Recorded for but not used on theMinus 5s 2001 album

Nick Caves original badseeds the Birthday Party, gnarly art-garage band the Moodists Cheap Rosetta Stone,biker-Nuggets brigands the Lipstick Killers, power-popartisans the Sunnyboys and outback-noir impressionists the Triffidsare just a few of the more than forty bands remembered andcelebrated here, at high volume and in peak form.The Minus 5 I Dont Know Who I Am(Return to Sender/Normal)It is time to stop thinking of this mischievous combo as anR.E.M. side project. Yes, singer-guitarist Scott McCaughey is aveteran R.E.M. sideman. Yes, he co-founded this loose aggregate ofsingers and players with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck. ButMcCaughey, also the longtime wit and voice of the Young FreshFellows, is a smart, sharp songwriter with an encyclopedic grip onrock roll classicism. Indeed, his bigger problem may be thatsome people mistake his cunning for mere cleverness. This specialGerman release should fix that. Recorded for but not used on theMinus 5s 2001 album, Let the War on Music Begin, thesesongs are about civil war -- the internal kind -- and McCaugheysings them with magnetic candor inside music (played by variousMinus 5 friends Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 including Jeff Tweedy of Wilco) that is spidery,spectral and not just for R.E.M. completists.A Soldiers Sad Story -- Vietnam Through the Eyes of BlackAmerica 1966-73 (Kent)This remarkable compilation is a timely reminder of the high,hidden costs of war, the ones you dont hear about in Pentagonbriefings. In these twenty-four dynamite RB sides, written andrecorded at the height of the Vietnam conflict, black men and womenalike battle fear, loneliness and loss, at the front and back home.Among the mighty voices raised in anger, worry and triumphant soul:Freda Payne ("Bring the Boys Home"), Mel and Tim ("Mail CallTime"), Joe Tex ("I Believe Im Gonna Make It"), Swamp Dogg (hisgritty reading of John Prines "Sam Stone") and Tiny Watkins ("ASoldier Sad Story"). Listen in admiration and amazement, then praythat history does Rosetta Stone English V3 not repeat itself.The Golden Hornet ProjectThis protean body of music -- twenty CD-Rs, packaged in acustom, three-ring binder -- was independently released in 2002. Ididnt hear it until last spring, and it will be far into 2004before I fully absorb the ambition and invention of instigatorsGraham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski. I know Reynolds best as thedrummer-pianist and leader of the Golden Arm Trio, an Austin,Texas-based power-jazz merger of John Zorns Naked City and the1970s radical-prog band Henry Cow. But Reynolds -- like Zorn,without the Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 heavy weather -- freely charges into other realms as acomposer-performer: string quartets, symphonies, soundtracks,improvised super-rock.

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