These are all the albums, EPs, demos, soundtracks,
compositions, compilations, etc that I listened to in the month of May 2012. I
had a weird system of coming up with what I would listen to next so there is
alot of stuff in there I had never been exposed to before. Probably the
most classical, opera, and classic country I've ever listened to in one month's
time. And a K-Pop girl group.
At the end are my notes and a list of the live music performances I saw in May.
5/1/12
Otis Redding – “The Very Best Of”
Z – “Violence Action” EP
UFO – “Seven Deadly”
Cannibal Corpse – “Evisceration Plague”
Rogue Rats – “Ratatude”
Manna Dey – “Madhushala”
The Scofflaws – “Ska In Hi-Fi”
Little Walter – “Boss Blues Harmonica”
Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass – “Two Originals: Brass My Soul/Tribute”
5/2/12
Englebert Humperdinck – “Greatest Hits and More” Disc 1
The Pharcyde – “Cydeways: The Very Best Of”
Nana Kitade – “18-eighteen”
Ian Anderson – “Thick As A Brick 2”
The Maccabees – “Given to the Wind”
Michael Rabin – “Plays Bruch’s Violin Concerto & Virtuoso Pieces for Wind
& Piano”
Crisis Arm – “Live At Alaythia Music” EP
Lily Allen – “It’s Not Me, It’s You”
V/A – Victory Records winter 2010 metal sampler CD
Steppenwolf – “The Second”
5/3/12
The Feelers –“Hope
Nature Forgives”
James Brown – “Black Caesar” OST
Fear – “The Record”
REO Speedwagon – “Steel Box Collection: Greatest Hits”
Charles Lloyd & Billy Higgins – “Which Way Is East?” Disc 1
Make Me Famous – “It’s Now Or Never”
5/4/12
Maynard Ferguson – “Footpath
Café”
Slow Children – “Mad
About Town”
Media Blitz – “A Voice
Of Our Own” EP
Beastie Boys – “Hello
Nasty”
My Chemical Romance – “Three
Cheers For Sweet Revenge”
5/5/12
Johnnie Taylor – “Good
Love”
In The Face Of War – “Live
Forever Or Die Trying”
Patrick Gowers – “Sherlock Holmes” OST
Cracker – “Kerosene Hat”
5/6/12
Morbid Angel – “Altars
of Madness”
Jimmie Dale Gilmore – “After
Awhile”
Neon Indian – “Era
Extrana”
The Go-Betweens – “Bright
Yellow Bright Orange”
The Geto Boys – S/T
Graham Coxon – “A + E”
Fastball – “All the Pain Money Can Buy”
Cold Blooded – “No Peace Of Mind” EP
Barney Kessel –“Autumn Leaves”
5/7/12
V/A – “Worldeater Vs.
Not Common” split label sampler CD
Berliner Philharmoniker
with Wiener Singveirein, conducted by Herbert von Karajan – “Ein Deutsches
Requiem, by Johnnes Brahms”
Theudho – “The Volsunga Saga”
5/8/12
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
– “Grande Fantasia Triunfal a Hino Nacional Brasileiro”
Blonde Redhead – “Misery
Is A Butterfly”
Eddy Arnold – “Cattle Call”
Killing Joke – “MMXII”
Robert Johnson – “King
Of The Delta Blues”
My Iron Lung – “No Such Thing” EP
5/9/12
Lena Horne – “20 Of Her
Best”
Battalion Of Saints AD – “Cuts…”
The Ventures – “Surfing”
5/10/12
Mad Society – S/T EP
Max Steiner – “Gone With The Wind” OST
Lostprophets – “Weapons”
Plume Latraverse – “En
Noir Et Blane”
5/12/12
Farabee –“Love, War,
and Everything In Between”
Antonia Vega – “El
Sitio de mi Recreo”
The Freeze – “Freak
Show”
Snapcase – “Progression
Through Unlearning”
5/13/12
Fugazi – “Steady Diet
Of Nothing”
Snapcase – “Designs For Automation”
5/14/12
Sidney Bechet – “Jazz
Greats”
Dying Fetus – “Killing On Adrenaline”
5/15/12
Alexander Courage – “Star
Trek” OST
Nicki Minaj – “Pink
Friday: Roman Reloaded”
5/16/12
Liberace – “Start The
Day With A Smile”
The Smiths – S/T
Dio – “Holy Diver”
5/17/12
Erik Satie – “3
Gymnopedies & Other Piano Works”
Peaking Lights – “Imaginary
Falcons”
5/19/12
T.Rex – “The Very Best
Of”
Nicholas Maw – “Life Studies”
The Sweet Nothings – “Broken
Chords and Bleeding Hearts”
Grace Jones – “Island
Life”
Joell Ortiz – “Free
Agent”
ZZ Top – “Recycler”
The Commodores – “Anthology”
Disc 1
The Ramones – “Animal
Boy”
Charles Ives – “Symphony
No. 3: Washington’s Birthday”
5/20/12
Great Lake Swimmers – “New
Wild Everything”
Bob Florence Big Band –
“Westlake”
Fed To The Wolves – 2011
tape
The Allman Brothers Band – “Legendary Hits”
Jean-Pierre Rampal – “Beethoven:
Chamber Music For Flute”
5/21/12
Violent Control Unit
(VCU) – 2003 3-song demo CD
All Is Fleeting – 7-song
demo CD
John Coltrane – “Ken
Burns’ Jazz Collection”
Terry Lightfoot – “Live
In Leipzig”
Aeternus – “Beyond The
Wandering”
The Spanish Bombs – 3-song
demo
Lee “Shot” Williams – “Right
On Time”
Endwell – “Homeland
Insecurity”
V/A – “Virgin
Recommends 6” promo CD
Billy Walker – “20
Greatest Hits”
Our Lady Peace – “Curve”
5/22/12
Elek Bacsik – “Guitar
Conceptions”
45 Grave – “Autopsy”
V/A – “Jazz Meeting”
Elton John – “Classic”
The Years Gone By – “Forever
Comes Too Soon”
Bill Whalen – “Riverdance”
5/23/12
From First To Last – “Dear
Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count”
Scatman Crothers – “Oh
Yeah!”
Utah Phillips – “We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years”
Affiliation Red – “Ideologies” EP
Artie Shaw – “25 Of His
Best”
Destruction – “Eternal
Devastation”
5/24/12
Wilco – “Yankee Hotel
Foxtrot”
Death By Stereo – “Into
The Valley of Death”
Bob Dylan – “Blonde On
Blonde”
5/25/12
Blind Willie Johnson – “The
Spiritual Blues”
Hollow – “MMXII” demo
Family – “Music In A
Doll’s House”
5/26/12
End of the summer – demo
07
5/27/12
Strung Out – “Suburban
Teenage Wasteland Blues”
Niels-Henning Orsted
Pedersen – “This Is All I Ask”
Gil Scott-Heron – “I’m
New Here”
5/28/12
Marilyn Manson – “Born
Villain”
T-Bone Walker – “Inventor
of the Electric Guitar”
Griever – “Inferior” EP
Morning Musume – “10 My
Me”
Helmet – “Monochrome”
5/29/12
Karl Munchinger – “Bach
Weinacht’s Christmas Oratorium”
5/30/12
Doc Watson – “Memories”
Hollow Earth – “We Are
Not Humanity” EP
Flex – 2012 EP
Stopping Power – “Kill Your Friends” EP
Desperate Living – demo
2012
Motherboy – “I’m Not
Even Happy” EP
5/31/12
Halcyon – “Jerusalem”
EP
Marin Marais – “Tous
les Matas de Monde”
NOTES:
-
UFO’s new album is entirely unnecessary…the new
Killing Joke is almost there
-
Englebert Humperdinck and then The Pharcyde?
Genius.
-
Ian Anderson’s new album sounds like it could be
Jethro Tull in 1974. Awesome.
-
I expected The Feelers to be cool because of
their name but no, they suck.
-
I like “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge” A LOT more
now than I did when I thought I hated it in high school
-
Straight up, I listened to the soundtracks to
the 60’s TV versions of “Sherlock Holmes” AND “Star Trek”and the soundtrack to “Gone
With The Wind”; what’s worse is that I can’t say it was time wasted
-
The soundtrack to “Riverdance” was a bit of time
wasted.
-
Goddamn The Geto Boys are so dope
-
I <3 Snapcase
-
Nicki Minaj’s album isn’t nearly as bad as I
expected it was going to be.
-
How people back in the day didn’t realize that
Liberace was gay is beyond me
-
Listening to Joell Ortiz’s album confirms for me
that I just don’t really like The Diplomats/Dipset or any of their individual
output. I mean as far as I’ve heard its just not my jive.
-
“Age Of Worry” by Billy Walker is my favorite
song from this playlist
-
Affiliation Red’s EP “Ideologies” is the worst
thing I have heard from 2012 and I doubt anything else will be released this
year that will be worse. Just absolutely terrible.
-
That Karl Munchinger Christmas opera was soooo
long and tedious, WHY did I put myself through that?
-
R.I.P. Doc Watson
I also saw Desperate
Living, Stopping Power, Flex, and The Coltranes perform live. One show all
month. That’s ridiculous.
