idris ackamoor & the pyramids (2021, spiritual jazz / afro-jazz) blue hour - stanley turrentine with the 3 sounds (1960, soul jazz / hard bop) shadowfax - shadowfax (1982, new age / jazz fusion) for the recently found innocent - white fence (2014, garage rock / psych rock) seven waves - ciani (1982, progressive electronic / new age) the president plays with the oscar petersen trio - lester young (1956, recorded 1952, bebop / cool jazz) the very best of bird - charlie parker (1977 released compilation, jazz / bebop) big band - charlie parker (1954 released compilation, cool jazz / big band) i just dropped by to say hello - johnny hartman (1964, vocal jazz / standards) john coltrane and johnny hartman (1963, vocal jazz / standards) everybody split - possible humans (2019, indie rock / jangle pop) walt wolfman - richard swift (2013, garage rock) ballet of apes - brigid dawson & the mothers network (2020, psych folk / singer-songwriter) jaguar sound - adrian quesada (2022, psych rock, jazz-funk) miles ahead - miles davis + 19 (1957, cool jazz) blow out - john carroll kirby (2023, jazz-funk / nu jazz) birks' works - dizzy gillespie (1957, big band / bebop)

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Today's compilation:

Hed Kandi: Disco Kandi 2000 House / Garage House / Nu-Disco

Good God, what a terrific pair of discs here from the ever-consistent dance comp label Hed Kandi. With this first ever installment in their Disco Kandi series, the UK outfit supplies a steady stream of ephemeral house bangers from the late 90s and 2000, with a lot of the selections sounding contemporary, but also managing to channel an invigorating old-school disco spirit too. And many of these glitz-glammy, high-quality productions also collectively continue to progress from the sonic tradition that first started in famed New York DJ Larry Levan's Paradise Garage nightclub in the late 70s, where he nurtured a more vocally soulful and R&B-rooted house sound into the late 80s that would come to be known simply as 'garage.' And after the Paradise Garage's closure, that garage sound would find popularity at a club in New Jersey called Zanzibar too, where Tony Humphries would continue to spin it.

Now, despite a few of these tracks having somewhat remarkably high YouTube play counts, all of them were and still are definitely underground; that is, except for one. And this particular tune that I'm referring to wasn't just mainstream, but it really managed to lace the hell out of a lot of US contemporary hit radio stations back in the late 90s, even though it only ended up peaking at #52 on the Billboard Hot 100, overall. Basically, if you tuned into your local pop or more dance-oriented station on anything close to a regular basis back then, there's almost no way that you could've avoided one-off supertrio Stars on 54's cover of Gordon Lightfoot's 1970 soft folk-rock classic, "If You Could Read My Mind," which saw Amber, Jocelyn Enriquez, and Ultra Naté teaming up to record a song for the soundtrack to the disco period flick, 54. Really classic radio gold right there that a lot of people probably haven't thought about in a long while.

And then just as you're finished reminiscing on whatever fond memories you might hold that are associated with that particular song, quite possibly the most impressive track of all within this two-disc set ends up directly following it: the Matthew Roberts and Richard Fite remix of Eclipse's "Makes Me Love You." This one has a big, sun-shining pool party vibe to it, as it combines lustrous disco strings, funkily plucked guitar, a fuzzy-thick corrugated bassline, and piano keys, all while employing a lovely filter technique, which is that really popular thing that house musicians got to doing around this time period, in which certain elements sound distant and submerged, and as they continuously loop, keep sounding closer and clearer, until they satisfyingly breach the surface and hit their glorious peak. And that's maybe my favorite type of house music in the whole world 😊.

So, a really enjoyable way to spend over two and a half hours here, with a hefty dose of  super sleek house tunes, a lot of which are on a nu-disco and garage tip. And it was collected by the always seemingly on point Hed Kandi label too, which has never steered me wrong before!

Highlights:

CD1:

Cunnie Williams - "A World Celebration (Mousse T's Party Lick)" Lovestation - "Teardrops (Joey Negro 12" mix)" Bini + Martini -" Happiness (B+M's new re-edit)" Paul Johnson - "Get Get Down (Dancefloor dub)" Fire Island - "There but for the Grace of God (Joey Negro mix)" Soulsearcher - "Can't Get Enough (vocal club mix)" Stars on 54 - "If You Could Read My Mind (original club mix)" Eclipse - "Makes Me Love You (Morning Star mix)" Darryl Pandy meets Nerio's Dubwork - "Sunshine & Happiness (Nerio's Dubwork mix)" Glaubitz & Roc - "Sunshine Day (extended mix)" Jaydee vs. Bo Horne - "Spank (Exit EEE's alternative mix)"

CD2:

The Lab Rats presents The Experiment feat. Lisa Millett - "Music Is My Way of Life (Lab Rats Main Experiment)" Choo Choo Project - "Hazin' & Phazin' (Lab Rat's Funkin' With Choo Choo)" Sun Kids feat. Chance - "Rescue Me (Bini + Martini 999 Funk mix)" Phunkie Souls - "The Music (Richard F "Defected" re-edit)" Z-Factor - "Make a Move on Me (extended 12" mix)" Michael Moog - "That Sound (Full Intention mix)" Novy vs. Eniac - "Superstar (Full Intention mix)" Duke - "So in Love With You (Full Intention mix)"