Art Decade

Bobby Womack: I Can Understand It and Ruby Dean [1972] from the album Understanding I tracked down this album because I wanted to hear the O...

J. Devenais: Gain Reduction J.B. Raiteux: Southward D. Robert: Black Trebor P. Monnehaye: Gossit from the Freesound library LP Crank [1974]...

Black Flag: TV Party [1984] Burning Sensations: Pablo Picasso [1984] Inspired by a comment under the recent Jonathan Richman post, here are ...

Black Sabbath: A National Acrobat [1973] from the indispensable Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath Drummer Bill Ward walks the fine line between funky ...

Freddie King: Going Down and Gimme Some Lovin' [1970] from the essential Getting Ready... It's hard to believe that Going Down is n...

ULTIMATE ALBUM SIDE Daevid Allen: Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life (side two) [1977] face B: 1. NONSENSE RAP (alien 1m. enregistre s...

Johnny Thunders: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory [1978] Ronnie Spector: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory [1999] Memor...

Positive K: Step Up Front [1988] When these sirens kick in, you know the party is in full effect! Positive K on eBay

Union Suit: Heavenly Spheres [2007] New music from San Francisco-based Union Suit . Recorded 2/11/2007. This will help get you to the Friday...

David Byrne: Leg Bells [1981] David Byrne: Big Business [1981] From The Catherine Wheel , David Byrne's 1981 ballet with Twyla Tharp . T...

Ronnie Spector: Try Some, Buy Some b/w Tandoori Chicken [1971] Try Some, Buy Some written by George Harrison Orchestral Arrangement by J. Ba...

The Modern Lovers: Pablo Picasso [1976] David Bowie: Pablo Picasso [2003] Recorded in 1972, but not released until after The Modern Lovers b...

Chairmen Of The Board: Everything's Tuesday [1970] written by Ronald Dunbar, Edith Wayne*, and Daphne Dumas This perfect slice of AM rad...

Yellow Magic Orchestra: Firecracker [1978] YMO's first single in Japan (1978) was released in the US a year later. These are the instrum...

Astrud Gilberto: Brazilian Tapestry [1971] from Gilberto with Turrentine Featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone. Arranged by Eumir ...

Fleetwood Mac: Future Games and Show Me A Smile [1971] from Future Games. The ongoing Mac attack over at Dream Chimney, combined with a r...

Yes: Going For The One [1977] I kind of really want to go to this . Tonight is sold out, so I'm just sitting around listening to Tormato...

Dame Shirley Bassey: Feel Like Makin' Love [1975] written by Gene McDaniels from the album Good, Bad But Beautiful I actually did not kn...

Trance remix (The Orb?): Wish You Were Here [1993] I'll leave this up as long as our bandwidth looks okay. There's been much debate ...

The Kinks: All Day And All Of The Night [1979] from the classic One For The Road I raided my mom's basement vinyl stash a few weekends a...

The Miles Davis Quintet: Freedom Jazz Dance and Gingerbread Boy [1966] from the legendary Miles Smiles You know it's a good album when a...

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King [1969] My freshman year college roommate created a contraption out of rocks, a dinner plate, ...

Roy Harper: One Man Rock & Roll Band [1971] from Stormcock Just delving into Roy's catalogue now after hearing about him for years. ...

Shuggie Otis: Aht Uh Mi Hed [1974] "Aht uh mi hed, things are different" Legend goes that Shuggie was asked to join the Stones aft...

Manu Dibango: Pepe Soup [1973] Weya [1973] New Bell [1972] Time for a mini- Manu -fest! Credits on the first two tracks: Manu Dibango: Sopra...

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five: It's A Shame [1982] Using The Spinners' 1970 melody, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious ...

Eddie Fisher: Brain Strain [1977] from the classic Hot Lunch , on the Stang label Eddie plays all the instruments on this, so it's safe...

The Chosen Few: Shaft [1971] The Chosen Few's take on Isaac Hayes' composition for the film of the same name. Enjoy and buy the soun...

Cibo Matto: Sugar Water (Acoustic) [1997] Cibo Matto: Sing This All Together [1997] Two songs from the genius that was Cibo Matto. Vox: Miho...

Jerry Garcia Band: Tears Of Rage [1990] written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel recorded live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, someti...

The Beatles: If I Fell [1964] written by Lennon/McCartney from A Hard Day's Night Like many of the early Beatles classics (She Loves You...

Patti Smith: Redondo Beach [1975] Morrissey: Redondo Beach [2005] Continuing with the R&R HOF nonsense, this was the first original Patt...

Ned Doheny: Get It Up For Love [1976] from the album Hard Candy , produced by Steve Cropper I first heard this in the DJ History mix from S...

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 [ recorded in 1977] Maurizio Pollini's 1977 version of Beethoven's final piano sonata . Buy some Poll...

Procol Harum: A Salty Dog [1969] This song is dedicated "Wyrd, Wisconsin", a music blog that seemed very cool and then just disapp...

James White & The Blacks: Contort Yourself [1979] Buy James Chance here .

Daevid Allen & Euterpe: Wise Man In Your Heart [1976] featuring Mike "Fingers" Howlett on bass guitar and Pierre Moerlen on pe...

R.E.M.: West of the Fields [1983] Continuing the R&R HOF series, this song is the last track on 1983's Murmur . This is R.E.M.'...

Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66: Scarborough Fair [1973] Ed Bogas arrangement featuring Merl Saunders on keys: Scarborough Street Fair [197...

Harpers Bizarre: Poly High [1969] taken from the Warner Bros. compilation Days Of Wine And Vinyl [1972] BLINDFOLD TEST: Someone who doesn...

Babe Ruth: A Fistful of Dollars [1975] from the album Babe Ruth own it!

T La Rock & Jazzy Jay: It's Yours [1984] The Latin Rascals: It's Yours (megamix) [1985?] The Latin Rascals: 98.7 KISS Mastermix ...

Dimitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15 (Epilogue) [1974] The year is 1974. The following significant musical events happen in no parti...

Van Halen: Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love [1978] I haven't listened to Van Halen in a long time, and I am fairly certain I never o...

Ettore Stratta and His Orchestra: Theme from "Stavisky" Theme from "Amarcord" [1975] from the album Themes '75 Theme...

Hurricane Smith: Don't Let It Die [1971] "What we see is what we choose..." Hmm. What's up with the horses? Former enginee...

Merry Clayton: Gimme Shelter and Tell All The People [1971] from the album Merry Clayton Gimme Shelter written by Jagger/Richards Tell All T...

Ed Bogas (Arr.): Michael's Scarborough Fair [1973] This is Ed Bogas' library music-esque arrangement of Simon & Garfunkel's ...

Ed Bogas and Merl Saunders: The Riot [1972] Guitar - Cornell Dupree Bass - Chuck Rainey Drums - Bernard Purdie Percussion - Bobby Porter Ke...

Neil Young: Mr. Soul (dance remix) [1982] Sample And Hold (dance remix) [1982] As so often happens, the moment we brought up Neil Young on T...