Hammill, Peter - 1990 - RoomTemperatureLive

With his 1990 in-concert, two-CD set Room Temperature: Live, Peter Hammill took an approach similar to his earlier The Margin: Live -- it contained few overdubs and very little audience applause. Recorded during a month-long winter tour (which included the United States, Canada, and England), the band consisted of Stuart Gordon (violin), Nic Potter (bass), and Hammill on keyboards, guitar, and vocals. The performances are, for the most part, stark and haunting, no doubt due to the absence of a drummer. But this may be the closest the listener will ever get to the heart and soul of Peter Hammill, since there is nothing for him to hide behind on such bare tracks as "The Wave" and "Something About Ysabel's Dance." Also, the stunning emotion contained in Hammill's vocal delivery has been captured on tape flawlessly throughout (perhaps this album provides the ultimate showcase for Hammill's vocals). Other standouts are "Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (Running)," "Hemlock," and one of Hammill's best-known songs, "The Future Now." Each disc runs over the 70-minute mark, while the intensity and consistency of the performance never dips. Certainly one of the more unconventional live albums in recent times, Room Temperature: Live is sure to please just about any Hammill fan.

Disc 1
1 The Wave Hammill 3:40
2 Just Good Friends Hammill 5:16
3 Vision Hammill 4:51
4 Time to Run Hammill 5:01
5 Four Pails Hutchinson, Smith 6:19
6 The Comet, The Course, The Tail Hammill 9:45
7 Ophelia Hammill 4:12
8 Happy Hour Hammill 9:16
9 If I Could Hammill 5:57
10 Something About Ysabel's Dance Hammill 7:38
11 Patient Hammill 10:02

Disc 2
1 Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (Running) Hammill, Smith 6:04
2 Skin Hammill 5:31
3 Hemlock Hammill 8:20
4 Our Oyster Hammill 7:12
5 The Unconscious Life Hammill 5:57
6 After the Show Hammill 11:01
7 A Way Out Hammill 8:46
8 The Future Now Hammill 4:07
9 Traintime Hammill 5:53
10 Modern Hammill 10:51

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Abonizio, Adrián - 1990 - Los Años Felices

Adrián Abonizio es un conocido guitarrista y compositor, miembro de la Trova Rosarina que llega a Buenos Aires a principios de los ochentas.

Sus composiciones, entre las cuales se destacan El témpano, Mirta, de regreso, Dios y el Diablo en el taller se hicieron muy conocidas de la mano de Juan Carlos Baglietto.

A pesar de esto, su carrera se vio dificultada por su renuencia a participar de sellos discográficos grandes, porque, como dijo en una entrevista: "no encontré la gente que trabaje dignamente, que busque lo artístico, que es lo que yo pretendo".

01. Mi dulce señorita.
02. Palestinos.
03. Santo y ladrón.
04. El cielo terminó.
05. La marca de setiembre.
06. Haciendo falta.
07. Beso tu dolor.
08. Corazón de barco.
09. Un Zappo en la boca.
10. Los años felices.
11. Amor de la bruma.

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King Missile - 1990 - Mystical Shit-Fluting On The Hump

Shimmy Disc came slightly late to the CD party, and their early releases in the format didn't always make a lot of sense. For example, this CD puts together King Missile's third album, 1990's Mystical Shit, along with their first, 1987's Fluting on the Hump. Even despite the obvious discographical irregularities, the combination doesn't make much sense, because Fluting on the Hump (along with its follow-up, 1988's They, which would have made much more sense as a second choice on a two-fer CD) was actually by the much different first edition of the band, a collaboration between poet John S. Hall and singer/songwriter Dogbowl (Stephen Tunney), who broke up Hall's recitations -- which especially on these early albums could get a little tiresome and repetitive -- with more melodic and comparatively "normal"-sounding psychedelic pop tunes. By the time of Mystical Shit, however, Dogbowl had decamped for a solo career and King Missile was firmly in Hall's hands; as a result, the album is much less musically interesting, the songs consisting of little more than noodly jams underneath Hall's surreal, often funny monologues. Mystical Shit is a transitional album, weaker than both its predecessors and King Missile's later career high point, Happy Hour, where Hall would finally regain the proper balance between music and lyrics. That said, it does have the hilarious college radio hit "Jesus Was Way Cool."

		1		Title Track	Hall, Rick	3:09
		2		Rock-N-Roll Will Never Die	Hall, Xefos	1:54
		3		No Point	Hall, Rick	3:35
		4		Gary & Melissa	Hall, Rick	2:18
		5		Frightened & Freezing	Hall, Xefos	2:09
		6		How to Remember Your Dreams	Dogbowl, Hall	3:06
		7		The Fish That Played the Ponies	Hall, Rick	2:36
		8		Jesus Was Way Cool	Hall, Rick, Xefos	2:42
		9		Open	Freeman, Hall	4:36
		10		The Sandbox	Hall, Rick	1:44
		11		The Neitherworld	Dogbowl, Hall	3:35
		12		She Didn't Want	Hall, Rick	2:47
		13		Cheesecake Truck	Hall, Rick	1:10
		14		Equlvalencies	Hall, Rick	3:14
		15		Love You More	Shelley	1:45
		16		Fourthly	Hall, Xefos	3:24
		17		Lou	Dogbowl, Hall	1:53
		18		At Dave's	Dogbowl, Hall	1:59
		19		Muffy	Delaszlo, Dogbowl, Hall	2:28
		20		Take Stuff from Work	Hall, King Missile	2:12
		21		Sensitive Artist	Dogbowl, Hall	2:38
		22		Wuss	Hall, King Missile	1:42
		23		Heavy Holy Man	Delaszo, Delaszlo, Dogbowl ...	2:12
Composed by: Delaszo, Delaszlo, Dogbowl, Hall
		24		Fluting on the Hump	Hall, King Missile	2:26
		25		Dick	Delaszlo, Dogbowl, Hall	2:17
		26		That Old Dog	Dogbowl, Hall	2:15

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Garcia, Charly - 1990 - Filosofia Barata y Zapatos De Goma

		1		De Mi	Garcia	3:06
		2		Filosofia Barata y Zapatos de Goma	Garcia	3:52
		3		Reloj de Platilina	Garcia	4:41
		4		Gato de Metal	Garcia	3:15
		5		No Te Mueras en Mi Casa	Aznar, Cerati, Garcia	3:29
		6		Curitas	Garcia	5:39
		7		Solo un Poquito No Mas	Dubatz, Garcia	3:26
		8		Me Siento Mucho Mejor	Clark	3:05
		9		Siempre Puedes Olvidar	Garcia	3:51
		10		La Cancion del Indeciso	Garcia	3:00
		11		Himno Nacional Argentino	Blas, Lopez, Parela, Planes	4:37

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Cube, Ice - 1990 - Amerikkka's Most Wanted

When Ice Cube split from N.W.A after the group's seminal Straight Outta Compton album changed the world forever, expectations were high, too high to ever be met by anyone but the most talented of artists, and at his most inspired. At the time Cube was just that. With AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted the rapper expanded upon Compton, making a more full-bodied album that helped boost the role of the individual in hip-hop. Save the dramatic intro where a mythical Ice Cube is fried in the electric chair, his debut is filled with eye-level views of the inner city that are always vivid, generally frightening, generally personal, and sometimes humorous in the gallows style. Ripping it quickly over a loop from George Clinton's "Atomic Dog," Cube asks the question that would be central to his early career, "Why there more niggas in the pen than in college?," while sticking with the mutual distrust and scare tactics N.W.A used to wipe away any hopes of reconciliation ("They all scared of the Ice Cube/And what I say what I portray and all that/And ain't even seen the gat"). "What I'm kicking to you won't get rotation/Nowhere in the nation" he spits on the classic "Turn Off the Radio," which when coupled with the intoxicating Bomb Squad production and Cube's cocksure delivery that's just below a shout, makes one think he's the only radio the inner city needs. The Bomb Squad's amazing work on the album proves they've been overly associated with Public Enemy, since their ability to adapt to AmeriKKKa's more violent and quick revolution is underappreciated. Their high point is the intense "Endangered Species," a "live by the trigger" song that offers "It's a shame, that niggas die young/But to the light side it don't matter none." This street knowledge venom with ultra fast funk works splendidly throughout the album, with every track hitting home, although the joyless "You Can't Fade Me" has alienated many a listener since kicking a possibly pregnant woman in the stomach is a very hard one to take. Just to be as confusing as the world he lives in, the supposedly misogynistic Cube introduces female protégé Yo-Yo with "It's a Man's World" before exiting with "The Bomb," a perfectly unforgiving and visceral closer. Save a couple Arsenio Hall disses, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is a timeless, riveting exercise in anger, honesty, and the sociopolitical possibilities of hip-hop.

		1		Better off Dead	Holt, Ice Cube	1:03
		2		The Nigga Ya Love to Hate	Ice Cube, Sadler	3:13
		3		AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted	Ice Cube, Sadler, Shocklee	4:08
		4		What They Hittin' Foe?	Average White Band ...	1:22
Composed by: Average White Band, Ice Cube
		5		You Can't Fade Me/JD's Gaffilin'	Ice Cube, Sadler	5:12
		6		Once Upon a Time in the Projects	Ice Cube, Sir Jinx	3:41
		7		Turn Off the Radio	D., Ice Cube, Sadler, Shabazz	2:37
		8		Endangered Species (Tales From the Darkside)	D., Ice Cube, Sadler, Sir Jinx	3:21
		9		A Gangsta's Fairytale	Ice Cube, Sadler	3:16
		10		I'm Only Out for One Thang	Flavor Flav, Ice Cube ...	2:10
Composed by: Flavor Flav, Ice Cube, Sir Jinx, Wonder
		11		Get off My *** and Tell Yo ***** to Come Here	Ice Cube, Sadler	:56
		12		The Drive-By	Shocklee, Sir Jinx	1:01
		13		Rollin' Wit the Lench Mob	Ice Cube, Sadler	3:43
		14		Who's the Mack?	Ice Cube, JBs	4:35
		15		It's a Man's World	Ice Cube, Sir Jinx, Yo Yo	5:26
		16		The Bomb	Ice Cube, Sir Jinx	3:25

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