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Psst, do you need some cool music to listen to?
Dig if you will The List of over 1001 albums from 115+ places/peoples, as recommended by 130+ Fedizens (https://1001otheralbums.com/the-list/)! Think "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", but, like, NOT just Western pop. We chose these albums not because of popularity or sales or reviews by influencers and whatnot, but rather because they’re important to us personally and/or represent bands/genres/peoples not given enough love in 'official' lists.
For the last 2+ years, we've featured an album from The List every few days on the 1001 Other Albums blog (https://1001otheralbums.com/). These spotlights are written by either guest Fedizen contributors or project steward @buffyleigh, and are automatically cross-posted in full to the Fediverse at
@1001otheralbums.com. New spotlights are also summarized and linked here on linernotes.club.The plan is to eventually cover every album on The List, and so far we’ve featured over 230 albums! Sometimes we also do some extra fun things like Fedi-wide AOTY lists, fake festivals, and Fedi-sourced oral history posts, and every once in a while we boost other cool music-related things. Give us a follow here and/or the blog, I bet you'll hear something you dig.
👉 And, if you want to share your thoughts on one of the albums not yet featured via guest post, OR want to add your favourite albums that aren't yet on The List, hmu! 👈
#introduction #music #1001OtherAlbums #MusicDiscovery #ListenToThis
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Psst, do you need some cool music to listen to?
Dig if you will The List of over 1001 albums from 115+ places/peoples, as recommended by 130+ Fedizens (https://1001otheralbums.com/the-list/)! Think "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", but, like, NOT just Western pop. We chose these albums not because of popularity or sales or reviews by influencers and whatnot, but rather because they’re important to us personally and/or represent bands/genres/peoples not given enough love in 'official' lists.
For the last 2+ years, we've featured an album from The List every few days on the 1001 Other Albums blog (https://1001otheralbums.com/). These spotlights are written by either guest Fedizen contributors or project steward @buffyleigh, and are automatically cross-posted in full to the Fediverse at
@1001otheralbums.com. New spotlights are also summarized and linked here on linernotes.club.The plan is to eventually cover every album on The List, and so far we’ve featured over 230 albums! Sometimes we also do some extra fun things like Fedi-wide AOTY lists, fake festivals, and Fedi-sourced oral history posts, and every once in a while we boost other cool music-related things. Give us a follow here and/or the blog, I bet you'll hear something you dig.
👉 And, if you want to share your thoughts on one of the albums not yet featured via guest post, OR want to add your favourite albums that aren't yet on The List, hmu! 👈
#introduction #music #1001OtherAlbums #MusicDiscovery #ListenToThis
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My favorite 20 LPs of 2025: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/my-top-20-favorite-lps-of-2025
Tagging a bunch of you that have helped me out finding things this year or who have expressed interest - sorry if I missed you, there's a lot of ya!
#metal #punk #rap #2025Albums #2025Records #AOTY #2025AOTY #AOTY2025 #DeathMetal #PunkRock #hiphop #music @brian @HailsandAles @vanessawynn @swampgas @rtw @c0m4 @flockofnazguls @buffyleigh @irafcummings @fistfulofdave @Kitty @guffo @anji @umrk @hl @bendaubney @alabut @nnenov @hisaac @farrisswisher @dillyd @VE3RWJ @demon6 @cory @ryan2one3 @jeffrey @mm78 @NoRestfortheWicked @plaindocs @petebrown @poetaster
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24 #QueenAreTheChampions day 6️⃣
Back from being sick and "I am in the stadium", methaporically speaking.
I called day 6 "I am in the stadium" because the bonus album "On Fire" is really a great live stadium album, and the next album on the agenda is very much stadium rock.
Now @buffyleigh made the observation that they have some few industrial songs in their catalogue. I never realized this, but it's very true.
One song which is almost industrial-pop is the opener of their grand 1984 album. I love the video, where our champions drive/fly through Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
🎵 Radio Ga Ga by #Queen
💿 The Works, 1984
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24 #QueenAreTheChampions day 6️⃣
Back from being sick and "I am in the stadium", methaporically speaking.
I called day 6 "I am in the stadium" because the bonus album "On Fire" is really a great live stadium album, and the next album on the agenda is very much stadium rock.
Now @buffyleigh made the observation that they have some few industrial songs in their catalogue. I never realized this, but it's very true.
One song which is almost industrial-pop is the opener of their grand 1984 album. I love the video, where our champions drive/fly through Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
🎵 Radio Ga Ga by #Queen
💿 The Works, 1984
▶️ https://song.link/y/azdwsXLmrHE -
24 #QueenAreTheChampions day 6️⃣
Back from being sick and "I am in the stadium", methaporically speaking.
I called day 6 "I am in the stadium" because the bonus album "On Fire" is really a great live stadium album, and the next album on the agenda is very much stadium rock.
Now @buffyleigh made the observation that they have some few industrial songs in their catalogue. I never realized this, but it's very true.
One song which is almost industrial-pop is the opener of their grand 1984 album. I love the video, where our champions drive/fly through Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
🎵 Radio Ga Ga by #Queen
💿 The Works, 1984
▶️ https://song.link/y/azdwsXLmrHE -
24 #QueenAreTheChampions day 6️⃣
Back from being sick and "I am in the stadium", methaporically speaking.
I called day 6 "I am in the stadium" because the bonus album "On Fire" is really a great live stadium album, and the next album on the agenda is very much stadium rock.
Now @buffyleigh made the observation that they have some few industrial songs in their catalogue. I never realized this, but it's very true.
One song which is almost industrial-pop is the opener of their grand 1984 album. I love the video, where our champions drive/fly through Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
🎵 Radio Ga Ga by #Queen
💿 The Works, 1984
▶️ https://song.link/y/azdwsXLmrHE -
24 #QueenAreTheChampions day 6️⃣
Back from being sick and "I am in the stadium", methaporically speaking.
I called day 6 "I am in the stadium" because the bonus album "On Fire" is really a great live stadium album, and the next album on the agenda is very much stadium rock.
Now @buffyleigh made the observation that they have some few industrial songs in their catalogue. I never realized this, but it's very true.
One song which is almost industrial-pop is the opener of their grand 1984 album. I love the video, where our champions drive/fly through Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
🎵 Radio Ga Ga by #Queen
💿 The Works, 1984
▶️ https://song.link/y/azdwsXLmrHE -
Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Beverly Copeland (1970, Canada)
I know we just had two spotlights from Canadian artists, but I think we need a bit more Canadian content before moving on. More importantly though, now (as always) is the perfect time to celebrate and support our brilliant trans artists. And so, our next spotlight is on number 478 on The List, submitted by myself (buffyleigh).
I didn’t learn about Glenn Copeland – who records under the name Beverly Glenn-Copeland[1] – until we were compiling The List roughly a year ago. Other Mastodonians, as per usual, were more informed than I, many of them knowing Glenn from either the 2019 documentary Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, or from his 25 years of acting on the Canadian children’s show, Mr. Dressup (I of course watched that show as a kid, but, what can I say, I only had eyes for Finnegan).
I can’t remember why I first stumbled upon Glenn’s debut album, but I was absolutely blown away by his voice. It’s just so emotive and captivating, with a fantastic classical range (Glenn was trained in the German vocal tradition of Lieder singing, and studied classical vocals at McGill University). The album was an instant purchase for me (as was his newest, the 2023 The Ones Ahead), and I immediately added it to The List. But, as I am unfortunately wont to do, I then failed to check out the rest of Glenn’s discography, and have only been listening to his first and last albums since.
Until now. As I’m writing this, for the first (and second) time I’m listening to Glenn’s most well-known album, Keyboard Fantasies (1986), which is incredibly different from his first and last albums. While the debut lives in the realms of dark folk and modal jazz, Keyboard Fantasies is exactly what it says on the box – beautiful, dreamy keyboard-focused new age/early techno electronic music. Created with a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, a Roland TR-707 drum machine, and an Atari computer, Glenn self-released the album on cassette in a small run (100 or 200 tapes). It then took nearly 30 years for the album to gain attention.
In 2015 or 2016, Ryota Masuko, owner of a specialty Japanese record store (SHE Ye,Ye Records) in Niigata, somehow stumbled upon Keyboard Fantasies and emailed Glenn to ask if he had any copies left. Glenn sent Ryota all he had and, via promoting on their website and in their shop, Ryota quickly sold all of them. And those copies reached the right hands, as Glenn was soon contacted by various record labels, snowballing into a flurry of activity including the album reissue (which Swedish pop musician Robyn wrote the liner notes for), an international tour, the aforementioned documentary, a remix album called Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined (that includes contributions from artists such as Bon Iver, Arca, and Jeremy Dutcher!), and features in many prominent magazines, etc.
If I had clued in sooner, I perhaps would’ve added Keyboard Fantasies rather than the debut album to The List, given that it has such a great story behind it. But, perhaps not; the debut is and remains an absolute stunner even alongside the somewhat cult-status Keyboard Fantasies, and it encapsulates this beautiful soul so well. But the beauty of The List is that it serves both to highlight fantastic individual albums and to urge those who are curious to dig further into the artist’s discography. And so, here we are, and, after a bit of a delay, my digging has now commenced.
And I hope your digging will now too, if you aren’t yet familiar with this artist! In addition to checking out the various sounds Glenn has put out into the world (see also his tracks on last year’s stunning TRAИƧA compilation!), learning more about him is really an absolutely lovely rabbit hole to go down, so I highly recommend spending some time doing so. Though I’m just getting started myself, so far I’d point to the 2021 Quietus article/interview and the 2023 Walrus article/interview, and also Vinyl Me, Please‘s 2021 “Beverly Glenn-Copeland Primer”.
Happy listening/reading.
- Bandcamp: Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Beverly Copeland
- Discogs: Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Beverly Copeland
- Given the name Beverly Glenn at birth, in 1970 Glenn added “Copeland” to his name as an homage to American composer Aaron Copland, presumably after the release of the debut album. ↩︎
#1970s #BeverlyGlennCopeland #Canada #CanadianMusic #classical #folk #GlennCopeland #jazz #transMusic
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On my way to the office I was shuffle-modeing through my #Bandcamp purchases and all of a sudden there was a song that immediately caught my attention.
It was this one 👇
🎵 Anhedonia by Beyond The Haze
💿 Another Life, 2024
:bandcamp: https://beyond-the-haze.bandcamp.com/track/anhedoniaI had to abandon shuffle mode and listen to the whole album and it was fantastic!
Wow!
It's like a more guitar focused version of Soap&Skin and I 💯 % recommend it to anyone with a good taste in music.
Kudos to the artist @bestiaexmachina 👏
Again: wow!
@buffyleigh this might be something for you.
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And catching up on #BowieADay, I listened to hours for the first time in goodness knows how long. It's lovely, but weirdly normal seeing as how it followed two of the weirder albums in DB's catalogue.
@buffyleigh recommends Glastonbury 2000 from the following year as a companion piece. While the live album is sort of a hits package, Stay, Wild Is the Wind, and Absolute Beginners are all very much of the feeling that hours seems to strive for.
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This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is Los Angeles' CRYOGEYSER. Psyched to hear the rest of their self-titled record that comes out February 14-- here's 'Stargirl' from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3nXlx4kkM
This is some REALLY great fuzzy, dreamy shoegazey indie pop rock. Dig Shawn Marom's vocals, the wild guitar stuff, the dynamics, all of it. Check the heavier guitar & yelled vocals around the 2:30 mark-- wait for it!
#shoegaze #FuzzPop #IndiePop #indie #IndieMusic #IndieRock #Cryogeyser #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #LosAngeles #LosAngelesBands @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @starshaped
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This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is Los Angeles' CRYOGEYSER. Psyched to hear the rest of their self-titled record that comes out February 14-- here's 'Stargirl' from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3nXlx4kkM
This is some REALLY great fuzzy, dreamy shoegazey indie pop rock. Dig Shawn Marom's vocals, the wild guitar stuff, the dynamics, all of it. Check the heavier guitar & yelled vocals around the 2:30 mark-- wait for it!
#shoegaze #FuzzPop #IndiePop #indie #IndieMusic #IndieRock #Cryogeyser #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #LosAngeles #LosAngelesBands @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @starshaped
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This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is Los Angeles' CRYOGEYSER. Psyched to hear the rest of their self-titled record that comes out February 14-- here's 'Stargirl' from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3nXlx4kkM
This is some REALLY great fuzzy, dreamy shoegazey indie pop rock. Dig Shawn Marom's vocals, the wild guitar stuff, the dynamics, all of it. Check the heavier guitar & yelled vocals around the 2:30 mark-- wait for it!
#shoegaze #FuzzPop #IndiePop #indie #IndieMusic #IndieRock #Cryogeyser #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #LosAngeles #LosAngelesBands @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @starshaped
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This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is Los Angeles' CRYOGEYSER. Psyched to hear the rest of their self-titled record that comes out February 14-- here's 'Stargirl' from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3nXlx4kkM
This is some REALLY great fuzzy, dreamy shoegazey indie pop rock. Dig Shawn Marom's vocals, the wild guitar stuff, the dynamics, all of it. Check the heavier guitar & yelled vocals around the 2:30 mark-- wait for it!
#shoegaze #FuzzPop #IndiePop #indie #IndieMusic #IndieRock #Cryogeyser #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #LosAngeles #LosAngelesBands @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @starshaped
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This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is Los Angeles' CRYOGEYSER. Psyched to hear the rest of their self-titled record that comes out February 14-- here's 'Stargirl' from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3nXlx4kkM
This is some REALLY great fuzzy, dreamy shoegazey indie pop rock. Dig Shawn Marom's vocals, the wild guitar stuff, the dynamics, all of it. Check the heavier guitar & yelled vocals around the 2:30 mark-- wait for it!
#shoegaze #FuzzPop #IndiePop #indie #IndieMusic #IndieRock #Cryogeyser #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #LosAngeles #LosAngelesBands @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @starshaped
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I've also used #FeastOfSaintBowie. A kind of inside joke, based on a post-nuclear war story, "The Feast of Saint Janis" (which was about Janis Joplin worship). I believe the story was published in the anthology, "A Canticle for Leibowitz". @buffyleigh @1001otheralbums.com
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Amazingly, here's another one I almost missed this year-- another that might've made my favorite 20 albums of 2024 if I'd caught it earlier. This is a KILLER synthpop record along the lines of Ladytron, etc.
GLASS SPELLS are a duo from California and singer Tania Costello even almost has a Stevie Nicks or 80s kind of vibe to her vocals sometimes. Love this new LP 'Crystals' of theirs from earlier this year, and it's perfect for the final #MusicWomenWednesday of 2024.
https://glassspells.bandcamp.com/album/crystals
#synth #SynthPop #GlassSpells #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #2024Albums #2024Records #synths @buffyleigh @starshaped
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Amazingly, here's another one I almost missed this year-- another that might've made my favorite 20 albums of 2024 if I'd caught it earlier. This is a KILLER synthpop record along the lines of Ladytron, etc.
GLASS SPELLS are a duo from California and singer Tania Costello even almost has a Stevie Nicks or 80s kind of vibe to her vocals sometimes. Love this new LP 'Crystals' of theirs from earlier this year, and it's perfect for the final #MusicWomenWednesday of 2024.
https://glassspells.bandcamp.com/album/crystals
#synth #SynthPop #GlassSpells #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #2024Albums #2024Records #synths @buffyleigh @starshaped
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Amazingly, here's another one I almost missed this year-- another that might've made my favorite 20 albums of 2024 if I'd caught it earlier. This is a KILLER synthpop record along the lines of Ladytron, etc.
GLASS SPELLS are a duo from California and singer Tania Costello even almost has a Stevie Nicks or 80s kind of vibe to her vocals sometimes. Love this new LP 'Crystals' of theirs from earlier this year, and it's perfect for the final #MusicWomenWednesday of 2024.
https://glassspells.bandcamp.com/album/crystals
#synth #SynthPop #GlassSpells #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #2024Albums #2024Records #synths @buffyleigh @starshaped
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Amazingly, here's another one I almost missed this year-- another that might've made my favorite 20 albums of 2024 if I'd caught it earlier. This is a KILLER synthpop record along the lines of Ladytron, etc.
GLASS SPELLS are a duo from California and singer Tania Costello even almost has a Stevie Nicks or 80s kind of vibe to her vocals sometimes. Love this new LP 'Crystals' of theirs from earlier this year, and it's perfect for the final #MusicWomenWednesday of 2024.
https://glassspells.bandcamp.com/album/crystals
#synth #SynthPop #GlassSpells #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #2024Albums #2024Records #synths @buffyleigh @starshaped
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Amazingly, here's another one I almost missed this year-- another that might've made my favorite 20 albums of 2024 if I'd caught it earlier. This is a KILLER synthpop record along the lines of Ladytron, etc.
GLASS SPELLS are a duo from California and singer Tania Costello even almost has a Stevie Nicks or 80s kind of vibe to her vocals sometimes. Love this new LP 'Crystals' of theirs from earlier this year, and it's perfect for the final #MusicWomenWednesday of 2024.
https://glassspells.bandcamp.com/album/crystals
#synth #SynthPop #GlassSpells #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #2024Albums #2024Records #synths @buffyleigh @starshaped
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#TomWaitsAWeek Log entry 8
#Swordfishtrombones is a cornerstone in Tom Waits' career. It introduces all sorts of new instruments I couldn't even name.
Same problem with my favourite track on the album. I couldn't even name one.
Swordfishtrombones is utterly brilliant!
There's a world going on underground, you know?
🎵 Underground by #TomWaits
💿 Swordfishtrombones, 1983
▶️ https://song.link/y/mfAB2AR_93kI have a lot to say about this album, but @buffyleigh does it so much better, so please, do yourself a favour and continue reading here: https://metalhead.club/@1001otheralbum[email protected]/113632902187060337
...and follow @1001otheralbums.com while you're at it!
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It's up-- here's my favorite 20 albums of 2024, all genres: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/my-top-20-favorite-lps-of-2024/
And at the end of the post, there's an image with my favorite 20 metal records of 2024.
#2024Albums #punk #indie #metal #jazz #DungeonSynth #RetroWave #grindcore #ElectroPunk @wendigo @HailsandAles @Kitty @umrk @BlackenedGreen @skullvalanche @starshaped @buffyleigh @kristophr @vanessawynn @derthomas @paulshryock @rtw @srgower @Brandon @kevin @tangleofwires @Defiance @DomSathanas @gloriousnoise @dillyd @farrisswisher @nic @irafcummings @Great_Albums @hl @ixi @fistfulofdave @pephorror @Banur @bendaubney @DanielTuttle @ookla13
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#TomAwaitsTomWaits #TomWaitsAWeek Log entry 3
"Nighthawks at the Diner" takes us to a diner late at night. We are a bit drunk and tired and just want some fries on the way home. At the piano there's an old dude mumbling and singing stories. It is 4am but we can't go home, because magic is happening.
This old dude is actually 25yo Tom Waits.
I can't do the album justice with this toot, but @buffyleigh can. She covered this album in today's @1001otheralbums.com blog post, so do yourself a favour and continue reading here 👇
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/12/09/tomwaitsaweek-tom-waits-nighthawks-at-the-diner-1975-us/
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I used to have this habit of sitting/lying on a couch backwards while listening to music, legs draped over the back of the couch and head on the seat or hanging off the edge upside down. The last album I remember putting myself in that awkward yet strangely comfortable position for is this one, Seu Jorge’s acoustic covers of David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese (number 533 on The List, submitted by yours truly, buffyleigh).
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was an immediate favorite movie for both myself and MetalheadDana, and we both really loved the little random musical interludes from one of the characters, Pelé dos Santos, played by the fabulous Brazilian actor and musician Seu Jorge. So, as soon as this album – essentially a companion soundtrack – was released, we bought a copy on CD, put it on our ridiculously large 3-CD stereo, and blissfully zoned out for the next 50ish minutes. We may have even hit repeat once or twice after it ended. At the time I wasn’t yet a Bowie fan and was really only just starting to work my way out from the rock I had lived my childhood/teenage years under, and so some of these covers were the first versions I ever heard, or at least registered. Not a bad way to get introduced to some Bowie standards, imho. Bowie himself loved Jorge’s versions, as noted in the album’s liner notes:
“Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.”
20ish years later, I no longer tempt the heartburn/dizziness gods by lying upside down on couches – and the couch that hosted the first listen of this album has long since succumbed to bugs and being thrown out a window – but this album continues to provide some blissful zoning out.
Even if you think you’re not a covers sort of person (like I often claim to be), make sure you give this one a spin, in whatever position you find most comfortable. And then perhaps watch Life Aquatic, turning 20 this December.
- Songlink: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
- Discogs: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/10/11/seu-jorge-the-life-aquatic-studio-sessions-2005-brazil/
#1001OtherAlbums #acoustic #Brazil #covers #DavidBowie #Portuguese #SeuJorge #soundtrack #TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou
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I used to have this habit of sitting/lying on a couch backwards while listening to music, legs draped over the back of the couch and head on the seat or hanging off the edge upside down. The last album I remember putting myself in that awkward yet strangely comfortable position for is this one, Seu Jorge’s acoustic covers of David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese (number 533 on The List, submitted by yours truly, buffyleigh).
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was an immediate favorite movie for both myself and MetalheadDana, and we both really loved the little random musical interludes from one of the characters, Pelé dos Santos, played by the fabulous Brazilian actor and musician Seu Jorge. So, as soon as this album – essentially a companion soundtrack – was released, we bought a copy on CD, put it on our ridiculously large 3-CD stereo, and blissfully zoned out for the next 50ish minutes. We may have even hit repeat once or twice after it ended. At the time I wasn’t yet a Bowie fan and was really only just starting to work my way out from the rock I had lived my childhood/teenage years under, and so some of these covers were the first versions I ever heard, or at least registered. Not a bad way to get introduced to some Bowie standards, imho. Bowie himself loved Jorge’s versions, as noted in the album’s liner notes:
“Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.”
20ish years later, I no longer tempt the heartburn/dizziness gods by lying upside down on couches – and the couch that hosted the first listen of this album has long since succumbed to bugs and being thrown out a window – but this album continues to provide some blissful zoning out.
Even if you think you’re not a covers sort of person (like I often claim to be), make sure you give this one a spin, in whatever position you find most comfortable. And then perhaps watch Life Aquatic, turning 20 this December.
- Songlink: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
- Discogs: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/10/11/seu-jorge-the-life-aquatic-studio-sessions-2005-brazil/
#1001OtherAlbums #acoustic #Brazil #covers #DavidBowie #Portuguese #SeuJorge #soundtrack #TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou
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I used to have this habit of sitting/lying on a couch backwards while listening to music, legs draped over the back of the couch and head on the seat or hanging off the edge upside down. The last album I remember putting myself in that awkward yet strangely comfortable position for is this one, Seu Jorge’s acoustic covers of David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese (number 533 on The List, submitted by yours truly, buffyleigh).
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was an immediate favorite movie for both myself and MetalheadDana, and we both really loved the little random musical interludes from one of the characters, Pelé dos Santos, played by the fabulous Brazilian actor and musician Seu Jorge. So, as soon as this album – essentially a companion soundtrack – was released, we bought a copy on CD, put it on our ridiculously large 3-CD stereo, and blissfully zoned out for the next 50ish minutes. We may have even hit repeat once or twice after it ended. At the time I wasn’t yet a Bowie fan and was really only just starting to work my way out from the rock I had lived my childhood/teenage years under, and so some of these covers were the first versions I ever heard, or at least registered. Not a bad way to get introduced to some Bowie standards, imho. Bowie himself loved Jorge’s versions, as noted in the album’s liner notes:
“Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.”
20ish years later, I no longer tempt the heartburn/dizziness gods by lying upside down on couches – and the couch that hosted the first listen of this album has long since succumbed to bugs and being thrown out a window – but this album continues to provide some blissful zoning out.
Even if you think you’re not a covers sort of person (like I often claim to be), make sure you give this one a spin, in whatever position you find most comfortable. And then perhaps watch Life Aquatic, turning 20 this December.
- Songlink: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
- Discogs: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/10/11/seu-jorge-the-life-aquatic-studio-sessions-2005-brazil/
#1001OtherAlbums #acoustic #Brazil #covers #DavidBowie #Portuguese #SeuJorge #soundtrack #TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou
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I used to have this habit of sitting/lying on a couch backwards while listening to music, legs draped over the back of the couch and head on the seat or hanging off the edge upside down. The last album I remember putting myself in that awkward yet strangely comfortable position for is this one, Seu Jorge’s acoustic covers of David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese (number 533 on The List, submitted by yours truly, buffyleigh).
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was an immediate favorite movie for both myself and MetalheadDana, and we both really loved the little random musical interludes from one of the characters, Pelé dos Santos, played by the fabulous Brazilian actor and musician Seu Jorge. So, as soon as this album – essentially a companion soundtrack – was released, we bought a copy on CD, put it on our ridiculously large 3-CD stereo, and blissfully zoned out for the next 50ish minutes. We may have even hit repeat once or twice after it ended. At the time I wasn’t yet a Bowie fan and was really only just starting to work my way out from the rock I had lived my childhood/teenage years under, and so some of these covers were the first versions I ever heard, or at least registered. Not a bad way to get introduced to some Bowie standards, imho. Bowie himself loved Jorge’s versions, as noted in the album’s liner notes:
“Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.”
20ish years later, I no longer tempt the heartburn/dizziness gods by lying upside down on couches – and the couch that hosted the first listen of this album has long since succumbed to bugs and being thrown out a window – but this album continues to provide some blissful zoning out.
Even if you think you’re not a covers sort of person (like I often claim to be), make sure you give this one a spin, in whatever position you find most comfortable. And then perhaps watch Life Aquatic, turning 20 this December.
- Songlink: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
- Discogs: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/10/11/seu-jorge-the-life-aquatic-studio-sessions-2005-brazil/
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I used to have this habit of sitting/lying on a couch backwards while listening to music, legs draped over the back of the couch and head on the seat or hanging off the edge upside down. The last album I remember putting myself in that awkward yet strangely comfortable position for is this one, Seu Jorge’s acoustic covers of David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese (number 533 on The List, submitted by yours truly, buffyleigh).
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was an immediate favorite movie for both myself and MetalheadDana, and we both really loved the little random musical interludes from one of the characters, Pelé dos Santos, played by the fabulous Brazilian actor and musician Seu Jorge. So, as soon as this album – essentially a companion soundtrack – was released, we bought a copy on CD, put it on our ridiculously large 3-CD stereo, and blissfully zoned out for the next 50ish minutes. We may have even hit repeat once or twice after it ended. At the time I wasn’t yet a Bowie fan and was really only just starting to work my way out from the rock I had lived my childhood/teenage years under, and so some of these covers were the first versions I ever heard, or at least registered. Not a bad way to get introduced to some Bowie standards, imho. Bowie himself loved Jorge’s versions, as noted in the album’s liner notes:
“Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.”
20ish years later, I no longer tempt the heartburn/dizziness gods by lying upside down on couches – and the couch that hosted the first listen of this album has long since succumbed to bugs and being thrown out a window – but this album continues to provide some blissful zoning out.
Even if you think you’re not a covers sort of person (like I often claim to be), make sure you give this one a spin, in whatever position you find most comfortable. And then perhaps watch Life Aquatic, turning 20 this December.
- Songlink: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
- Discogs: Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/10/11/seu-jorge-the-life-aquatic-studio-sessions-2005-brazil/
#1001OtherAlbums #acoustic #Brazil #covers #DavidBowie #Portuguese #SeuJorge #soundtrack #TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou