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TABLE OF CONTENTS Vinyl Record Record Store Vinyl collectors Music Genre 6-7 Alternative 8-13 Blues 14-19 Country 20-25 Funk 26-31 Jazz 32-37 Pop 38-43 Hip-Hop/Rap 44-49 Rock 50-55 Soul/R&B 56-61
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INYL RECORDS have never been beaten sound wise if it makes any sense, the sound is just more “full” and that digital formats such as CDs / MP3s, etc., sound “flat” in comparison. The full-bodied sound of vinyl has something to do with the analogue format capturing real sounds better than digital, which is based on 0s and 1s. People like vinyl because of the “warm” sound, the crackling, and not to mention the album art.
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ECORD STORES function on a variety of different levels. Places to shop for music, places where the culture of music can be seen. Record stores also serve as cultural place where trends are launched and where new forms of music can be debated and explore. Record stores also often serve many musicians seeking out musical outposts wherever they can.
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INYL COLLECTORS are an eclectic bunch. Sometimes they are called “audiophiles” or “geeks.” They search for that one special record that will somehow make our collection complete. Spend hours on cataloging, cleaning, and taking meticulous care of their records. They are at the garage sales, the flea markets and record shows in search of additions to our prized vinyl record collection.
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LT. ROCK was a new genre of rock music that drew from the punk the death of Kurt era. The name alternative, Cobain and a lawsuit a catchall term that between Pearl Jam encompassed indie rock, did just that and Ticketmaster, the Brit-pop, grunge, and paving the genre experienced a other sub-genres, became way for decline in popularity. alternative music after DJs innovative Over the course of on radio stations a cross bands like the next decade, the United States used the Modest alternative bands, like term to describe longer Mouse, The the White Stripes and songs that did not fall into Strokes, Radiohead, sought to the Top 40 category. The and The redefine the genre and characteristics of the music Killers, and reignite the public’s defined by indie sounds, built the genre interest in the music. In a post-punk era, and rock seemed to the early 2000s, they roots. Into the mid-1990s, after be reborn.
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ADIOHEAD are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Colin Greenwood (bass), Phil Selway (drums, percussion) and Ed O’Brien (guitar, backing vocals). Radiohead have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, with the band’s work being placed highly in both listener polls and critics’ lists, they have the distinction of doing so in both the 1990s and 2000s. In 2005, Radiohead were ranked number 73 in Rolling Stone’s list of “The Greatest Artists of All Time”, while Jonny Greenwood and Ed O’Brien were both included in Rolling Stone’s list of greatest guitarists, and Thom Yorke in their list of greatest singers. In 2009, Rolling Stone readers voted the group the second best artist of the 2000s.
Radiohead’s eighth album, The King of Limbs, was digitally released in February 2011 through the band’s web site. The King of Limbs was released in CD, vinyl and standard download formats in March, and in a “newspaper album”, which included art, writings, and a CD as well as vinyl edition of the record, in May. After being sold exclusively through the band’s website for nearly two months, The King of Limbs charted at number seven in the United Kingdom on its retail release in late March 2011, becoming the band’s first album since The Bends not to debut at number one in the UK. In the United States it reached number three, on par with the band’s last major label release, 2003’s Hail to the Thief. In July 2011 The King of Limbs vinyl edition was reported to be the best-selling vinyl of the year by a large margin, and Radiohead were credited with helping an ongoing surge in vinyl sales.
blues,� content that emphasizes themes of sadness that is aim to connect emotionally with ULES was their audiences, pioneered who might add their in the southern own vocalizations United States at to the music. Blues the turn of the musicians would 20th century, have performed in is commonly venues called juke known are widely joints that occurred regarded as late into the night. the influential Today, touring and predecessor to playing at clubs jazz music. The is still common for use of emotional blues musician. lyrical, “The
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ILEY B. KING (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American songwriter, vocalist, and famed blues guitarist. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M. Komara, King “introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed.” King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. On March 22, 2012, King played a concert at the Chicago House of Blues, where Benson made a guest appearance and both King & Benson held a jammin’ session for over 20 minutes. Over a period of 63 years, King has played in excess of 15,000 performances.
With “Back In The Alley”, B.B. King demonstrates he can do more than just belt out a blues number with great authority. He also incorporates a jazzy atmosphere into a fair number of the tracks in this upstanding collection of both live and studio cuts (courtesy of B.B.’s backing band, who are talented in their own right, “The King of the Blues” included). B.B. really takes the cake, especially in front of a live audience, as evidenced in the live compositions “Sweet Little Angel”. “The Bluesmeister” gets all the credit for making Lucille all she has turned out to be, for it takes magical, majestical fingers (such as B.B.’s) to really get her jump-started and electrified. Although “Back In The Alley” is now out of print, a majority of these numbers can be found on other B.B. King compilation CD’s, such as on “Paying The Cost To Be The Boss” and on the currently in print live CD “Live & Well”, among others.
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OUNTRY MUSIC is a blend of folk music, old times, blues, and gospels. Country music more instruments like describes a mixture of drums and electric many genre, style and guitar have been subgenre that is mostly introduced which the preferred by adult music musicians use during buyers in the US. Country their performance. music started evolving from nineteen twenty when country music started spreading from the 50s till the 60s it evolved as a new genre with rockabilly a unique style developed by the rockabilly musicians. At present the country music has spread to other countries and
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ANDALL HANK WILLIAMS (born May 26, 1949), better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country. Williams began his career by following in his famed father’s footsteps; singing his father’s songs and imitating his father’s style. Williams’s own style slowly evolved as he struggled to find his own voice and place within the country music industry. This trend was interrupted by a near fatal fall off the side of Ajax Mountain in Montana on August 8, 1975. After an extended recovery he challenged the country music establishment with a blend of country, rock, and blues. Williams enjoyed much success in the 1980s from which he earned considerable recognition and popularity both inside and outside the country music industry.
The Pressure Is On is a studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams, Jr.. It was released by Elektra/ Curb Records in August 1981. “All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)” and “A Country Boy Can Survive” were released as singles. The album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA.
rhythm made for had a lasting a more danceable influence, often form of music than sampled in modern blues or R&B grew UNK is a hip-hop tracks, in popularity, and style of music notable in the disco many jazz musicians developed music of the 1970s of the era began in the United and later in hipto incorporate funk States in the hop music. The into their music. 1960s. It grew bass line is brought While funk’s heyday out of the soul to the forefront in was in the 1970s, its tradition, but funk, melody is influence remains incorporated downplayed and strong in popular, a more rather than the electronic instruments pronounced chord changes became more beat, bass and common in earlier common, funk music. drums, along forms of music, a with influences single chord is often from rock, R&B, used throughout a and jazz. Funk funk song.
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RINCE (born Prince Rogers Nelson; June 7, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. He founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most of the instruments on his recordings. He also has several hundred unreleased songs in his “vault”. He has released thirteen albums since the beginning of the 21st century, including his latest, 20Ten, released in 2010. His releases have sold over 80 million copies worldwide. He has won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the first year he was eligible. Prince’s music has been influenced by rock, R&B, soul, funk, rap, blues, New Wave, electronica, disco, psychedelia, folk, jazz, and pop. Prince pioneered the “Minneapolis sound”, a hybrid of funk, rock, pop, R&B and New Wave.
Parade: Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon is the eighth studio album by Prince. It was the followup to Around the World in a Day and the soundtrack to Prince’s second film. The album sees Prince further diversifying musically, adding orchestrations to his music and presenting a very European feel. Prince also displayed a new image with Parade: his trademark ruffled shirts, wild curly hair, and purple outfits which defined his look from 1981’s Controversy to 1985’s Around the World in a Day gave way to slicked-back hair and dress suits. Even though the single, “Kiss”, was a number one hit, the album as a whole was not well received in the U.S. Europe, however, embraced the album, and for the first time in Prince’s career, European album sales eclipsed those in the U.S. This was Prince’s final album released with The Revolution.
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AZZ, founded primarily in the south during the own modern look 1800’s, is one of the few arts at the genre and has that can be considered truly begun to appreciate the American. This form of music sounds of Jazz and swing was the first significant African that drawn in a much American contribution that younger audience. DJ’s would be heard all around and rappers “sample” the world. The constant hooks from famous jazz changed of it’s nature and songs. Beginning in the loose rules allow Jazz to be streets of New Orleans to flexible and began to travel spinning on the turntables across the United States in the at parties, Jazz is truly a 1920’s, becoming popular in sound that has influenced large cities. all types of music. Today, Jazz can still be heard echoing in the smoky clubs. A new generation has taken their
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ERBERT “HERB” ALPERT (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the “A” of A&M Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to Polygram). The multi-talented Alpert has also created abstract expressionist paintings and sculpture over two decades, which are on occasion publicly exhibited; and he and his wife are substantial US philanthropists through the operation of the Herb Alpert Foundation. Alpert’s musical accomplishments include five number one hits, 28 albums on the Billboard charts, eight Grammy Awards, fourteen Platinum albums and fifteen Gold albums.
Keep Your Eye on Me is a pop/R&B/dance album by Herb Alpert, released in 1987. It contains two hit singles, “Diamonds” and “Making Love in the Rain” (both featuring lead and background vocals by Janet Jackson and Lisa Keith). These Billboard Top 40 hits, along with the title track and “Pillow” (featuring co-lead vocals by Alpert and singer/wife Lani Hall) were produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. The remainder of the album consists of tracks featuring various producers. All trumpet solos were played by Herb Alpert.
lighter alternative to rock and roll. The style of pop music OP MUSIC, originated from jazz, abbreviation rock, and folk and of popular music, was categorized is composed with and allotted a deliberate intent particular category to appeal to the as late as in 1994. As majority of its of 2008, pop music contemporaries. is now currently the Founded after the most popular style World War II, this of music of youth form of music was culture, making basically a genre competition with that has rhythmic hip-hop, dance, elements, and country. melodies and hooks and it is considered as a
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ANET DAMITA JO JACKSON (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years. Having sold over 100 million records, she is ranked as one of the best-selling artists in the history of contemporary music. The Recording Industry Association of America lists her as the eleventh best-selling female artist in the United States, with 26 million certified albums. One of the world’s most awarded artists, her longevity, records and achievements reflect her influence in shaping and redefining the scope of popular music. She has been cited as an inspiration among numerous performers.
Control is the third studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released on February 4, 1986 by A&M Records. It enabled Jackson to transition into the popular music market, becoming one of the defining albums of the 1980s and contemporary music. Control is widely regarded as the breakthrough album of Jackson’s career. It became her first album to top the Billboard 200 and five of its commercial singles peaked within the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. The album went on to receive several accolades, including a nomination for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and winning Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for Jam and Lewis in 1987. It is listed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 200 Definitive Albums of All Time. It has been certified fivefold platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and has sold over fourteen million copies worldwide.
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AP AND HIP-HOP, developed in New York City in the 1970s, are two of the most popular types of music in the hip hop subculture. Over time, the music and culture gained widespread acceptance and by the late 1990s could be found in all popular media and lead the cross over into popular music with soulful singing and lyrics focused on common relationship issues. The impact of rap and hip-hop on modern culture has exceeded all expectations and continues to influence everything from commercials to politics. In later years, popular rap became more focused on consumer.
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E LA SOUL is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop sub-genres. The members are Kelvin Mercer, David Jude Jolicoeur and Vincent Mason, known under a variety of nicknames. With its playful wordplay, innovative sampling, and witty skits, the band’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, is considered a hip hop masterpiece. A measure of 3 Feet High and Rising’s cross-over appeal was the fact that it was voted Album of the Year by NME, a title better known for its taste in guitar-based music. They were influential in the early stages of rapper/actor Mos Def’s career, and are a core part of the Spitkicker collective. In 2006, the group won a Grammy for their collaboration with Gorillaz on the single “Feel Good Inc.”
De La Soul’s first album, 3 Feet High and Rising is widely regarded in the hip-hop community as a classic, leaving this, the follow-up, something of a poisoned chalice. The album’s title is in reaction to the group being labeled hippies following its debut release. The album cover, a broken pot of daisies, signals the end of the D.A.I.S.Y. Age. In an attempt to shake this label off, De La Soul’s second album is significantly edgier than its first release. Despite the fact that it clearly did not want to be labeled as hippies, the group also did not want to be labeled hard-core. The album’s 13th track, “Afro Connections at a Hi-5 (In the Eyes of the Hoodlum),” is an ironic attack directed at the emerging gangsta movement of the early 1990’s. The lyrics are again heavily praised for their intelligence and seamless infusion with almost endless references to pop culture. The album’s strength further stems from the production of Prince Paul.
In the eighties, a who developed the rock diversification of the rock trend in the 1940s. The OCK MUSIC, style took place that was evolution of rock music Rock ‘n’ Roll, glam rock, instrumental started from Britain. Britain is a genre that was rock and the alternative set free rock music from developed as a form rock also known as the racist clutches and of rebellion against the Indie movement. popularized it amongst the prevalent Rock music has gained the common people. The trend in the fifties. popularity from the first British rock hit brought Mostly known, day it has come in the popularity to British Rock originated by music world and till that influenced some the rocking style date the popularity of imitators. This imitation which the African rock music is going evolved as Garage Rock. Americans, such on increasing. Folk Rock developed as as Chuck Berry, a progressive message of in 1960. However, protest then progressive others believe rock, soft rock, punk that the originator rock, arena rock, hard of rock music was rock and heavy metal Wynonie Harris came into existence.
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AN HALEN is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band achieved success after the release of its debut album Van Halen (1978). As of 2007, Van Halen has sold 75 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Van Halen is the 19th best-selling band/artist of all time with sales of over 56 million albums in the United States alone, and is one of five rock bands that have had two albums sell more than 10 million copies in the U.S. In 1996, the RIAA certified their debut album diamond for ten million in U.S. sales.
Recorded in 1977, Van Halen sold over ten million copies in the US alone, becoming one of the most successful debuts by a rock band. Along with 1984, it gives Van Halen two original albums with diamond status in sales. The album cover was shot at the Whisky a Go Go. The guitar pictured on the cover of the album is Edward Van Halen’s famous Frankenstrat Guitar, made from a neck purchased from Boogie Bodies and a Stratocaster style body custom made by Wayne Charvel in California and assembled in his parents’ garage. In 2003, the album was ranked #415 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2006, Guitar World readers ranked it #7 on a list of the Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time. In the band’s licensed game, Guitar Hero: Van Halen, nine of the eleven tracks of this album are available for play; only “Little Dreamer” and “On Fire” do not appear in the game.
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&B MUSIC, a combination of focusing on more jazz, gospel, and blues, pop beats and culture was originally coined rather than the blues, in the late 1940s in gospel and jazz sounds the United States and of previous generations. basically included any form of music intended for black audiences that consisted of brass instruments and woodwinds, as well as drums, piano and vocals. Today’s contemporary R&B music has a distinctly different sound, sexually suggestive lyrics and provocative dancing,
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TASTE OF HONEY was the name of an American recording act, formed in 1971 by associates Perry Kibble and Donald Ray Johnson. In 1978 they had one of the best known chart-toppers of the disco era, “Boogie Oogie Oogie�. After their popularity waned during the 1980s, Johnson went on to record as a solo artist and release the album One Taste Of Honey which produced numerous minor hits. In 2004, singers Hazel Payne (guitar) and Janice-Marie Johnson (bass) reunited for the first time in over twenty years to perform on the PBS specials Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion and My Music: Funky Soul Superstars.
A Taste of Honey is the debut album by the American rhythm and blues group A Taste Of Honey. It was produced by Fonce Mizell & Larry Mizell for Sky High Productions and included the number one pop, soul and dance classic “Boogie Oogie Oogie�.
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