Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 21, 2008 by franciscogomes

Pieces of a Man

I’m only going to post a video today, the lyrics to this song blow me away everytime.

Original Release Date: 1971

Tracklisting:

  1. The Revolution Will Not be Televised
  2. Save the Children
  3. Lady Day and John Coltrane
  4. Home is Where the Hatred Is
  5. When You Are Who You Are
  6. I Think I’ll Call it  Morning
  7. Pieces of a Man
  8. A Sign of the Ages
  9. Or Down You Fall
  10. The Needle’s Eye
  11. The Prisoner

Opeth – Blackwater Park

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 20, 2008 by franciscogomes

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Original Release Date: February 27, 2001

Tracklisting:

  1. The Leper Affinity
  2. Bleak
  3. Harvest
  4. The Drapery Falls
  5. Dirge For November
  6. The Funeral Portrait
  7. Patterns in the Ivy
  8. Blackwater Park

Electric Six – Fire

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 18, 2008 by franciscogomes

Electric Six - Fire

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Electric Six is the most exciting band to come tumbling out of Detroit since Kiss. Sporting grimy leisure suits and hilarious stage names (the guitarists are known only as Surge Joebot and the Rock and Roll Indian), the ragtag group comes up with a deliriously catchy disco trash sound on its smart, hyperactive debut. Studio 54 horns mingle anxiously with AC/DC-influenced garage riffs, while frontman Dick Valentine rants maniacally over jerky, suggestive punk-funk songs like “Gay Bar” and “I’m the Bomb.” Plus, rumor suggests that single “Danger! High Voltage” features the White Stripes‘ Jack White on backing vocals and, less plausibly, Bill Clinton on saxophone. How cool is that? Very. –Aidin Vaziri

Original Release Date: May 20, 2003

Tracklisting:

  1. Dance Commander
  2. Electric Demons
  3. Naked Pictures
  4. Danger! High Voltage
  5. She’s White
  6. I Invented the Night
  7. Improper Dancing
  8. Gay Bar
  9. Nuclear War
  10. Getting Into the Jam
  11. Vengeance and Fashion
  12. I’m the Bomb
  13. Synthesizer

Thom Yorke – The Eraser

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 16, 2008 by franciscogomes

Eraser

Original Release Date: July 11, 2006

Tracklisting:

  1. The Eraser
  2. Analyse
  3. The Clock
  4. Black Swan
  5. Skip Divided
  6. Atoms for Peace
  7. And it Rained All Night
  8. Harrowdown Hill
  9. Cymbal Rush

Bedouin Soundclash – Street Gospels

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 15, 2008 by franciscogomes

I’m done with classic albums, at least for now. Today, I present to you:

Bedouin Soundclash

A friend of mine introduced me this album as “the perfect album for a rainy day”. Then, a few minutes later, he said “nevermind what I said before, this album is perfect everyday”. I agree with him, even though I think it sounds better on sunny days. It’ll bring you to a good mood, definitely.

Original Release Date: August 20, 2007

Tracklisting:

  1. Until We Burn in the Sun (The Kids Just Want a Love Song)
  2. Walls Fall Down
  3. St. Andrews
  4. Trinco Dog
  5. Hush
  6. Bells of ‘59
  7. Higher Ground
  8. 12:59 Lullaby
  9. Nico on the Night Train
  10. Gunships
  11. Jealousy and the Get Free
  12. Midnight Rocker
  13. Hearts in the Night

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 14, 2008 by franciscogomes

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Your CD colletion is kinda blue if you don’t own this! :P

Original Release Date: March 2, 1959

Tracklisting:

  1. So What
  2. Freddie Freeloader
  3. Blue in Green
  4. All Blues
  5. Flamenco Sketches
  6. Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced

Posted in Albums with tags , , on November 13, 2008 by franciscogomes

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Mitch Mitchell joined Noel and Jimi in heaven yesterday (RIP), so it’d be appropriate to leave this one here today.

Original Release Date: August 1967

Tracklisting:

  1. Purple Haze
  2. Manic Depression
  3. Hey Joe
  4. Love or Confusion
  5. May This be Love
  6. I Don’t Live Today
  7. The Wind Cries Mary
  8. Fire
  9. Third Stone From the Sun
  10. Foxey Lady
  11. Are You Experienced?

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 12, 2008 by franciscogomes

Led Zeppelin II

Following Bob Dylan and Black Sabbath in the classic albums feature, it is now time to feature a classic album from a classic rock band (pun intended).

Calling this a classic album might be an understatement. It is more than that. It’s the type of album that’ll make you sweat rock’n'roll, and make you want to learn how to play guitar.

From the majestic riffage to the mind-blowing drumming, this album is what personifies rock’n'roll for me.

Original Release Date: October 22, 1969

Tracklisting:

  1. Whole Lotta Love
  2. What is and What Should Never Be
  3. The Lemon Song
  4. Thank You
  5. Heartbreaker
  6. Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)
  7. Ramble On
  8. Moby Dick
  9. Bring it on Home

Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 11, 2008 by franciscogomes

Black Sabbath Paranoid

After posting Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited”, I decided to have a “classic albums week”. It might last longer than a week, and during that period I’ll only be posting my favourite classic (as in everyone should know these) albums.

The albums won’t be sorted in any specific order, I’ll just post them as I remember.

Today’s album is Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”.

Original Release Date: January 1971

Tracklisting:

  1. War Pigs
  2. Paranoid
  3. Planet Caravan
  4. Iron Man
  5. Electric Funeral
  6. Hand of Doom
  7. Rat Salad
  8. Fairies Wear Boots

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Posted in Albums with tags , on November 10, 2008 by franciscogomes

highway61revisited

There’s no need to talk about this album, right?

Amazon.com essential recording
Dylan was virtually gushing great songs when this masterpiece arrived in the summer of 1965. From the epochal opening of “Like a Rolling Stone” through the absurdly apocalyptic closer, “Desolation Row,” his command of surrealistic language was daring and amazing. As a vocalist, he was rewriting the rules of the game. Jimi Hendrix made note of Mr. Z’s technically suspect pitch and decided that he too was a singer. And the backing, though ragged, is precisely right. Is this the essential Dylan album? It’s certainly one of them. –Steven Stolder

Original Release Date: August 30, 1965

Tracklisting:

  1. Like a Rolling Stone
  2. Tombstone Blues
  3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
  4. From a Buick 6
  5. Ballad of a Thin Man
  6. Queen Jane Approximately
  7. Highway 61 Revisited
  8. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
  9. Desolation Row