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CD: Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Trilogy

YouTube: Ebotronix - Anything this guy plays. Very impressive.

In the car: Primarily classical (helps me deal with the idiot drivers in the Phoenix area)

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Prince's Ballad of Dorothy Parker for the millionth time, this time after reading the new Rolling Stone article celebrating Sign 'O' The Times' 30th.

 

In March 1986, Prince inaugurated his new state-of-the-art home studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, with "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker," an avant-garde slow jam with stuttering electro beats and vocals that flash like fractals, with different effects and voice tones, as Prince plays the roles of both Ms. Parker and himself, singing a bit of Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" and even voicing the ring of a telephone. "Prince had this dream where he thought of this song the dream of the bathtub and all that and he came downstairs and told me, 'Let's go. Let's record,'" says Susan Rogers, Prince's staff engineer and production right hand on Sign 'O' the Times. "The console hadn't been tested yet, so while we were doing 'Dorothy Parker' I'm thinking, 'God, this is awful,' because there was no high end. But I couldn't test it because he was working. Typical of Prince, our session lasted roughly 24 hours. We didn't get out of there until the next day. And he was totally happy. The seed of the song came in a dream anyway, so he used that artistically he just let the whole thing be kind of muffled."

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-princes-groundbreaking-sign-o-the-times-w474150

 

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Another tune that brings tears to your eyes with masterful reinterpretation of the classic Blackbird.

 

You can hear Zawinul's influence the section beginning at 1:50 and culminating with a classic Z-Chord at 1:59-2:03.

 

Genius!

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After reading endless complaints about how the '90s sucked for keyboard-based music, I was considering starting a thread called House Of House, devoted to the dance music of that decade. Well, I've decided to save this site some bandwidth. Instead, I'll just put House Of House above any song I post here that would've gone into that unborn thread. Won't just be '90s tracks, either. :)

 

House Of House

 

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^ I might get on that. Meanwhile, behold one of the best Beatles covers (THE best as far as I'm concerned) ever made.

 

House Of House

 

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The video is literally a 12' single on a turntable, so the audio takes a few seconds to start. Bear with it - it's totally worth it.

 

 

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The Late Great Joe Sample on Rainbow Vision. This is one of the more harmonically complex tunes of the Crusaders and is probably my favorite for the tasty chords over the bridge.

 

Also I could swear that part of Bob James's melody from Theme from Taxi is identical to the first few bars of Joe's solo (3:20) :) Probably random chance.

 

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Pulled out some old vinyl tonight

 

Head East. I was 14 when I heard this song when it first came out, and was hooked on playing synth in rock bands ever since.

 

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Love everything about this song. Steve Gadd's drum breaks are amazing.

 

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Weird, I just played this album today for the first time in a decade. I still know it millisecond-by-millisecond.

 

Gadd's second-take work on that track is stunning. And cool to hear a little moment that would be cut out these days--the stick-click at 4:57. No idea what he was going for there--maybe just marking a downbeat or something.

 

BUT...when I got to the outro solo, it's the first time it fell flat for me. Same pattern over and over (at the very end), surprisingly static on the way out of an otherwise raucous approach to a truly ambitious song. I had to make myself forgot I noticed that, so I could just keep my memory of that outro as a bad-ass drum clinic of the most ninja kind.

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Socrates - Phos (1976)

 

The best Greek hard rock band.

 

Check Starvation. If this one have been written by an English or American band then it would have become a classic rock song.

 

Keyboards and production by Vangelis.

 

studio version

 

Live version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjLVDzWON1I

 

Check the song mountains from the same albums.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHcMYTOUcmY

 

John Spathas (the best Greek guitarist) plays some Epirus' pentatonic scales.

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