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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Juke Jules SUBS 12th Oct 2021		CD Album She And Him - Volume Three (2013)	[YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 7th Oct 2021		CD Album Jimi Hendrix - The Studio Out-Takes....1966-1970 (2004)	La Poupee Qui Fait Non (intrumental), believed to be Noel Redding on guitar with Hendrix on bass [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 3rd Oct 2021		CD Album Karine Polwart - Scribbled In Chalk (2006)	Contemporary folksong from Central Scotland [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 3rd Oct 2021		CD Album Daryl Runswick - Young Man Songs (2020)	Recorded in Feb.1982 at Essex Street Studios, London, except track 8 recorded Dec. 1980 Daryl Runswick later became a Jazz and Classical composer. The tracks here were recorded between 1973 and 1980 and vary between jazz and rock, ballads and dance music, "The Least You Can Do Is The Best You Can" is a jazzy ballad [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 23rd Sep 2021		CD Album Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy (2001)	I love "Sunset", with vocals by Eska and a sound montage by Nitin Sawhney [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 12th Sep 2021		CD Album al-Djazaïriya al-Mossiliya - Musique Andalouse D'Alger / Andalusian Music From Algiers (2000)	The al-Djazaïriya al-Mossiliya Association is a cultural body whose aim is to preserve the traditions of Mahgrebi Arab-Andalusian music. All these tracks were recorded in front of an audience in France [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 26th Aug 2021		CD Album Katy Perry - Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection (2012)	Kay mischievously wants to see his peacock [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 19th Aug 2021		CD Album Jolie Holland - Catalpa (2003)	Writer and critic Michael Goldberg has got his review on the insert to this album exactly right. Jolie Holland sings just like "a young old time mountain woman with one foot in the past, one foot in the now" [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 18th Aug 2021		CD Album Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (2007)	Experimental rock, which Anand Wilder describes as harmony-based, citing the vocal harmonies in Forgiveness [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 18th Aug 2021		CD Album Yeasayer - Odd Blood (2010)	[YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 12th Aug 2021		CD Album Various Artists - A Little On The CD Side Volume 25 (1997)	Chose two tracks at random and they're good! Typical of the pop-rock style of the times - I'm thinking Soundgarten or Grandaddy or... [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 28th Jul 2021		CD Album Sons Of Butcher - Sons Of Butcher (2005)	Review Loved this from when it came out and first appeared on YT but hadn't seen a CD until now Canadian Heavy Metal parody band who feature butchery and mysoginy, liberally embellished with the F and S words At that time there was also a cartoon version of F The S in which the band are headlined to play at a local PTA sports day, and when they come on stage and launch into F The S all the parents and children are stupified with horror until the headmaster comes over and unplugs the PA whereupon there is a "Zzz" and silence is restored Please don't watch this if you are easily offended [YouTube Video] 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Juke Jules SUBS 14th Jun 2021		CD Album Erykah Badu - Baduizm (1997)	[YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 28th May 2021		CD Album Robert Plant And Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (2007)	Listening to Through The Morning on the video I am struck by how perfectly the two voices blend - I just wish there were a few of the instrumentalists credited on these wonderful tracks [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 14th May 2021		CD Album Various Artists - Always Something There – A Burt Bacharach Collectors' Anthology 1952-1969 (2008)	[YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 13th May 2021		CD Album Various Artists - Cuisine Non-Stop (2002)	Louise Attaque [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 9th May 2021		CD Album Various Artists - Now Hear This! August 2010 (2010)	[YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 5th Apr 2021		CD Album Chris Rea - Blue Guitars (2005)	Well, I'd change this to EarBooks, Europe, and while you're at it, Universal Music Earbooks should be just EarBooks, Europe regardless of whether they are owned by Edsel or Universal Music, they are all large sets "with a hard-back book, 28.5cm × 28.5cm with approximately 100 pages of..."
Juke Jules SUBS 5th Apr 2021		CD Album Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville (1993)	Girls! Girls! Girls! is a track Liz first recorded when she was making solo cassette tapes under the name Girly Sound. Here she is again solo, without the studio musicians she uses on most tracks [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 22nd Mar 2021		CD Album Gwendolyn Snowdon - Three Strand Braid	Willow's Song was composed for the 1973 film The Wicker Man
Juke Jules SUBS 22nd Mar 2021		CD Album Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (2007)	[YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 22nd Mar 2021		CD Album Gwendolyn Snowdon - Three Strand Braid	Gwendolyn Snowdon is an accomplished young singer of Irish, English and Dutch folk music, as shown by the selection on this first album [YouTube Video][YouTube Video][YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 22nd Feb 2021		CD Album Various Artists - Done Me Wrong: Ember Beat Vol. 2 (1965-66) (2009)	The People were soon to change name to Eire Apparent [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 4th Jan 2021		CD Album Cara Dillon - Hill Of Thieves (2009)	There are jolly songs here, and some sad songs. She Moved Through The Fair is too tragic to bear [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 23rd Dec 2020		CD Album Elena Manja - This Moonlit Night (2019)	Pretty and ethereal tunes by the young harpist Elena Manja, produced with the help of her family who run the website fullmoon.info, Dr. Jörg Werner and Pat Edith Werner This album is on Spotify
Juke Jules SUBS 19th Dec 2020		CD Album Jacob Collier - In My Room (2016)	Review Collier's first album was recorded, arranged, performed and produced in the small back room of his family home in Finchley, so the Beach Boys song had to be the title track of the album. Quote: "In My Room is the 2016 debut album of crackerjack arranger, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and Internet sensation Jacob Collier. Collier began uploading videos of multi-track solo performances -- often presented in a grid layout so that each vocal and instrumental take was visible -- as a 17-year-old in 2011. These performances, some of which approximate complex group a cappella, evolved over time to use a vocal harmonizer, part of the multi-media set-up he developed with MIT's Media Lab to enable solo, multi-track live performance. A key component of his sound, the device allows him to sing a pitch into a microphone and get simultaneous vocal harmony as dictated by the chords he plays on a keyboard, all on the fly. Fans of his videos will recognize his hyper a cappella take on the theme to The Flintstones that's included here. While Collier's done video renditions of "Isn't She Lovely" and "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing," Stevie Wonder is represented on the LP by a reverential, well-harmonized version of "You and I." Another cover is the title track, a likewise respectful version of the Beach Boys classic. "In My Room" is highlighted by an elegant jazz piano solo -- Collier's principal instrument -- though its persistent fluttering bassline may draw the most attention. Speaking of bass, funk is, perhaps surprisingly, a defining element of the album. The opener, "Woke Up Today," is a wildly funky kind of make-or-break track, especially for first-time listeners. It plays like a frenetic tour of Collier's music room and a demo of his studio skills. In general, the technical prowess on display on In My Room is impressive. However, listeners will find something more organic in nature in "Hideaway," an atmospheric wash of acoustic guitar and related stringed instruments, along with an udu-type drum and acoustic percussion, accordion, and, at its center, a refreshingly intimate, single vocal line. With Collier still a student at the Royal Academy of Music during the album's creation, one can only imagine what the young musical polymath's potential may hold in store. For now he now has, at the very least, a dazzling production reel of a debut..." [YouTube Video] 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Juke Jules SUBS 28th Nov 2020		CD Album Various Artists - Original Brit Pop (2008)	Review This is a strange album, not least because while none of the tracks are original 'hit' versions there are no details of where and when they were recorded. Some are live recordings, mostly in the later age of the artists, some seem to be by 'tribute' bands who have bought the rights to work under the name of the bands who had the hits. It starts with "Eric Burdon And The Animals" playing Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, and my natural instinct was to skip this old blues number as we know it so well with Alan Price on Hammond and Eric Burdon on fuzz guitar, but I got a surprise: it starts quietly with an etherial piano part, leaving you wondering who is the accomplished pianist. A hint of strings (synth) joins in, the pace remains very slow, and Burdon eventually joins in as a duet with the piano, singing as if struggling with his emotions. Then in comes the Hammond, joined by the drums. "If I seem edgy I just want you to know" is taken in a Blue-Beat style. Then comes a guitar break, played in the style of Eric Clapton, then back into Blue-Beat, leading up to a very slow ending. Total track length is 6:30 - I'd love to know where and when this was recorded. The Applejacks here have a singer in his later years. White Plains with My Girl however is on YouTube, from a 2009 album, though it doesn't sound like any of the 70s bands put together for the road by John Shakespeare [YouTube Video] The Troggs tracks sound like a tribute band playing through the repertoire, all except for "Black Bottom" which turns out to be the same track as released on a French 45, another terrific track with some unexpected humour! So don't buy this CD if you want to hear the original hits, but do buy it if want some interesting re-takes of the "Brit-pop" material. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Juke Jules SUBS 17th Nov 2020		CD Album Various Artists - Celtic Tradition (1996)	Review Behind the blurry Celtic knot on the front lies an unexpectedly fine collection of contemporary Irish Folk music, this being a sampler for 13 albums from the Tara label O'Farrell's Welcome To Limerick starts the compilation in thoroughly traditional style with Irish Pipes, Bodhran, guitars and synth drone [YouTube Video] The Deer's Cry is a thoroughly traditional setting of the old hymn Saint Patrick's Breastplate though newly composed by Shaun Davey for Granada Television [YouTube Video] The Gale is also a Shaun Davey composition, which introduces the album Brendan's Voyage in a symphonic contortion of the Irish-Trad style before sailing into a storm while the music grows unexpectedly modern-Classical and violent. The single track is not on YT but the whole of Brendan's Voyage is, beginning with The Gale [YouTube Video] Causeway is a fast violin reel accompanied by drums, Hammond and guitars which deconstructs into syncopation before joining up for a traditional ending [YouTube Video] This is an arbitrary choice from the many fine tracks on this compilation which will send me out searching for several of these Tara albums 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Juke Jules SUBS 15th Nov 2020		CD Album Various Artists - Get Ready To Fly (2007)	Looks like there are some good tracks on this - for example [YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 6th Oct 2020		CD Album Tame Impala - Currents (2015)	Great surrealist video, nicely produced track with all kinds of studio effects that synchronise with the video [YouTube Video]

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