The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

Well this will be interesting for me. Kind of wish it was a Friday release. I got the Purple Elephant album that VMP had an exclusive of and have a couple of other ones since then but I never went back. I know he has evolved over time so it will be an interesting listen.
 
9/26/24
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Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands




Love Devendra, surprised that they chose this album (I woulda guessed Cripple Crow).

I will say this. I made a mix of oldies from the 60s and included Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime” and I was listening to as I ran around doing some errands and all the sudden while that song played, I came to the realization that Devendra whole sound is deeply indebted to Mungo Jerry. It’s odd but you could drop “In The Summertime” in between “At The Hop” and “This Is The Way” and it would not feel out of place at all.
 
Love Devendra, surprised that they chose this album (I woulda guessed Cripple Crow).

I will say this. I made a mix of oldies from the 60s and included Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime” and I was listening to as I ran around doing some errands and all the sudden while that song. Came to the realization thatDevendra whole sound is deeply indebted to Mungo Jerry. It’s odd but you could drop “In The Summertime” in between “At The Hop” and “This Is The Way” and it would not feel out of place at all.

I don’t need other stuff to listen to TLK.
 
Well this will be interesting for me. Kind of wish it was a Friday release. I got the Purple Elephant album that VMP had an exclusive of and have a couple of other ones since then but I never went back. I know he has evolved over time so it will be an interesting listen.
I’m the opposite. I was really into his early Freak Folk stuff and as his sound became more mainstream, I began to lose interest he lost me completely post- Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. I did give his 2021 Windom Hill homage new age album Refuge a go and like that well enough but it’s a completely different vibe.
 
9/26/24
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Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands




I'm looking forward to digging into this one. The only thing I really know of Devendra Banhart was sitting in my college dorm in 2005 around midnight and this beauty came on MTV2.



Looks like it's from the same year as this album but not the same album.
 
Us Americans don’t make anything like this. It’s so beautiful. This is one of those albums I NEED to grab on vinyl. It’s immaculately produced… trippy, well played. The vocals are smooth. This is just great chillin(g) music.
 
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9/27/24
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Milton Nascimento, Los Borges - Clube Da Esquina




I love when we get get albums like this. I don't know anything about the artist. I have no idea what they're saying or what the songs are about. Just some nice sounds coming from my speakers on a Friday morning.
 
I really like those first few Kings of Leon, I like this garagey post Strokes take on Southern Rock. You can hear the bombast behind it all that would fuel their more arena rock later on. Hey @Twentytwo, didn’t you say their last one was decent? I should check that out.

Aha Shake… is in my copy of the book and I think that’s their peak.
 
The Rolling Stone Four Star review by Greg Kot

Preacher’s sons who grew up on the road and laid down the holy-roller boogie in churches across the South, Kings of Leon come by their scuffed, scruffy sound honestly. But the title of their debut album, Youth and Young Manhood, is slightly misleading. One would expect these little red roosters, who range in age from sixteen to twenty-three, to be strutting their fine stuff with hyperexuberance, the outsize virility of boys testing their boundaries and the world’s. But instead, they come on like old-school greasers who’ve been around long enough to know how to savor a moment.

The thrill is in the groove. Some of the time that means jacked-up garage punk, as the group tumbles down a “Spiral Staircase” and greets the “Red Morning Light” with bloodshot conviction. But the Kings are also a Southern rhythm section to their core: They know when to lay back and let things simmer, and when to jump up and testify with tambourines banging. Guitar-playing in this band is not about Southern-rock virtuosity in the Allmans mold but about staggering-drunk solos that suggest calamity is just around the corner (dig that firecracker dance in “Happy Alone”) or ooze blues slop until it melts into feedback (“Dusty”).

Leadman Caleb Followill doesn’t sing so much as slouch into his narratives of waywardness. On “Trani,” he sounds so busted up he can barely hold a conversation, and it only magnifies the sense of dissolution. Most of the time, every slur and mumble sounds as if he’s either just had sex or is dreaming about it, never more so than on “Molly’s Chambers.” Mannish boys, they do grow up fast.
 
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