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Ben Folds: Rockin’ The Suburbs

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On September 11, 2001, “Epic” label released “Rockin’ the Suburbs”, the debut Ben Folds studio album. It was recorded in 2001, and was produced by Ben Folds and Ben Grosse.

Personnel:

  • Ben Folds – vocals, piano, keyboards, guitars, bass guitar, drums, package design
  • Richard Fortus – guitar
  • Larry Corbett –cello
  • DJ Swamp – beats
  • Vincent Palmeri – vocals
  • John McCrea– vocals
  • Frally Hynes – vocals
  • Andrew R. Wallace, Ben Grosse, Cameron Webb, John Vitale – programming
  • Blumpy – programming, engineer assistant
  • John Mark Painter – arranger
  • John Mark Painter – conductor
  • Ben Grosse – recording, mixing. engineer assistant
  • Andrew R. Wallace – engineer, recording
  • Cameron Webb – engineer assistant
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Chuck Bailey, Rick Behrens, Aaron Lepley, Ulysses Noriega, Justin Pynes – assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Ben Folds, except where noted.

  1. Annie Waits
  2. Zak and Sara
  3. Still Fighting It
  4. Gone
  5. Fred Jones Part 2
  6. The Ascent of Stan
  7. Losing Lisa
  8. Carrying Cathy
  9. Not the Same
  10. Rockin’ the Suburbs
  11. Fired
  12. The Luckiest

Goldfrapp: Felt Mountain

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On September 11, 2000, “Mute” label released “Felt Mountain”, the debut Goldfrapp studio album. It was recorded September 1999 – February 2000, in Wiltshire, England, and was produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory.

Personnel:

  • Alison Goldfrapp– vocals, keyboards, whistling, design
  • Will Gregory– brass arrangements, keyboards, string arrangements
  • Steven Claydon– synthesizer
  • Andy Davis – baritone ukulele, koto, melodica
  • Mary Scully – double bass
  • Nick Batt – bass synthesizer, metal percussion, additional engineering, bass synthesizer, additional programming, additional mixing
  • Adrian Utley– bass guitar, synthesiser, tremolo bass guitar
  • John Parish– drums, bass guitar, tremolo guitar
  • Tony Orrell – drums
  • Rowan Oliver – percussion
  • Clive Deamer– brushes
  • Flowers Band – brass band
  • Andy Bush – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • John Cornick – trombone
  • Steve MacAllister – French horn
  • Ben Waghorn – tenor saxophone
  • Alexander Bălănescu– violin
  • Jacqueline Norrie – violin
  • Sonia Slany – violin
  • Stuart Gordon – viola, violin, tremolo violins, violin solo
  • Bill Hawkes – viola
  • Nick Barr – viola
  • Nick Cooper – cello
  • Mute Male Voices – humming
  • Kevin Paul – additional engineering, additional mixing
  • Luke Gordon – additional engineering, additional programming
  • David Lord – additional engineering
  • David Bascombe – additional mixing
  • Chris Weston – additional programming
  • John Dent – mastering
  • Günter Gräfenhain – landscape photography
  • L. Schmidt – landscape photography
  • Joe Dilworth– photography
  • Anna Fox– inside photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, except where noted.

  1. Lovely head
  2. Paper Bag
  3. Human – Tim Norfolk, Bob Locke, Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory
  4. Pilots
  5. Deer Stop
  6. Felt Mountain
  7. Oompa Radar
  8. Utopia
  9. Horse Tears

Art Garfunkel: Angel Clare

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On September 11, 1973, “Columbia” label released “Angel Clare”, the debut Art Garfunkel studio album. It was recorded in 1973, at “Grace Cathedral” in San Francisco, and was produced by Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee. The album title,” Angel Clare” comes from the name of a character in Thomas Hardy’s novel, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”.

Personnel:

  • Art Garfunkel – vocals
  • Paul Simon– vocals, guitar
  • J. J. Cale– guitar
  • Jerry Garcia– guitar
  • Larry Carlton– guitar
  • Fred Carter, Jr.– guitar
  • Louie Shelton– guitar
  • Dean Parks– guitar
  • Tommy Tedesco– bouzouki, mandolin
  • Larry Knechtel– keyboards
  • Michael Omartian– keyboards
  • Joe Osborn– bass
  • Carl Radle– bass
  • Jim Gordon– drums
  • Hal Blaine– drums
  • Milt Holland– percussion
  • Jorge Milchberg – percussion, charango
  • Jules Broussard – saxophone
  • Jack Schroer– saxophone
  • Stuart Canin – violin
  • Peter Matz– strings
  • Ernie Freeman– strings
  • Jimmie Haskell– strings
  • Dorothy Morrison – vocals
  • St Mary’s Choir – vocals
  • Sally Stevens – vocals
  • Jackie Ward Singers – vocals
  • Mark Friedman – recording
  • Mark Friedman – recorder
  • Roy Halee– engineer
  • George Horn – mastering
  • Ron Coro – art direction
  • Jim Marshall– photography

Track listing:

  1. Travelling Boy – Paul Williams, Roger Nichols
  2. Down in the Willow Garden – Charlie Monroe
  3. I Shall Sing – Van Morrison
  4. Old Man – Randy Newman
  5. Feuilles- Oh/Do Space Men Pass Dead Souls on Their Way to the Moon? – Traditional/Johann Sebastian Bach, Linda Grossman
  6. All I Know – Jimmy Webb
  7. Mary Was An Only Child – Jorge Milchberg, Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood
  8. Woyaya – Sol Amarfio, Osibisa
  9. Barbara Allen – traditional
  10. Another Lullaby – Jimmy Webb

 

Manfred Mann: The Five Faces Of Manfred Mann

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On September 11, 1964, “His Master Voice” label released “The Five Faces of Manfred Mann”, the debut Manfred Mann studio album. It was recorded in 1964, at “EMI Studios” in Abbey Road, London, and was produced by John Burgess.

Personnel:

  • Manfred Mann– piano, organ
  • Paul Jones– vocals, harmonica, maracas
  • Mike Vickers– guitar, flute, saxophone
  • Tom McGuinness– bass guitar
  • Mike Hugg– drums, vibes
  • Norman Smith– engineer

Track listing:

  1. Smokestack Lightning – Chester Burnett
  2. Don’t Ask Me What I Say – Paul Jones
  3. Sack O’ Woe – Cannonball Adderley
  4. What You Gonna Do? – Paul Jones, Manfred Mann
  5. Hoochie Coochie – Willie Dixon
  6. I’m Your Kingpin – Manfred Mann, Paul Jones
  7. Down the Road Apiece – Don Raye
  8. Got My Mojo Working – Preston Foster; credited to Muddy Waters
  9. Canadian version: “Do Wah Diddy Diddy – Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich
  10. It’s Gonna Work Out Fine – Rose Marie McCoy, Sylvia McKinney; credited to Joe Seneca, J. Lee
  11. Anello – Mike Hugg, Paul Jones, Manfred Mann, Tom McGuinness, Mike Vickers
  12. Untie Me – Joe South
  13. Bring It to Jerome – Jerome Green
  14. Without You – Paul Jones
  15. You’ve Got to Take It – Paul Jones

Frank Black And The Catholics: Same

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On September 9, 1997, “Spin Art” released the self-titled, debut Frank Black and the Catholics. album  It was recorded in March 1997, and was produced by Frank Black.

Personnel:

  • Frank Black– vocals, guitar
  • Lyle Workman– lead guitar
  • David McCaffery– vocals, bass
  • Scott Boutier– drums
  • Billy Bowers – recording

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Black, except where noted.

  1. All My Ghosts
  2. Back to Rome
  3. Do You Feel Bad About It?
  4. Dog Gone
  5. I Gotta Move
  6. I Need Peace
  7. King & Queen of Siam
  8. Six-Sixty-Six – Larry Norman
  9. Solid Gold
  10. Steak ‘n’ Sabre
  11. Suffering
  12. The Man Who Was Too Loud

Bunny Wailer: Blackheart Man

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On September 8, 1976, “Solomonic” label released “Blackheart Man”, the debut Bunny Wailer studio album. It was recorded in August 1975, at “Aquarius Recording Studios” in Kingston, Jamaica, and was produced by Bunny Wailer.

Personnel:

  • Bunny Wailer– lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, jaw harp, percussion, design
  • Tyrone “Organ D” Downie– keyboards
  • Peter Tosh – lead and rhythm guitar, melodica, harmonica, backing vocals
  • Aston “Family Man” Barrett– bass, lead and rhythm guitar, keyboards
  • Robbie Shakespeare– bass
  • Carlton “Carly” Barrett– drums
  • Willy Pep – congas
  • Larry McDonald – congas
  • Earl “Chinna” Smith– lead guitar
  • Karl Pitterson– acoustic guitar, engineer, mixing
  • Michael Murray – rhythm guitar
  • Eric Frater – lead guitar
  • Harold Butler – keyboards
  • Bernard Harvey – keyboards
  • Winston Wright– keyboards
  • Tommy McCook– flute, saxophone
  • “Dirty” Harry Hall– horns
  • Bobby Ellis– horns
  • Herman Marquis– horns
  • Mark West – horns
  • Bob Marley– backing vocals
  • Neville Garrick– percussion, cover artwork, design, photography
  • Chris Blackwell– mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Bunny Wailer.

  1. Blackheart Man
  2. Fighting Against Conviction
  3. The Oppressed Song
  4. Fig Tree
  5. Dream Land
  6. Rastaman
  7. Reincarnated Souls
  8. Amagideon (Armagedon)
  9. Bide Up
  10. This Train

Jeff Wayne: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds

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On September 6, 1978, “Columbia” label released “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds”, the debut Jeff Wayne studio album. It was recorded May 1976 – July 1977, and was produced by Jeff Wayne. The album retells the story of “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells.

Personnel:

  • Jerry Wayne – spoken words (The Voice of NASA), orchestration, conductor
  • Richard Burton– spoken words (The Journalist: the narrator-protagonist)
  • Justin Hayward– vocals (The Sung Thoughts of the Journalist)
  • David Essex– spoken words, vocals (The Artilleryman)
  • Chris Thompson– vocals (The Voice of Humanity)
  • Phil Lynott– spoken words, vocals (Parson Nathaniel)
  • Julie Covington– spoken words , vocals (Beth)
  • Chris Spedding – giuitar
  • Jo Partridge – guitar
  • Ken Freeman – keyboards, synthesizer
  • Herbie Flowers – bass
  • Barry Morgan – drums
  • Barry De Souza – percussion
  • Ray Cooper – percussion
  • Roy Jones – percussion
  • George Fenton – lute, santoor, zither
  • Pest (Geraldine Wayne) -sounds
  • Geoff Young – recording
  • Laurence Diana – recording assistant
  • Bill Foster – mastering
  • John Pasche – logo design, art direction
  • Nick Broome – design
  • Terry Relph-Knight – design
  • Geoff Taylor – painting
  • Michael Trim – painting
  • Peter Goodfellow – painting
  • Music Activity Management – musical coordinator
  • The General Booking Company – musical coordinator
  • Jerry Wayne – executive producer

Track listing:

All dialogues by Doreen and Jerry Wayne, based upon H.G. Wells’s original text.

All tracks by Jeff Wayne, except where noted.

  1. The Eve of the War
  2. Horsell Common and the Heat Ray
  3. The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine
  4. Forever Autumn – lyrics by Paul Vigrass and Gary Osborne
  5. Thunder Child – lyrics by Gary Osborne
  6. The Red Weed (Part 1)
  7. Parson Nathaniel
  8. The Spirit of Man – lyrics by Gary Osborne
  9. The Red Weed (Part 2)
  10. Brave New World -(lyrics by Gary Osborne)
  11. Dead London
  12. Epilogue (Part 1)
  13. Epilogue (Part 2)

Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker

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On September 5, 2000, “Bloodshot Records” label released “Heartbreaker”, the debut Ryan Adams studio album. It was recorded over fourteen days at “Woodland Studios”, and was produced by Ethan Johns.

  • Ryan Adams – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, banjo
  • David Rawlings- acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, tambourine, backing vocals
  • Gillian Welch – banjo, acoustic guitar, electric bass, backing vocals
  • Pat Sansone- piano, Chamberlin, organ, backing vocals
  • Ethan Johns – drums, bass, Chamberlain, glockenspiel, B-3, vibes, engineer, mixing
  • Emmylou Harris- backing vocals
  • Kim Richey- backing vocals
  • Allison Pierce- backing vocals
  • Patrick Himes – engineer assistant
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Gina Binkley – design
  • David McClister – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Ryan Adams, except where noted.

  1. Argument with David RawlingsConcerning Morrissey
  2. To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High – Ryan Adams, David Rawlings
  3. My Winding Wheel
  4. AMY
  5. Oh My Sweet Carolina
  6. Bartering Lines – Ryan Adams, Van Alston
  7. Call Me On Your Way Back Home
  8. Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)
  9. Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams, Van Alston
  10. To Be the One
  11. Why Do They Leave?
  12. Shakedown on 9th Street
  13. Don’t Ask for the Water
  14. In My Time of Need
  15. Sweet Lil Gal

Sugar: Cooper Blue

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On September 4, 1992, “Rykodisc” label released “Copper Blue”, the debut Sugar studio album. It was recorded 1990 – 1992, and was produced by Bob Mould and Lou Giordano. It was voted 1992 “Album of the Year” by the “NME”.

Personnel:

  • Bob Mould – vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion
  • David Barbe – bass
  • Malcolm Travis – drums, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob Mould.

  1. The Act We Act
  2. A Good Idea
  3. Changes
  4. Helpless
  5. Hoover Dam
  6. The Slim
  7. If I Can’t Change Your Mind
  8. Fortune Teller
  9. Slick
  10. Man on the Moon

Pearl Jam: Ten

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On August 27 1991, “Epic” label released “Ten”, the debut Pearl Jam studio album. It was recorded March – April 1991 at “London Bridge Studios” in Seattle,Washington, and was produced by Rick Parashar, Eddie Veddr, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready and Dave Krusen. The album was certified 13 x Platinum in the US by the “RIIA”.

Personnel:

  • Eddie Vedder– vocals, additional art
  • Mike McCready– lead guitar
  • Stone Gossard– rhythm guitar
  • Jeff Ament– bass guitar, art direction, art concept
  • Dave Krusen– drums, timpani
  • Rick Parashar– piano, organ, percussion
  • Walter Gray – cello
  • Tim Palmer– fire extinguisher and pepper shaker, mixing
  • Dave Hillis – engineer
  • Don Gilmore, Adrian Moore – additional engineering
  • Bob Ludwig– mastering
  • Steve Pitstick – additional art
  • Lisa Sparagano, Risa Zaitschek – design
  • Lance Mercer – photos

Track listing:

All lyrics by Eddie Vedder.

  1. Once – Stone Gossard
  2. Even Flow – Stone Gossard
  3. Alive – Stone Gossard
  4. Why Go – Jeff Ament
  5. Black – Stone Gossard
  6. Jeremy – Jeff Ament
  7. Oceans – Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Eddie Vedder
  8. Porch – Eddie Vedder
  9. Garden – Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament
  10. Deep – Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament
  11. Release – Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Dave Krusen, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder