Mittwoch, 31. August 2011

#332 - Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic

An early Aerosmith album, but you can already hear the roots of their trademark sound. Not a great album, there are some nice fresh songs, but also some rather bland rock standard material.

Dienstag, 30. August 2011

#331 - Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert

Oh, another jazz album, but wait! This is jazz I can live with. An ascetic live album containing a piano period. Inspirational harmonies, freely flowing, jazzy, yet always pleasing and understandable. A great piano album.

Mittwoch, 17. August 2011

#330 - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

A very large album with songs ranging from the rather plain typical Zep blues to exotic and interesting songs like the famous "Kashmir".

Dienstag, 16. August 2011

#329 - Neu - Neu! 75

Two times three is six. Six tracks divided in two groups, the first three being very good atmospheric ambient songs, sometimes reminding of Sigur Ros, the latter three are much more rhythmic and less captivating.

Donnerstag, 11. August 2011

#328 - The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy

A rough punk album with some neat riffs and melodic choruses, but also with some rather plain songs.

#327 - Brian Eno - Another Green World

An album with different impressions. Partly a rather boring mixture between ambient sounds and pop songs, partly neat naive pop songs, partly atmospheric ambient sounds.

Dienstag, 9. August 2011

#326 - Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel

A pleasant but bland country rock album, no edges, nothing outstanding.

#325 - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Hard to describe this album. There are poppy elements, soundscapes and dark jazzy parts, combined with vocals ranging from balladesque to dadaistic. An interesting album that does not go into the ear, but it contains a lot and rewards an open listen.

#324 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread

A sunny, relaxing reggae album with the super hit "No woman, no cry" in its not so well known original version. The more famous live version sounds more refined and conveys the feelings better. There are no other hits or especially strong songs on this album, but they aren't weak either, 8 more pleasant and great sounding reggae songs.

#323 - Randy Newman - Good Old Boys

Another album by Randy Newman filled with perfect buddy songs. Apart from any lyrical changes there is no audible development in his songs, they're still the perfect accompaniment for Toy Story xy and any other purely nonsexual close buddy relationship.

#322 - Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

A pleasant but unsurprising album that wanders between rock and pop and includes many different styles, but there are no strong songs on it.

Montag, 8. August 2011

#321 - Gene Clark - No Other

A lush and rich rock pop album which shows hints of different styles and sounds very pleasing while never really gripping me.

#320 - George Jones - The Grand Tour

A country album that sounds great as far as country goes, but since I don't like country that much, it didn't do very much for me.

#319 - Neil Young - On The Beach

A rather electric rock album (relatively to what I'm used to) by Neil Young with nice sounding songs. There's a little blues, but not so much that it strains me. No real highlight here, but it flows by nicely.

#318 - 10CC - Sheet Music

A relaxed album with poppy rock songs often flirting with reggae. No hard edges on this one, but also no big impact.