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Elvis
30 #1 Hits

posted [19.01.2012]
released [2000]
[sub]genre:
rock 'n roll

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Elvis Presley may be the single most important figure in the American 20th century popular music, but not necessarily the best, and certainly not the most consistent. His carreer spans over 20 years in which he wrote history, made a shitload of horrible movies and grew out to be a sad, obese and dressed-up caricature of himself. This album covers this entire carreer, with JXL's remix of A Little Less Conversation even reigning beyond the grave. Missing are the early Sun singles, but the rest is all here stretching from his pre-service RCA singles to Aloha from Hawaii. There's a lot of great rock 'n roll here, but also a couple songs of minor interest. Well, when it comes to Elvis' legacy the key question is: where to start? 30 #1 Hits is a fine place to. And if that's not good enough, I just found out there's a companion album available: 2nd to None.
  1. Heartbreak Hotel
  2. Don't Be Cruel
  3. Hound Dog
  4. Love Me Tender
  5. Too Much
  6. All Shook Up
  7. (Let Me Be) Your Teddybear
  8. Jailhouse Rock
  9. Don't
  10. Hard Headed Woman
  11. One Night
  12. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
  13. A Big Hunk O'Love
  14. Stuck On You
  15. It's Now Or Never
  16. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
  17. Wooden Heart
  18. Surrender
  19. (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
  20. Can't Help Falling In Love
  21. Good Luck Charm
  22. She's Not You
  23. Return To Sender
  24. (You're The) Devil In Disguise
  25. Crying In The Chapel
  26. In The Ghetto
  27. Suspicious Minds
  28. Burning Love
  29. Way Down
  30. A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix)



Krista Detor
Mudshow

posted [08.05.2010]
released [2000]
[sub]genre:
singer-songwriter

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Every Krista Detor fan was anxiously awaiting Mudshow. Could she "repeat the trick" - a sin from nowadays alternative perspective - or even top the beauty of its predecessor Cover Their Eyes? Yes, she can! But darker and dreamier than before. In an internet review Slats Klug describes her work as: "Like a voyeur peeking into our homes, relationships, myths and the dark night of our souls, Detor has left the truth bundled at our doorstep and rung the bell." As truth revealing as the lyrics may be, you easily float away on the prettiest of melodies. Possibly as result of this highly acclaimed release Krista - as the only American songwriter - got invited to the BBC Darwin Song Project: a week long lock-up in a Shropshire countryside cottage with 8 fellow songwriters in order to create a musical tribute to Charles Darwin. Though she claims she prefers to work in silence, the project's henhouse inspired or maybe pushed her to possibly writing the best work to date (Clock of the World). One sunny Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago I attended her show in The Hague, at the lovely, but little theater De Steeg. Incredible still so little people are aware of her touring schedule. It's a bloody shame, actually.
  1. Mudshow
  2. Abigayle's Song
  3. Buffalo Bill
  4. Dancing in a Minefield
  5. The Ghosts of Peach Street
  6. She Will Not Say
  7. Steal Me a Car
  8. I'm Still Here
  9. Tell Me a Story
  10. A Red Bowl
  11. The Hampton Sisters [Glory]
  12. Gaslight
  13. All I Need is a Driver



The Carter Family
Worried Man Blues
Their Complete Victor Recordings 1930

posted [04.04.2010]
released [1995]
[sub]genre: country

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Worried Man Blues - originally a prison song - turned out to be the voice of hope during America's Midwest 1930s crisis. Over a million farm families were fleeing their homes after ongoing drought and following dust storms. According to the liner notes "the warm sentiment and clear mountain harmony made them - for a moment - forget their troubles". After listening to four of the Complete Victor Recordings it's clear what the Carter Family is about. Yet every album it gets harder to tell one song from the other. Particularly on this 1930 recording as on 12 out of 16 songs the trio sings harmony. There are a couple of originals here, such as The Birds Were Singing of You and that´s rare since A.P. mainly collected song. Quite a few songs are from early 1900s hymn and gospel books and remarkable is the fact that quite a few songs are of black origin. The Carter Family define the country standard, but only in a musical sense, taken in perspective the overly white `character´ of Southern country music in the decades to follow. The Victor Recordings aren't very suitable to enlighten your party and it take persistence to listen through an entire compilation. Nonetheless it's the Old Testament of Country Music, where Hank Williams Complete Recordings are the New. There should be one in every house and it must be read a chapter a day.
  1. I Have an Aged Mother
  2. The dying Soldier
  3. Worried Man Blues
  4. Lonesome Valley
  5. On the Rock Where Moses Stood
  6. Room in Heaven for Me
  7. Lonesome Pine Special
  8. No More the Moon Shines on Lorena
  9. On My Way to Canaan's Land
  10. Where Shall I Be?
  11. Sow 'Em on the Mountain
  12. Darling Nellie Across the Sea
  13. The Birds Were Singing of You
  14. Weary Prodigal Son
  15. My Old Cottage Home
  16. When I'm Gone