Rock & Roll – The Velvet Underground from Live MCMXCIII
Even after the amputation
you can dance to a rock & roll station.
A lot of folks put down
this album. It is the Velvets
playing in the style of a 90's Lou Reed album, but frankly that's a
better idea than trying to recreate the 1969 live album, and these
were good years for Lou anyway. You can still dance to it, you know.
It's also sort of is Sterling's valedictory.
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue - Duke Ellington from Live at Newport 1956
Yeah,
the solo, but, the tunes are pretty good too. Two sides of Duke's
early style - contrapuntal, busy swinging, trying to cram in as many
notes as a side of a 78 could hold, the frenzy of the audience
providing the underlying energy that the super-fast revolutions of
the turntable once did.
