This Project Began in 2004 When Damon Albarn and Simon Tong Travelled to Nigeria to Record with Afrobeat Pioneer Tony Allen. Much Later, Albarn Gave the Tapes to Producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton and his Attitude Changed, Feeling Like He Would Just Write the Songs but Not Sing. Danger Mouse Helped Gel the Project and Albarn Just Wanted …
Blur (1997), the 5th studio album from British pop/rock band Blur, broke wildly with the sounds of their previous album, The Great Escape, whose wild success had catapulted the band to international fame. Feeling that the Britpop mantel painted on them was limiting their creative capacity, Blur went lo-fi and added more alternative rock to their sound, stunning …
Two CD set compiling the absolute best hits from Synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe). From their first hit, ‘West End Girls’, PSB had their fingers on the pulse of what made a great single, and they consistently released some of the finest Dance tunes of the ’80s and ’90s. This collection features …
How is it that Kid A’s opening track, laden with an electronic vocal stuttering “bleh, bluh-bleh bleh bluh” is the most fascinating statement made in rock & roll this year? Because somehow, even when Radiohead blathers and blips nonsense, it’s profound. The band’s future-perfect musical grammar may be hard to decipher, and the melody is even more subliminal, …
Radiohead’s third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that’s almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British “new wave of new wave” …
The third studio album from British pop rock band Duran Duran, Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983) features the band’s original line up displaying their trademark catchy pop rock, heavy on big hooks and 80’s synth. Showcasing the high flying hits, ‘The Reflex,’ ‘New moon on Monday’ and, ‘Union of the Snake,’ Seven and the Ragged Tiger also …
‘The Best of Jethro Tull The Anniversary Collection,’ released in 1993, is a best-of box set by British rock group Jethro Tull. Included are some of the band’s biggest and best hits spanning from 1968 to 1991. A two disc collection, ‘The Anniversary Collection’ compiles releases from 1968-1974 on disc one, and releases from 1975-1991 on disc two, …
Note:99% of the time playability issues are a result of turbtables lacking a tone arm with adjustments for vertical tracking angle, anti-skating, and counter-weight system — not a result of the vinyl record. “The French twosome behind Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, get away with an awful lot. They go around impersonating aliens …