Prog rock
(classics)
- Amazing
Blondel - Englishe Musicke
English mostly acoustic group 1969-76. Middle-age renaissance
guitar, organ and other instruments, multipart harmony vocals, etc., bordering on the prog
movement in England at the time. Related to Gryphon . The musicians had
earlier played rock and thus the music cannot be termed classical either. The group was
released on Island Records just as any other rock group at the time. Among lots of famous
guest musicians can be named Boz Burrell, Jim Capaldi, Eddie Jobson, Steve
Winwood and Mel Collins. All the material here is original - with lutes and crumhorns
jumping headlong into massively complex arrangements brimming with joie de vivre.
Amon
Düül II - Flawless
An incredible album from one of the most influential German bands in the history of
progressive music. Mystifying, primal, shredding, groaning, cosmic, unearthly, complex -
all at the same time. Amon Düül began in the late 60's as a commune, then split into two
bands Amon Düül and Amon Düül II. They started off
in the early seventies with some noisy German-electro-industrial kind of music, but later
graduated to prog rock.
Their best output is from the early to mid 70's period, and includes the albums Yeti, Dance of the
Lemmings, Wolf City, Vive La Trance, Hijack and Made
in Germany. With the double album Dance of the
Lemmings began their "classic" period: spacy intrumentals with
prominent hard-rock guitar. It's similar in vein to Popol Vuh,
which is no wonder as they have shared members. Flawless
is one of their last... and best. Ash Ra Temple - Schwingungen / Seven
Up
Ash Ra Tempel was the legendary German electronic group that spawned Klaus Schulze, though, at that time, guitarist Manuel Gottsching
was the prime mover. Their music is very spacy and psychedelic, in the manner popularized
by early Hawkwind and Amon Düül II .
Seven-Up
features Timothy Leary, with his "altered-state"
interludes. Half of Seven-Up is psych-blues weirdness interspersed with acidic,
spacy freakouts, while the other half is more of the echo-guitar sounds we all know and
love, only this time with extra layers of sound created by flute and keyboards, and
featuring a guest spot by acid-guru Timothy Leary reading some prose underneath the sheets
of sound.
Today's
rock
A3 - Exhile on
Coldharbour Lane Until recently, this album had been unjustly lost in the shuffle. A3
is made up of two guys from Scotland who love Americana - especially the Delta blues. The track "Woke Up This Morning" is the
title song to the hit HBO series "The Sopranos," and it's helped gain A3
a much wider audience.
Best
authors of the 20th Century
MARTIN AMIS:
London Fields
PAUL AUSTER:
Leviathan
Best
books of the 20th Century
Armadillo by William
Boyd
Revenge of The Nerd! Armadillo
is hilarious and thought provoking. Boyd brings the reader so
close to Lorimar Black, his main character, were it not for for his previous works you
would scarcely believe the novel is not significantly autobiographical.
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Anthony Burgess:
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Any
Old Iron
A
CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
A
Clockwork Orange - Audio cassette
Music
books
All
You Need Is Love : ...and 99 Other Life Lessons from Classic Rock Songs Pete Fornatale, et al
A
Dreamer of Pictures: Neil
Young, the Man and His
Music
Essays,
Anthologies, Biographies
Americans' Favorite Poems
Robert Pinsky (Editor)
Caroline Alexander -Endurance:
Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The American
Century by Harold Evans, et al.
Mystery
& Thrillers
The Ax. A novel by Donald
E. Westlake
Donald
E. Westlake, named Grand Master by the
Mystery Writers of America, has written everything from comic capers (the Dortmunder series) to the darker adventures of ace criminal Parker during his long
career. But he's never come up with anything scarier or more timely than this story about
a downsized executive who decides to kill off the competition. Burke Devore could be your
neighbor: a laid-off paper company manager watching his life and family fall apart as he
tries desperately to get a job. The plan he finally comes up with involves murdering seven
men very much like himself, and Westlake's most impressive achievement is to make the
serial killings understandable if in no way justified.
Donald E. Westlake - Adios,
Sheherazade
Bestsellers
Assassins:
Assignement--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist (Left Behind)
by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
This book will spark an interest in Bible prophecy. If you have ever wondered what will
happen after the year 2000 read this book.
Is it right to kill Satan's hit man? Would it help God's work? This installment in the Left
Behind series picks up with Rayford Steele--"believer" and international
fugitive--as he struggles with a plan to assassinate Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia.
Meanwhile, Carpathia has been busy rebuilding roads, airports, and a cellular/solar
satellite phone system--all designed to help him become supreme ruler of the world--and
even claim himself to be God. We also find ace reporter Buck Williams anonymously
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Truth.
Lahaye and Jenkins have created an excellent tale. Assassins
passed the one million mark in sales just a few weeks since its release.
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- Afterburn
by Colin
Harrison
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- The message? Crime pays if you are smart enough!
"Harrison's novel is a powerful thriller about the intersection
of disparate lives and personalities. Charlie Ravich, a millionaire businessman, is a
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slow deterioration due to Alzheimer's. Charlie is looking to solidify his electronic
company with a manufacturing plant in China and to guarantee his immortality by entering
into a secret arrangement to find a surrogate mother. He crosses paths with
Christina..." (From Booklist, Sept. 1999)
Movies
The Andromeda
Strain (SF, 1971)
- Starring: James Olson, et al.
Director: Robert Wise
Edition Details: VHS
NTSC format (for use in US and Canada only)The
best-selling novel by Michael Crichton was faithfully adapted for this taut 1971
thriller, about a team of scientists racing against time to destroy a deadly alien virus
that threatens to wipe out life on Earth. A realistic sci-fi movie! This movie
makes the act of hunching over a computer doing some intense technical work exciting and
profound.
Oscar
Winners
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