I'm a new concert to your channel. I must say that I'm really enjoying your breadth of musical taste. I'm 67 and of the sites of people of "experience" yours is by far the best. Also and happily you are without the lugubrious tendencies of many of your countrymen. I love in Scotland, but I was born in London. Look forward to seeing more of your posts in the future! 😊
Thanks, Mazzy - gave me some good ideas. Also thanks for taking the records out of the outer sleeves when presenting them. This might be considered an unimportant detail (by many YTers it seems...). But for someone like me that have been photographing and working w. lay out (magazines, handbooks) - the visual side of things are important. THX.
Mazzy you are like the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks for another year of great videos and observations. I maybe 65 myself, but it's great to hear about artists I don't know or even heard of. When I first started collecting when I was 14 I would list hundreds of albums I wanted. Now..... Thanks again.
Hi @mazzysmusic I made a tongue in cheek comment on click bait on one of your videos, maybe it was my Scottish humour but it seemed to get under your skin, sorry I know there is way too much crappy stuff on the internet, I was not being serious. I _love_ your channel. And wanted to thank you for the Sam records pointer, got the Big Bill Broonzie records and they are WONDERFUL! Keep up the great work. By the way, I also ordered the LP of Miles Davis' live soundtrack to the Louis Malle movie '_Ascenseur pour l'échafaud_' (the lift to the scaffold / elevator to the gallows) - it's reproduced on the original 10" vinyl and is wonderful. I wouldn't have found these records but for you generous sharing, so thank you!
Tongue in cheek comments usually work for me, but sometimes they don’t always translate in the written form. English, Irish and Scottish usually work just fine. Frankly I don’t recall what your comment was, but no worries. Appreciate almost any✌🏼
Mazzy, the Intrigue box set is hands-down, the best recommendation you have ever given to us.. I picked it up, and I am blown away.. I was born in 1968, so this is my prime era, and so much of it is new to me.. Thank you thank you thank you, what a set!!! What an incredible set!!!
Breeders, Pogues, Talking Heads, Morphine, etc, etc…. Great records, Mazzy. Happy to see Morphine in the #1 spot. They were truly an amazing band, and of course, one of my absolute favorites. Being a Boston band, I feel fortunate to have seen them many times throughout their career, as they kept getting more popular.
Acetone :) A must have! You should buy the recent boxset. Excelent music and excelent sounding. If you don't know, try also Karate ("The Bed Is In The Ocean").
Definitely check out those Acetone reissues. The box set is already gonzo but was expensive. That comp is absolutely beautiful though. I have all their records at this point. I would grab the s/t one or If You Only Knew if you had to only buy 1 or 2. Morphines will also be on my list. Youngbloods label Racoon also notable for releasing those early Michael Hurley LPs which I adore.
Nice selection. Speaking of Elivs Costello collaborations I have just been spinning his 2006 release with Allen Toussaint, 'The River in Reverse', what a truly excellent album.
Nice choices here, NM. Need that Julee Cruise. Ary Lobo piqued my interest - not familiar. Kiko is my fave from Los Lobos, as well. "Wake Up Dolores" is stunning. Breeders release was great. One of my top 90s LPs. Saw them a couple months ago playing Last Splash in full here in LA at the Wiltern. Wasn't great pitch-wise on the Deal sisters vox but the show was amazing, of course. The Calexico box sounds so, so good. I was very pleasantly surprised by that one. They play with the Tucson Symphony in Jan - gonna try and make the trek. Please join! The Acetone is underrated. Superb music! I bet that Big Bill is great. Never had a Sam release I didn't love. Looking fwd to your jazz video on this topic. Cheers from down the coast!
Really cool video mazzy but you forgot one of my favorite reissues of 2023 and that's van Morrison's astral weeks u are right those meters reissued sound great
Mazzy please bring in an album….David Ackle’s first on Elektra… just one of the greatest solo albums from the USA…I’ve never seen anyone talk about David…and he has such an amazing voice. Thanks brother …love you too :-)
Costello and Bacharach first collaborated with each other (via fax machine) in 1995 to compose the song God Give Me Strength for the motion picture Grace Of My Heart. The success of that song led to the album Painted From Memory a couple of years later (which included it).
I have a 12inch vinyl of Monsoon Ever So Lonely, it was a hit record in the U.K. in 1982. I remember seeing Sheila Chandra on Top of the Pops singing this song, it was the first time a female Indian singer appeared on any English chart show. Her band she was in Monsoon also released an album Third Eye back in 1983. She has been compared to George Harrison as being a big influence in bringing Indian music to a mainstream audience back in the 1980’s. Unfortunately she suffers from Burning Mouth Syndrome and can no longer sing or even speak 😂
great to see that the youngbloods,elephant mountain getting a reissue,i have a 69 original,the analogue africa stuff looks great too, nice one mazzy,best wishes from sw london uk...................jpj
Analogue Africa!!! Love that label -- and that Ary Lobo is something I must look into. (You really should get one of those hats.) I also just want to second the love for the Kinks, the Meters, Los Lobos, Little Feat, Calexico, Talking Heads (where did you get that 2023 "Stop Making Sense?" I can't even find it on Discogs), and Elvis & Burt (seen both of them multiple times, though never together -- BB's last show at Jazz Alley in, maybe, 2017 [?] is something I'll always treasure). I don't know what you were referring to, but there's really nothing "schmaltzy" about "The Darkest Place," "This House Is Empty Now" (maybe a sequel to "A House Is Not A Home?"), "Toledo," "Painted From Memory..." (And, as an aside: I love "God Give Me Strength," the first Bacharach & Costello collaboration, which was written for Allison Anders' fantastic 1996 fictional pop music history mashup, "Grace of My Heart," which ingeniously combined threads from the lives of Carol King [and other Brill Building legends], the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Ike & Tina and Lesley Gore, with original music by Joni Mitchell, J. Mascis, Jill Sobule, Shawn Colvin, Tonio K... If you haven't seen it, do.) I had forgotten all about the Youngbloods (which I always used to confuse with the Yardbirds -- the name, not the music). Maybe it's because Krist Novoselic's twisted quotation from "Get Together" (nice a cappella version of yours, by the way) in the intro to Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings" kind of blew them down the memory hole for me. Thanks for the reminder about the Morphine albums (which I have on CD) and Julee Cruise. I have the "Twin Peaks" and "Fire Walk With Me" soundtracks on LP, but "Floating Into the Night" only on the original CD. It's such a quiet record that I'm wary of noisy vinyl, but both Music On Vinyl and Sacred Bones have LP versions, so maybe I'll give one of them a shot. Her spooky, ethereal voice and Badalamenti's music give me goosebumps.
I know that we are not getting any younger (I'm 71), and sometimes we tend to forget things. We start forgetting the little things like zipping up our pants, our wallets, or our car keys, it's time to start worrying. Then there are those real serious black hole types of dementia driven memory losses that mean it might be time for some sort of treatment, like forgetting to put on your pants altogether or not remembering that those $357.00 concert tickets we bought weeks ago were for last night's concert, or leaving off the 40th anniversary reissue of the Violent Femmes self titled first album from our top 20 list. A 3 lp set with demos and live cuts plus a 7" replica single. With new liner notes by Robert Fripp. ????
Ah, dear Mr. Mazzy... We do not overlap in a lot of areas, but Sir your #1 choice is indeed F***'n FANTASTIC! 👍Morphine is truly one of THE most singular and fascinating great bands of all time. BTW... I know you are always talking about Light in the Attic and they are awesome. Get this... I ordered what was supposed to be the 2-LP pressing of 'Good' from a well known record store in Canada, the name escapes me now. BUT... they mistakenly sent me Cure for Pain. I already had the LITA pressing so I just let it sit for a while. Well, when I finally opened it I was quite shocked to see that it was 2-LPs! I'm like WTF!?? Then I noticed that it was a Run Out Groove pressing, not a LITA pressing! I listened to it and *WOW!* Dude, I am not $h*tting you man, as good as the LITA 1-LP is, this 2-LP mutha frigg'n BLEW it away! I could not have been more shocked. I'm tell'n you Bro... If you really like Morphine, and apparently you do, make sure you check out the Run Out Groove 2-LP versions, because this one blew my frigg'n PANTS off! Seriously...
As an aside to my last comment…. In 1971 my girlfriend…now my wife’s father was a senior producer in the BBC here in the UK and he had two Elektra executives to dinner. I was talking to one of them about my love of The Doors and he to me ‘Check out David Ackles first album, I think it’s a masterpiece’ So I of course went out and bought it and I still love it. Have you got it in your collection? Well worth pulling out for your It’s the Music Stupid! Best wishes Tony
Re Sheila Chandra, Speaking in Tongues is a style of singing used to teach tabla players traditional rhythms. Sheila takes it to another level with what she does with it. A favourite album of mine since it came out.
Interesting choices, many new to me. Everyone has their favorites, but for me Joni Mitchell released some of the best archival stuff of 2023. Not a fan?
Great eclectic list, I’d like to get most of those. For my own list I would include the Art DEVO archival box set and the Guided By Voices Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia reissue.
I have a couple of Sheila Chandra records from the 80’s. Very good. Stop Making Sense was filmed at the Pantages. I saw them a couple of days earlier in Long Beach. Overnite Sensation was a jumping on point for many. It was the jumping off point for me. The most anticipated album for me is SSD The Kids Will Have Their Say. This album sells for over $1,000. The bootlegs sell in the hundreds. It has never been reissued. I found out it was being reissued last year. The reissue sold out and I missed out. A 2nd press is being issued and I preordered one. I know SSD is not your thing but boy did this need a reissue.
Thanks Mazzy.
Lots of awesome albums for me to check out. Some that I haven't heard before.
Hope you enjoy some of them ✌🏼
I'm a new concert to your channel. I must say that I'm really enjoying your breadth of musical taste. I'm 67 and of the sites of people of "experience" yours is by far the best. Also and happily you are without the lugubrious tendencies of many of your countrymen. I love in Scotland, but I was born in London. Look forward to seeing more of your posts in the future! 😊
Great list Mazzy and your insights make it all the better. Thanks for your efforts. Now off to by that Julie Cruise.
Thanks, Mazzy - gave me some good ideas.
Also thanks for taking the records out of the outer sleeves when presenting them.
This might be considered an unimportant detail (by many YTers it seems...). But for someone like me that have been photographing and working w. lay out (magazines, handbooks) - the visual side of things are important. THX.
Mazzy you are like the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks for another year of great videos and observations. I maybe 65 myself, but it's great to hear about artists I don't know or even heard of. When I first started collecting when I was 14 I would list hundreds of albums I wanted. Now.....
Thanks again.
Wow, thank you✌🏼
Saw Morphine at the Knitting Factory in NY in the 90's. Sounding amazing live. So happy those albums were reissued. My favorite band. Thanks McMazz
Hi @mazzysmusic I made a tongue in cheek comment on click bait on one of your videos, maybe it was my Scottish humour but it seemed to get under your skin, sorry I know there is way too much crappy stuff on the internet, I was not being serious. I _love_ your channel. And wanted to thank you for the Sam records pointer, got the Big Bill Broonzie records and they are WONDERFUL! Keep up the great work.
By the way, I also ordered the LP of Miles Davis' live soundtrack to the Louis Malle movie '_Ascenseur pour l'échafaud_' (the lift to the scaffold / elevator to the gallows) - it's reproduced on the original 10" vinyl and is wonderful.
I wouldn't have found these records but for you generous sharing, so thank you!
Tongue in cheek comments usually work for me, but sometimes they don’t always translate in the written form. English, Irish and Scottish usually work just fine.
Frankly I don’t recall what your comment was, but no worries. Appreciate almost any✌🏼
Calexico! What a great album. Probably my favorite album of all time too. Glad to see it get some more love!
Saw Calexico and Los Lobos at Big Ears 2023.
Great choices, Mazzy. I'll definitely check out Acetone. And perfect top pick!!
Enjoyed the video. Well done.
Mazzy, the Intrigue box set is hands-down, the best recommendation you have ever given to us.. I picked it up, and I am blown away.. I was born in 1968, so this is my prime era, and so much of it is new to me.. Thank you thank you thank you, what a set!!! What an incredible set!!!
Breeders, Pogues, Talking Heads, Morphine, etc, etc…. Great records, Mazzy. Happy to see Morphine in the #1 spot. They were truly an amazing band, and of course, one of my absolute favorites. Being a Boston band, I feel fortunate to have seen them many times throughout their career, as they kept getting more popular.
Glad you enjoyed it! Morphine deserves to be at the top of this list ☕️✌🏼
Great stuff Mazzy, interesting and wide ranging as ever.
Kinks, Pogues, Sinead O Connor, Elvis Costello , Calexico, Little Feat...............way to go!!!
The choices superb some I have others now on my wants list! Nice one Mazzy
Folks best thing about music 🎶 is it's good for your head! Especially putting all of them in alphabetical order!❤
Acetone :) A must have! You should buy the recent boxset. Excelent music and excelent sounding. If you don't know, try also Karate ("The Bed Is In The Ocean").
Definitely check out those Acetone reissues. The box set is already gonzo but was expensive. That comp is absolutely beautiful though. I have all their records at this point. I would grab the s/t one or If You Only Knew if you had to only buy 1 or 2. Morphines will also be on my list. Youngbloods label Racoon also notable for releasing those early Michael Hurley LPs which I adore.
Beatles Red & Blue are good comps?
Nice selection. Speaking of Elivs Costello collaborations I have just been spinning his 2006 release with Allen Toussaint, 'The River in Reverse', what a truly excellent album.
That Acetone comp has been a revelation to me.
Nice choices here, NM. Need that Julee Cruise. Ary Lobo piqued my interest - not familiar. Kiko is my fave from Los Lobos, as well. "Wake Up Dolores" is stunning. Breeders release was great. One of my top 90s LPs. Saw them a couple months ago playing Last Splash in full here in LA at the Wiltern. Wasn't great pitch-wise on the Deal sisters vox but the show was amazing, of course. The Calexico box sounds so, so good. I was very pleasantly surprised by that one. They play with the Tucson Symphony in Jan - gonna try and make the trek. Please join! The Acetone is underrated. Superb music! I bet that Big Bill is great. Never had a Sam release I didn't love. Looking fwd to your jazz video on this topic. Cheers from down the coast!
Really cool video mazzy but you forgot one of my favorite reissues of 2023 and that's van Morrison's astral weeks u are right those meters reissued sound great
The Morphine releases are an all too rare case where the CD versions sound amazing and can be found for dirt cheap ;)
The Breeders - Last Splash, i hope to get that album someday!
I agree about the Morphine records, absolute stunning music, so inspiring and after all these years it still sounds fresh!
I went to see Calexico in Dublin last month, they perfomed the whole Feast of Wire album, what fantastic music and a wonderful live band.
Another set for '23 is Poco Collected.
Mazzy please bring in an album….David Ackle’s first on Elektra… just one of the greatest solo albums from the USA…I’ve never seen anyone talk about David…and he has such an amazing voice.
Thanks brother …love you too :-)
I no longer have that album on vinyl . But I do have CDs
@@mazzysmusicHave you had a chance to check out the music of the Warning yet? They been around for 10yrs and they Rock!
Costello and Bacharach first collaborated with each other (via fax machine) in 1995 to compose the song God Give Me Strength for the motion picture Grace Of My Heart. The success of that song led to the album Painted From Memory a couple of years later (which included it).
Thanks. I guess the Austin Powers collaboration was in 1999. ✌🏻
I have a 12inch vinyl of Monsoon Ever So Lonely, it was a hit record in the U.K. in 1982. I remember seeing Sheila Chandra on Top of the Pops singing this song, it was the first time a female Indian singer appeared on any English chart show. Her band she was in Monsoon also released an album Third Eye back in 1983. She has been compared to George Harrison as being a big influence in bringing Indian music to a mainstream audience back in the 1980’s. Unfortunately she suffers from Burning Mouth Syndrome and can no longer sing or even speak 😂
great to see that the youngbloods,elephant mountain getting a reissue,i have a 69 original,the analogue africa stuff looks great too, nice one mazzy,best wishes from sw london uk...................jpj
Analogue Africa!!! Love that label -- and that Ary Lobo is something I must look into. (You really should get one of those hats.) I also just want to second the love for the Kinks, the Meters, Los Lobos, Little Feat, Calexico, Talking Heads (where did you get that 2023 "Stop Making Sense?" I can't even find it on Discogs), and Elvis & Burt (seen both of them multiple times, though never together -- BB's last show at Jazz Alley in, maybe, 2017 [?] is something I'll always treasure). I don't know what you were referring to, but there's really nothing "schmaltzy" about "The Darkest Place," "This House Is Empty Now" (maybe a sequel to "A House Is Not A Home?"), "Toledo," "Painted From Memory..." (And, as an aside: I love "God Give Me Strength," the first Bacharach & Costello collaboration, which was written for Allison Anders' fantastic 1996 fictional pop music history mashup, "Grace of My Heart," which ingeniously combined threads from the lives of Carol King [and other Brill Building legends], the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Ike & Tina and Lesley Gore, with original music by Joni Mitchell, J. Mascis, Jill Sobule, Shawn Colvin, Tonio K... If you haven't seen it, do.)
I had forgotten all about the Youngbloods (which I always used to confuse with the Yardbirds -- the name, not the music). Maybe it's because Krist Novoselic's twisted quotation from "Get Together" (nice a cappella version of yours, by the way) in the intro to Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings" kind of blew them down the memory hole for me. Thanks for the reminder about the Morphine albums (which I have on CD) and Julee Cruise. I have the "Twin Peaks" and "Fire Walk With Me" soundtracks on LP, but "Floating Into the Night" only on the original CD. It's such a quiet record that I'm wary of noisy vinyl, but both Music On Vinyl and Sacred Bones have LP versions, so maybe I'll give one of them a shot. Her spooky, ethereal voice and Badalamenti's music give me goosebumps.
I know that we are not getting any younger (I'm 71), and sometimes we tend to forget things. We start forgetting the little things like zipping up our pants, our wallets, or our car keys, it's time to start worrying. Then there are those real serious black hole types of dementia driven memory losses that mean it might be time for some sort of treatment, like forgetting to put on your pants altogether or not remembering that those $357.00 concert tickets we bought weeks ago were for last night's concert, or leaving off the 40th anniversary reissue of the Violent Femmes self titled first album from our top 20 list. A 3 lp set with demos and live cuts plus a 7" replica single. With new liner notes by Robert Fripp. ????
Love seeing Arthur Russell make your top 20! Do you have any of his other albums?
I need those The Kinks records. Also Calexico and Costello/Bacharach.
Ah, dear Mr. Mazzy... We do not overlap in a lot of areas, but Sir your #1 choice is indeed F***'n FANTASTIC! 👍Morphine is truly one of THE most singular and fascinating great bands of all time. BTW... I know you are always talking about Light in the Attic and they are awesome. Get this... I ordered what was supposed to be the 2-LP pressing of 'Good' from a well known record store in Canada, the name escapes me now. BUT... they mistakenly sent me Cure for Pain. I already had the LITA pressing so I just let it sit for a while. Well, when I finally opened it I was quite shocked to see that it was 2-LPs! I'm like WTF!?? Then I noticed that it was a Run Out Groove pressing, not a LITA pressing!
I listened to it and *WOW!* Dude, I am not $h*tting you man, as good as the LITA 1-LP is, this 2-LP mutha frigg'n BLEW it away! I could not have been more shocked. I'm tell'n you Bro... If you really like Morphine, and apparently you do, make sure you check out the Run Out Groove 2-LP versions, because this one blew my frigg'n PANTS off! Seriously...
I have that one too. LITA distributed some of the Run Out Groove titles. It is very good ✌🏻
@@mazzysmusicDamn Straight! 👍 I'm gonna see if ROG has any of their other titles released as 2-LPs...
As an aside to my last comment….
In 1971 my girlfriend…now my wife’s father was a senior producer in the BBC here in the UK and he had two Elektra executives to dinner. I was talking to one of them about my love of The Doors and he to me ‘Check out David Ackles first album, I think it’s a masterpiece’
So I of course went out and bought it and I still love it. Have you got it in your collection?
Well worth pulling out for your It’s the Music Stupid!
Best wishes
Tony
Re Sheila Chandra, Speaking in Tongues is a style of singing used to teach tabla players traditional rhythms. Sheila takes it to another level with what she does with it. A favourite album of mine since it came out.
Joni Mitchell Archives vol 3!!!!!!!!!
Interesting choices, many new to me. Everyone has their favorites, but for me Joni Mitchell released some of the best archival stuff of 2023. Not a fan?
Great eclectic list, I’d like to get most of those. For my own list I would include the Art DEVO archival box set and the Guided By Voices Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia reissue.
With a bit of luck I may get the ones I don't have for Christmas.
WOW...I feel so dumb!😮
I have a couple of Sheila Chandra records from the 80’s. Very good. Stop Making Sense was filmed at the Pantages. I saw them a couple of days earlier in Long Beach. Overnite Sensation was a jumping on point for many. It was the jumping off point for me. The most anticipated album for me is SSD The Kids Will Have Their Say. This album sells for over $1,000. The bootlegs sell in the hundreds. It has never been reissued. I found out it was being reissued last year. The reissue sold out and I missed out. A 2nd press is being issued and I preordered one. I know SSD is not your thing but boy did this need a reissue.
Dina Mo hum needs a Richie evaluation.
Surprised that RSD Fillmore Dead box wasn't on your list.
Watch the Box set video ✌🏼
The 50th Anniversary version costs €169 over here in Ireland (about $184), what does it cost in the US?
Which album ?
Sorry... Nuggets 50th.
Mazzy - the Forrest Gump of the VC...a bystander to rock history.
no on Snead o’conner
Well apparently yes 😎
U must have deep pockets.no way most people can afford all that music
I simply work for myself and music is my number one interest ✌🏼
@@mazzysmusic same for me.but is getting expensive for us mortals to afford it these days.thanks for your reply
No Jellyfish?
They sound horrible. So no.
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