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Artist: Boards of Canada Track: Wildlife Analysis Album: Music Has the Right to Children Genre: Ambient
Boards of Canada are an electronic music duo from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, formed in 1985 and comprised of brothers Mike Sandison (born 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born 21 July 1971).
They have released a number of works, most notably the studio albums Music Has the Right to Children (1998), Geogaddi (2002), and The Campfire Headphase (2005) on the pioneering electronic music label Warp.
Their fourth album Tomorrow’s Harvest was released in June 2013.
Track: Cantata No. 147, ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’ BWV147 (1989 Remastered Version), PART TWO: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (from Cantata No. 147)
Album: Bach’s Greatest Hits
Genre: Classical
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period.
He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor.
Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach.
Album: His Best 1947 To 1956 – The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (Reissue)
Genre: Blues
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, Issaquena County, Mississippi, April 4, 1913 – Westmont, Illinois, April 30, 1983) was an American blues musician and is generally considered “the father of Chicago Blues.”
His career spanned over thirty years and he produced what are considered to be some of the finest blues songs ever, such as Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy and Got My Mojo Working.
Muddy Waters is generally considered one of the most influential bluesmen of all time.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre was formed in San Francisco in 1990. The band has had over 40 members since then, but its driving force and main songwriter is Anton Newcombe.
Other prominent members have included Matt Hollywood, Dean Taylor, Jeff Davies, Brian Glaze, and Joel Gion.
Their sound is heavily influenced by the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s, but also carries influences from shoegaze, jangle pop, garage rock, and lo-fi genres.
Over its decade-long history, the band has undergone a large number of personnel changes.
Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request is the fourth album by American neo-psychedelia band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the second of three critically acclaimed albums released by the band in 1996.
It was released on Tangible Records, distributed by Bomp! Records.
The title is a both a pun on and a tribute to the Rolling Stones’ 1967 album, Their Satanic Majesties Request.
In homage to and influenced by the Stones’ somewhat controversial psychedelic album, Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request reveals vast experimentation with Indian drones, sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels.
Following in the footsteps of Keith Richards and Brian Jones, BJM capture and explore the psychedelic rock sound of the late 1960s.
The opening track, All Around You (Intro), pays tribute to the showmanship of the Stones, calling one and all to the psychedelic trip that they are about to be put through
Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983 in Southgate, London, died 23 July 2011 in Camden, London) was an English singer and composer, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll and Rhythm and Blues.
Her musical formation went through listening to such jazz legends as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan; she was later influenced by contemporary metropolitan popular music as well.
On Back to Black, her second album and U.S. debut, singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse defines her own tradition.
With a deeply personal touch, she commands settings that meld torchy doo-wop era ballads, soul and girl-group slammers, and current hip-hop winners.
Winehouse, already famous in her native England for reckless, tipsy behavior, topped the charts there with “Rehab,” a construction that wraps her protests that Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway are more help than a clinic could be in a forthright tribute to early-’60s radio that does the Ronettes and the Drifters proud.
Despite the buzz from that instant anthem, Back to Black doesn’t shy from the heartbroken — and not just in the “Me and Mr. Jones”’ complaint that she missed a Slick Rick show.
The title track brings the real pain, one more in an album of performances that certify the 23-year-old Winehouse as an undeniable master.
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States) is an American musician, poet and artist whose position in popular culture is unique.
Dylan started his musical odyssey in 1959 when he began playing in Dinkytown, Minneapolis while attending the University of Minnesota.
Shortly after starting to play he changed his stage name to Bob Dylan, after being influenced by the poetry of Dylan Thomas before legally changing his name in 1962.
Highway 61 Revisited is Bob Dylan’s sixth studio album, released in 1965 by Columbia Records.
It is Dylan’s first album to be recorded entirely with a full rock band, after he experimented with the approach on half of Bringing It All Back Home.
It is commonly tagged as documenting the “angry young man” period in Dylan’s career, in-between the playfulness of its surrounding albums; many of the songs on Highway 61 are of an accusatory nature and feature rough, loud takes.
Featuring hits and concert staples such as “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Desolation Row”, and “Ballad of a Thin Man”, it is also generally considered to be among the artist’s best and most influential efforts.
Dylan himself commented, “I’m not gonna be able to make a record better than that one… Highway 61 is just too good. There’s a lot of stuff on there that I would listen to.”
The album peaked at #3 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart and #4 in the UK, while “Like a Rolling Stone” reached #2 on the US Pop Singles chart and #4 in the UK, also receiving the accolade of being placed #1 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The album itself was ranked #4 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, and director.
Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince was known for his electric work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant fashion sense and use of makeup, and wide vocal range.
His innovative music integrated a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R&B, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop.
He sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
The Very Best of Prince is a Best of compilation album by Prince, released in 2001. It contains most of his commercially successful singles in their radio edits, including the U.S. #1’s “Let’s Go Crazy”, “When Doves Cry”, “Kiss” and “Cream”.
The album cover is somewhat a point of contention with some fans. It consists of 9 photos in a square shape, but the selection of photos is odd and does not really represent the album’s contents.
Two of the nine photos are from albums from which no songs were selected. Six photos were from the Parade and Graffiti Bridge albums, which only contributed one song each.
The collection does not include the US #1 hit “Batdance”, most likely due to licensing of the character ‘Batman’, one supposes that Batman album is being unofficially written out of his discography.
The Smashing Pumpkins are an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1988.
Billy Corgan and James Iha met in a record store, and began performing in local nightclubs with their bassist, D’arcy Wretzky, using a drum machine.
Playing with a drum machine frustrated both the band and their audience, and so Chicago jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was hired soon afterwards.
Less influenced by punk than many of their contemporaries, the Pumpkins had a densely layered
Siamese Dream is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993 on Virgin Records.
The album fused diverse influences such as shoegazing, dream pop, classic heavy metal, and progressive rock.
Despite recording sessions fraught with difficulties and tensions, Siamese Dream debuted at number ten on the Billboard charts, sold over four million copies in the U.S. and over six million worldwide, cementing The Smashing Pumpkins as a major force in the alternative rock movement.
Siamese Dream released four hit singles including “Cherub Rock”, “Today”, “Disarm”, and “Rocket”. The Smashing Pumpkins formed in Chicago in 1988.
Their debut album, Gish, was released on Caroline Records in 1991 to unexpected success and acclaim. After the release of Nevermind later that year, The Smashing Pumpkins were hyped as “the next Nirvana”.
The band was signed to Caroline Records parent Virgin Records and began recording a follow-up album. Frontman Billy Corgan felt “this great pressure to make the next album set the world on fire.”
The immense pressure to succeed intensified an already problematic situation: drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was undergoing an increasingly severe addiction to heroin, guitarist James Iha and bassist D’arcy Wretzky had recently ended their romantic relationship, and Corgan, aside from battles with weight gain and suicidal depression, was suffering from his worst-ever bout of writer’s block.
Siamese Dream was recorded mainly between December 1992 and March 1993.
The band relocated to Triclops Studios in Marietta, Georgia for the album sessions, so they could avoid local friends and distractions, and to cut Chamberlin off from his known drug connections.
Butch Vig reprised his role as producer after working on their debut album Gish.
After he suffered a nervous breakdown, Corgan began visiting a therapist.
Consequently his lyrics became more explicit about his troubled past and his insecurities.
“Today” was the first song written by Corgan for Siamese Dream. He played the self-recorded demo to Vig, and received a positive reaction.
Soon afterward, executives from Virgin Records came to observe the band after hearing about their problems, but were pleased with the demo and did not soon return to the studio.
The reaction from the executives only served to put more stress on Corgan.
Corgan worked overtime, practically living in the studio for the recording of Siamese Dream—he and Vig would sometimes work on a 45-second section of music for two days, working 16-hour days for weeks at a time to achieve the sound Corgan wanted.
Corgan’s desire for musical perfection put further strain on the already-frayed relationships between the band members.
Vig later recalled, “D’arcy would lock herself in the bathroom, James wouldn’t say anything, or Billy would lock himself in the control room.
” Corgan often overdubbed Iha’s and Wretzky’s parts with his own playing. Wretzky stated that Corgan only performed most of the guitar and bass parts because he could lay them down in recording easier and with far fewer takes.
While Chamberlin performed all drum parts on the album, he would disappear for days on drug benders that caused everyone to fear for his life.
After one incident where the drummer had disappeared for two or three days, Corgan “put the hammer down”, according to Vig, and had Chamberlin perform the drum part for “Cherub Rock” until his hands bled.
Due to Corgan’s urging, Chamberlin checked into a rehab clinic. Corgan told Spin later that year, “You know, I gave them a year and a half to prepare for this record… I’m surrounded by these people who I care about very much, yet they continue to keep failing me.”
Corgan explained that he began to take the actions of others personally; he said, “If you really think about it, of course, someone doesn’t do the job because they’re lazy, or they don’t think it’s important. But I took it as, ‘You’re not worth going home and working on the song.'”
Virgin began to grow impatient with the album’s recording as it went over budget and became behind schedule.
The band, however, would not let the company cut corners if it meant compromising the sound.
By the time recording was completed, Corgan and Vig felt too emotionally exhausted to mix the record. Corgan suggested that engineer Alan Moulder mix the album, due to his work on Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.
Moulder booked two weeks in a studio to mix the album; the mix ended up taking 36 days to complete.
Eventually, the album was finished after four months and $250,000 over budget.
Siamese Dream was released on July 27, 1993. The following week it debuted at number ten on the Billboard charts.
Stories of the album’s recording had circulated in the music press.
Corgan admitted there was some truth to accusations of tyrannical behavior, though he felt the press misunderstood the situation.
Entertainment Weekly gave the album a “B” rating; reviewer David Browne praised the band for living up to industry expectations of being the “next Nirvana” and compared Siamese Dream favorably to Nirvana’s Nevermind.
Browne concluded, “In aiming for more than just another alternative guitar record, Smashing Pumpkins may have stumbled upon a whole new stance: slackers with a vision.”
Critic Simon Reynolds disagreed; he wrote in his review for The New York Times that “fuzzed-up riffs and angst-wracked vocals are quite the norm these days, and Smashing Pumpkins lacks the zeitgeist-defining edge that made Nirvana’s breakthrough so thrilling and resonant.”
Robert Christgau of the Village Voice gave the album a three star honorable mention, selecting “Geek U.S.A.” and “Today” as highlights.
Siamese Dream earned The Smashing Pumpkins their first Grammy Award nominations.
The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, and the group was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal at the Grammy Awards of 1994.
The album is frequently included in lists of the best albums of the 1990s — the Alternative Press ranked it fourth, Pitchfork Media ranked it 18th, and Spin ranked it 23rd. In 2003, the album was ranked number 360 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The artwork for the album was initially going to be created by an outsider artist, but after a series of disagreements with the label, Corgan was forced to step in at the last minute.
The album booklet, composed of old photographs of both strangers and Corgan’s family members with lyrics handwritten on top, was assembled by Corgan and his wife the day after their wedding.
Corgan was not satisfied with the results. The first pressing of the CD contained a 20-page booklet, with a separate page devoted to each song’s lyrics and accompanying photograph; later pressings contained a four-panel fold-out liner with thumbnails of each picture.
In 1999, Virgin records reissued the album with the original 20-page booklet.
Shortly after the Pumpkins reformed in 2007, Corgan posted a message to the band’s blog saying that they were “looking for girls from Siamese Dream album cover… As you all know, they were quite young when the photo was taken. They are not conjoined anymore, as far as we know.”
The band’s intentions for the search were never made clear, and the twins have not yet been located.
The album was also released as a shaped wooden box set (aka Siamese Dream Collectors Edition) with metal hinges limited to only 1,000 copies which contains the UK HUT CD album housed in a recess with individually-numbered silver metal embossed plate at the side and a 20-page booklet housed in a similar recess in the lid.
Though the CD itself and the booklet are official and genuine, the wooden box is not an official Virgin (US) or HUT (UK) release.
New Order are an new wave/synthpop band which formed in 1980 in Salford, England, United Kingdom by the three remaining members of Joy Division.
The band’s classic lineup consists of Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Peter Hook (bass, electronic percussion), Gillian Gilbert (keyboards, guitar) and Stephen Morris (drums, keyboards).
The group effectively disbanded in 1993 but reformed in 1998.
Gilbert left in 2001 to look after her and Morris’ children and was replaced by guitarist/keyboardist Phil Cunningham
Power, Corruption & Lies is the second album by Manchester band New Order, released on 2 May 1983.
The album achieved more widespread popularity than any of the band’s previous releases, including those of previous band Joy Division.
The music is more electronic-based than previous albums, with heavy use of synthesizers.
In 1989, it was ranked #94 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.
In 2008 the album was re-released in a Collector’s Edition with a bonus disc. Peter Saville’s design for the album had a colour-based code to represent the band’s name and the title of the album, but they were not actually written on the sleeve itself (they were, however, present on the North American sleeve).
The decoder for the code was featured prominently on the back cover of the album and can also be used for the “Blue Monday” and “Confusion” singles.
Saville also used it on Section 25’s album From the Hip, which is in many ways aligned stylistically with Power, Corruption & Lies and produced partly by New Order’s Bernard Sumner.
The cover is a reproduction of the painting “A Basket of Roses” by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour, which is part of the National Gallery of London’s permanent collection.
The art director Peter Saville intended to create a collision between the overly romantic and classic image which made a stark contrast to the typography based on the modular, colour-coded alphabet he created solely for the band.
It is also said that the owner of the painting (The National Heritage Trust) first refused Factory Records access to it.
Tony Wilson, the head of the label, then called them up to ask who actually owned the painting and were given the answer that the Trust belonged to the people of Britain, at some point.
Wilson then famously replied “Well, the people of Britain now want it”.
The title of the album was chosen by Bernard Sumner from a 1981 conceptual art exhibition in Cologne, Germany.
On the opening night of the exhibition the artist Gerhard Richter vandalized the exterior of the Kunsthalle by spray painting the text, “Power, Corruption, and Lies”
Armin van Buuren (born Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren, December 25, 1976) is a trance (mostly progressive trance and uplifting trance) music producer and DJ from the Netherlands.
His musical career started in 1995. He has been named number one in the prestigious DJ MAG Top 100 poll four times in a row, from 2007 till 2010 and for the 5th time in 2012.
He’s the first DJ in the history of the DJ Magazine to achieve that and an indication of his prolific output over more than 14 years he’s been dj’ing and producing.
