Cool.

Debut album. Recorded in one take. Includes Melvins cover. More releases on this label here.

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Chill.

Something.

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been slacking

admittedly i've fallen off the earth so here we go here is some stuff i've been listening to


the first is jackie gleason who is one of my favorite all time humans
the final list:

1. paul newman
2. stegosaurus
3. elton john
4. kierkegaard
5. jackie gleason

anyways Jackie Gleason released some jazz albums in the mid 50s and all of them are easily the best jazz albums ever made(at least as far as i give a shit about)

now obviously this isn't the most technically sound jazz album but if you're like me you don't really like jazz so just tell yourself its miles davis and you won't be able to tell the distance because obviously no one can and its a stupid type of music that no one really listens to anyway they just keep it to look cool, kind of like sunn0))) isis and every other band people like that come here.(excluding myself because when I like isis its because i'm cool)

he has one songs called "there'll be some changes made" which is my favorite because it makes me think he's saying that to a broad just before he roughs her up for back talking him in public and it involves the term "there'll" which is criminally underused

oh there'll be some changes made



also this:



thats

an attention getter

i banged a 20 year old to this record and she never called me again.

Fun.

New album. More releases on this label here.

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Ethnic.

New album. Previous.

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Epic.

New album.
Info. Initial post.

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Encompassing.

Cover

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Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin (2010)

heres an album i am legitimately excited about, i know many of you are getting tired of me slagging everything i post so why don't i tongue bathe something for once. and why not start with what could be the best living songwriter/musician.

brian wilson re-imagines Gershwin could be my favorite album of the summer, and i guess it makes perfect sense associating bw with the summer fucker was the heart and soul of the beach boys. he's got a sensational voice and the beach boys have always been one of my favorite musical acts, i've never gotten tired of listening to them and they always seem to either make me unspeakably happy or irreproachably upset.


so then, gershwin as many of you are wondering is a songwriter from the turn of the century to the 30s or something who made a lot of big band music. the gershwin theater and hotel were named after him, and since i'm making up facts he is also the grand father of gina gershon and the green goblin.


anyways homeboy lived to be 38 and i guess back then that was a long time but now adays it seems like a professional wrestler's life expectancy. but having first heard about this album in july i started to look into this guys life and found out he composed some of the best music i've ever heard composed. like big band jazzy stuff with some great singers. sam cooke, diana ross, nina simone, sinatra, ella fitzgerald, billie holiday

any of you who everheard the song "summer time and the living is easy" has heard a song this fucker wrote.



rhapsody in blue is a song you've heard parts of in commercials and movies for years but never known. its phenomenal to listen to and for christs sakes none of you listen to anything from the 20s so give it a shot. the guy has scored a million movies, broadway shows. obviously like the rest of you i fail to really take in this guys impact by any real deep scale but i assume he had as much to do with modern music as the surfer has with the preservation of ego.


arguably the greatest composer of the 20th century + one of the best singer and group harmonizing arrangist =
must listen

Heaped.

Wacked & dense second release from three Norwegian maniacs on one of the best labels around.

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a bunch of shit you don't want a cheapshot at an average nhl player and jaga jazzist

boy i wish animal collective would get their act together and release another 8 albums in the last year and a half

quick reviews of shit you should skip

golden ages - whatever these jerk offs released

...ok enough with the atmospheric background noise play some music
no?
just wanna dick around on the synth and do weird one man chorus vocals?
not gonna try are you?

ok well play your queer techno hymn for all your cool friends who havent heard sigur ros yet. 2/10

errors - come on down
intros in music need to fucking go away, they basically punish their audiences now with non musical noise just to try and set some sort of mood but i really feel like it just takes people out of the music to begin with just to get to the fucking music that they are trying to get over in the first place, its like a movie has a person come out to tell a quick backstory before the movie starts and everyone walks out on it because the guy is stuttering and making racist jokes, and it turns out theres a reason for it, because they just released another electronic beat music album that royksopp and i am a robot and proud made 10 times now, but instead of doing a good job of sounding like those bands, they decided to go with the hybrid angle and in doing so successfully figured out how to sound exactly like every other band that had their mind blown by eits. 3/10 if they got rid of the intro


hermelin - st,
oh good mercury program changed their name. and got a little spacey. but not enough to actually not sound exactly like they already did.

but at the very least sounding like the mercury program is a very good start and they did have a great long intro that went nowhere, and actually brought in a bit of math rock and spacey rock parts that fit in rather nicely in parts that i didn't see coming
overall a 5/10 for now, but out of all the albums i'm talking about this is by far the best, and its gotten me to listen to it 5 times now, and its growing on me. and i started this paragraph thinking i'd just keep calling them dopplegangerous rotters, but i'm actually compelled enough to upload this album, because in its inability to try anything new it actually highlighted quite a bit that works for a reason, because its catchy and its good.
i came across it on a blog very similar to ours, so i wouldn't be shocked if some of you already have this and read the first half of my shit summary and thought i'm a witless hack, but please take the time and realize i got tired of a shitload of bands before it was cool to admit to it, ie torche



hermelin


horse stories - november november singing indy country with a thom yorke voice won't fool me. and congrats on writing a sad album that even i couldn't get into during the winter when i'm a coinflip away from carving "brooks was here" into my wall and taking the ol' plunge. more like yawny prince billie, more like iron&stopwhining, more like jason homolina, more like ben folds up a tissue and uses it to whipe his tears. search it out if you thought you needed a prequel to long december by the counting crows. or if you're pacing around wishing coldplay would sound less happy. 2/10


ok and now for the band that doesn't deserve to be in this motley crew of poo

jaga jazzist - one armed bandit, ANOTHER INTRODUCTION!!! yessss, mercifully this one is only 20 seconds long and sounds like a les paul song, yeah i don't even know where i got that one from.
it sucks to lump this band in with all these others because of how inventive and great they've been over time, but whatever its my blog and i'll smear shit together how i want to, and boy did i.
if anyone knows jazz its most certainly norway, they practically invented the stuff. its nice to see that some norwegians don't just sulk around burning churches and soloing in the snow, not that there's anything wrong with that, its just that if everyone is vorndaaangin' it tends to lose its appeal.
anyways new jazz with a post rock feel that doesn't get tiring or sound repetitive even though it is and is constantly making you enjoy it. 9 member act of various instruments and none are any good at hockey, much like most of norway TAKE THAT Ole Kristian Tollefsen!!!(see pic)
electronic jazz with brass and vibraphones and all other shit that no one really wants to hear in a screamo act just to give it an odd identity. i sincerely hope you guys have heard them before and are just skipping over what i'm typing here in order to click the dl, because this could be the best album of 2010 and its only in the middle of the shittiest month known to man, february is so fucking awful it should have a boring ncaa basketball tournament in it.

also the album leaf released another thing, if anyone wants it let me know, otherwise i'm just never going to listen to it like i have with all their other works for no reason what so ever.


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