Saturday, March 30, 2013

The Spin Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s

This list is so impossible to navigate that I had to convert it to a simple list:


1 The Velvet Underground - White Light\/White Heat
(Verve, 1968)
2 The Stooges - The Stooges (Elektra, 1969)
3 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet
Underground & Nico (Verve, 1967)
4 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask
Replica (Straight, 1969)
5 The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
(A&M, 1969)
6 Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the
First Psychedelic Era (Elektra, 1972)
7 Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1960)
8 Terry Riley - In C (Columbia, 1968)
9 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
& 2 (ESP-Disk, 1965)
10 Can - Monster Movie (United Artists, 1969)
11 Various Artists - Tropicalia ou Panis et Circensis
(Phillips, 1968)
12 The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of
the 13th Floor Elevators (International Artists, 1966)
13 Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte (WERGO, 1964)
14 Nico - The Marble Index (Elektra, 1968)
15 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia, 1967)
16 The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (Third World, 1969)
17 MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (Elektra, 1969)
18 The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (CBS, 1968)
19 Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk, 1964)
20 The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (1966)
21 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Columbia,
1967)
22 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (MGM,
1969)
23 Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle (Warner Bros., 1968)
24 The Fugs - The Fugs First Album (Folkways, 1965)
25 Silver Apples - Silver Apples (Kapp, 1968)
26 Love - Forever Changes (Elektra, 1967)
27 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (Island, 1969)
28 John Fahey - Vol. 3: The Dance of Death & Other
Plantation Favorites (Takoma, 1964)
29 Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
30 Steve Reich - Early Works (Nonesuch, 1987)
31 John Coltrane - Ascension (Impulse!, 1966)
32 The Meters - The Meters (Josie, 1969)
33 White Noise - An Electric Storm (Island, 1969)
34 The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics (Etiquette, 1965)
35 Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (Island,
1969)
36 The Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun (BR\u00d6, 1968)
37 The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat the Holy
Modal Rounders (Elektra, 1968)
38 Desmond Dekker - This Is Desmond Dekkar (Trojan, 1969)
39 Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (Vortex, 1969)
40 The Godz - Contact High With the Godz (ESP-Disk)
41 Alexander Spence - Oar (Columbia, 1969)
42 Anthony Braxton - For Alto (Delmark, 1969)
43 Nico - Chelsea Girl (Verve, 1967)
44 Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song (Poppy,
1968)
45 The Monks - Black Monk Time (International Polydor
Production, 1965)
46 Ray Barretto - Acid (Fania, 1968)
47 Terry Riley \u2013 A Rainbow in Curved Air (CBS, 1969)
48 The Watts Prophets - The Black Voices: On the Streets
in Watts (FFRR, 1969)
49 Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection (Cadet Concept,
1968)
50 Francoise Hardy - Fran\u00e7oise Hardy (Disques Vogue,
1962)
51 The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the
Money (Verve, 1968)
52 Scott Walker - Scott 2 (Smash, 1968)
53 The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful
Daughter (Elektra, 1968)
54 AMM - AMMMusic (Elektra, 1966)
55 Perrey-Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out! (Vanguard,
1966)
56 Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon (Nonesuch,
1967)
57 The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land
(International Artists, 1967)
58 The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - BBC Radiophonic Music -
(BBC, 1968)
59 Pierre Henry - Messe Pour Le Temps
Present (Philips, 1967)
60 Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape &
Electronic Music 1961-1970 (Important, 2012)
61 Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid (Impulse!, 1967)
62 Dick Hyman - MOOG: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman
(Command, 1969)
63 Moondog - Moondog (Columbia Masterworks, 1969)
64 David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence (Capitol, 1968)
65 Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Karyobin (Island, 1968)
66 Various Artists - The Balinese Gamelan: Music From the
Morning of the World (Nonesuch, 1967)
67 Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (Philips, 1969)
68 Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen / Carre
(Deutsche Grammophon, 1968)
69 The Roland Kirk Quartet - Rip, Rig & Panic
(Limelight, 1965)
70 Karen Dalton - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love
You the Best (Capitol, 1969)
71 Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! (Blue Note, 1964)
72 The Seeds - The Seeds (GNP Crescendo, 1966)
73 Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei (Liberty, 1969)
74 Pentangle - Basket of Light (Transatlantic, 1969)
75 Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde
(Fontana, 1968)
76 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Gorilla (Liberty, 1967)
77 Various Artists - Back From the Grave Volume One
(Crypt, 1983)
78 Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record (Allied Record
Corporation, 1968)
79 Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces (Folkways,
1961)
80 Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (Blue Note, 1966)
81 The United States of America - The United States of
America (Columbia, 1968)
82 The Electric Prunes - Release of an Oath (Reprise, 1968)
83 The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble - Congliptious (Nessa,
1968)
84 Kim Fowley - Outrageous (Imperial, 1968)
85 Joe Cuba Sextet - Wanted Dead or Alive (Bang! Bang!
Push, Push, Push) (Fania, 1967)
86 Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Other Planes of There
(Saturn, 1966)
87 John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 2: Life
With the Lions (Zapple, 1969)
88 Ornette Coleman - Town Hall 1962 (ESP-Disk, 1965)
89 Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion (Columbia, 1960)
90 Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch (Columbia,
1969)
91 Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (Polydor, 1968)
92 The Monkees - Head (Colgems, 1968)
93 Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (ESP-Disk)
94 Parson Sound - Parson Sound (Subliminal Sounds, 2001)
95 Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (Columbia
Masterworks, 1969)
96 Alan Watts - OM: The Sound of Hinduism (Warner Bros.,
1967)
97 Brigitte Fontaine - Comme a la Radio (Saravah, 1969)
98 Mulatu Astatke - Afro-Latin Soul, Vol. 1 (Worthy, 1966)
99 Cromagnon - Orgasm (ESP-Disk, 1969)
100 Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is the Massage
(Columbia, 1968)

Friday, March 29, 2013

Should we be insulted that San Francisco is not a target for North Korean missiles?

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un can be seen in the state-run Rodong newspaper signing the order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at US targets, with large-scale maps and diagrams in the background. The images show a chart marked "US mainland strike plan" and missile trajectories that appear to terminate in Hawaii, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Here is one of the images which I have altered so that you can see more clearly.

Should we be insulted or pleased that San Francisco is not a target for North Korean missiles?

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Kate Moss as the Queen


Compare with Chris Levine's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with her eyes closed.

The devil is white and is called Cristiano


The front page of rabid Real Madrid supporting Marca which actually has an English language edition (online at least).