Singles
1. mp3: Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
2. Manic Street Preachers – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
3. The National – Mistaken For Strangers
4. !!! - Must Be The Moon
5. Soulsavers – Revival
6. mp3: Dolores O’Riordan – Ordinary Day
7. mp3: 30 Seconds To Mars – The Kill (Bury Me)
8. Joanna Newsom The YS Street Band EP
9. Tori Amos American Doll Posse
10. Grinderman - (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free (7”)

Videos
Beirut - Elephant Gun
Björk - Wanderlust
Feist - My Moon My Man

Amy Winehouse got my attention on the new single Back to Black. I don't care if she's a celebrity, as for me music is in first place, and "Back to Black" is a nice record. Rush with their "Snakes & Arrows" which will be outed tomorrow continues mesmerising listeners, and it is really nice record. I've been listening to this new album since last week.

Albums on this week
Tori Amos American Doll Posse
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Baby 81
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond
Feist The Reminder
Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian

For a long time, i was thinking about a 90s chart on this blog. I've been spending my whole time on listening music. Even though i go out six days of week, thanks to the new technology, i can carry more than 100 cd with me. So i'll be presenting some good stuff from 90s in the section. Nirvana, Pavement, Guided by Voices, Stereolab... and also underrated bands like fIREHOSE, Sunny Day Real Estate, Camper Van Beethoven...many of them will come!

Luna is the first band i wanted to remember, and "Bewitched" their the softest record. It starts with my favorite cut California (All the Way), it ends with another amazing work Sleeping Pill. Dean Wareham's songwriting makes this record splendid, moreover he is an extremely distinctive guitarist.

Candies, i see many of them on a supermarket which i pass nearby everyday. It's so painful that a candy isn't satisfying for me anymore. Last day i saw a kid talking on Tv "I don't want to grow", that kid was quite clever. Maybe i can't take my childhood back but i can remember
them while listening to "Bewitched". Luna Official Page
mp3: Luna - Tiger Lily
mp3: Luna - Friendly Advice, Live

Thirdimension takes you beneath the surface, discovering another level to the music universe.
This isn´t just some high school band, this is a group on the day of graduation who are number one in their class. Oh, boy, will the connections never cease? Just go get yourself some good music like this.

This is the recent live record of swedish pop/ rock band pulling their influences from classic rock, britpop, psychedelia, and indie rock. The largely acoustic "Before the End Begins" is Thirdimension's most appealing album yet. A nice record for sundays.

mp3: Thirdimension - Where the Kids Try to Be Cool
mp3: Thirdimension - Dont fear the reaper / dream all day (Blue Öyster Cult and the Posies Cover)
mp3: Thirdimension - 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds (Jefferson Airplane Cover)

Rating: 8/10
Modern Music Review
The National returns with a stronger album increased by solid guitar cracks, gloomy bass guitar, alive piano sections, woodwinds, backing vocals, strings, and organs, plus three contributors include Doveman, Marla Hansen, and neighborhood friend Sufjan Stevens. Even though i prefer Stuart Staples for a romantic midnight playlist, Matt Berninger and Stuart are all inspiring singers. I love calling this style as drunken indie rock. When asked to describe Boxer, it draws bold strings around indie rock routines, and of course "Boxer" ain't a very distinctive or perfect record, we've seen many perfect example of this kind of thin-skinned rock music. Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Scott Walker, and Wilco, and they were better. But The National find ways to combine all of these , they take same melancholy, same blue sound, and they mix their own emotions to the songs which are about love, war and money.

The National gives sort of examples on songs Apartment Story, Brainy, Slow Show -- where a clear Joy Division influence appears -- like in the post-punk movement by later emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression. Little details are so important in "Boxer", more you listen it, the more you love it. That's what i've been doing during one month. I've got this album and who cares a writing, i just want to listen to it now!
MM picks: Fake Empire, Brainy, Green Gloves, Slow Show
Boxer
mp3: Brainy

Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
mp3: Slipping Husband
mp3: Murder Me Rachael

The National (S/T Debut)
mp3: Cold Girl Fever

I'm not a huge fan of Travis, but my view on music is always first listening to album after learning name of band. You should be objective, at the same time you have to be open-minded. So i'm liking the new Travis record. Yep! it's four times better than brain-fuckers (Arctic Donkeys), i still can't believe they almost did "Favourite Worst Nightmare" a masterpiece? The world is coming to its end? Anyway, "The Boy with No Name" is a kind of poppy, radio-friendy but good colored record. www.travisonline.com

May 7, 2007
May 8, 2007

mp3: Travis - 3 Times And You Lose

I'm a kind of person who can't hide his excitement and whenever i try to present an amazing stuff, i make many gramatical mistakes, out of topic sentences. I'm very excited because of this amazing, terrific at the same time ass kicking 80s stuff. This is 7" single collection that was released by Mute Records (UK) in Oct 1978. A long time ago, i discovered them when i was searching for a band that sounds as The Fall. Don't be fooled by the name, this isn't Normal! No Way!

All Music Review
The Normal's icy, monochromatic 1978 single "Warm Leatherette" was inspired by J.G. Ballard's controversial novel Crash, which presents a subculture that fetishizes car crashes in disturbing, erotic detail. Like the book, the song wraps its lurid, subversive sentiments in clinical, detached terms. A relentless drum machine and hissing synths accompany lyrics like, "A tear of petrol is in your eye/The hand brake penetrates your thigh/Quick, let's make love," which are made all the creepier by Daniel Miller's deadpan delivery. Miller, the Normal's sole member, also founded Mute Records; "Warm Leatherette" was the label's debut single and the Normal's first and only official release.

An adaptation of sorts itself, "Warm Leatherette" was covered by industrial artists such as Pankow and Sleep Chamber as well as by Grace Jones, who made it the title track of her 1980 album. But it's Miller's original, dispassionate study of twisted metal and passions that remains a classic and a milestone in the development of post-punk, new wave, and electronic music -- all of which his label championed in the '70s, '80s,'90s and beyond.

mp3: The Normal - Warm Leatherette (highly rec'd)
mp3: The Normal - TVOD

'Assembling a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Free Man in Paris” required more than a few musical somersaults. Who can possibly surmount Joni’s rollercoaster vocal lines with all those odd syntaxes and off beat pronunciations? My final attempt was less homage and more deconstruction, unfortunately. But I was most unprepared for one unlikely obstacle: David Geffen.' says Sufjan.

‘A Tribute to Joni Mitchell’, the first major US tribute album to the legendary artist, is set for release on April 24th. Musicians from many genres are represented on the 12 tracks of both rare and quintessential songs from the revered and influential singer/songwriter’s expansive career.

There are also two striking covers in the tribute and they're Blue by Sarah McLachlan, Edith And The Kingpin by Elvis Costello. If you ask me the best cover is opening song “Free Man in Paris” by Sufjan Stevens. It really pictures meaningfull lyrics of the song which is originally written by Mitchell.
mp3: Sufjan Stevens - Free Man In Paris

Rating: 8/10
Modern Music Review
I liked previous "LifeBlood" and nice rarities compilation "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History Of". This becomes a real MSP record chemically. It has James Dean's aggressive vocals, nice guitar rollings remind The Manics' early years such as debut Generation Terrorists, major effort Holy Bible, and also gleamy Gold Against the Soul. While playing impressive electric guitars that draw usual The Manic style, they also combines hard rock, punk pop, alternative rock and britpop. A radio-friendly duet with Nina Persson (singer of The Cardigans) gets major commercial effort. Winterlovers adds a good direction to The Manics' music and it's completely awesome.

"Send Away The Tigers" feeds your daily music need, and it's a living proof of where they are now. Notably, it's not a easy work maintaining a stabilized carrier, writing an album still sounds original and moving, and also if you consider all disbanded bands from same period of time like The Stone Roses, Blur Nirvana, Suede, The Verve, Mansun, Shed Seven, Manic Street Preachers continue without screwing up things.

Regenerating their sound, intending to restore revolution to rock & roll at a time when Britain was dominated by indie rock, they do a great job, and this is the best The Manics record since 1996, "Everything Must Go".

The Formula is energic rock n' roll roots where they catch a completely powerful and fresh sound!. "Winterlovers" just closes the record and it relates to a song by John Lennon, it's "Working Class Hero". Street date: May 7, 2007
MM picks: Undergods, Imperial Bodybags, Winterlovers
mp3: Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tiger
www.manics.co.uk

Rating: 8.5/10
Modern Music Review
To be honest, Elliott Smith's every work sounds good. Even if they aren't masterpieces, they will impress all listeners by distinctive songwriting. We know that every style has its right moment to play. So Elliott Smith did marvelous music for times when you're crawled on your sofa like a depressive cat. Of course, it can make you smile at times, because of highly contented music.

"New Moon" features 24 songs extended over two CDs, dating from the mid '90s. On first disc, cover of Alex Chilton's "Thirteen" shot me there, and i just lie for listening more and more. I usually find rarities blunt, as for "New Moon" we can say again all generalizations are wrong. First disc includes mainly striking demo work of 1995 sessions, and second one comes with its brooding atmosphere that calms you down.

This is a complete goodness for Elliott Smith fans and a great rarities compilation which is almost resembling solo record. If he'd lived, i'm sure he would have composed many wonderful records.

Musicians, friends, good people, don't kill yourself because of...life is already hard, but suicide isn't a solution.

MM picks: Riot Coming, New Disaster, Pretty Mary K, Almost Over From, Half Right
mp3: Elliott Smith - Pretty Mary K (removed by label request)
mp3: Elliott Smith - High Times
www.sweetadeline.net

Albums
1. Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart
2. Cornelius - Sensuous
3. Tom McRae – King Of Cards
4. Fishbone - Till Stuck In Your Throat
5. The Go Find - Stars On The Wall
6. Feist – The Reminder
7. The Veils - Nux Vomica US release
8. Mando Diao - Ode To Ochrasy
9. The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
10. Patti Smith - Twelve
mp3: The Nightwatchman - Maximum Firepower

You see, they set the releases to same date, but why? It may cause avoiding from records. Anyway, "Sensuous" seriously offers joyful listening, you can stream the full length at here. And also i like the new song by The Nightwatchman which is a project by Tom Morello born in 2003, but as a complete album, One Man Revolution sounds a bit dull.

Singles
The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love
The View – The Don / Skag Trendy
Lostprophets - 4am (Forever)
Envelopes - Smoke In The Desert, Eating The Sand, Hide In The Grass
Travis – Closer

A kind person send me over the first song to come out of Mieka Pauley’s studio sessions this month up in Boston – for her new album coming this summer.
mp3: Mieka Pauley - All The Same Mistakes

Rating 7.8/10
Modern Music Review
I've fallen in love with Tom Mcrae's thin voice, also his clever songwriting skill on his new record "King Of Cards". Maybe this ain't a kind of music you'll dance with, or you don't want to listen this on high volume speakers, but in the backround, yes in the backround, it's really what i'm looking for. Pure!, a thin touchable voice, that's what a songwriter should do on you, touching! When his sisters were listening to Kate Bush and U2, McRae followed and began buying records. At age 18, he went off to Guild Hall University to study music politics, soon forming bands and writing songs. His self-titled debut nominated for Mercury Music Prize in 2001. After two another Mcrae solo record Just Like Blood (2003) and All Maps Welcome (2005), he surprises us with another great record in which we'll see a smooth, melodic, radio-friendly style can be compared with mainstream names Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan , Nick Drake, Cousteau (do you know them?), so "King Of Cards" shows clearly his connection to listeners by hypnotizing music. "Got A Suitcase Got Regrets" analyzes his influence of Nick Drake. As well as its gloomy air, there are quite energic and nocturnal moments in "King Of Cards" like "Sound Of The City". A colourful view of spring is musically included in "Bright Lights". In the end of song named "Keep Your Picture Clear", you can see how he improves his artistic aptitude. It's not surprising but a luxurious listening and nice work for springtime. Apr 30, 2007
MM picks: Bright Lights, Sound Of The City, Keep Your Picture Clear
mp3: Tom Mcrae - Sound Of The City
...For more song you may visit www.myspace.com/tommcrae

Stunning moments, they're the tattoos of our brain, without them life would be nonsense. Some is bitter, some is gratifying. This sunday on Live Music, we've treasures from Nottingham, England. I've been listening Tindersticks for years, and years. Their sound is characterised by a synthesis of orchestral backing, lounge jazz, and soul; the lush orchestrations of multi-instrumentalist Dickon Hinchliffe and the smoky baritone of lead vocalist Stuart Staples are the band's hallmarks. It's somewhat sad that Stuart Staples says he will be working on his solo project. No more Tindersticks? Maybe they need time for something fresh, that's what our mellow Stuart says. These are live songs from Amsterdam February 1994 Tindersticks concert. I know, it sounds completely fascinating music. Leave your comment, i love reading them.

Tindersticks - Jism

Starting with dramatic textures that recall love, pain , romanticism, then it gently changes world to a romantic place by orgasmic instruments (fluids) melody Jism is the best Tindersticks work.

Tindersticks - Kathleen

While brooding at start of it, you are going to be amazed by jazzy, polished atmosphere of melancholic music.

Tindersticks - Milky Teeth
You know I'm a kisser
I wanted you for that mouth
Hey you know I'm a listener
I loved you for what came out
It's your mind and your body
That makes me feel so dirty
And it's my mouth
What comes out
What comes out

Experimental series of music could make sudden changings on your appearance, spirit and brain. Listening many different style of music really works on a person's creative ideas , it helps to grow your selectivity. Don't say i'm not interested in music without vocal/singer. There is always something interesting on activities which you haven't tried before. It's time for action, it's time for reflection by music. Mouse On Mars, Can and J.Peter Schwalm are from Germany and it's just happened by accident!

Mouse On Mars - Schunkel (1995)
The best song of Mouse on Mars from their masterpiece "Iaora Tahiti". As a personal favorite of mine, this song really deserves a mention. Very sweet, yes sweet electronic music, sometimes it becomes freaky but Schunkel never loses its pink taste. Horror!

Brian Eno & J.Peter Schwalm - Persis (2001)
Persis is simply the best work of Brian Eno and German DJ J. Peter Schwalm collaboration. Persis is included in "Drawn From Life" which has great background listening. Mostly it should be preferred at nights.

Lou Reed - Wind coda (2007)
From Lou reed's forthcoming obscure "Hudson River Wind Meditations" 2007, cool i love innovative noises. But you should have a great sound system to get the music, sub basses, minimalism.

Can - Dizzy Dizzy (1974)
A definite brilliant composition, perfect combination violin with electronic music.

We also recommend these:
Mouse On Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Brian Eno & John Cale - Wrong Way Up
Can - Ege Bamyasi

Rating:4/10
I don't find The Libertines and The Strokes as influential bands but good bands. They released nice couple of albums, play their live shows and that was all. Arctic Monkeys ,whose ambition on playing guitar is similar to these bands, drop another record after "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not". With a couple word, it's embarrassing for me hearing stupid high school kind of vocals on song "Teddy Picker". On previous Arctic record, there were danceable, likeable, disco-indie style songs which are so popular in the UK recently. Huge amount of indie bands are coming to scene in these days and only few of them gets support.

This time, borrowing from the Jam, the Clash, and the Smiths, Arctics mostly sound dull. I have to appreciate Arctics' ambition on making music in short order, and their early coming success on music industry with teen workaday lyrics, dum-dum guitars, a cover of someone else who looks charismatic. This is ordinary throughout. 24 April, 2007
MM picks: 505
mp3: Arctic Monkeys - Do Me A Favour

Sorry for this review and read the new one:
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

Quite possibly the Eurythmics’ finest moment to date. The pitting of crisp, icy strings against a steady rhythm pulse sets up a perfectly fraught emotional vacuum. Their prime trick is the matching of a show of strength against eggshell fragility, a pristine example of how to turn fearful vulnerability to your own advantage. Purchase or be damned.--Adam Sweeting
mp3: Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again

This is cinematic, well-educated, highly sophisticated music. He really doesn't disappoint us. With one word 'Awesome'. The son of folk music luminaries Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Rufus comes with an overwhelming record. "Release The Stars" will melt our hearts. After S/T (1998) debut and the following "Poses" (2001), with "Release The Stars" he's again mellow. The record will be outed on 15 May.
mp3: Rufus Wainwright - Do I Disappoint You

Quite likeable guitar chords and stoner metal...This is the new Queen of The Stone Age track "Era Vulgaris" featuring Trent Reznor.
mp3: Queen of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (get it! i will soon remove it*)

With The Doors celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2007, the legendary band is launching a major effort at introducing a new audience to the music and ethos of one of rock’s most influential forces.

I must admit that if you already have The Doors classics, any greatest hits, then you don't need this one. Anyway, this post is dedicated to the great band.

mp3: The Doors - People are Strange
mp3: The Doors - Love Street

When "Love Street" is playing, it drives me to romantic memories. Music that we love always reminds us moments from our lives. It's happening again, a modern piano enters to my room joyfully. These are classic. The Doors are a reminder that rock is, truly, important.

Love Street Lyrics
She lives on love street
Lingers long on love street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens
She has robes and she has monkeys
Lazy diamond studded flunkies
She has wisdom and knows what to do
She has me and she has you
She has wisdom and knows what to do
She has me and she has you
I see you live on love street
Theres this store where the creatures meet
I wonder what they do in there
Summer sunday and a year
I guess I like it fine, so far
She lives on love street
Lingers long on love street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
www.myspace.com/thedoors

Are you enjoying with the new NIN? It seems that we're enjoying. I've never been a diehard fan of this band?¿. As one person project, NIN draws its own world lyrically and musically. On "Year Zero", you can see his mastering effort on electronic music that has connection between metal, ambient, industrial. And also this is the most personal Trent Reznor work. It's mainly speaking of industrial music and you never get any meaning until it's listened. A clever recording below our first and best "Pretty Hate Machine" and the following "The Downward Spiral".
MM picks: The Good Soldier, The Great Destroyer
mp3: Nine Inch Nails - The Great Destroyer

Singles
1. mp3: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Weapon Of Choice
2. Ocean Colour Scene – I Told You So
3. We Start Fires - Magazine
4. Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey (EP)
5. Ash – You Can’t Have It All
6. Pop Levi - Pick-Me-Up Uppercut
7. Camera Obscura - Tears For Affairs
8. Hanson – Go
9. Joan As Police Woman – Flushed Chest (7”) [Limited]
10. Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club wins the week with their rockable nice song from new album "Baby 81". It's great listening some moving rock songs on mondays. And also i've got a special BBC Sessions version of "River Boat Song".
mp3: Ocean Colour Scene - River Boat Song (2007 BBC Sessions)

For electronic music lovers Pitchfork lights the path that leads to "Fluorescent Grey EP" by Deerhunter, hunting stuff.

I listened Arctic Monkeys' "Favourite Worst Nightmare", and all we can say is same embarrassing repetitive parts, too many specious guitar joints, and at the top of it, mouthy vocals.

And Dreamaiden:
Exquisite, melodic, lush electronic music, if you like Tangerina Dream and Enigma, you'll like the music. mp3: Dreamaiden - Indra

Many musicians from Soul Asylum, the Replacements, Wilco, the Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, and the Honeydogs collaborated on this project. Turning many style of music from country, rock, punk, hardcore, and this side-project covers band changed to a serious dazzling rock band.

We've always been a Bowie fan, influenced by great fortune that he left to us. Golden Smog takes my attention because of their two successful cover on this upcoming record "Blood on the Slacks". A nostalgic growing, rocking cover of "Starman", and "Tarpit" which is another cover originally by Dinosaur Jr. And also "Magician is my favorite cut, an instrumental passage always works in every record.

This is a mini but effective record including moody guitar chords, energic harmonies. Release date: April 24, 2007
MM picks: Magician, Look At You Now, Starman
mp3: Golden Smog - Starman (David Bowie Cover)

Sir, you're not wrong, the year is 2007. However my list belongs to 2005, the time that many amazing record was released. Let's remember some cool stuff in alphabetic order.

Best eclectic record
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs

Most melancholic record
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now

Best Indie rock record of the year
Arcade Fire - Funeral

Best alternative record
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

Best female singer-songwriter
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

Best live record/performance
Morrissey - Live at Earls Court

Best experimental stuff
Sigur Rós - Takk...

Best male singer/ songwriter
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers

Most striking record
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

Best new talent
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires

Some great mp3 songs from 2005:
1. Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
2. Eels - I'm Going to Stop Pretending that I Didn't Break Your Heart
3. Andrew Bird - Nervous tic motion of the head to the left
4. Arcade Fire - Laika

After Bryan Ferry's Dylanesque, the years' second major cover album comes as "Twelve" which is Patti Smith's first album of new studio recordings since Trampin' in 2004. This is included with some hit songs from rock artists such as Paul Simon, Nirvana, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young, the Allman Brothers Band, Bob Dylan, Tears for Fears.

Definitely the songs love to be in Patti's hands, but songs don't deliver something very good or very bad. Mostly Patti's admirable sing style rescues herself from being at dull moments expect cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". This Nirvana cover has one of most dull moments in "Twelve", adding slow tempo to original energic rock song with a boring banjo. And Twelwe's best cover song is absolutely a classic by Jefferson Airplane, White Rabit. Plus "Pastime Paradise" which is originally by Stevie Wonder has been a great closing song. Album Available on April 24
MM picks: White Rabbit, Pastime Paradise
mp3: Patti Smith - White Rabbit

Rating: 8.4/10
Modern Music Review
The new Tangerine Dream release has gotten my attention for two weeks. A kind of music that you only relax and you're free to lie which position you wish. A Light and electronic wind, completely for blowing you up. This sneaky, speculative music can make your eyes widely open at times. On "Shape My Sin", music lies through natural world, creates a magical mood. Following with amazing instrumental "A Dream Of Death" proves that Tangerine Dream is always there as an instrumental band using just high-end modern technology. This is again Tangerine Dream, but it's more melodic and with the form of light arrangements. Chris Hausl's ethereal vocal performance is worth listening on "A Dream Of Death" ,it can't be much better. It's imposible not feeling Pink Floyd emotion and touch on the record. So "Madcap's Flaming Duty" is already dedicated to fabulous Syd Barrett.

The lyrics for each of the songs on the new album are adapted from English and American poets from 17th and 18th century literature by Bianca F. Acquaye. Call this as a mirrored view of human feelings on beats, synths, and instruments which have their own personality.
MM picks: A Dream Of Death, Hear The Voice, Mad Song
mp3: Tangerine Dream - Hear The Voice

You May Also Like:
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Tangerine Dream - Nebulous Dawn

They say Visage is Pioneers of the New Romantic movement, and i don't like classify music but they're truly romantic in somehow. "Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection" was released in 1994, and a great example of Visage's the most successful pieces and romantic alive and kicking music. Don't let the romantic disco music make you grey! Specially, there is an emotional cover song of Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525" and a GREAT horizontally moving of bass Guitars along with sax, YEAH it's "Tar". Notably, Visage is one of the great founds in 80S. Now, New Wave time!
mp3: Visage - In the Year 2525 (originally by Zager & Evans)
mp3: Visage - Tar

If "Astral Weeks" was the best surprise of 1969, then Van Morrison’s new album is very probably the solidest rock achievement thus far in 1970. Gone is the Gypsy-like untogetherness of the rhythm section, which gave the earlier album so much of its charm and uniqueness, and in its place is a rather more solid band, borrowing from jazz and (especially) soul sources without being in any way unpleasantly eclectic. Morrison is now without the need to strive, he simply does, and what he does is precious without price. His voice now has the flexibility and variety
of an Aretha Franklin, rather like Georgie Fame with the fat stripped away, and on the title track particularly he uses his voice with such rhythmic beauty and exactness that it flickers to and fro like a steel spring. All the tracks are superb, and some (‘Glad Tidings’, ‘Brand New Day’, ‘Into The Mystic’, and ‘Moondance’) are considerably more than that. ‘...New Day’, for instance, uses the throaty humming of a black back-up choir in a completely un-clichéd way, and the alto sax solo by Jack Schrorer on ‘Moondance’ is something else, like a flashback to a Harlem ‘jump’ band of the ’40s. The beauty of Van Morrison is that he takes his influences and sublimates them so completely that the end product is entirely unique. He’s a rare talent, and this album will awaken a lot of people to him. review by Richard Williams
mp3: Van Morrison - Into The Mystic

Rating: 7/10
Modern Music Review
Time comes and goes fast, and people spend every kind of thing so fast. We now are part of a new trend, listen and throw music records in the name of mp3. This is the century of do your job and take your money!

"Cassadaga" is taking spot ratings which are mostly 80 out of 100, and i found new Bright Eyes completely influenced by country rock, i actually call this record obsessed between country-indie-alternative rock. Cassadaga offers numerous atmospheric love songs in front of fickle music. At times, it reaches high emotions overly, waiting for right moment to reach listeners. When this happens, i'm sure that you are going to spend most of your time with "Cassadaga", or else, it gets one of that ordinary records.

Conor Oberst, who is a young singer/songwriter from Nebraska, creates emotionally perfect ambition in some of the songs such as "No One Would Riot For Less", "Make A Plan To Love Me". And melodic side of "Cassadaga" is huge on careful music fellows. Most importantly, best new Bright Eyes song stays there, the name is "No One Would Riot For Less". It won't be wrong, if i compare this song with Bob Dylan's songs. Near to go, you'll feel the strong emotions running to your ears. Eventually, this is a nice record , for the most part. There is no need to overstate the things and no need to blemish.
MM picks: No One Would Riot For Less, If The Brakeman Turns My Way
mp3: Bright Eyes - No One Would Riot For Less
mp3: Birght Eyes - Four Winds
more mp3s:
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh from FEVERS AND MIRRORS
From a Balance Beam - from LIFTED

Singles
1. Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism
2. Bjork - Earth Intruders
3. The Fall – Reformation
4. Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm
5. Muse – Invincible
6. Shins – Australia
7. Bloc Party – I Still Remember
8. Operahouse - The Man Next Door
9. Fortune Drive - Sparkle
10. The Dykeenies - New Ideas

Videos
Blonde Redhead Video 23
Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism

I had a chance to listen new NIN stuff, and Trent sounds cool again, he made a long God Given record. We'll see it's great or not. On the other hand, i don't like very much the new single by Bjork, it's somewhat very repetitive and she repeats Earth Intruders more than you want. As i said before new Bjork will sell well but won't satisfy listeners whose mind still on "Debut", "Homogenic". New Bjork and NIN are both weird, aren't they? Specially new NIN is a little gay.

Sundays are always great for live music, and it's been a great sunday for me. A live performance of Cully Jazz Festival (in Switzerland 29. March 2007) by Marianne Faithfull who is the main reason for this lovely Sunday. That voice!, telling beautiful stories together with nice rock music. Seldom do i listen live records, because i believe that live performance should stay live. You want to taste sensation, want to see how admirers getting crazy for a musician, and you realize that your heart's beating with them. There is no need to speak, now it's time for melody. Live melody!

mp3: Marianne Faithfull - Crazy Love
Written by Faithfull and Nick Cave, the song from her last effort "Poison".

mp3: Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways
Haunting title song of Vagabond Ways recorded in 1998.

mp3: Marianne Faithfull - Why D'ya Do It
One of best songs that Marianne Faithfull has recorded.

mp3: Marianne Faithfull - Guilt

Rating:7/10
Modern Music Review
Third full effort again sounds like nothing before, as with an opera where death represents a secret heaven, the whole record feels like a black diamond in the snow. A record is being fed by many different genres and musically it doesn't border a unique style, A great example of mixing all of them successfully in the manner. Dreamy opera vocals into dum-dum beats, electronic music, and it sounds cool.

Both sisters have strong talent in music, that's because you'll be all agreed by the idea of their music sounds like nothing you have ever heard before. Debut "La Maison de Mon Rêve" and previous my favorite "Noah's Ark" likewise support the idea. We've got amazing songs like "Promise", "Houses" which is truly massive work to say 'Yes!'. Most interestingly, "The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn" sometimes turns to quite dark, ethereal, dreamy record . These blue moments don't show up themselves everytime. On "Houses" you can see all the pain summarized by power of opera. This record is short about 35 minutes, though.

Entire beauty shines in front of your eyes, but, that's all . Like a short memorable story, obscured "The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn" is only beautiful. Releases Apr 9, 2007
MM picks: Promise, Houses, Raphael
mp3: Rainbow Warriors
mp3: Noah's Ark
mp3: By Your Side
mp3: Tekno Love Song (Highly rec'd)

More songs of transient euphoria and stabbing loss, played out against an ambiguous background of relentless fatalism and constant hope, mingled in approximately equal proportions, from the poorest little rich girl in Laurel Canyon.

The difference between Joni and most of her male balladeer companions, and the reason
I respect her and not them, is that she writes her diary with an uncompromising honesty; alone among them, she knows herself, and describes her psychodramas with a cool, clear brain. Not for her is self-pity and her task is made easier by an almost total command of poetic device. Her images and metaphors are the result of thought, never the first incomplete ideas of a lazy writer who grasps the first phrase which comes to hand. Add to this a considerable and ever-developing musicianship, and a voice flexible enough to avoid the blandness this genre so often attracts, and you have a talent which, for once, justifies the acclaim it receives. ‘For The Roses’ is mostly about loss: in in many of these songs, she caresses her precious yesterdays like the cover of an old, wellthumbed leather-bound book. ‘See You Sometime’ and ‘Lesson In Survival’ are such, but ;Woman Of Heart And Mind’ is the best because she stands outside herself, painting a portrait as dispassionately as one can in such circumstances of a quixotic, demanding man – both a put-down and a come-on, it winds up as catharsis. She’s at her best, like most modern poets, when she’s least explicit: ‘Electricity’ uses a marvellousmetaphor to illuminate the breakdown of a relationship, while ‘Lesson In Survival’ contains the only jarring moment when she sings “Oh baby, I can’t seemto make it with you socially”; she didn’t need to say that, because she’s already made the point in more subtly powerful ways. In ‘Blonde In The Bleachers’ she speaks from bitter experience of another girl who maybe herself, and even ‘You Turn Me On, I’mA Radio’, which sounds like a shout of joy, is really an uncertain plea.

Her expanding talents as a musician are illustrated on the two most ambitious pieces. ‘Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire’ is a smack-song, and has her most finely poised writing: “A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer/Edgy – black cracks of the sky/Pincush-dreamer!” ‘Judgement Of The Moon And Stars’ is addressed to Beethoven, writing symphonies in his deafness. It demonstrates how she’s now thinking of songs in terms of unbroken development, rather than as simple repetitions of a specific format, and I’m sure this is where her future lies.

The way she sings “movie queen”, in ‘Let The Wind Carry Me’ is the perfect mating
of a rigorous intelligence and an earthy sensuality.--Richard Williams
mp3: Joni Mitchell - For The Roses
mp3: Joni Mitchell - Let The Wind Carry Me

Rating: 9.5/10
Modern Music Review
Alternative Country
The artist formerly known as Smog releases his debut recording under his real name, and offers up an emotive and carefully crafted collection of folk-rock masterpieces. And for this one, i'm superbly exited to tell my feelings.

While listening your favorite music, you don't know where you go, the things that you like, problems that you'd yesterday. Even if nothing is allright, good music shows all the things holly in the world. Like Bill Callahan new solo work "Woke On A Whaleheart", you don't know when to cry, when you smile, but you know that generally life is sad. On the record, everything looks perfect considering previous (Smog) records that are growing and earning tasty music on every following record . Give me the mellow songwriting, i want guitars moving as always, a mature vocal, piano, backround female vocals, sensitive flowing, and my favorite wine on the hand. Everything looks perfect like i imagined. The music goes upon my body to my feet. It's good feeling it inside of your body viscerally. As a big (Smog) fan, i must admit that it's one of the best works of Bill Callahan yet. Gospel, blues, folk, rock, country, i already counted the most fascinating genres, and they're tight together on "Woke On A Whaleheart". That's the music that i'd like to call magical, soulful, closer to a scene from our lives. If i could tell how this album is beautiful, it would be any good.

This is different for everyone, it's everything that we can't tell by speaking -- originally this is main description of music. If the record still has power to encourage me writing, then i love calling it essential! Release date: 24 April, 2007
MM picks: Honeymoon Child, Day, Night, A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man
mp3: Bill Callahan - Sycamore
mp3: Bill Callahan - Night

Similar Legends:
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Elliott Smith
Leonard Cohen

Phil Oakey is a post-Iggy crooner of romantic agony who possesses a tough streak of intellectual scepticism. ‘Dare!’ is the second intoxicating intervention to be produced out of the great split, and already it’s the first Human League greatest hits collection. It is the first coherent projection of persecuted lover Oakey’s staggeringly twisted personality – I mean that in the queasiest possible way. The Human League, presumably because Phil Oakey and Bobby Last took charge of the proceedings, have begun to deal seriously with the themes and issues of popular fi ction, song, film and soap opera – love, an intensity of desire, an examination of comfort, beauty and jealousy. Fundamentally, there’s been an artful redefinition of the quite devious potentials of middle of the road music. As the League theory no doubt had it they are Abba locked into Ramones, Iggy, Can, Zappa, Kraftwerk. A confection energised by intimate refl ection. The use of electronics becomes all but irrelevant. The Human League just produce their music to interfere with the daily details of the ’80s family. The Human League signify that deliciously serious, sincerely disposable MOR music can possess style, quality and sophistication. I like the idea of the Human League selling hundreds of thousands of copies of their product. So does Bob Last. I like the idea of The Human League knocking Genesis off the Number One place in the LP charts. Why? Choice and change, lust and longing. The Human League could be the first pop group broken in by punk and who are in touch with the deeper elements of art rituals, pop skills, political illusion and love codes who have burst into the mainstream.Surprise! ‘Dare!’ is some kind of revenge, and in many ways it challenges the very conventions of pop music and the essence of innovation. What is it all for? I think that ‘Dare!’ is one of the great popular music LPs. It’s both ‘pleasant’ and it’s a ‘challenge’. I’ll keep it forever: truth and lie combined I’ll always hold dear.--Paul Morley
mp3: The Human League - Don't You Want Me
mp3: The Human League - The Sound of the Crowd

Wow! What a great cover album that another reason to fall in love with the voice of Bryan Ferry. This "Dylanesque" becomes my favorite cover album recently. The 11 songs are mostly classic mid-‘60s Dylan, but we can't say someone hey!, you should cover rarities not classic works. I love Bryan Ferry, so he's good at covering. Remember great Roxy Music cover John Lennon's Jealous Guy, it was terrific, wasn't it? Music melts by voice of the guy. Ferry's English language is so clear to recognize. And i love listening this record.

This is a rock-solid collection, far more suited to his fragile croon than the previous collection of covers, As Time Goes By (1999). It all proves that maybe Dylan was at the heart of Ferry’s muse, even back in 1972. Let’s hope he brings such energy to that Roxy album. BBC
mp3: Bryan Ferry - All Along The Watchtower

Singles
1. mp3: Bright Eyes – Four Winds
2. mp3: Calexico - Ocean of Noise (Arcade Fire Cover)
3. mp3: Norah Jones – Sinkin’ Soon
4. Fields – Charming The Flames
5. Love of Diagrams - Pace or the Patience
6. Little Man Tate - This Must Be Love
7. Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running (7”)
8. Stefy – Chelsea
9. Radar – War Out There
10. The Good The Bad & The Queen - Green Fields

I was in a hury, checking Pitchfork and saw the great Arcade Fire cover of Ocean of Noise by Calexico. I hope you like it.

Videos
Apples In Stereo Video - Can You Feel It
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Bomb. Repeat. Bomb

Rating: 9/10
Techno
Review:
This is new album of Swedish artist The Field which titled From Here We Go Sublime on Cologne's uber-prolific and super-duper Kompakt Records. Imagine a digital world where all object only move by rhythm of electronic music. The world of Fields! This is the place for only electronic materials, if you want to go in, act like a robot or let it music grow on you, there is no place for slobs. The time came to break your brooding, it's time for real action.

"From Here We Go Sublime" offers very smart music at every moment, it never needs a vocal performance to border the music.
That show success of it on the genre techno where voice stops, beats talk. The beginning of spring is right time for dance music. But the problem with techno music usually is that it may exhaust you during high beats, high volume, long time playing... The Field walks in differently, though. You'll realize that The Field's limpid, liquid, and white sound provides almost perfect recording. Every minor detail deserves compliments. And that's for sure, "Mobilia" is the key song of it.

This perfect dynamism of computer-made music, still controlled by a human, shows how important electronic music will be in the future. It's my new obsession for now.
MM picks: Over the Ice, A Paw In My Face, Sun & Ice, Mobilia
mp3: Field - A Paw In My Face
Over the Ice, and Everyday at:
http://www.myspace.com/thefieldsthlm
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It's been always pleasure sharing a lot of good music with you, but it seems this is the end of road. I'll always remember this blog, and your good wishes.--Bulut

mp3: Good to Go

Edit*
...But don't forget April Fools, i never give up sharing good music. Fine! Here some nice live stuff for a better Sunday!

John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)
John Coltrane live in japan (jul 1966) part1_part2_part3_part4_part5
Kraftwerk - Super Golden Radio Shows
Midnight Oil - Scream In Blue Live
Portishead - Live UK (2007) part1_part2
mp3: Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me (live)

Muse Live at Belfort (2002)
mp3: Muse - Citizen Erased
mp3: Muse - Bliss

The Cure Curiosa Festival, Toronto, Canada (08/09/04)

Modest Mouse - Live, 2000 Bowery Ballroom

mp3: Roger Waters - Mother