Jim White - Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See

A strange beast is this Jim White. Starting to make music in the forties, already formed as an author, with a vision of merging traditional and modern, he gave to us a few great, emotionally high and very advanced recorded country - rock albums. Old and new, on Jim White records are connected in one, while the quality of the melody and lyrics always heating up our senses, guaranteeing satisfaction :)

After all, listen to yourself :)

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Year : 2004                                                                                              Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Luaka Bop / V2
TT : 1:02:39
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New Wet Kojak - Nasty International

If we ask what kind of music is this, I'm not sure we'll come up with some concrete results. Created as an extension of Girls Against Boys, this Washington-based group may be a rock, but it's also the noise, ambiental, or some kind of sonic passage that feels good to my ears. All in all, a thick and murky sound, based more on tension than on the riff.
After all, this is all just theorizing, what is important that I spent an hour in vacuuming and wiping the dust, enjoying, all thanks to this great album :)

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Year : 1997                                                                                              Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Touch & Go
TT : 36:58

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Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak

Although the words are her favorite toy, Ms. Anderson also successfully handle with music and with visual art .. Basically performer and multimedia artist, during its long career, she published several very interesting albums. One of them, maybe little bit more accessible, is precisely this album. Sonically weird, with strange verses, and supported with more than great guests, it represent adventure that does not make sense to miss :)

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Year : 1984                                                                                              Ex - yu verzija
Label : Warner Bros.
TT : 40:19
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Anita Lane - Sex O'Clock

Dealing with the thought that the next post should be something of Serge Gainsbourg, spontaneously, I began to listen first two albums by Mick Harvey, otherwise Gainsbourg covers, enjoying in it very much. And now, faced with this new dilemma, I resorted economical solution which combines these two in a very seductive way :)
Seductive, you ask? Oh, yes :)

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Year : 2001                                                                                             Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Mute
TT : 44:31
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Chuck Prophet - Soap and Water

Chuck Prophet is engaged with commercial sound, there is no doubt. And it works very well. And given that a good song is imperative of any genre, and if we take as a criterion necessity for adaptation to today's sound, through production, this album stands as one of the pillars of popular music.
Unstable statement, you say, but check it yourself :)

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Year : 2007                                                                                            Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Yep Roc
TT : 50:35

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Marianne Faithfull - Broken English

There are many things related to the name of Mrs. Marianne Faithfull, her love affairs with celebrities, her sinking into world of drugs, voice change, cabaret music, and, also, her return to the scene, early in 21st century,  marked with the cooperation with a many interesting musicians ...
And somewhere in the middle of the road, as a turning point and the basis for everything that is happening now, there was this great album, the witness of a time, and also, the music for dance :)

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Year : 1979                                                                                              Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Island
TT : 37:15
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Various Artists - Sound of Siam, Vol. 2: Molam & Luk Thung 1970-1982

Military machine, despite all the negative, can sometimes have a positive effect. For example, the arrival of the US Army in Thailand, in the sixties, had a strong influence on local bands, and has mixed American genres like rock, soul, jazz with traditional Thai luk thung style. And the result is timeless music that, today, 50 years later, makes me very happy :)

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Year : 2014                                                                                                Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Soundway
TT : 67:10

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John Cale - Slow Dazzle

I first heard for Cale long time ago. I had his collaboration with Terry Riley, otherwise brilliant album "Church of Anthrax", on tape and I believe it was one of my first encounter with a different form of music. Wonderful time, when my musical path was closely connected with some interesting and today distant people. Around that time, this album came to me and it was something I kept coming back for years, enjoying in authentic vision of one seemingly classic sound .....
Cale, authentic savage   :)

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Year : 1975                                                                                               Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Island
TT : 35:49
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Bark Psychosis - Hex

The best music is that which is not defined, unencumbered by the rules of the game. Also, we can say that any definition steal part of our freedom and, somehow semi-consciously, I'm trying to get away from them.. And excellent collaborator in this escape, proved to be, are Bark Psychosis.
But, is this true, it depends on you  :)

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Year : 1994                                                                                             Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Caroline Distribution
TT : 51:11
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Chris Connelly - The Episodes

Some day, while I listened to this album, my mother began to talk about some TV show about Bowie ... And to my comment that it isn't he, let's say that I haven't managed to convince her :) Now, although the way of singing resembles the early phase of above-mentioned, i found it difficult to accept this kind of comparison with a little bit, at least for me, boring Ziggy Stardust, and it is even quite inappropriate to powerful and complex vision like this.
Anyway, try to listen Bowie's albums after 1974, and while accepting that they exists at all, maybe you can fill your time with this excellent album :)

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Year : 2007                                                                                                Ex - Yu verzija    
Label : Durtro Jnana
TT : 57:10

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Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky

Typical album by Yoko Ono means atypical album for majority. Some people say that is very difficult to survive her records, and yet, for me, it seem somehow very attractive :) A long time ago, i found somewhere, otherwise excellent record "Double Fantasy," by Lennon and Yoko, and her songs are fascinated me, in a way I was deeply emotionally touched. Neither this album is no exception, very colorful in sound, when near the end sail into calmer waters, I do not know whether I want to return to the port :)

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Year : 2009                                                                                               Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Chimera Music
TT : 58:32

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Bill Callahan - Apocalypse

Back at home after nearly twenty days trip, I realized that I rarely listened to music, perhaps for the first time in my life. You know what, this is possible :) And yet, in rare lonely moments, with a fervor, I threw myself on this album, losing myself in it, in the mysterious and not always understandable Callahan's mind, still, feeling very strong affiliation to this strange world ... .
And what about you? Maybe you also belong there? Here's a great opportunity to check it  :)

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Year : 2011                                                                                               Ex - Yu vezija
Label : Drag City
TT : 40:23
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Hugh Hopper & Lisa S. Klossner - Cryptids

Although seemingly very hermetic album, multiple listening give to it the timeless dimension of the river that flows constantly, keeping our eyes fixed on its endless variations ...
Of course, if you do not want to leave my claim unproven, you will need to check yourself  :)

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Year : 2000                                                                                               Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Blueprint / Floating World
TT : 56:37

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Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen... We Are Floating in Space

Both bands which Jason Pierce had, Spiritualized and Spacemen 3, are described as hypnotic and psychedelic, and it's hard to deny ... as well as their quality, after all. However, what's attracted me the most, was their, somewhat in the background, rock talent.
And like a proof of my submission is this great rock record  :)

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Year : 1997                                                                                               Ex - Yu verzija
label : Dedicated / SMG
TT : 1:09:54
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The Creatures - Boomerang

This kind of music always interested me, one that knows no boundaries, also very strange and rhythmic completely open. Indeed, according to the thin line between alternative and pop music and assuming that we want to do something like this, it would be very difficult to define the genre of this album :)
And above all, as the connective tissue, here is Siouxie, giving us himself, and that element is absolutely irreplaceable, if you please :)

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Year : 1989                                                                                               Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Geffen
TT : 56:26
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Jim O'Rourke - Eureka

I'm not so sure about this album's reputation today, somehow i lost connection with people with whom i listened this, nor have I run into it outside of my world a long time........but, i'm sitting here, day was fast, i'm pretty tired and last song is just finished. And you know what? Even through today's fog, it's status is very clear to me...
Beyond all categories and very seductive   :)

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Year : 1999                                                                                                 Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Drag City
TT : 42:08
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The Lijadu Sisters - Danger

When i was younger, i often listened to Fela Kuti, floating in his heavy and psychedelic kind of resistance, which moved me then and also years later, on different ways..
Later, unrelated to Kuti, i found a fantastic band, The Raincoats, and this was maybe the best all - girls band i ever heard. Their completely different four albums and fantastic imagination once again changed my already formed opinion what alternative music is.
And then, why today's post? What's connection between this two sisters with whole story? Well, with Kuti, they share same time and same geography - Nigeria. Also, i'm very interested in woman's perception of one obviously very "interesting" state like a NIgeria. And specifically, they deserved place here because, like i said before, best woman's band ever, have stolen a few things exactly from them  :)

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Year : 1976                                                                                                Ex - Yu version
Label : Knitting Factory Records
TT :  32:33

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Calexico - Carried to Dust

Joe Burns and John Convertino explores the possibilities of sound for nearly thirty years, and, i believe, they visited all of its fields. Also, it can be said that the quality of their work is no longer questionable...
So, the only thing we can discuss here is the relationship between the audience and their music. And if we explore relationship between this album and its consumers, and if we measure how many times a person can say, "Well, this is great" every time after  listen to it, the average score so far is infinite :) Now, you can say that i'm speaking nonsense, nothing is so good, but your argument in the present is totally negligible. So, contact me for a  twenty years approximately :)

If you did not understand, timeless music :)

Review
Year : 2008                                                                                                 Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Quarterstick
TT : 45:16
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The Red Krayola with Art & Language - Sighs Trapped by Liars

This is top alternative album in the year 2007. Even the fact that it sounds like a pure pop record can't deny this claim. Mayo Thompson and  "Art & Language" girls think and breathe alternatively.  Sophisticated, elusive and always in motion, this record is nothing less than pure delight.

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Year : 2007                                                                                                Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Drag City
TT : 51:47

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Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Right now, i'm in Heaven. I'm eating strawberry jam, glass of milk is always full, and my background are classics sounds, Nick Drakes "Bryter Layter" . Like i told you, Heaven.  So, from me to you....
Of course, your level is just half heaven, considering that i have jam :P

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Year : 1970                                                                                                 Ex - Yu verzija
Label : Hannibal Records
TT : 39:22
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