greg
founder/soul man
My top 15 of 2007
1 BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE presents KEVIN DREW - Spirit If…
2 FEIST - The Reminder
3 ELUVIUM - Copia
4 RICHARD BRUCKNER/SIMON RATTLE - Symphony No. 4
5 LAVENDER DIAMOND - Imagine Our Love
6 STARS OF THE LID - And Their Refinement of the Decline
7 RICHARD HAWLEY - Lady's Bridge
8 DAVID KILGOUR - The Far Now
9 JENS LEKMAN - When Night Falls Over Kortedala
10 JOHANNES BRAHMS/SIMON RATTLE - Ein Deutsches Requiem
11 ARCADE FIRE - Neon Bible
12 DAVID VANDERVELDE - Moonstation House Band
13 ANDREW RODRIGUEZ - Here Comes The Light
14 WHITE RAINBOW - Prism Of The Eternal Now
15 ARTHUR & YU - In Camera
My top 15 reissues of 2007
1 LEE MOSES - Time & Place
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Larry Banks' Soul Family Album
3 TYRONE ASHLEY - Let Me Be Your Man
4 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Complete Motown Vol.7: 1967
5 ARETHA FRANKLIN - Rare & Unreleased Recordings
6 REMAINS - Remains
7 VARIOUS ARTISTS - A Change is Gonna Come: Voice Of Black America
8 NATHANIEL MAYER - I Want Love & Affection (Not The House Of Correction)
9 THE IKETTES - Can't Sit Down… Cos It Feels So Good
10 BARBARA MANNING - Super Scissors
11 NEIL YOUNG - Live At Massey Hall
12 ELLIOTT SMITH - New Moon
13 OST - I'm Not There
14 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Oxford American Music Issue CD
15 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Believer Music Issue CD
My favourite artists are: Eddie & Ernie, Yo La Tengo, Aretha Franklin, Spiritualized, Irma Thomas, David Kilgour/The Clean, Marvin Gaye, Beethoven, Wagner, Broken Social Scene/KC Accidental, Otis Redding, Bruce Springsteen.
My all-time favourite album is: RICHARD STRAUSS - Death & Transfiguration/Four Last Songs
The first album I ever bought was: DEF LEPPARD - Pyromania (on cassette)
On Saturday nights, I throw down to: VARIOUS ARTISTS - Beg, Scream & Shout (60's soul boxset)
On Sunday mornings, I recover to: Nick Drake or The Staple Singers
The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: ) Mark Burgess (ex-Chameleons) at El Mocambo (1994)
My favourite albums so far this year are: SHE & HIM - Volume One, ROBERT FORSTER - Evangelist, SPIRITUALIZED - Songs In A&E, SIGUR ROS - Meo Suo I Eyrum...
The best show I've seen so far this year is: Al Green at Sony Centre For Performing Arts
The band that should come out of retirement is: Spacemen 3