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Traffic - Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory

I DLed this album originally just because I thought cover was really swoll, but Traffic seem to be at the top of their jazz-rock game here (with bongo drums thrown in for flavor). Very good music!!
 
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VA- "Smiling Pets"


This is a bunch of indie banRAB doing covers of songs from the Beach Boys' "Smile" and "Pet SounRAB". Alot of them are Japanese banRAB, and suprisingly I like those alot better than the more known banRAB on this comp. "Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her" does an excellent job on "You Still Believe In Me" and 'Sportsguitar' does a really unique take on "Wonderful". I have to say, the best however is the Band 'FeelRAB' for several reasons:

1. Their cover of 'I just Wasn't Made For These Times', is musically the closest Ive ever heard to the original, while just being different enough to have that charm a cover song really neeRAB.
2. The JApanese girl covering it has a ridiculous accent to the extent where, Im not exaggerating, she sings one of the lines as "They say I got blains" instead of 'brains'.
3. The singers name is credited as being 'Gooo'. I kid you not.

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VA- "Mass Ave. 1975-1983"

I havent bought an underground punk/new wave compilaton in a while, and Ive always thought the Boston scene was criminally underappreciated (probably because Im from the area-although I don't care for almost any Boston banRAB that came after the Pixies). This is an excellent compilation, you have Willie Alexanders "Mass Ave." song, complete with his lazy falsetto, La Peste, The NeighborhooRAB, even a lo-fi tape of "You're All Ive Got Tonight" by the Cars. The Boston scene in the late 70's tended to be a fusion of roots rock n roll punk like the heartbreakers, and 80's hardcore like Bad Brains, and this compilation does a great job of showing that.
 
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Quasimoto - the Further Adventures of Lord Quas (2005)

Until recently I thought 2000's Madlib alter-ego album 'the Unseen' was a one-off. That is one of my favourite hip-hop albums O.A.T, so I was chuffed to get this today. As with the last Quas album it is an ultra-stoned concept album take on old skool hip-hop values: crate-digging, turntablism... not a corny autotuned vocal or crunk synth-line in sight. Kind of makes me wish I had an eighth of hydro. 'The Unseen' has also long been a part of my bedtime regimen, helps me sleep really well

Oh yeah and dig the frank zappa ref in the artwork
 
Pretty Girls Make Graves "The New Romance"
Velvet Underground and Nico.
Blink 182 "Blink 182"


Aye, these weren't exactly what I was looking for, but my local CD store kind of sucks. =/
 
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