Love Minus Zero/No Limit

Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero

Top Drawer - Song of a Sinner

Recently I bought the "Forge your own chains" compilation, on the Stones Throw sub-label Now Again. With that I got myself a nice record, but it also meant that I bought Top Drawers - Song of Sinner on vinyl, and that kind of made my week. There is not a lot to find about either the band or the song, but the sleeve tells a nice story about it:

The Top Drawers are one of the most perplexing of psychedelic ensembles. Their sole offering Solid Oak hints at sly sense of humor and forces those collectors silly enough to list this album in their Ebay searches to endure listing after listing wooden dressers and cabinets. The band recorded at Fultz Recording Studio (the same studio responsible for a slew of Kentucky fink and soul singles, notably the Aristocrats Organization's "Don't Go"), yet there is no indication of whether the band hailed from Kentucky or Southern Ohio. The album was repressed in the early 1980's, yet, an Akarma reissue notwithstanding, none of the band's original members have ever surfaced to explain why they, in the introductory track to an album or rural hard rock with garagey edges, recorded an epic psychedelic number that flirts with perfection.
Steven Geary, the writer of this track and presumably the vocalist, sings with an angelic tone, on contrast to his sinner's lament. The band remain understated, letting their powerful vamp and John Baker's tasteful guitar solo take the front stage. It is our hope that by including this song here, the Top Drawer will somehow take notice of the attention afforded their magnificent "Song of a Sinner" and explain how a group of early twenty-somethings in the middle of America could conjure up such a hair-raising, psychedelic masterpiece-and then vanish, without a trace.

Top Drawer - Song of a sinner

Think Twice

The original and some high level sampling
Donald Byrd - Think Twice
The Detroit Experiment - Think Twice

Underground Resistance - Transition

Probably one of the most inspiring songs I know. Listen the track and follow the lyrics.

Underground Resistance - Transition

Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears and Blood

Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick. James Brown cited him as one of the originators of funk.

While listening to the music, it's worth the time reading his wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti

Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears and Blood
http://www.mediafire.com/?qjymoqdzyu1

Ofcourse, if you like it, do not only download your sorry ass off, but also buy music. This for example, is possible here. It takes more effort, but in the end there's nothing as satisfying as seeing a nice 12" doing it's job.

Funkadelic - You'll like it too

Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.

Funkadelic - You'll like it too

The Overton Berry Trio - Hey Jude

Beatles cover,
Just a link today,

http://www.mediafire.com/?wyjtmt4ymgj

The Chakachas - Jungle Fever (1970)

Although they issued numerous recordings, they are best remembered as a one-hit wonder for their hit disco single "Jungle Fever" which sold over a million copies in the U.S. and reached #8. In the UK it fared less well: despite some airplay soon after release it was later banned by the BBC, which took exception to the song's moaning and heavy breathing, first by a woman and later by a man.

Aii, que fievre,

The Chakachas - Jungle Fever
http://www.mediafire.com/?zjw4nzzljzz

Maze - Twilight

Maze - Twilight
http://www.mediafire.com/?mztm3gnwzry

War

War is een jaren zeventig Amerikaans funk bandje uit California. "Although War's lyrics are often socio-political in nature, their music usually had a laid-back, California funk vibe."



Low Rider
http://www.mediafire.com/?u15no0gjmnk
Galaxy
http://www.mediafire.com/?om0yetwimul

Feel like making love, Bob James

Op verzoek, van het album One
http://www.mediafire.com/?zz1og00yzn2

Goodnight Ladies

Ok. Als er iemand cool was in zijn jonge jaren dan is het Lou Reed. Begon ooit met de Velvet Underground met het maken van zeer vooruitstrevende, psychedelische, met drugs doordrenkte muziek (tip: album Velvet Underground & Nico) maar ging later vanwege een ruzie om het meisje (John Cale won) solo verder.

Hierbij ondersteund door David Bowie werd Lou Reed een Rock & Roll icoon, totaal afwijkend van het eerdere geleverde werk kwamen ze met het album Transformer. Commercieel en toegankelijk, maar zonder houdbaarheidsdatum.

En Goodnight Ladies? Die is gewoon cool,

Goodnight Ladies
http://www.mediafire.com/?zmjjzmnenm5

Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder (1940 - nog steeds) is de Italiaanse vocoderkoning. Groots producer. Schreef o.a. voor Donna Summer, Blondie, Irene Cara, Miami Sound Machine, David Bowie, Chaka Kahn en Debarge, heeft ooit nog aan een eigen auto heeft gewerkt (de Cizeta-Moroder V16T) en heeft vele soundtracks van al dan niet geheel slechte films op zijn naam staan. Vandaag in de spotlight; Midnight Expresssss. Het betreft hier het nummer (ipv de gehele soundtrack), en de instrumentale versie.

Uitgekomen in 1978 en gecomponeerd/geproduceerd in een studio die waarschijnlijk alleen Moroder zelf begreep. Het nummer is een typische filmsoundtrack. Beelden zijn dan ook niet nodig, je begrijpt de scene met de muziek alleen. Moroder lijkt het electronische familielid van Bob James.

Of Midnight Express het beste is wat Moroder ooit geschreven heeft zullen de meningen over verschillen, maar in 1978 was hij zijn tijd heel heel heel erg vooruit.

Midnight Express
http://www.mediafire.com/?ieigdnyjwhg