Doobie Brothers vs ZZ Top

Its the final face-off between The Doobie Brothers and ZZ Top as they fight it out for The Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame honours for 2013!



You can still vote to choose your favorite band before the close on Jan 5, 2014 here

As a tribute to The Doobie Brothers (which is my choice!) here is one of my favorite track from their album The Captain and Me (1973):




For collectors and fans check out the Original Album Series 5CD compilation box sets featuring their most memorable albums at a very nice price!

  

A Bitter Sweet Symphony

A great song from The Verve in 1997 which is still being played all over the world (except in Malaysia).


It is interesting to note that this song was mired in controversy due to "plagiarism" claims. Does it sound a bit like The Last Time by The Rolling Stones?

A Tribute to the late great George Duke

I have been following George Duke since I fell in love with the Brazilian Love Affair in 1979. He is one awesome musician and keyboardist and his love for jazz funk was what brought me into the genre in the 80s. There was his Clarke Duke Project (1981) which produced the hit "Sweet Baby", Dream On (1982) and Thief In The Night (1985). George was a very prolific musician and producer and soon I lost touch with his meanderings into more mainstream stuff.

George Duke passed away on August 5, 2013 but not without leaving us a huge legacy of his contributions for the past almost 50 years. Check out his well written history here and the many albums he has written and produced.



Enjoy this amazing track "So I'll Pretend" featuring his cousin Diane Reeves from the album Illusions produced in 1995.

Light Up The Night - The Brothers Johnson

You can never go wrong with this great R&B album produced by the great Quincy Jones in 1980 who later went on to produce for Michael Jackson's biggest albums. Michael even contributed his signature "woos" in one of the tracks in this one of the finest pre-MJ era funk album!

Light Up the Night

Lana Del Ray

The 25-year-old songstress became one of 2011's most seemingly organic upstarts. Following the release of her breakout single "Video Games" and its vintage-shaded video, apparently filmed and edited on her Macbook, the Lake Placid, N.Y., native racked upwards of 13 million YouTube views and has sold 20,000 copies of her double A-side "Video Games" single since its October 2011 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It debuted and spent three weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart.

Rarely is a breaking artist as polarizing as Lana Del Rey and of course if you are in Malaysia, obviously no radio station here is aware of her near cult status as she is not given any airplay here.



Lana Del Ray's "Video Games"

Article from Billboard Magazine

Farewell my dear Donna Summer

Farewell Ms Summer & Thanks for a great 70's through to the 80's!

LA Times: The Sonic Seduction

Best Of Stevie Wonder

The missing song from his many Greatest Hits album. I wonder why none of his Greatest Hits album contain this  superb number which has also been covered by the likes of Barbra Streisand and recently by Heejun on American Idol. Here is "All In Love Is Fair" from his amazing Innervisions album.