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Feeling the Earth Move....

shit...sorry guys, I forgot that none of you speak portuguese. here it is in english


Good thread, uncle. Three albums, and only three, is tough. To think back and recall which albums moved me the first time is a tall order. I remember having my brain adjusted when I went out and bought Tom Waits' Frank's Wild Years after hearing Cold, Cold Ground on Vin Scelsia's Idiot's Delight sunday morning radio show on K-Rock. I also tapped into a new part of the grey matter when I brought home Taj Mahal's Greatest hits after stumbling upon him grooving at the Damrosch Park Bandshell at Lincoln Center in New York City in the summer of 1987. Another flabbergast occured in the summer of 1991 when I was giving the MOG (Tim Weaver, uncle's little little little little) a lift to Yellowstone N.P. (and beyond?) when he slipped They Might Be Giants - Flood into the cassette player....whoa! But if I have to pick three......

1. Brighten the Corners - Pavement. Rock as it ought to be. This disc immediately went into and has been in permanent rotation on my ipod and stereo for over 5 years.

2. Sugar in My Bowl: 1967-1972 - Nina Simone. Un-freaking-believable. You've got your blues, your soul, your jazz, your ballads, your luv makin' music, and a huge and gut wrenching dose of civil rights era pain and anger. The three songs recorded live the night after The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination do not cease to make me cry. Connecting it to another thread - there are a lot of covers on this album. "To Love Somebody" is a mind-blower compared to Andy Gibb's version.

3. Round About Midnight - Miles Davis. I guess this choice is kind of like the Beatle's White Album in that it's a fairly common fave but purists would rate it in the middle of an artists body of work (in favor of In a Silent Way by Miles or Revolver or Rubber Soul by the Beatles). I've been playing and listenting to jazz since I was 15 years old but for some odd reason I skipped Miles and went straight to Coltrane and beyond. I was 24 when I first heard Round About Midnight and I'm all better now.

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Sentindo a terra mover-se

linha boa, tio. Três albums, e somente três, são resistentes. Para
pensar para trás e recordar que albums me moveram é a primeira vez
uma ordem alta. Eu recordo ter meu cérebro ajustado quando eu saí e
comprei anos selvagens do franquia das esperas de Tom após o hearing
frio, terra fria na mostra do rádio da manhã de domingo do prazer do
idiot de Vin Scelsia na K-Rocha. Eu bati também em uma parte nova da
matéria cinzenta quando eu trouxe as batidas as mais grandes de Taj
Mahal home após tropeçar em cima dele que sulca no parque Bandshell
de Damrosch no centro de Lincoln na cidade nova de York no verão de
1987. Um outro flabbergast ocorreu no verão de 1991 em que eu dava ao
MOG (weaver de Tim, tio pouco pouco pouco pouco) um elevador a
Yellowstone N.P. (e além?) quando deslizou puderam ser gigantes -
inunde no jogador de gaveta....whoa! Mas se eu tenho para escolher
três......

1. Brighten o canto - pavimento. Rocha como ought ser. Este
disco entrou imediatamente em e estêve na rotação permanente em meu
ipod e no estéreo por sobre 5 anos.

2. Açúcar em minha bacia: 1967-1972 - Nina Simone.
Un-freaking-un-freaking-believable. Você have.got seus azuis, sua
alma, seu jazz, seus ballads, música do seu makin do luv ', e um dose
wrenching enorme e do gut da dor e da raiva da era das direitas civis.
As três canções gravadas vivem a noite depois que o assassination
do Dr. Martin Luther rei Jr do Rev. não cessa de me fazer o grito.
Conectando o a uma outra linha - há um lote das tampas neste album.
"ao amor alguém" é um mente-ventilador comparado à versão de Andy
Gibb.

3. Redondo Sobre A Meia-noite - Milhas Davis. Eu suponho que esta
escolha é tipo como do album branco do Beatle que é um fave
razoavelmente comum mas os purists o avaliariam no meio de um corpo
dos artistas do trabalho (no favor dentro de uma maneira silenciosa
por Milha ou por alma do revólver ou da borracha pelo Beatles). I've
sido jogando e listenting ao jazz desde que eu tinha 15 anos velho mas
para alguma razão impar eu saltei milhas e fui em linha reta a
Coltrane e além. Eu era 24 quando eu me ouvi primeiramente em volta
sobre da meia-noite e do I'm toda melhores agora.


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Earth-Moving and Such

For a second there, I thought Uncle Belgrade was launching a thread about the ongoing saga of Carole King. Too bad. In the meantime, here are my three landscape-changing albums:

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes – This officially changed my 12-year-old status to "2nd-biggest loser on the planet" behind Gordon Gano. Thanks, Gord. "Good Feeling," the antithesis of the rest of this record, somehow became my favorite VF song.

Peter Gabriel by Peter Gabriel (the 3rd such titled album, the one where his face is melting) – This one passed me by upon its release in 1980 – in truth, I was probably tuned in to PG's old band and their newfound pop bent. But six years later, when he was going "Big Time," I stumbled upon "Games Without Frontiers," bought the cassette, and it's still one of the 10 or 20 best albums I've ever owned.

Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five – A strange inclusion, since it's not in heavy rotation on Radio WHIT, plus its opening track is about a short guy's revenge. Along with Morphine, BFF made "guitar-less rock trio" a viable 90's music form, and for whatever reason, this piano-based rock & roll album instantly sprung to mind when reading Uncle B's description of his 3. I recall listening to it on repeat on a train in Scotland, and it was either the rails or this music that had me bumping along.

An aside (I can't do brevity), 3 albums which served as excellent ushers into a genre:

Run-D.M.C. by Run-D.M.C. – Turned me into a white boy prep school rap fiend for two years. But it's like that, and that's the way it is.
Kill 'Em All by Metallica – Freshman roomie Doug Nelson brought a stereo, which was cool, and 30 CD's of pure metal, which was not. After a semester of albums like this, though, I changed my tune. It may have been the subliminal effect of waking up to "Jump in the Fire" on repeat that did it.
Play by Moby – Wait, electronica technopop isn’t just for breakfast (in Amsterdam hash bars) any more?

More Bulldozing

For the sake of just a little diversity, I'll leave the Old 97's off my list, even though the first few bars of "King of All of the World" on Satellite Rides never fail to pump me up. I could probably list 15 or 20 albums pretty quickly, but here are 3 that came directly to mind:

Trace by Son Volt -- Really the first alt-country album I ever heard, or at least remember hearing. I grew up with a country music-listening father, so I naturally rebelled against it for a while in college. Then I heard this album, and a few by Wilco, and discovered one of my favorite musical genres. Started listening to real country again, too - George Strait, Hank Williams, Jr., Alabama - which was a decent side benefit. Trace is still one of my favorite albums to listen to while driving aimlessly with the windows down on a warm spring afternoon.

They Might Be Giants by They Might Be Giants -- I actually like Lincoln and John Henry better than the Johns' first major label release, but this album and its hit song "Don't Let's Start" never fails to put me in a great mood. It instantly takes me back to my senior year of high school, when I wore out the cassette version, wondering how something so unabashedly dorky could be so goddamn cool. Little did I know that we'd all have the answer 10 years later.

Vs. by Pearl Jam -- I don't listen to Pearl Jam much anymore - just really got turned off by Eddie Vedder's aggressive prickdom. But the first 4 songs on this album just plain rock. "Go" is one of the top 10 album-starters ever.