Tony Williams Lifetime-Proto-Cosmos

Flora Purim - Ina's Song (Trip to Bahia) / Transition

Pretty sure, the people who stood in line at an appearance for Kim Kardashian & her makeup artist  or  are tweeting about what happened on the season premiere of Empire or who listen to French Montana can't handle this.




Sheeple! (Really Sanaa?)






http://www.allmusic.com/album/open-your-eyes-you-can-fly-mw0000263439




On a much more important NOTE, I love how on her albums, the types of keyboards that George Duke plays are listed, like "Rhodes electric piano" or "ARP string ensemble synthesizer", etc.....
People who REALLY LOVE music love knowing these things!

Heatwave-Boogie Nights (Album Version)

Another song with a splendid intro.

Vivian Green's new "song"

Really? She takes an eternity to come out with a new song, just to turn around & STEAL Before I Let Go by Frankie Beverly & Maze?! I know its damn near impossible to find (these days) " writers" & producers who actually play instruments, & can compose on those instruments, but come on! This crap should be ILLEGAL....


And why is it everytime I'm listening to a classic funk or r&b song on youtube, some simpleton just has to mention who sampled that particular song?




Who the hell cares!

Rufus & Chaka Khan-Close The Door

This is my second Rufus post, also from the exquisite Ask Rufus album. Enjoy the textures of Chaka's voice, the strings flowing in & out, and the drum fills.

33 1/3 books...

I was just at amazon.com (later found out all of them weren't listed) looking up all the books in this series. I noticed a pattern of mostly male artists or should I say, books about albums by male artists/bands. Some are worthy, like Steely Dan, Prince, & Stevie Wonder. Others not so much. It would be nice if someone had the balls to write a book on Tim Buckley's Starsailor album..

 http://www.allmusic.com/album/starsailor-mw0000653397






Anyway, if I remember correctly, one of the few female artists I saw was Liz Phair?! You're kidding me right? Why does she get a book ..... cause she "sings" about blowjobs? Liz freakin Phair! But no books on Kate Bush or Laura Nyro?






Female singer/songwriters who paved the way for a Liz Phair are ignored. But guess who isn't ignored... the loathsome Kanye West, & a couple of other rappers & somebody named DJ Shadow... remember every white rock critic sold out & fell under the "street cred" spell, so they just have to embrace EVERY rapper, didn't you know? I guess they think that makes them NOT a racist, when actually its the opposite.








People need to question why the masses (all over the world) blindly accept & can't stop raving about rappers- the WORST examples of black culture.

Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Running Wild

This intro is worth getting out of bed for...

Robert Christgau- Consumer Guide?

Reading Robert Christgau's "Consumer Guide" can be quite entertaining but it also can be quite annoying. Like for instance, I wanna know what the hell he was smoking when he suggests Laura Nyro was a fool in one of his Kate Bush album reviews. Meanwhile, on his Laura Nyro albums page, he is FOOLISH enough to start(!) at her more subdued Christmas & The Beads of Sweat album, while not even bothering to review her masterpieces- Eli & The 13th Confession & New York Tendaberry.


If he had bothered to LISTEN to those albums, he would know she's NO fool!


How is he the "dean of American rock critics" if he skips those 2 important albums? http://www.lauranyro.com






And you know what, he doesn't even like Flora Purim, so HE might be  the one who's a fool....




http://www.robertchristgau.com/cg.php

Programmed Pt. 2

Wow.... just made the mistake of turning on the Meredith Vieira show & heard some bimbo say she expected her husband to agree to an open (meaning your legs are ALWAYS open.... that's a joke..) marriage because he is "progressive & liberal".  HELLO!  Tells you how much things have changed.


There was a time when being progressive stood for such humane & wonderful concepts as civil rights, women's rights & being anti-war.






But now, apparently, it just means you're a kinky, hyper-pornographic sex fiend.....