sabato 22 settembre 2012

First rap ever? Maybe. Best Italian 1972 single not included in a 1972 Long Playing? For sure.


"Prisencolinensinainciusol[prizenkolinensinainˈtʃuzol] is a song composed by Adriano CelentanoIt was first released as a single on November 3, 1972.


“Ai ai smai senflecs / eni go for doin peso ai/ in de col mein saivuan/ prisencolinensinainciusol ol rait”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

http://boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibberish-rock-song.html

http://www3.lastampa.it/musica/sezioni/indieweb/articolo/lstp/173112/


The 2011 Listening Project: back to 1971.


The 2011 Listening Project: back to 1971.

Task: to listen to at least 100 "new" Long Playings published in 1971 ("new" for me of course, I'm such an ignorant amateur).
Mission accomplished.
Total number of 1971 LP's listened during 2011: 142
Here's the list, in alphabetical order.

200 Motels - Frank Zappa
4 Way Street - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse - Faces
A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
Abacus - Abacus
Acquiring the Taste - Gentle Giant
Aereo-plain - John Hartford
All Day Music - War
Alpha Centauri - Tangerine Dream
American Pie - Don McLean
Amore e non amore - Lucio Battisti
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Ardo Dombec - Ardo Dombec
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
At Fillmore East - Allman Brothers
Banana Moon - Daevid Allen
Beyond the Blue Horizon - George Benson
Black Moses - Isaac Hayes
Black Unity - Pharoah Sanders
Blacknuss - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Bless the Weather - John Martyn
Blood, Sweat & Tears 4  - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka - Master Musicians of Joujouka
Cactus - One Way...Or Another
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso
Camembert Electrique - Gong
Church of Anthrax - John Cale & Terry Riley
Cluster 71 - Cluster
Coat of Many Colors - Dolly Parton
Collage - Le Orme
Concerto Grosso - New Trolls
Construção - Chico Buarque
Dolce Acqua - Delirium
Edgar Winter's White Trash - Edgar Winter
Electric Warrior - T.Rex
Eruption - Kluster
Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Expectations - Keith Jarrett
Faust - Faust
Fearless - Family
Fetus - Franco Battiato
Fillmore East, June 1971 - The Mothers
Fireball - Deep Purple
Fool's Mate - Peter Hammill
Four Times Sound Razing - Silberbart
Fourth - Soft Machine
Fragile - Yes
Gonna Take a Miracle - Laura Nyro
Greatest Hits - The Jackson 5
Green Man - Ache
Guilty! (a.k.a. Black & White Blues) - Eric Burdon & Jimmy Witherspoon
Guitar Boogie - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page
H.M.S. Donovan - Donovan
Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse - Eugene McDaniels
High Time - MC5
Histoire de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg
Hot Pants - James Brown
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby
Imagine - John Lennon
In den Gärten Pharaos - Popol Vuh
In Hearing of Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster
In My Own Time - Karen Dalton
In the Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan
In the Poor Sun - Zippo Zetterlink
Islands - King Crimson
John Prine - John Prine
Judee Sill - Judee Sill
Killer - Alice Cooper
Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt
Live! - Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 with Ginger Baker
Live-Evil  - Miles Davis
Love It to Death - Alice Cooper
L'Uomo - Osanna
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
McDonald and Giles - McDonald and Giles
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Mina - Mina
Mirror - Emitt Rhodes
Mirror Man - Captain Beefheart
Mwandishi - Herbie Hancock
Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson
Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo - Fabrizio De André
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
One Year - Colin Blunstone
Other Voices -The Doors
Paul Pena - Paul Pena
Pawn Hearts - Van der Graaf Generator
Pearl - Janis Joplin
Pictures at an Exhibition - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Push Push - Herbie Mann
Relics - Pink Floyd
Restrictions - Cactus
Revelation - Virus
Roots - Curtis Mayfield
Santana III - Santana
Second Album - Curved Air
Seeds on the ground - Airto
Septober Energy - Centipede
Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Sinatra & Company - Frank Sinatra
Songs for Beginners - Graham Nash
Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen
Stargazer - Shelagh McDonald
Stephen Stills 2 - Stephen Stills
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Stormcock - Roy Harper
Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
Tago Mago - Can
Tapestry - Carole King
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Teaser and the Firecat - Cat Stevens
Teenage Head - The Flamin' Groovies
The American Dream - Emitt Rhodes
The Bill Evans Album - Bill Evans
The Cry of Love - Jimi Hendrix
The Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra
The House on the Hill - Audience
The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions - Howlin' Wolf
The Point! -  Harry Nilsson
The Yes Album - Yes
There's a Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
Vampire State Building - Alcatraz
War - War
Warum geht es mir so dreckig? - Ton Steine Scherben
Weather Report - Weather Report
Whatevershebringswesing - Kevin Ayers
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Where I'm Coming From - Stevie Wonder
White Light - Gene Clark
Who's Next - The Who
Wildlife -  Mott The Hoople
Zakarrias - Zakarrias
Zwei-Osterei - Kluster

1971: My top 20 favourite LP's (and the winner is...)


1971: my top 20 favourite Long Playings
proceedings from the 2011 Listening Project

(in alphabetical order)

A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Cluster 71 – Cluster
Fragile - Yes
Histoire de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Live! - Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 with Ginger Baker
Live-Evil - Miles Davis
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Relics - Pink Floyd
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Tago Mago - Can
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Cry of Love - Jimi Hendrix
The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
There's a Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Who's Next - The Who

And the winner is... Blue by Joni Mitchell