Andrew Dice Clay - 40 Too Long (1992)

Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957) is an American comedian and actor.
He played the lead role in the 1990 film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
 Clay has been in several movies and has released a number of stand-up comedy albums. He is currently focused on acting and putting aside his stand-up.
40 Too Long is a comedy album by comedian Andrew Dice Clay, which was released in 1992. The album's name was taken from an argument he says he had with a Chinese clothing sales guy who took his size (42 long) the wrong way and kept suggesting smaller sizes.
Unlike Clay's albums previously, he tends to side more with the women in this one on just about everything.

01.  Dice Goes to the Mall   (3:35)
02.  Dice Talks to the Salesmen   (1:00)
03.  Dice Buys a Suit   (3:36)
04.  Dice on Disasters   (1:51)
05.  Dice on Nutrition   (1:38)
06.  Dice Just Says No Leno   (1:48)
07.  Dice on Redheads   (1:41)
08.  Dice on Lasting Relationships   (2:53)
09.  Dice the Advocate   (2:34)
10.  Dice Stops for Gas   (2:29)
11.  Dice on Reading Material   (1:07)
12.  Dice on Orgasms   (2:06)
13.  Dice's Checklist   (1:41)
14.  What a Mess   (0:50)
15.  Dice on Reheaded Men   (0:42)
16.  Dice Knows When to Say When   (2:46)
17.  Dice on Complaints   (1:25)
18.  Dice Jerks Off   (2:25)
19.  Dice on Manners   (1:19)
20.  Dice Vs. Peewee   (0:30)
21.  Dice at the Drive-Thru   (1:03)
22.  Dice Gets Creative in Bed   (5:07)
23.  Dice Learns to Mambo   (3:09)
24.  Dice on Bodybuilders   (1:13)
25.  Dice Does It Like Dis   (0:59)
26.  Dice Has Random Thoughts   (1:38)
27.  Dice Greeting Cards   (0:43
28.  Dice Rewrites History   (2:25)
29.  Let Yourself Go   (2:15)
30.  You May Be Dancing With Me   (3:34)

Label - American Recordings

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3rd Nation - Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind (1996)

 

Tracklist

1.  Stand Up  (4:48) 
2.  I Believe  (4:06) 
3.  Real Love  (3:45) 
4.  One More Chance  (6:12) 
5.  Give Me Your Love  (0:35) 
6.  Do Me Right  (4:29) 
7.  Better Then You  (5:07) 
8.  Joy & Happines  (4:00) 
9.  Give Your Love To Me  (4:53) 
10.  Hold On  (5:21) 
11.  Baby Come Lay  (5:58) 

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Warner Music Group
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – SweMix
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Music Sweden AB
• Copyright © – SweMix
• Copyright © – Warner Music Sweden AB
• Published By – SBK April Music Inc.
• Published By – Ultrawave Music
• Published By – Rightsong Music, Inc.
• Made By – Warner Music Manufacturing Europe
• Produced For – Two Black Productions
• Produced For – JSP
• Pressed By – WMME Alsdorf

Credits

• Design [Graphic] – Leena 'Lelle' Kilpi
• Design [Help] – Charlie 'C'

Notes

Released: 1996

Genre:  Electronic

Style:  Garage House

Length:  48:02

Label - SweMix Records

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Thompson Twins ‎- Out Of The Gap (1984) [Special Limited Edition]

Thompson Twins were a British music group that formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. Initially a new wave group, they switched to a more mainstream pop sound and achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States, and around the globe.
The Thompson Twins had a major chart run in the 1980s with no less than 7 top 40 hits. It was the decade of Megamixes and the Thompsons had a series of 3 "Out Of The Gap" Megamixes.
There was the "Out Of The Gap" (Extended Megamix) with 4 songs and also includes the "Sister Of Mercy" (Extended Mix) - this one was about 9 mins long.

1.  Out Of The Gap  (Megamix)  (8:57) 
2.  Still Water  (3:00) 
3.  Sister Of Mercy  (9:26) 
4.  Funeral Dance  (3:30) 

Label - Arista Records

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Aretha Franklin - Yeah!!! (1965)

Yeah!!! (or Aretha Franklin In Person With Her Quartet) is the eighth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on May 17, 1965 by Columbia Records. Contrary to the overdubbed sounds of audience murmurs, the album was not a live album, but instead was recorded live at New York's Columbia Studios and produced by Clyde Otis.
This 'live' nightclub date with a jazz trio, revealed to be a faked on the Columbia compilations that have since come out, is nonetheless a great LP, maybe the best single Columbia LP from Aretha. John Hammond discovered her and just wanted great music, but the label couldn't decide if she was a show tune singer, jazz or r&b and never figured out she was all of the above and deserved her own category. This is the most jazzy Aretha ever and if she'd wanted to concentrate on this one area of her talent, she would still be ruling it. Hopefully Columbia will issue the undoctored recordings complete some day soon. The clicking silverware and audience murmurs as if they were ignoring her are actually distracting on a couple of songs, which given that it was dubbed in are overkill besides being ridiculous.
This would be Franklin's last collection of jazz recordings until the release of 1973's Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), released during her landmark tenure at Atlantic Records.

01.  This Could Be the Start of Something   (Steve Allen)  (1:23)
02.  Once In a Lifetime   (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse)  (3:20)
03.  Misty   (Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke) (3:35)
04.  More   (Nino Oliviero, Riz Ortolani, Norman Newell)  (1:55)
05.  There Is No Greater Love   (Isham Jones, Marty Symes)  (4:39)
06.  Muddy Water   (Harry Richman, Jo Trent, Peter De Rose)  (2:22)
07.  If I Had a Hammer   (Lee Hays, Pete Seeger)  (2:29)
08.  Impossible   (Steve Allen)  (3:22)
09.  Today I Love Ev'rybody   (Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields)  (3:24)
10.  Without The One You Love   (Aretha Franklin)  (3:34)
11.  Trouble in Mind   (Richard M. Jones)  (2:53)
12.  Love for Sale   (Cole Porter)  (2:29)

Label - Columbia Records

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Solomon Burke - Soul Alive! [2 CD Remastered] (2002)

For pure soul testifying, no one compares to Solomon Burke. He earned his title -- "King of Soul" -- by bringing the gospel fervor of the Southern preacher to his performances, and no recording proves his command over an audience quite like Soul Alive! Recorded in 1983 in Washington, D.C., the set proves Burke had lost little from his '60s heyday; he works through nearly all of his hits, spurring on the concert-goers as though they were the ones performing instead of him in fact, some of the women are heard screaming so often they should've been credited. Burke shines most when leading the faithful through "I Can't Stop Loving You," pausing for a lengthy monologue before reprising the song and leading into a devastating finish. Elsewhere he works through deeply felt country-blues-gospel fusions like "I Almost Lost My Mind," "Take Me (Just as I Am)," "He'll Have to Go," and "Down in the Valley."
"I know there's something going on in this place that doing good for somebody!" shouts Solomon Burke early on in "Soul Alive," and he may have even understated the case. As with the best live albums (Sinatra, James Brown, the Stones, KISS), this set, recorded mostly in Washington, DC, captures a live soul experience as few others have(especially in the 80s, when it was released).
Many remember Burke from "Cry to Me," featured on the "Dirty Dancing" soundtrack. That hit is here, along with songs he ("The Price," "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love," "Tonight's The Night") or others ("I Can't Stop Loving You," "Hold What You Got," "He'll Have To Go.") recorded during soul's peak years. What makes this album special is that Burke, a preacher and gospel singer since childhood, weaves useful, emotional sermons around these medleys (his monologue about "the women of today" is hilarious and useful) giving the crowd and listener the best of the gospel and secular worlds. In doing so, Burke reversed - 40 years later - Ray Charles' use of gospel style in blues songs which angered, then inspired, fans of those genres. Every shout, every Burke one-liner ("All we need is a water bed now" ), every note of this set is to cherish.

Disc: 1
01. Introduction: Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - 4:36 
02. Medley: If You Need Me/Tonight's The Night/You're Good For Me/I
      Almost Lost My Mind/What Am I Living For/Just Out Of Reach -
      12:20 
03. Medley: Monologue/Take Me (Just As I Am)/I Can't Stop Loving
      You/Monologue/I Can't Stop Loving  You (Reprise)/Down In The
      Valley/Proud Mary - 15:22 
04. Down In The Valley - 3:46 
05. Proud Mary - 3:46 

Disc: 2
01. Medley: Tonight's The Night (Reprise)/Beautiful Brown Eyes/Just
      A Matter Of Time/Monologue/Hold What You've Got/He'll Have To
      Go/Cry To Me - 18:55 
02. Introduction To Encore: Gotta Get You Off My Mind (Instrumental)
      Medley: Meet Me In Church/The Price/Words/Monologue - 10:29 
03. Medley: You're Good For Me (Reprise)/Send Me Some Lovin'/Gotta
      Get You Off My Mind - 6:49 
04. Medley: Having A Party/Amen - 6:42

Label - Rounder Records

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K.D. Lang - Ingénue (1992)

On her early albums, k.d. lang was a country traditionalist with a difference while she had a glorious voice and could evoke the risen ghost of Patsy Cline when she was of a mind, there was an intelligence and sly humor in her work that occasionally betrayed her history as a performance artist who entered the musical mainstream through the side door. And while the three years between Absolute Torch and Twang and Ingénue were full of controversy for lang that may have encouraged her to seek out new creative directions (among other things, she came out as a lesbian and her outspoken animal rights activism alienated many fans in the C&W mainstream), the former album suggested lang had already taken her interest in country music as far as it was likely to go. Ingénue presented lang as an adult contemporary artist for the first time, and if she felt any trepidation at all about her stylistic shift, you'd never guess after listening to the record; lang's vocal style is noticeably more subtle on Ingénue than her previous albums, but her command of her instrument is still complete, and the cooler surroundings allowed her to emotionally accomplish more with less. lang's songwriting moved into a more impressionistic direction with Ingénue, and while the literal meanings of many of her tunes became less clear, she also brought a more personal stamp to her music, and the emotional core of "Save Me," "Constant Craving," and "So It Shall Be" was obvious even when their surfaces were evasive. And the production and arrangements by lang and her longtime collaborators Ben Mink and Greg Penny were at once simple and ambitious, creating a musical space that was different in form and effect than her previous albums but one where she sounded right at home.
Ingénue disappoints slightly because while lang was a masterful and thoroughly enjoyable country singer, she was a far more introspective adult contemporary singer/songwriter who seemingly demanded the audience accept her "as is" or not at all.
However, the craft of the album is impressive indeed, and few artists have reinvented themselves with as much poise and panache as lang did on Ingénue.

01. "Save Me"  (Ben Mink / k.d. lang) - 4:33
02. "The Mind of Love"  (Ben Mink / k.d. lang) - 3:48
03. "Miss Chatelaine"  (Ben Mink / k.d. lang) - 3:49
04. "Wash Me Clean"  (Lang) - 3:17
05. "So It Shall Be"  (Lang, Greg Penny) - 4:30
06. "Still Thrives This Love" (Ben Mink / k.d. lang) - 3:35
07. "Season of Hollow Soul" (Ben Mink / k.d. lang) - 4:58
08. "Outside Myself"  (Ben Mink / k.d. lang) - 4:57
09. "Tears of Love's Recall" (Ben Mink / k.d. lang) - 3:49
10. "Constant Craving"  (Ben Mink / k.d. lang)  - 4:37

Label - Sire, Warner Bros.

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Tanya Tucker - Strong Enough To Bend (1988)

Strong Enough to Bend is a 1988 album by Tanya Tucker. There were three singles that made the Billboard Top Ten Country singles charts: "Strong Enough to Bend" at #1, "Highway Robbery" at #2, and "Call on Me" at #4. Another single, "Daddy and Home," rose to #27, while the album itself peaked at #9 on the Country Albums chart. This album is typical of her classic period.
I agree with Tanya's assessment of Daddy and home - it is an outstanding cover of the old Jimmie Rodgers classic. The title track is particularly interesting, as it was the first significant songwriting success for Beth Neilson Chapman, who has since become both prolific and successful as a songwriter and has also made some impact with her own recordings.
Apart from the hits, which are available on any number of compilations, You're not alone, As long as I'm dreaming, Lonesome town, Lonely at the right time, Playing for keeps and Back on my feet are all excellent songs, most of them being ballads.
This is an essential album for Tanya's fans but if you haven't got any of her music, it's a great place to start.

01. "You're Not Alone" (Tom Shapiro, Chris Waters)  - 3:05
02. "Strong Enough to Bend" (Beth Nielsen Chapman, Don Schlitz)  - 2:43
03. "As Long as I'm Dreamin'"  (Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, John Jarrard, Gary Nicholson)  - 3:35
04. "Lonesome Town"  (Matraca Berg, Ronnie Samoset)  - 4:11
05. "Daddy and Home"  (Jimmie Rodgers, Elsie McWilliams)  - 2:49
06. "Highway Robbery"  (Michael Garvin, Bucky Jones, Shapiro)  - 3:29
07. "Lonely at the Right Time"  (Frank J. Myers, Don Pfrimmer)  - 3:54
08. "Playing for Keeps"  (Lewis Anderson, Lisa Silver)  - 3:36
09. "Call on Me"  (Gary Scruggs)  - 3:22
10. "Back on My Feet"  (Max D. Barnes, Troy Seals)  - 3:24

Label - Capitol

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David Clayton-Thomas - David Clayton-Thomas (1973)

David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett; 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition "Spinning Wheel" was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 2010 Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Clayton-Thomas began his music career in the early '60s, working the clubs on Toronto's Yonge Street, where he discovered his love of singing and playing the blues. Before moving to New York City in 1967, Clayton-Thomas fronted a couple of local bands, first The Shays and then The Bossmen, one of the earliest rock bands with significant jazz influences. But the real success came only a few difficult years later when he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Frustrated with the band’s infighting and grueling touring schedule, Clayton-Thomas left Blood, Sweat and Tears in early 1972 to work as a solo artist. Thomas released his first Columbia solo album after BS&T, simply titled "David Clayton Thomas".

01. "Harmony Junction" (David Clayton-Thomas, William D. Smith) - 3:13
02. "Workin' On The Railroad" (David Clayton-Thomas) - 2:34
03. "Alimony" (Tommy Tucker) - 3:25
04. "Harbor Lady" (Timothy Martin, Walter Meskell) - 3:32
05. "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby" (David Porter, Isaac Hayes) - 4:26
06. "Hernando's Hideaway" (Jerry Ross, Richard Adler) - 3:49
07. "Sweet Fantasy" (Hoyt Axton) - 3:22
08. "Small Family" (David Clayton-Thomas, William D. Smith) - 2:37
09. "Can't Buy Me Love" (John Lennon-Paul McCartney) - 2:33
10. "Professor Longhair" (David Clayton-Thomas, William D. Smith) - 2:47

Label - RCA Victor

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Queen - A Night At The Odeon [Recorded live At The Hammersmith Odeon, 24th December 1975]

Simulcast live on both BBC Radio 1 and BBC 2, the famous show was the culmination of the 26-date 'Queen Invite You To A Night At The Opera' UK tour of 1975. The group performed 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for the first time during this tour.
"This concert was very special because it was the first time we ever played a whole show completely live on TV … the Christmas Show," said Brian May in a statement. "The quality, after great rescue work and transfer into the digital domain, is amazing. And the energy we had comes across very forcefully."
As well as audio and visual footage of the gig, the DVD and SD Blu-Ray versions feature two special bonus features – 'Looking Back At The Odeon’, a brand new 22-minute documentary featuring a previously unseen interview with May and Roger Taylor by Old Grey Whistle Test presenter Bob Harris, plus the rarely seen Live At The Budokan – Japan 1975 footage, featuring three songs ('Now I'm Here', 'Killer Queen' and 'In The Lap Of The Gods… Revisited') recorded during their famous tour.
Says Bob Harris of that night: "Christmas eve 1975 marked an important moment in the history of the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' and Queen. The band were in party mood at the Hammersmith Odeon that night and no wonder. They had already spent the best part of a month at the top of the UK singles chart with the sensational 'Bohemian Rhapsody', the video for which had instantly redefined the presentation of music on TV.
"They were at the peak of their powers – confident and stage sharp at the end of a barnstorming UK tour. I donned top hat and tails to salute and introduce them before they played one of the best sets I had ever seen. It was an incredible night but it was more even than that. It was the moment Queen became superstars."

01.  Now I´m Here - 4:42
02.  Ogre Battle - 5:19
03.  White Queen (As It Began) - 5:30
04.  Bohemian Rhapsody - 2:28
05.  Killer Queen - 2:08
06.  The March Of The Black Queen - 1:30
07.  Bohemian Rhapsody (Reprise) - 1:02
08.  Bring Back That Leroy Brown - 1:32
09.  Brighton Rock - 2:23
10.  Guitar Solo - 6:37
11.  Son And Daughter - 1:44
12.  Keep Yourself Alive - 4:32
13.  Liar - 8:45
14.  In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited - 5:23
15.  Big Spender - 1:23
16.  Jailhouse Rock Medley - 9:20
17.  Seven Seas Of Rhye - 3:11
18.  See What A Fool I´ve Been - 4:22
19.  God Save The Queen - 1:22

Label - Virgin/EMI

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Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (2012)

Pitched somewhere between the retro-purist vibe of Sharon Jones and the nervy revivalism of Jack White, Alabama Shakes possesses a curious character: they're rooted in the past but it's clear they've learned their moves musicians removed some three or four generations from the source. Instead of playing like refractions from a hall of mirrors, Alabama Shakes' 2012 debut Boys & Girls emphasizes how American roots music is now grounded in the '60s notion of blues & soul, all filtered through the prism of '70s classic rock. And it's not just that Heath Fogg tears great, gnarled riffs out of his guitar while the rhythm section of Zac Cockrell and Steve Johnson hit the downbeat with a brutal force lead singer Brittany Howard phrases like a rock singer, playing up vocal affections with glee, ratcheting up the drama by laying hard into her elongated phrases.
Which isn't to say Alabama Shakes ignores the straight stuff: much of Boys & Girls is anchored in a Southern soul groove spliced from Stax and Muscle Shoals, the guitars of Fogg and Howard full and bold in their cleanly chopped rhythms, echoing the work of Steve Cropper and Jimmy Johnson. But Alabama Shakes aren't purists, they're modern they splice familiar sounds and forms together, then reshuffle them in subtly surprising ways.
Unlike White or his Great Lakes cousins the Black Keys, Alabama Shakes aren't entirely enamored with what they can re-create in the studio -- they're too attached to the power of a live performance, making them an ideal candidate for a T-Bone Burnett or Joe Henry production somewhere down the road -- but they bear no special allegiance to the didactic needs of retro-rock. Their roots are just that  roots, not anchors, allowing the group to grow, often in unexpected and quietly thrilling ways.

01.  "Hold On"  - 3:46
02.  "I Found You" -  2:59
03.  "Hang Loose" -  2:24
04.  "Rise to the Sun" -  3:08
05.  "You Ain't Alone" -  4:44
06.  "Goin' to the Party" -  1:45
07.  "Heartbreaker" -  3:47
08.  "Boys & Girls" -  3:25
09.  "Be Mine" -  4:14
10.  "I Ain't the Same"  - 2:55
11.  "On Your Way" -  3:05
12.  "Heavy Chevy" (bonus track and on 7" vinyl)  - 1:34

Label - ATO

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