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This is my odd assortment of favorites (tentatively rank ordered):
Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
Marina & the Diamonds – The Family Jewels
Daddy Yankee – Mundial
Khaled Abdul Rahman – Khalediat 2010
Marshall Allen – Matthew Shipp – Joe Morris – Night Logic
Neil Young – Le Noise
Flying Lotus – Cosmograma
Boris – Variations
Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
Anticipating hearing with interest, though I probably won't like all of these and possibly won't like any of them: Taylor Swift, Solange (haven't been bowled over by what I've heard of hers so far, but she seems potentially interesting and I like her voice, plus her name comes up in discussions of situating Janelle Monae in relation to other artists), Prefuse 73 (never really enjoyed him before but this new project with the female vocalists could win me over), Lou Harrison (previously unrecorded compositions, posthumously recorded and released).
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21. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
22. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
23. The John Butler Trio- April Uprising
24. Margo & the Nuclear So & So's - Buzzard
25. JJ Grey & Mofro - Georgia Warhorse
26. Silver Seas - Chateau Revenge
27. Year long Disaster - Black Magic
28. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
29. Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void
30. Gorillas - Plastic Beach
31. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
32. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
33. Sia - We are Born
34. The New Pornographers - Together
35. Passenger - Flight of the Crow
36. The Daylights - The Daylights
37. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
38. Menomena - Mines
39. Tom McRea - The Alphabet of Hurricanes
40. Tracey Thorn - Love & its Opposite
41. The Posies - Blood/Candy
42. New Politics - New Politics
43. Kele - The Boxer
44. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
45. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
46. The Happy Hollows - Spells
I found Year Long Disaster to be disappointing. They have the sound but not the songs. Which is an even greater shortcoming than it otherwise would be considering who singer/guitarist Dan Davies' father and uncle are....
This is a long-overdue review of some of the records on the Beatles' label that weren't records by the Beatles, even if various Beatles did have something to do with quite a few of them.
Some of the treats include
* the label's first known non-Beatle release, an instrumental Paul McCartney wrote for a British television show, "Thingumybob," by the Brass Dyke Mills Band.
* the first known single by a band called the Iveys, "Maybe Tomorrow," a band that morphed soon enough into Badfinger.
* a single by Jackie Lomax (once a member of the minor British Invasion group the Undertakers), "Sour Milk Sea," on which George Harrison and Ringo Starr played and which provided the original name for a band that became known as Queen.
* And, this little jewel, a song Paul McCartney was convinced would be a hit, being proven very right and then some when he got a wispy TV talent-show winner to record it in 1968 . . .
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