Robert Pollard - Completed Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples CD

Completed Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples album for sale Since its formation, the Minus 5 has been a supergroup of sorts, led by Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows/R.E.M. sideman) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.). As the title would suggest, they are joined this time around by all four members of Wilco, the group responsible for the most talked-about recording of both 2001 and 2002 (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot). Down with Wilco was to be released by a major label until it suffered the same fate as YHF, when it was suddenly shelved. Like that album, it deserved better and was eventually emancipated by the indie Yep Roc in 2003. While Down with Wilco doesn't match the quality of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (a difficult task, as this is one of the best releases of the early 21st century), it's unsurprising that they both have similar sounds, via the use of synthesizers, various percussion effects, and horns. The record is tighter as well -- not as spatial as YHF. Wilco is effectively transformed into the Wrecking Crew by McCaughey and Buck, both huge fans of the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson's technique of saturating the tape with music. In many ways, the disc updates experimental '60s pop, conjuring up the Beatles, the Byrds, Syd Barrett, as well as the aforementioned Beach Boys. "That's Not the Way It's Done" even emulates the synth-driven -- and often misunderstood -- Beach Boys 1977 release Love You. And then there's "The Old Plantation," which sounds tailor-made for early-'70s AM radio. McCaughey even draws upon old friend and colleague Paul Westerberg, romanticizing failure in "Dear Employer" and "Days of Wine and Booze." This collective has always represented the darker elements of McCaughey's personality, but the depression is kept in check here by Wilco's solid and often upbeat backing, thus playing a major role in the most enjoyable Minus 5 release yet. ~ Bart Bealmear Additional personnel includes: Rebecca Gates, Christy McWilson, Sean O'Hagan, Charlie Francis, Jessy Greene, Brian Paulson. Personnel: Jessy (violin, cello, strings); Brian Paulson (box). Audio Mixers: Floyd Reitsman; Jon Ervie; Brett Eliason; Charlie Francis. Recording information: Casa De Elefante, Seattle, WA (09/10/2001-12/18/2001); Fuselge (09/10/2001-12/18/2001); KAOS, Minneapolis, MN (09/10/2001-12/18/2001); SOMA Electronic Music Studios, Chicago, IL (09/10/2001-12/18/2001); Studio 86 (09/10/2001-12/18/2001); The Stone Room, London, England (09/10/2001-12/18/2001). Photographer: Marty Perez. Unknown Contributor Roles: Christy McWilson; Gates; Kotche; John Stirratt; Ken Stringfellow; Peter Buck ; Sean O'Hagan; Leroy Bach. Arrangers: Mikael; Jeff Tweedy; Jesse Green ; Scott McCaughey. The Minus 5: Scott McCaughey, Jeff Tweedy, Jon Stirratt, Petr Buck, Leroy Bach, Kotche, Ken Stringfellow.

Completed Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples buy CD music Prophet's follow-up to The Hurting Business finds him in excellent form, still making American roots music but casting his net a little wider to bring in a few more influences. For example, "Elouise" kicks off with a rhythm straight out of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" before evolving into something looser and less threatening, and "Summertime Thing" has the laid-back vibe of the Young Rascals' "Groovin'" welded to some funky wah-wah guitar influenced by the Isley Brothers. With a voice suggesting that he's training to be Tom Waits when he grows older and occasional lyrics (as in "Run Primo Run") inspired by the vintage Dylan songbook (the Farfisa organ that recurs in the album only furthers the connection), there's a strong romantic streak running through his work, most evident in "No Other Love" and even the growing-older wisdom of "Old Friends." His songwriting continues to grow and his guitar skills (which he tends to hide under a bushel a little), never flashy or grabbing the spotlight, have become mature and sophisticated, a long way from his days in Green on Red. One of America's great underground artists, Prophet's slowly blooming into a major figure. ~ Chris Nickson 6th Solo;Fromer Green On Red Recorded at Waterworks, Tucson, Arizona; Tiny Telephone, Room 5 Studios, San Francisco, California. Personnel: Chuck Prophet (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, dobro, tamboura, Oberheim synthesizer, percussion); Stephanie Finch (vocals, strings, accordion); Rob Douglas (guitar); Greg Leisz (acoustic guitar); Max Butler (omnichord); Ken Miller (upright bass); Jim Bogios, Michael Urbano, Andrew Borger, John Mader (drums). Audio Mixers: Jim Waters; Mark Pistel. Recording information: Chuck And Stephanie's Living Room; Cottage Recorders; Dr. C's; In The Pocket Studio; Market Street; Pigshead; Room #5. Photographers: Jeff Smith ; Todd V. Wolfson. Personnel includes: Chuck Prophet (vocals, various instruments); Stephanie Finch (vocals, accordion, keyboards); Greg Leisz (acoustic & electric guitars); Rob Douglas (guitar, bass); Jason Borger (Wurlitzer piano, Clavinet, Farfisa organ); Michael Urbano (drums).

Completed Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples songs When an accomplished and venerated band releases an album which could be referred to as its umpteenth release, often the phrase "more of the same" is derisively bandied about. However, while this could be said about Guided By Voices on UNIVERSAL TRUTHS & CYCLES the meaning is subverted. For GBV (really Robert Pollard and whoever he decides to work with on a given album) "more of the same" could be just about anything from experimental indie rock (BEE THOUSAND) to prog rock (MAG EARWHIG!) to more poppy material (DO THE COLLAPSE). The constant is ingenious, dynamic unpredictability. On the opening track, Pollard exhorts "sit up and beg for slivers of language," and UNIVERSAL CYCLES & TRUTHS, like many a preceding GBV album, offers up a plethora of (mostly) succinct songs secreting smidgens of taut language, observations, abstract stories, and witticisms, backed by a musical topography which alters as frequently as a cityscape. Songs vary from the distortion drive of the all-too-brief "Love 1" to the imploring arena-rock ballad "Storm Vibration" and on to the pop puffery of "Pretty Bombs," which would have XTC fawning over its Beatles-esque wanderings. UNIVERSAL TRUTHS & CYCLES continues the inventiveness which has earned GBV its role as tribal elders of the indie rock world. Follow-up to the 2001 album Isolation Drills, this album features 19 glittering pop melodies. In a return to self-production, the band recorded in a variety of different studios, on different media, on 8-track and 24-track. The result is more akin to their earlier albums combined with the efficiency of execution and musicianship of the more recent recordings. digipak. 2002. Matador. Additional personnel includes: Helen Yee (violin); Asha Mevlana (viola); Steve Berson (cello); Chris Slusarenko (piano); Todd Tobias (keyboards). Recorded at Cro Magnon Enterprises, Dayton, Ohio; Waterloo Sound Studios, Kent, Ohio. Personnel: Helen Yee (violin); Scott Bennett, Chris George (cello); Chris Slusarenko (piano). Recording information: Cro Magnon Enterprises, Dayton, OH; Waterloo Sound Recordings, Kent, OH. Photographer: Daniel Coston. Guided By Voices: Robert Pollard, Doug Gillard, Nate Farley, Tim Tobias, Jon McCann.

Completed Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples CD music BOX contains Guided By Voices' first four albums, previously available only on vinyl: DEVIL BETWEEN MY TOES, SANDBOX, SELF-INFLICTED AERIAL NOSTALGIA and SAME PLACE THE FLY GOT SMASHED. Also included is KING SHIT AND THE GOLDEN BOYS, a collection of 19 previously-unreleased songs recorded between 1988 and 1993. The vinyl version of BOX also contains the band's fifth album, PROPELLER, which in CD form is available as part of VAMPIRE ON TITUS. Most bands don't generate enough material for a five-CD box set in their entire careers, but Guided by Voices didn't break a sweat in collecting this trove. Active in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio since the mid-'80s, Robert Pollard, Jim Pollard, Tobin Sprout, and Mitch Mitchell had recorded over a dozen albums, EPs, and singles before 1994's BEE THOUSAND made them the darlings of the newly dubbed lo-fi underground. So new fans might have a chance to catch up with the band's long pre-"fame" career, GbV released the unpretentiously titled BOX. This handsome package containins four of GbV's first five albums--DEVIL BETWEEN MY TOES, SANDBOX, SELF-INFLICTED AERIAL NOSTALGIA, and SAME PLACE THE FLY GOT SMASHED--excluding only the debut FOREVER SINCE BREAKFAST. The set also includes an exclusive CD of 19 previously unreleased tracks, many of them outtakes from the BEE THOUSAND sessions. BOX documents GbV's growth as the musicians shattered their influences--Wire, R.E.M., British Invasion pop, and jangly '80s post-punk-and gradually reassembled the shards into something startlingly new. Hardcore GbV enthusiasts and casual fans alike will find this collection essential and illuminating. Additional personnel includes: Tobin Sprout, Bruce Smith. Recorded between 1986 and 1993. 5-CD;;Compilation Guided By Voices: Robert Pollard (vocals, guitar); Steve Wilbur (guitar, bass); Jim Pollard (guitar); Mitch Mitchell (bass); Payton Eric, Kevin Fennell (drums). Producers: Bob, Guided By Voices, Steve Wilbur. Engineers include: Steve Wilbur.

Completed Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples buy CD music Principally recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas. There's little doubt that the Tragically Hip are sick of being called "the Canadain R.E.M.," but it's just so much fun to say. Besides which, there's a grain of truth to the appelation. The band's ringing guitars, intelligent lyrics, and rich, driving sound would garner them a welcome among fans of Stipe and company, but the Hip do have gheir own identity. That identity has made them a big deal in their homeland for years (their first album was released in 1987). Their smaller but still fervent stateside following turned out in droves to pick up IN VIOLET LIGHT which offers everything from the hard-rocking, Stones/Replacements-like bravado of "Use it Up" to the quirky, evocative "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken." Gord Sinclair, Johnny Fay. Producers: Hugh Padgham, The Tragically Hip, Mark Vreeken. Personnel: Neil Symonette (percussion). Audio Mixers: Hugh Padgham; Terry Manning. Recording information: Bathouse Studios; Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas. Photographers: Bernard Clark; Richard Beland. Unknown Contributor Role: Robert Lowell. The Tragically Hip: Gordon Downie, Paul Langlois, Robby Baker, Additional personnel: Neil Symonette (percussion).

Completed Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples songs After an amorphous couple of records, Tuatara seems to have found its true voice as a soundtrack band. Essentially, soundtrack music is what Cinemathique is all about, albeit of a very high quality, so smoothly written and performed that you often don't notice the depth of what's happening underneath -- and that's a compliment. For what's really a supergroup, the bandmembers hide their personalities under a barrel, or perhaps behind the chameleon qualities of the music itself, which can shift from Third-era Soft Machine on "Love Is a Calculated Risk" to the John Barry-esque "A Thin Gray Pickpocket," to the romance of "Farewell to the Hero." Barrett Martin is a subtle powerhouse of percussion throughout, while everyone else layers slickly on top of him to create music that would seem perfectly at home in a Hollywood film or even a '70s cop show ("Action Thriller"). It's the fact that each piece transmits its mood so well that makes this a success, from the gamelan opening of "The Melting Sun" to the lush ambience of the misleadingly titled "Falling Pianos." So yes, it has Martin, Peter Buck, and other illustrious (and unknown) names, but they're not the point. In this instance, it's the music that does the talking. And with Cinemathique, one (aural) picture is worth a thousand words. ~ Chris Nickson 3rd Rel;Barrett Martin,Justin Harwood & Peter Buck Recorded at Studio Litho and The Labratory, Seattle, Washington. Personnel: Barrett Martin (electric guitar, dobro, piano, vibraphone, marimba, upright bass, drums, percussion); Scott McCaughey (electric guitar, harmonica, piano); Eric Richard (accordion); Craig Flory (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Skerik (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Chris Littlefield (trumpet); Justin Harwood (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, upright bass); Alex Veley (Fender Rhodes piano); Peter Buck (marimba, electric bass, 6-string bass); Joe Cripps (gamelan, bongos, percussion). Audio Mixers: Kip Beelman; Barrett Martin. Recording information: Studio Litho, Seattle, WA; The Laboratory, Seattle, WA. Personnel: Barrett Martin (guitar, dobro, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, vibraphone, marimba, acoustic bass, drums, percussion); Peter Buck (acoustic & electric guitars, marimba, bass); Scott McCaughey (guitar, harmonica, piano, organ); Eric Richards (accordion); Craig Flory (flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone); Skerik (tenor & baritone saxophones); Chris Littlefield (trumpet, flugelhorn); Justin Harwood (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, acoustic & electric basses); Alex Veley (Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Joe Kripps (gamelan); Elizabeth Pupo-Walker (congas).