Showing posts with label Mick Jagger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mick Jagger. Show all posts
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Genesis To Everlasting
FROM GENESIS TO EVERLASTING
Musical Milestones
1963-?????
Genesis, 1963: Jackie DeShannon, Needles And Pins & When You Walk In The Room- the greatest vocal performances ever put to tape and the most heartbreaking and timeless songs ever written.
Hollywood, 1966: Jack Nitzsche and Judy Henske find the end of the world and its breaking point with Road to Nowhere and Dolphins In The Sea.
Memphis, 1968: Dusty went to Memphis and never came back.. at least not until Reputation.
London, 1968: Mick Jagger records Memo From Turner and the world has never been the same since.
Deep In The Void, 1969: On Illuminations, Buffy Sainte-Marie loses her voice to synthesizers, black magic, and that endless echo.
Woodstock, 1969: John & Beverly Martyn went down to Woodstock to play with The Band when Stormbringer was born.
West Berlin, 1976-1978: Bowie, Eno, and Iggy Pop turn up in nighttime streets to face the truth in trilogy form.
Muscle Shoals, 1978: Fuck electric, Dylan found evangelism and rhythm.
Burbank, 1981: Lindsey Buckingham catches a midwinter wave and comes up with Trouble.
Nassau, 1982: On Avalon, Roxy Music discovered true romance, worlds away, and the eternal chill.
London, 1990: With Screamadelica, Primal Scream turned Madchester into a rave- timeless, unforgettable, and a stone-cold classic.
New Orleans, 1995: On Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris finally goes cosmic.
Brooklyn, 1996: Foxy Brown. Ill Na Na. Married to The Firm.
Nashville, 1996: The ultimate perfectionist, Lucinda Williams scraps everything and starts all over again. Car Wheels On A Gravel Road is as close to perfect as they come.
Cassadaga, 1997: Deserter's Songs. Mercury Rev go back to Woodstock and return with the new old Americana- catskill mansions, all those endless ends, ghost trains out of town.. wavin' goodbye, not sayin' hello.
Malibu, 1998: Courtney Love finds Hollywood glamor, palm trees on fire, new beginnings, Echo & The Bunnymen, Stevie Nicks, and the salvation of a three-minute AM pop song.
Berlin, 2001: Annette Krebs turns inward, becomes a blank sheet of white paper, and leaves the rest of the world behind for Guitar Solo.
Chicago, 2003: Electrelane, The Power Out- forever trapped in the Tower of Babel.
Austin, 2003: Charalambides battle inner demons, end times, and waves of pedal steel to finish Joy Shapes on a terrifying and unforgettable lost evening.
Los Angeles, 2005: Goodbye Nashville- Lubbock or leave it, the Dixie Chicks go punk.
New York City, 2005: Beth Orton rounds up a brand new band- Jim O'Rourke and Tim Barnes for the devastating Comfort Of Strangers.
Reykjavik, 2006: Björk saves nothing but the human voice for Medúlla.
Dorset, 2006: PJ Harvey in grief, in death, in White Chalk hills that rot her bones.
Paris, 2006: Jarvis, Charlotte, and Air: 5:55 during the day, Darkel at night.
The Everlasting, 2009: Charlotte finds her eternal darkness in L.A. and leaves nothing but IRM behind.
