CD - N-P

Nick Drake

Bryter Layter

Five Leaves Left

Pink Moon


Octopus - Restless Night: The Complete Pop-Psych Sessions 1967-71


Paisleys - Cosmic Mind at Play


Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava


Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer


Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963


Peter, Paul and Mary - Album 1700


Phil Ochs

Farewells & Fantasies

In Concert


Picadilly Line - The Huge World of Emily Small (details)


Pink Floyd

A Momentary Lapse of Reason (details)

A Saucerful of Secrets

Animals

Dark Side of the Moon

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Wall

Wish You Were Here


Pretty Things

Parachute

Philippe DeBarge

S.F. Sorrow (stereo)


Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - Soundtrack (details)

LP - O-P

Orson Welles

The Begatting of the President

War of the Worlds (original radio broadcast)


Paul Anka - Paul Anka Sings His Big 15, Vol. 2


Paul Kantner ("Jefferson Starship") - Blows Against the Empire


Paul Simon

Paul Simon

Still Crazy After All These Years

There Goes Rhymin' Simon


Pete Seeger - Circles and Seasons


Peter, Paul and Mary

A Song Will Rise

Album

Album 1700

In Concert (details)

Late Again

Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mommy

See What Tomorrow Brings


Phil Ochs

All the News That's Fit to Sing

Pleasures of the Harbor

Rehearsals For Retirement


Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon


Police - Zenyatta Mondatta


Procol Harum - The Best of Procol Harum

CD - Q-S

Quintessence - In Blissful Company


Rainbow Ffolly - Sallies Fforth


Roy Zimmerman

Comic Sutra

Faulty Intelligence

Homeland

Real American

Security

Thanks For the Support


Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends


Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake


Spirit

Future Games/Spirit of 84

Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus


Steely Dan - Aja


Steve Goodman

Affordable Art

No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology


Steve Hillage - Green


Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle


Stone Circus - Stone Circus


Synanthesia - Synanthesia (details)

LP - R-T

Roberta Flack

Chapter Two

Feel Like Makin' Love

First Take

Killing Me Softly


Rod Stewart

A Night on the Town

Atlantic Crossing

Blondes Have More Fun

Every Picture Tells a Story

Foot Loose and Fancy Free

Never a Dull Moment


Roger Payne - Songs of the Humpback Whale


Rolling Stones

Beggars Banquet

Let it Bleed

Sticky Fingers

Their Satanic Majesties Request


Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection


Santana - Abraxas


Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze


Siegel-Schwall Band - 953 West


Simon and Garfunkel

Bookends

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Sounds of Silence (details)

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.


Smothers Brothers - The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion


Soft Machine - Volume Two


Spyro Gyra - Catching the Sun


Steve Goodman

Somebody Else's Troubles

Steve Goodman


Steve Miller Band

Children of the Future

Living in the U.S.A. [i.e. "Sailor"]

Your Saving Grace


T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland


Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello


Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 3: Live in Concert


Tom Paxton

How Come the Sun

The Compleat Tom Paxton

The Things I Notice Now

Tom Paxton 6


Tom Rush

Classic Rush

Ladies Love Outlaws

Wrong End of the Rainbow


Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

CD - T-Y

They Might Be Giants - Flood


Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello


Timothy Leary - You Can Be Anyone This Time Around


Tom Paxton - Ramblin' Boy


Tomorrow - Tomorrow


The Twilights - Once Upon a Twilight (stereo and mono)


Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other


Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy


"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alapalooza

Alpocalypse

Bad Hair Day

Dare to Be Stupid

Even Worse

In 3-D

Off the Deep End

Peter and the Wolf — Carnival of the Animals Part II (with Wendy Carlos)

Polka Party!

Poodle Hat

Running With Scissors

Straight Outta Lynwood

UHF

"Weird Al" Yankovic


White Noise - An Electric Storm


The Who

Tommy

Who's Next


Yes - Close to the Edge

LP - U-W

The United States of America - The United States of America


Various Artists

Blues Deluxe

Easy Rider Soundtrack

Love, Peace & Poetry - Asian Psychedelic Music (details)

Love, Peace & Poetry - Chilean Psychedelic Music (details)

Midnight Cowboy Soundtrack

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Woodstock: Music From the Soundtrack and More


The Who

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

Tommy

Who's Next


Willie Nelson

Pretty Paper

Stardust

V.A. - Love, Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music

Love, Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music
Various Artists
LP
QDK 049

[Artist] - [Song Title]

1. Kissing Spell - Yellow Moon
2. Los Jaivas - Foto de la Primera Comunión
3. Los Vidrios Quebrados - La Primavera de Miss L.O'B.
4. Aguaturbia - Erótica
5. Blops - Los Momentos
6. Sacros - La Realidad
7. Los Mac's - La Muerte de Mi Hermano
8. Blops - Pisándose la Cola
9 (B1). Embrujo - Canto sin Nombre
10. Los Beat 4 - Pobre Gato
11. Aguaturbia - I Wonder Who
12. Tumulto - Tu, Yo y Nuestro Amor
13. Blops - Pirómano
14. Escombros - Magnetism
15. Los Beat 4 - Civilización
16. Congregación - Cuantos que no Tienen y Merecen
17. El Congreso - Así Serás


"Chilean Psychedelic Music" — pretty nicely descriptive, I would think. It sounded better to me the first time compared to last night, but there are some good moments on here. "Foto de Primera Comunión" is strangely hypnotic to me, and "La Muerte de Mi Hermano" is a right-good protest song from a tumultuous Chile in the late Sixties and early Seventies. "Pirómano" sounded pretty cool to these ears, Aguaturbia is sure to delight proper-minded people everywhere, and "Magnetism" is a most curious-sounding record, sort of a "25 or 6 to 4" gone horribly haywire. I still have only heard a little bit of the Love, Peace & Poetry series, but it's not let me down yet.

Leo Kottke / Mike Gordon - Sixty Six Steps

Leo Kottke / Mike Gordon
Sixty Six Steps
Compact Disc
RCA Victor 82876 68909-2 RE1

1. Living in the Country
2. The Grid
3. Oh Well
4. Rings
5. Cherry County
6. Sweet Emotion
7. The Stolen Quiet
8. Balloon
9. Over the Dam
10. Can't Hang
11. From Spink to Correctionville
12. Ya Mar
13. Twice
14. Invisible

Compared to clone (2002), this one, to my ears, sounds more musically cohesive....more melodic. Kottke's guitar, Gordon's bass, and all the other instruments that appear here, seem to be in a strange harmony here. Amid some covers (Aerosmith!) and remakes of Kottke originals, the collaboration works.

Leo Kottke / Mike Gordon - clone

Leo Kottke / Mike Gordon
clone
Compact Disc
Private Music 01934-11662-2

1. Arko
2. Car Carrier Blues
3. From Pizza Towers to Defeat
4. clone
5. The Collins Missile
6. Te Veo
7. Disco
8. June
9. I Am a Lonesome Fugitive
10. Clay
11. Strange
12. Middle of the Road
13. Whip
14. With

I don't know much about Mike Gordon. I think he was with Phish.

I am, however, well-acquainted with Leo Kottke...matter of fact, I saw him perform here at one of the local venues...and I can tell you, long-time fans of Leo shan't be disappointed by this. This is drenched in his musical style and, indeed, his offbeat sense of humor. ("The Collins Missile" is a love song.)

Lest someone here isn't familiar with Leo Kottke, he's summarily a twelve-string wizard and wholly unique. He's one of those that you've just got to listen to to really get the idea....

And since I wrote this review, I've come to understand that Gordon's style on the bass just happens to be the perfect companion to Leo's twelve-string. Which I do quite understand upon listening.

Bob Weir and Ratdog - Evening Moods

Bob Weir and Ratdog
Evening Moods
Compact Disc
GDCD 4072


1. Bury Me Standing
2. Lucky Enough
3. Odessa
4. Ashes and Glass
5. Welcome to the World
6. Two Djinn
7. Corrina
8. October Queen
9. The Deep End
10. Even So


Ratdog's brand of jam-rock translates......pretty well to the studio format. It seems like the album kind of drifts after a while, but there are some groovy tracks here, among them "Lucky Enough" (closer to pop than most of the album), "Two Djinn", and the tender "Welcome to the World". I played this at work, where a coworker likened Bobby's voice to that of Terry Callier (whom I don't know, but maybe you, the reader, are familiar with him; AMG describes him as kind of R&B/jazz).

V.A. - Love, Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music

Various Artists
Love, Peace & Poetry - Asian Psychedelic Music
LP
Normal Records QDK LP 029

(artist - song title:)

1. Teddy Robin & the Playboys - Magic Colours
2. Erkin Koray - Istemem
3. San Ul Lim - It Was Probably Late Summer
4. Justin Heathcliff - You Know What I Mean
5. Baris Manco - Derule
6. Cambodian Rocks - A2
7. The Mops - Blind Bird
8. Yuya Uchida & the Flowers - Greasy Heart
9. 3 Hür-El - Gönül Sabreyle Sabreyle
10. The Fentones - Simla Beat Theme
11. Mogollar - Katip Arzvhalim Yaz Yare Böyle
12. Confusions - Voice From the Inner Soul
13. The Quest - 26 Miles
14. Jung Hyun and the Men - Korean Titel A2


This is the third installment in the Love, Peace & Poetry series, each installment of which focuses on a different part of the world. I've only heard two of the installments so far, including this one, but they're both so full of wonderfully unique, exotic, psychedelic sounds that I simply cannot help but hunger for the others. This particular installment looks at Asia, from Türkiye ("Turkey") to Japan (and other stops, of course). My personal picks after two listens are "It Was Probably Late Summer," "You Know What I Mean," "26 Miles" and the final, nearly-ten-minute track by Jung Hyun and the Men, the actual title of which had not yet been translated to English at the time of this LP's release. I still have no idea what to think of the Cambodian Rocks cut.......

Group 1850 - The Great Single Tracks

Group 1850
The Great Single Tracks
Compact Disc
MRCD 005

1. Zero
2. Frozen Mind
3. Don't Let it Be
4. Sun is Coming
5. We Love Life
6. Little Fly
7. I Know
8. I Want More
9. Mother No-Head
10. Ever,Ever Green
11. Have You Ever Heard
12. Fire
13. Look Around


Much, much better than I remember it sounding the last time I played it. Kind of a heavy prog-psych record. I gotta wonder, though, what I was thinking getting a CD that is so obviously non-legit; the cover is a flimsy piece of paper with no back or any information; the CD itself lists the title as "Complete Singles Collection" (and spells the band's name the Dutch way); the spine reads, in its entirety, "Group 1850, The greate single tracks ", and there's no sign of any source at all being involved in the production of this thing (except for the "MRCD 005" on the actual disc). Suppose I can Google "MRCD".... (a few minutes later) ....nothing. At least they provided a track list on the back. Along with this picture (photographed by me and shrunk to fit here):

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Pink Floyd
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Compact Disc
Columbia 68518

1. Signs of Life
2. Learning to Fly
3. The Dogs of War
4. One Slip
5. On the Turning Away
6. Yet Another Movie / Round and Around
7. A New Machine (part one)
8. Terminal Frost
9. A New Machine (part two)
10. Sorrow

This seems to me to generally not be all that appreciated. I think that it is perhaps another victim of people's tendencies to compare albums to other albums that bear the same artist name. I happen to think this album is a fine piece of spaced-out rock. I suppose the mid-to-late-Eighties production on this thing can be a bit of a turn-off at times; nevertheless, I think this album does carry a certain, spooky, far-out vibe about it that is especially amplified on days when the weather leaves something to be desired. Try it....some dark afternoon....

Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

The Alan Parsons Project
Eye in the Sky
Compact Disc
Arista/Legacy 82878 81527 2

1. Sirius
2. Eye in the Sky
3. Children of the Moon
4. Gemini
5. Silence and I
6. You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
7. Psychobabble
8. Mammagamma
9. Step By Step
10. Old and Wise
11. Sirius (demo)
12. Old and Wise (Eric Woolfson vocal)
13. Any Other Day (studio demo)
14. Silence and I (Eric Woolfson vocal)
15. The Naked Eye
16. Eye Pieces (classical Naked Eye)

It seems to me that the Alan Parsons Project gets kind of a bad rap. I don't know why; they have some mighty fine music in their catalog. Perhaps my own musical sensibilities are just more pop-oriented than those of most of you that I see on the forums and blogs, and so the sort of borderline pop/prog that the APP plays just appeals to me more than others. This music is different; it's accessible without being too poppy; it features orchestration without being, well, boring; it's original and progressive without being too self-indulgent; and, while I say it isn't too poppy, it nonetheless features nice hooks that I, for one, can easily dig. And the sounds they make are just........cool.
On this album, of course, you got the Chicago Bulls opening music in "Sirius," followed by the pleasant radio hit and title track. "Children of the Moon" has that wee bit of synthesizer that gives it ...um...a different feel, a bit of a trip in time, nothing bad at all, in my opinion. Interesting choral bits and chord changes in that one. "Gemini" is nice and dreamy, just like me.... *ahem* The relatively extended (7:20) "Silence and I" is a couple of hushed ends bookending a classical/orchestral bridge, which is cool and makes itself known. "You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned" is a good, strong bit of pop/rock; some might think that the APP couldn't pull off a "straight" pop/rock sound, but I think it works here.
I think "Psychobabble" might be somewhat well-known among some; I remember it was once incorporated into my old high school's marching band's repertoire. Good, kind of weird vibe to that song. Nice. The instrumental bit that follows, "Mammagamma," I can probably do without; it's rather ground in the pseudo-disco sounds of that era (1982), not to mention unexciting. "Step by Step" is another more poppy song; I played this one a couple times before saying "Yeah, it's okay." And the capper, "Old and Wise"...well, the title sums it up, I think, as the album ends on a quiet note.

John Mellencamp - American Fool

John Mellencamp ("John Cougar")
American Fool
Compact Disc
Riva 814-993-2 M-1

1. Hurts So Good
2. Jack & Diane
3. Hand to Hold on To
4. Danger List
5. Can You Take It
6. Thundering Hearts
7. China Girl
8. Close Enough
9. Weakest Moments


Curiously felt like digging this out recently. This album seems to kind of run out of creative juice after a while, but there's good hard rock on this album, from the hits "Hurts So Good" and "Jack & Diane" to the lesser-known "Thundering Hearts," which is best played in the Camaro on a warm summer day with the top down, cruising around. (Especially with those lyrics.)

Jerry Garcia - Reflections

Jerry Garcia
Reflections
Compact Disc
Grateful Dead Records GDCD40082

1. Might As Well
2. Mission in the Rain
3. They Love Each Other
4. I'll Take a Melody
5. It Must Have Been the Roses
6. Tore Up Over You
7. Catfish John
8. Comes a Time

This thinly disguised GD release from the Godchaux era sounds particularly nice to these ears on damp, grey days...especially "Mission in the Rain" and "I'll Take a Melody." There's a kind of subdued sound on this record, which perhaps makes the up-tempo "Tore Up Over You" sound a bit odd, but this album features some catchy songs by one of the most beloved musicians of our time. The closer, "Comes a Time," features a haunting sound with a sort of odd fuzztone.

I happened to catch the Dead playing "They Love Each Other" at the May 5th, 2009, performance at Rosemont. People can say what they will about what sort of justice Bobby's singing gives Jerry's songs, and I'm going to say this: Great music shall not die.