Cool documentary from Pitchfork on The Flaming Lips 1999 classic The Soft Bulletin.
The Terror, The Flaming Lips new album, is out in the US next Tuesday (4/16/13.)
Cool documentary from Pitchfork on The Flaming Lips 1999 classic The Soft Bulletin.
The Terror, The Flaming Lips new album, is out in the US next Tuesday (4/16/13.)
My last post featured documentaries on The Beatles albums Sgt. Pepper & Please Please Me turning 40 (in 2007) and 50 respectively now it’s Pink Floyd’s turn:
The Dark Side of the Moon was released on March 1, 1973 making the current #1 album of all time on RateYourMusic.com (great site, by the way) 40 years old as of this past Friday.
Here’s a documentary on the making of The Dark Side of the Moon:
Yes; legendary classic rock albums: You’re getting old.
Watch this:
And more recently BBC broadcast a documentary titled “12 Hours to Please Please Me” where they try to recreate The Beatles first album (which was mostly recorded in just one day – February 11, 1963):
You can stream Amok here:
Thom Yorke’s other band Atoms For Peace (named after my favorite song off of his 2006 solo album The Eraser) is releasing their debut album on February 25th: Amok.
“Judge Jury and Executioner” is one of the nine tracks on the album. Take a listen:
Atoms for Peace are:
Thom Yorke: Lead singer/principle songwriter of Radiohead.
Nigel Godrich: Producer of all eight Radiohead albums. He’s also worked on albums by Paul McCartney, Beck, Travis, REM, Air, The Beta Band, and many others. He plays guitar & keyboards with Atoms for Peace.
Flea: Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist.
Joey Waronker: Drummer who is mostly known for his work with Beck.
Mauro Refosco: Brazaillian percussionist who started a band called Forro in the Dark.
The Stone Roses, Blur, The Postal Service, The xx, Lou Reed, Sigur Ros, Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit, Vampire Weekend, Wu Tang Clan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Lumineers, and many more will all be there in April.
FIRST! @coachella 2013 lineup – Coachella.com twitter.com/coachella/stat…
— Coachella (@coachella) January 25, 2013
I don’t feel like I listened to enough new music in 2012 to make my own top albums of the year list.
Since I’m addicted to Reddit I’ll share their list instead:
Related:
My Top 10 of 2010.
Reddit’s 2010 Top Albums.
Best Albums of 2011.
We were hit by a hacker a couple of months ago so I had to re-install the site and things have been a bit funky for awhile. But I’ve finally got some time to get it together and hopefully everything is functional again.
As you can see there are some changes:
The long awaited remastered Beatles Vinyl Box Set is out tomorrow.
Personally I think I’m just going to get Sgt. Pepper & Revolver. I’m not enough of a vinyl head to spend over $300 on a box of LPs I probably won’t listen to that many times. But I am curious enough that I do want to at least get a couple of my very favorite Beatles albums in this latest format (and how many different ways can they end up releasing these albums?)
That said; I know there are some real vinyl freaks out there for whom this is a huge deal… so CLICK HERE to order the remastered vinyl box set on Amazon.
(my previous entry on this topic.)
Last week I put up this Pet Sounds documentary. Here’s another cool one; it’s from the BBC and it’s on the Beatles 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour: