Jackie McLean
Continued from the first part, here are entries from "M" to "Z."
Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World
Elmer Bernstein – The Man With the Golden Arm OST
Television – Marquee Moon
Jon Brion - Meaningless
The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
The Meters – S/T
Various Artists – Midnight Cowboy OST
Danny Elfman – Midnight Run OST
Miles Davis – Miles Ahead
Miles Davis - Milestones
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
1 Mile North – Minor Shadows
Emmitt Rhodes - Mirror
The Kinks - Misfits
Ennio Morricone – The Mission
Howlin’ Wolf[artist] – Moanin’ in the Moonlight
Moby Grape – Moby Grape
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach – Money Jungle
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream
Cat Power – Moon Pix
Air – Moon Safari
Van Morrison - Moondance
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
The Doors – Morrison Hotel
Tom Waits – Mule Variations
Angelo Badalamenti – Music from Twin Peaks
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Herbie Hancock – My Point of View
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Iggy Pop - New Values
Sam Cooke – Night Beat
Oscar Peterson Trio – Night Train
Harry Nilsson – Nilsson Schmilsson
Bernard Herrmann – North By Northwest OST
Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
Galaxie 500 – On Fire
The Lyres – On Fyre
Miles Davis – On the Corner
Ennio Morricone – Once Upon a Time in America OST
Jack Nitzsche – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest OST
Jackie McLean – One Step Beyond
Frank Sinatra – Only the Lonely
Vangelis – Opera Sauvage
Tom Waits - Orphans
Otis Redding – Otis Blue
Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain
The Rolling Stones – Out Of Our Heads
Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Efterklang - Parades
John Cale – Paris 1919
Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas
Harold Budd/Brian Eno – The Pearl
Luna - Penthouse
Max Roach – Percussion Bitter Sweet
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Arnold Schönberg – Piano Music
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone – Yo-Yo Ma Plays Morricone
The Beatles – Please Please Me
The Replacements – Pleased to Meet Me
Bill Evans Trio – Portrait in Jazz
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of…
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jon Brion – Punch-Drunk Love OST
Prince – Purple Rain
Rage Against the Machine – S/T
The Stooges – Raw Power
Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die
Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt
Chuck Berry – Reelin’ and Rockin’ (The Very Best Of…)
Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
György Ligeti - Requiem
The Animals – Retrospective
The Beatles - Revolver
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Basil Poledouris - RoboCop
Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
Bad Brains – Rock for Light
Aerosmith - Rocks
Bill Conti – Rocky OST
The Strokes – Room On Fire
Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
Randy Newman – Sail Away
Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
Scott Walker – Scott 4
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Rod Stewart - Sing It Again Rod
Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Tom Waits – Small Change
The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
Johnny Thunders – So Alone
The Kinks – Something Else by The Kinks
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
Slint - Spiderland
Willie Nelson - Stardust
David Bowie – Station to Station
Kevin Max – Stereotype Be
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
The Stone Roses – S/T
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Stoned and Dethroned
N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton
The Doors – Strange Days
Billy Joel – The Stranger
New Order - Substance
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff plus Early Singles
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Can – Tago Mago
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
Air – Talkie Walkie
Bernard Herrmann – Taxi Driver OST
Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog
Wes Montgomery - Tequila
Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
Anton Karas – The Third Man OST
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – This Year’s Model
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Replacements - Tim
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’
Mississippi John Hurt – Today!
The Who - Tommy
Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night
Jerry Goldsmith – Total Recall OST
Henry Mancini – Touch of Evil OST
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Lou Reed - Transformer
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Caribou – Up In Flames
John Cage & David Tudor - Variations IV
The Velvet Underground – S/T
The Velvet Underground - & Nico
Bernard Herrmann – Vertigo OST
John Cale – Vintage Violence
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
Ornette Coleman – Virgin Beauty
The Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History
The Kinks – We Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children
Tom Vek – We Have Sound
Weather Report – Weather Report
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
Roy Buchanan - When a Guitar Plays the Blues
Brian McBride - When the Detail Lost Its Freedom
The Beatles – White Album
Harold Budd – The White Arcades
The Who - Who’s Next
The Who – The Who Sell Out
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Steve Reich - Works: 1965-1995
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Françoise Hardy - The Yeh-Yeh Girl From Paris
Daniel Johnston - Yip/Jump Music: Summer 1983
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
David Bowie – Young Americans
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
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My Favourite Albums A - Z (Part 2)
27 Apr 2008, 03:55 by themusicaddict
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My Class of 1965
16 Mar 2008, 08:45 by mjm716
Artist - Album
Abdullah Ibrahim & Dollar Brand - Reflections
Andrew Hill - Compulsion!
Andrew Hill - One for One
Andrew Hill - One for One
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
The Beatles - Beatles for Sale EP
The Beatles - Help! OST
The Beatles - Miscellaneous EPs
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Rubber Soul [Deluxe - disc 1]
The Beatles - Rubber Soul [Deluxe - disc 2]
The Beatles - Rubber Soul [Deluxe - disc 3]
Blue Mitchell - Complete Blue Note Sessions, 1963-67 (disc 2)
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Carmell Jones - Jay Hawk Talk
Dexter Gordon - Clubhouse
Dexter Gordon - Gettin' Around
Freddie Hubbard - The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, CD1
Freddie Hubbard - The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, CD2
Grant Green - His Majesty King Funk
Hank Mobley - Dippin'
Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Horace Silver Quintet plus J.J. Johnson - The Cape Verdean Blues
Jackie McLean - Consequence
Jackie McLean - Consequence
Jackie McLean - Jacknife
Jackie McLean - Right Now!
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (live)
The Kinks - Kinda Kinks
The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy
Lalo Schifrin - The Liquidator OST
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Lee Morgan - The Rumproller
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 1)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 2a)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (Disc 2b)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 3)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 4)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 5)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 6)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 7)
The Monks - Five Upstart Americans
Pete La Roca - Basra
The Pretty Things - The Pretty Things
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig and Panic (RRK Quartet feat. Elvin Jones)
Sahib Shihab - And all Those Cats
Sonny Rollins - on Impulse!
Stanley Turrentine - Joyride
Various Artists - Sons of Yma
Wayne Shorter - Etcetera
Wayne Shorter - The all Seeing Eye
Wes Montgomery - Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides (disc 2) -
Jackie McLean - Destination Out! Live Blog
18 Feb 2008, 18:44 by Flah
Friday, Friday, Friday (2/22) at 11AM PST*, we will be live blogging Jackie McLean's Destination Out! right here. Come join in on the fun.
Instructions:
1. Buy/download Destination Out! if you don't already own it.
2. Hit the play button right at 11AM PST.
3. Listen.
4. Comment on whatever piques your interest.
5.
6. Profit.
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for KBRP
11 Feb 2008, 03:10 by Uhwelluh
album donations to the local low-powered radio station, mostly to up the bebop quotient a bit--
Cannonball Adderley - Compact Jazz & Somethin' Else
Gene Ammons - Funky
Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!!
Jackie McLean - A Long Drink of the Blues
Charles Mingus - Finest Hour, East Coasting
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
George Russell - Jazz Workshop
Horace Silver - The Best of Horace Silver Blue Note Years
Supersax - Supersax Plays Bird -
25 Great Hard Bop Jazz Albums
1 Feb 2008, 13:05 by beelzbubba
25 Great Hard Bop Albums at the Music Advice Center
For this compilation, I need to add a definition of hard bop, to distinguish this form from its close precedent, bebop, or simply, bop.
Here's what Scott Yanow (All Music Guide) has to say:
Although some history books claim that Hard Bop arose as a reaction to the softer sounds featured in cool jazz, it was actually an extension of bop that largely ignored West Coast jazz. The main differences between hard bop and bop are that the melodies tend to be simpler and often more "soulful"; the rhythm section is usually looser, with the bassist not as tightly confined to playing four-beats-to-the-bar as in bop; a gospel influence is felt in some of the music; and quite often, the saxophonists and pianists sound as if they were quite familiar with early rhythm & blues. Since the prime time period of hard bop (1955-70) was a decade later than bop, these differences were a logical evolution and one can think of hard bop as bop of the '50s and '60s. By the second half of the 1960s, the influence of the avant garde was being felt and some of the more adventurous performances of the hard bop stylists (such as Jackie McLean and Lee Morgan) fell somewhere between the two styles. With the rise of fusion and the sale of Blue Note (hard bop's top label) in the late '60s, the style fell on hard times although it was revived to a certain extent in the 1980s. Much of the music performed by the so-called Young Lions during the latter decade (due to other influences altering their style) was considered modern mainstream, although some groups (such as the Harper Brothers and T.S. Monk's sextet) have kept the 1960s' idiom alive. -- Scott Yanow
About the intent of the list: This isn't meant to be a final determination of the 25 best, but rather a starting point--if you listen to a few of these and find you like what you hear, use this list as a springboard. Look them up and see who's playing on them and take your search outward, backward, forward, or inward. Many great artists, many five star albums are not on this list. These are a consequence of the way our MAC-Jazz lists are constructed. Listeners add their favorites, one, two, or three at a time until we hit 25.
You don't agree with our choices? Drop a line here or over at the MAC Jazz Desk.
Andrew Hill - Black Fire (1963)
Art Blakey - Free for All (1964)
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick-Up! (1966)
Booker Ervin - Setting the Pace (1965)
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots (1960)
Charles Tolliver - The Ringer (1969)
Chico Hamilton - Man From Two Worlds (1962)
Curtis Fuller - Boss of the Soul Stream Trombone (1960)
Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet - Illumination! (1964)
Eric Dolphy - At the Five Spot, Vol. 2 (1964)
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub of Hubbard (1969)
Jackie McLean - Destination Out! (1963)
Joe Henderson - Inner Urge (1964)
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)
John Handy - Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1965)
Johnny Griffin - A Blowin' Session (1957)
Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land (1964)
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century (1960)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig and Panic (1965)
Roy Brooks - The Free Slave (1970)
Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon (1962)
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
Walter Bishop Jr. - Coral Keys (1972)
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1965)
Woody Shaw - Blackstone Legacy (1970)
List: 25 Great Hard Bop Albums, Count: 25
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25 Great Black Freedom Albums
22 Jan 2008, 19:57 by beelzbubba
Over at MAC, we put together a listener's list of 25 great albums from a sub-genre of jazz that we felt evinced sounds of the struggle for freedom in Great Black Music. By design, but not explicitly, there's only one lp per artist or the list cold have been complete with Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Herewith, 25 lps/cds that are free in the Great Black Music sense rather than in the Globe Unity Orchestra sense.
Abdullah Ibrahim - African Space Program (1974)
Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice (1964)
Archie Shepp - Magic of Juju (1967)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Bap-Tizum (1972)
Billy Harper - Capra Black (1973)
Carlos Garnett - Black Love (1974)
Clifford Thornton - Ketchaoua (1969)
Don Cherry - Complete Communion (1965)
Eddie Gale - Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music (1968)
Frank Lowe - The Flam (1975)
Frank Wright Quartet - Church Number Nine (1973)
George Russell - Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved By Nature (1968)
Grachan Moncur III - New Africa (1969)
Human Arts Ensemble - Under The Sun (1973)
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962)
James "Blood" Ulmer - Odyssey (1983)
Joe McPhee - Nation Time (1970)
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.(1972)
McCoy Tyner - Extensions (1970)
Mtume & The Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-lan (Land of the Blacks)(1972)
Noah Howard - The Black Ark (1969)
Norman Connors - Dance of Magic
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity (1971)
Sonny Simmons - Music from the Spheres (1966)
Sunny Murray - Sunny Murray (1966)
If we've left off one of your favorites, wander over to the Music Advice Center Jazz Desk and add a few hundred more.
as far as any of the selections I made for this list, I am always willing to discuss why I made such a choice (Art Ensemble's Baptizum as opposed to Phase One or Certain Blacks for example, or McCoy Tyner's inclusion on this list although his music was not overtly political). Ask here, or through pm. -
Thu 28 Jun – Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
14 Jul 2007, 18:47 by nventi
Thu 28 Jun – Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Despite the title, I attended the festivities only on July 6. This was my first time to Montréal. Even having been fore-warned, I was a little surprised, but French is the language of choice up there. I managed to pick up a few words here and there, but no matter who is talking with you, they try French first, realize you're American, roll their eyes, and default to English. Overall though, I loved the setup of this festival. They take over roughly 3-4 city blocks and turn it into festival central. The shows - close to 500 total, are all free (besides ticketed indoor events). There's always about 4 things going on at once, so if you get bored with one artist, you can easily find something else to check out. I saw these groups:
No Name Jazz Sextet - These guys were pretty good, and on the mainstage when I arrived. Arrangements were good, solos were well crafted. Very straight ahead. They wore matching shirts.
Christine Jensen Quartet - The program notes I picked up described, saxophonist and namesake of the group, Christine as being heavily influenced by Lee Konitz and Wayne Shorter. They nailed it. Now, would I have picked up on this if the program notes hadn't told me so? Perhaps, but I also would have come up with Jackie McLean, at least based on her timbre. I enjoyed part of her set but due to the nature of the festival, she kind of lost my attention when she went to play a ballad, so I wandered over to see something else.
Sambasunda - Sambasunda was really cool.. I'm totally into any eastern music I can find these days, though my finds are few and far between. They kind of morph latin flavors, rhythms, and instrumentation with the traditional Balinese gamelan harmonies, rhythms, and instrumentation. Part of it seemed a little cheeseball to me when a couple of young ladies in their troupe made their way to the stage to shake their things and croon. I could've done without that.
Spam Allstars - I previously knew of these guys from my Phish listening days, from keyboardist Page McConnell's solo album Vida Blue: The Illustrated Band. Honestly, I liked Spam Allstars better as a solo group! I think the lack of drum kit/bass causes them to be a bit more creative with the turntables and afro-percussion. All of them were very strong individually on their instruments, and the total package set the tone for the evening.. the place was bouncing at this point with 50,000 to 70,000 people in the streets at festival central, and the bass from Spam Allstars could be heard all over the festival grounds except at the mainstage where Ryan Shaw was performing.
Ryan Shaw - I caught one song of his. It wasn't really jazz, but he had a huge crowd at the festival. I didn't find him to be too interesting. The crowd of people at the mainstage was HUGE.
Esperanza Spalding - What more can I say about Esperanza! She's just so great and still fresh to me. Too bad she got stuck with a shitty sound guy. Come on! It's a freakin' jazz trio! It's not that hard to mix!
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eclectic score
6 May 2007, 12:57 by cupere
Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php
My eclectic score is currently
79/100
The 79 related artists for my profile are 10,000 Maniacs 9 Lazy 9 A Tribe Called Quest Aceyalone Afghan Whigs Air Amon Tobin Angel Demar Aphex Twin Band of Horses Bear vs. Shark Beth Orton Björk (2) Blackalicious (3) Boards of Canada (2) Broken Social Scene (2) Cat Power Circa Survive Cursive De La Soul Death Cab for Cutie (2) Destroyer Dexter Gordon DJ Food (2) DJ Krush DJ Shadow DJ Vadim (2) Elliott Smith Emmylou Harris Explosions in the Sky Funki Porcini Galaxie 500 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Grizzly Bear Hank Mobley Jackie McLean Jurassic 5 K.V. Latyrx Lee Morgan Lucinda Williams Lyrics Born (2) M. Ward Mark Lanegan Maroons (AKA Lateef & The Chief) Massive Attack (3) Mazzy Star Mos Def Ms. Triniti My Morning Jacket Pinback Portishead (2) Quannum Radiohead (3) RJD2 (2) Sigur Rós Sonic Youth Sonny Rollins Sufjan Stevens (2) Sunset Rubdown The Album Leaf The Appleseed Cast The Arcade Fire The dB's The Decemberists (2) The Flaming Lips The Gift of Gab (2) The Herbaliser (2) The Mekons The Postal Service The Roots The Shins (2) The Soft Boys Tricky TV on the Radio UNKLE Up, Bustle and Out Wire Yo La Tengo (2) -
Recommend Me Some Jazz Please
8 Nov 2006, 02:13 by GBurge187
I am just starting to get into Jazz, so here are the Albums and Artists that I have and if anyone wants to recommend me something it would be much appreciated. Thank You!
Jazz I've Listened To:
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
Blue Train
Giant Steps
My Favorite Things
Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
Birth of the Cool
E.S.P.
In a Silent Way
Sketches of Spain
A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Moanin'
Charles Mingus
The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Mingus Ah Um
Ornette Coleman
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
King Curtis
Live at the Fillmore
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out
Albums I Have and Am in the Process of Listening To
John Coltrane
Ascension
The Olatunji Concert
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
On the Corner
Get Up With It
Jackie McLean
One Step Beyond
Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane
At Carnegie Hall
Herbie Hancock
Head Hunters
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Surveying the sonic landscape
23 Sep 2006, 16:49 by talking_animal
Yes, the "sonic landscape in jazz/pop" is pretty barren, and part of the appeal of the Internet and fancy social sites like this one is that they offer a priori a refashioned landscape for one's own sonic wanderings. Instead of listening to "WBGO Jazz 88" the same as 100,000 other people, and monthly perusing the basement racks at the 66th Street branch of Tower Records, each individual is now the master of his or her own sonic empire, which can encompass far more territory than one radio station (or one record store, even) can govern. Pyeng Threadgill and Jackie McLean are on 'BGO, but Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Dick Annegarn, and Queen Esther aren't.
Since artists are listeners too, and are just as aware of these new freedoms of listening and taste-making as their audiences are, I think it's natural that folks find cover tunes more attractive: they offer fixed reference points in that vast sonic wasteland. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" can exist in the Nouvelle Vague version or the Susanna and the Magical Orchestra version, as well as the original 80s recording,
Love Will Tear Us Apart. Each of those versions, naturally, offers some of the comforts of familiarity. You may not know who is singing, but you know the song, and the fact that she's chosen that song to sing is the first step to getting to know the singer.
But on the flip side, it's not all about the listener; the artist is making music as a form of self-expression. I wonder if it isn't harder and harder these days to present your own material frankly and honestly as your own creation. I'm thinking of all the fuss attached to the delayed 2005 release of Extraordinary Machine, or the fact that the 2006 Nellie McKay record, "Pretty Little Head," got shelved indefinitely by the record label. Even Beyoncé doesn't get the credit she deserves as a composer; apparently if your songs and arrangements are good enough to be superstar-pop, you're assumed to be a puppet of secretive production geniuses (this is the same homunculus theory that was discredited so long ago as a rational explanation of brain function: that within us all is a "little man" sitting at a control desk inside our heads pulling levers to lift our limbs as if we were giant mechanical robots).
The sad thing is that listeners are thirsty for original compositions as well. I stopped listening wholesale to "classic rock" several years back because I felt as if there was nothing else I could learn from listening to those songs; they had become liturgical music for a church whose doctrine I no longer believed in. I wanted to hear new music, or music from other viewpoints that was new to me.
So how do you, fellow listeners and adventurers in the vast sonic wilderness that last.fm only hopes to describe, find music that speaks to you in new words?
