With our 3rd pick, Anal Bum Cover selects The Alchemy Index: Vols. III & IV by THRiCE in the 2006-2008 category.
Tracklisting:
Vol. III - Air
1. Broken Lungs - 4:14
2. The Sky Is Falling - 4:21
3. A Song For Milly Michaelson - 5:07
4. Daedalus - 6:00
5. As The Crow Flies - 2:22
6. Silver Wings - 2:10
Vol. IV - Earth
1. Moving Mountains - 2:55
2. Digging My Own Grave - 3:04
3. The Earth Isn't Humming (Frodus cover) - 4:58
4. The Lion And The Wolf - 2:42
5. Come All You Weary - 4:08
6. Child of Dust - 3:09
Daedalus:
Come All You Weary:
Broken Lungs:
Moving Mountains:
The Lion and the Wolf:
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With my next pick... in the 1981-85 category, recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver by one of the most famous Canadians in the history of our country...
Reckless, by Bryan Adams!
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Release and Reception
One of Adams' most successful albums, Reckless, co-produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain, peaked at number one on the Billboard 200. Upon its release, the album reached #6 on the Billboard 200 in January 1985 before dropping out of the top ten. The success of the singles "Heaven" and "Summer of '69" renewed interest in the album and it began climbing back up the chart, eventually reaching #1 in August 1985.
Reckless included the hit singles "Run to You", "Heaven", "Summer of '69", "One Night Love Affair", and "It's Only Love". All the singles had accompanying music videos, and each one charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Run to You", "Summer of '69", and "Heaven" peaking in the top ten. "Heaven" would become the most successful single from Reckless at the time of its release on the US music charts, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the mainstream rock chart.
The single "It's Only Love" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. In 1986, the song won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance. The album is Adams best-selling album in the United States and was certified five times platinum.
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Track Listing
1. "One Night Love Affair" [Adams, Vallance] (4:32)
2. "She's Only Happy When She's Dancin" [Adams, Vallance] (3:14)
3. "Run to You" [Adams, Vallance] (3:54)
4. "Heaven" [Adams, Vallance] (4:03)
5. "Somebody" [Adams, Vallance] (4:44)
6. "Summer of '69" [Adams, Vallance] (3:35)
7. "Kids Wanna Rock" [Adams, Vallance] (2:36)
8. "It's Only Love" [Adams, Vallance] (3:15)
9. "Long Gone" [Adams, Vallance] (3:57)
10."Ain't Gonna Cry" [Adams, Vallance] (4:06)
I've seen Bryan Adams 4 times. He used to be a big favourite of mine but Reckless was the pinnacle of his success in my mind. I used to get his albums as soon as they came out, and I now have no idea when his last album was released or how many he has released.
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Fixed! Though, I have to say that not having the imagined Canadian category puts things in a different perspective. I had other plans for 81-85 (and Rock).
In 1983 Bryan and I were asked to write a song for the film "A Night In Heaven", starring Lesley Ann Warren and Christopher Atkins. Unfortunately it was a dreadful film that flopped at the box office. The soundtrack album, which included our song "Heaven", suffered a similar fate.
Very few people saw the movie, and even fewer purchased the soundtrack album, so for all intents and purposes "Heaven" was still a "new" song.
Regardless, Bryan didn't think it was suitable for "Reckless", the album he was then recording. His decision may have been partly influenced by producer Jimmy Iovine, who Bryan was using as a "sounding board" at the time. Iovine thought the song was "light', and he recommended that Bryan not include it on the "Reckless" album.
I'm not sure who changed Bryan's mind, but at the very last moment he decided to add "Heaven" to the track-list. It emerged as the album's flagship single, eventually reaching the top of the U.S. and Canadian charts in the summer of 1985 (as did the album).
(Jim Vallance has a very interesting website. Interesting to get a look "behind the scenes" at a lot of songs.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
I'll give you a bonus point if you have seen this movie.
No bonus points for me......
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
Ummm, so yeah. I'm sorry I missed my picks. I was in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee from Thursday morning to Tuesday morning. Was supposed to have internet down there but didn't. Then when I got home, I found my landlord had disconnected my internet.
I'll be back online tonight. How do I make it all up?
EDIT: Guess I only missed one pick. It'll be up tonight.
Ummm, so yeah. I'm sorry I missed my picks. I was in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee from Thursday morning to Tuesday morning. Was supposed to have internet down there but didn't. Then when I got home, I found my landlord had disconnected my internet.
I'll be back online tonight. How do I make it all up?
EDIT: Guess I only missed one pick. It'll be up tonight.
Kick Al Gore's ass for inventing the Internet but not supplying it to his home state.
Also, start chanting "C-I-L-L my landlord!"
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Coming across like a female version of the Black Keys, this Vancouver duo growls and snarls with catchy ferocity on its second full-length, mixing a punchy batch of rock tracks that are about 75 percent garage and 25 percent blues. Becky Black's scratchy but sometimes surprisingly tender and pretty vocals are reminiscent of Janis Joplin in their emotional intensity, but there's more than a hint of Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano when she takes it down a notch or sarcastically sneers. Black is angry, but it's a smart, knowing variety of anger that comes with age and experience. She modulates and punctuates rather than screaming. When she gets really quiet on "Worried" she even sounds a bit like Sinéad O'Connor. To have that kind of stylistic range and wield it without becoming pretentious is impressive. Minimalist raw blues guitar squalls, bends, and chunks paired with slow pounding drumbeats are a fine backing, framing Black's voice like Americana outsider art. It might take a couple listens to get into Black and partner Maya Miller's groove, but Funeral Mixtape gets better and better with familiarity, after a listener learns to trust Black's vocals and dark themes and realize the duo is for real. Explosive songs like "Build" and "June" are every bit as good as those of peers like the White Stripes. Three of the album's first four tracks are probably the album's weakest, primarily because of some slight lyrically awkwardness, and that could turn off listeners, but things get better and better once those are out of the way. Funeral Mixtape is a sleeper of an album, and as good as the Pack A.D. sound here, some expanded studio dynamics in the future could send them into the stratosphere.
This album just came out in August and I picked it up right away. These two ladies encompass the electric blues attitude and sound. Bonus that they're also Canadian. If you like to rock out to LOUD and dirty blues, this album is for you.
Being that they're fairly under the radar for now, it's hard to find a lot of quality youtube clips.
