Wyndell Long . com - music reviews and charts MUSIC REVIEWS in my cd player this month... In my walkman (singles): Updated: January 1, 2004 Cameron - "oh boy" bjork - vespertine clipse - "grinding" chemical brothers - come with us brandy - "what about us" (instrumental) mandalay - solace chemical brothers - "the state we're in" beach boys - pet sounds War - Slippin into darkness velvet underground - & nico Jerzee Monet w/ DMX -"most high" the time - what time is it? Nas - "either" sly & the family stone - there's a riot going on rick james - mary jane pink floyd - dark side of the moon mandalay - please rem - mumor synewave - 37b Parliament - tear the roof off (2 cd set) the cure - just like heaven captian beefheart - safe as milk rolling stones - you can't always get what you want david bowie - ziggy stardust & the spiders from mars the time - 777-9311 vanilla sky soundtract Pink - Just like a pill pink - misunderstood ice cube - a bird in a hand This is a Big Page! - click Perfect songs ...(in my opinion) the links below to go to: T.R.O.Y - Pete rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y The Cure - Just like heaven Prince - Joy in Repetition Movies mandalay - please music reviews ( all time favorites) The Time - 777-9311 recent n mp3.com artists Parliament - Flashlight favorite albums and singles Beatles - Across the Universe / A day in the life Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit house n techno tracks n artist catalogs Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice prince lists & latest artists I'm checking REM - Losing my religion out Breeders - Cannonball Misc (TV, Dr. WHo, ect) Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed Bob Dylan - Tangled up in Blue Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome A Tribe called QUest - Scenerio file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Sreaming Lord Byro...RK/Dreamsites/WyndellLong_com/Wcom_ArcMUSReviews.htm (1 of 10)11/5/2005 5:24:39 AM Wyndell Long . com - music reviews and charts Music Reviews - all time Music Reviews - all time ARCHIVED ARCHIVED ● ● Sly & the Family Stone -There's a Riot Goin Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814 On*** this is a album I cherish. It's such a ****This was a cd to study for me. The refreshing record to listen to in these productions are mixed with some of everything. overproduced days. It's like depression and joy all Some really inventive drum programming and wrapped up in one record. sound usage. Extraordinary record. Jimmy Jam ● and Terry Lewis are the stars here. Radiohead - OK Computer *** Very rare that ● music, lyrics and creative productions find NWA - Niggaz 4 Life **** My favorite Dre themselves on one cd. This was an extraordinary produced record. Still sounds fresh. This was record. I still think the lead singer looks like before he hit his P-Funk phase. Inventive hip hop Martin Short! productions all over the place here. Many of the ● drum parts are phased in wide stereo. Headphone DJ Shadow - Endtroducing **** This is listeners know what I'm talking about. The lyrics instrumental hip hop at it's finest. Albums like this are like watching In Living Color! don't come around to often in this day and age! It ● get's fresher each time I listen to it. I love the Plug - Drum n Bass for Papa **** Luke Vibert way it was mixed. The highs don't damage your is out there! This is a fantastic record. Really is ears after extended listening like most modern study in rhythm exploration. Highly Recommenced. day recordings. ● ● Soundtrack - Face/Off **** I always found this Basement Jaxx - Remedy **** If you have the soundtrack to be very interesting. It's about as capacity to use 200 samples per song, why not do low and as high as sound can go. Very nicely it! These guys do it right. Never a boring moment done. Fit the movie perfectly. in this record which often plays like a hollywood ● special effects reel! Seal - 2nd and 3rd releases **** I enjoy the ● Seal records because they are overproduced, but Chef Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx that's his style. You can hear the $$$$ drip out of **** This is listened to at least once a month. your speakers with every note played by the 1000 Beats, lyrics, attitude... it's all there. A true hip session musicians hired. His voice ties all that hop classic in every sense. I never heard instrumentation together. Always pleasant to productions so raw before. Seems like the hooks return to. were an afterthought. They didn't really need ● them! Soundtrack - Out of Sight (David Holmes) ● **** Stripped down and raw is the best way to The Time - What Time is it?****Can you describe this one. Listening to it is like watching beeline that Prince played all the instruments on the movie again. Great work. this classic? Probaly why Jimmy Jam and Terry ● Lewis left the ?band?!. Instrumentation on this is Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions a study session for funk musicians. to hold us back **** I doubt their will ever be ● another trio of rap albums like Public Enemy's 1st Moby - Play **** Brilliant work. Very smart three releases, this one being the best one. I guy. Used all those public domain soundingvocal remember the first time I heard "Don't Beleive the samples on this record. He built the music around Hype". I had the volume down low while reading a the sample, not vice versa. magazine, and this noise & voice caught my ear. ● Then the voice said "TRUN UP THE RADIO!" and Madonna - Ray of Light **** William Orbit did that's precisely what I did. a number on this cd. His productions are top ● notch, and Madonna sounds like she cares about My Bloody Valentine - Loveless **** This what she's singing. Great record. record blew my mind. After listening to this chord ● and that chord on the guitar, it was refreshing to Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole **** hear chords stacked on top of each other. The Fantastic work! This one has always been my guitars almost sound like synthesizers. You favorite. I couldn't get into the "Surrender" pop couldn't understand one word that was being mode they are in now, but Dig your own hole is sung, but hey, you really didn't need to. This was veddy veddy nice! I also loved the slew of cd maxi way ahead of it's time. singles that went along with this. Not one preset ● sound on this record The Velvet Underground & NICO **** I was ● truly amazed with this one. Very innovative, and Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory ***** It timeless. It's also very real when you listen to it. file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Sreaming Lord Byro...RK/Dreamsites/WyndellLong_com/Wcom_ArcMUSReviews.htm (2 of 10)11/5/2005 5:24:39 AM Wyndell Long . com - music reviews and charts get's no smoother than this, even when it got Huge drug references, desperate love, silly rough. Crystal clear hip hop. Dry vocals (hardly ballads. This had everything and continues to any reverb or effects), smooth jazz grooves, and amaze people to this day. Very very nice! lyrics that compliment the vibe. "Scenerio" made ● Busta Rhymes one of the most immitated MC's, Prince - Purple Rain ***** Prince is the artist and "We got the Jazz" is in the dictionary under that made be beleive you could do it all yourself "Smooth"! as a musician. This album has some of his most ● catchiest work, but every song is radical in design. Kraftwerk - Computer Games ***** This "When Doves Cry" still sounds truly amazing. To record was beamed from the future. I used to think it once had a bass line is scary. I can't study it long before I started doing music. How imagine there ever being one. "Take me with You" they came up with those ideas is beyond me. It's is still one of my favorites. Song for song there's hard to be simple and complex at the same time nothing I had to fast forward on this one. for a musician. Multi layered synth plucks that Incredible record. seem random at first, but then become a melody. Lot's of random events that keep the electronic vibe still seem very human. They were WAY ahead of their time. Music Reviews Recent mp3.com artists (techno n house) ARCHIVED ARCHIVED ● ● Moby - 18 : Pretty good, Pretty much all the shamanez songs with sampled vocals are nice. All the songs ● with guest vocalists and his own vocals are ted Bjorling lacking. I just threw the gospel songs on my walking tape and I'm happy. ● ● Ruben Emenim - The Emenim Show : Easily one of the ● best hip hop albums and MC's out there. It's RotaryOutputs refreshing to hear someone talking about things ● that actually mean something instead of bragging snd about crap they really don't own. This was fun to listen to all the way thru. Emenim is better than ● his beats. He raps on beats most rappers would fredtune pass up on. I hope it's not really how he describes ● it in his songs as far as not being recognized for frequencyhz his skills cuz he's the best out there right now, period. ● ● Granlab DJ Shadow - The Private Press : This one ● didn't really hit me until the second listening. christianbloch Quality work from a guy who doesn't release to ● much shit. Instrumental Hip Hop on an intelligent IgorB & exploratative tip. It's like Moby without the all the "easy money" black music samples and droll ● vocals. Inspired. Predicaments ● ● Mandalay - Solace : This has been out for djboss awhile. A really nice CD.