I know must people won’t like this album but I have had it in my head for the last few weeks. One of my best friends turned me on to it. I normally don’t go for “Prog Rock” or even virtuosity in music. However there was something about this album that has always stuck with me.

If anybody is a fan of the Venture Brothers they just made a refrence to King Crimson in the episode in Season 4 called “Perchance to Dean”

I was going to write about King Crimson and the album but I quickly realized that wikipedia did much of that work for me so if you are interested here is the King Crimson wikipedia page.
Here is the Discipline wikipedia page

This was an all star band made up of people you are familiar with but never knew you knew. The lineup for this album was
Rober Fripp
Adrian Belew
Tony Levin
Bill Bruford

The only other thing that I would like to point out it is this is the album that first introduced me to the Chapman Stick. Instead of me rambling on about it if you are interested feel free to read the Chapman Stick wikipedia page.

Also If you interested in finding out the meaning behind the song Thela Hun Ginjeet click here for Adrian Belew’s blog entry about it.
Now let’s get to the music.
1. Elephant Talk

2. Frame by Frame

3. Matte Kudasai

4. Indiscipline

5. Thela Hun Ginjeet

6. Sheltering Sky

7. Discipline

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My pick for Album of the Week is August and Everything After by Counting Crows.  I was in high school when this album came out.  I loved it then, and I still love it now!

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For the Album of the Week I chose Roy Rogers Live At The Sierra Nevada Brewery Big Room.

No, NOT the cowboy!

This Roy Rogers is an outstanding blues guitarist. I was first introduced to Roy Rogers on a PBS show called Austin City Limits, which features a variety of live performances (blues, bluegrass, country, rock, etc). This is upbeat, often lightning-quick blues. I watched, mesmerized as his fingers and/or slide flew up and down the neck of the guitar.

Yes, it’s a live recording. But the sound quality is crisp and clear, and unlike a lot of live cds the performances are truly spectacular!

As a bonus, I found this short video on YouTube, which I don’t think is on the album, but is really cool.

He’s got other videos on YouTube, but the songs aren’t on this album.
Check out his official website

Hope you enjoy this album as much as I do.
Let us know what you think.

-Crash

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With my first pick of album of the week I’m choosing Wilco’s Summerteeth.  I choose this album because it reminds me of summer.   Not because of the name of the album (a play on words) but because I think I first heard it in the summer.  After listening to the album again I realized that it doesn’t have the summer sound that I remember but I still say it’s a very well written album start to finish. I won’t get into the details of the album if your interested you can read them here.  This is one of the first albums that I was really impressed by the lyrics.  I usually don’t pay attention to lyrics (I know bad habit).  The songs on this album or so well written that you can’t help but notice them.  I hope you enjoy even if it’s a song or two.  Let us know what you think in the comments below.

Feel free to check out Wilco’s website at Wilcoworld.

They also have a podcast you can find on iTunes but to be honest they don’t do it very often (even less then us) but when they do it’s worth listening or watching.

I did a quick search on youtube for them and found video’s for songs on the album.  I have to admit that I have not watched the video’s so I can’t speak for their quality but if you don’t have the album and your curious I hope they give you a taste of what the album sounds like.

Songs :

3. A Shot in the arm

5. I’m always in love

7. Pieholden Suite

8. How to Fight loneliness

9. Via chicago

11. My Darling

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I have the honor you picking the first “Album of the Week”. Then next week will be Sezduck, then MJ.

I wanted to pick something I really enjoyed, however did not scary anyone away, and still open their minds a bit. I their fore chose Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call.

This is an extremely romantic album. Some say it was written about PJ Harvey. Nick Cave and PJ Harvey had worked on his pervious album, Murder Ballads. She sang on 2 tracks, Henry Lee, and Death is not the End. This album was some what of a departure for Mr. Cave, I mean to jump from an album where every song (but 1) was about murder, to a romantic album, shows the versatility of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Now to “borrow” some information from Wikipedia –

The Boatman’s Call is the tenth studio album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released in 1997 and remains one of the most critically acclaimed releases of Nick Cave’s long career.
The album’s tone is sombre and minimalist. Stylistically and lyrically it marks a major departure for Cave, away from full-band arrangements and character-based narratives towards the more intimate sound of Cave’s solo voice accompanied by piano or a few other instruments. The tempo is also generally slow. Many of the lyrics seem to reflect on Cave’s personal relationships and spiritual yearnings. Some songs are thought to be directed at either the mother of Cave’s son Luke, Viviane Carneiro (“Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?”) or PJ Harvey, with whom he had a brief relationship around that time (“West Country Girl”, “Black Hair” and “Green Eyes”).
Trivia
• Cave performed “Into My Arms” at the funeral of Michael Hutchence, and demanded that the TV cameras be shut off for his performance out of respect for Hutchence.
• The song “People Ain’t No Good” was featured in the movie Shrek 2.

Please let us know what you think of the album.
Cheers and Enjoy

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