Carousel Corner.Lists are the bane BANE. This word was formerly used to signify a malefactor. Bract. 1. 2, t. 8, c. 1. of journalism. If you don't think the substance of your writing--what you have to say--will attract readers, you can dash off one list or another, which, while revealing very little other than the purveyors' prejudices, is guaranteed to generate sales and perhaps stir up enough controversy for residual sales: "Whaddya mean Joni Mitchell is one of the hundred greatest guitarists ever, and you left off Da Boss?!" And because of the inevitable omissions, lists are always recklessly incomplete--why not 101? Finally, lists beg the entire musical proposition: yes, for the record companies, huge sales and a spot at the top of the Billboard "Hot 100" is a worthy financial goal, but has little to do with the music or artistic enterprise. In fact it has been argued, in my view successfully, that lists, rankings, and sales bear an inverse relationship to the depth of artistic merit. The inherent weakness of lists notwithstanding, it is appropriate for The Sensible Sound's 100th issue to reflect on the great music we've had the rare privilege to hear since this 'umble rag first poked its dog-eared masthead mast·head n. 1. Nautical The top of a mast. 2. The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation. 3. above the horizon. The Carousel Corner has run some 47 columns over nearly ten years--and offered a word or two about 600+ CDs and DVDs. What follows is my version of a desert island list, those CDs and DVDs that, if forced to choose, I would gladly cart off to some remote corner of the planet and drool over happily for the rest of me days. My choices are limited to stuff actually reviewed in the Carousel Corner. One might guess that since it's our 100th issue that this list would be the Carousel Corner's version of the "Hot 100", but no. As I write this introduction, I have no idea how many I'll end up with. After all, why not 101? And since none of this alleges to be the "greatest" or "best", I freely admit that only my prejudices are to blame for the inevitable omissions. Finally, even tho' tho also tho' conj. & adv. Informal Though. tho' or tho conj, adv US or poetic same as though tho' I have my favorites, it's senseless to rank these, so they're in review order, starting with Issue No. 53 all the way through No. 99. But if you have to know what would have been No. 1, it's Cast's All Change, for my money the best, pure rock'n'roll album of the last decade. Carousel Corner review issue in parentheses See parenthesis. parentheses - See left parenthesis, right parenthesis. . Ry Cooder, Chicken Skin Music (No. 53) Crowded House, Woodface (No. 54) Marshall Crenshaw (No. 54) E, Broken Toy Shop (No. 54) Rembrandts, Untitled (No. 54) David Grisman and Stephane Grappelli, Live (No. 55) The Beatles, Live at the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. (No. 56) Dave Matthews Band, Under the Table and Dreaming (No. 56) toad the wet sprocket Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American folk rock band consisting of singer Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. Early career , fear (No. 56) UB40 (No. 56) blur, Parklife (No. 56) Joe Jackson, Big World (No. 56) Kaila Flexer and Third Ear, Listen (No. 60) Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Striking It Rich! (No. 60) It's A Beautiful Day (No. 60) Judith Edelman, Perfect World (No. 61) Robin Holcomb, Little Three (No. 61) Patti Larkin, Strangers World (No. 61) Big Daddy, Sgt. Pepper's (No. 61) Bryndle (No. 64) October Project (No. 64) Barenaked Ladies, Rock Spectacle (No. 64) Todd Phillips, Timeframe (No. 64) Junior Kimbrough, All Night Long (No. 65) The La's (No. 66) Cast, All Change (No. 66) Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith, Evidence (No. 66) Richard Barone, Primal Dream (No. 68) Don Dixon, If I'm a Ham, You're a Sausage (No. 68) Chess (Soundtrack, No. 68) Pete Droge, Necktie Second (No. 68) House of Freaks House of Freaks was a two-man band formed in Richmond, Virginia in the mid 1980s. Bryan Harvey played guitar and sang, and Johnny Hott played percussion. The band managed to achieve a remarkably full sound, mostly because of Hott's inventive drumming and Harvey's confident vocals , Tantilla (No. 68) Peter Himmelman, Flown This Acid World (No. 68) Peter Murphy, Deep (No. 68) Mental as Anything, Fundamental (No. 68) Oingo Boingo, Dead Man's Party (No. 68) Greg Khin, Next of Khin (No. 68) Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto (No. 68) Sublime (No. 69) No Doubt, Tragic Kingdom (No. 69) Bill Frisell, Nashville (No. 69) Fastball, All the Pain that Money Can Buy (No. 71) Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Zoot Suit Riot (No. 71) Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Dirty Boogie (No. 71) Cab Calloway, L'Art Vocal, Volume 6 (No. 71) Joe Jackson, Jumpin' Jive (No. 71) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a contemporary swing band from southern California. Their notable singles include "Go Daddy-O" and "You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three Tonight". The band went from a regular Wednesday night gig at the Derby in Hollywood, playing for a few hundred people, (No. 71) Edgar Meyer, Uncommon Ritual (No. 72) Norton Buffalo, Lovin ' In the Valley of the Moon (No. 72) Bruce Springsteen, The River (No. 74) U2, The Joshua Tree (No. 74) Schubert, Piano Quintet in A Major, "The Trout" (Kodaly Quartet, Naxos, No. 74) Talking Heads, More Songs about Buildings and Food (No. 74) The Bobby Darin Story (No. 74) Enya, Watermark (No. 74) The Band (No. 74) John Mellencamp (No. 74) Bruce Hornsby, Spirit Trail (No. 74) Beg, Scream and Shout!, The Big Ol' Box of 60's Soul (No. 75) Nuggets, Original Artyfacts of the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 (No. 75) The Bangles, All Over the Place and Different Light (No. 76) Eagle Eye Cherry, Desireless (No. 76) Buena Vista Social Club The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s. (No. 77; DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , No. 93) Jesse Winchester, Nothing but a Breeze and Gentleman of Leisure (No. 77) Alison Krauss and Union Station, So Long So Wrong (No. 77) Acoustic Jazz Quartet, I'm Beginning to See the Light (No. 77) Blue Aeroplanes, Beatsongs (No. 77) Spinners, One of a Kind Love Affair (No. 78) Al Green, Greatest Hits and More Greatest Hits (No. 78) Stevie Wonder, Innervisions, Talking Book, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life (No. 78) Dolly Parton par·ton n. Any of the point particles believed to be a constituent of hadrons, now known as quarks. No longer in technical use. [part(icle) + -on1.] , The Grass Is Blue (No. 80) Continental Drifters, Vermilion vermilion, vivid red pigment of durable quality. It is a chemical compound of mercury and sulfur and is known as red sulfide of mercury; it was formerly obtained by grinding pure cinnabar but is now commonly prepared synthetically. (No. 80) Bill Frisell, Good Dog Happy Man (No. 81) Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer, Short Trip Home (No. 81) Rice, Rice, Hillman and Pederson (No. 82) Mr. B and The Bird of Paradise bird of paradise, common name for any of 43 species of medium- to crow-sized passerine birds of New Guinea and the adjacent islands, known for the bright plumage, elongated tail feathers called wires, and brilliant ruffs of the males. Orchestra, Hallelujah Hallelujah (hăl'əl  `yə) or Alleluia (ăl–) [Heb.,=praise the Lord], joyful expression used in Hebrew worship; cf. Pss. Train (No. 83)
No Doubt, Return of Saturn (No. 84) Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (No. 84) Sonny Landreth, Levee levee (lĕv`ē) [Fr.,=raised], embankment built along a river to prevent flooding by high water. Levees are the oldest and the most extensively used method of flood control. Town (No. 87) Dolly Patton, Little Sparrow (No. 87) Katrina and the Waves, Anthology (No. 87) Clint Black, D'electrified (No. 88) North Mississippi All Stars, Shake Hands with Shorty short·y also short·ie Informal n. pl. short·ies 1. A person short in stature. 2. A thing of less than average size, length, extension, or duration. adj. (No. 88) Pablo Cruise, The Best of Pablo Cruise (No. 88) Frank Vignola, Blues for a Gypsy (No. 88) Mary Chapin Carpenter Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American country/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist with a diverse musical style. Biography Childhood , time*sex*love (No. 88) Bob Dylan, "Love and Theft" (No. 89) Mark Knopfler, Sailing to Philadelphia (No. 89) Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, The Best of ... So Far (DVD, No. 89) Spanky and Our Gang Spanky and Our Gang was an American 1960s folk-rock band led by Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane. The band derives its name from Hal Roach's popular Our Gang comedies of the 1930s (known to modern audiences as The Little Rascals). , Greatest Hits (No. 89) No Doubt, Rock Steady (No. 90) Garbage, beautifulgarbage (No. 90) Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Global A-Go-Go (No. 90) Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (DVD, No. 90) Joe Jackson, Live in Tokyo (DVD, No. 90) Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor (No. 91) Jewel, This Way (No. 91) Peter Framption, Live in Detroit Live in Detroit a 2003 release of a live performance by the band The Stooges. Track listing
Earth, Wind and Fire, Live in Concert (DVD, No. 91) Uncle Tupelo, March 16-20, 1992 (No. 92) Son Volt, Wide Swing Tremolo  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . (No. 92) Wilco, Summerteeth, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot foxtrot one of the two artificial gaits of the five-gaited horse. A four-beat gait midway in speed between a walk and a trot. There is a great deal of similarity with several other gaits such as amble, fadge, slow pace, stepping pace, running walk, jog, hound jog. (No. 92) Huey Lewis and the News, Live at Rockpalast (DVD, No. 92) Prince, Rave Un2 the Year 2000 (DVD, No. 92) The Band, The Last Waltz (DVD, No. 92) The Jayhawks, Tomorrow the Green Grass, Hollywood Town Hall, Sound of Lies, and Smile (No. 93) BoDeans, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, Joe Dirt Car (No. 93) Neil Finn, 7 Worlds Collide (DVD, No. 93) Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (No. 94) Mark Knopfler, The Ragpicker's Dream (No. 94) James Taylor, October Road (No. 94) David Grisman Quintet, Dawgnation (No. 94) Youngbloods, Elephant Mountain (No. 94) The Hives, Veni Vidi Vicious (No. 95) Apples in Stereo, Velocity of Sound (No. 95) Norah Jones, Come Away with Me (No. 95) George Harrison, Brainwashed brain·wash tr.v. brain·washed, brain·wash·ing, brain·wash·es To subject to brainwashing. n. The process or an instance of brainwashing. (No. 95) Los Lobos, Good Morning, Aztlan (No. 95) The Commitments (Soundtrack, No. 96) Michael Penn, March (No. 96) Joe Jackson Band, Summer in the City and Volume 4 (No. 97) Joe Jackson, 25ta Anniversary Special (DVD, No. 97) Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (No. 98) Ringo Starr, Ringomania (No. 98) Darden Smith, Sunflower (No. 98) Roseanne Cask Rules of Travel (No. 98) Joan Osborne, How Sweet It Is (No. 98) Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears (No. 98) John Mellencamp, "Trouble No More" (No. 98) Turin Brakes, Ether Song (No. 99) Dandy Warhols, Welcome to the Monkey House (No 99) Yerba Buena yerba buena (yĕr`bə bwā`nə), trailing evergreen perennial (Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatae (mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to woodland areas along the Pacific coast. , President Alien (No. 99) Pernice Brothers, Yours, Mine, Ours (No. 99) Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light (DVD, No. 99) Radio Paradise Lives On. I'm still prey to scarfing up a disc 'cos I heard one song on the radio that I thought I couldn't live without ... |
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