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Barton Hollow (The Civil Wars)
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If you haven't heard any of the music from this hauntingly-beautiful duo, then you need to drive yourself to HMV, or click yourself onto the iTunes music store and check them out. The Civil Wars have only been known by that name for a year and a half. In fact, as I just read on their website, Joy Williams...
#144 - Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A.)
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This was shocking. I went from the smoothly orchestrated, sexy-but-department-store-esque Steely Dan to some pre-mainstream hip-hop featuring Ice Cube and Dr. Dre in their early days. I've gotta say, I love the diversity that this album added to the RS150 so far (even if I'm only 7 albums in, which is wild in itself). Released...
#145 - Aja (Steely Dan)
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Although I've been reading today that Steely Dan tends to be played in department stores or on elevators, this album, Aja (pronounced like "Asia") has got some sexy, sexy jazz-influenced pop-rock sounds. They're great! Steely Dan is really made up of two guys, Donald Fagen and
#146 - Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane)
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Album Art for Surrealistic Pillow, Jefferson Airplane's 1967 release. Surrealistic Pillow is the album that brought Jefferson Airplane into international eyes and really helped the band take-off, from...
Go (Jónsi)
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[caption id="attachment_68" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="album art"][/caption] Wow. So first off, serious thanks to Alex Lepinski for this find. Alex and I were rehearsing a tune for the open mic on Jeju when we got side-tracked (surprised) and she played some of this awesome (literally, awe-some, as in...awe-inspiring) album for me....