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sladesounds 3rd Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Chicago - Chicago [II]	The second Chicago album often referred to as "Chicago 2" however the first album was titled Chicago Transit Authority, so this is in fact the first album titled Chicago :grin: At last count I am sure they were up to around Chicago 36 (XXXVI).
sladesounds 3rd Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Beach Boys Biggest Beach Hits	Is this the Beach Boys or a tribute/covers band? Ok answered my own question - Goldmine has this listed as a Beach Boys album which also contains non-beach boys tracks (I have edited the 2 relevant tracks) All Music states "A rip-off, this record combines some of The Beach Boys' earliest recordings (a few of them previously unreleased alternate takes) with tracks recorded by The Tornadoes."
sladesounds 1st Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi	Those arguing that the most individualistic R&B and dance music of the late '80s and early to mid-'90s came out of Britain could point to Neneh Cherry's unconventional Raw Like Sushi as a shining example. An unorthodox and brilliantly daring blend of R&B, rap, pop, and dance music, Sushi enjoyed little exposure on America's conservative urban contemporary radio formats, but was a definite underground hit. Full of personality, the singer/rapper is as thought-provoking as she is witty and humorous when addressing relationships and taking aim at less-than-kosher behavior of males and females alike. Macho homeboys and Casanovas take a pounding on "So Here I Come" and the hit "Buffalo Stance," while women who are shallow, cold-hearted, or materialistic get lambasted on "Phoney Ladies," "Heart," and "Inna City Mamma." Cherry's idealism comes through loud and clear on "The Next Generation," a plea to take responsibility for one's sexual actions and give children the respect and attention they deserve. All Music Review by Alex Henderson [YouTube Video] Buffalo Stance - To stand with your arms tightly crossed looking over to side at somebody. This comes from the pose struck by Bruce Smith of the Buffalo Bills in the late 1980's - Run DMC often posed in a "Buffalo Stance" [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 28th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Party Party	Bananarama do the Sex Pistols [YouTube Video] :grin:
sladesounds 24th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Cheap Trick - Dream Police	Came with a lyric insert that has the same design as the inner sleeve but with a black and white photo rather than colour.
sladesounds 24th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Cheap Trick - Dream Police	[YouTube Video] All Music Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine At Budokan unexpectedly made Cheap Trick stars, largely because "I Want You to Want Me" had a tougher sound than its original studio incarnation. Perversely -- and most things Cheap Trick have done are somehow perverse -- the band decided not to continue with the direct, stripped-down sound of At Budokan, which would have been a return to their debut. Instead, the group went for their biggest, most elaborate production to date, taking the synthesized flourishes of Heaven Tonight to extremes. While it kept the group in the charts, it lessened the impact of the music. Underneath the gloss, there are a number of songs that rank among Cheap Trick's finest, particularly the paranoid title track, the epic rocker "Gonna Raise Hell," the tough "I Know What I Want," the simple pop of "Voices," and the closer, "Need Your Love." Still, Dream Police feels like a letdown in comparison to its predecessors, even though it would later feel like one of the group's last high-water marks.
sladesounds 22nd Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Jack White - Lazaretto	I have listed this as a separate entry being a limited "Vault" members issue only and not available to the general public it warrants it's own entry. [YouTube Video] A demonstration of the hologram [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 20th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album P. P. Arnold - P.P. Arnold Greatest Hits	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 19th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Leo Parker - Rollin' With Leo	[YouTube Video] All Music Review by Steve Leggett Drugs and addictions defined most of Leo Parker's adult life, finally claiming it entirely in February of 1962 when he was only 36 years old. Only months earlier in 1961, in two sessions held on October 12 and October 20, Parker had played his heart out in what would have been his second album for Blue Note Records that year, and it had appeared that the baritone saxophonist was well on his way to a much deserved career comeback. The sessions, however, weren't released until almost 20 years later. Rollin' with Leo is a wonderful portrait of this unsung but brilliant player, whose huge, sad, but almost impossibly strong tone always felt like it carried the world on its shoulders. The centrepiece of Rollin' with Leo is the fascinating "Talkin' the Blues," which unfolds, nearly theme-less, like a late-night conversation, ebbing and flowing exactly the way a conversation does, with Parker's baritone swinging back to gather notes, but always moving and stretching forward, expanding the conversation until it seems like everything that could be said has been said. Parker's death was tragic because he had so much more to say, and that makes this fine set all that more of a treasure.
sladesounds 19th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Hank Mobley - Quintet	[YouTube Video] All Music Review by Steve Leggett Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley has been called underrated so many times that the word may as well have been his middle name, and when combined with the numerous financial, personal, and health issues the saxophonist endured during his career, it all added up to a middle of the pack position in the jazz canon. He truly deserves a reevaluation. This delightfully warm set was cut on March 8, 1957 with Mobley on tenor sax, Art Farmer on trumpet, Horace Silver on piano, Doug Watkins on bass, and the energetic and busy Art Blakey on drums, which makes for a pretty nice session band when all is said and done. "Wham and They're Off" is an aptly named piece, bouncing breezily out of the box in both versions, while "Base on Balls" is wonderfully lazy and laconic, unwinding into a perfectly loose and soulful jam for a long summer's day. "Funk in Deep Freeze," by the way, seems more frozen than it is funk, but it's still fun. The bottom line is that this is a superior quintet working effortlessly together, and Mobley's concisely measured, round sax tone binds everything into a beautifully nuanced set. Mobley might not have been out there pushing the envelope with his instrument, but here he plays with confidence and lyrical economy, making this easily one of his best outings.
sladesounds 18th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Ray Charles - Ray Charles...Greatest Hits	[YouTube Video] "One Mint Julep" was a R&B song written by Rudy Toombs that became a hit for The Clovers in 1952. Toombs was hired by Atlantic Records to write humorous up-tempo rhythm and blues novelty songs. The humor in this song comes in part from the idea of a young black man getting drunk on mint juleps, thought of as an aristocratic southern white woman's drink. In 1961 "One Mint Julep" finally reached a mass audience when Ray Charles's instrumental version reached No. 1 on the R&B charts and also No. 8 on the pop chart. Charles' version, featuring him on the Hammond B-3 organ, was from his 1961 album "Genius + Soul = Jazz".
sladesounds 3rd Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Paul Weller - Stanley Road	I agree that the 7" box set should be on 45cat with a link on the album here.
sladesounds 27th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Oscar Peterson - Starportrait	Thanks Phil for the info. I will put 1971 up and wait to see if someone knows better :) I think you could well be right on the mix up of the vinyl.
sladesounds 25th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line	I have uploaded scans of my copy and although they have different variation on cat# prefix on the labels etc. I have not bothered to create a new entry as it is no doubt the same UK album perhaps with different pressing plants make the slight variations Both are stereo issues. I have bumped my images to the top as they are cleaner. If anyone sees the need for two seperate entries let me know.
sladesounds 25th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Jimmy Smith - Prayer Meetin'	Recorded on February 8, 1963, at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey featuring Quentin Warren on guitar and Donald Bailey on drums. Prayer Meetin' was the last of four albums Smith recorded in a week to finish off his Blue Note contract before leaving for Verve.
sladesounds 24th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Oscar Peterson - Starportrait	No real idea on the date with this one. A strange one in that the box has German details with a German booklet yet the albums have French labels!
sladesounds 23rd Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Milestones	Basically to get what we now have at track C1 type "Surf's Up SECTIONBREAK Don't Go Near The Water" (title for break header - command for break - track detail). Same done at A1.
sladesounds 21st Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Valerie Carter - Just A Stone's Throw Away	All Music Review by Rob Caldwell Her first full-length solo album continued her musical involvement with Lowell George and the members of Little Feat, which had begun three years earlier when she was a member of the band Howdy Moon. It also featured a stellar cast of other musicians, including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and John Hall. The album is at once funky and folksy, blending a variety of styles, from the haunting acoustic sounds of "Face of Appalachia" to the jazzy blues of "Back to Blue Some More." "Ooh Child" was featured very effectively at the end of the 1979 teen rebellion movie Over The Edge.
sladesounds 19th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Jimmy Smith - Houseparty	This was also issued in France. As far as I can see from that "other" site the French copy is marked on rear sleeve "Printed in France" and has alternate matrix numbers in the dead wax.
sladesounds 14th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Charlie Mingus - Oh Yeah	My scans are from the 2009 180g re-issue.
sladesounds 12th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - When The Wind Blows	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 7th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 5th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Byrds - The Original Singles 1967-1969 Volume 2	J. McGuinn & R. McGuinn are the same person, now known as James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942). At the start of his career he was known as Jim. The story goes that he changed his name in 1967 because a guru in Indonesia said that a new name would vibrate better with the universe. The guru sent Jim the letter "R" and asked him to send back ten names starting with that letter. Because Jim was into gadgets and Sci-Fi, he sent names like "Rocket" and "Ramjet." He included the name Roger only because they use it for radio messages to indicate "OKAY." Roger was the only "real" name in the bunch and the guru picked it. Jim only changed his middle name from Joseph to Roger but used Roger as a stage name. As far as the vibrating with the universe ... he didn't notice any change and would have changed his name back to Jim (which he liked) but that would have been too confusing. Thanks to Byrds FAQ
sladesounds 2nd Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider	This was the eighth album released by the band. The album was named after the song "Ballad of Easy Rider", which had been written by Roger McGuinn (with help from Bob Dylan), as the theme song for the 1969 film, Easy Rider. The album title was also chosen in an attempt to capitalize on the commercial success of the film, although the majority of the music on the album had no connection with it. This worked and it heightened The Byrds' public profile resulting Ballad of Easy Rider becoming the band's highest charting album for two years in the U.S.A.
sladesounds 28th May 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The World's Worst Record Show	if you really must listen to this album the link is here. But then how can this be the worst collection ever when it has a gem at B2? [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever	Yep your right - artist dies - company finds ways to sell more records :)
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Kate Bush - Lionheart	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever	No expert on this but I think that the Buddy Holly album was "overdubbed" i.e. extra music etc was put on top of the existing recordings which in that case were all sorts including studio outtakes, home recordings etc., most of them being (at the time) mono recordings. End result the "full" original recording plus extra bits to "enhance" the music. With Minnie's album everything but the vocals were removed from the original recordings. I guess this was possible due to the fact that when she recorded them in 1978 there must have been multi track recorders in the studio with capability to lay down 24 tracks or more. After all but the vocal tracks were removed, new music and extra vocals were recorded and added in with the tempo of the songs also being changed. End result here original vocals only with everything else you hear being newly recorded.
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever	Love Lives Forever is the sixth and final studio album by American soul singer Minnie Riperton. Released posthumously, it was co-produced by her husband Richard Rudolph and released on her then-label Capitol Records. It consists of unused vocal sessions, put in music and vocally completed by artists she admired or with whom she shared her musical style. Even though most of the selections are set in a midtempo rhythm, they are calm in mood. This album was the first of its kind, in that all of Minnie's vocals were stripped from their earlier, original music tracks and completely redone. Completed with new musicians, vocalists and arrangements. Producer Quincy Jones described this difficult project best as "keeping the bridge, but moving the water."
sladesounds 26th May 2014		Vinyl Album J. J. Burnel - Euroman Cometh	[YouTube Video]

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