25-04-2019 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1991-1986

The Jesus Lizard

25-04-2019 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1991-1986  >>The Jesus Lizard, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mark Lanegan, David Byrne, Jack Bruce, Cowboy Junkies, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Suzanne Vega, Melvins, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian<<

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1991-1986

Chicago noise rockers who mask the proficiency and precision of their musicianship with the ravings of their maniacal frontman, David Yow. 
The Jesus Lizard
Then Comes Dudley 4:23
Nub (Duane Denison / The Jesus Lizard / Mac McNeilly / David Wm. Sims / David Yow) 2:30
from Goat 1991
The Jesus Lizard's second album followed in the vein of the first with little immediate variation: loud, excellently produced by Steve Albini, plenty of space in the recording to emphasize the sheer force of McNeilly's drums and Sims' bass, and more besides... The whole album seems like a party in hell, not to mention demonstrative proof that there's still plenty of fun to be had with a basic rock lineup; it's all in the matter of how it's handled.

Eclectic and powerful post-punk band that's steadily evolved under the leadership of one of rock's most celebrated songwriters. 
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Foi Na Cruz (Nick Cave) 5:40
The Good Son (Nick Cave) 6:03
from The Good Son  1990
Losing Wolf, aside from the final reprise of "Lucy," but otherwise making no changes in the line-up, the Seeds followed up Tender

Nick Cave

Prey with the equally brilliant but generally calmer Good Son. At the time of its release there were more than a few comments that Cave had somehow softened or sold out, given how he was more intent on exploring his dark, cabaret pop stylings than his thrashy, explosive side. This not only ignored the constant examples of such quieter material all the way back to From Her to Eternity, but Cave's own constant threads of lyrical darkness, whether in terms of romance or something all the more distressing...

and the Bad Seeds

19-03-2019 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1994-1989

19-03-2019 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1994-1989  >>The Stone Roses, Morphine, Joe Strummer, Adrian Belew, Cowboy Junkies, Jethro Tull, The Jesus Lizard, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mark Lanegan, David Byrne, Jack Bruce<<

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1994-1989

Manchester baggies whose classic 1989 debut made them indie legends and a highly influential name for countless alternative bands to follow. Meshing '60s-styled guitar pop with an understated '80s dance beat, the Stone Roses defined the British guitar pop scene of the late '80s and early '90s. After their eponymous 1989 debut album became an English sensation, countless other groups in the same vein became popular, including the Charlatans UK, Inspiral Carpets, and Happy Mondays. However, the Stone Roses were never able to capitalize on the promise of their first album, waiting five years before they released their second record and slowly disintegrating in the year-and-a-half after its release.
The Stone Roses
Daybreak 6:33
Breaking Into Heaven 11:19
Driving South
from Second Coming 1994
There's no denying that Second Coming is a bit of a letdown. None of the songs are quite as strong as the best on their debut, but there is plenty of good music on the band's much-delayed second record. The Stone Roses create a dense tapestry of interweaving guitars and pulsing bass grooves. Ian Brown growls a little more than before, but he isn't the center of the music; John Squire's endlessly colorful riffs are. It's clear that Squire has been listening to a bit of hard rock, particularly Led Zeppelin. While the songs occasionally take a back seat to the grooves, several tracks -- "Ten Storey Love Song," "Begging You," "Tightrope," "How Do You Sleep," and "Love Spreads" -- rank as true classics. It might not be the long-awaited masterpiece it was rumored to be, but Second Coming is a fine sophomore effort.

Addictive, offbeat, and totally original indie rockers from Boston, driven by a blistering baritone sax rather than guitars. Morphine is a rarity -- bluesy, bare-bones rock & roll without any guitars. Instead of guitar riffs, the trio relies on sliding two-string basslines, raucous saxophones, and wry, ironically detached vocals. During the mid-'90s, Morphine gained a sizable cult following in America, primarily due to good word of mouth, heavy college airplay, and positive reviews.
Morphine
Buena (Mark Sandman) 3:19
I'm Free Now (Mark Sandman) 3:24
All Wrong (Mark Sandman) 3:40
from Cure for Pain 1993
With their cult following growing, Morphine expanded their audience even further with their exceptional 1994 sophomore effort, Cure for Pain. Whereas their debut, Good, was intriguing yet not entirely consistent, Cure for Pain more than delivered. The songwriting was stronger and more succinct this time around, while new drummer Billy Conway made his recording debut with the trio (replacing Jerome Deupree). Like the debut, most of the material shifts between depressed and upbeat, with a few cacophonic rockers thrown in between... And again, Mark Sandman's two-string slide bass and Dana Colley's sax work help create impressive atmospherics throughout the album. Cure for Pain was unquestionably one of the best and most cutting-edge rock releases of the '90s.

Frontman and co-founder of the Clash who explored an eclectic variety of rock, folk, and music styles as a solo artist. As frontman and main songwriter of the Clash, Joe Strummer created some of the fieriest, most passionate punk rock -- and, indeed, rock & roll -- of all time. Strummer expanded punk's musical palette with his fondness for reggae and early rock & roll, and his signature bellow lent an impassioned urgency to the political sloganeering that filled some of his best songs. 
Joe Strummer
Love Kills (Joe Strummer) 3:59
Trash City feat. The Latino Rockabilly War (Joe Strummer) 4:11
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Yalla Yalla (Pablo Cook / Richard Norris / Joe Strummer) 6:53
from Joe Strummer 001 Rec. 1993 (2018)
Few bands in the history of rock & roll left behind as powerful a legacy as the Clash, and no one in that group symbolized passion and belief like singer, guitarist, and songwriter Joe Strummer. The Clash were a great band, with all members vital to the whole, but it's impossible to imagine them without the blazing intensity of Strummer's full-hearted bray, thoughtful but rabble-rousing lyrics, and relentless rhythm guitar work. While Mick Jones may have been the band's most talented member, it's significant that Strummer could lead a flawed but credible version of the Clash without him (even if the album Cut the Crap captured almost none of the virtues of the group's final lineup). Strummer's work with the Clash casts a long shadow, but the music he made outside of the band is often regarded as a footnote, and that gives a vital part of his body of work short shrift. It's true that Strummer never played in a band better than the Clash, yet his talent and ambitious creative vision was clear regardless of the context, and the 2018 collection Joe Strummer 001 is a testament to his restless muse and the depth of his work as a tunesmith... This is hardly the last word on Joe Strummer's music outside the Clash, but Joe Strummer 001 should convince any doubters that the man never stopped being a talent to be reckoned with, regardless of the size of his audience.

28-08-2018 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2014-2010

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

28-08-2018 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2014-2010  >>Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Queens Of The Stone Age, Grand General, Anna Calvi, David Byrne, St. Vincent, Focus, David Lynch, Black Devil Disco Club, Martina Topley-Bird, Zaz, Bushman's Revenge<<

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2014-2010

Eclectic and powerful post-punk band that's steadily evolved under the leadership of one of rock's most celebrated songwriters.  Formed after the breakup of the Birthday Party in 1983, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds became one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward. Playing music that meshed with the dark, multi-layered narratives of Cave's lyrics, the Bad Seeds created sounds that were physically and emotionally powerful, but with a sense of dynamics and drama that set them apart from their peers. While plenty of musicians would move in and out of the Bad Seeds' lineup over the years, throughout their history they were always a musical force as powerful as their leader.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
From Her to Eternity (Nick Cave) 5:35
Tupelo (Nick Cave) 7:18
The Carny (Nick Cave) 8:00
The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave) 7:18
from Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1984-2014) 2017
Nick Cave is a singular figure in contemporary rock music; he first emerged as punk rock was making its presence known in Australia, but though he's never surrendered his status as a provocateur and a musical outlaw, he quickly abandoned the simplicity of punk for something grander and more literate, though no less punishing in its outlook. Cave also had an approach to collaboration that made his backing band, the Bad Seeds, an integral part of his creative vision, even as their membership changed and their sound evolved over the space of three decades of fury and eloquence. In Kirk Lake's liner notes to Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 1984-2014, he celebrates the band as much as their charismatic leader and songwriter, and the 45 songs collected on this three-disc set make the case that while Cave may be the frontman -- and a profoundly charismatic one with a powerful voice that can communicate from a whisper to a scream -- his musicians bring a color, shape, and texture to his songs that focus and amplify his gifts as a singer and lyricist...

Highly acclaimed hard rockers from the California desert who update old-school riff rock without overloading irony or slavish imitation. 
Queens Of The Stone Age
Keep Your Eyes Peeled (Queens of the Stone Age / Joshua Homme) 5:04
I Sat By the Ocean (Queens of the Stone Age / Joshua Homme) 3:55
The Vampyre of Time and Memory (Queens of the Stone Age / Joshua Homme) 3:34
...Like Clockwork (Joshua Homme / James Lavelle / Charlie May) 5:24
from …Like Clockwork 2013
All the surface evidence on ...Like Clockwork suggests Josh Homme is steering Queens of the Stone Age back to familiar territory. Once again, he's enlisted drummer Dave Grohl as his anchor and he's made amends with his erstwhile bassist Nick Oliveri, suggesting Homme is returning to either Rated R or Songs for the Deaf, the two turn-of-the-millennium masterpieces that thrust QOTSA out of their stoner rock cult, but ...Like Clockwork isn't so simple as a return to roots. Homme flirts with his history as a way to make sense of his present, reconnecting with his strengths as a way to reorient himself, consolidating his indulgences and fancies into a record that obliterates middle-age malaise without taking a moment to pander to the past...  This is forceful, purposeful, fueled by dense interwoven riffs and colored with hints of piano and analog synthesizers that quite consciously evoke '70s future dystopia. QOTSA always specialized in this eerie sexiness, but the precision on ...Like Clockwork -- quite different than the merciless propulsion of Era Vulgaris, the 2007 album that closed out their time at Interscope -- feels conceptually tight, Homme smartly sculpting guitar fuzz, elastic solos, haunted harmonies, and deceptively slinky rhythms into a cool, relentless collection of heavy rock. The force impresses but also the restraint: there are missed beats and open space, muscular music that seduces and pummels, even manages to soothe while it assaults. It's complex, harder, and catchier than anything QOTSA have done in a decade, and more song-oriented, too, but that's a sign of maturity: Homme has marshaled all of his strengths on ...Like Clockwork and has found a way forward, a way to deepen his music without compromising his identity.

This heavy Norwegian fusion quintet became Grand General after premiering as the Kenneth Kapstad Group at the Trondheim Jazzfest. 
Grand General
Antics (Trond Frønes) 12:20
Red Eye (Trond Frønes / Ola Kvernberg) 11:02
from Grand General 2013
This Norwegian fusion quintet features the same instrumental lineup as Mahavishnu Orchestra, so comparisons to John McLaughlin's legendary '70s band are probably inevitable. But on the basis of Grand General's eponymous 2013 Rune Grammofon debut, such comparisons would merely scratch the surface. The bandmembers have the chops to match any fusioneers past or present, but they're also fond of the relentless rock pummel, undergirding their pyrotechnics with a powerful rhythm section possessing deep reserves of energy. Motorpsycho fans will recognize the Norwegian psych/prog/metal institution's current drummer, Kenneth Kapstad, and Kapstad is indeed a driving rhythmic force here, but bassist Trond Frønes is at least an equal partner. Frønes adopts a thick, overdriven bass tone at times strikingly similar to that of Motorpsycho vocalist/bassist Bent Sæther (check out 2010's Heavy Metal Fruit). Kapstad and Frønes also play together in the metal band Goat the Head, so they are definitely on the same wavelength...