DOCENAS DE COSAS QUE ME HAN ALEGRADO EL 2012 ( 1ª parte ) (JC Badlands) Tres docenas y pico de excitantes discos publicados en 2012: • NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE: Psychedelic Pill • SWANS: The Seer • BILL FAY: Life is People • BOB DYLAN: Tempest • CLOUD NOTHINGS: Attack On Memory • PAUL BUCHANAN: Mid Air • GENTLEMAN JESSE: Leaving Atlanta • THE DB'S: Falling off the Sky • DEXYS: One Day I'm Going To Soar • LEONARD COHEN: Old Ideas • SCOTT WALKER: Bish Bosch • BOB MOULD: Silver Age • SHARON VAN ETTEN: Tramp • MICHAEL KIWANUKA: Home Again • MARK LANEGAN BAND: Blues Funeral • ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: Centipede Hz • ALLAH-LAS: Allah-Las • TAME IMPALA: Lonerism • DR. DOG: Be The Void • DR. JOHN: Locked Down • DAN STUART: The Deliverance of Marlowe Billings

• LAMBCHOP: Mr. M • MARK EITZEL: Don't Be A Stranger • LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS: Faithful Man • LEE RANALDO: Between The Times & The Tides • THE EVENS: The Odds • THE MEN: Open Your Heart • JIM WHITE: Where it Hits You • JACK WHITE: Blunderbuss • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Wrecking Ball • BOBBY WOMACK: The Bravest Man in the Universe • CHRIS SMITHER: Hundred Dollar Valentine • DIRTY THREE: Toward The Low Sun • RICHARD HAWLEY: Standing's At The Sky's Edge • KELLY HOGAN: I Like to Keep Myself in Pain • BEACHWOOD SPARKS: The Tarnished Gold • JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE: Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now • MALCOLM HOLCOMBE: Down the River • DINOSAUR JR: I Bet on the Sky • OFF!: Off! • ZZ TOP: La Futura • ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE SADIES: Night & Day • IAN HUNTER & THE RANT BAND: When I'm President • THE TALLEST MAN OF EARTH: There's No Leaving Now • SPAIN: The Soul Of Spain • JULIAN COPE: Psychedelic Revolution Una docena de canciones sensacionales incluidas en otros 12 valiosos discos publicados en 2012: • REDD KROSS: “Stay Away from Downtown” (Researching The Blues) • M. WARD: “Primitive Girl” (A Wasteland Companion) • TY SEGALL: “You’re the Doctor” (Twins) • ANDREW BIRD: “Danse Caribe” (Break It Yourself) • ALABAMA SHAKES: “Hold On” (Boys & Girls) • THE MONOCHROME SET: “I Can’t Control My Feet” (Platinum Coils) • CHUCK PROPHET: “Play That Song Again” (Temple Beautiful) • DOMINIQUE A: “Rendez-nous la lumière” (Vers les lueurs) • PATTI SMITH feat. TOM VERLAINE: “April Fool” (Banga) • GUIDED BY VOICES: “Class Clown Spots a UFO” (Class Clown Spots a UFO) • THE WALKMEN: “Heaven” (Heaven) • MARK STEWART: “Autonomia” (The Politics of Envy) Una docena de impecables covers incluidos en otros 12 recomendables discos publicados en 2012: • THE PLIMSOULS: “Jumpin’ in the Night” (Flamin’ Groovies) (Beach Town Confidential) [1983] • RICKIE LEE JONES: “Reason to Believe” (Tim Hardin) (The Devil You Know) • DAYNA KURTZ: “If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow” (Nat King Cole) (Secret Canon Vol. 1) • LUCINDA WILLIAMS: “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” (Bob Dylan) (V.A.: Chimes of Freedom) • WACO BROTHERS & PAUL BURCH: “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” (Bob Dylan) (Great Chicago Fire) • ME’SHELL NDEGÉOCELLO: “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood” (Nina Simone) (Pour Une Âme

Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone) • JAPANDROIDS: “For the Love of Ivy” (The Gun Club) (Celebration Rock) • BETTYE LAVETTE: “Crazy” (Gnarls Barkley) (Thankful N’ Thoughtful) • JOE JACKSON feat. SHARON JONES: “I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues / Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From

Me” (Duke Ellington) (The Duke) • BEVIS FROND: “Hey Bulldog” (The Beatles) (V.A.: Mojo presents... Yellow Submarine Resurfaces) • THE FLAMING LIPS: “God Only Knows” (The Beach Boys) (V.A.: Mojo presents... Pet Sounds Revisited) • MICAH P. HINSON: “This Land Is Your Land” (Woody Guthrie) (And the Junior Arts Collective)

Una docena y pico de estupendos discos publicados e n 2011 que he descubierto en 2012: • THE BEACH BOYS: Smile Sessions [1966/1967] • DAVID KILGOUR AND THE HEAVY EIGHTS: Left by Soft • GIRLS: Father, Son, Holy Ghost • JOSH T. PEARSON: Last of the Country Gentlemen • MUCK AND THE MIRES: A Cellarful of Muck • CASS McCOMBS: Wit's End • THE WALKABOUTS: Travels in the Dustland • MIDDLE BROTHER: Middle Brother • LAURA MARLING: A Creature I Don't Know • LEFT LANE CRUISER: Junkyard Speed Ball • WILD FLAG: Wild Flag • BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES: Savage Kings • JOHN HIATT: Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns • JIMBO MATHUS: Confederate Buddha Una docena y pico de excelentes discos publicados e ntre 2008 y 2010 que he descubierto en 2012: • KELLEY STOLTZ: Circular Sounds (2008) • JOLIE HOLLAND: The Living And The Dead (2008) • PAUL WESTERBERG: 49:00 (2008) • THE NEW CHRISTS: Gloria (2009) • ROBYN HITCHCOCK: Propellor Time (2010) • THEE OH SEES: The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In (2008) • AARON NEVILLE: I Know I've Been Changed (2010) • THE STRANGE BOYS: And Girls Club (2009) • CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Genuino Negro Jig (2010) • MULATU ASTATKE & THE HELIOCENTRICS: Inspiration Information vol. 3 (2009) • JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD: Heavy Days (2009) • YANN TIERSEN: Dust Lane (2010) • WAVVES: Wavves (2009) • BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES: A Touch Of Someone Else's Class (2008) • THE SWINGIN' NECKBREAKERS: Pop Of The Tops! (2010) • EMMY THE GREAT: First Love (2009) • THE FRESH & ONLYS: Grey-Eyed Girls (2009) • BORIS: Smile (2008)

Una docena de grandes discos de la década pasada qu e he descubierto en 2012: • TELEVISION: Live At The Old Waldorf 1978 (2003) [1978] • THE CHRIS STAMEY EXPERIENCE: A Question Of Temperature (2004) • JOHN CALE: Hobo Sapiens (2003) • THE BAD PLUS: These Are The Vistas (2003) • BOREDOMS: Seadrum / House of the Sun (2005) • SON VOLT: The Search (2007) • KLEENEX GIRL WONDER: Graham Smith Is The Coolest Person Alive (2000) • THE FALL: Fall Heads Roll (2005) • TINARIWEN: The Radio Tisdas Session (2001) • THE PONYS: Turn The Lights Out (2007) • LITTLE BARRIE: We Are Little Barrie (2005) • DIANNE REEVES: Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)

Una docena y pico de estimulantes discos de los 90 que he descubierto en 2012: • ZUMPANO: Look What The Rookie Did (1994) • SONIC BOOM: Spectrum (1990) • NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL: On Avery Island (1996) • ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO: With These Hands (1996) • GILLIAN WELCH: Hell Among The Yearlings (1998) • LOW: I Could Live in Hope (1994) • ARCHERS OF LOAF: Icky Mettle (1994) • CHAVEZ: Ride The Fader (1996) • THE FRANK & WALTERS: Grand Parade (1996) • POLVO: Shapes (1997) • SAM PHILLIPS: Martinis & Bikinis (1994) • MICHAEL GIRA: Drainland (1995) • BUDDY MILLER: Poison Love (1997) • EMMYLOU HARRIS: Wrecking Ball (1995) • THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL: Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1 (1999) Una docena de discos imprescindibles de los 80 que he descubierto en 2012: • KING SUNNY ADÉ AND HIS AFRICAN BEATS: Juju Music (1982) • THE BATS: Daddy's Highway (1987) • FIREHOSE: Ragin', Full-on (1986) • VIC GODARD & THE SUBWAY SECT: What's the Matter Boy (1980) • FLIPPER: Generic (1981) • TELEVISION PERSONALITIES: The Privilege (1989) • WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE BLACK HANDS: Play Capt. Calypso's Hoodoo Party (1988) • THE POP GROUP: For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder (1980) • THE CHURCH: Seance (1983) • BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Hairway to Steven (1988) • WEEKEND: La Varieté (1982) • JULEE CRUISE: Floating Into The Night (1989)

Una docena y pico de discos esenciales de los 70 qu e he descubierto en 2012: • LITTLE RICHARD: King of Rock and Roll (1971) • THE PRETTY THINGS: Parachute (1970) • BILL FAY: Bill Fay (1971) • TERRY MELCHER: Terry Melcher (1974) • BETTY DAVIS: They Say I'm Different (1974) • MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Broken English (1979) • BUNNY WAILER: Blackheart Man (1976) • ROY HARPER: Stormcock (1971) • JESSE ED DAVIS: ¡Jesse Davis! (1971) • TERRY CALLIER: What Color Is Love (1973) • VAN DYKE PARKS: Discover America (1972) • NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy (1970) • RON WOOD: Gimme Some Neck (1979) • NINA SIMONE: Here Comes The Sun (1971) • JOHN PRINE: Diamonds In The Rough (1972) • KOKO TAYLOR: I Got What It Takes (1975) • DORIS DUKE: A Legend In Her Own Time (1971)

Una docena y pico de magníficos discos de finales d e los 60 que he descubierto en 2012: • DORIS DUKE: I'm A Loser (1969) • SCOTT WALKER: Scott 4 (1969) • DR. JOHN: Gris Gris (1968) • THE YOUNGBLOODS: The Youngbloods (1967) • ETTA JAMES: Tell Mama (1967) • PHIL OCHS: Pleasures of the Harbor (1967) • BOBBIE GENTRY: Ode to Billy Joe (1967) • MARLENA SHAW: The Spice Of Life (1969) • JIM FORD: Harlan County (1969) • SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET: Mendocino (1969) • JOE SOUTH: Introspect (1968) • ELVIN BISHOP: The Elvin Bishop Group (1969) • BERT JANSCH: Birthday Blues (1969) • TIM ROSE: Morning Dew (1967) • TRISTE JANERO: Meet Triste Janero (1968) + 11 clásicos que he descubierto en 2012: • NINA SIMONE: Pastel Blues (1965) • SONNY ROLLINS: Saxophone Colossus (1956) • CHARLIE MINGUS: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963) • BILLIE HOLIDAY: Lady Sings The Blues (1956) • STAN GETZ / JOAO GILBERTO: Getz/Gilberto (1963) • THE PRETTY THINGS: Get the Picture? (1965) • RAY CHARLES: Modern Sounds of Country & Western (1962) • ODETTA: Odetta Sings Dylan (1965) • RUTH BROWN: Rock’Roll (1957) • BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: It's My Way! (1964) • DINAH WASHINGTON: What a diff'rence a day makes! (1959) Una docena de clásicos que he recuperado en 2012 ví a generosas reediciones: • R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant (1986, reed. 2011) • EDDIE & THE HOT RODS: Teenage Depression (1976, reed. 2007) • NICK LOWE: Jesus Of Cool (1978, reed. 2008) • PREFAB SPROUT: Steve McQueen (1985, reed. 2007) • JOHNNY THUNDERS & THE HEARTBREAKERS: L.A.M.F. (1977, reed. 2002) • THE ROLLING STONES: Some Girls (1978, reed. 2011) • THE KINKS: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969, reed. 2001) • THE BAND: Rock of Ages (1972, reed. 2001) • THE REPLACEMENTS: Sorry Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981, reed. 2008) • MEAT PUPPETS: Up On The Sun (1985, reed. 1999) • LYRES: On Fyre (1984, reed. 2012) • TRAFFIC: John Barleycorn Must Die (1970, reed. 2011)

Una docena y media de joyas que he rescatado en 201 2 • SMALL FACES: Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968) • BIG STAR: Third / Sisters Lovers (1978) • CHRIS BELL: I Am The Cosmos (1992) [197?] • JOHN CALE: Music For A New Society (1982) • WIRE: Chairs Missing (1978) • TELEVISION PERSONALITIES: ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It (1980) • RON SEXSMITH: Ron Sexsmith (1995) • THE DICTATORS: Blood Brothers (1978) • ANN PEEBLES: I Can't Stand the Rain (1974) • TIM BUCKLEY: Starsailor (1970) • TOWNES VAN ZANDT: Our Mother The Mountain (1969) • FUGAZI: Steady Diet Of Nothing (1991) • THE AUTEURS: How I Learned To Love The Bootboys (1999) • ANY TROUBLE: Where Are All The Nice Girls? (1980) • CRAZY HORSE: Crazy Horse (1971) • FACES: Long Player (1971) • THE CHILLS: Submarine Bells (1990) • THE NATION OF ULYSSES: 13-Point Program to Destroy America (1991) Dos docenas de recopilaciones que me han hecho grat a compañía durante 2012: • MOSE ALLISON: Allison Wonderland Anthology (1994) [1957/1989] • THE CRAMPS: File Under Sacred Music. Early Singles 1978-1981 (2011) • DIONNE WARWICK: The Very Best Of Dionne Warwick (2000) [1962/1974] • THE CLEAN: Anthology (2003) [1980/1996] • V.A. (Arthur Alexander, Candi Staton, Lowell Fulson...): The Fame Studios Story 1961/1973 (2011) • MAVIS STAPLES: Only For the Lonely (1993) [1969-1970] • 16 HORSEPOWER: Yours, Truly (2011) [1992/2005] • COMET GAIN: Broken Record Prayers (2008) [1998/2008] • DANNY WHITE: Natural Soul Brother (2007) [1963/1968] • LA LUPE: La música latina, grandes mitos del siglo XX (2000) [196?/197?] • FRANKIE MILLER: That's Who! The Complete Chrysalis Recordings (1973-1980) (2011) • BESSIE SMITH: Blues Queen. The Definitive Collection (2007) [1923/1933] • JERRY LEE LEWIS: Killer. The Mercury Years. Volume Two. 1969-1972 (1989) • VAN DYKE PARKS: Arrangements Volume 1 (2011) [196?/] • THE WEIRDOS: Weird World 1977-1981 - Time Capsule Volume One (1991) • THROWING MUSES: Anthology (2011) [1986/2003] • BEASTIE BOYS: Solid Gold Hits (2005) [1986/2004] • KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE: Tell My Sister (2011) [1971/1977] • R. STEVIE MOORE: Me Too (2009) [1976/1991] • MAXINE BROWN: Best Of The Wand Years (2009) [1963/1969] • MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS: Classic Martha Reeves & The Vandellas. The Universal

Masters (2000) [1963/1971] • ALI FARKA TOURÉ: Red & Green (2004) [1984/1988] • MEMPHIS SLIM: The Folkways Years 1959-1973 (2010) • LITTLE WINGS: Brrr (2012) [2000/2012]

Una docena y pico de discos de por aquí, publicados , recuperados o descubiertos en 2012: • GRUPO DE EXPERTOS SOLYNIEVE: El eje de la Tierra (2012) • VERY POMELO: Radio Clotxa (2012) • LIDIA DAMUNT: Vigila el fuego (2012) • JONSTON: Veo visones (2012) • MUJERES: Soft Gems (2012) • NACHO VEGAS: Cómo hacer crac (2011) • LOS NEGATIVOS: Piknik Caleidoscópico (1986, reed. 2005) • BRIGHTON 64: Bola y cadena (2004) [1983/1987] • PAU RIBA: Jo, la donya i el gripau (1971, reed. 2011) • DOCTOR EXPLOSIÓN: Música grabada, saltos y cánticos (2003) • ELS SURFING SIRLES: Romaní, semen i sang (2011) • ANTÒNIA FONT: Lamparetes (2011) • THE MEOWS: All you can eat (2011) • XAVIER BARÓ: La màgica olivera (2011) • SÍLVIA PÉREZ CRUZ: 11 de novembre (2012) • MAIKA MAKOVSKI: Thank You For The Boots (2012) • REFREE: Tots Sants (2012) • CECILIA: Amor de medianoche (1975) • COHETE: Cohete (2009) • PASCAL COMELADE: Espontex Sinfonia (2006)

Media docena de disfrutables documentales musicales que he visto en 2012: • OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL. THE DR. FEELGOOD STORY (Julien Temple, 2009) • CLASSIC MOTOWN PERFORMANCES 1963-1987 [Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The

Temptations, The Supremes] (2006) • TROPICÁLIA [Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia...] (Antonio Machado,2012) • CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. IRELAND 1965 [The Rolling Stones] (Peter Whitehead / Mick Gochanour,

1965/2012) • ART WILL SAVE THE WORLD. A FILM ABOUT LUKE HAINES [The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder] (Niall

McCann, 2011) • THE CLASH LIVE. REVOLUTION ROCK (Don Letts, 2008) Media docena de conciertos selectos que he visto en DVD en 2012: • JOHN COLTRANE: Live in '60, '61 & '65 (Düsseldorf, 28-3-1960; Germany, 4/12/1961; Comblain-La-

Tour, Belgium, 1/8/1965,) • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND: Live in Houston (8/12/1978) • THE ROLLING STONES: Some Girls Live in Texas (Forth Worth Texas, 18/7/1978) • CAMARÓN DE LA ISLA: París 87/88 (1987/1988) • BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Blind Eye Sees All. Live in Detroit 1985 (Traxx, Detroit, 22/2/85 y 3/3/85) • KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: Live from Austin Tx (9/1981)

Una docena y pico de conciertos memorables que he p resenciado durante 2012: • LEONARD COHEN (Palau Sant Jordi) • THE DREAM SYNDICATE (Plaça Reial, BAM) • WILCO (Parc del Fórum, Primavera Sound) • SWANS (Club Sant Jordi, Primavera Club) • REDD KROSS (Artèria Paral·lel, Primavera Club) • TINARIWEN (Apolo) • BIG STAR'S THIRD (Auditori del Fórum, Primavera Sound) • MEAT PUPPETS (Sidecar) • LOW (Apolo) • JEFF MANGUM (Auditori del Fórum, Primavera Sound) • THE EX (Centre Artesà Tradicionàrius) • THE WATERBOYS (Teatre Coliseum) • ROBYN HITCHCOCK (La [2] de Apolo) • JOHN DOE (La [2] de Apolo) • JOSELE SANTIAGO + VERY POMELO (Music Hall) (También he disfrutado con los conciertos de: Megafaun, John Cale, The Walkmen, Black Lips, Archers of Loaf, Mazzy Star, Chavez, The Men, Obits, Michael Gira, Off!, The Pop Group, Richard Hawley, Elliott Murphy, Dan Stuart + Sacri Cuori, Sonny Rollins, Sir Richard Bishop, Little Wings, The Monochrome Set... y los de la lista siguiente) Media docena y pico de solventes versiones que he c azado en directo durante 2012: • MAVIS STAPLES: “The Weight” (The Band) (La [2] de Apolo) • THE AFGHAN WHIGS: “See and Don’t See” (Mary Queenie Lyons) (Parc del Fórum, Primavera Sound) • MARIANNE FAITHFULL: “The Crane Wife 3” (The Decemberists) (Auditori del Fórum, Primavera Sound) • ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO & THE SENSITIVE BOYS: “Beast of Burden” (The Rolling Stones) (La [2] de

Apolo) • DAYNA KURTZ: “Joy in Repetition” (Prince) (La [2] de Apolo) • YO LA TENGO: “Can't Seem to Make You Mine” (The Seeds) (Parc del Fórum, Primavera Sound) • THE BEACH BOYS: “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) (Poble Espanyol) • BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES: “Have Love Will Travel” (Richard Berry / The Sonics)

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