The Velvet Underground “I Found A Reason (demo)”
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The Velvet Underground “I Found A Reason (demo)”
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The Easybeats “Falling Off The Edge Of The World” (from the 7” 1968)
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A song Lou Reed once described as “the most beautiful in the world”.
The Velvet Underground “Sad Song (demo)”
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Slowdive “Catch The Breeze” (from the Holding Our Breath EP 1991)
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Peggy, Tom , Gigi and Woody are good friends of our family, and Drawn & Quarterly is the BEST. Ended up doing most of my Christmas shopping at the store this year.
(Tom, Gigi, Woody, Peggy drawing by Adrian Tomine)
A Vancouver Classic from 2000!Blissful, beautiful and deeply spaced album by Jeremy Schmidt, keyboardist for the excellent psych/70s/space/prog-rock-influenced Black Mountain. Mr Schmidt has some wicked keyboards, and uses them brilliantly. 35 minutes of this album are taken up by…
Love this record.
Sic Alps “Clarence” (from Skulls Without Borders 10” 2009)
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Kevin Ayers cover.
My Favorite Records of 2010
*in no particular order, and including reissues, comps, etc (i.e., my favorite records of 2010, not necessarily the best music made in 2010)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti- Before Today
What can I say, I love this record. The playing, the…
Curtis Mayfield “Hard Times” (from There’s No Place Like America Today 1975)
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Roxy Music “The Pride and the Pain” (from the Pyjamarama 7” 1973)
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Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band “Observatory Crest” (from Bluejeans & Moonbeams 1974)
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Much maligned, but I like parts of this LP quite a bit and this song’s a killer.
Captain Beefheart “Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles” (from The Spotlight Kid 1972)
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(photo by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward)
Don Van Vliet 1941 –2010
R.I.P.
Al Stewart “In Brooklyn” (from Love Chronicles 1969)
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Bobbie Gentry “Chickasaw County Child” (from Ode To Billie Joe 1967)
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