Guess I would be back AGAIN / My Way Into The Blues Part 1.

I felt like writing everyday, but for some reasons, I didn’t have the power to do it, and damn I missed writing.

It’s one of those things you just can’t not enjoy it, nothing is better than sitting down infrontof your screen with a nice cold root beer, writing about any shitty idea I got, without being judged. How awesome is that?

I’ve been really into the Blues lately, I always loved it but never knew where to begin, what to listen, who to listen, how to play the Blues, and just everything until I watched the movie The Blues Brothers. I watched it as I was a little kid and remembered how awesome it was, so I rented it and saw there the legendary John Lee Hooker singing the legendary song Boom Boom. Straight up I looked about him on Wikipedia, searched some albums on the net and got myself into The Blues Town. There I saw an album also called Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker and downloaded it. I enjoyed every second of this album, and still enjoying.

P.S.

This is not the official album called by the same name “Boom Boom”. I really don’t know what this album is, I guess it’s a bootleg or something, but don’t miss it, worth every second.

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

1. 1. Crazy about that walk
2. We’re all God’s chillun
3. I’m mad again
4. Want ad blues
5. Boom Boom
6. Drug store woman
7. Send me your pillow
8. Let’s make it baby
9. The right time
10. Shake it baby
11. Need your love so bad
12. This is hip
13. One way ticket
14. Half a stranger
15. Birmingham blues
16. Don’t look back
17. It serves me right to suffer
18. Mai Lee

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The Blues Brothers Baby!

I’m really not in the mood latley to to, well basicaly anything. Teachers Stirke is still on for the 48th day now I think (I lost count since the 30th day) and it’s driving me nuts. Did you ever had to deal with so much free time? From a day built from 7 hours school, 3 hours tennis practice and 1 hour of Home Work, I could say, well I’m pretty much to doing nothing. Ok I’m going to the gym for 1 hour 3 times a week and occasionally play some tennis once and a while.

The one thing that is keeping me up is Music of course, so my week’s pick is The Blues Brothers OST.

I won’t tell you anything about it because I’m tired (ironic uh?) so enjoy this FINE Blues album directly from The Blues Brothers!

The Blues Brothers Soundtrack - VA (1980)

1. She Caught The Katy - Jake
2. Peter Gunn Theme - Jake
3. Gimme Some Lovin’ - Jake
4. Shake A Tail Feather - Ray Charles/Jake & Elwood
5. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Jake & Elwood/Patty Austin/Vivian Cherry/Ullanda McCullough
6. The Old Landmark - James Brown/Rev. James Cleveland Choir
7. Think - Aretha Franklin/Brenda Corbet/Margaret Branch/Caroline Franklin
8. Theme From Rawhide - Elwood & Jake
9. Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway
10. Sweet Home Chicago - Elwood & Jake
11. Jailhouse Rock - Jake

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RIP Dear PC

2 months ago my PC started to crash randomly without any known reason, this was the beginning of a long and painful journey. At first it seemed like just some normal virus case, but i was wrong. It turned out there was a hardware problem. Because of my Mom working in a hardware import company I had the chance to send my PC to a check up there and apperantly just needed to be cleaned up (yes, it was D-I-R-T-Y). They said everything should be fine now. It was untill the PC crashed again 1 week after, this was a major distressing situation. Time past slowly as i began to understand, he is in major pain. 4 days ago my PC crashed for its last time and left behind it a trail of unfinished tasks (my latest post was ready to go saved on my hard disk). Eventualy it turned out that my graphics card got burned out because it didn’t get enough power. After 4 years of a long journey with my dear PC it was time to say goodbye. I’ll get a new computer eventualy but for now you’ll have to bare the idea that i won’t be posting any music for a while. You’ll have to enjoy my undenyble awsome writing and english.
I’m out for now, and get ready for a huge philosophy post this upcoming week, have a nice weekend! (I’m in already in a huge weekend, i think its already 3 weeks).

I Really Need To Start Writing Again

Those 2 last weeks were the most unbusy weeks of my fucking entire like. Israel teachers are in a huge strike against the authorities, and they have all the reasons to, poor teachers, getting low wage payments and are treated like whores on duty. Basically out educational system sucks balls, this is why I’m going to a “Nerd’s school”, getting the bus every morning and driving it for 40 minuets every morning (last year was 1 hour) when I have a high school 5 minutes walk near my house. When I say its a Nerd’s school i really mean it, no one is popular, everyone is behaving as he likes to without giving a crap about others and we don’t do drugs, a real fucking nerd school. But I’m enjoying it, its something i wish to everyone to experience. So the strike i think will last something like 3 months or so, so fuck.

Well this was just a test to see how reliable you people are to my blog, well i guess if you continued reading till here then you do care about me :).

Recently I read a book by an Irish writer. Julian Gough, who was previously on a Rock band (I think they still exist), the book is called Juno & Juliet and its about two gorgeous twin sisters who goes to the university at Galway in Ireland, just an amazing book that touched me allot (the plot doesn’t sound real exiting but let me assure you its a fabulous book)  and through this book I opened to the real world. It’s like I was one touch away from liberty and self choices, It’s like I was living real life outside the cell I’m in. I know that I’m supposed to feel like freedom is at my doors, just one year away, but unfortunately it isn’t. As an Israeli citizen I have to go to the army at the age of 18 for 3 years of obligatory service, which kinda sucks balls more than the teachers strike. Now the thing is that I’m in a dilemma, a huge dilemma, to go to the army and waste 3 years of my “life” defending my country from those fucking terrorists bastards or get out from the army by making myself a jerk that dont give a shit about the army and fail all the tests and then they will let me go and will tell me I’m not needed in the army, that will make me a bastard in the eyes of israeli people so getting work here in the future will be almost impossible. Two fucking choices that I have to choose from before the 18.11.07, this is the date of my tests for the army. I don’t want another institution that will prevent me to fly to my freedom as a person. I want to open, discover, learn, enjoy, just start living fucking life!! But on the other hand people had died for my protection here in Israel, the least i can do is to serve the army as a gratitude to those who died for the country,its  not a big country that let their man die for no purpose, we are in a fucking war since the country was established, its the fucking only country that jews can live in totally peace in society, the only country that Jews have. I really can’t decide, its pissing me off, freedom is one step away from me, life is about to begin and i need to go to the fucking army, just fuck it.

Ahhh, music will not accompany me here on this post, because of my laziness and boredom. You will have to forgive me, and I promise you all that more music will come next time, with a great joyful post about how the sky is blue and how the wind whispers to the lovers.

If you feel to comment to a shitty post as this one, do so, i will appreciate it alot.

Ahhhh

Ahhhh how many shit can a man handle? well I won’t know till I’ll have enough of it so to relax a bit I’ll just write.No personal stuff today but maybe this weekend I’ll continue my line of questions.

Every one has his own way to wake up in the morning, some drink 4 cups of coffee, some watch TV, some read the newspaper, some just won’t wake up. My way to wake up in the morning is just 4 simple words: Buena Vista Social Club. What is the Buena Vista Social Club? I really can’t tell you because i don’t know but it’s AWSOME! I feel joy everytime i hear them, every morning i get myself a good portion of it and I’m set for all day. Try it yourself and tell me if it works, maybe I’m not the only mad man around. By the way, its latin music, so be ready to move!

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997)

1. Chan Chan
2. De Camino A La Vereda
3. El Cuarto De Tula
4. Pueblo Nuevo
5. Dos Gardenias
6. Y Tu Que Has Hecho
7. Veinte Anos
8. El Carretero
9. Candela
10. Amor De Loca Juventud
11. Orgullecida
12. Murmullo
13. Buena Vista Social Club
14. La Bayamesa

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Enjoy

First Philosophy Question: What Is Life?

A question that popped out in my mind for several months now and I’m trying to figure that out in someways. Music is my way to express my self and if people do know me (which is none) will understand that I’m living along with it. This post will be damn long because as I told you its gonna be a blog which will be talking about music along with personal life (which intrests no one except me) but its the only way for me to explain or describe why I love this music and how did i got to listen to it, because behind every time you discover something new there is a story behind it. So back to my first question, What Is Life? I’m still 16 (17 in 3 months) and I’m kinda different from other people, I think normally farther than most. I’ll only explain about one part today of my answer to this question because its damn long and its late night and I’ll probably get confused while writing everything down (you’ll see how it connects to music later on).

Our world is made of ants, lots of ants, but not just any ants, ants with a brain that works, and every ant has his own kind of personality and way of thinking. But only problem is that culture is shaping the ants to what the it wants us to be.People don’t think anymore, they are stuck in their own bubble. Get money, buy stuff, party and just live life but they wont think further, why the hell are you here? Is working in a grocery shop is the way you want to spend your life? your few years to live? Culture has caught us and determined us how we’re supposed to be, and you can’t ignore it, but you have to stop it from be your life. Invent yourself a way of life, your own, don’t let others to distract you and to keep you in a some kind of blockness from what you can really be. Will i live according to what scociety described me? working in some Hi-Tech factory? is this what as an ant living in a world supposed to do? Maybe yes but you always have a choice to make, you can always go after what you really want. Go after it and never let go, stick to your mind and never let someone else to shape you. Always but always think further, further from what you think now.
How the hell is everything has to do with music? Ahhh….let me tell you that i started thinking like that because of music. An artist called Yann Tiersen. Got to know him as my parents divorced through my dad and i always kept it in my library but never listened to it because if people will know that im listening to him, they will think im a geek (a teenage boy thinking) but 6 months ago i reopened his folder and started to listen to him. And then after that i started to play his song son the piano and at the first time i opened to stuff, I never played the piano in my free time because i thought its geeky and stuff, but always kept learning and i don’t know why. Slowly slowly i started to think about everything, about how we people live, how we are supposed to live, what the hell am I here for? Now after 6 months I answered my question and i can’t really describe it but i tried, and ill try to explain everytime ill post another post. But I think thats it for now, now im confused my self :P. (Short description for something i can’t really explain how)

I uploaded the latest Yann Tiersen album Les Retrouvailles so you can also get into him and enjoy some fabulous creativity and music and of course the latest The Cinematic Orchestra Album as I promised (2 to go!), the album is called Ma Fleur and probably their best album. I won’t describe about those two because I’m damn tired but trust my word, they are worth every minute of time. Enjoy them!

Yann Tiersen - Les Retrouvailles (2005)

1. Western
2. Kala
3. Loin Des Villes
4. La Veillée
5. Plus D’Hiver
6. A Ceux Qui Sont Malades Par Mer Calme
7. A Secret Place
8. Le Matin
9. Les Enfants
10. Le Jour De L’Ouverture
11. La Boulange
12. La Plage
13. Mary
14. 7:Pm
15. Les Retrouvailles
16. La Jetée
17. Le Train (Film D’Animation)

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The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur (2007)

1. To Build A Home
2. Familiar Ground
3. Child Song
4. Music Box
5. Prelude
6. As The Stars Fall
7. Into You
8. Ma Fleur
9. Breathe
10. That Home
11. Time And Space

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Enough for today, ill see you later on next week. I’m Out!

I Hate Title-ing Posts!

Nice title ah? Another day of studying and working is over (yoopi yay!) and now its time for me to relax in front of my 19 inch LCD screen and write another post. Todays post is about De la Soul and yet another The Cinematic Orchestra album (another yoopi yay!). So lets start.

So De La Soul, every Hip-Hop fan must know this group not because they are another 50 cent but…..they are freakin’ legends. Now what is about to come is fatal…….I HATED DE LA SOUL. Did you noticed the HATED? Yeah that was when I just got into Hip-Hop and loved pretty much only those Jazzy Hip-Hop stuff and some destructive beats like songs so De La Soul was something totaly different, and i didn’t even want to check some other albums of their’s because of my laziness. So what hapend that i started to like them? Once again a little story from my uncle’s place checking out some albums of unknown Funk artists and very old people playing Jazz, and sunddenly an album From De La Soul popped out. Not just any album but THE album, which is actualy my favorite De La Soul album: Buhloone Mindstate. I asked my uncle: “Why the hell do you have a Hip-Hop album?” so he answered me: “Heard Maceo was featuring there so i bought it with some friends 14 years ago when it came out, i can give you the album as a gift if you like”. Of course i forgot the album there in france at my uncle’s place but had the chance to hear it and damn i liked it, very liked it. So that’s my story about De La Soul, from there everything just got better, I really got into good Hip-Hop music and finally appreciated it as it should be.

Now the second part about the second Cinematic Orchestra album that i’m going to post “Every Day” is about to commence. Why this album? Because it rocks! Well it rocks a little less than Ma Fleur but I’m posting it because its a good album to get knowing The Cinematic Orchestra. I’m doing like a 5 phase lesson to knowing The Cinematic Orchestra to make sure your checking out my upcoming posts for more albums, just follow my posts and I promise you, you’ll become a Cinematic Orchestra crazy fan.

De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate (1993)

1. Intro
2. Eye Patch
3. En Focus
4. Patti Dooke
5. I Be Blowin’
6. Long Island Wildin’
7. Ego Trippin’ (Part Two)
8. Paul’s Revenge
9. 3 Days Later
10. Area
11. I Am I Be
12. In The Woods
13. Breakadawn
14. Dave Has A Problem…Seriously
15. Stone Age

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The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day (2002)

1. All That You Give (feat. Fontella Bass)
2. Burn Out
3. Flite
4. Evolution (feat. Fontella Bass)
5. Man With The Movie Camera
6. All Things To All Men (feat. Roots Manuva)
7. Everyday

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Another post is over, and i’m really starting to enjoy writing them, makes me feel nice. So ill see you again when ill have time, but ill try to do this as often as possible, for you and for me.

BTW i liked Urbanology’s comment “good to have you back, ninjatune stuff is awesome!
and I also updated the link on my page, keep up the good work (in a frequenty you like :-))” Especially the last part “(in a frequenty you like :-))” Man your damn righ about that, and thats exactly what i’m going to do thanks for support!

So I’m Out!

Back To Business

After 2 months of vacation, I’m back to business, writing shitty posts about good music, don’t think i don’t know that and I’ll try to work that out. And as yo noticed I switched to WordPress because its a bit more comfortable for me.

So what the hell i did those 2 months? Relaxing, relaxing and a bit more relaxing, shit made my year really depressing so I needed that. With all that i got to know some new artists and probably my favorite music label: Ninja Tunes.

Before i start posting music and stuff, just so you know, I’m going to make this blog not strict about music but will combine personal life with music, which was my first intention but somehow it turned to be something else.

So Ninja Tunes, famous label, great artists and exactly everything i was looking for. If you remember, I posted 2 posts about St. Germain and I think you noticed (the ones who actually read this blog) that I damn loved this kind of genre that is how i used to call it once “Electronic Jazz”. Its exactly what it is but people decided to call it Acid Jazz or Future Jazz or even Nu Jazz. So Ninja Tunes is like a paradise for me, it delivers exactly what I like.

Usually Hip-Hop was my thing because it was the closest thing to Jazz and Electronic music. I do like Jazz alone to but sometimes i prefer stuff a bit more beaty and moving, so yeah Jazz is my thing but if I can combine it with electronic so why not? Once i said i don’t like electronic music, well i meant that i don’t like trance and psychedelic music, if so electronic is good and more than that, it spices things up.

So how the hell I got to know Ninja Tunes? Again it starts by visiting sites and accidentally discovering stuff. First i visited the Treebeats blog and there i looked up the blogs the author What It Is like and i saw the blog Ironboblog, What It Is said that if you like Ninja Tunes yo ushould go there. So I said to myself, what the hell is Ninja Tunes, like music the ninjas hear? So i went there and saw the author likes Nu jazz, Hip-Hop, Downtempo and saw some unknown artists posted, and slowly after going deep in it I discovered everything i searched for.

The first one was The Cinematic Orchestra, just bought 2 CD’s of their’s: Ma Fleur and Man With A Movie Camera, I bought those in my vacation in France (my second home). Both of them are a masterpiece, pure fusion of Jazz and Electronic.

But because of my laziness I will post today only one album of their’s, Man With A Movie Camera.

The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With A Movie Camera (2002)

1. The Projectionist
2. Melody
3. Dawn
4. The Awakening of a Woman
5. Reel Life (Evolution II)
6. Postlude
7. Evolution (Versao Portuense)
8. Work It! (Man With the Movie Camera)
9. Voyage
10. Odessa
11. Theme De Yoyo
12. The Magician
13. Theme Reprise
14. Yoyo Waltz
15. Drunken Tune
16. The Animated Tripod
17. All Things Listen Listen

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So here we go, I’m back to business with my first post since i went out to vacation. Hope you enjoyed it and hope I’ll be back full time to continu posting here and really hope you’ll enjoy it in the future to.

So I’m Out!

Gone For A While

Well as you noticed 3 weeks past without a post, that’s because I’m traveling all summer (that sucks for the half of it) so ill be gone for all my vacation.
Till then ill expand my taste and my knowledge about music, so just look for a damn enormous post the 1th September.

I’m OUT!

Common Discography

I decided to make the Common discography, first because i just love him and second because of his upcoming album Finding Forever. Oh and also because of the new Rapdungeon Collection :).

Well i won’t write to much today cause I’m depressed a bit but i promised myself to post this as soon as possible for all of you to enjoy it.
(oh and by the way, i noticed my write ups are really bad so ill try to notch it up a bit)

If you want to have all of Common’s collection check out Rapdungeon!
and with this discography you’ll have everything!

First album YAY!

Common - Can I Borrow A Dollar? (1992)

1. A Penny For My Thoughts
2. Charms Alarm
3. Take It EZ
4. Heidi Hoe
5. Breaker 1/9
6. Two Scoops Of Raisins
7. No Defense
8. Blows To The Temple
9. Just In The Nick Of Rhyme
10. Tricks Up My Sleeve
11. Puppy Chow
12. Soul By The Pound
13. Pitchin’ Pennies

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Second album second YAY!

Common - Resurrection (1994)

1. Resurrection
2. I Used To Love H.E.R.
3. Watermelon
4. Book Of Life
5. In My Own World (Check The Method)
6. Another Wasted Nite With…
7. Nuthin’ To Do
8. Communism
9. WMOE
10. Thisisme
11. Orange Pineapple Juice
12. Chapter 13 (Rich Man Vs. Poor Man)
13. Maintaining
14. Sum Sh*t I Wrote
15. Pop’s Rap

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Third album (Wooohooo its getting hot in here!)

Common - One Day It’ll All Make Sense (1997)

1. Introspective
2. Invocation
3. Real Nigga Quotes
4. Retrospect For Life
5. Gettin’ Down At The Amphitheater
6. Food For Funk
7. G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition)
8. My City
9. Hungry
10. All Night Long
11. Stolen Moments Pt. l
12. Stolen Moments Pt. ll
13. 1 ‘2 Many…
14. Stolen Moments Pt. lll (Intro/Outro)
15. Making A Name For Ourselves
16. Reminding Me (Of Sef)
17. Pop’s Rap Part 2/Fatherhood

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Fourth album HOORAY!

Common - Like Water For Chocolate (2000)

1. Time Traveling (A Tribute To Fela)
2. Heat
3. Cold Blooded
4. Dooinit
5. The Light
6. Funky For You
7. The Questions
8. Time Travelin’ Reprise
9. The 6th Sense
10. A Film Called (Pimp)
11. Nag Champa (Afrodisiac For The World)
12. Thelonius
13. Payback Is A Grandmother
14. Geto Heaven Part Two
15. Song For Assata, A - (featuring Cee-Lo)
16. Pops Rap III…All My Children

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Fifth album CHEERS THE BEERS ARE ON ME! (even if im still 16)

Common - Electric Circus (2004)

1. Between Me, You & Liberation (feat. Cee-Lo)
2. Aquarius
3. Electric Wire Hustler Flower (feat. Sunny of P.O.D.)
4. I Got A Right To (feat. Pharrell Williams)
5. Jimi Was A Rock Star (feat. Erykah Badu)
6. New Wave (feat. Laetitia Sadier)
7. Star *69 (Ps With Love) (feat. Bilal)
8. Heaven Somewhere (feat. Omar Lyefook, Bilal, Cee-Lo, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu & Lonnie Lynn)
9. The Hustle (feat. Dart Chillz)
10. Come Close (feat. Mary J. Blige)
11. Ferris Wheel (feat. Vinia Mojica & Marie Daulne of Zap Mama)
12. I Am Music (feat. Jill Scott)
13. Soul Power

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Sixth album….wait….wait a bit more…here it comes…one sec….YESSSS!!!

Common - Be (2006)

1. Be (Intro)
2. The Corner
3. Go!
4. Faithful
5. Testify
6. Love Is…
7. Chi-City
8. The Food
9. Real People
10. They Say
11. It’s Your World

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And here is probably one of my favorite songs (fresh from the oven!) thats going to appear on his new album this 31th July:

I’m OUT!