Review: The Black Crowes put out their immediately classic debut album Shake Your Money Maker back in 1981. On the occasion of its 30th anniversary it gets a special deluxe reissue treatment with audio taken from the original sessions. The new collection features no fewer than five unreleased songs including 'Charming Mess' and some special studio recording covers of Humble Pie's '30 Days In The Hole' and John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy.' Two further, never-before-heard demos also make the cut, all with liner notes by David Fricke.
Review: Stranded is the third album for Roxy Music, and most notably it was the first after Brian Eno had departed. It was also the first album on which Ferry shared songwriting duties with Andy Mackay and Phil Mazanera, and so it captures the band in that moment of transition away from synthesiser sparkle towards a fuller, more rockist sound. The pianos and guitars pile on, creating a more driving sound even on the softer tracks like 'Just Like You', but there's still a thread of the unusual tucked away in every track - that curious magic which made Roxy Music such a vital force in 70s music.
The Diablos - "The Wind" (feat Nolan Strong) (3:03)
17 XII 63 NYC The Fire Is A Mirror (6:22)
Heroin (7:10)
Bo Diddley - "Road Runner" (live) (4:09)
The Primitives - "The Ostrich" (2:28)
I'm Waiting For The Man (4:33)
Nico - "Chelsea Girls" (7:24)
Sunday Morning (2:48)
Sister Ray (live) (19:01)
Pale Blue Eyes (5:40)
Foggy Notion (6:36)
After Hours (live - version 1) (2:43)
Sweet Jane (4:11)
Ocean (5:11)
All Tomorrow's Parties (5:52)
Review: Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Doug Yule, Maureen Tucker and - a little later - Nico broke the mould with their efforts as The Velvet Underground. The Andy Warhol-managed and produced cult rock icons helped lay the foundations for New Wave and punk about a decade before either sound really started to make inroads in any circles, let alone commercial ones. And, listening back to any of their records now, the music itself isn't just a significant bookmark theoretically: it all still sounds incredible today.
Todd Haynes' highly recommendable documentary charts at least some of that story in a commendable way, more so when you consider it arrived around 50 years after the original lineup disbanded. Using interviews with surviving members Cale and Tucker, alongside archive footage, music and other material, it paints a vivid portrait of an equally vivid band. With tracks by them in question, Bo Diddley, The Primitives and The Diablos, this OST helps colour that picture, and era, properly.
Review: For Your Pleasure was Roxy Music's second album, and the last to feature Brian Eno before he sprang off into his illustrious career in ambient and experimental electronic music. Released in 1973, it found the band able to spend more time in the studio experimenting with their sound, which results in some unique ingredients not found elsewhere in Bryan Ferry's band's legacy. From the surrealist phasing treatment on the end of 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' to tape loop effects applied elsewhere, it's an adventurous peak of early 70s rock, now lovingly remastered at half-speed for your audiophile pleasure.
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