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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: A Jackknife To A Swan

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On July 9, 2002, “Side One Dummy” label released “A Jackknife to a Swan”, the seventh Mighty Mighty Bosstones (The) studio album. It was recorded in February 2002, and was produced by John Seymor, Dicky Barrett, Lawrence Katz, Joe Gittleman, Joe Sirois, Tim Burton, Roman Fleysher, Chris Rhodes, Beb Carr, Mike Denneen and Rolf Langsjoen.

Personnel:

  • Dicky Barrett – lead vocals, artwork
  • Ben Carr – vocals
  • Lawrence Katz – guitar, backing vocals
  • Mike Denneen – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Joe Gittleman – bass, backing vocals
  • Joe Sirois – drums
  • Tim “Johnny Vegas” Burton – saxophone
  • Roman Fleysher – saxophone
  • Chris Rhodes – trombone
  • Rolf Langsjoen – trumpet
  • Jim Fitting – harmonica, backing vocals
  • Tanya Michelle – backing vocals
  • John Seymour – backing vocals, engineer, mixing
  • Matt Tahaney – engineer assistant
  • Jon Pebsworth – production coordination
  • Carl Plaster – drum technician
  • Andrew Lenoski – design
  • Christian Clayton – cover art
  • Josh Dalsimer – photography

Track listing:

  1. A Jackknife to a Swan – Dicky Barrett, Tim Burton, Joe Gittleman
  2. Mr. Moran – Dicky Barrett, Gittleman, Lawrence Katz
  3. You Gotta Go! – Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman, Lawrence Katz
  4. Everybody’s Better – Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman, Chris Rhodes
  5. Sugar Free – Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman
  6. I Want My City Back – Dicky Barrett, Lawrence Katz
  7. Chasing the Sun Away – Dicky Barrett, Tim Burton
  8. You Can’t Win – Dicky Barrett, Lawrence Katz
  9. The Old School Off the Bright – Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman
  10. The Punch Line – Dicky Barrett, Lawrence Katz
  11. Go Big – Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman
  12. Shit Outta Luck – Joe Gittleman
  13. Seven Ways to Sunday – Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman, Lawrence Katz

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Toast

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On July 8, 2022, “Reprise” label released “Toast”, the 44th Neil Young studio album (credited to Neil Young and Crazy Horse). It was recorded November – December 2000 – February 2001, at “Toast Recoding Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by John Hanlon and Neil Young.

Personnel:  

  • Neil Young – vocals, guitar, piano, squeezebox, vibes, art direction
  • Pegi Young – vocals
  • Astrid Young – vocals
  • Frank Sampedro – vocals, guitar
  • Billy Talbot – vocals, bass guitar
  • Ralph Molina – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Tom Bray – trumpet
  • John Hanlon – engineer
  • Aaron Prellwitz, Alex Osborne, John Hausmann – engineer assistant
  • Niko Bolas – editing
  • Chris Bellman – mastering
  • Gary Burden, Janice Heo – art direction, design
  • Hannah Johnson, Ebet Roberts – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Neil Young.

  1. Quit
  2. Standing in the Light of Love
  3. Goin’ Home
  4. Timberline
  5. Gateway of Love
  6. How Ya Doin’?
  7. Boom Boom Boom

PJ Harvey: I Inside The Old Year Dying

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On July 7, 2023, “Partisan” label released “I Inside the Old Year Dying”, the tenth PJ Harvey studio album. It was recorded January – February 2022, at “Battery Studios” in London, and was produced by John Parish, Flood and Rob Kirwan.

Personnel:

  • PJ Harvey – vocals, nylon string guitar, steel string guitar, electric guitar, baritone guitar, bass guitar, piano, Rhodes piano, bass clarinet, drawings, inner sleeve photography
  • John Parish – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, drums, percussion, Rhodes piano, synth, variophon, trombone, bass guitar, mixing
  • Cecil – field recording samples, voice samples, bass keyboards, keyboards, synth, piano, loop creations, additional recording
  • Flood – synth, field recording samples, effects, pedals, loop creations, sonic disturbance, mixing
  • Ben Whishaw – backing vocals
  • Colin Morgan – backing vocals
  • Rob Kirwan – recording, mixing
  • Oliver Baldwin – additional recording
  • Sam Petts-Davies – original recordings of Ben Whishaw and Colin Morgan
  • Ed Farrell – engineer assistant
  • Jacob Zinzan – 2nd engineer assistant
  • Jason Mitchell – mastering
  • Jasdaface – lacquer cut by
  • Michelle Henning – art direction, design, front cover photography
  • Todd Lynn – back cover portrait – dress by
  • Kieran Tudor – back cover portrait – hair by
  • Rob Crane – additional design, typesetting
  • Steve Gullick – portrait and studio photograph
  • Brian Whar – portrait and studio photography assisted by
  • Sumit Bothra – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by PJ Harvey.

  1. Prayer at the Gate
  2. Autumn Term
  3. Lonesome Tonight
  4. Seem and I
  5. The Nether -edge
  6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
  7. All Souls
  8. A Child’s Question, August
  9. I Inside the Old I Dying
  10. August
  11. A Child’s Question, July
  12. A Noiseless Noise

Yusef Lateef: Yusef Lateef’s Detroit

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In June 1959, “Atlantic” label released “Yusef Lateef’s Detroit”, the 26th Yusef Lateef album. It was recorded in February 1969, at “Century Sound Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Joel Dorn.

Personnel:

  • Yusef Lateef – vocals, alto and tenor saxophone, flute, oboe
  • Thad Jones, Danny Moore, Jimmy Owens, Snooky Young – trumpet
  • Eric Gale – guitar
  • Hugh Lawson – piano
  • Cecil McBee – bass
  • Chuck Rainey – electric bass
  • Bernard Purdie – drums
  • Roy Brooks – drums
  • Ray Barretto, Norman Pride – congas
  • Albert Heath – percussion
  • Selwart Clarke, James Tryon – violin
  • Alfred Brown – viola
  • Kermit Moore – cello

Track listing:

All compositions by Yusef Lateef, except where noted.

  1. Bishop School
  2. Livingston Playground
  3. Eastern Market
  4. Belle Isle
  5. Russell and Elliot
  6. Raymond Winchester
  7. Woodward Avenue
  8. That Lucky Old Sun – Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith

Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse

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On June 26, 2012, “In the Red” label released “Slaughterhouse”, the debut Ty Segall Band studio album. It was recorded in February 2012, at “The Hangar” in Sacramento, California.

Personnel:

  • Ty Segall – lead vocals, guitar
  • Charles Moothart – guitar
  • Mikal Cronin – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Emily Rose Epstein – drums
  • Chris Woodhouse – recording, mixing
  • Tatiana Kartomten – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Ty Segall, Charles Moothart, Mikal Cronin, and Emily Rose Epstein, except where noted.

  1. Death
  2. I Bought My Eyes
  3. Slaughterhouse
  4. The Tongue
  5. Tell Me What’s Inside Your Heart
  6. Wave Goodbye
  7. Muscle Man
  8. The Bag I’m in – Fred Neil
  9. Diddy Wah Diddy – Bo Didley
  10. Oh Mary – Ty Segall
  11. Fuzz War

The Beach Boys: Friends

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On June 24, 1968, “Capitol” label released “Friends”, the 14th Beach Boys (The) studio album. It was recorded February – April 1968, at “ID Sound” in Los Angels, and was produced by Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson.  

Personnel:

  • Mike Love – vocals
  • Carl Wilson – vocals, guitar, bass
  • Brian Wilson – vocals, organ, piano
  • Dennis Wilson – vocals, harmonium, congas
  • Bruce Johnston – vocals, keyboard, piano
  • Al Jardine – vocals, electric bass
  • Marilyn Wilson – vocals
  • Murry Wilson – vocals
  • David Cohen – guitar
  • Al Vescovo – banjo, guitar, lap steel guitar
  • Jim Ackley – keyboard, guitar
  • Tommy Morgan – harmonica, bass harmonica
  • Jimmy Bond – upright bass
  • Lyle Ritz – electric bass, upright bass, ukulele
  • Jim Gordon – drums, woodblocks, bell, congas, timbales
  • Norm Jeffries – drums
  • Gene Pello – drums
  • Alan Estes – vibraphone, woodblocks, chimes
  • Bill Green – saxophone
  • Jim Horn – saxophone, clarinet
  • Don Englert – saxophone, clarinet
  • Roy Caton – trumpet
  • Robert T. Jung – saxophone
  • Bill Perkins – saxophone
  • Meyer Hirsch J. Kenneth Jensen – saxophone
  • Jay Migliori – saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Tom Scott – saxophone, bass flute
  • David Sherr – saxophone, oboe
  • Tony Terran – trumpet
  • Ollie Mitchell – trumpet
  • Dick Forrest – trumpet
  • Dick Hyde – tuba, flugelhorn
  • John DeVoogt – violin
  • Bonnie Douglas – violin
  • Arnold Belnick – violin
  • William Kurasch – violin
  • Jay Rosen – violin
  • Ralph Schaeffer – violin
  • Leonard Malarsky – violin
  • Paul Shure – violin
  • Norman Botnick – viola
  • David Burk – viola
  • Raymond Kelley – cello
  • Jacqueline Lustgarden – cello
  • Jim Lockert – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Meant for You – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  2. Friends – Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine
  3. Wake the World – Brian Wilson, Al Jardine
  4. Be Here in the Mornin’ – Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine
  5. When a Man Needs a Woman – Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Steve Korthof, Jon Parks
  6. Passing By – Brian Wilson
  7. Amma Lee, the Healer – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  8. Little Bird – Dennis Wilson, Steve Kalinich
  9. Be Still – Dennis Wilson, Steve Kalinich
  10. Busy Doin’ Nothin’ – Brian Wilson
  11. Diamond Head – Al Vescovo, Lyle Ritz, Jim Ackley, Brian Wilson
  12. Transcendental Meditation – Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine

Flaming Lips: Transmissions From Satelite Heart

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On June 22, 1993, “Warner Bros” label released “Transmissions from the Satellite Heart”, the sixth Flaming Lips studio album. It was recorded January – February 1993, and was produced by Keith Cleversley.

Personnel:

  • Wayne Coyne – vocals, guitar
  • Ronald Jones – guitar, backing vocals
  • Michael Ivins – bass, backing vocals
  • Steven Drozd – vocals, drums, keyboards, guitar
  • Keith Cleversley – recording, mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Wayne Coyne, Ronald Jones, Michael Ivins and Steven Drozd, except where noted.

  1. Turn It On
  2. Pilot Can at the Queer of God
  3. Oh My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight)
  4. She Don’t Use Jelly
  5. Chewin the Apple of Yer Eye
  6. Superhumans
  7. Be My Head
  8. Moth in the Incubator
  9. Plastic Jesus – Ed Rush, George Cromarty
  10. When Yer Twenty Two
  11.  Slow•Nerve•Action

Roberta Flack: First Take

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On June 20, 1969, “Atlantic” label released “First Take”, the debut Roberta Flack studio album. It was recorded in February 1969, at “Atlantic” in New York City, and was produced by Joel Dorn. In 2020, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked “First Take” at number 451 on its list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Roberta Flack – vocals, piano
  • Bucky Pizzarelli – guitars
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Ray Lucas – drums, percussion
  • Seldon Powell, Frank Wess – saxophone
  • Jimmy Nottingham, Joe Newman – trumpet
  • Benny Powell – trombone
  • Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff – violin
  • Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, Theodore Israel – viola
  • Charles McCracken, George Ricci – cello
  • William S. Fischer – horn and string arrangements, string conducting
  • William Arlt – recording
  • Bob Liftin – remix
  • Stanislaw Zagorski – design
  • Ken Heinen – photography

Track listing:

  1. Compared to What – Gene McDaniels
  2. Angelitos Negros – Andrés Eloy Blanco, Manuel Álvarez Maciste
  3. Our Ages or Our Hearts – Robert Ayers, Donny Hathaway
  4. I Told Jesus – traditional, arranged by Roberta Flack
  5. Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye – Leonard Cohen
  6. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Ewan MacColl
  7. Tryin’ Times – Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson
  8. Ballad of the Sad Young Men – Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf

Oingo Boingo: Only A Lad

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On June 19, 1981, “A&M” label released “Only a Lad”, the debut Oingo Boingo studio album. It was recorded December 1980 – February 1981, at “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, “United Western”, “Cherokee” and Westlake Audio” in Hollywood, and was produced by Pete Solley, Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek, Richard Gibbs, Kerry Hatch, Johnny Hernandez. Sam Phipps and Leon Schneiderman.

Personnel:

  • Danny Elfman – lead vocal, rhythm guitar, mixing
  • Steve Bartek – lead guitar. mixing
  • Richard Gibbs – keyboards, trombone, mixing
  • Kerry Hatch – vocals, bass, mixing
  • Johnny (Vatos) Hernandez – drums, mixing
  • Sam “Sluggo” Phipps – tenor saxophone
  • Leon Schneiderman – baritone saxophone
  • Dale Turner – trumpet
  • Steve Bartek – horn arrangements, charts
  • Steve Brown – engineer
  • Dave Ahlert – engineer assistant
  • Chuck Kirkpatrick – engineer assistant
  • Brad Gilderman – engineer assistant
  • Cary Pritikin – engineer assistant
  • Rick Ruggieri – mixing
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Chuck Beeson – art direction
  • Chris Hopkins – illustration
  • Louis Wain – cover drawing
  • Dave Willardson – back cover photography
  • Charlie White – back cover photography
  • Rob Sinskey – inner sleeve photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Danny Elfman, except where noted.

  1. Little Girls
  2. Perfect System
  3. On the Outside
  4. Capitalism
  5. You Really Got Me – Ray Davies
  6. Only a Lad
  7. What You See
  8. Controller
  9. Imposter
  10. Nasty Habits

Our Leady Peace: Gravity

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On June 18, 2002, “Columbia” label released “Gravity”, the fifth Our Lady Peace studio album. It was recorded November 2001 – February 2002, at “Plantation Mixing and Recording” in Haiku, Hawaii, and was produced by Bob Rock.

Personnel:

  • Raine Maida – vocals
  • Steve Mazur – guitars
  • Jamie Edwards – keyboards, guitars, string arrangements
  • Duncan Coutts – bass guitar
  • Jeremy Taggart – drums
  • Mike Turner – rhythm guitar
  • Bob Buckley – additional string arrangements
  • Mike Gillies – digital engineering, editing
  • Eric Helmkamp – second engineer
  • Randy Staub – mixing
  • Zach Blackstone – mixing assistant
  • George Marino – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Raine Maida, except where noted.

  1. All For You – Raine Maida, Jeremy Taggart, Duncan Coutts, Jamie Edwards, Mike Turner
  2. Do You Like It
  3. Somewhere Out There
  4. Innocent
  5. Made of Steel
  6. Not Enough
  7. Sell My Soul
  8. Sorry
  9. Bring Back the Sun – Raine Maida, Jeremy Taggart, Duncan Coutts, Jamie Edwards, Mike Turner
  10. A Story About a Girl – Raine Maida, Jeremy Taggart, Duncan Coutts, Jamie Edwards, Mike Turner