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billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Drinky Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

berliner Wrote:

cool, archie shepp!

He's my favorite jazz artist and one of my favorite artists of any genre. Those were new purchases/first listens. I'm pretty sure I own more albums by Archie Shepp than any other artist. I'm up to 31 (2 of which are twofers) or 33 by how they were originally released/packaged.

So how did you like those two?

I think it's about time I got some more Archie Shepp stuff, but so far for me nothing has come close to Attica Blues, not even Cry of My People. But Attica Blues does set the bar incredibly high.

I liked them both but especially the Karin Krog collaboration which features more of his regular band from the 70's and also better vocals. I don't know that I'd recommend them to you if you don't even really appreciate Cry of My People that much however. I like all 33 of the Shepp albums I have and love Cry of My People so my saying I like them doesn't tell you much. These are more straight jazz standards pretty well performed with a little bit of Shepp flair for the lack of a better descriptor. I'd certainly put the Krog album in the upper half of the Shepp albums I own and maybe higher than that. It's probably not the next Shepp you should buy though if you are interested in his more avant garde work though.

Today:

Bill Withers - Lean on Me: The Best of Bill Withers
Ronnie Milsap - S/T
Jair Oliveira - 3.1
Jair Oliveira - Outro

OHG, I forgot this one:

Buddy Miles - Booger Bear

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2010 10:05 pm

Kayo Dot - Coyote

PopTodd · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:29 am

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

PopTodd · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:43 pm

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:12 pm

Well, I like the music. Lyrically, this is brutal at times. I nearly shut it off at the end of 'One of Us Has to Go', when he made that gunshot sound.

FT · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:39 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

I nearly shut it off at the end of 'One of Us Has to Go', when he made that gunshot sound.

That is admittedly the low point of an otherwise stellar album.

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:09 pm

Metallica - Six Feet Under (2010 Live EP)
Metallica - Six Feet Under Part 2 (2010 Live EP)

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Gene Ammons - Funky
Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love
Parliament - Osmium
Watercolor (Joe Pisapia & Liz Hodder) - Beautiful Mistakes
Skank - Radiola
Love - False Start*
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Johnny Griffin - The Congregation**

* Probably the best Love album that most people haven't heard. Definitely deserves more attention.
** Cover art by Andy Warhol

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:38 pm

girl talk all day
kanye west my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
deathspell omega paracletus
twin shadow forget

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Terry Callier - Alive
Fred Eaglesmith - Cha Cha Cha
Spoon - Transference

Roach · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:39 pm **Posts:** 955

Boris - Absolutego
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Compulsive Gamblers - Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing
Lazy Cowgirls - Ragged Soul
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Todd - Big Ripper
Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun

PopTodd · **Posted:** Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:47 am

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:20 pm

kanye west my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
gangrene (the alchemist + oh no) gutter water
violens amoral

shiv · **Posted:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:25 pm

queensryche rage for order
dj nate da trak genious
girls broken dreams club ep
edith piaf the voice of the sparrow - the very best of edith piaf

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