#lifesavas

[bigmeatpete69420]

Hellohihey

Sooooo do0ee god damnnnnnnn

[radiophd]

lifesavas -- soldierfied

[strangledeggs]

Tell me what to listen to next!

I'm stealing an idea from someone else on here to help me catch up on a backlog of music I have lying around that I haven't yet listened to. Up above, you'll see 50 albums, 25 in each list. The lists are as follows:

List 1:

Adele - 30 Les Amazones d'Afrique - Amazones Power The Chills - Brave Words CMAT - Crazymad, For Me Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart Dusty Springfield - The Very Best Of Dusty Springfield FU-Schnickens - Nervous Breakdown Generation Bass Presents Transnational Dubstep [compilation] Gil Scott-Heron - It's Your World Girls Against Boys - House Of GvsB Kool AD - 63 Louis Armstrong - Ambassador Satch Mach-Hommy - Dollar Menu 4 Mase - Harlem World Meat Puppets - Huevos Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah Pylon - Chomp Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step Terry Allen - Bottom Of The World Thelonious Monk - The Complete London Collection Tyler Childers - Rustin' In The Rain UB40 - Labour Of Love The Velvet Underground - Another View Willowz - Talk In Circles

List 2:

Bell Orchestre - Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light Carly Pearce - Hummingbird Clem Snide - End Of Love Earth, Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes Elliott Murphy - Aquashow Gasolin' - Gasolin' Helen Reddy - Helen Reddy Kirby Heard - Mama's Biscuits Lifesavas - Spirit In Stone Lori McKenna - 1988 Marshal Crenshaw - #447 Muddy Waters - King Bee New Wave Dance Music From South Africa [compilation] NRBQ - NRBQ L'Orchestre National Mauritanien - Ahl Nana Randy Newman - Randy Newman Ray Wylie Hubbard - Co-Starring Too Ruby Braff And Ellis Larkins - Calling Berlin Vol. 1 Sacred Soul Of North Carolina [compilation] Skip James - Blues From The Delta Swamp Dogg - Gag A Maggot Tabu Ley Rochereau - Man From Kinshasa Unholy Modal Rounders - Unholier Than Thou: 7/7/77 Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle Yo-Yo Ma - Classic Yo-Yo

You can help me out here by replying to this post picking one album from each of the lists, which I will then listen to at some point in...hopefully the next month? Maybe two? Sorry, my listening schedule for new stuff is slow recently because of work. But a few notes here:

a) First, obviously you must pick two albums (again, one from each list) and you can't pick something somebody else has already picked.

b) As I listen to these albums (I tend to go in alphabetical order on a running list I have), I will post short impressions of them here (I may or may not add a letter grade, we'll see how I'm feeling by the time I get around to it).

c) Pretty much all of these albums were reviewed (or at least recommended) in some way by the critic Robert Christgau, so part of my impressions will involve noting whether I agree or disagree with him on his assessment.

I'm honestly not sure if I have enough followers here for this to work, so it might get cross-posted to a Facebook group I'm in where people are more likely to respond. I'll reblog after a while with an update on what's chosen, and it will close after I get a lineup of about 10-20 albums (or after like a week or two, if no one's responding).

And yes, I am aware that these are eccentric lists.

[loushooz]

Champion - lifesavas by JJ Cool L from Jaysun Loushin Films on Vimeo.

[themaudlinmimic]

Spirit In Stone - Lifesavas

Neat early-century hip-hop album with good sampling and earfeel (like mouthfeel but for ears).

@edgy-ella @mailboxmatchstick @fuzzycast

EVERYONE GIMME AN ALBUM U REALLY LIKE AND PASS IT ON PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

I'll go first, 666 by Aphrodite's Child :)

@leahandherstuff @lichenstone @sotalia-fluviatilis @field-cryptobotanist @forflightlessbirds @bat-luun @theoneandonlywinnie

[simonwest369]

Fishbone / Funkadelic

[elitemindshiphop-com]

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[fingersonblast]

This one came out a little while ago, but it is still and always will be absolute fire! Wynne x Vursatyl x illmaculate x KayelaJ x Dame DOLLA aka Damian Lillard!   Listen to 'The Thesis' now: http://fingersonblast.com/blog/2020/2/19/wynne-the-thesis-ft-vursatyl-illmac-kayelaj-dame-dolla.html

[djklyph]

Tomorrow night!!! #Repost @thethesispdx ・・・ #TheThesis . @weoutherenet & @vrtxmag present . THE THESIS | MARCH 2019 . Featuring... . @vursatyl1 • @stevotheweirdo • @lisavazquezmusic • @verbzthedj & special guests! . We’re proud to bring the legendary Vursatyl of the Lifesavas will be rocking our stage for his first official set at @thethesispdx! We’ve also stacked the line-up with two Thesis headliners Portland stoner god, Stevo The Weirdo & Portland’s Queen of the beats Lisa Vazquez. Just $10 on March 7th at @kellysolympian! We’ll have drink specials by @bacardi. If you’ve heard about Stevo’s last two appearances, this will no doubt be one for the books. . Design by @cassodinero . #nevermissthethesis #portland #oregon #pdx #lifesavas #hiphop #mpc #mc #emcee #pdxhiphop #flyer #design #rap https://www.instagram.com/p/BusdIWJgVrx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x7f8175wfjmg

[votava-records]

General Elektriks - Corne de Gazelle (feat. Leeroy)

Hervé Salters, a French national and vintage keyboard player, was playing keys for various artists in Paris (Femi Kuti, -M-, Vercoquin, DJ Mehdi, etc.) before he moved to San Francisco in 1999. He started working on what would become General Elektriks as he was moving to the US. Once in California, he soon became associated with the Quannum Projects collective (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, etc.) and started sessioning for them. He invited Quannum’s own Lateef The Truthspeaker and Chief Xcel on a few tracks, then completed the 1st General Elektriks album, Cliquety Kliqk (2003).

After touring behind the album, Salters joined Blackalicious in the studio to work on The Craft and toured with them for over a year. Concurrently, he formed San Francisco trio Honeycut with singer Bart Davenport and drummer/programmer Tony Sevener. Quannum Projects released their critically acclaimed 1st album, The Day I Turned To Glass, in 2006. In 2007, the General Elektriks song ‘Time To Undress’ was chosen to be featured in the Woody Allen movie ‘Cassandra’s Dream.’ As he was touring with Honeycut and laying keys down for more artists (hip hop group Lifesavas, Brazilian artist Curumin, beat maker Jel, hip hop group the Mighty Underdogs, etc….), Salters started working on a second General Elektriks effort. Good City For Dreamers showcased a more organic sound than its predecessor, blending sampled/programmed drums, live keyboards, horns and strings in a more seamless fashion; it also featured more of Salters’ singing. Released in 2009, the record was spearheaded by the single ‘Raid The Radio’ and led to an 18 months tour.

Salters then co-produced L.A rapper Pigeon John’s album Dragon Slayer and got back together with his Honeycut counterparts to work on a second effort, ‘Comedians.’ He also wrote and produced the soundtrack to a gangster TV miniseries for French network France 2, ‘Les Beaux Mecs.’ Salters started working on a follow up to Good City For Dreamers during the winter of 2011. Written, arranged and produced in 4 months, Parker Street came out in the fall of 2011 and digs deeper into the organic blend of Funk, Pop and Jazz of its predecessor.

Salters moved back to Europe during the Parker Street tour and settled in Berlin in 2012. The same year he teamed up with Blackalicious producer Chief Xcel to form Burning House. Showcasing a mix of Xcel’s programming artistry and Salters’ keyboards, their album Walking into A Burning House came out on French label Naïve in 2013. After co-producing Pigeon John’s 4th studio album ‘Encino Man’ (2014), Salters started working on a follow up to Parker Street. He concurrently wrote the music for a TV miniseries on Franco-German network Arte, ‘Paris’ (2015), and the same year co-wrote the soundtrack for French movie ‘Arrêtez-moi là.’ Salters’ 4th studio album as General Elektriks, To Be A Stranger, came out in the winter of 2016. Brazilian singer Céu’s Tropix album, which Salters had co-produced with Brazilian drummer Pupillo, came out later that year and went on to win 2 Latin Grammy Awards (Best Portuguese Language Contemporary Pop Album and Best Engineered Album).

Salters and his live band recorded various shows from the ‘To Be A Stranger’ tour, which resulted in the live album Punk Funk City (Fall 2016). The band line up on Punk Funk City was still the one that Salters had assembled in 2009 at the time of Good City For Dreamers: Jessie Chaton on electric bass and synth bass, Jordan Dalrymple on drums and MPC, Eric Starczan on guitar, Touski on vibraphone and drums, and Salters on Clavinet/Fender Rhodes/synth. The band also joined Salters on some songs on his next album, Carry No Ghosts, which came out in the winter of 2018. The line up changed during the following tour as Jordan Dalrymple left the band and was replaced on drums and MPC by Toma Milteau.

[coachrodnightingale]

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[loushooz]

Lifesavas - Champion Live Hip Hop by JJ COOL L from Jaysun Loushin Films on Vimeo.

[radiophd]

grassrootz ft lifesavas -- outlaws

[rasmusriiskjaer]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaogL_Aws10)