This is really new stuff, their debut full length album, which only came out this January in Europe and will be published in the US May 5th.
Two basses, keyboards, two singers, drummer, good songs, interesting style, good songs, a really good album, highly recommended. From Finland, where else
In the Metal category, team Twist/Shout picks On Rituals and Correspondence in Constructed Realities by Cantata Sangui.
Here's my final pick, finally. This is propably my alltime favourite band, and this EP is propably my favourite out of their catalog.
In the 1981-1985 category, team Twist/Shout picks Lapset by Sielun Veljet (from the year 1983).
Propably goes into "weird s***" category for most people, possibly even more so if you get the lyrics, but I don't care. I just love, love, love this stuff. "Shamanistic post-punk" for the win!
I'll be working on my picks the next two nights. Thanks to all of you who have gone before me for not picking anything on my radar!
And thanks to everyone for this great draft. It's been a blast. I've made and will continue to make purchases based on what I've learned in this thread. Great stuff.
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Awww, I feel bad that it came down to a free for all. I really liked this draft, but I just didn't have too much time this month for anything. This weekend, I will get my picks up. I am sure you guys are anxiously waiting.
I don't think there's been many picksteals on this draft anyway, so I don't think this freebie finish matters that much, not to me anyway. I'm just glad I got to post everything, I've mostly had my picks lined up from the start anyway. Only thing is, I'm way behind on really checking out what other people have posted here.
I will pick in the live category, The Monkees: Live 1967.
This was a tough one for me, as I am not really a concert goer, not terribly into live music. But since I am a giant Monkees fan, I figured this would be a good pick here. It's the only live album I actually own. It has their more popular songs like I'm a Believer, Last Train to Clarksville and Mary, Mary, but it also has a couple of lesser known goodies like I Wanna Be Free, Not your Steppin' Stone and Randy Scout Git. It even has a solo from Peter Tork who rarely did the solo singing.
I know a lot of people rag on the Monkees and compare them to the Beatles, etc, but I think it's just fun entertaining silly music. I was in love with Peter Tork when I was younger, I thought he was so cute. I wanted to marry him.
Couldn't find any old Monkees stuff on Youtube that was live. All the live stuff I found was mainly from their reunion tours in the late 80s/early 90s.
I will select in the category of Hip Hop/Rap, etc. Eve's Scorpion.
I really like Eve. I think she's really quite talented, I like her voice and I like the mixes she uses. This was the first of her stuff that I ever owned.
Youtube stuff
Most will probably be NSFW
Who's that Girl?
Love is Blind
Got what you need
Let me Blow your Mind, her duet with Gwen Stefani was probably the biggest hit off this album, but I can't find a version on Youtube that hasn't had embedding disabled.
My only issue with it is that it has a couple of those stupid skits that artists put in that make little to no sense to anyone but a few people outside the artists circle of friends.
In the Jazz/Blues category my pick is Derek and the Dominos "Layla and other Assorted Love Songs". I maybe stretching things a bit but IMHO with Clapton and Duane Allman throwing thunderbolts at each other this album is Blues nirvana.
In the Funk/R&B category I am pleased to select James Brown'sStar Time. I was never a big James Brown fan but when I heard this boxset it was a revelation. Absolutely brilliant.
In the Soundtrack category, I am pleased to select "Woodstock". Not the greatest recording but as a young kid it introduced me to amongst other things a lot of great artists.
"Exile" was one of those albums that I was certainly aware of when it first came out but I never got around to buying it. I had all of the other Stones albums in their magnificcent canon but it wasn't until a friend put it on for me one night that I realized what I had been missing. As you say Trout, it explodes out of the gates with "Rocks off" and then continues to go from strength to strength. I think I might have to put it on now for a spin.
In the '86-'90 category I'm very happy to select one of the most important and underheard records of the '90's.... Apple (1990) Mother Love Bone.
On it's own, Apple is a great rock record that would've set the Seattle scene off even earlier had the unfortunate circumstances that follow never taken place. A few days before the release of the debut album, lead singer Andrew Wood overdosed on heroine and passed away. This left the band (including future Pearl Jam members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament) helpless to promote itself. The band died with Wood and so did the album. Many, many rock fans don't know it. They are missing out.
Wood had a Freddie Mercury/Robert Plant morph quality to him. Great voice, great showman. He, and the band, would've been huge. One review of a live show I read criticized Wood for being too Plant-like. What a compliment!
Apple combines elements of rock, funk and metal to give the listener a great hour of listening and the music historian a peek into the birth of Pearl Jam.
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I must thank troutman for breaking the categories the way he did. Without 90/91 being in two different slots I would not be able to make my next pick!
With my next selection, in the 1991-93 category I'm giddy to select Temple of the Dog (1991).
Temple of the Dog was an immediate result of the death of Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood. He died the day friend, and former roommate, Chris Cornell returned to Seattle from a tour. Cornell immediately began writing music to dedicate to Wood. He came up with two songs (Say Hello 2 Heaven and Reach Down) and approached Wood's bandmates Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament about recording them. They enlisted the help of Mike McCready on guitar, Soundgaden drummer Matt Cameron and some dude who had been surfing in San Diego called Ed Vedder.
The group ended up recording a fantastic rock album consisting of 10 songs that resulted in the birth of Pearl Jam. I once saw someone in this very forum comment on how beside Say Hello 2 Heaven and Hunger Striked there was nothing worthwhile on this record. I implored that person to listen to the entire album, I hope he did.....for his own good! Four Walled World is one of my all time favorite rock songs and Reach Down is almost as good.
It's a shame there is only one studio cut on youtube, but the live stuff is cool too. Especially Reach Down!
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