Tag: Record Reviews

• Top 40 Over 40.7: Egypt by Youssou N’Dour

  This album was one of a few that made me want to try putting strings on my next record.  I don’t like how strings are often used in western pop as a soft bed of sound in the background.  I do like how they carry the lead parts on much of this album.  The Egyptian…

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  July 1, 2012

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Africa, Egypt, Folk Implosion, Islam, Music, Record Reviews, Senegal, Top 40 Over 40, War on Terror, Youssou N’Dour

• Top 40 Over 40.6: Unplugged Youth

  I can think of few artists more identified with the electric guitar than Thurston Moore.  Unlike the guitar god of classic rock, Jimmy Page, who layered his hard rock records with gobs of acoustic fretted instrumens, the guitar god of post punk / undie music always stayed electric.  The only exception I can think of…

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  May 19, 2012

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Beck, Guitars, Martin, Record Reviews, Sonic Youth, Taylor, Thurston Moore, Top 40 Over 40

• Top 40 Over 40.5: Sun Ra, live in 1989

  One of my great regrets in life is that I never got to see Sun Ra and his Arkestra live before the great man passed.  If I had arrived a little earlier, I would have.  They played the campus of the University I attended the year before I got there – which was in fact…

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  April 14, 2012

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Jazz, Music, Record Reviews, Sun Ra, Top 40 Over 40