Rating:6.5/10
MM Album Review
The National's good work 'Alligator'(2005).The National are American but influenced mostly brit singer/songwrites Scott Walker,Stuart Staples.Also they are compared with Leonard Cohen and the more mellifluous tendencies of Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen.

I think they sounds slower version of Interpol or the Strokes.'Karen' is a good song which shouldn't be missed.But this album isn't awesome,actually sometimes boring.They're totally influenced from American Music Club if you listen their music you'll immediately realize.'Baby, We'll Be Fine' is shining at first listen but it's going to shine again.Darkness and brilliant melodies will control over your ears.

"Alligator" is easily the National's best effort and quite possibly one of this year's finest records.''Billboard

'Alligator' can be a great choice to listen in your plaintive times but sometimes it can be exhausting listen.
MM picks:Karen,All The Wine,'Baby, We'll Be Fine'

Rating:4.5/10
Modern Music review
cover album
Yo La Tengo which is an american rock band have demonstrated unusual longevity for the indie-rock scene.

Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics (2006) is as sloppy and awkward as its title portends, but it's nevertheless an amusing listen galvanized by
the overwhelming love of rock & roll that informs all of the band's efforts.

Entire of album sounds quite pleasing but not totally memorable.
'Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics' is a pretty record for their fans.
Also you shouldn't expect too much from cover albums,they're beautiful for
remember old classics and sometimes cover songs work for love a band.
Because we know,lots of band come up with a cover song at the start of their
career.Good classic rock & roll songs anyway.

So,it's an interesting,melodic,quick listen cover album.
Standout covers:Paper Lace,The Stooges,Jonathan Richman,Brian Eno,Yes,T.rex

Initially inspired by the noise experimentation of Glenn Branca (with whom most of the band have performed); as well as the heavy garage rock of The Stooges and the noise experimentation of The Velvet Underground, they were known for using a variety of unorthodox guitar tunings, and for applying screwdrivers or other preparations to
guitars to alter the instruments' timbre.

Any doubts as to the continuing relevance of Sonic Youth upon their jump to major label status were quickly laid to rest by 'Goo', their follow-up to the monumental 'Daydream Nation'.

If Modern music choses their the most effective albums,they'll be absolutely 'Goo' and 'Bad Moon Rising','Daydream Nation'.Their latest records like 'Sonic Nurse' and 'Rather Ripped' shows us They haven't lost any power of their music.More importantly their music are growing
and regenerating.Combinations of different music styles,which are mostly Noise-Rock,
College Rock,Indie Rock and Experimental tunes,unite in their music.And all we have to is to discover this great fusion of rock music.

From Archive:
Rather Ripped 2006
Murray Street
Sonic Nurse
Dirty
Bad Moon Rising

Top 10 Sonic Youth songs By Modern Music:

1.Disappearer
2.Plastic Sun
3.Unmade Bed
4.Kool Thing
5.Sugar Kane
6.Mary-Christ
7.Expressway To Your Skull
8.Candle
9.Teen Age Riot
10Death Valley '69

Nobody can hold me up from preaparing this article.

Bob Dylan is an American folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is known for poetic, often obscure lyrics with politically and socially charged themes.As you know,Bob Dylan is a cult idol,His influence on popular music is incalculable.He has also recently performed alongside other major artists, such as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell(Listen her 'Court and Spark' classic album, if you don't know about her), Tom Petty and Eric Clapton.

Much of Dylan's best known work is from the 1960s when he became an informal documentarian and reluctant figurehead of American unrest.his most recent album of new songs, 2001's "Love and Theft" which includes sheer songs like 'Mississippi','Summer Days' , reached the top five on the charts in the U.S. and the U.K. And I'm very exited about his upcoming studio album 'Modern Times'.

Modern Music Recommended Albums:
Highway 61 revisited
Nashville skyline
Blood on tracks
Knocked out loaded
Time out of mind
Love and theft
More infos:biography

Top 10 Bob Dylan Songs by MM
(if you want to send your own Top 10 songs just leave it to comments)
* 1. Like a Rolling Stone
* 2. Subterranean Homesick Blues
* 3. Shelter from the Storm
* 4. Tombstone Blues
* 5. It Ain't Me Babe
* 6. Desolation Row
* 7. Tangled Up in Blue
* 8. The Times They Are A-Changin'
* 9. Visions of Johanna
* 10. Idiot Wind

As the straining cordon of policemen splits under the frantic pressure of budding femininity, the coach swerves away from Glasgow Apollo and speeds though the dark, wet back streets.

Soon the last gang of pursuers stumble back into the distance and a solitary figure keeps abreast of the coach,running as if its life is at stake. The coach just clips through an amber light and still the figure keeps coming, madly ignoring the Green Cross Code.

“Pull up! Stop!” yells Roger Taylor and the coach jerks twice and coasts to a halt. The automatic doors purr open and young Mark Duffy, heaving with exhaustion and excitement, staggers up the steps to rapturous applause.
“Please will you put ‘I was in your coach’?” he asks Nick Rhodes as the lipstick blond signs his programme.“Please… otherwise my friends won’t believe me…”
OK, although the incident’s true, you’ve read it many times before. Duran Duran: pop stars, candyfl oss gods to a new generation of gullible adolescents with more pocket money than sense. If only the stupid sheep would scream and lend fi nancial support to the worthy likes of the Gang Of Four, the world would be
a better place. Well… er… wouldn’t it?
I, for one, quite honestly doubt it and have caught a fair amount of flak in the past for being stupid enough to say so. Here, at Maker Central, my rapturous review of the ‘Rio’ album is still the subject of ridicule and considered an unbalanced lapse of common sense.
But just why do the press find Duran Duran unacceptable?
Do they pose some threat to jealously guarded traditional standards? Is it because they wear make-up? Just why do they offend mature sensibilities? And why do they sell so many records? Only one way to find out…Yours truly nipped up north of the border with the express purpose of confronting Duran with their own reputation and giving them a rare right of reply.Nick Rhodes provided the most apt preamble.
“We are probably the only band that’s known as five individuals. We are five very different personalities as The Beatles were four.
“There can be up to five contradictions at any one point. I think this interview is important because we’ve never ever been able to level our how we felt exactly about all those things… I think it’s really interesting… about the reasons why…”Appetite whetted? Here goes…
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Modern Music Rated Duran Duran Albums:
Duran Duran - Medazzaland
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - Astronaut

Album of the day
It's Dreamy,it's gloomy,it's Reflective...It's Luna.
The former Galaxie 500 frontman shares the wealth in this best of, chronicaling the velvety tales of Luna.Their music was full of cosmic guitar interplay between Wareham and Sean Eden, but the rhythm section-- at first ex-Feelies drummer Stanley Demeski and bassist Justin Harwood, later Lee Wall and Britta Phillips-- was always solid and down-to-earth.

Rating: 8/10
MM Review
Actually i see that this 'Best Of' is a great way to having opinion about their music.'California','Chinatown' ,'Tracy I Love You','Lovedust' ride the album.But you should listen their songs several time,they haven't got any commercial songs.Maybe you didn't hear anything about them,they're definitely amazing.Uptempo rhythms and sharper melodies will get you...
Also check out:
Television - Adventure

Rating:8.2/10
Modern Music Review
This is not a new album review,just a great album review.
Singer/songwriter Adam Green had released a new great record.
I hadn't had a chance to listen.You can see some great influences
like Lou Reed,Roy orbison,Chet Baker,Chuck Berry in this deluxe
Record."drugs" which is the highlight song of the solo.It changes your
mod depressively such lyrics like:
I like to do drugs
I like to have drugs
I like to hold a cigarette full of grass in my hand
It's not a new to hear in his lyrics 'Drugs'.
Actually,all the songs feel you and want to tell you that how they're willing
to be a classic.And more importantly you guess this ablum should be a classic.
But it's a new one.

Adam Green is so much more than that, and this album has a classic,
timeless feel to it, brilliantly drawing from divergent musical traditions
(much like the Gershwins in that respect), twisting from them an unique but
incredibly familiar sound.

i really appreciated the songs(novotel,drugs,hey dude,animal dreams,watching old movies white)i think i will write down the whole album.I love to listen sensitive and
complicated songs.if you listen singer/songwriters like Ben Folds, Leonard Cohen,
and Jonathan Richman you'll adore this stuff.Absolutely it tastes as a nostalgic record.

Rating:9/10
Modern Music Review
When 'the Letting Go', recorded in Iceland last winter with Björk producer Valgeir Sigurdsson, is due out September 18 on Domino in the UK, and in the U.S. the following day courtesy of Drag City. After his great cover album performance with Tortoise 'The brave and the bold' it's great to hear his new solo album. 'Strange Form Of Life' is truly the first impact on me with it's perfect female back vocals by Dawn McCarthy from Faun Fables. It's very exciting to hear great melancholic songs which Will make flawlesly on his career.

"I See a Darkness" has been Will's one of the best work. This album is pretty as 'I see a darkness' because there are several new melodies and there is no doubt lo-fi listeners will love this record throughout.

"Cursed Sleep"- little deadly guitar creaks and little strong guitar solos which are the true words to describe this pretty song.Female vocals are ferocious. All the songs are restful and therapeutic in the album. You can think the songs sound like a soundtrack and it would be a true observation. In addition, this isn't bad point. I like movies, and also Art can't be without movies, musics or books. They're too tight together.

"The Seedling" and "Love Comes To Me" sounds more indie from the others. Bonnie "Prince" Billy had decided to use more violins in this album. Violin tunes are incredible in the song 'The Seedling'. We can see that Violin is a very sexy instrument and you can do miracles with that. The in high spirits era covers almost every composition in this album, and Bonnie's whistle in the song named "No Bad News" is totally romantic and broken. Fantastic lyrical combinations!

It's an album which is centered by lyrical success as usual. You know it's his the strongest talent. "Lyrical explosive" describes this album clearly.
MM Picks:The Seedling,Cursed Sleep