Some Of My Favorite Records To Listen To In 2012 by Scott Anthony Seward

Some are old. Actually, most are pretty old. What the hell, I’m getting old. Some I have owned for years. Some I heard for the first time last week. Every single one of these records is worth hearing at least once. Probably. So if you are looking for something new to hear, listen to one of these. Money back guarantee. Five stars are Skot canon and will be buried with me in my tomb.

Tamba 4: We And The Sea (A&M) *****
Grieg: 31 Lyric Pieces – Walter Gieseking (Seraphim)
Peter Kaukonen – Black Kangaroo (Grunt)
Jerry Corbitt – Corbitt (Polydor)
Kool & The Gang – Spirit of the Boogie (De-Lite) *****
Anthony More – World Service (Do It)
Schutz – Musikalische Exequien/Psalm 136 – Hans-Martin Linde (EMI)
Aerial – In The Middle Of The Night (Capitol)
Walter Gieseking spielt Johannes Brahms (Dacapo:) *****
Giorgio Moroder – E=MC2 (Casablanca)
New York Mary – S/T (Arista Freedom)
The Essential Travis, Shook and the Club Wow (Just Like Real Records) *****
Faith – S/T (Brown Bag)
Max Webster – High Class in Borrowed Shoes (Anthem)
Alix Combelle et son orchestra avec Buck Clayton featuring Mary Lou Williams – Messin’ ‘Round In Montmartre (Storyville)
Lord Finesse Remixes (Archives Inc.)
Sham & The Professor – “Coney island”/”Murder On My Hands” (Freeze)
The B Boys – “Rock The House”/”Cuttin’ Herbie” (Vintertainment)
Master Jay and Michael Dee – “T.S.O.B.” (TSOB)
Turntable Terror – “Break”/”Scream” (Invasion Recordings)
Gryphon – Midnight Mushrumps (Transatlantic)
Gryphon – Red Queen To Gryphon Three (Bell)
Gryphon – S/T (Transatlantic)
Jimmie Mack – S/T (Big Tree)
Private Lines – Trouble In School (Passport)
Frankie & Johnny – The Sweetheart Sampler (Warner Brothers)
Boones Farm – S/T (Columbia)
Freddy Henry – Get It Out In The Open (Clouds)
Nektar – Thru The Ears (Import)
Nektar – Magic Is A Child (Polydor)
Gryphon – Treason (Harvest)
Brass Monkey – S/T (Rare Earth)
Zemlinsky – The String Quartets – Lasalle Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon)
Ambrosia – Life Beyond L.A. (Warner Brothers)
The Kids – Anvil Chorus (Atco)
Laid Back - …Keep Smiling (Sire)
Kishori Amonkar – (Classical) Vocal (EMI)
Buell Neidlinger/Marty Krystall/Archie Shepp/Glenn Ferris/Billy Elgart/Don Preston/Deborah Fuss/Dennis Charles/Cecil Taylor – Marty’s Garage (K2B2)
Chet Atkins – Finger-Style Guitar (RCA Victor) *****
Rita Coolidge – It’s Only Love (A&M)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Hard Promises (Backstreet)
Straight Shooter – Rough ‘n Tough (Sky)
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Sing A Song Of Basie (ABC Paramount)
Mach One – Lost For Words (The Future Dance Label)
Starstruck – Thru’ To You (Mausoleum)
Giorgio Gaslini Quartetto – Murales (Dischi Della Quercia)
10CC – Bloody Tourists (Polydor)
Kathy & Carol – S/T (Elektra)
The Sighs – S/T (Relief Records) *****
Wilbert Longmire – With All My Love (Columbia)
Full Moon – S/T (Voices Of Wonder) *****
Somethin’ Smith And The Redheads – Put The Blame On Mame (Epic)
The Weinberg Method Of Non-Synthetic Electronic Rock (Anvil)
Cherry/Redman/Haden/Blackwell – Old And New Dreams (ECM)
Charles Lloyd – Geeta (A&M)
Nocturnal Emissions – Spiritflesh (Earthly Delights)
Vasilisk – Acqua (Musica Maxima Magnetica) *****
Janequin – Chansons Nouvelles – Charles Ravier (Das Alte Werk)
Locrian & Christoph Heemann – S/T (Handmade Birds)
Foxx – The Revolution Of Emily Young (Decca)
Starbuck – Moonlight Feels Right (Private Stock) *****
Wendy Waldman – The Main Refrain (Warner Brothers)
Milkwood Tapestry – S/T (Metromedia) *****
Starcastle – S/T (Epic)
Fever Tree – For Sale (Ampex)
Deep Purple – Shades Of Deep Purple (Tetragrammaton)
Gotham – Void Where Inhibited (Aurum)
Paula Clarke – Didn’t I Blow Your Mind (W&B Records)
Alberto Favero – Suite Trane (Catalyst)
Ramsey Lewis – Sun Goddess (Columbia)
Tommy Keene – Based On Happy Times (Geffen)
Richard Roundtree – The Man From Shaft (MGM) *****
Gentle Giant – The Power and The Glory (Capitol)
Gryphon – Raindance (Transatlantic)
Michal Urbaniak – Body English (Arista)
Ramses – La Leyla (Sky)
Gentle Giant – Three Friends (Columbia)
10CC – How Dare You! (Mercury)
Alex Bevan – Springboard (Fiddler’s Wind)
Michael Franks with Crossfire – Live (Warner Brothers)
Stravinsky conducts Orpheus and Apollo (Columbia) *****
La Clave – S/T (Verve) *****
Max Webster – Mutiny Up My Sleeve (Capitol)
Sly and the Family Stone – Fresh (Epic) *****
Voyage – Fly Away (Marlin)
Vicious Beat Posse – “Legalized Dope” (MCA)
Rubicon – S/T (20th Century Fox)
Mike Mareen – “Dancing In The Dark – Galactica Remix” (Night’n Day)
Polyrhythmaddicts – The Instrumentals (No Label)
Berg – Lyric Suite/Webern – Five Pieces/Six Bagatelles – Julliard String Quartet (RCA Victor)
Bobby Hutcherson – San Francisco (Blue Note)
Rustix – Bedlam (Rare Earth)
Jeannie Brittan – Gentle Explosion (Decca)
Cecil Taylor – Silent Tongues (Arista Freedom)
Sujo – Kahane (Fedora Corpse)
Goody Goody – S/T (Atlantic)
10CC – Deceptive Bends (Mercury)
The Four Tops – Meeting Of The Minds (ABC)
Chris Squire – Fish Out Of Water (Atlantic)
Attila Zoller & Jimmy Raney – Jim & I At Quasimodo (L+R)
Skinner Box – S/T (Bobok Ltd)
ADC Band – Renaissance (Cotillion)
Dizzy Gillespie – Soul & Salvation (Tribute Records)
Zenith – Freedom Vibrations (Lynx International)
Wim Mertens – Close Cover (Windham Hill)
Kano – New York Cake (Mirage) *****
Jose Cheena – “Jose’s Party Breakdown” (Bassment)
Freddie Hubbard – Liquid Love (CBS)
The Millenium – Begin (Columbia) *****
Brainstorm – Funky Entertainment (Tabu) *****
Junjo presents a live session with Aces International (Volcano)
Ramases – Glass Top Coffin (Vertigo) *****
Josie Wales – Ruling (Black Solidarity)
Ramses – Eternity Rise (Sky)
Toyan – Hot Bubble Gum (Power House)
Michael Palmer – Lick Shot (Power House)
Nasked Angels OST (Straight) *****
Gloria Loring - …And Now We Come To Distances (Evolution)
Infamous Mobb – Special Edition (IM3/Landspeed)
Bobby Bradford with John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Volume Two (Nessa)
Noah – Peaceman’s Farm (Dunhill/ABC)
New England – S/T (Infinity)
Silvetti – Spring Rain (Salsoul)
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – S/T (Columbia) *****
Chris Jagger – S/T (Asylum)
Trinere & Friends – Greatest Hits (Pandisc) *****
The Players Association – Turn The Music Up! (Vanguard)
Aaron Dilloway/Jason Lescalleet – Grapes and Snakes (Pan)

you can thank me later!

Love the Wendy Waldman.

Chris Squire – Fish Out Of Water (Atlantic)

Kinda curious about this one. The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983) gave it a higher rating than any Yes record.

10cc mood lately?

If you've got all that Gryphon you don't have the Magpie appearance do you?In visual form that is.

Been regretting losing my 2fer of the 1st 2 whenever that happened, the Sanctuary compi jumbles everything up chronologically.

"Fish Out Of Water" is the one Yes solo project i listen to the most.

printed this list for listening over the next few weeks

utubed a couple tracks by starstruck, pretty damn good thudd. didya know that ramjam of black betty fame were originally called starstruck?

streaming "liquid love" by freedie hubbard now, suitably squishy fusion, sounds funkier than his cti stuff so far so good

thanking you, sir

you're welcome! oh and that should say Naked Angels OST. on zappa's label. jeff simmons did the music. i still have never found a copy of the jeff simmons record. there's always tomorrow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsuIifEL-rI

the starstuck record is fun. sounds great on the hi-fi. the real gem of a similar vintage is that full moon album up there. more psych than metal but also heavy. don't know how hard it is to find online. its not on youtube.

great cover too if you ever see it.

http://vibrationsofdoom.com/test/test2/covers/FullMoon-FM.jpg

basically cosmic doom.

Is that Silvetti a full LP or just the single? One of my favorite Salsoul tracks, and one of the most overlooked as well. (See also, Orlando Riva Sound - "Moon Boots").

Good to see Max Webster (the thinking man's Triumph/drinking man's Rush) up there. Gonna have to dig out my old vinyl copy of Million Vacations today.

Ambrosia! Nice, nice. Very nice.

that's the silvetti album. i think i sold the 12 inch to a japanese dealer? i can't remember. i love silvetti.

this is for M.Coleman! i just put it up on youtube since it wasn't there. a thick slice of 60's Ohio psychedelic soul courtesy of Jerri Jackson and the Sacred Mushroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yM6XsXCsFI&feature=plcp

been playing that single a ton the last couple of weeks. doesn't get much more heavenly for someone like me.

What is a good list! You had Millennium and Ambrosia and The Four Tops!

i finally got a clean copy of the milennium album. i would see not so great copies from time to time priced too high and i wouldn't buy them. wanted one for ages. and i do love the 3 cd thing with all the demos and stuff. i've played it like crazy for years. but man does it ever sound different on vinyl. just a revelation. a magic record if there ever was one.

i was going through stacks at home recently and for some reason i own four copies of the first ambrosia album...

dreams, dreams, dreams by chilliwack also played non-stop on my turntable this year. man i love that album. i keep looking for the early chilliwack albums around here and nobody ever has them! gotta take a ride up to canada. and i want the pre-chilliwack collectors albums too but people always want too much for those when i see them at record shows and stuff. and i hate buying stuff online.

you're welcome! oh and that should say Naked Angels OST. on zappa's label. jeff simmons did the music. i still have never found a copy of the jeff simmons record. there's always tomorrow...
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it was stuck out as a double cd with Lucille HAs My mInd Messed Up a few years ago by I think a dutch label, can't remember the name though.

i'll be honest, i rarely keep biker soundtracks even though they are inherently cool. they are always such nice things to put out in the store. but the naked angels album is one of those soundtracks that is just a really good album as album. couldn't part with it.

i'm very happy to see starcastle in that list!

great cover too if you ever see it.

hahaha

i would expect to see an original pressing of an a&m sex pistols 7" than seeing anything like that round these parts ....

i've been going through a little bit of a gentle giant thing myself. was tempted to see "three friends," a band with some remnants of the original crew, but they priced me out a bb kings. to compensate i've been spinning the discs...

yeah 2012 was a big gentle giant year for me. and multiple albums too. i pretty much like it all up to and including the early 80's album i was just playing an hour ago. uhhhh i'd have to get off the couch to check. or google.

you want to hear something REALLY crazy!!?? i got a beautiful 70's japanese pressing of piper at the gates of dawn this year and it was the first time i had ever heard the studio version of astronomy domine!!!

i've been listening to that album since 1978. but always courtesy of a nice pair (which has the live version on it). i've never heard it on cd. i've had american 60's tower copies of the album but they don't even have the song on that version. so, 34 years after i became a fan...

but anyway it flipped me out. i didn't even know what i was hearing. i was born again. holy toledo.

japanese copy is my keeper forever. so amazing. same with the german pressing of satanic majesties that i'm playing right this second. its godly. and now same with the pristine first french pressing of funhouse i got this week. again, jawdropping. i have a nice canadian pressing of funhouse but the french beats the canadian. like they always do.

Really enjoying making my way through this list; thanks for posting it

I had a similar live/studio/A Nice Pair mindfuck with that song. For a while, I still preferred the live (Ummagumma) version, but the mono studio kills everything.

xp

anyone have an mp3 of that jerri jackson song posted upthread? there's one on ebay @ 40 quid gah :(