Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Owsley - Discography

The Semantics - Powerbill Demos (1993)
01 Sticks and Stones
02 Future For You
03 Glasses and Braces
04 Johnny Come Lately
05 Coming Up Roses

The Semantics - One More Step (Demos - by PopFair / 1993)
01 Heart Attack
02 Simple Thing
03 Vegas
04 Standing Still
05 Pamela
06 One More Step
07 Jerry Deacon
08 Lonely Girl
09 Gone
10 She's So Clean
11 Victim for Somebody
12 Baby It's You
13 This One's For Me
14 The Facts of Life
15 Hippy Woman
16 Wildflower
17 Maria
18 Merry Go Round
19 Avalon

The Semantics - Powerbill (1993 recorded / 1996 released)
01 Sticks And Stones
02 Future For You
03 Coming Up Roses
04 Jenny Won't Play Fair
05 Average American
06 Don't Say Goodbye
07 The Sky Is Falling
08 Black And Blue
09 Johnny Come Lately
10 Life Goes On
11 Glasses And Braces

Owsley - Owsley (Original Version / 1998)
01 The homecoming song
02 Coming up roses
03 Good old days
04 Uncle john's farm
05 Sentimental favourite
06 Oh no the radio
07 Zavelow House
08 Sonny Boy
09 Class clown
10 Mess with me

Owsley - Coming Up Roses (Single / 1999)
01 Coming Up Roses
02 The Homecoming Song
03 Mess With Me

Owsley - Live in Newark (1999)

01 Intro
02 Oh no the radio
03 The homecoming song
04 Coming up roses
05 Uncle johns farm
06 Zavelow house
07 Sonny boy
08 Sentimental favourite
09 I'm alright
10 The sky is falling
11 Good old days
12 Class clown
13 Last Goodbye (live Jeff Buckley cover)

Owsley - Owsley (1999)


01 On No the Radio
02 I'm Alright
03 Coming Up Roses
04 Good Old Days
05 The Sky Is Falling
06 Sentimental Favorite
07 Zavelow House
08 Sonny Boy
09 The Homecoming Song
10 Uncle John's Farm
11 Class Clown
12 Band on the Run
13 Mess with me - Good old days (reprise)

Owsley - Live (2000)
01 Intro
02 Good Old Days
03 Sentimental Favorite
04 Coming Up Roses
05 Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley)
06 Class Clown
07 Sonny Boy
08 Uncle John's Farm
09 I'm Alright
10 The Sky Is Falling
11 Zavelow House

Owsley - Acoustic Session (2003)
01 Be with you
02 Rise
03 Dude

Owsley - Live in Nashville (2004)
01 Intro
02 She's The One
03 Oh No the Radio
04 Dude (live)
05 Coming Up Roses
06 Zavelow House
07 Matriarch
08 My Old School (Steely Dan)
09 Rise
10 Down
11 Rainy Day People
12 Be With You
13 Good Old Days
14 Outro

Owsley - Live at Vintage Vinyl (2004)
Owsley - Live at Vintage Vinyl 04-03-2004 (complete concert - audio/video)

Owsley - The Hard Way (2004)

01 Be With You
02 Rise
03 She's the One
04 Dude
05 Down
06 Matriarch
07 Undone
08 The Hard Way
09 Dirty Bird
10 Rainy Day People
11 Got A Lot On My Head (Cars Tribute)

Owsley - Changes (Rare Songs - by PopFair / 2010)
01 Psycho
02 Changes
03 Mess With Me
04 Upside Down
05 Got a Lot on My Head
06 When Lonely Comes Around
07 Band On The Run
08 Leave it all behind
09 Endlessly
10 Won't get fooled again (live Seattle 2000)
11 Ruth Trimble and Will Owsley - May It Be

Ethos Music with Owsley (circa 2010)
01 Far from me
02 Fountain of Youth
03 Take Me to the Place

Owsley - Changes - Version 2 (Rare Songs - by PopFair / 2016)
01 Fountain of Youth
02 Psycho
03 Changes
04 endlessly
05 Far from me
06 Mess With Me
07 leave it all behind
08 Upside Down
09 Take Me to the Place
10 When Lonely Comes Around
11 Feel No Pain
12 Got a Lot on My Head

Rare
Chris Andrews & Owsley - Someone To Trust

Friday, September 9, 2016

Rooney - Calling The World

Calling the World is the second studio album by Rooney. With three years of recording, about 50 songs in total and John Fields producing (!), the album was finally released in 2007.


Robert Schwartzman (lead vocals, guitar), Taylor Locke (lead guitar, backing vocals), Ned Brower (drums, backing vocals), Matthew Winter (bass guitar) and Louie Stephens (keyboards, piano) present nothing less than their best record to date (in my humble opinion).

You can easily discover many influences, like Queen or E.L.O. - and Powerpop all over the record.

To sum it up: It's so good, it's in heavy rotation since weeks at my turntable. You might experience the same...


P.S.: Though there was a new Rooney record out in 2016 ("Washed Away"), it's sadly not the same level as "Calling The World". With "Washed Away" the only remaining member of the band is Robert Schwartzman.

Jon Brion - Meaningless

Jon Brion released his first - and last - solo album "Meaningless" in 2001. Initially to be released on Lava Records, the album was finally sold independently by Brion on his own "Straight to Cut-Out" label through his website & CD Baby.


The lyrics (e.g. "Ruin My Day" and "I Believe She's Lying") and the brilliance of the songs themselves are stunning. "Trouble" and "Walking Through Walls" are pop music at its best. This is a joy to listen to and I highly recommend it.

Tracklist:
1. Gotta Start Somewhere
2. I Believe She's Lying
3. Meaningless
4. Ruin My Day
5. Walking Through Walls
6. Trouble
7. Hook, Line, And Sinker
8. Dead To The World
9. Her Ghost
10. The Same Mistakes
11. Voices

Because this album was ridiculously overlooked, there is no preview on amazon as usual, but just listen (and as I suggest buy!) it on amazon.com.