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Thursday, 7 April 2011
NME / Q Mag - Best British Albums Ever
NME 100 Greatest British Albums Ever! - 2006
1. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
2. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
3. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
4. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks…
5. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
6. Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
7. Pulp – Different Class
8. The Clash – London Calling
9. The Beatles – Revolver
10. The Libertines – Up The Bracket
11. Radiohead – The Bends
12. The Specials – The Specials
13. The Verve – A Northern Soul
14. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
15. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
16. Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebles
17. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
18. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
19. The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
20. The Beatles – Rubber Soul
21. Muse – Absolution
22. Super Furry Animals – Radiator
23. New Order – Technique
24. Pet Shop Boys – Please
25. The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society
26. The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow
27. Pj Harvey – Dry
28. Nick Drake – Bryter Later
29. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
30. Suede – Suede
complete Top 100
Q Mag – 50 Best British Albums Ever! (2004)
1. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks – Here’s The Sex Pistols
4. Radiohead – Ok Computer
5. The Clash – London Calling
6. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust….
7. The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
8. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
9. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
10. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
11. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
12. Blur – Park Life
13. Primal Scream - Screamadellica
14. Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
15. The Specials – The Specials
16. Queen – A Night At The Opera
17. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
18. The Who – My Generation
19. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
20. The Jam – All Mod Cons
21. The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
22. Joy Division – Closer
23. Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
24. Happy Mondays – Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches
25. Nick Drake – Bryter Later
26. The Coral – Magic And Loss
27. John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
28. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
29. Prodigy – Music For A Jilted Generation
30. Pulp – Different Class
complete Top 50
1. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
2. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
3. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
4. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks…
5. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
6. Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
7. Pulp – Different Class
8. The Clash – London Calling
9. The Beatles – Revolver
10. The Libertines – Up The Bracket
11. Radiohead – The Bends
12. The Specials – The Specials
13. The Verve – A Northern Soul
14. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
15. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
16. Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebles
17. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
18. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
19. The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
20. The Beatles – Rubber Soul
21. Muse – Absolution
22. Super Furry Animals – Radiator
23. New Order – Technique
24. Pet Shop Boys – Please
25. The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society
26. The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow
27. Pj Harvey – Dry
28. Nick Drake – Bryter Later
29. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
30. Suede – Suede
complete Top 100
Q Mag – 50 Best British Albums Ever! (2004)
1. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks – Here’s The Sex Pistols
4. Radiohead – Ok Computer
5. The Clash – London Calling
6. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust….
7. The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
8. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
9. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
10. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
11. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
12. Blur – Park Life
13. Primal Scream - Screamadellica
14. Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
15. The Specials – The Specials
16. Queen – A Night At The Opera
17. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
18. The Who – My Generation
19. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
20. The Jam – All Mod Cons
21. The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
22. Joy Division – Closer
23. Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
24. Happy Mondays – Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches
25. Nick Drake – Bryter Later
26. The Coral – Magic And Loss
27. John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
28. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
29. Prodigy – Music For A Jilted Generation
30. Pulp – Different Class
complete Top 50
Roadburn Festival 2011 Sampler Stream
Shrinebuilder - Solar Benediction
White Hills - Dead
Sabbath Assembly - Hymn Of Consecration
Sunn O))) - Big Church
Alcest - Écailles De Lune, Part I
Ghost - Elizabeth
Black Math Horseman - Torment Of The Metals
Menace Ruine - One Too Many
Scorn - LT 94
Wardruna - Heimta Thurs
Stone Axe - There'd Be Days
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
KEXP Documentaries: “Sirens of Jazz” ‒ Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is possibly the most famous female jazz singer of all. Though her voice ranged only about an octave, and she couldn’t read a note of music, Billie Holiday is hailed as one of the greatest musicians of all time for her interpretations of the songs. She was a storyteller. In life she was both tragic and triumphant. And her music has this vibrancy, this truth that makes her effective and memorable.
Her childhood was brutal, and by 14 she was jailed for prostitution. As a teenager she went to an audition intending to dance for money, but at the last minute the piano player suggested she try singing, and she brought the house down. She cut her first record with Benny Goodman at age 18. Throughout her life, Billie battled with heroin addiction and depression. And the media exploited her as a trainwreck. But it’s evident that Billie Holiday was intelligent, strong and sensitive. She kept going despite everything and recorded up until her death at age 44. She died handcuffed to a hospital bed, under arrest for narcotics possession. In her heyday she wore long white gowns and a gardenia in her hair. She’s quoted as saying “I’d wear the white dresses, and the white gardenia in my hair, and then they would bring me the white junk.”
Whether you view her as tragic or triumphant, Billie Holiday’s music is timeless and will live long past the rest of us.
Listen
HERE
(A'Pathway' RE:Post)
Efterklang – An Island (a film by Vincent Moon)
In August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon and Efterklang‘s 8 piece-live band met up on an island off the Danish coast. The objective was to shoot a film. A film with the same length as an album, and a film full of performances, experiments and collaborations. Over an intense period of 4 days Efterklang collaborated with more than 200 local musicians, kids and their own parents, creating new performances and interpretations of songs from their album Magic Chairs (4AD, Rumraket 2010).
It was all filmed by Vincent Moon who same time conducted several filmic and musical experiments with Efterklang as his dedicated playmates. (An Island)
only online for one week!
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Atheism's aesthetic of enchantment
As an Oxford undergraduate in the early 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley developed an argument for the non-existence of God. He entitled it The Necessity of Atheism, and 2011 is the bicentenary of his being expelled from the university for printing it.
The argument itself is simple. If you have seen or heard God, then you must believe in God. If you haven't, then the only possible reasons to believe in God are reasonable argument or the testimony of others. The main argument given for believing in a deity – that the universe must have had a first cause – is not persuasive because there is no reason to believe either that the universe must have had a first cause or that this cause, if it existed, was a deity. The testimony of others – a third-rate source of knowledge in any case – is invariably contrary to reason. This is not least because it reports God as commanding belief, which would be irrational of God, given that belief is involuntary and not an act of will. So there is no reason to believe in God.
It is not a particularly shocking argument these days, but remembering this Shelley anniversary is important for other reasons.
Atheists today are too often castigated as materialistic calculators whose lack of spirituality sucks their universe empty of all beauty. Remembering Shelley's atheism gives us an opportunity to counter this stereotype and to reflect on the aesthetic of enchantment with which a non-theistic world-view can be associated. The works of Shelley join the novels, poems, songs, sculptures, paintings, architecture and plays of generations of godless artists in exposing the straw man of the desiccated rationalist for what it is, and showcasing a humanist vision of life.
More timely is a remembrance of the social and political consequences of Shelley's argument. In The Necessity of Atheism he reminds us of the mistake that people make when they think that "belief is an act of volition, in consequence of which it may be regulated by the mind" and the way that "continuing this mistake they have attached a degree of criminality to disbelief of which in its nature it is incapable". We cannot pillory someone for their disbelief – it is not an area in which choice operates.
Today in Britain, non-religious people are not thrown out of universities because they don't believe in God, but in other parts of the world many suffer this fate – and worse. There are still places where it is illegal to declare yourself as non-religious on your identity papers or official records.
One of the most upsetting stories I was ever told was by a young humanist from Saudi Arabia who grew up so frightened of what would happen if he spoke out loud about his beliefs to another person that the only outlet for his thoughts was to go on long walks away from all people, and speak his mind only to the air. In fact, he never spoke to another human being about his most fundamental beliefs until coming to Britain in his late 20s, and experiencing then for the first time what those of us who live in freedom take for granted: the joyful dynamic of testing and developing our own ideas in conversation and dialogue with others.
In this country the blasphemy laws have been abolished, but elsewhere our fellow men and women face death for speaking and thinking freely. Remembering Shelley – so eloquent himself on the subject of human solidarity – provides a dynamic call for us to address these injustices internationally.
Andrew Copson @'The Guardian'
(Thanx Luke!)
The argument itself is simple. If you have seen or heard God, then you must believe in God. If you haven't, then the only possible reasons to believe in God are reasonable argument or the testimony of others. The main argument given for believing in a deity – that the universe must have had a first cause – is not persuasive because there is no reason to believe either that the universe must have had a first cause or that this cause, if it existed, was a deity. The testimony of others – a third-rate source of knowledge in any case – is invariably contrary to reason. This is not least because it reports God as commanding belief, which would be irrational of God, given that belief is involuntary and not an act of will. So there is no reason to believe in God.
It is not a particularly shocking argument these days, but remembering this Shelley anniversary is important for other reasons.
Atheists today are too often castigated as materialistic calculators whose lack of spirituality sucks their universe empty of all beauty. Remembering Shelley's atheism gives us an opportunity to counter this stereotype and to reflect on the aesthetic of enchantment with which a non-theistic world-view can be associated. The works of Shelley join the novels, poems, songs, sculptures, paintings, architecture and plays of generations of godless artists in exposing the straw man of the desiccated rationalist for what it is, and showcasing a humanist vision of life.
More timely is a remembrance of the social and political consequences of Shelley's argument. In The Necessity of Atheism he reminds us of the mistake that people make when they think that "belief is an act of volition, in consequence of which it may be regulated by the mind" and the way that "continuing this mistake they have attached a degree of criminality to disbelief of which in its nature it is incapable". We cannot pillory someone for their disbelief – it is not an area in which choice operates.
Today in Britain, non-religious people are not thrown out of universities because they don't believe in God, but in other parts of the world many suffer this fate – and worse. There are still places where it is illegal to declare yourself as non-religious on your identity papers or official records.
One of the most upsetting stories I was ever told was by a young humanist from Saudi Arabia who grew up so frightened of what would happen if he spoke out loud about his beliefs to another person that the only outlet for his thoughts was to go on long walks away from all people, and speak his mind only to the air. In fact, he never spoke to another human being about his most fundamental beliefs until coming to Britain in his late 20s, and experiencing then for the first time what those of us who live in freedom take for granted: the joyful dynamic of testing and developing our own ideas in conversation and dialogue with others.
In this country the blasphemy laws have been abolished, but elsewhere our fellow men and women face death for speaking and thinking freely. Remembering Shelley – so eloquent himself on the subject of human solidarity – provides a dynamic call for us to address these injustices internationally.
Andrew Copson @'The Guardian'
(Thanx Luke!)
Remember Marvin Gaye (Documentary)
In 1981, Marvin Gaye, the all time champion of soul music, took refuge in Ostend, a little town located on the Belgian coast. Marvin’s choice to lay anchor in Ostend was totally unexpected, not to say incredible. On the fact of it, there was no reason for this charismatic character to come and live in the home town of famous Belgian impressionistic painter James Ensor.
Marvin nevertheless remained in Ostend for nearly two years. He went back to the States to receive a Grammy Award for his latest album “Sexual Healing”. He died in Los Angeles on 1 April 1984, shot dead at home by his own father, a clergyman. Twenty years after the making of a first 29 minute film entitled “Marvin Gaye Transit Ostend”, I decided to make this second documentary film. It’s my way of bringing to life the picture Marvin Gaye dedicated to me:
“To Richard, From my heart, I thank you for legitimising my artist soul, and above all, I thank you my artist friend for making me immortal”.
Thanks to the use of new technology, unedited rushes and interviews in Ostend of this great American singer were used to make “Remember Marvin Gaye” a poignant and exceptional testimony on this genius of Rhythm and Blues music, who died tragically at the age of 44.
(Richard Olivier - writer 6 director)
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Marvin nevertheless remained in Ostend for nearly two years. He went back to the States to receive a Grammy Award for his latest album “Sexual Healing”. He died in Los Angeles on 1 April 1984, shot dead at home by his own father, a clergyman. Twenty years after the making of a first 29 minute film entitled “Marvin Gaye Transit Ostend”, I decided to make this second documentary film. It’s my way of bringing to life the picture Marvin Gaye dedicated to me:
“To Richard, From my heart, I thank you for legitimising my artist soul, and above all, I thank you my artist friend for making me immortal”.
Thanks to the use of new technology, unedited rushes and interviews in Ostend of this great American singer were used to make “Remember Marvin Gaye” a poignant and exceptional testimony on this genius of Rhythm and Blues music, who died tragically at the age of 44.
(Richard Olivier - writer 6 director)
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