This second LCD full-length album is at once a more daring record, but also a more focused record. The most rewarding part about the first album was the inclusion of all LCD's previous vinyl releases collected on the bonus disc. The self titled debut itself was strong in places, but unfocused, and not much linked the various styles together. Here, on the second- record, LCD is able to create an album that wanders through various styles and yet somehow manages to still work as a larger whole. Murphy's vocals are alot stronger, and the sound is overall much fuller without being overdone. The slower songs are better, and the digital madness more infectious than ever. Overall, it is much more focused and rewarding effort from LCD. Highly recommended.
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
part1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6m66yg
part2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8i5qxz
Curtis Mayfield was one of the first black artists to openly sing about the inequities facing his race as well as sing with Afrocentricity. He wrote songs for his group, The Impressions, such as "Choice of Colors", "We're A Winner" and "Keep On Pushin'" that provided the soundtrack for the civil rights movement. On his first solo album, Curtis, he takes on a harder stance and his songs are most critical and scathing than the uplifting one he performed with The Impressions. Mr. Mayfield was never afraid of speaking his mind and his debut solo album has a whole lot to say.
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
http://www.sendspace.com/file/x38yep
In many respects, the band Grandaddy is endearingly anachronistic. Consisting of 5 men in their 20's and early 30's, they are very unassuming fellows who dress plainly and wear varying (and at times, disturbingly large) amounts of facial hair. They like to do things like skateboard, shoot guns and drink beer. Their music is something like you might find if there was a place where the sounds of the Beach Boys, Kraftwerk and Neil Young all intersected. On top of it all, their new record, "The Sophtware Slump" is a concept album, one of the mainstays of your typically bad prog-rock outfits, and again harkens to days long since passed. And so you if you haven't heard Grandaddy before, you might read this and wonder wherein then lies the appeal? But this truth of the matter is that this an almost impossibly wonderful, oddly beautiful record. How this is remains something of mystery, yet they pull it off flawlessy. Charisma? Anti-charisma, perhaps? I can't explain.
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
part1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mmr4x8
part2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yhzm54
Some people refer to "Bee Thousand" as Guided By Voices' crowning acheivement. I myself have to disagree. "Alien Lanes" has the same undefinable vibe that makes albums like The Beatles "Revolver" so great. The songs flow together like one 40-plus-minute mini rock opera. I don't think I can listen to songs like "Motor Away" without starting off with "Auditorium". Even the songs that don't stand out at first you find yourself singing along with repeatedly. If you like pop music a la the Beatles, Big Star, Pavement, R.E.M. and have a short attention span then this might as well be the only album you ever own.
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
http://www.sendspace.com/file/udk582
==> Earthlings (please watch this - tnx)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142
"The person who says it cannot be done should not
interrupt the person doing it." ~ Chinese Proverb.
"Independence is my happiness, ... my country is the
world, and my religion is to do good." ~ Thomas Paine
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