Hindustan Times
It’s not often that I think of choosing an album by Moby to listen to but when I do, it is usually Play, his hit album from 1999 that has a hint of melancholia but is otherwise quite upbeat electronica. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Animal Rights, Berlin concert, DJs, Download, electronic music, electronica, Find My Baby, Herman Melville, Honey, Hotel, Ian Curtis, Joy Malcolm, June 2009, mainstream music market, Moby, Moby albums—18, Neil Young’s Helpless, New Dawn Fades, New Order, Play, popular tracks, post-punk legends, repertoire of songs, Richard Melville Hall, Wait for Me, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Jazz legend Duke Ellington, who’s credited with many interesting quotes on jazz, blues and music critics is believed to have once said: “There are two kinds of music. Good music and the other kind.” But what’s good and what’s the other kind is entirely a matter of individual taste. Mentioning Ellington’s quote, a recent article in Uncut magazine said perhaps The Beatles are one those rare bands on whom there is a consensus. Everybody thinks The Beatles made great music.
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(5 votes, average: 3.2 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged bittersweet, Boys And Girls In America, Buckley’s dark, CD, complimentary CD, Download Central, Duke Ellington, Ellington, Fairport Convention, favourite rockstar, Good music, Grace, Jazz legend, Jeff Buckley, McCartney, Mick Jagger, new music, Rolling Stones, Ryan Adam, Soft Machine, The Beatles, The Dirty South, The Texas-Jerusalem, Uncut magazine, Wyatt
Ever since last week when I first heard Pearl Jam’s Backspacer, their newest album, I’ve been obsessively listening to it over and over again. It’s a mighty fine album and if you read the review in last Saturday’s Rock ’n’ Roll Circus in Hindustan Times by my colleague Indrajit Hazra you’ll know what I mean. Backspacer is a whopper; a cracker of an album from the band. Pearl Jam has been around for nearly 20 years, much longer than what many bands take to burn out or become their own stupid caricatures—I’m sure you know the ones I’m talking about.
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(5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged bands, Bitches Brew, British band Jethro Tull, caricatures, cassettes, cds, cracker, Down In The Groove, Download Central, Dylan, Gleason, Grateful Dead show, Miles Davis, Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam’s Backspacer, physical copies, Reveal, Rock ’n’ Roll Circus, Rolling Stones, Saved, Sgt. Pepper, Shot of Love, The Beatles, Traffic’s Shootout At The Fantasy Factory, Van Morrison
There were two reasons why I picked up an album a couple of weeks back and they had nothing to do with the music. The first, was the name of the band Dr. Fong & Friends. I liked that. The second, was the name of the album Beethoven of Da Blues. I liked that even more. Dr. Fong is the pseudonym of self-taught American blues musician, Jay Wilfong, and in reality he and his band play a brand of mean rock-infused blues, almost all of it original compositions.
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(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Bandana Blues, Beethoven of Da Blues, blues music, Bonnie Raitt, Candye Kane, Download Central, Dr. Fong & Friends, Eric Clapton, Howlin' Wolf, James Johnson, Janiva Magness, Muddy Waters, Roadhouse podcast, Ruthie Foster, Taylor
I know we’re barely into the tenth month this year and November and December are still left, but 2009 has thus far been such a hyperactive period for music that I couldn’t help writing about the best that I’ve heard till now. It’s not easy to do a list of the best new albums but let me try.
(4 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Album, Animal Collective, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Download, Download Central, Dylan, Hunter, hyperactive, melodious, Morrissey, Pitchforkmedia, playlists, Robert, song, Sonic Youth, The Supersonics
