Starting the day with a double dose of top-notch soul/funk from a great group I often listen to when I'm in a soul/funk mood...

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The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (1969)

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The Isley Brothers - The Brothers: Isley (1969)

A mystery.

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Ester Rada - Ester Rada (2014)

Hey guys, I just found the funkiest, most swell and awesome Neo-Soul/R&B album of the year.

:p::p:I love her! Thanks! I am going to check this out.

Boo. Whatever lost interest, don't care.


Watsky - All You Can Do
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Dialated Peoples - Directors of Photography
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Thanks!

Smashing Pumpkins discography excluding live albums and anything past Adore for pretty self-explanatory reasons.

Around 2001 or so I got really big in Smashing Pumpkins to the point where I spent one summer (and about $1000) on guitar equipment trying to replicate their guitar tones. It wasn't until I found a tab book for Siamese Dreams that I found out it would be impossible because of the amount of layering that went on in some of the tracks ("Soma" had up to 40 guitar layers). Anyways, sometime around 2005 I kind of had a falling out with them when it became impossible to ignore Billy Corgan's massive ego and the fact that his solo music is shit. I really haven't listened to anything by them since, including their new material but I was a little surprised that I had nothing on my external hard drive so I grabbed the stuff I liked, including a few EPs I was never able to find in stores because this was a simpler time before I torrented.

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John Zorn - On Leaves of Grass

Ah Zorn does it again. This albums a great bled of folk, jazz, classical, and the avant-garde. I'm glad Zorn keeps popping out fine releases instead of his quality of work declining which seems to happen a lot (McLaughlin, Zappa to a certain extent, Bill Frisell, the list is pretty endless). Check this one out if you like jazz or Zorn.

I'll be listening to those other albums soon rostasi.

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A Big 10-8 Place by Negativland

saw bob mention them in the 2014 thread and I was like yeah I think ill put them on now. and then I did. and then I posted here.