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JONAH T.
AKA Boney James Old Rivers
Trying my best to keep a positive mental attitude all the time and avoid the vampires of the world.
AKA Boney James Old Rivers
Trying my best to keep a positive mental attitude all the time and avoid the vampires of the world.
- Danger Doom - Mouse & the Mask
So far everything MF Doom does seems to be well proper.
- Jean Claude Vannier -L'Enfanrassasin Des Monches (re-issue)
Responsible for Serge Gainsboug's master work Histoire De Melody Nelson. Please, I would like you to hear this album.
- DJ Enki & DJ Platurn - Blend-A-Pella
From the Oakland Faders mosse. A delightful mix of remixed wonderment - it would be your pleasure if you listened to this little gem.
- Ennio Morricone - Morricone Kill
Spaghetti western magic from the maestro, dangerous, enchanting, magical.
- Da Ali G Show - DA Compleet Second Seazon
If you haven't checked out Ali G as of yet, then it is quite possible that we're taking a nap, or had some other business to attend to-which of course is excusable, but please, if you would…
- J-Dilla - Donuts
One of the greatest, always on point; so buy this record and rest in peace, JayDee.
- Steve Spacek - Spaceshift
Hey man, yeah man, listen man, hey yeah, right on!
- Darondo - Let My People Go
Local Oakland star of the seventies. Very soulful, funky, etc. etc. - Yamasuki Singers -Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki (remastered)
Like Edan said "this record is better than a lot of other records".
- F. for Fake by Orson Welles
The author, the painter, the filmmaker - All Fakes.
Tip: Love yourself, try your best to be kind to others, no backstabbing and do the things in life that make you the happiest.
ALEX FRATAR
Berkeley Longhair.
- Kanye West - Late Registration
Sounds nice. - Crash DVD
Whoa.
- Aimee Mann -The Forgotten Arm
A lil' girly, but the girl can wail.
- Motown Remixed - various artists
Also nice.
- Amadou & Mariam -Dimanche a Bamako
One of those; "if you like Buena Vista Social Club...", you'll like this one
Tip: Oakland Faders, cuz they're nice.
EMILY ROSE BOSEWELL
I work @ Amoeba.
- Mysterious Skin DVD
One of the most honest films I have seen all year.
- Nirvana Box Set
- Motorcycle Diaries DVD
"Let the world change you, and you can change the world." - Che Guevara
- Ani Difranco - Live at Carnegie Hall 04/06/02
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
- Cat Power - The Greatest
- Bukowski: Born Into This DVD
JASON MORGAN
When I wasn't watching T.V. programming, I enjoyed these 5 things:
- Time Flys - Fly
- Gris Gris - For the Season
- Paul McCartney - Chaos & Creation
- Rolling Stones - Bigger Bang
- The Getaway - Deluxe Edition DVD
HEATHER MEROVICH
Used rock/cashier/all-around good time.
- Shooting at Unarmed Men - self-titled
Shitrock is back! Bass player from Mclusky finds new band/new jams. - Editors - The Back Room
The best new Joy Division yet (besides Interpol)!
- Lovemakers - Times of Romance
Let's go, Oakland! - Against Me! - Searching for a (Rumored) Former Clarity
Fuck Yes! Finally - a contemporary punk band to get excited about!
- Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
A Certain Fabulousness!!
Tip: Green Day - Bullet in a Bible Make Me (gilman demo)
GENE "BEAN" BAE
Berkeley/SF buyer, cross cultural coordinator. Hey kids, let's prep for the SAT's with a round of antonyms. Remember, the antonym of a word is its closest opposite.
- Patti Smith - Horses/Horses vs. Frampton Comes Alive
The best selling live album of all time was (and still is, I think) Frampton Comes Alive. An unbearably schmaltzy production that showcases one man's mostly banal music and made a certain guitar effect the biggest joke in the music world. The 30th anniversary performance of Patti Smith's Horses album was recorded at the 2005 Meltdown Festival in London that Smith curated. It's a faithful yet more passionate reproduction of the original album. Ms. Smith becomes her own muse and gets lost in the music even while making it relevant for the new millennium. Her band stays in sync with her the whole time, running at redline when need be and stepping back tastefully to let her shine as the occasion calls for. A beautiful moment that can be celebrated over and over.
- Orange Juice - The Glasgow School vs. haggis
haggis: [Scottish] a steamed pudding made of finely minced sheep heart, lungs and liver. Orange Juice: [Scottish] pop darling Edwyn Collins's band from the late 70's/early 80's. Finally, all the Postcard Records stuff collected and re-issued. Such beautiful little gems that show the precocious young Edwyn's talent. Flippant and fey, yet utterly classic. Haggis will weigh you down for hours after ingesting, Orange Juice will have you prancing about and singing: "Oh Edwyn, take me to the bridge!"
- Lady Sovereign -Vertically Challenged vs. Ice-T - Original Gangster
A few good rappers came out of eighties "Gangsta Rap," Ice-T was not one of them. I don't know or care whether he was a real South Central "gangsta" or not, but his stiff
as a stiff flow and testosterone heavy rhymes about guns, Ice and getting his hair relaxed got old quick. Lady Sovereign is a 19 year old white girl from the South London ghettos that's too busy with devastatingly fast rhymes spit out in an almost indecipherable urban patois to worry about how much bling she's collecting. the ridiculously lo-fi production (we're talking beats hacked out of Playstations and cell phones) further prove that the S-O-V is a just bit too concerned with making rude new hip-hop and having a good time to bother fronting a tough ghetto image. "Just put on an Adidas hoodie and dance with me." - Gris-Gris - For the Season vs. Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd's the Wall is the last scream of a rock band being crushed under its own weight. even after Syd left, they wrote some good songs, but the Wall is too much. It's everyone else in the band hating the one guy trying so hard to be the captain of an already sinking, almost sunk ship. The Gris-Gris's new album is a more cohesive effort by that group to interpret band leader Greg Ashley's vision of thrift store psychedelia and Natrual Ice fueled hallucinations on life, love, and I think more than one song references masturbation.
- 7 Year Rabbit Cycle - Ache Horns vs. Ministry's With Sympathy
Ministry's first album was not the harsh industrial screed some have come to know and love. All synthesized euphoria and nouveau dance floor decadence, it tried to ignore its origins in the post-industrial late century Chicago milieu it escaped from. 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, on their third album, refuse to bury their heads in the sand the way Al Jourgensen once did and instead come out of Oakland harnessing the angry spirits of the trees and earth and bugs and critters big & small with a seething energy that sounds like it wants to undermine the foundations and topple the buildings that man has built to suppress nature. That may sound kinda hippy-dippy and all, but with two original members of Deerhoof, plus a cast of Bay Area noise punks from similar minded bands like Xiu-Xiu, K.I.T. and the Modern Reveries, expect influences ranging from the avant-garde to ethnic folk to straight up punk rock to be swirling around in this electrified sonic hurricane.
Music tip: Holy craptastic, Batman, for the first time in years, I actually had to edit my list instead of s-t-r-e-t-c-h it out. There's shit tons of good music out there lately, and most of it probably isn't at the iTunes store. So get off the internet and get a life. And check some of this stuff out while you're at it: the new Modey Lemon, the Fire Engines re-issue, As Mercenarias re-issue, Seu Jorge's interpretations of David Bowie, Neung Phak's Korean punk, Dengue Fever's take on Cambodian Rocks, the avant pop of Deerhoof, the hard core free jazz of the Flying Luttenbachers. OK, I'm done. thank you for your time. P.S. best wishes to Michelle Panache and the surviving members of DMBQ, R.I.P. Mana "China" Nishiura.
"Like PLO/ I no surrendo" - M.I.A.
STEVE COUNTRYMAN
"patience with small things
makes perfect a large work"
- Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall;
Only one record made it this time. 'Cause this one made me want to stand up and walk around my kitchen 5 times without any help!!
ALEXIS
AKA Moving to Portland
"Go stuff yourself"
- Jesu - Silver
Sounds like beautiful.
- 2046 - soundtrack
I am sure Nick Brown will miss me playing this over and over and over… Yes I'm sure. Sad.
- Witchcraft - Firewood
At first I liked their old record better, but now they are both tied for first place. - Scout Niblett - Ohia and Shellac
An oldie but goodie, I really wish there were more records like this; a mix of songs.
- Witch - self-titled
I have not heard this yet but Eric says that he thinks that I will like it.
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