Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool and Steady and Easy

1.	Take The L Train (To Brooklyn)	5:50
2.	The Creator Has A Master Plan	5:51
3.	The Revolution Was Postponed Because Of Rain	4:58
4.	Bob Hop	5:13
5.	Brooklyn Recycles	5:24
6.	Mizz Bed-Stuy	4:08
7.	A Headnaddas Journey To The Planet Adidi-Skizm	6:15
8.	Big Apple Boogaloo	6:20
9.	Blow Your Brains Out	4:58
10.	Stickman Crossing The Brooklyn Bridge	7:28
11.	Dilly Dally	5:10
12.	Take The L Train (To 8th Ave.)	4:05

12 Tracks 65:40 / 1994 / 175 kbps MP3 VBR

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Samples:
1 - Take the L Train  (to Brooklyn)
3 - The Revolution Was Postponed Because of Rain
12 - Take the L Train (to 8th Ave.)

The Tallywood Quartet - Strung Out On OK Computer

Coming from the same quartet that has produced more than 300 other tribute albums from contemporary bands comes this Radiohead tribute to OK Computer. The entire album is done by a string orchestra, capturing just about every beat and jam in fitting classical style.

1.	Airbag	4:38
2.	Paranoid Android	6:20
3.	Subterranean Homesick Alien	4:28
4.	Exit Music (For a Film)	4:30
5.	Let Down	4:21
6.	Karma Police	4:18
7.	Fitter Happier	1:22
8.	Electioneering	3:14
9.	Climbing up the Walls	4:06
10.	No Surprises	3:57
11.	Lucky	3:57
12.	The Tourist	4:00

12 Tracks 49:18 / 2001 / 255 kbps MP3 VBR

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Sample:
2 - Paranoid Android
5 - Let Down

The Faint - Danse Macabre

Omaha, Nebraska-based band brings us this electronic rock album. A little new-wave, a little 80’s rock-fest, very cool.

1.	Agenda Suicide	3:59
2.	Glass Danse World	2:59
3.	Total Job	2:16
4.	Let The Poison Spill From Your Throat	4:04
5.	Your Retro Career Melted	3:52
6.	Posed To Death	3:09
7.	The Conductor	4:43
8.	Violent	5:36
9.	Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen	4:28

9 Tracks 35:06 / 2001 / 192 MP3 CBR

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Sample:
1 - Agenda Suicide
2 - Glass Danse

Over the Rhine - The Trumpet Child

Ah. This one is a beauty. Soft, melodic vocals and a lively or laid-back trumpet accompanied by a music ensemble. Over the Rhine delivers yet again. The Ohio-based band is known for it’s blues, and soft compositions.

1.	Don’t Wanna Waste Your Time	4:01
2.	Trouble	4:00
3.	I’m on a Roll	3:18
4.	Nothing is Innocent	3:52
5.	The Trumpet Child	3:45
6.	Entertining Thoughts	3:08
7.	Who’m I Kiddin’ but Me	3:28
8.	Let’s Spend the Day in Bed	5:47
9.	Desperate for Love	3:05
10.	Don’t Wait for Tom	4:19
11.	If a Song Could Be President	3:09

11 Tracks 41:52 / 2007 / 233 kbps MP3 VBR

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Sample:
5 - The Trumpet Child

Holy Fuck - LP

Good band. Drums, electronic noise, and keyboard add to the strong rhythm of this electronic dance band. Dual drummers help define the beat. The result is raw and inspired.

1.	Super Inuit	3:33
2.	Milk Shake	3:28
3.	Frenchy’s	2:53
4.	Lovely Allen	4:29
5.	Pulse	5:55
6.	Royal Gregory	3:49
7.	Echo Sam	4:16
8.	Safari	4:23
9.	Choppers	4:16

9 Tracks 37:01 / 2007 / 264 kbps MP3 VBR

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Samples:
1 -Super Inuit

Engineers - Engineers

A nice mix of shoegazing and popish sounds, a bit ambient at times, a bit rockish at others. Worth a look, they’re a great band. (Yeah it was very hard to categorize this band)

1.	Home	4:07
2.	Waved On	5:21
3.	New Horizons	4:54
4.	Forgiveness	3:39
5.	Let’s Just See	4:20
6.	Come In Out Of The Rain	4:04
7.	Peter Street	1:23
8.	Said And Done	4:49
9.	Thrasher	3:52
10.	How Do You Say Goodbye	5:19
11.	One In Seven	7:58
12.	Stake To Glory	4:48
13.	Cats Of Justice	4:05

13 Tracks 58:39 / 2005 / 255 kbps MP3 VBR

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Samples:
1 - Home

Les Claypool Frog Brigade - Purple Onion

What a wonderfully inventive album. Les Claypool, perhaps best known for his work with Primus, branches off into the experimental, with Todd Huth, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti, Skerik, and Eenor joining him. It’s hard to describe a work this bizarre. It is the latest album from the band, after Live Frogs 1 and 2. The sound ranges from the childlike, to jazzy, to something entirely different. It is a good album though, and definitely worth a download. (I’ve taken the liberty to include 3 samples from the album–full tracks–that you can listen to if you’re not convinced. This will remain a permanent feature of the website)

Note: The band also goes by “Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade”

1.	Purple Onion	1:45
2.	Makalaster	4:43
3.	Buzzards Of Green Hill	4:08
4.	Long In The Tooth	1:53
5.	Whamola	3:23
6.	Ding Dang	5:52
7.	Barrington Hall	4:18
8.	DS Diner	5:47
9.	Lights On The Sky	4:37
10.	Up On The Roof	3:41
11.	David Makalaster	7:27
12.	Highway	7:15

12 Tracks 54:49 / 2002 / 320 kbps MP3 CBR

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Sample Tracks:
2 - David Makalaster
3 - Buzzards of Green Hill
5 - Whamola

R.E.M. - Reckoning

Great band. I have little to say about them, mainly ’cause word has already spread about how good they are. Here is their album “Reckoning”.

1.	Harborcoat	3:57
2.	7 Chinese Brothers	4:15
3.	So. Central Rain	3:16
4.	Pretty Persuasion	3:53
5.	Time After Time (Annelise)	3:33
6.	Second Guessing	2:52
7.	Letter Never Sent	2:59
8.	Camera	5:29
9.	(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville	4:56
10.	Little America	3:43

10 Tracks 38:53 / 1984 / 200 kbps MP3 VBR

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White Stripes - You Don’t Know What Love Is (single)

Well, these two songs are from their Icky Thump album, but are worth a mention here. Pretty great rock, the guys at White Stripes seldom disappoint. Below are direct links (via Boxstr) to both the original version and the frat rock version. Enjoy!

You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You’re Told) Original

You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You’re Told) Frat Version

Radiohead - Unplugged: The Complete Acoustic Sessions

Oh, nice stuff. While I don’t know if this was ever a formal release (my source claims it was, but I’ve failed to find any album artwork or info; also, he misled me quite a bit with my last Radiohead post), it is a certainly a jam-packed collection. Track listing follows.

Killer Cars
Wonderwall
Blow out
Street Spirit
Lucky
High and Dry
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Fake Plastic Trees
Black Star
Street Spirit (version 2?)
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Thinking About You
Creep
Just
Lozenge of Love
Bulletproof
Killer Cars
Banana Co
Yes I Am
Airbag
Fake Plastic Trees

(21 Tracks/192 kbps MP3 CBR)

The duplicates, as you’ve noticed, are different versions (some just sound more “live” than others), as far as I could tell. Just have fun with it, I’ll get more “professional” posts up soon.

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