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| End Year List (due late release date, this album was not part of most “End Year List´s”) # 44 – Gigwise # 7 – Rolling Stone # 7 – Rolling Stone (Australia) # 40 – Sound Opinions |
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The Rolling Stones released their latest album December 2nd 2016, their first album in over a decade is a return to the blues. It is a great blues album, and a tremendous return to form by The Stones.
The album is fresh and spontaneous and was recorded in just 3 days last December (2015) with co-producer Don Was. It really sounds like band enjoying themselves.
“This album is manifest testament to the purity of their love for making music, and the blues is, for the Stones, the fountainhead of everything they do.”
– Don Was
It’s a very good introduction to the blues, by a band who clearly pours their love into the songs. We’ve included the versions that are closest to the Rolling Stones’s takes on these songs. It isn’t always the original recording.
The entire list part 3, part 2, part 1
Continue reading “Best Album 2016: The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome”
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it. … [Life] is like a roller coaster. It’s never going to be perfect — it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it’s all worth it.
~Patti Smith“I don’t fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.”
~Patti Smith“A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work — because you have to, because it’s your calling.”
~Patti SmithPunk rock’s poet laureate Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Ambitious, unconventional, and challenging, Smith’s music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan’s heyday.
~Steve Huey (allmusic.com)
For other Patti Smith quotes check out: Patti Smith Quotes @ 1oohabits.com
Continue reading “December 30: Patti Smith was born in 1946 – Happy 70th Birthday!”
| Released: August 26 , 2016 Producer: Rob Schnapf, Cass McCombs & Dan Horne Label: Anti Records |
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| “Mangy Love makes itself distinct from its predecessors with its outright jazziness and ethereality. Wit’s End was a traipse though the densely forested hills of solitude; Big Wheel and Others was a road trip through odd, nameless American sub-societies,; and Mangy Love is Cass McCombs in outer space.” – Dustin Lowman (Drowned in Sound) |
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| This album really made me listen to the lyrics, I was fooled by the sweet melodies – but the lyrics are tough, hard, rough poems about love,sex, life and death. McCombs knows how to play with words (Switch): Turn you on, you light up the room Turn you off, it’s dark as a tomb– Hallgeir |
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| Best songs: Opposite House, Bum Bum Bum and Switch |
Continue reading “The Best Albums 2016: 20 to 11 (part 2/3)”
1. John Lennon -Happy Christmas (War Is Over):
