Saturday, October 31, 2009

Silence is golden: 63 albums for the future

It's been a while since I've been writing here. I've actually kept myself busy with other type of activities than music -related. Meaning outdoor activities and to get me in shape. That stuff I have been blogging too, to the Wordpress -blog http://kotletti.wordpress.com/. But that's in finnish, whoever can and will is more than welcome to read and comment, too :D.

This blog and my pseudonym Incredible Jens, are highly related to the music. Either the one I've made or the one I've been listening.
Anyhow, last night it appeared to me that it's about the time to change my iPod music library. And then, I thought that ok, I can do it in a way that also benefits my English writing skills while I ride my bike to work and listen to these timeless albums. I also thought that I could listen them, once again, as albums, as they might be intended, and not pressing the complete experience as background music by pressing randomize. OK, not too often, at least :D. While listening, I could make some mental notes and then, once again, write about what I do think about those selected albums.
And here's the list, mostly unknown or unthoughtfully or only partly listened.
63 albums for the future
  1. Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
  2. Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool
  3. Booker T. And The M.G.s: Green Onions
  4. Jacques Brel: Olympia 64
  5. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
  6. The Beatles: Rubber Soul
  7. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
  8. The Who: My Generation
  9. The Beatles: Revolver
  10. The Monks: Black Monk Time
  11. The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out
  12. The Rolling Stones: Aftermath
  13. The 13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (The numbering is only coincidental, really!)
  14. Tim Buckley: Goodbye And Hello
  15. The Doors: The Doors
  16. Merle Haggard: I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
  17. Shivkumar Sharma/Brijbushan Kabra/Hariprasad Chaurasia: Call Of The Valley
  18. Jimi Hendrix Experience: AXIS - Bold As Love
  19. The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
  20. The United States of America: The United States of America
  21. The Band: Music From The Big Pink
  22. Flying Burrito Brothers: The Gilded Palace of Sin
  23. Johnny Cash: At San Quentin
  24. The Who: Tommy
  25. Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
  26. CCR: Cosmo's Factory
  27. Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
  28. Black Sabbath: Paranoid
  29. The Grateful Death: American Beauty
  30. Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die
  31. The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
  32. Deep Purple: Made in Japan
  33. Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
  34. Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon
  35. Bad Company: Bad Company
  36. Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard
  37. Kraftwerk: Autobahn
  38. Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine
  39. Supertramp: Crime of The Century
  40. Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
  41. Queen: A Night At The Opera
  42. Tom Waits: Nighthawks at The Diner
  43. Rush: 2112
  44. David Bowie: Low
  45. Talking Heads: 77
  46. Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell
  47. AC/DC: Highway To Hell
  48. Police: Reggatta De Blanc
  49. The Specials: Specials
  50. ABC: The Lexicon of Love
  51. The Cure: Pornography
  52. Iron Maiden: Number of The Beast
  53. Youssou N'Dour: Immigrés
  54. The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy, And The Lash
  55. Afrika Bambaataa And The Soul Sonic Force: Planet Rock - The Album
  56. Metallica: Master Of Puppets
  57. Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet
  58. Paul Simon: Graceland
  59. The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead
  60. Anthrax: Among The Living
  61. Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction
  62. U2: The Joshua Tree
  63. Lenny Kravitz: Let Love Rule

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Mordorin syksy

tämä on pahaa maata
kuonaa on liikaa
vaikka meille
sillä ei ole merkitystä

olen nähnyt unta
niityistä, metsistä
kävelemään oppivista eläimistä
ja että hengittäminen ei koske

kuuntelen jäätynyttä soraa saappaan alla
yritän muistaa uneni
kuinka niitty lainehtii
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