Cold Music

Zappa Pop History

Over in the other room we’re busy compiling a run-down of the complete series of „Pop History“ albums from Polydor. You can check the strange entry for Vol. 7 (Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention) and even listen to the whole double album.

More Favourite Albums

You can listen to yet another introductory mix with my Hot 100 Album choices now.

Featured this time are these ten albums:

Horslips • Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part (World music from Ireland)

Bob Dylan • Time Out Of Mind (featuring „Highlands“ – one of Dylan’s funniest songs)

Jam & Spoon • Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 & 2002 (actually two albums: taken together it’s one long trip into ambient, psycho-dub dance music)

Dwight Yoakam • Tomorrow’s Sounds Today (Ace songs, and ace guitar playing)

Donovan • A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (Another double album, this one coupling children’s songs with psychedelic folk rock)

Frank Sinatra • Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (More World (-weary) music)

10cc • Sheet Music (Probably their best – before they got too ambitious…)

David Bowie • Low (The Berlin album, not recorded in Berlin)

The Leather Nun • International Heroes (Long-forgotten sleaze-rock meisters)

King Crimson • Islands (Maybe not their best, but my favorite).

Fall in love with music…!

More Favourite Albums

Before we’ve all forgotten about it (or, rather, I’ve made a new list…) here’s another batch of my favourite albums for everyone’s listening pleasure.

Mucho rockabilly this time – the featured albums are:

Robert Gordon with Link Wray (their ace debut album from 1977)

Loud, Fast & Out Of Control (a 4-CD set of classic rock’n’roll singles in their original jukebox mixes: here represented by Warren Smith, Johnny Burnette, Rock-A-Teens, Elvis and Johnny Otis)

Elvis Costello: North (one of his best…)

Gastr Del Sol: Camofleur (strange sounds from weird people)

Lata Mangeshkar: An Era In An Evening (the fabulous Miss Mangeshkar in a 2-hour live concert from 1997, would you believe?!)

The Lords: Ulleogamaxbe (Forgotten German Psych/Garage/Beat album from the Sixties)

John Martyn: One World (from 1977, not a trace of punk or prog here…)

Julie Driscoll: Streetnoise (one of those classic double albums that take you on a journey)

Extreme: Pornograffitti (well, I was young at the time…)

Tocotronic: Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen (The Hamburg/Berlin connection)

Viel Spaß!

My Favourite Albums Approximately

My friends from The Afterwords requested a 100 favourite albums list. So I duly sat down (for a day or two) and compiled a list – only to find that most of the chosen items don’t even include the artist’s best songs.

However, you can find the list here. These albums – for various reasons – I’ve enjoyed for years, and I always find something new and enticing with every new listen. And to share some of the beauty I will compile hour-long mixes with a track from each of these albums (yes, I have too much time on my hands…). Listen to the first mix on Mixcloud and enjoy!

Music From The Harem Lounge

Happy New Year – and here’s more music from my turntable (or whatever is spinning at the moment…).

It’s all about colors – from rainbows to spectrums, from red, orange, yellow and blue to green: any colour you like.

Paul Frees | The Spectrum Song
B-52s | She Brakes For Rainbows
Sam Phillips | Five Colours
Jane Siberry | Red High Heels
Virgin Prunes | Red Nettle
Andy Partridge | King Of Orange
Daniel Lanois | Orange Kay
Pink Floyd | Any Colour You Like
Daniel Wylie | Chasing Rainbows
The Nits | Yellow Boat
Black Dyke Mills Band | Yellow Submarine
No-Man | Colours (Remix)
Yello | Blue Green
Associates | Green Tambourine
Nirvans | Rainbow Chaser
The Rolling Stones | She’s A Rainbow
The Lords | Blue Horizon
The Cruel Sea | Blue Dog
Rain Tree Crow | Any Colour You Are
Ella Fitzgerald | Over The Rainbow
The Wellingtons | The Wonderful World Of Colour

 

Christmas Music

You can listen to my annual Xmas music mix here.

And here is the track listing (beware: there are a few surprises between the tracks, pop pickers!)

Johnnie Allan: It’s Christmas Time In Louisiana

Booker T. & The MGs: Jingle Bells

Dan Hicks & The Christmas Jug Band: Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit

Cowboy Copas: Tired Of Playing Santa Claus To You

Hank Snow: The Christmas Cannonball

Walter Brennan: Henry Had A Merry Christmas

Johnny Cash: Bang! Joy To The World

John Prine: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

C.W. Stoneking: On A Christmas Day

Doug Legacy & Ry Cooder: Christmas In Prison

Dwight Yoakam: Silver Bells

The Pala Brothers: Sausage And Sauerkraut For Xmas

The Rolling Stones: Cosmic Christmas

Buck Owens & The Buckaroos: One Of Everything You Got

Hilo Hottie: The Santa Hula

Jambalaya Cajun Band: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

Cordell Jackson: Rock’n’Roll Christmas

The Free Design: The Now Sound Of Christmas

M.A. Numminen: Weihnachtslied

The Sonics: Don’t Believe In Christmas

Lightnin‘ Hopkins: Santa

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Christmas Medley

XTC: Thanks For Christmas

Element Of Crime: Leise rieselt der Schnee

The Handsome Family: So Much Wine

Nits: Wish

The Beatles: Christmas Time Is Here Again

Richard Hawley: Silent Night

Cyril Pahinui: Mele Kalikimaka

Nelson Wilbury: Christmas Message