Observers

niedziela, 26 czerwca 2011

Neu! - Neu! 75


Neu! - Neu! 75
Why Awesome? - typical epic&etherial krautrock melodies
Genre - krautrock, psychedelic
 Year - 1975
Origin - Germany
Popularity - 7/10
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Whole album available online here (youtube)*

01. Isi

czwartek, 23 czerwca 2011

Shpongle - Nothing lasts ... but nothing is lost


Shpongle - Nothing lasts ... but nothing is lost
Why Awesome? - very nice combination of trance&psyche and rock (?) music with heavy drumms, great bassline, nice guitars and a lot of music experiments:)
Genre - psychedelic
 Year - 2005 
Origin - UK 

 03. Levitation Nation

GTA Vice City Soundtrack - Radio Espantoso


GTA Vice City Soundtrack - Radio Espantoso
 Why Awesome? - essence of latino music :)
Genre - latino, jazz, soundtrack
Year - 2002 (but music included in album is from different years)
  Origin - Cuba//Brazil/USA
  Popularity - 6/10
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Whole album available online here*

01. Deodato - Super Strut

poniedziałek, 20 czerwca 2011

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill


Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill 
Why Awesome? - so cool jazzy chilloutin' playin'!
Genre - classic rock, jazz rock
Year - 1972
  Origin - USA

 Popularity - 4/10
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 Whole album available online here*

01. Do it Again



niedziela, 19 czerwca 2011

Matt Uelmen - Diablo II Soundtrack


Matt Uelmen - Diablo II Soundtrack
Why Awesome? - ambient music with very strong fantasy atmosphere
*also veeeery sentimental for every player of this cool game :)
Genre - soundtrack
Year - 2000
  Origin - USA
Popularity - 5/10
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Whole album available online here*

Don't judge this music only by this diabolic cover :) It's quite peaceful and calm music but with dark and insecure atmosphere which was needed in game for keeping the spirit of players in long hours of searching title boss - the Diablo :)

02. Tristram 

sobota, 18 czerwca 2011

Maanam - Maanam


Maanam - Maanam
Why Awesome? - one of the best polish rock band with great guitars 
and female on vocal :)
Genre - rock 
Year - 1981
  Origin - Poland 

02. Boskie Buenos
 


also you can't miss those songs from album:
and 



and now short
Polish lesson! 
 awesome = zajebisty [zaye-bist']
 Example - I've just heard awesome cover of Led Zeppelin!
Is in polish - Właśnie słyszałem zajebisty cover Led Zeppelinów! 

Try and repeat! :)
Zdrowia! 

piątek, 17 czerwca 2011

Änglagård - Hybris


 Änglagård - Hybris
Why Awesome? - scary, powerful, progressive playing!
Genre - progressive rock, symphonic rock
 Year - 1992
  Origin - Sweden
  Popularity - 1/10
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poniedziałek, 13 czerwca 2011

Ayreon - Human Equation


Ayreon - Human Equation
Why Awesome? - 20-day concept history of a man in comma! 
Genre - progressive rock/metal
Year - 2004
  Origin - Netherlands
  Popularity - 6/10
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Whole album available online here*
  
Because whole album is one history you should listen it from first to last day at once with lyrics in front of you! :) You need to focus but advanced English isn't needed :) Enjoy!

04. Mystery

Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - Life is a Miracle


 Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - Life Is a Miracle
Why Awesome? - beautiful and crazy balkan playing ... and life is a miracle!
Genre - gypsy, soundtrack
Year - 2004
  Origin - Sarajevo, (Yugoslavia) 
  Popularity - 6/10
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(almost) Whole album available online here* 

08. Looking for Luka
 

Slagsmålsklubben - Boss for Leader


Slagsmålsklubben - Boss for Leader
Why Awesome? - 8-bit tune!
Genre - electronic, bitpop 
Year - 2007
 Origin - Sweden
 Popularity - 3/10
torrent
Whole album available online here* 

07. Spanska Förhoppningar 

Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue


Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Why Awesome? - positive, art-funky music
Genre - classic rock, art rock
Year - 1969
Origin - UK
Popularity - 8/10
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Whole album available online here*

13. Mr. Blue Sky

Deep Purple - Deep Purple


Deep Purple - Deep Purple 
Why Awesome? - awesome hard rock progressive playing, guitar&hammond solos,
one-of-a-kind comositions!
Genre - classic rock, hard rock, progressive rock 
Year - 1969
  Origin - UK
Popularity - 6/10
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Whole album available online here* 

04. The Painter


Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up


Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
 Why Awesome? - relaxing, swinging, floating, awesomely composed music
Genre - chillout, alternative rock, funk jazz
Year - 2004
 Origin - USA
Popularity - 6/10
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Whole album available online here*

03. Suco de Tangerina
 

One of the best chillouting album ever :) Whole album is on equal level of awesomness but, if I had to, I would say that opening track "B for my Name", posted above "Suco de Tangerina" and "The Rat Cage" are three the best tracks on the album. 
It's funny thing that Beastie Boys used to play hip-hop/rap and it's not so jazzy and chilloutin' hip-hop so this album is very not-like Beastie Boys. It's shows that they are great composers and musicians :)
Beastie Boys are cool actors too and they love to make music videos and they are pretty good at it. Check:

from other albums, most popular songs of them:

Ocean's Twelve Soundtrack


Ocean's Twelve Soundtrack
 Why Awesome? - both dynamic and beautiful music from great movie
 Genre - soundtrack
Year - 2004
 Origin - UK/USA
 Popularity - 6/10
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(almost) Whole album available online here*

02. La Caution - Thé à la menthe (laser dance scene)

niedziela, 12 czerwca 2011

Gong - You


Gong - You
  Why Awesome? - outstanding trip into psychedelic fantasy
Genre - psychedelic, canterbury scene
Year - 1974
Origin - UK/France
Popularity - 2/10
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Whole album available online here* 

06. A Sprinkling of Clouds

sobota, 11 czerwca 2011

The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land


The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
  Why Awesome? - powerful electronic music 
Genre - electronic, industrial
Year - 1997
Origin - UK
Popularity - 9/10 

piątek, 10 czerwca 2011

Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time



Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
Why Awesome? - It's a ticket to trip around the Milk Way :)
 Genre - space rock, psychedelic rock
 Year - 1975
  Origin - UK
Popularity - 2/10
torrent
Whole album available online here*  
  
09. Spiral Galaxy 28948
It's masterpiece and one of my favorites albums ever. From the very beginning you can feel like traveling through the space. Eternal and cosmic atmosphere :) Album is full of great psychedelic, sometimes even a bi trance songs. Except 3 songs with spoken lyrics about "edge of time" motive which I don't like so much - they ruin the atmosphere.
Whole Hawkwind career is worth close looking, it's became one of my favorite bands with their space, trippy, a bit dark and absolutely cosmic style of playing.
Motorhead leader - Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, was bass player and singer of Hawkwind from 1971 till 1975 and he even wrote and recorded song titled "Motorhead" that is included in "Warrior on the Edge of Time" where you can already feel heavy style of future Motorhead. It was his last song made with Hawkwind. Then Lemmy was fired by other members for taking too much drugs (like "motorhead" what means in slang - cocaine addict) and he set up Motorhead even in the same year.
For good sake of rock'n'roll ... :D

Please - check this album out!!! :)

Mozart – Requiem


Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart – Requiem d-moll KV 626
Why Awesome? - very emotional classical music masterpiece
Genre - Classical music
Year - 1791
Origin - Austria
Popularity - 5/10

Requiem is (usually) funeral mass for dead. Many composers composed their Requiems and Mozart did so, as we can predict - it's great piece of music. Considering atmosphere of sadness and darkness it's not pleasurable to listen in every moment. It's not typical "album" but we can consider it like this and listening to Mozart's funeral mass music vision is always very emotional experience.

02. Dies Irae

Opeth - Still Life


Opeth - Still Life
Why Awesome? - advanced progressive music
Genre - progressive (death) metal
Year - 1999
Origin - Sweden
Popularity - 8/10

Possibly metal is not easy to listen for everybody. But this is concept album progressively advanced with quite hard technique of playing. This band is know also from using growling and very soft (even a bit female) singing in one song, changing each other. Even if you are not interested in metal music you can at least check one song from this album which is ballad actually:

05. Face of Melinda
 

David Axelrod - Song of Innocence



David Axelrod - Song Of Innocence
Why Awesome? - great instrumental chillouting  
Genre - jazz, psychedelic rock, progressive rock  
Year - 1968
Origin - USA
Popularity - 4/10
torrent
Whole album available online here* 

02. Holy Thursday


Kingston Wall - I



Kingston Wall - I
Why Awesome? - Mushrooms Track
 Genre – progressive rock 
Released – 1992
Origin – Finland
10. Mushrooms part II - On My Own

środa, 8 czerwca 2011

Bacamarte - Depis do Fim


Bacamarte – Depois do Fim
Why Awesome? - beautiful progressive music 
Genre – progressive rock, symphonic rock
Released – 1983
Origin – Brazil
Popularity - 1/10

09. Mirante Das Estrelas

Eternal music from Brazil. Masterpiece of progressive music, very well composed with many instruments and motives. Although it's very smooth and pleasurable for every kind of listener what make this music kinda universal. 

 

niedziela, 5 czerwca 2011

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon


Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Why Awesome? - It's perfect music.  
Genre – progressive rock, space rock, classic rock
Released – 1973
Origin – UK
Popularity - 10/10

04. The Great Gig in the Sky:


Just in case. Anybody should know this album.
If you still don't know this album or you have listened not so much yet: