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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Made In Japan | 5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
| Siembra | 5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
| Sunday At The Village Vanguard | 5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
| C'est Chic | 5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
| James Brown Live At The Apollo | 5 | 3.46 | +1.54 |
| Head Hunters | 5 | 3.56 | +1.44 |
| Morrison Hotel | 5 | 3.6 | +1.4 |
| Birth Of The Cool | 5 | 3.65 | +1.35 |
| In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | 4 | 2.94 | +1.06 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| British Steel | 1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
| Yank Crime | 1 | 2.69 | -1.69 |
| Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
| Illinois | 2 | 3.49 | -1.49 |
| Rumours | 3 | 4.46 | -1.46 |
| Odelay | 2 | 3.46 | -1.46 |
| Different Class | 2 | 3.42 | -1.42 |
| xx | 2 | 3.37 | -1.37 |
| Fever To Tell | 2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
| Celebrity Skin | 2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
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| Beatles | 4 | 5 | 4.14 |
5-Star Albums (12)
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Parliament
4/5
Excelente experiencia funk!
Iron Butterfly
4/5
good band. Could be classificated as phycodelic?
Michael Jackson
4/5
Great album. Of course, Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough is THE song.
Drive Like Jehu
1/5
Some time of punk? (because of the guy screaming all the time)
John Grant
4/5
Good option for relaxin
Grizzly Bear
3/5
I dont like so much this type of music ... but it is not bad
New Order
3/5
Techno music is not my preference anyway this album is not bad
Love
4/5
Good album but nothing to highlight about it
PJ Harvey
3/5
I dont have so much info about England history in order to understand the album message bu anyway, videos aesthetic is good and sounds well.
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Good Album with Warhol cover art.
Pixies
3/5
NOt easy to listen at least for me.
Herbie Hancock
5/5
Great Album. Something new for the '70s. Hancock still a leader for new music.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Typical us music from the '60. Great band but so listened.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
A singer shouting somethin' all'a rage against the machine, but withour groove ...
Mike Oldfield
4/5
Great album not just my style of music but now iconic for that time.
Screaming Trees
3/5
It is something like this: a tree screaming. Not the type of music that Id like.
Joy Division
3/5
Good band but not exactly my type of music
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Really boring. Not my music style.
James Brown
5/5
A great musician father of the soul.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Sounds well but it is not the type of music that Id like.
The Kinks
4/5
Great '60s band. Not only one more of those times.
Erykah Badu
3/5
Not good not bad.
Eurythmics
4/5
Great band. Leave a couple of songs sounding in our minds.
The xx
2/5
Nothing new for me.
The La's
3/5
nothing new for me listening this.
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Good band. NOt exactly my musical preference, but not bad.
Louis Prima
4/5
old and good music
Taylor Swift
3/5
Great singer of the '90
Digital Underground
2/5
nothing new
Marvin Gaye
4/5
great soul songs. Best alubum
Miles Davis
5/5
Inventions for new music dating 70 years from now. And those are surprising us yet.
B.B. King
4/5
One of the best blues musicians of the history. Love the way he plays guitar and do with the public.
PJ Harvey
2/5
Ive not finished listening the album
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Ian Dury
2/5
'70s music that could be forgotten. Not the type of music Id like.
Spiritualized
2/5
Music that I dont like
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
5/5
I like to hear more of this music but rock n roll of some bands that were rubbish.
Beck
2/5
Dont like this type of music.
Sufjan Stevens
2/5
nothing new about music ...
R.E.M.
3/5
Great band
Beatles
5/5
ONe of the history best albums
Traffic
2/5
good band, but just another one of the bunch.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2/5
Nothing new.
The Doors
5/5
One of the best bands from the rock history.
Hole
2/5
Nothing new for me.
PJ Harvey
3/5
Good singer
David Bowie
3/5
Great Artist, not exactly what Id like.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
no the type of misuc Id linke
Lorde
3/5
Lorde is a really good singer but it is like all of her songs are the same
CHIC
5/5
Great band of the '70. If you like this youd like earth wind & fire, Commodores, Koll & the gang
Depeche Mode
3/5
Great band but not exactly what Id like.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
A rockstar that has lots of songs (that sounds) the same.
Michael Jackson
4/5
Great album of a great artist.
John Martyn
2/5
Good musician.
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
Timeless good blues/jazz/soul/funk music !
The Black Crowes
2/5
Good name for a band but only that.
Don McLean
3/5
Good singer
Bill Evans Trio
5/5
One of the best albums of the vinyl history. One of the great pianists of the history.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Great artist. Very compromised with his epoch
Van Halen
4/5
Great Band ! Like this music very much
Carole King
4/5
Great singer. She represents all of a time.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Music from other times. Cant understand when to listen it. Think about ambient music but not sure.
The Young Gods
2/5
A guy shouting something that I coundnt understand. Some other songs of another type with the same guy with that voice. Not my choice of music.
The Yardbirds
4/5
Good band, Jeff Beck & others ( Claption, Page et al) good sound but, times preferred another bands as iconic.
Sugar
2/5
Nothing new about musci w this band ...
George Michael
4/5
Great singer, reference of the '80 music.
Anthrax
2/5
I like another type of rock.
Jane Weaver
3/5
No the type of music Id like.
Common
4/5
Good music, not exactly what Id like but Ive listened and feel good.
Alice Cooper
3/5
Liked but not a lot ... A great musician that was a star of his epoch.
Beck
3/5
Good singer but I shouldnt buy an album of him.
Bert Jansch
3/5
Good singer, happy to know about him
Steely Dan
4/5
Great Band of white people that sounds like black ones. Good mix of different type of music of that times ('70s)
Eagles
4/5
Great '70 band. Hotel California was its hit.
Moby Grape
3/5
Ive listened differnt songs but the complete album. Good band.
Red Snapper
3/5
Good band, nothin' different but well done.
Bad Brains
2/5
Guys shouting all the time? not the type of music that id like.
Patti Smith
4/5
Great singer of the '70s.
Rush
4/5
Great '70s band
Duran Duran
4/5
Great '80s Band!
Haircut 100
3/5
Some type of funk played by white people. Not bad but far of being near of the original sound.
Iron Maiden
3/5
Great Band of the '80, but like heavy metal at all.
Faith No More
3/5
good band but nothing that Id like so much
Boston
3/5
good band, Id just forgotten them.
Elastica
3/5
good band. no more comments :-)
Aretha Franklin
4/5
One of the best singer of the history. Like a lot Soul music, moreover if it is sung by Aretha.
Elvis Costello
3/5
Great Singer. Good to hear him.
Ray Charles
4/5
One of the better singers of the history. Great to hear him. Hope to listen more of his works soon
Gang Starr
2/5
Dont like this type of music.
Kate Bush
3/5
Good singer, not the type Id like
The Crusaders
4/5
Great type of music. I like it a lot.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
One of the best singers that Ive heard. Fully recommendable to enjoy her music.
Talking Heads
3/5
A good band, not exactly what Id like a lot, but clearly a step ahead on their times.
Aerosmith
4/5
Great band, Like to liten their songs.
5/5
The greatest band of the history. Its best album. No more comments.
Talking Heads
3/5
A good band, not exactly the music that enchant me but w/good songs.
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
another vocal duo. Nothing new under the sun
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Good band not exactly wht Id like but it doesnt dissapoint me
Elliott Smith
3/5
Good singer. Another States-type singer of many
The Fall
3/5
good band.
Pink Floyd
4/5
One of the best bands in the rock history, and great album.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Great singer with a social compromise in his songs
Beatles
5/5
The best Beatles' album imho.
Abdullah Ibrahim
4/5
Great band & music that Ive discovered because 1001 album generator. Thanks.
Pixies
3/5
Good band, something like to be near of the punk movement. LIke it.
The Strokes
3/5
Good band. Nothing that exites me a lot, btw.
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Great singer of the '80s.
Sebadoh
2/5
Nothing new for me. A little boring ...
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
A guy repeating the fuckin' word sometimes with other doing a choir that makes the (other) words un-understable. Not the type of music that Id like.
Machito
4/5
Great band! Like a lot that latinjazz.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
good band of the '70s. Folk-rock like themes.
The Clash
4/5
Timeless band. Great suggestion! Who could forget Should I stay or should I go? NIce to hear them again on 2022
The Velvet Underground
3/5
About this band Ive only had the warhol banana reference. Listened it and didnt like at all, but it is not bad.
Johnny Cash
4/5
An historic registry for the music. After listened, Liked to know that a video exists and watched it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSLsfwTbo4Q
Massive Attack
3/5
Liked to know and hear this band. Cool music for working time.
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
Yet another balladist. Nothing new for me.
Dead Kennedys
2/5
Dont like this type of music, really.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Not the best works of Stevie, but I like this album. After the album ends youtube listed Hancock's Maiden Voyage. Loved this suggestion.
Alice Cooper
3/5
Like to listen Alice Cooper, not the artist Id like the more, but good music to remember.
Deep Purple
5/5
One of the first bands that Ive listened in the '70s. This one and Led Zeppelin. Listened when I was thirteen.
Pearl Jam
3/5
Never listened so much for this band. Good sound. Need to google what menas the grunge movement or Seattle sound. Love to learn about that type of music and lyrics.
Funkadelic
4/5
This is not a reviews, but Id like to read about the album @ wikipedia
One Nation Under a Groove is the tenth studio album by American funk rock band Funkadelic, released on September 22, 1978 on Warner Bros. Records. Recording sessions took place at United Sound Studio in Detroit, Michigan, with one song recorded live on April 15, 1978 at the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana. The album was the first album to include keyboardist and frequent songwriter Walter "Junie" Morrison.
One Nation Under a Groove was Funkadelic's most commercially successful album, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Magazine Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, number 16 on the Billboard 200, and being certified platinum in the US. It reached number 58 in Canada. It was one of the band's most critically lauded albums, and ranks at or near the top of many "best album" lists in disparate genres. The album was later featured on Vibe magazine's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century list. The album is ranked number 177 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in both 2003 and 2012 editions, before moving to number 360 in the 2020 edition. The album is listed as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Good music but dont like the wahy that the story is told. Read something for him from wikipedia
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Since his mainstream debut in 2012 with Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, Lamar has been regarded as one of the most influential rappers of his generation and one of the greatest rappers of all time. Aside from his solo career, he is also known as a member of the hip hop supergroup Black Hippy alongside his Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) labelmates Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, and Schoolboy Q.
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
As Wikipedia is indicating this is a "supergroup". Maybe the article was written y a band fan. Liked but not define it with that terms ...
The Last Shadow Puppets are an English supergroup consisting of Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), Miles Kane (The Rascals, solo artist), James Ford (Simian, Simian Mobile Disco, music producer), and Zach Dawes (Mini Mansions). The band released their debut album The Age of the Understatement in 2008. Following a lengthy hiatus, they returned, releasing second album Everything You've Come to Expect in 2016.
Thanks to the wikipedia article, learn about Baroque pop
Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music. It emerged in the mid 1960s as artists pursued a majestic, orchestral sound and is identifiable for its appropriation of Baroque compositional styles (contrapuntal melodies and functional harmony patterns) and dramatic or melancholic gestures. Harpsichords figure prominently, while oboes, French horns, and string quartets are also common.
... and Chamber pop
Chamber pop (sometimes called ork-pop, short for "orchestral pop") is a music genre that combines rock music with the intricate use of strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other components drawn from the orchestral and lounge pop of the 1960s, with an emphasis on melody and texture. Artists such as Burt Bacharach and the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson (especially the band's 1966 album Pet Sounds) were formative acts during the genre's original wave in the 1960s.
2Pac
3/5
I don't like rap but listening to him I have been intrigued about his life. That is why I have consulted wikipedia and I was interested in some information I found there.
Tupac Amaru Shakur (/ˈtuːpɑːk ʃəˈkʊər/ TOO-pahk shə-KOOR; born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), better known by his stage name 2Pac and later by his alias Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He is widely considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. Shakur is among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Much of Shakur's music has been noted for addressing contemporary social issues that plagued inner cities, and he is considered a symbol of activism against inequality.
Shakur was born in New York City to parents who were both political activists and Black Panther Party members.
He was named after Túpac Amaru II, the descendant of the last Incan ruler, who was executed in Peru in 1781 after his failed revolt against Spanish rule. Shakur's mother explained, "I wanted him to have the name of revolutionary, indigenous people in the world. I wanted him to know he was part of a world culture and not just from a neighborhood."
Shakur is considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. He is widely credited as an important figure in hip hop culture, and his prominence in pop culture in general has been noted. Dotdash, formerly About.com, while ranking him fifth among the greatest rappers, nonetheless notes, "Tupac Shakur is the most influential hip-hop artist of all time. Even in death, 2Pac remains a transcendental rap figure." Yet to some, he was a "father figure" who, said rapper YG, "makes you want to be better—at every level."
Sepultura
2/5
Never liked this type of rock derived from Zeppelin a/o Sabbath (as the band biography indicates). But, understand why a band like this was formed is interesting.
Some info from wikipedia
Sepultura (Portuguese: [ˌsepuwˈtuɾɐ], "grave")[1] is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte. Formed in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, the band was a major force in the groove metal, thrash metal and death metal genres during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments drawing influence from alternative metal, world music, nu metal, hardcore punk, and industrial metal. Sepultura has also been credited as one of the second wave of thrash metal acts from the late 1980s to early-to-mid-1990s.
Germs
2/5
Think that people needs lots of knowing about slang to understand punk rock bands like this lyrics. In my country we have had proto punk bands as "La pesada del rock and roll"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv8rpAooQ4
Billy Bond y La Pesada del Rock and Roll (also known as La Pesada del Rock and Roll or La Pesada) was an Argentine supergroup that pioneered hard rock, psychedelic rock and heavy metal in Latin America. It was formed in 1970 by producer Jorge Álvarez (co-founder of the Mandioca record label) and singer and producer Billy Bond, who would become the band's leader. La Pesada included renowned Argentine musicians who took their first steps in rock, such as Pappo, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Javier Martínez, Claudio Gabis, Alejandro Medina and David Lebón, among others. La Pesada also collaborated in the recording of several albums by different artists, among them Vida, the first album by Sui Generis.
A concert of theirs at the Luna Park Stadium in 1972 ended with incidents and fights against the police, and that affected the band's future possibilities of diffusion. They continued releasing albums, both their own and those of other artists, and split up in 1974, with Billy Bond moving permanently to Brazil. However, the main legacy of the band, to have served as a seedbed for numerous musicians who would make emblematic stories in Argentine rock, had already been fulfilled.
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About proto-punk
Proto-punk (or protopunk) is the rock music played mostly by garage bands from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement.[4][5] The phrase is a retrospective label; the musicians involved were generally not originally associated with each other and came from a variety of backgrounds and styles; together, they anticipated many of punk's musical and thematic attributes.
Anyway Ive was interested in investigate something about GI
(found in Wikipedia)
GI, stylized as (GI), is the only studio album by American punk rock band the Germs. Often considered the first full-length hardcore punk album,[2] it was released in the United States in October 1979[8] on Slash Records with catalog number SR 103. The album was later released in Italy in 1982 by Expanded Music with the catalog EX 11. The album's title is an acronym for "Germs Incognito", an alternate name the band used to obtain bookings when their early reputation kept them out of Los Angeles-area clubs. After (GI)'s release, the band would only undertake one more recording session, for the soundtrack album to Al Pacino's 1980 film Cruising. On December 7, 1980, a year after the release of (GI), vocalist Darby Crash killed himself.
and about punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often shouted political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels.
The National
3/5
Good musicians but a little boring. Went to wikipedia for more info about the band.
Liked the cover artwork.
The National is an American rock band of Cincinnati, Ohio natives, formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1999. The band consists of Matt Berninger (vocals), twin brothers Aaron Dessner (guitar, piano, keyboards) and Bryce Dessner (guitar, piano, keyboards), as well as brothers Scott Devendorf (bass) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). Carin Besser is not a band member, but has written lyrics for the band alongside her husband, Berninger, since its 2007 album Boxer.
High Violet is the fifth studio album by the National, which was released on May 10, 2010 in Europe and on May 11, 2010 in North America via 4AD. The band produced the album themselves, assisted by Peter Katis with whom they worked on their previous albums Alligator and Boxer at their own studio in Brooklyn, New York, and at Katis' Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The sculpture on the album cover was created by artist Mark Fox, and is called The Binding Force.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Great singer, better lyrics writer.
Fugees
3/5
Talking about refugiados, people that are welcome? to us.
Lauryn Hill and Pras first met at Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey. Pras, Lauryn, and a mutual friend Marcy Harriell formed a musical trio called Tyme; Pras' cousin, Wyclef Jean, joined the line-up and Marcy left soon afterward, in 1990. The moniker Tranzlator Crew refers to the name of their band at the time, which included Johnny Wise on drums, Ti Bass (Jerry) on bass guitar, and Leon (DJ). In 1993, after some gigs and recorded demos, the trio signed to Ruffhouse, distributed through Columbia Records. The members then changed the group's name to Fugees, which was purposely taken from a word often used despectivamente to refer to Haitian-Americans (refugee). Refugee Camp, while a name sometimes credited to the trio, also refers to a number of artists affiliated with the members, and particularly Jean.
Kelela
3/5
Like her music. (Wrote her after know that Kelela percibes herself as queer.)
Kelela Mizanekristos (born June 3, 1983) is an American singer and songwriter. She made her debut in the music industry with the release of her 2013 mixtape Cut 4 Me. In 2015, she released Hallucinogen, an EP which deals with the beginning, middle, and end of a relationship in reverse chronological order. Her debut studio album, Take Me Apart, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim.
About to be a queer
Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the late 1980s, queer activists, such as the members of Queer Nation, began to reclaim the word as a deliberately provocative and politically radical alternative to the more assimilationist branches of the LGBT community.
Beatles
5/5
Best band forever. First album cover with no band name on it.
Interested in Taxman song, because it is not talking about love.
"Taxman" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. Written by the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying over 90 per cent of their earnings to the Treasury. The song was selected as the album's opening track and contributed to Harrison's emergence as a songwriter beside the dominant Lennon–McCartney partnership. It was the group's first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music.
Eminem
3/5
What I lik of rap and hiphop music is the social claim that is shown in its lyrics. Interesting point of study.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (/ˌɛmɪˈnɛm/; formerly stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Eminem's global success and acclaimed works are widely regarded as having broken racial barriers for the acceptance of white rappers in popular music. While much of his transgressive work during the late 1990s and early 2000s made him widely controversial, he came to be a representation of popular angst of the American underclass, and has been cited as an influence for many artists of various genres.
About Rap and hiphop. Interesting is who is assumed as a "subculture" (which should be the culture in this case?)
Hip hop music or hip-hop music, also known as rap music, is a genre of popular music developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans, Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s. It consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing. While often used to refer solely to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
Bee Gees
3/5
Like to listen bee gees *before* Saturday night fever.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
A pleasure listen this singer. Great album. Some additional info from wikipedia says
Back to Black is the second and final studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. Winehouse predominantly based the album on her tumultuous relationship with then-ex-boyfriend and future husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who temporarily left her to pursue his previous ex-girlfriend. Their short-lived separation spurred her to create an album that explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity, heartbreak and trauma in a relationship.
The Kinks
3/5
Great Band, liked its music.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Always liked the concept of give concerts at jails.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Folsom_Prison
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
Never listened this album before. Enjoyed when young ELO Discovery Album (last train to London).
Hawkwind
2/5
Thanks to this album leart about Space rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rock
good sounds but a little boring.
Arrested Development
2/5
Feel that you need a lot of background to understand the message for hiphop bands. Anyway, like the way that the lyrics are treated.
Went to wikipedia and found this about the band
Arrested Development is an American hip hop group that formed in Atlanta in 1988. It was founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the late 1980s. Baba Oje and frontman Speech met at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee when they were both students. Baba Oje was 57 years old at the time.
About africanism
Afrocentrism is an approach to the study of world history that focuses on the history of people of recent African descent. It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their historical contributions. It seeks to counter what it sees as mistakes and ideas perpetuated by the racist philosophical underpinnings of Western academic disciplines as they developed during and since Europe's Early Renaissance as justifying rationales for the enslavement of other peoples, in order to enable more accurate accounts of not only African but all people's contributions to world history. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a Pan-African point of view for the study of culture, philosophy, and history.
Röyksopp
3/5
Good music for listening while working
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6yksopp
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Clube da Esquina is a 1972 double album by the Brazilian music artists collective Clube da Esquina, credited to Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges. Considered an important record in the history of Brazilian music, it features arrangements by Eumir Deodato and Wagner Tiso, and conductions by Paulo Moura. The album garnered attention for its engaged compositions and miscellany of sounds.
Despite popular belief, the photo on the album cover does not depict Borges and Nascimento as children. It was taken by a member of the collective, Brazilian photographer Cafi (Carlos da Silva Assunção Filho), on the side of a road in the rural northern Rio de Janeiro state. Due to increased public interest in the album's 40th anniversary, a search for the two boys was conducted, successfully identifying them as Antonio Rimes and Antônio Carlos Rosa de Oliveira.
Lô Borges (Born Salomão Borges Filho on January 10, 1952) is a Brazilian songwriter, singer, and guitarist.
He was one of the founders of Clube da Esquina, a group of musicians that originated in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. He co-authored with Milton Nascimento the album Clube da Esquina in 1972, which was a milestone in Brazilian popular music. Among his most famous compositions are “Paisagem da Janela,” “Para Lennon e McCartney,’ “Clube da Esquina No. 2,” “Trem de Doido,” and “O Trem Azul.”
Eumir Deodato de Almeida (Brazilian Portuguese: [ẽʊ̃ˈmiχ deoˈdatu]; born 22 June 1942) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova.
Deodato has arranged and produced more than 500 records for acts such as Frank Sinatra, Roberta Flack, Björk, and Christophe, as well as producing Kool & the Gang's hits "Celebration", "Ladies' Night", and "Too Hot".
Deodato was nominated for three Grammy Awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1974 for "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)." The song peaked at number 2 on the weekly "Billboard Hot 100" in March 1973. It reached number 7 on the British charts.
Wagner Tiso Veiga (born 12 December 1945) is a musician, arranger, conductor, pianist and composer from Brazil.
Born in Três Pontas, Tiso learned music theory with Paulo Moura and specialised in keyboards. In 1970, he joined Som Imaginário, working with Milton Nascimento. Tiso and Nascimento were then together in Clube da Esquina, who toured internationally. The group also included Beto Guedes, Toninho Horta and Flávio Venturini. He has also worked on several soundtracks.
Paulo Moura (15 July 1932 – 12 July 2010) was a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist.
Born in São José do Rio Preto, where his father was the maestro of a marching band and encouraged his son to train as a tailor, Paulo instead studied in the National Music School and performed with the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra. He was the first black artist to become first clarinetist in the Municipal Theatre Orchestra. He appeared at Bossa Nova night at Carnegie Hall in 1962 with Sérgio Mendes, the two of them also featuring on Cannonball Adderley's 1962 album, Cannonball's Bossa Nova. He won the Sharp Award for the most popular instrumentalist of the year in 1992.
Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈnejɾu] is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of the Brazilian GDP.
The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast (assigned by IBGE). Rio de Janeiro shares borders with all the other states in the same Southeast macroregion: Minas Gerais (N and NW), Espírito Santo (NE) and São Paulo (SW). It is bounded on the east and south by the South Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of 43,653 km2 (16,855 sq mi). Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Brazil from 1763 to 1815, of the following United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1815 to 1822, and of later independent Brazil as a kingdom and republic from 1822 to 1960.
The state's 22 largest cities are Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo, Duque de Caxias, Nova Iguaçu, Niterói, Campos dos Goytacazes, Belford Roxo, São João de Meriti, Petrópolis, Volta Redonda, Magé, Macaé, Itaboraí, Cabo Frio, Armação dos Búzios, Angra dos Reis, Nova Friburgo, Barra Mansa, Barra do Piraí, Teresópolis, Mesquita and Nilópolis.
Rio de Janeiro is the smallest state by area in the Southeast macroregion and one of the smallest in Brazil. It is, however, the third most populous Brazilian state, with a population of 16 million of people in 2011 (making it the most densely populated state in Brazil) and has the third longest coastline in the country (after those of the states of Bahia and Maranhão).
In the Brazilian flag, the state is represented by Mimosa, the beta star in the Southern Cross (β Cru).
Judas Priest
1/5
I dont like that type of music.
Fiona Apple
4/5
Like Fiona. The way she sings and the lyrics contents.
Neil Young
3/5
Nowadays this sound is for me more of those '70 years. Anyway, I liked the sound and the history behind the album
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young#The_%22Ditch%22_Trilogy_and_personal_struggles_(1972%E2%80%931974)
Pulp
2/5
read a while about britPop because songs are quite boring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britpop
Peter Frampton
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Good songs, having some readings about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_pop
3/5
Great band