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Sorry folks, kept trying to get this together last night but every time

I sat down at the computer the door would ring and another gaggle of

trick-or-treaters would appear. The little darlings ate all my

candy, now what am I to do? Aside: WC Fields on wether he liked

children answered "Yes, Well done".

Next week we give away another Klispch t-shirt.

Format's simple: Name of artist or group, name of album, type of

music as best you can (rock, blues etc.), and recording format (cd, lp

etc.)

As usual I'll kick it off with:

Steve Wolf and Swing Speak. self-titled, cd, jazz

This is a local Washington, DC group that plays a mixture of smooth

jaz, swing, latin and a smidge of rythym and blues. A nice chagne

of place, suprisingly well recorded and is off the Powerhouse label.

So waht do you have to share this week?

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well ..... since somebody brought up the "best guitar riff " thread ....

i'll put up for your enjoyment ..

Yngvie Malmsteen ---Seventh Sign

true '80's rock, glam vocals, pounding double bass drum, and all, but

Smmmooookin' ultra precise neo-classical guitar thru a ton of Marshall

model 1987's....

Vai, 'n Satch just can't hold a candle to this totally egotistical shredder.............

i have copped so many amazing arpeggio's, tricks, and various other

foolery fron Yngvie, it makes other guitarist's, esp the blues

guy's ....just slink away when i pull out my 1965 SG Jr.......[:D]

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Uriah Heep-Salisbury on CD, rock/progressive rock

Heeps

best IMHO. Their only TRUE progressive rock LP. The title track is a 16

minute epic, sweeping melodies, crunching riffs. I like all their CD

with David Byron as the lead singer, after he left they went downhill

fast, Salisbury is their best

Ron

Man, i gotta look that one up ....

i know my nieghbors really enjoy Uriah Heep ....

they always wave funny to me when i play some ....

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Music to roller skate by!

Remember: Fast skaters only when playing "Wipe Out"..

The Ultimate History of Rock & Roll Collection, Vol. 4: Rockin' Instrumentals

01. Walk, Don't Run - The Ventures

02. Pipeline - The Chantays

03. Telstar - Tornadoes 74

04. Rinky Dink - Dave "Baby" Cortez

05. Tuff - Ace Cannon

06. Memphis - Lonnie Mack

07. Last Night - The Mar-Keys

08. Red River Rock - Johnny & the Hurricanes

09. Let's Go - Routers

10. Forty Miles of Bad Road - Duane Eddy

11. Teen Beat - Sandy Nelson

12. Out of Limits - The Marketts

13. Raunchy - Bill Justis

14. Wipe Out - The Surfaris

15. No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) - The T-Bones

Raunchy is my top pick for the CD.

But the "Alka-Seltzer" classic commercial song from the past "No Matter

What Shape (Your Stomach's In) by The T-Bones". Yes it was the

T-Bones.

Every song on this CD brings back sounds from the past. Most of the songs have not had any air play of any kind for years.

What memories does this CD bring back to you?

For me, roller skating!

Greg

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Hope everyone survived Halloween....we didn't have any mosters at the

door - hubby was sick, step-daughter gone so it was left to me...and I

voted to "just say NO" to Halloween!

My pick for the week --

Billboard Hot Soul Hits of 1974 / self explanatory (it's Soul!!) / cd /

great bunch of songs when you want to go slumming back to your youth!

1. TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - The Three Degrees/MFSB

2. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe - Barry White (of course it has Barry White!!)

3. Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang

4. Sideshow - Blue Magic

5. Then Came You - Dionne Warwick/The Spinners

6. Do It ('Til Your Satisfied) - B.T. Express

7. I Feel A Song (In My Heart) - Gladys Knight & The Pips

8. I'm In Love - Aretha Franklin

9. My Thang - James Brown

10. Mighty Love (Part 1) - The Spinners

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A good friend introduced me to The Blood Brothers this week, with their latest and supposedly greatest, album "Crimes."

This is loud, screaming, take-no-prisoners punk rock at it's true core roots. If you're into loud, raw, and hard punk - or simply want to see what it's all about - this is a CD that will educate you better than Ms. Honey in the 4th grade.

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I need to thank nicholtl and womanthing - I picked up both of their recommendations from last week.

My pick for this week is "Goddess in Progress" by Julie Brown from

1985. I don't know if it's availble on cd - it was a short LP

with only five songs and a total running time of 18 or 19

minutes. It's fun music and the lyrics are dead clever.

Most of the songs on this LP were featured in the 1989 film "Earth

Girls Are Easy" that starred Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and Jim

Carrey. Ok, the movie wasn't so great, but the songs are.

There is a copy of the LP for sale on ebay right now (no relation to

seller). Get a copy or come over and listen to mine.

Song titles:

I Like 'Em Big and Stupid

The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun

Will I Make Through the Eighties?

'Cause I'm a Blonde

Earth Girls Are Easy

Some lyrics from "'Cause I'm a Blonde":

I took an IQ test, and I flunked it of course.

I can't spell VW, but I gotta Porsche,

'Cause I'm blonde, B-L-I-N-D.

'Cause I'm a blonde; don't you wish you were me?

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Me, I am sticking with prog rock, so my pick for this week is:

Visionary - Strange but Familier Shores

To be honest, I cannot remember if I've already did this one or not,

but if I did, I'll change this to something else (such as Evergrey - Solitude-Dominance-Tragedy), otherwise....

This is like Dream Theater meets Queensryche. Track #4, "Media",

has a very Queensryche sound to it, almost like something I'd expected

to hear on Operation Mindcrime. But track #5, takes on a more Dream Theater type sound.

The vocalist, Tony Horstmanshoff, does sound very much like the lead

vocalist of Queensryche. Some excellent, and tight sounding

guitars as well as just enough keyboard backup, but not overdone.

Percussion/Drums comes across nice and clean, and tight.

The recording itself is excellent. Very clean and detailed

sounding. Does not seem like they are using any compression on

this one. It sounds extremely good in both my car and on my home

system.

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Live -- "Throwing Copper"

Alternative Rock --

This was a blockbuster for them. Very passionate vocals over big chords and crunching songs, Many of the songs "Lightning Crashes" "Iris", "White, Discussion" and a few others were all over rock radio--

Every time I re-visit it--it rocks-

That was one of my favorite CDs of that time period; "I Alone" was the main hit from that album, right? Live seemed extremely promising, but haven't heard much from them for several years. I have a couple of their subsequent CDs, but they aren't nearly as good as TC.

I will go back a decade with my recommendation: Herbie Hancock's 1984 CD "Sound System." Genre is "jazz-fusion-synth-funk," nearly all synthesized music. I think his "Future Shock" CD was more well known, at least the title cut was an early MTV video (remember those weird robotic assemblages?), but I like the cuts from SS a little better. It's very catchy, with a lot of very interesting sounds layered upon layers. I know some of his releases of that genre have been remastered; mine is the original, and I bet any remaster will punch up the bass a bit, as it is not quite as thumpy as many modern recordings. The only downside of this CD is the length, at only 33 minutes.

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Rock, classical and the mighty MOOG

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition

I originally had this live performance on Reel-to-Reel. Just looked on

Ebay and someone sold the reel-to-reel version for $103.50.

I have had the CD now for some time and there is a remastered DVD

version out which will give you the live video and 5.1 digital sound to

boot.

Released on LP: January 1972

Released on audio CD: May 21, 1996

Released on DVD: July 30, 2002

01 Promenade-The Gnome-Promenade-The Sage-The Old Castle-Blues Variations

02 The Gnome

03 Promenade

04 The Sage

05 The Old Castle

06 Blues Variation

07 Promenade

08 The Hut of Baba Yaga

09 The Curse of Baba Yaga

10 The Hut of Baba Yaga

11 The Great Gates of Kiev-The End

12 End-Nutrocker

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