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Recollection Volume 22 – Choose Love

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses… Album: Choose Love Artist: Ringo Starr Released: 2005 Format(s) I own it on: CD Peace and love. Peace and love. This is the second time Computron has chosen a Ringo Starr record, and neither of them are one of his good records. I don’t know if I ever listened to this record. It was given to me by Cari and Adam when they received it for Being There. I do know that when I went to find it on my computer,… Read More »Recollection Volume 22 – Choose Love

O Canada

Not too long ago, a close friend of mine became a Canadian citizen. Today we celebrated that fact. I told her and her husband that I would provide the music for the party…   Blue In Yr Eye – Amy Millan Snowbird – Anne Murray Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) – The Arcade Fire The Power – Army Girls Sleepy Maggie – Ashley MacIsaac Tall Tall Shadow – Basia Bulat Two Girls From Montreal – The Bicycle Somebody Waits – Blue Rodeo Hasn’t Hit Me Yet – Blue Rodeo Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl – Broken Social Scene Lovers In A Dangerous Time – Bruce Cockburn Pop Goes the World – The Burning Hell Golden Baby – Cœur de pirate Claire – Cuff The Duke Sold… Read More »O Canada

Boys for Pele

Recollection Volume 21 – Boys For Pele

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Boys For Pele Artist: Tori Amos Released: 1996 Format(s) I own it on: CD I haven’t listened to Tori Amos in a while. Once upon a time I lived with a woman obsessed with Ms. Amos. I never disliked her work, and I have been to a few shows, and quite enjoy some of her albums, but she can be very Tori Amos. Boys For Pele is probably the album I listened to the most of hers. I think it is her… Read More »Recollection Volume 21 – Boys For Pele

Recollection Volume 20 – Avenue Road

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Avenue Road Artist: Kensington Market Released: 1968 Format(s) I own it on: Vinyl This is a strange album. Kensington Market, named after the famed market in Toronto, decided to name their debut record after a street nowhere near the Market they derive their name from. Avenue Road is also the strangest named street in Toronto. Is it an avenue or a road? Make up your mind, Toronto! The album is a strange mixture of British Invasion-styled pop, rock and roll, medieval faire-fare,… Read More »Recollection Volume 20 – Avenue Road

Recollection Volume 19 – Automatic For The People

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Automatic For The People Artist: R.E.M. Released: 1992 Format(s) I own it on: CD With the recent passing of Nash The Slash, I’m tempted to write about his album Dreams and Nightmares, but I promised myself this would be random. So for now, R.E.M. … I was 10 when this album came out. It was always around throughout my life. The singles on this album were in heavy rotation on Toronto stations and Much Music. The videos for “Everybody Hurts” and… Read More »Recollection Volume 19 – Automatic For The People

Recollection Volume 18 – The Salvation Blues

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: The Salvation Blues Artist: Mark Olson Released: 2007 Format(s) I own it on: CD Mark Olson’s The Salvation Blues has stumped me. I haven’t written here for a while as life got busy, but also because I don’t know what to write abut this album. This is the problem with a process that is decided by a random algorithm; I can’t move stuff around to accommodate me. The Salvation Blues is not a bad record, and it’s not a great record, it’s a… Read More »Recollection Volume 18 – The Salvation Blues

Recollection Volume 17 – BBC Sessions

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: BBC Sessions Artist: The Who Released: 2000 Format(s) I own it on: CD There was a trend in the ’90s and 2000s to release compilations of BBC Radio musical performances on CD. The Beatles had a huge success with Live At The BBC. The Kinks, Bowie, Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin, hell, even Loudon Wainwright III. This is The Who’s entry. Where these compilations excel is hearing bands you know and love performing covers of early rock and roll and sometimes… Read More »Recollection Volume 17 – BBC Sessions

Recollection Volume 16 – The Green Fields of Foreverland…

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: The Green Fields of Foreverland… Artist: The Gentle Waves Released: 1999 Format(s) I own it on: CD The first solo album from Belle & Sebastians then-cellist. She eventually left the band in 2002, but for the mean time The Gentle Waves was a side project. The album was released on Belle & Sebastian’s then-label Jeepster, and featured nearly the entire band (Campbell, Stuart Murdoch, Stevie Jackson, Mick Cooke, Chris Geddes, and Richard Colburn) only missing was then-bassist Stuart David… Read More »Recollection Volume 16 – The Green Fields of Foreverland…

Recollection Volume 15 – Summerteeth

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Summerteeth Artist: Wilco Released: 1999 Format(s) I own it on: CD How do I put this politely? This is not a happy record. I can’t say what Jeff Tweedy was going through when he wrote this album, all I can say is that it turned into some of the best music of the ’90s. This album cemented Wilco’s place as the kings of Americana. The album might not be happy, but it surely is bold and strong. It’s arguably… Read More »Recollection Volume 15 – Summerteeth

Recollection Volume 14 – Wanna Be Your Friend: A Tribute to the Inbreds

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…  Album: Wanna Be Your Friend: A Tribute to the Inbreds Artist: Various Artists Released: 2007 Format(s) I own it on: CD The Inbreds. I’m a big fan of The Inbreds, they didn’t always stick to their schtick of bass and drum, but even when they did, they succeeded in making interesting melodic pop that almost defies their instrumental limitations. That skill at crafting amazing melodies is what makes The Inbreds so spectacular. Mike O’Neill and Dave Ulrich deserve every accolade… Read More »Recollection Volume 14 – Wanna Be Your Friend: A Tribute to the Inbreds