1001 Albums You Must Hear Before Something Bad Happens… # 991

Inspired by Steven Jay Schneider’s book “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die”
# 991
Artist: Nick Drake
Title: Five leaves left
Year: 1969
Nick Drake only recorded three albums during his active years between 1969-1972. He was only 26 years old when he died from an overdose of prescribed antidepressant.
“Five Leaves Left” was Nick Drake’s first album to be released [...]

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Buried Treasure – Larry Heard – Alien

Larry Heard – Alien
A couple of years ago I found this album called “Alien” by Larry Heard. A good friend of mine introduced me to his music and when I saw this CD in a bargain bin I bought it and was amazed by its music and production.
On this release from 1996 the music moves more [...]

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Cows Outside

Yesterday morning when I pulled the curtains our house had moved! Outside was a big field with cows. After a second or two I realized there was a big truck standing outside the window.

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Free is nice – Free Albums Galore

After I downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip yesterday I started thinking of other free albums available on the Internet. The first that came to mind was of course the Radiohead release of In Rainbows which was made available for download on their website last fall. 

I did a simple search  on the Internet [...]

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Free is Nice – Nine Inch Nails

Today I downloaded the album The Slip by Nine Inch Nails. I have never really listened to them but thought that since it is free why not give it a go. I have listened to it a little now and it is not bad. On some songs Trent Reznor sounds kind of like Dave Wyndorf from [...]

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Flight of the Conchords

The other week I heard this duo from New Zealand called Flight of the Conchords on the always excellent podcast Sound Opinions. They played the track “Bowie” and it was just so funny and good and then funny again.
Flight of the Conchords could be followed on their own TV show on HBO.
The description on their myspace page read “Folk / Afro-beat [...]

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Some fine wine

Last night my wife and I enjoyed a fine wine from one of the bottles shown in this picture.
I have to confess that I have a very weak spot for watching cooking shows on TV. One of my favourite is Canadian Michael Smith in his Chef at Home series. In one episode from the first season he [...]

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Chef at Home – Season One [DVD Cover]

Here is a preview of the DVD Cover I made for my recorded episodes of Chef at Home – Season One with Michael Smith. I will make it available for download here as soon at it is completed, just a little fine tuning left…
In the last episode I watched Michael Smith talked about how he loved to think [...]

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Charlotte Perrelli what will happen?

I was just wonder what will happen to my blogstats if I put the name Charlotte Perrelli in my post and tags today?
I am NOT a big fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, in my opinion it is impossible to compete in music. The other thing that annoys me is all the media coverage and hype [...]

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Star Trek Voyager

 
I just finished watched the very first episode of Star Trek Voyager called “Caretaker”. I did watch a few episodes of this series when it was showing on TV a while ago and remember liking it. It was really nice to watch it again and to see the very first episode. To get some background information on [...]

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