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Joshua Tillman: I Love You, Honeybear

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On February 10, 2015, “Sub Pop” label released “I Love You, Honeybear”, the second Joshua Tillman aka Father John Misty, studio album. It was recorded 2013 – 2014, and was produced by Jonathan Wilson and Joshua Tilman.

Personnel:

  • Joshua Tillman – vocal, guitar, piano, keyboards, harmonica, drums, percussion, horn and string arrangements, art direction
  • Keefus Ciancia – keyboards
  • Jonathan Wilson – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, mixing
  • Benji Lysaght – guitar
  • Farmer Dave Scher – lap steel guitar
  • Gabriel Noel – bass, strings, string arrangements
  • Paul Cartwright – mandolin, mandolin and string arrangements
  • Fred Herrera – horn and string arrangements
  • Andres Renteria – conga
  • Brian Walsh – clarinet
  • Arnie Barrera – trumpet
  • Javier Rodriguez – trumpet
  • Elizabeth Bacher – violin
  • Jorge Cardenas – violin
  •  arrangements, strings, violin
  • Hector Castro – violin
  • Daphne Chen – violin
  • Thomas Lea – viola
  • Claire Courchene – cello
  • Chavonne Stewart – vocals
  • Alethea Mills – vocals
  • Bryce Gonzales – engineer
  • Phil Ek– mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Sasha Barr – art direction
  • Alia Penner – artwork
  • Stacey Rozich – paintings
  • Emma Elizabeth Tillman – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Joshua Tillman.

  1. I Love You Honeybear
  2. Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)
  3. True Affection
  4. The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apt.
  5. When You’re Smiling and Astride Me
  6. Nothing Good Ever Happens at the Goddamn Thirsty Crow
  7. Strange Encounter
  8. The ideal Husband
  9. Bored in the USA
  10. Holy Shit
  11. I Went to the Store One Day

Ramones: Rocket To Russia

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On November 4, 1977, “Sire” label released “Rocket to Russia”, the third Ramones studio album. It was recorded August – September 1977, at “Media Sound Studios” in Midtown Manhattan, and was produced by Tony Bongiovi and Tommy Ramone. The album’s cover art concept was by John Gillespie, with John Holmstrom and Johnny Ramone work on the illustration. In 2012, “rolling Stone” magazine ranked “Rocket to Russia” at number 106 on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Joey Ramone– lead vocals
  • Johnny Ramone– lead guitar
  • Dee Dee Ramone– bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Tommy Ramone– drums
  • Ed Stasium– engineer
  • Don Berman – engineer assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • John Gillespie – art direction
  • Danny Fields– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Ramones, except where noted.

  1. Cretin Hop
  2. Rockaway Beach
  3. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
  4. Locket Love
  5. I Don’t Care
  6. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
  7. We’re a Happy Family
  8. Teenage Lobotomy
  9. Do You Wanna Dance? – Bobby Freeman
  10. I Wanna Be Well
  11. I Can’t Give you Anything
  12. Ramona
  13. Surfin’ Bird – Carl White, Alfred Frazier, John Harris, Turner Wilson
  14. Why Is It Always This Way?

Tame Impala: Lonerism

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On October 5, 2012, “Modular Recordings” label released “Lonerism” the second  Tame Impala studio album. It was recorded 2010–2012, at Perth, Australia and in Paris, and was produced by Kevin Parker. In November 2012, “Lonerism” won the 2012 “J Award” for Australian “Album of the Year”. In 2013 tame Impala won the “Rolling Stone Australia” award for “2012 Album of the Year”. The album was certified Platinum in Australia by “ARIIA”.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Parker– vocals, instrumentation, cover photogarphy
  • Jay Watson – piano, keys
  • Melody Prochet– spoken voice
  • Dave Fridmann– mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Leif Podhajsky– artwork, layout
  • Matthew C. Saville – studio photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Kevin Parker, except “Apocalypse Dreams” and “Elephant”, by Kevin Parker and Jay Watson.

  1. Be Above It
  2. Endors Toi
  3. Apocalypse Dreams
  4. Mind Mischief
  5. Music to Walk Home By
  6. Why Won’t They Talk to Me?
  7. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
  8. Keep on Lying
  9. Elephant
  10. She Just Won’t Believe Me
  11. Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
  12. Sun’s Coming Up

 

Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap

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On October 3, 1988, “Virgin” label released “Talk Is Cheap” the debut Keith Richards solo album. It was recorded August 1987 – May 1988, and was produced by Keith Richards, Steve Jordan.

Personnel:

  • Keith Richards– lead vocals, guitar
  • Waddy Wachtel– acoustic, electric, and slide guitar, production consultant
  • Mick Taylor– guitar
  • Bernie Worrell– organ, clavinet
  • Johnnie Johnson– piano
  • Chuck Leavell– organ
  • Ivan Neville– piano, keyboards
  • Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural –accordion
  • Joey Spampinato– bass guitar
  • Jimmi Kinnard – bass guitar
  • Bootsy Collins– bass guitar
  • Charley Drayton– bass guitar, drums
  • Steve Jordan– drums, percussion, bass,  backing vocals
  • Bobby Keys– tenor saxophone
  • Maceo Parker– alto saxophone
  • The Memphis Horns– horns
  • Michael Doucet– violin
  • Sarah Dash– duet and backing vocals
  • Patti Scialfa– backing vocals
  • Willie Mitchell– horn arrangements
  • Robert Berry, Joe Blaney, David Dorn ,Richard Ealey, Joe Ferla, David Kennedy, Paul Milner, Julio Pena, Don Smith, Roger Talkov – engineer
  • Joe Blaney, Don Smith – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Keith Richards and Steve Jordan.

  1. Big Enough
  2. Take It So Hard
  3. Struggle
  4. I Could Have Stood You Up
  5. Make No Mistake
  6. You Don’t Move Me
  7. How I Wish
  8. Rockawhile
  9. Whip It Up
  10. Locked Away
  11. It Means a Lot

Ramones: Road to Ruin

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On September 21, 1978, “Sire” label released “Road to Ruin”, the fourth Ramones studio album. It was recorded May – June 1978, at “Media Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Tommy Ramone and Ed Stasium. It was the first Ramones album to feature new drummer Marky Ramone, who replaced founding member Tommy Ramone. The album artwork was originally designed by Ramones fan Gus MacDonald, and later was modified by John Holmstrom to include Marky Ramone instead of Tommy Ramone.

Personnel:

  • Joey Ramone– lead vocals
  • Johnny Ramone– lead guitar
  • Dee Dee Ramone– bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Marky Ramone– drums
  • Tommy Ramone– engineer
  • Ed Stasium– engineer
  • Ray Janos – engineer assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • John Gillespie – art direction
  • John Holmstrom– cover art
  • Spencer Drate – design
  • Danny Fields– photography
  • Bob Gruen– photography
  • Chip Rock – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone and Mark Ramone, except where noted.

  1. I Just Want to Have Something to Do
  2. I Wanted Everything
  3. Don’t Come Close
  4. Needles and Pins – Sonnu Bono, Jack Nitzsche
  5. I’m Against It
  6. I Wanna Be Sedated
  7. Go Mental
  8. Questioningly
  9. She’s the One
  10. Bad Brain
  11. It’s a Long Way Back

Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis?

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On September 14, 1975, “A&M” label released “Crisis? What Crisis?”, the fourth Supertramp album. It was recorded 1975, at “A&M Studios” in Los Angeles; “Ramport Studios” and “Scorpio Studios” in London, and was produced by Ken Scott, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John Anthony Helliwell, Dougie Thomson and Bob C. Benberg,.

Personnel:

  • Rick Davies– vocals, keyboards, harmonica
  • Roger Hodgson– vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • John Anthony Helliwell– vocals, wind instruments
  • Dougie Thomson– bass
  • Bob C. Benberg– drums, percussion
  • Richard Anthony Hewson – arrangements
  • Greg Calbi, Jay Messina – mastering
  • John Jansen, Ed Thacker – assistant
  • Fabio Nicoli, Paul Wakefield, Dick Ward – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson.

  1. Easy Does It
  2. Sister Moonshine
  3. Ain’t Nobody But Me
  4. A Soapbox Opera
  5. Another Man’s Woman
  6. LadyPoor Boy
  7. Just a Normal Day
  8. The Meaning
  9. Two of Us

 

Interpol: Same

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On September 7, 2010, “Matador Records” label released the self-titled,  fourth Interpol album. It was recorded 2009 – 2010, at “Electric Lady Studios” in new York City, and was produced by Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino.

Personnel:

  • Paul Banks– lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Daniel Kessler– lead guitar, piano
  • Carlos Dengler– bass, keyboards
  • Sam Fogarino– drums, percussion
  • Azealia Banks- backing vocals
  • Claudius Mittendorfer – engineer
  • Alan Moulder– mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino.

  1. Success
  2. Memory Serves
  3. Summer Well
  4. Lights
  5. Barricade
  6. Always Malaise (The Man I Am)
  7. Safe Without
  8. Try It On
  9. All of the Ways
  10. The Undoing

Bob Dylan: Modern Times

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On August 29, 2006, “Columbia” label released “Modern Times”, the thirty-second Bob Dylan studio album. It was recorded in February 2006, and was produced by Jack Frost (Bob Dylan pseudonym). In the 2012, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked the album at number 204 on its list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. In 2007, Dylan won “Grammy Award” for “Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album” for “Modern Times” and the “Grammy Award” for “Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance” for the song “Someday Baby”.

Personnel:

  • Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
  • Donnie Herron – steel guitar, violin, viola, mandolin
  • Denny Freeman– guitar
  • Stu Kimball – guitar
  • Tony Garnier– bass guitar, cello
  • George G. Receli – drums, percussion
  • Chris Shaw – engineer
  • Tom Aiezza – engineer assistant
  • Sheldon Yellowhair – engineer assistant
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Ted Croner – cover photography (1947 photograph “Taxi, New York at Night”)

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob Dylan.

  1. Thunder on the Mountain
  2. Spirit on the Water
  3. Rollin’ and Tumblin’
  4. When the Deal Goes Down
  5. Someday Baby
  6. Workingman’s Blues #2
  7. Beyond the Horizon
  8. Nettie Moore
  9. The Levee’s Gonna Break
  10. Ain’t Talkin

David Byrne & Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

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On August 18, 2008, “Todo Mundo” label released “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today”, the second album made in collaboration between  David  Byrne and Brian Eno. It was recorded by Brian Eno in his London home studio through 2006, finished by David Byrne and Leo Abrahams in their New  York  City and London home studios through 2008; additional instrumentation recorded at “Cafe Music Studios” and “Harder Sound” in New York City. At the 51st “Annual Grammy Awards” in February 2009, Stefan Sagmeister won the award for “Best Recording Package”

Personnel:

  • David Byrne – vocals, guitars
  • Brian Eno – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, electric drums,  Kaoss Pad, keyboards, guitars, , brass, backing vocals, traps, keyboards
  • Leo Abrahams – guitars, percussion, piano, hurdy-gurdy, bass  guitar, Dubreq Stylophone, programming, glockenspiel
  • Jarvis Cocker– guitar
  • Phil Manzanera– guitar
  • Steve Jones– guitars
  • Tim Harries– bass
  • Mauro Refosco– murky pandeiro, cricket shaker, reco reco, peddler’s rattle bongo, conga, tambourine, zabumba, cahon, tamborim, shaker
  • Robert Wyatt– frame drum
  • Seb Rochford– live drums
  • Barry Danielian – brass
  • Dan Levine – brass and arrangement
  • Dave Mann – brass
  • Paul Shapiro– brass
  • Darla Eno – vocals
  • Irial Eno – vocals
  • Melanie Hall QC – backing vocals
  • Patrick Dillett – mixing, live brass and percussion recording
  • Robert Harder – live drum recording
  • Cherif Hashizume – live drum recording
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Sagmeister, Inc.– design
  • Stephan Walter – illustration

Track listing:

All lyrics written by David Byrne; all music by David Byrne (vocals) and Brian Eno (instrumentation), except where noted.

  1. Home
  2. My Big Nurse
  3. I Feel My Stuff
  4. Everything That Happens
  5. Life Is Long
  6. The River
  7. Strange Overtones – Brian Eno, David Byrne, Leo Abrahams
  8. Wanted for Life
  9. One Fine Day
  10. Poor Boy
  11. The Lighthouse

Tame Impala: Currents

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On July 17, 2015, “Modular” label released “Currents”, the third Tame Impala studio album. It was recorded 2012 – 2015, at Kevin Parker’s home studio in Fremantle, Australia, and was produced by Kevin Parker. At the 2015 “ARIA Music Awards”, “Currents” was awarded “Best Rock Album”;  “Album of the Year”; Kevin Parker won “Engineer of the Year” award and “Producer of the Year” and Tame Impala were named “Best Group”

Personnel:

  • Kevin Parker– vocals, all instruments, engineer, mixing
  • Rob Grant – engineer, mixing advisor
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Robert Beatty – design
  • Matthew C. Saville – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Kevin Parker.

  1. Let It Happen
  2. Nangs
  3. The Moment
  4. Yes I’m Changing
  5. Eventually
  6. Gossip
  7. The Less I Know the Better
  8. Past Life
  9. Disciplies
  10. Cause I’m a Man
  11. Reality in Motion
  12. Love / Parnoia
  13. New Person, Same Old Mistakes