COUNTING CROWS August And Everything After (1993)

Today 25 years ago,  Frisco Band COUNTING CROWS released the wonderful "August And Everything After".
Usually I am neither a big fan of the U.S., nor Americana or American Bands but there are some Artists or records in particular that I really like, like Johnny Cash or... "August And Everything After" when it comes to great albums.
My favourite song is "Anna begins"...

COUTNING CROWS August And Everything After (1993)
01 Round Here
02 Omaha
03 Mr. Jones
04 Perfect Blue Buildings
05 Anna Begins
06 Time And Time Again
07 Rain King
08 Sullivan Street
09 Ghost Train
10 Raining In Baltimore
11 A Murder Of One

THE SCIENCE OF WORDS In A Space (2018)

THE SCIENCE OF WORDS recently contacted me to introduce me to their new single "In A Space". I haven't heard of them before but I really like this song. What came to my mind is some kind of Surf-Punk with some Spiritualized sort of mad guitars and a catchy chorus.
And I love the ambient mix. Very spheric...
Support them. Buy the single...

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Squirrel Records

BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN Out Of Season (2002)

Beth Gibbons, of PORTISHEAD of course, with former TALK TALK member Paul Webb in a typical PORTISHEAD manner.
Wonderfully mellow and fitting for the "wee small hours" - if you don't prefer Ole Blue Eyes' long player of this name.

BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN Out Of Season (2002)
01 Mysteries
02 Tom The Model
03 Show
04 Romance
05 Sand River
06 Spider Monkey
07 Resolve
08 Drake
09 Funny Time Of Year
10 Rustin Man

CHET BAKER The Last Great Concert (1990)

CHET BAKER recorded his last great concert with the NDR Big band (the NDR is a local radio station in Northern Germany) on April, 28th 1988 only about two weeks before his fatal accident.
He died in Amsterdam 30 years ago.

You were one of the big ones, Chet.

CHET BAKER The Last Great Concert Vol.1&2 (1990)
CD1
01 All Blues
02 My Funny Valentine
03 Well You Needn't
04 Summertime
05 In Your Own Sweet Way
06 Django
07 I Fall In Love Too Easily
CD2
01 Look For the Silver Lining
02 I Get Along Without You Very Well
03 Conception
04 There's A Small Hotel
05 Sippin' At Bells
06 Tenderly
07 My Funny Valentine (Reprise)

KRAFTWERK Man-Nature-Technology (2013)

This is not an official release but a nice Best-Of Mixed.
It has the well known quality sound of Kraftwerk.
No rubbish, only great mixes.
This is for hardcore collectors.

KRAFTWERK Man-Nature-Technology.
01 The Hall Of Mirrors (Black Sand 7" Edit)
02 Aero Dynamik (The Portal Mix)
03 Radioactivity (Half-Life Lix)
04 Pocket Calculator (Black Sand Mix)
05 Home Computer (Disc Error Remix)
06 The Robots (Deprogrammed Edit)
07 Music Non Stop (Colorless Sand Mix)
08 Electric Café (Carbo-Hydrate Mix)
09 The Model (Stretched Mix)
10 Computer Love (The3rdMan Mix)
11 The Man Machine (Black Sand 7" Remix)
12 Metal Abzug Metal (A Mash Mix)
13 Tour De France (La Grande Boucle Mix)
14 Expo 2000 (Virus 13 Mix)

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SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS Epic Garden Music (1982)

Here you have the first album of SAD LOVERS & GIANTS from 1982.

It's brilliant and although it's more than 35 years old it absolutely stood the test of time.

The sound is still stile-forming and up to date.

The band still exists. They didn't release a record for decades but still perform live.

SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS Epic Garden Music  (1982)

01 Imagination

02 Landslide

03 When I see you

04 Colourless Dream

05 Things we never did

06 Lost in a Moment

07 The Tightrope Touch

08 Echoplay

09 Clocktower Lodge

10 Clint

11 Lope

12 Cloud 9

13 ART (By me)

14 Alice (isn't playing)

15 Far from the Sea

THE CRANBERRIES

This is a re-post in memory of DOLORES O'RIORDAN who died yesterday.

I once mentioned in a post that I compiled my personal Best Of CRANBERRIES. And that I never ever would have released "Zombie" as a single, how ever big the success might have been.
And this is my
Best Of THE CRANBERRIES:

01 I Still Do
02 Dreams
03 Sunday
04 Pretty
05 Not Sorry
06 Linger
07 Wanted
08 I Will Always
09 Put Me Down
10 Ode to My Family
11 Twenty One
12 Empty
13 Disappointment
14 Dreaming My Dreams
15 No Need to Argue
16 Away
17 When You're Gone
18 War Child
19 I'm Still Remembering
20 Joe
21 Cordell
22 Never grow old
23 Analyse
24 Dying inside
25 The Concept
26 Pretty eyes
27 I really hope
28 Every morning
29 Do you know
30 Carry on
31 Chocolate brown
32 Animal Instinct
33 You And Me
34 Just My Imagination
35 Shattered
36 Saving Grace
37 What's On My Mind
38 Fee Fi Fo
39 Dying In The Sun
Without "Zombie" and without "Salvation"!Finally!

ANNE CLARK I'll Walk Out Into Tomorrow (2018)

This month will witness the release of a documentary about ANNE CLARK called "I'll Walk Out Into Tomorrow" on 28th January.
I bet there are some out there who will go and watch with me... Somewhere out there...
I will keep you updated.