Log #201 - Turn Back The Music

Starting off my next century with a right pot pourri of sounds here. We have watery ambience class from Loscil. Sea Island was the first album of his I heard. It hooked me to a greater extent than a lot of the other ambient albums I've been listening to over the last 20 weeks or so. Loscil - Sea IslandUlrich Schnauss - A Long Way To FallThe Decemberists - PicaresqueNick ...

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Jeff Lynne Achieves Pop Perfection - ELO's Out Of The Blue

Still rather wrong-headedly regarded as a ‘guilty pleasure’ Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra were quite simply a gigantic pop hit machine. Oft-derided as a mere Beatles copyist, Lynne’s genius was to take his earliest ambition of recreating the rush felt when first hearing I Am The Walrus and achieve it, again and again. The formula was simple (and in this he was far from being alone in the ...

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ELO - Their 3rd

I was a bit disappointed with this album. I bought it in a fit of nostalgia (ELO being my favourite band in my teenage years) having not heard it for many years. The music sounds dated and is not helped by the mix that to my ears sounds like the drums are a bit muddy and too prominent on many tracks. Therefore some of the tunes, especially the novelty items like In the Hall of the Mountain King, ...

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Log #46 - No Change From Me

1. ELO - Out of the Blue 2. JJ Cale - Naturally 3. The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me 4. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space 5. Takemitsu - Quatrain, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden 6. Foals - Total Life Forever It's the holiday season and my musical listening has transferred temporarily from the 6-Cd magazine to my ipod and all ...

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Log #45 - Naturally

1. ELO - Out of the Blue 2. JJ Cale - Naturally 3. The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me 4. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space 5. Takemitsu - Quatrain, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden 6. Foals - Total Life Fore ...

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Log #44 - Nu rock, Old Rock, and other Nostalgia

A bit of a sweep out of the magazine this week and what an eclectic bunch of pot pourri I've found lurking on the shelves: Plenty of nostalgia in more ways than one, some new rock, or nu rock, or post rock (I don't know what any of that means but I'm referring to The Foals), and some "modern" classical. 1. ELO - Out of the Blue 2. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 3. ...

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