4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More! (1992)

Year: October 13, 1992 (CD Oct 13, 1992)
Label: Interscope Records (Germany), 7567-92112-2
Style: Alternative Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 41:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 299 Mb

Charts: US #13, AUS #4, AUT #1, GER #1, NLD #1, NZ #1, NOR #10, SWE #1, SWI #1, UK #4, Portugal #1б Hungary #1. AUS, SWE, FRA & NLD: Gold; GER: 3x Gold; US, CAN & Spain: Platinum; AUT: 2x Platinum.
The year was 1992; here a band was completing what would become an international success, the first and last work of the 4 Non Blondes. The world was changing at that time; Music was progressively changing. And so, while the great Kurt Cobain was climbing the charts around the world with Smells Like Teen Spirit, a small group of young friends was just debuting in their career, probably unaware of unleashing a quick dart of innovation, a great shake to the international musical scene.
It's an incredible album, almost perfect, that should be listened to in its entirety and immediately, without the external world distracting you from that Masterpiece; it's a shout, this album, and let it shout in peace, you won't regret it. It's also a very varied album, talking about genres: the predominant one is undoubtedly Rock, but you certainly can't say that "Bigger, Better, Faster, More!" is just rock; there's also a strong trace of blues, especially in the first two tracks, like dance, in the latter part... It's a very sweet conjunction (we could also say a very tasty medley!) of genres that, for every song, for every melody and for every note, perfectly and masterfully build the body of the work; the solid voice of Linda Perry leads unchallenged to talk about various subjects: sex, drugs, anger, regret, despair... but beware, don't be too influenced by the words: it's a shout, remember! And you have to take it as such.
(full version: en.debaser.it/4-non-blondes/bigger-better-faster-more/review)

01. Train (03:43)
02. Superfly (04:37)
03. What's Up (04:55)
04. Pleasantly Blue (02:28)
05. Morphine & Chocolate (04:43)
06. Spaceman (03:40)
07. Old Mr. Heffer (02:16)
08. Calling All The People (03:17)
09. Dear Mr. President (04:43)
10. Drifting (03:31)
11. No Place Like Home (03:08)

UploadyIo     365file     FreedlInk

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile

David Byrne (Talking Heads) - Miss America [Single] (1997)

Year: 1997 (CD 1997)
Label: Warner Bros. Records (Germany), 9362-43874-2
Style: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Dumbarton, Scotland (May 14, 1952)
Time: 13:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 101 Mb

David Byrne (born May 14, 1952, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-born musician and interdisciplinary artist who was best known as the front man of the influential American art-rock group Talking Heads. He went on to gain respect for an eclectic solo career.
As a child, Byrne moved with his Scottish parents to Canada and then to the United States. While attending the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s, he cofounded Talking Heads, serving as the group’s principal singer and guitarist. Identified with the punk and new wave movements, the band released its debut album, Talking Heads ’77, in 1977. It was followed by releases-including Remain in Light (1980), Speaking in Tongues (1983), and the concert-film sound track Stop Making Sense (1984)-that reflected Byrne’s interest in experimental pop and African rhythms. After issuing the album Naked (1988), the group dissolved.
Even at the peak of Talking Heads’ popularity, Byrne pursued other creative projects. During a band hiatus in the early 1980s, he wrote the score for choreographer Twyla Tharp’s The Catherine Wheel (1981) and collaborated with Brian Eno on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981), a groundbreaking collage of rhythmic grooves and vocal samples. Byrne subsequently wrote and directed the offbeat film True Stories (1986), and his contributions to the score of The Last Emperor (1987) earned him an Academy Award. Also during the 1980s he provided music for two theatre works staged by director Robert Wilson.
(full version: britannica.com/biography/David-Byrne)

01. Miss America (Clean Radio Edit) (03:39)
02. Miss America (04:20)
03. Miss America (I Live America Mix) (05:57)

UploadyIo     DailyUploads

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile

The Fireman (Paul McCartney & Youth) - Electric Arguments (2008)

Year: 24 November 2008 (CD Nov 24, 2008)
Label: mpl communication ltd. (UK & Europe), tplp1003cd
Style: Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, New Age
Country: England
Time: 63:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 408 Mb

Paul McCartney (vocals, bass guitar) - Liverpool, England (18 June 1942). Youth - Martin Glover (bass, keyboards, vocals), Slough, Buckinghamshire, England (27 December 1960).
Ten years after Paul McCartney and Martin 'Youth' Glover (ex Killing Joke) released their last collaborative 'mystery disc' under the Fireman moniker (the dancey Rushes) they return. Any right-thinking musicologist may balk at the the wisdom of two bassists working together, but the pair's efforts have always borne interesting fruit. However, anyone expecting Electric Arguments to fit under the same 'experimental' or 'electronic' bracket as previous work may be surprised. Only Universal Here, Everlasting Now's collages are really mind-melting. Much like Eno and Byrne's recent reunion, this album defies expectations by featuring not only vocals and lyrics but, gasp, songs! In fact Electric Arguments is nothing less than a rather fine McCartney solo album, perhaps shoved out under the alias to show a certain label who's really boss. Whatever, it's a spry 13-track (and one hidden track) jaunt through styles a-plenty; from psychedelic folk to blues grit.
If there's any argument for calling this truly 'experimental' it's because the duo leave the endings rough as a badger's bottom and have a tendency to throw in some Mellotron, a touch of flanging to the voice, or play stuff...backwards. Wow. But this is Macca and he's on form, seemingly using the freedom of relative anonymity to stretch out, relax, turn on, tune in, drop out and make like a kid in a sonic sandbox, mixing it up and throwing some curveballs. Opener, Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight comes on like Zep meeting Beefheart, full of mealy-mouthed blues harp and Helter Skelter raging. Light From Your Lighthouse comes direct from Dylan and the Band's rootsy basement and Lifelong Passion's raga and synth mix may well be Paul's tribute to George Harrison.
Not everything convinces. Is This Love? meanders dangerously like a b-side. Sun Is Shining drones with bucolic good-naturedness but goes nowhere: Paul gets up sees the sun shining down etc etc. Lovers In A Dream ("...warmer than the sun" repeated over a trance burble) falls down a somewhat featureless hole between early Primal Scream and the Orb, while Dance 'Til We're High misses being Paul Oakenfold and instead ends up like Phil Spector.
No matter, this is a rather tasty little album that reminds us again who was the adventurous one in the Moptops. Thumbs aloft, indeed.
(bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/wjcz/) Review by Chris Jones. 2008

01. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight (04:55)
02. Two Magpies (02:12)
03. Sing The Changes (03:43)
04. Travelling Light (05:05)
05. Highway (04:16)
06. Light From Your Lighthouse (02:31)
07. Sun Is Shining (05:11)
08. Dance 'Til We're High (03:37)
09. Lifelong Passion (04:48)
10. Is This Love? (05:51)
11. Lovers In A Dream (05:21)
12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now (05:05)
13. Don't Stop Running (10:30)

UploadyIo     DailyUploads

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile