December 12, 2017 Playlist

"Demon & Eleven Children" by Blues Creation (1971)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Blues Creation "Demon & Eleven Children"  1971 (Japan)
If you thought tracks like "The Immigrant Song" and "Paranoid" prefigured punk rock in some way, Blues Creation was even punker than that - and it was almost certainly completely by accident! BC was probably intended to be Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin (they lost that battle to the mightier Flower Travellin' Band), but their highly inauthentic take on heavy "blues" leaves them sounding more like The Stooges, altbeit with a much more mannered singer than the infamous Iggy. In general, their playing is "too well-mannered" to be good blues, but it does make for some pretty sweet punky metal, especially the faster bits. Led by guitarist Kazuo Takeda, Blues Creation released three albums in the early 1970's before shortening their name to simply Creation in the mid-1970's (I haven't heard any of those later albums yet). Of those first three, the debut is an album of covers of classic blues songs, and their final release was a collaboration with Carmen Maki, a Japanese singer somewhat in the mould of Janis Joplin (though again her take on the blues is somewhat inauthentic!) In between those records came the group's only album of all original material, which is our CAOTW.
(N) = New Release
   
Artist Song Album Year Country
Frank Zappa & The MothersMystery Roach200 Motels1971USA
Captain Beefheart & The Magic BandSuction PrintsShiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)1978USA
Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas Sun Zoom Spark (Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band)The World Of Captain Beefheart (N)2017 (Knitting Factory)USA
Duds Of NatureOf A Nature Or Degree (N)2017 (Castle Face)UK
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts featuring Karen O The Golden OnesMilano (N)2017 (Columbia)Italy/USA
Ariel Pink Kitchen WitchDedicated To Bobby Jameson (N)2017 (Mexican Summer)USA
 
 
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real CarnivalThe Visitor (N)2017 (Reprise)Canada/USA
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Fear Is Like A ForestLotta Sea Lice (N)2017 (Matador)USA
Wand Blue CloudPlum (N)2017 (Drag City)USA
   
 
KraftwerkTanzmusikRalf & Florian1973Germany
Emerson Lake & PalmerCanario (J. Rodrigo)Love Beach1978UK
   
 
Blues CreationAtomic Bombs AwayDemon & Eleven Children
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1971
Japan
Blues CreationJust I Was BornDemon & Eleven Children
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1971
Japan
The Claypool-Lennon Delirium Satori, part 1 (Flower Travelin' Band)Lime And Limpid Green EP (N)2017 (ATO)USA
Blues CreationDemon & Eleven ChildrenDemon & Eleven Children
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1971
Japan
   
 
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
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Crumbling Castle
Polygondwanaland (N)2017 (ATO)Australia
ORB O.R.B.Naturality (N)2017 (Castle Face)Australia
Uncle Acid & the deadbeats Do What Your Love Tells YouVolume One (N)2010 (2017 Rise Above)UK
Husker Du It's Not Funny Anymore (live)Savage Young Du (N - box set compilation)1979-1982 (2017 Numero Group)USA
Husker Du Target (first studio version)Savage Young Du (N - box set compilation)1979-1982 (2017 Numero Group)USA
Hy Maya General Relativity Is Relative (live)The Mysticism of Sound & Cosmic Language (N - previously unreleased recordings)1972-1973 (2017 Smog Veil)USA
   
 
Once And Future Band I'll Be FineOnce And Future Band (N)2017 (Castle Face)USA
Hatfield & The NorthFol De Rol / Shaving Is BoringHatfield & The North1974UK
Far East Family BandEntering - TimesParallel World1976Japan
 
  
Lee Ranaldo Electric TrimElectric Trim (N)2017 (Mute)USA
      
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