Showing posts with label bob marley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bob marley. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 June 2019

Log #144 - Two Big Arrows From Marley To Marling

Eddy Bamyasi
Manitoba / Caribou - Stop Breaking My Heart Chemical Brothers  - We Are The Night Bob Marley - Catch A Fire Laura Marling -  I Speak Because I Can Blue States - Man Mountain King Tubby - Declaration of Dub A couple of entries in the box this month are from some more charity shop pickups. Honestly, as a CD collector, there is no better way to spread ...

Sunday, 30 September 2018

Log #105 - New Reggae Old Dub

Eddy Bamyasi
Today I read this in one of those excellent 33 1/3 album books. This from author Alan Warner writing on Can's Tago Mago album: It is inevitable for writers writing about music that we must resort to image, simile, and metaphor. So you are going to get guitars playing on balconies across a mountain valley, and you are going to get keyboard solos compared to a killer whale rodeo. It is not something ...

Sunday, 1 October 2017

Log #53 - Tangerine Dream were no Satsuma Nightmare

Eddy Bamyasi
Firstly I offer a thank you to all my readers as my blog enters it's second year. I hope some of you have stumbled across something of interest and discovered some new music. In listening to my music and writing these pieces I have both discovered new things and rediscovered old too! The list below is an example of that - I had never heard any Kanye West before last week (apart from a car crash ...

Sunday, 24 September 2017

Log #52 - So This Is, or Was, Kanye!

Eddy Bamyasi
If you had told me I'd have a Kanye West album in my logs this year I wouldn't have believed you. But here I am at week #52 and courtesy of a bargain bucket charity purchase (along with the James Morrison one listed below) I find myself the proud owner of Late Registration. My daughter tells me it's an early one and consequently probably quite good, and she is right, it's quite good in a rappy, ...

Sunday, 9 October 2016

Log #2 - Bob Marley Lights Up and Catches Fire

Eddy Bamyasi
I've been playing quite alot of reggae and reggae/dub recently. This culminated in seeing the reggae covers band Easy Star All Stars a couple of weeks ago - a band that plays covers of Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Beatles and Radiohead - check out their cover of Paranoid Android for something completely different. The Trojan set contains a wealth of music I'm not familiar with like The Upsetters, ...
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