Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

My Top 10 looks a bit like this, right now;

1
Lindsey Buckingham
Under the Skin
2
Solomon Burke
Nashville
3
Bob Dylan
Modern Times
4
Elton John
The Captain & The Kid
5
Paul Simon
Surprise
6
The Black Crowes
The Lost Crowes
7
Iron Maiden
A Matter of Life and Death
8
Scissor Sisters
Ta-Dah
9
Prince
3121
10
Jerry Lee Lewis
Last Man Standing

stones_serb Wrote:
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> Sorry,what does NRBQ stand for?You got me
> interested in that album

New Rhythm & Blues Quartet - but they have always just been known as NRBQ since their 1969 inception. A remarkable band, although without longtime axeman Al Anderson (who quit a few years ago), I don't think they are quite the act they used to be. Often referred to as the best bar band of all time.... They have a spate of live and studio albums that have gone in and out of circulation. I also have collected many fine boots of theirs....

StonesTod Wrote:
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> stones_serb Wrote:
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> >
> > Sorry,what does NRBQ stand for?You got me
> > interested in that album
>
> New Rhythm & Blues Quartet - but they have always
> just been known as NRBQ since their 1969
> inception. A remarkable band, although without
> longtime axeman Al Anderson (who quit a few years
> ago), I don't think they are quite the act they
> used to be. Often referred to as the best bar band
> of all time.... They have a spate of live and
> studio albums that have gone in and out of
> circulation. I also have collected many fine boots
> of theirs....


thanks for info,I might check them out

One Day It Will Please Us - New York Dolls
Whatever People Say I Am ......... - The Arctic Monkeys

Paris Hilton's Stars are Blind



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Oh My God !!

Bob Dylan - Modern Times
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

modern times and seeger sessions come to mind...
i feel like an old fogey listing those though...

Easily....

Stadium Arcadium... not only the best of 2006 but so far probably the best album of the new millenium...

Although it's not perfect. Had they reduced it to a 15 or 16 song single CD instead of the ambitious 2-CDs it would be among the greatest albums ever recorded.



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boston2006 Wrote:
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> Oh My God !!

Is that the band or the album name? or both?

StonesTod Wrote:
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> stones_serb Wrote:
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> >
> > Sorry,what does NRBQ stand for?You got me
> > interested in that album
>
> New Rhythm & Blues Quartet - but they have always
> just been known as NRBQ since their 1969
> inception. A remarkable band, although without
> longtime axeman Al Anderson (who quit a few years
> ago), I don't think they are quite the act they
> used to be. Often referred to as the best bar band
> of all time.... They have a spate of live and
> studio albums that have gone in and out of
> circulation. I also have collected many fine boots
> of theirs....

You are right...except they began as a five-piece known as the New Rhythm and Blues Quintet.

The original line-up (Terry Adams, keyboard, Joey Spampinato, bass, Steve Ferguson, guitar, Tom Staley, drums and Frank Gadler vocals) plays on the Ludlow Garage 1970 album.

It's a revelation. I got on the bus during the the "classic line-up" period (Adams, Spampinato, Al Anderson on guitar, and Tom Ardolino on drums) and always viewed the earlier work as a prelude to greatness. Wrong.

The Ludlow Garage album demonstrates not only the talents of Ferguson (whom Anderson admired and emulated) but how the sound--and the vision--of NRBQ were already fully formed and in bloom during those early years.

As a fan I've never cared for the "best bar band" tag. It speaks more to the venues they've played in than their actual ability. Yes, they do their share of covers, and on Ludlow Garage 1970 you'll hear tunes originally done by Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Hank Ballard...but show me another band that also covers Sun Ra. It's on there.

I'll admit there's a little strangeness here and there that takes some getting used to. But open your mind, and give it a listen. You'll find yourself moved in a way that does your heart a lot of good.

How often do you hear music that just makes you SMILE? Not because of a funny lyric, but because it makes you feel that good? There's an instrumental on this album called "Goofus" that does it to me every time...



Ludlow Garage 1970--Best album of 2006. By a country mile.



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> Ludlow Garage 1970--Best album of 2006. By a
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i'm sure its great and i want it but its clearly not the best album of 2006..its from 1970..i mean come on! it might be the best "reissue" or the best album of 1970 but not the best album of 2006

It's not a reissue. It's never been released before this year.



And is it hard for someone on a Rolling Stones board to conceive that music recorded in 1970 would be better than something created in 2006?



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Stones
Audioslave
RHCP
Velvet Revolver
Foo Fighters

loog droog Wrote:
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> It's not a reissue. It's never been released
> before this year.
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> And is it hard for someone on a Rolling Stones
> board to conceive that music recorded in 1970
> would be better than something created in 2006?


"albums of the year 2006" means new albums.. the issue in my opinion has little to do with music from 1970 being better than music from 2006

the new caruso record of him singing opera from the 1920s is not eligible for album of the year honors

i love nrbq but albums from 36 years ago released then or not are not considered



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but whatever to each his own...

i'll try and get a copy of the nrbq..sounds killer

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albums from 36 years ago released
> then or not are not considered

Actually, I'll cite a precedent, and then the defense will rest.

In 1975 Rolling Stone named "The Basement Tapes" by Bob Dylan & The Band as one of the Best Albums of the Year, even though it was recorded in 1967.


It doesn't matter. Lists don't matter. The thing is to check out Ludlow. Great, great music put together in a wonderful package.


I also liked Modern Times...but for a new album, it sounded pretty OLD!

Justin Timberlake. FutureSex/love Sounds............the album is epic and will change dance music/pop.............and by the way watch Timberlake's smoking performance of "What Goes Around"....and you know'll now why The Glimmer Twins let him perform with them.......its jaw dropping good.........



The Chili Peppers........Stadium Arcadium avery close second.

Modern Times.

My top 20 (out of ~60 new ones I've heard this year):

1. Springsteen, Bruce - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
2. Toure, Ali Farka - Savane
3. Burdon, Eric - Soul Of A Man
4. Kristofferson, Kris - This Old Road
5. King, Chris Thomas - Rise
6. Harper, Ben - Both Sides Of The Gun
7. Clapton, Eric / Cale, J.J. - The Road To Escondido
8. Dr. John - Mercernary
9. Davis, Guy - Skunkmello
10. Cash, Johnny - American V: A Hundred Highways
11. Neville, Aaron - Bring It On Home: The Soul Classics
12. Wood Brothers, The - Ways Not To Lose
13. Morrison, Van - Pay The Devil
14. Holmes, Jimmy "Duck" - Back To Bentonia
15. Elliott, Ramblin' Jack - I Stand Alone
16. Phelps, Kelly Joe - Tunesmith Retrofit
17. Knopfler, Mark / Harris, Emmylou - All The Roadrunning
18. Cephas, John / Wiggins, Phil - Shoulder To Shoulder
19. John, Elton - The Captain & The Kid
20. Dylan, Bob - Modern Times

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Agreed.
Have people forgotten that ABB was released in 2005?

JumpingKentFlash

Golden Smog - 'Another Fine Day'

Tim O'Reagan - 'Tim O'Reagan'

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - 'The Ballad Of Broken Seas'

The Raconteurs - 'Broken Boy Soldiers'

Johnny Cash - 'American V'

The Arctic Monkeys - 'Whatever People Say I Am'

Bob Dylan - 'Modern Times'

The Arctic Monkeys - 'Whatever People Say I Am'
Bob Dylan - 'Modern Times'
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas'
The Fratellis - 'Costello Music'

stoned_in_dc Wrote:
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> modern times and seeger sessions come to mind...
> i feel like an old fogey listing those though...


Dont worry. I'll stand right behind you and back you up, son....

Bob Dylan: "Modern Times"
Tom Waits: "Orphans"
Jerry Lee Lewis: "Last Man Standing"
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins: "Rabbit Fur Coat"

Tha-tha-that's all folks ;-) (Damn - don't think I've listened to any more new music this year.....and they're a hardly newcomers)

modern times and all the roadrunning

Lot of concensus here (Raconteurs, Killers, Dylan, etc.)

Anyone pleased with the new Waits album, "Orphans"? Haven't heard it yet.

Blondie Chaplin - Between Us
Bernard Fowler - Friends With Privileges

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> Anyone pleased with the new Waits album,
> "Orphans"? Haven't heard it yet.


Go buy it, you won't be disappointed.