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Farmer Sea new album "A Safe Place" is out now on Dead End Street Records!

File under: indie/folk/psycho/pop, R.E.M., Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, Neil Young, The Kinks, The Byrds, Nada Surf

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The first artists in My Favorite Music series, in the classic rock genre, I give you Neil Young. It was his Decade album, a 3-record compilation of his music from 1966 to 1977 that really got me turned on to his music. I talk about my favorite albums and share my fondest memory of Neil Young’s music impacting my life. Read more @ http://majamaki.com/2012/02/my-favorite-music-neil-young/

Neil Young, majamaki

2007
Eric Clapton
Sunday, 4th February - Rod Laver Arena
Support: Mia Dyson

Bob Dylan
Friday, 17th August - Rod Laver Arena
Support: The Frames

2008
Rage Against the Machine
Bjork
Arcade Fire
Silverchair
Grinspoon
Regurgitator
British India
Monday, 28th January - Flemington Racecourse (Big Day Out)

Santana
Tuesday, 26th February - Rod Laver Arena
Support: Blue King Brown

Foo Fighters
Saturday, 26th April - Rod Laver Arena
Support: The Mess Hall & Kaki King

2009
Franz Ferdinand
Monday, 5th January - The Palace Theatre
Support: The Temper Trap & Red Riders

Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union
Saturday, 24th January - Melbourne Park (Australian Open)

Arctic Monkeys
The Ting Tings
Neil Young
Serj Tankian
Sparkadia
Birds of Tokyo
The Living End
Monday, 26th January - Flemington Racecourse (Big Day Out)

The Streets
Wednesday, 11th February & Thursday 12th February - Billboard: The Venue
Support: Pez & 360

Kings of Leon
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1965 - Bob Dylan, Highway 61 revisited
1966 - Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde
1967 - Love, Forever Changes
1968 - The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
1969 - King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King
1970 - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory
1971 - Neil Young, After The Gold Rush
1972 - David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1973 - Lou Reed, Berlin
1974 - Big Star, Radio City
1975 - Patti Smith, Horses
1976 - David Bowie, Station To Station
1977 - Television, Marquee Moon
1978 - Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
1979 - The Clash, London Calling
1980 - Talking Heads, Remain In Light
1981 - Kraftwerk, Komputerwelt
1982 - Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
1983 - R.E.M., Murmur
1984 - Prince, Purple Rain
1985 - The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
1986 - The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
1987 - Prince, Sign 'O' The Times
1988 - Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
1989 - Pixies, Doolittle
1990 - Depeche Mode, Violator
1991 - Slint, Spiderland
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It seems CD nowadays don't cost a thing.

1. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
2. Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
3. Neil Young - On The Beach
4. Neil Young - Freedom
5. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
6. Bob Dylan - MTV Unplugged
7. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
8. Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
9. Billy Ocean - Tear Down These Walls
10. Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue
11. Gwen Stefani - Love, Angel, Music, Baby
12. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse
13. Live - Secret Samadhi
14. Live - V
15. Live - The Distance To Here
16. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
17. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
18. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
19. Bruce Springsteen - Live in Dublin
20. Disma - Towards The Megalith
21. Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged
22. The Corrs - MTV Unplugged
23. Kiss - MTV Unplugged
24. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
25. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
26. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live In New York City
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As a musician, and as someone that listens to a ridiculous amount of music, sometimes I am listening just for sounds. Sometimes the melodies and whether or not they are catchy take a backseat to the atmosphere that an album creates.

There have been times that I’ve been so wrapped up in a band’s unique sound that it’s a week or two of non-stop listening before I start to really focus on the harmonic structure, song structure, melodies and lyrical content that is contained therein. This was precisely the case when I first heard Shellac. I remained entranced by the sound of the Travis Bean guitars and Steve Albini’s trademark recording technique sound.

Chad VanGaalen is similar in the way that his recordings have quite a distinctive sound. His production on the 2 albums by fellow Calgarians Women is noteworthy for being characteristically and decidedly lo-fi. Diaper Island takes those production values and applies them to songs that…

Best albums not from 2011 that I discovered/warmed up to in 2011:
Papa M - Live From a Shark Cage / Whatever, Mortal
Loren MazzaCane Connors - Airs
Early Day Miners - Let Us Garlands Bring
Julian Lynch - Mare
Yellow Swans - At All Ends / Psychic Secession
William Tyler - Behold the Spirit
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - The Breadwinner / Air Supply
Loren Connors & Jim O'Rourke - Are You Going to Stop...In Bern?
Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
Austere - Curio
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
The The - Soul Mining
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Arthur Russell - World of Echo
Doveman - With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead
Martin Siewert & Martin Brandlmayr - Too Beautiful to Burn


Top 50 Artists Overall as of Jan. 1, 2012:
1The Microphones 1,454
2Radiohead 1,381
3Animal Collective 1,374
4Thanksgiving 1,356
5Neil Young 1,131
6Mount Eerie 1,011
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01 The National 334
02 Pearl Jam 303
03 The Black Keys 255

04 Incubus 236
05 Neil Young 214
06 Bon Iver 204
07 Red Hot Chili Peppers 193
08 Tom Waits 174
09 Radiohead 134
10 PJ Harvey 125