Saturday, January 28, 2012
Top Tens and some that maybe shoulda been
Don Allred's P&J 2011 plus:
main comments https://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/2012/01/dirty-water-sandwich-some-p-comments.html & below, but almost listed Boston Spaceship's Let It Beard: shameless Midwestern Anglophilia from Bob Pollard & crew, frontloaded with a few throat-clearing gob-duds (get 'em out of the way, thanks Bob) and then steadily stirring up a trenchant tempest in ye beardmug, spinning me toward Mott The Hoople's Brain Capers (complement complement complement) Trombone Shorty has been known to imply or me to infer that jazz is just part of his job, and he can handle it, period. But the jazz on For True has more immediately gratifying purple and gold candy skull brainiac head rush than the pop tracks, as nicely flashy and guest starry as those can be (big deal) Another killer EP in the guise of a good album (sure are a lot of those).
Hey why wasn't this on there? (more than a certain number of well-known covers makes me uncertain)| 1 | (various artists), Dirty Water 2: More Birth of Punk Attitude Year Zero | Points: 10 |
| 2 | Lydia Loveless, Indestructible Machine Bloodshot | Points: 10 |
| 3 | David Murray Cuban Ensemble, Play Nat King Cole en Espanol Motéma | Points: 10 |
| 4 | (various artists), Live From the Old Town School Old Town School Recordings | Points: 10 |
| 5 | Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Telesterion Rodriguez Lopez Productions | Points: 10 |
| 6 | tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l 4AD | Points: 10 |
| 7 | (various artists), Golden Beirut: New Sounds From Lebanon Out Here | Points: 10 |
| 8 | (various artists), Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie 429 | Points: 10 |
| 9 | Emperor X, Western Teleport Bar/None | Points: 10 |
| 10 | Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella/Roc Nation | Points: 10 |
Singles | ||
| 1 | Sonny Rollins (ft Ornette Coleman), "Sonnymoon for Two" Emarcy | |
| 2 | Buddy Miller (ft. Lee Ann Womack), "Meds" New West | |
| 3 | John Doe, "Moonbeam" Yep Roc | |
| 4 | DJ Shadow, "Give Back the Nights" Roc-a-Fella | |
| 5 | Tom Waits, "Hell Broke Luce" Anti | |
| 6 | Lady Gaga (ft. Clarence Clemons), "The Edge of Glory" Interscope | |
| 7 | Wolves in the Throne Room, "Woodland Cathedral" Southern Lord | |
| 8 | John Doe, "Peggy Sue Got Married" Hear | |
| 9 | They Might Be Giants, "The Lady and the Tiger" Idlewild | |
| 10 | Adele, "Rolling in the Deep" Columbia/XL | |
The Jolly Boys, Great Expectation The Jolly Boys are one of the first and last leading bands playing mento, the 50s style sometimes marketed as "Jamaican calypso", and while it does have the sassy, party hearty social commentary of calypso (not always to the liking of politicians, police and thieves), the Jolly Boys' mento rolls the chunky, butt-thumping agility of homely percussion, banjos and guitars (a rougher cousin of the pre-Beatles and their budding generation's early skiffle influences). The social commentary's mostly first person on this album, well-chosen covers provide,explicit and implied narrative, via Albert Minott's eloquent growl. Winehouse's "Rehab" is the centerpiece, pumping into Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing","You Can't Always Get What You Want", and increasingly less obvious choices, as "Ring of Fire"," Hanging on the Telephone", "Blue Monday", " Perfect Day" and "The Passenger" get swept and bounced along. They don't sound so old, but old enough to know themselves, their hopes, fears and appetites pretty well. Hell, even "Riders in the Storm" seems to fit, I think. Some good originals and Jamaican covers too.
¶ 1/28/2012
