Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers- (Kevin Gray Stereo Cut)-****1/2
(This record gets better and better with age.)
Steel Pulse- Handsworth Revolution-****
Bruce Springsteen- Wrecking Ball- ***
(I love this record. One of his best. But I guess I just wasn't in the mood. It actually annoyed me.)
Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine- ****1/2
Jurassic 5- Quality Control- ****
Bob Dylan- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan- ****
The Scruffs- Wanna Meet The Scruffs?- ***1/2
Steve Miller Band- Number 5-***1/2
The Black Crowes- The Fillmore, 12/12/10-****1/2
(This is the first of a five night run, purported to be the last shows the band would ever play in America. Setlists were off the hook, with blocks of Beatles covers and Stones covers, as well as covering everyone from Gene Clark to Pink Floyd, acoustic arrangements, deep album tracks, etcetera. I've had these shows since 2010, but I didn't know where I had them! I just found them again on a lost hard drive and I plan on revisiting all five nights. So far, so good.)
3 comments:
Handsworth Revolution, best ever UK reggae album? Must interrupt playing the new Dub Syndicate reissues and give it a spin.
Ralph, is there one Dub Syndicate that better than the rest? I listened to some of Strike The Balance and Echomania and neither killed me.
I really like The Pounding System; One Way System is also great, as is Tunes from The Missing Channel (featuring the great Ravi Shankar riddim). North of The River Thames with Doctor Pablo is also good, with - unsurprisingly - an Augustus Pablo feel. Maybe not a Dub Syndicate album in the strictest sense, but Time Boom X De Devil Dead by Lee Scratch Perry & Dub Syndicate is - in my view - absolutely essential (features Jungle, perhaps the best version of the aforementioned Ravi Shankar...). I don't know the later albums as well, I'm currently working through the Out Here on The Perimeter box set that's just been released, maybe Strike The Balance is a grower? Certainly a lot of the On U Sound stuff works that way on me!
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