Various - Maybe This Christmas (2002) (@320)

Happy holidays to all of you. Today it's also the 5th birthday of this blog. Thank you all for your support.

Tracklisting:
01-Phantom Planet - Winter Wonderland
02-Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas
03-Coldplay - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
04-Vanessa Carlton - Greensleeves
05-Bright Eyes - Blue Christmas
06-Sence Field - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
07-Jimmy Eat World - 12/23/95
08-Jack Johnson - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
09-Barenaked Ladies Feat. Sarah McLachlan - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
10-Ben Folds - Bizarre Christmas Incident
11-Dan Wilson - What A Year For A New Year
12-Neil Finn - Sweet Secret Peace
13-Loreena McKennitt - Snow

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Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch (12'') (1977) (@320)

Following the previous post's subject, this is about the reunion of the Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto for two special shows as part of the Buzzcocks "Back to Front" tour on the 25th and 26th of May 2012 in Manchester and London. Their sole release while Devoto was in the group was the EP that is offered today; an inflammable material that captured the sign of the times in the most natural way and at the same time a fundamental independent release since it was the group itself that manufactured, released and distributed it making it sensible for any group after them to work outside the established record industry.

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Stone Roses - Fools Gold 9.53 (12'') (1989) (@320)

Last year, it was the reunion of the Pavement that was nominated (by me!) as the reunion of the year. This year it's a very tough competition. We have two groups, both coming from my beloved Manchester, both being among the leaders of the music movements they belong to.
The first one is the Stone Roses. Their reunion was announced in October and they've already booked two reunion concerts in Manchester at the end of June, followed by a world tour. They even plan to record new material together.













This was a brilliant opportunity to upload Fools Gold, a mythical single back from 1989. In a recent issue of Mojo (September 2011), Noel Gallagher describes brilliantly what Fools Gold is all about: "Everything comes together for a brief moment. The Stone Roses get into one of the greatest grooves in the history of music as a result. You get records that could have been recorded yesterday and this is one of them. It's also the sound of a band peaking: they never did anything that matched it. This is 20 years old and it still sounds like the future. (...) The amazing thing about it is: There's barely a tune in it. Try and play it on an acoustic guitar. There is no song. It's a bass line. It's alchemy. I can imagine how it would have happened. Someone would have started playing something and someone else would have said, "Do that again." It's an unbelievable piece of music. How can it have never dated, when it was so of its time?"

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Bert Jansch - The Black Swan (2006) (@320)

Here's another post for Bert Jansch. In the previous post his first album was offered, this one is his last. Enjoy.

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