Another clean sweep of the magazine this week: everybody out, new lot in please (often precipitated by a visit of friends over the weekend).
Next is many fans' favourite Alex Harvey (SAHB) album. I have it at no. 3 in my personal rundown.
Next from 1973 was Harvey's second album with the Sensational Band although he'd made solo albums before teaming up with the former Tear Gas band ...
Showing posts with label whitest boy alive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whitest boy alive. Show all posts
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Sunday, 15 October 2017
Log #55 - A Whitest Boy Alive Retrospective and More Love For (Very) Early Tangerine Dream
October 15, 2017
17, logs, tangerine dream, whitest boy alive
1. Tangerine Dream - The Essential
2. Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
3. Tangerine Dream - Cyclone
4. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
5. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
6. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
Following my year end review a couple of posts ago I was drawn like a magnet to my Whitest Boy Alive albums. A retrospective is perhaps an overstatement considering ...
Sunday, 23 July 2017
Log #43 - Inform, Educate and Entertain
July 23, 2017
17, beatles, jill scott, logs, public service broadcasting, ravi shankar, whitest boy alive
1. Ravi Shankar - Towards the Rising Sun
2. Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott?
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. Public Service Broadcasting - Inform, Educate, Entertain
5. Funk Soul Brothers - Compilation
6. Beatles - The Red Album
Just the one new entry this week, at No. 4, with the unique and eccentric Public Service Broadcasting and their full length debut album Inform, ...
Sunday, 16 July 2017
Log #42 - Who is Jill Scott, Anyway?
July 16, 2017
17, beatles, jill scott, logs, radiohead, ravi shankar, whitest boy alive
...an American singer-songwriter, model, poet and actress. Her Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 was her debut album released in 2000.
1. Ravi Shankar - Towards the Rising Sun
2. Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott?
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. Radiohead - Best Of
5. Funk Soul Brothers - Compilation
6. Beatles - The Red Albu ...
Sunday, 9 July 2017
Log #41 - Funk Soul Brothers
July 09, 2017
17, beatles, david bowie, logs, radiohead, ravi shankar, whitest boy alive
1. Ravi Shankar & Friends - Towards the Rising Sun
2. David Bowie - Black Star
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. Radiohead - Best Of
5. Funk Soul Brothers - Compilation
6. Beatles - The Red Al ...
Sunday, 2 July 2017
Log #40 - Ravi Shankar
July 02, 2017
17, david bowie, led zeppelin, logs, radiohead, ravi shankar, talk talk, whitest boy alive
1. Ravi Shankar & Friends - Towards the Rising Sun
2. David Bowie - Black Star
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. Radiohead - Best Of
5. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
6. Led Zeppelin - ...
Sunday, 25 June 2017
Log #39 - A Rediscovery of Radiohead
June 25, 2017
17, david bowie, led zeppelin, logs, matthew e white, radiohead, whitest boy alive
1. Matthew E White - Fresh Blood
2. David Bowie - Black Star
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. Radiohead - Best Of
5. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
6. Led Zeppelin - III
A rediscovery of Radiohead this week on account of their televised set at Glastonbury. I haven't heard them since the much acclaimed OK Computer which I didn't like much actually, but the set at Glastonbury ...
Sunday, 18 June 2017
Log #38 - Talk Talk - From Popstars to Jazz Proggers
June 18, 2017
17, gorillaz, kings of convenience, logs, matthew e white, talk talk, whitest boy alive
1. Matthew E White - Fresh Blood
2. Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
5. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Talk Talk did a sudden about turn with this album rather like David Sylvian did after leaving Japan, or Spinal Tap in their jazz fusion period! Having been Top ...
Sunday, 7 May 2017
Log #32 - Worshipping the Dub Pistols
May 07, 2017
17, calexico, dj vadim, dub pistols, logs, orquesta reve, paco pena, whitest boy alive
Highlighted this week is the tremendous Worshipping the Dollar album by the Dub Pistols. The Dub Pistols are a very entertaining live band drawing on electronics, samples, big beats, dub (of course), reggae, dance, rap, brass, drum and bass, acid house and hip hop. A perennial festival favourite it is very pleasing the group have captured the excitement of a live performance in the studio with ...
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Log #14 - David Bowie's Black Star a Year On
January 03, 2017
17, cocteau twins, david bowie, featured, jj cale, jurassic 5, logs, thievery corporation, whitest boy alive
2016 began with the death of David Bowie in January and then continued with Prince and Leonard Cohen. The end of the year brought more musician deaths with the premature passing of George Michael and Rick Parfitt. These were the most famous names but of course there were other less mainstream losses in the music world which registered less comment, for example both Greg Lake and Keith Emerson from ...
Sunday, 20 November 2016
Log #8 - The Afro Celt's Latest Album Rises Elegantly Above Off Stage Troubles
November 20, 2016
16, afro celts, foals, logs, motorhead, nusrat fateh ali khan, whitest boy alive
Must admit I'm still loving the Afro Celts representing a real renaissance for music I've had available for some years but have rarely played. If you had told me at the start that they would be my most played band eight weeks into my musical journal I would have been very surprised.
The new album The Source is superb revealing several new epics not fully appreciated on first play. I've had it ...
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Log #4 - The Whitest Boy Alive - Odd Name / Tight Band
October 25, 2016
16, afro celts, bear's den, fleet foxes, kings of convenience, logs, matthew e white, whitest boy alive
A couple of new entries in the magazine this week. Firstly my new Whitest Boy Alive CD arrived and it's a corker - extremely catchy pop tunes with the funkiest bass lines and the sharpest of beats. A super little band now sadly defunct after only two albums but who live on in part through The Kings of Convenience (who are apparently recording a new album). I've played this album over and over this ...
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