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R.E.M. So. Central RainFall On MeGardening At NightTalk About the Passion7 Chinese Brothers

Los Lobos Kiko & The Lavender MoonLa Pistola y el CorazonAngels With Dirty FacesSet Me Free (Rosa Lee)Mas y Mas

This one is among my top 5 albums of 2016. Jazz-inflected African funk with female and group vocals. Infectious. This one is a probable top-10 of the year for me. Full review here: http://active-listener.blogspot.com/2016/06/klaus-johann-grobe-spagat-der-liebe.html

This is a good record. I'll have to go back and see if I can hear anything they did before your friends got kicked out. Did they record anything with them?

I heard them on Bandcamp and like them a lot.

An appropriate choice of musical entertainment for a 5th wedding.

The following are all top-10 contenders, but also in no particular order, yet: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talk Tight*Family Atlantica - Cosmic Unity*Flamingods - Majesty*Fumaça Preta - Impuros FanáticosBarry Adamson - Know Where To RunCate Le Bon - Crab DayDavid Bowie - BlackstarKlaus Johann Grobe - Spagat der LiebeThe Limiñanas - MalamoreOmni - DeluxeBeef Jerk - TragicDinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer NotUltimate Painting - DuskThe Flat Five - It's a World Of Love and HopeGoat - RequiemTom Zé - Canções Eróticas de NinarTeenage Fanclub - Here*likely top-5

Uncle Tupelo opening for fIREHOSE at the Blue Note in Columbia, MO before No Depression was even released. (1989)

Urge Overkill at a tiny little club (formerly the Blue Note, but after the Blue Note moved to bigger digs) on the edge of downtown Columbia, MO (1990) The Pixies at that same tiny space, when it was still the Blue Note (1989) Neutral Milk Hotel—twice: once at an in-store at Reckless Records on Broadway in Chicago, and once at Lounge Ax, also in Chicago (both in 1998) Goo Goo Dolls at Metro in Chicago. When GGD were still kinda a punk band and still good. (1991) David Broza in the basement of a Jewish center on the Northwest side of Chicago; just him and an acoustic guitar. If you don't know w

Leonard Cohen (RIP) HallelujahBird On a WireSuzanneI'm Your ManFirst We Take Manhattan

RIP you beautiful bastard. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792

It was certainly considered to be on my list. Absolutely one of the best -- from the record that is absolutely their best. Although, for me, the quintessential Fannies song is "Ain't That Enough." Also considered. They just have too many amazing songs to make a list of only 5. But I did my best.

I did a search, so if it turns out that I did this one already, too... something is off with the search. Teenage Fanclub Ain't That EnoughWhat You Do To MeSpeed Of LightI Need DirectionSparky's Dream

Not their best, but still pretty damn good. And certainly up there. Top 5 for sure. I adore him.