Progressive bands.

 

 

 

Serrat Joan Manuel Serrat & Miguel Hernandez: Serrat

Wonderful album with lyrics in Catalan. Very enjoyable.

 

Shocking Blue: Dream On Dreamer / Good Time

Shocking Blue: Shocking Blue

Shocking Blue: what a great creative set of songwriters! With a catchy guitar riff borrowed from "Pinball Wizard", this Dutch group had a worldwide hit in late 1969 with "Venus", which was later covered by Bananarama. After that they never had much success outside Europe, but they generated enough hits in enough parts of the world to warrant a compilation on Rhino Records.

 

Snow Patrol SNOW PATROL: Songs for Polarbears [extra tracks]

Snow Patrol are awesome! A post modern Nirvana. Their melodies are superb and they have a big guitar sound. A sweet, noisy, poppy, loud, soft, sad, melodic record.

Rod Stewart Rod Stewart: Human

Rod is back! And sis voice-impact is stronger than ever. Ballad after ballad will bring tears to your eyes; tears of joy! Helmed by executive producer Rob Dickins, a lineup of production pros (including Mark Taylor and Brian Rawlings, the team behind Cher's Believe) keeps the sound polished, yet warm and spacious. Stewart takes on a mature, reflective slate of songs by an array of contemporary writers (including Macy Gray) and a strong cover of Curtis Mayfield's "It Was Love That We Needed."

                                                  Santana: Supernatural

                                                                    Tangerine Dream: Mars Polaris

 

Turtle Island String Quartet: A Night in Tunisia, A Week in DetroitTurtle Island String Quartet 

Composer: Turtle Island String Quartet, Jeff Beal, et al.      Conductor: Neeme Järvi      Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Turtle Island String Quartet

 

                                                           Shaggy: Hotshot Shaggy(Extra tracks)

                                                                         This whole album (Shaggy's fourth one) is a joy to listen to.

Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen: Live in New York City (Live; 2 Discs)

   Various Artists - American Beauty  [Soundtrack] With tracks from Peggy Lee to Elliott Smith to the Who, there's something here every member of a dysfunctional family can enjoy--making this collection the perfect soundtrack for director Sam Mendes's film American Beauty. On "Free to Go," the Folk Implosion offer a gentle coming-of-age tune with a surprisingly infectious beat and the group's unmistakable harmonies.

Tom Waits: Night On Earth - Soundtrack

                            THE WHO      who's next Who's Next [Original Recording Remastered]

One of the best Rock albums of the Seventies - if not all time. Listen at it making windmill air guitars... 

 

    THE WHO     Quadrophenia Quadrophenia [Original Recording Remastered]

                     A shining talisman in Rocks canon. "Tommy can you hear me?"

 

   Yanni: Live At The Acropolis This album captures the unique, trademark sounds only Yanni can produce - both from his early and present years.

Frank Zappa: Broadway The Hard Way Broadway revue-style comic dissection of the contemporary American cultural and political scene, with Frank Zappa naming names - Jimmie Swaggart, Pat Robertson, Oliver North, George Bush and Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms and Michael Jackson - and Ike Willis's Sammy Davis impression. Nasty and funny.

Zwan - Billy Corgan Zwan: Mary Star of the Sea (CD & DVD)

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has reinvented himself with an all-star team of mostly Chicago indie rockers at his side.
Mary Star of the Sea is a great album - a refreshing sound of things to come.

 


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