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King Crimson is an important band that went through numerous incarnations in their forty year career. In their oeuvre, this is not an important album. The first song is way too long for having just one not too exceptional idea for a ballad. The second song sounds eerily like an instrumental the Allm...

Music as can be heard on this album tends to be underrated nowadays. The vocals (by Joao Gilberto) hardly memorable, it all tends to sound a bit the same, and in the end, the bossa nova / samba feel gets on your nerves. You want some action. However, one has to realise that this album is more than 4...

The title refers to the fact that these are covers, by white performers, that are performed soulfully by the Isley brothers and friends. At first hearing, a soulful rendition of the famous protest song Ohio seems as silly as a gospel version of The Final Countdown by Europe. Ohio was sung originally...

Billy Holiday has been dead for almost 50 years. To the initiated this will come as no surprise. After all, this singer is one of the cornerstones of vocal jazz, so she is bound to be dead. However, what is interesting about this record is that she is actually dying during the performance. Don’t be ...

The Grateful Dead is a great band that in its thirty year history played a lot of concerts. For the nominal leader, singer, guitarist Jerry Garcia, this was not enough. He assembled groups of his owned and toured the Bay area in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. He played a lot of self-penned songs, off h...

Flo and Eddie are really the Fluorescent Leech and Eddie. No really, they are Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman. No really, they are the voices of The Turtles (Happy together). Seriously, folks, they provided vocals, backing vocals and on-stage antics with Frank Zappa from 1969 – 1971, until Frank first...

Eno is known for his role as a producer (Bowie, U2, Paul Simon and many others). Eno is known for his ambient music, a genre he helped invent (Music for airports etc). Some people may know he was actually once a part of Roxy Music. Many people do not know that Eno made some very sophisticated pop mu...

Miles Davis is Jazz. If you do not like jazz, you will not like music by Miles Davis. If you are open to explore the possible merits of jazz, Miles Davis is a great place to start, for several reasons: 1. Everybody thinks he is very important 2. He hired many musicians who would end up as important ...

John Cale was the musical genius of Velvet Underground. Period. No, comma, and he was also important for the artsy image, together with Nico and Andy Warhol on the first album. However: Lou Reed was the main composer, the lyricist and, generally, more of a pain in the arse / captain of the crew. So ...

This Liverpudlian pop group of the 60’s finally broke through with this album, that cashed in on the Summer of Love from the London perspective (as the Summer of Love is basically San Francisco, June through October). Inexplicably, some great singles of the period ( Penny lane / Strawberry fields fo...