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Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Posted By: pjotr_panski

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)
6 Studio Albums | MP3 CBR@320kbps (609MB) | All lyrics included
Post-Apocalyptic Folk-Punk-Rock | Dharma Pop | Singer/Songwriter

Stuart Davis is an american musician and songwriter from Minnesota, currently residing in Boulder, CO. His music contains elements of folk, punk, rock, pop, haiku, and progressive rock. He describes his musical style as 'Post-Apocalyptic Folk Punk Rock' or 'Dharma Pop'. Davis is also a member of the art branch of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, and in recent years has become more active in multimedia endeavors that showcase his comedic writing and interviewing skills, and his passion for Eastern and Western spirituality. Costellonews described Davis as a singer/songwriter…known on the indie circuit for his Buddhist-Muslim-Hindu-Taoist-Jew-Christian-infused brand of biting pop/folk… He has been performing throughout the United States and Europe since 1993. To date, Davis has sold over 40,000 albums worldwide.

Davis' early work is acoustic, folky, and typically indie. The early lyrics critique the materialism and irrationality of contemporary culture with irony, sarcasm, and biting humor. With the release of Kid Mystic, Davis' work turns more inward and spiritual, but sustains the entertaining wit of his earlier work. Many of his recent lyrics reflect the struggle to relate to a divinity that is truly transcendent, and yet equally immanent. Later albums use a more extensive and electric instrumentation, and fall under the power pop genre.

Although Davis' lyrics are informed by contemporary philosophical and spiritual issues, they also display a preoccupation with alternate sexual practices. In fact, one could say that Davis' work mediates between sensuality and spirituality. Davis practices meditation in a Buddhist tradition (and he has recently taken Genpo Roshi as his teacher), but he believes that religious traditions ultimately fail to transmit the transcendent events from which they spring. He has identified Ken Wilber, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Ramana Maharshi and Aurobindo as influences, and his work displays a deep understanding of Zen and Sufism.

Davis' songs are populated by alcoholics, atheists, bulimics, drug addicts, egoists, false prophets, fetishists, sadists, masochists, narcoleptics, pedophiles, pornographers, prostitutes, rapists, sexual predators, suicides, swingers, and terrorists. (Stuart's lyrics are considered explicit and/or obscene by some libraries and retailers.) But his lyrics also describe angels, artists, gods, gurus, messiahs, mystics, prophets, psychics, and saints. There is a clear and constant religious component to Davis' work. In fact, the mystical and transcendent themes render some of his songs able to be construed as Christian. This tension points to the profoundly integrative aspect of Davis' thought—on his view, the theme of sexual deviance does not contradict the spiritual themes. His perspective is wide enough to coherently include much more of the human experience than most. Thus it is possible to see Davis as a mystical poet like Rumi, Kabir, Basho, Ikkyu, Rilke, or Emily Dickinson.

Davis' performances include light improvisational comedy which, like his music, often mixes spiritual with sexual themes. This repartee is evident on the live albums he has released. Davis is a prolific performer, giving about 100 performances per year. Since getting married (to Ken Wilber's ex-wife, Marcia) and having children (two girls, Ara Belle and Aja Pink), however, his performance tours have been less numerous, while his multimedia work has expanded.

For more information, follow this link for wikipedia entry and this link for his homepage.


== Albums contained in this upload ==


Stuart Davis - Idiot Express (1993)

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Tracks:
01. Idiot Express 2:52
02. 1-976-Buy My Love 4:31
03. Giving In 2:47
04. It's All Just Because 2:48
05. The Suffering You Knew 2:39
06. Never Love With You 3:36
07. The Free United States 3:56
08. Love Is A Punch In The Throat 5:47
09. Working At Burger King 2:38
10. Goodbye To Me 4:03
Total running time: 36:37

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 81.6 MB

Notes
Writing this album was an abusive affair. I was living alone in unit G-15 at the beautiful Devonshire apartment complex in Mankato, Minnesota. Drop by and see it sometime, all ye slum seekers. Anyhow, it was around this time that my passion for ferrets developed, and I decided I would find one for a roommate.

I succeeded, and upon returning home with my friendly quadruped I locked the door, got drunk, and wrote songs for a week. I did not go outside, I did not take calls, I did not answer the door. I drank, got to know my ferret ( he shits in corners, bites the toes of passed out dipsomaniacs, and crawls into appliances with surprising ease ) and made up lies with melodies. At the end of the week, I had Idiot Express. I still have the ferret, his name is Allegro (although I renamed him Tragedy when I became a monk, more on that later).

Of the songs on Idiot Express, I still play Idiot Express, Never Love With You, Giving In, and It's All Just Because. In my opinion the other songs on the record are best left to die, with the exception of Goodbye To Me, which was just the victim of dumb production ideas. Particularly unbearable for me to hear now are The Free United States, and Working At Burger King. I think Love Is A Punch In The Throat is ok, good drinking music for people who aren't monks. This was my first album, with that in mind I'm pleased with how it's aged. It is not boring, and that counts for a lot.



Stuart Davis - Bright Apocalypse (1999)

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Tracks:
01. Only Echoes 3:17
02. Whisper 2:40
03. WW III 2:49
04. Garden 2:45
05. Caravan 4:15
06. Your House 4:16
07. Eclipse 4:28
08. Alms 4:01
09. Seven Wonders Of The Soul 3:05
10. Bright Apocalypse 3:12
11. Even The Devil Is God 3:19
12. Infinity Hymm 3:38
13. Mercy 4:48
Total running time: 47:33

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 106.5 MB

Notes
Here we are at the turn of the millennium, and End Of The World Syndrome is predictably gaining momentum. For whatever reason, we humans seem to get a buzz from anxious dread, and this calendar change seems to lend itself to all sorts of Fun-With-Fear projects. From religious fundamentalists to computer techies, a lot of people seem to feel the turn to 2000 is a marker of doom.

My take on the situation is simple; we're all going to die anyway. So, if we are in fact living in the End Times, the best thing we can do is try to cultivate compassion and realize that in essence, we are all God, everything is God (or Spirit, or One, or Allah, whatever your preference). On the other hand, if it isn't the end of the world, each one of us is still going to die soon enough, in which case the best thing we can do is try to cultivate com passion and realize that in essence, we're God. Either way, we're headed to the same place.

'Apocalypse' is from the Greek word 'apokalupsis', meaning uncover, reveal. So literally, I'm using Bright Apocalypse to mean a revelation of light. I'm just trying to put out a reminder that there is more than one possibility of what an apocalypse can be, and this album is a portrait of an interior apocalypse, the end of our old inner world, in a good sense. The idea behind the album is very simple: instead of the world coming to an end, humanity just becomes a little bit more compassionate. The world changes from within, that's my kind of apocalypse. The songs on album tell the story, step by step surrendering to the Divine inside us. The perspective is not from any one particular religion, but rather stems from the mystical truths that are common to all religions. I'm a spiritual mutt by nature, so they're kind of Buddhist-Christian-Hindu-Jewish-Muslim-Taoist pop songs.



Stuart Davis - Stuart Davis (2001)

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Tracks:
01. Surfaces 3:11
02. Babies 2:51
03. Rock Stars And Models 2:33
04. Dresden 5:04
05. Fault Lines 4:34
06. Invincible 2:35
07. Savoring Samsara 3:34
08. Doppelganger Body Donor 3:05
09. Immanence 1:57
10. Ladder 3:57
11. Dive 4:23
12. Swim 4:26
13. Drown 5:07
Total running time: 47:17

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 110.3 MB

Review Notes
Listening to this album is like being struck in the face with a really big, intellectual-level book about the dark side of human nature. Except the pain is good, because it is revealing sides of human life that maybe you wouldn't attend to otherwise.

When I first put this album on I felt that it may be too intense to become a favorite; many of these songs are written from the "shadow side," from the point of view of characters with fractured lives: a survivor of Dresden who despises tourists who come to visit the ashes; a man whose karma has been inverted so that he is never punished when he brings harm unto others; a man whose emotional faultlines cause earthquakes, and other similarly fractured people. Intense as these sketches are, this self-titled album has in fact become a favorite, and indeed may be one of his best; certainly it is one of the top three of his later, more rock-influenced works (as opposed to his early singer/songwriter coffeehouse works).

This time in the studio he is accompanied by a full band and with deep, subwoofer-worthy production values. It is meant to be listened to loudly. If you prefer something of his that is a little more sedate, you might try his solo-acoustic live album, The Late Stuart Davis instead (though he still kicks up a storm even when it is just him and a guitar on stage).



Stuart Davis - Bell (2003)

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Tracks:
01. Belle 3:30
02. Sexy Messiah 2:35
03. Karma Pyre 3:06
04. +Dharma -Drama 3:27
05. Smoke 5:18
06. Human Girl 3:49
07. Flower Of A Zero 4:36
08. Is 1:46
09. Wizard 5:38
10. Original Face 3:09
11. The Glimpse 3:44
12. Ara Belle 3:18
Total running time: 44:56

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 101.9 MB

Notes
Simply put, this is one of the best albums in the known history of constructed sound waves; these songs are so amazingly Here! It's open season on Year-end Top 10 lists with the all-out Selfing assault of Dharma Drama, Karma Pyre, Sexy Messiah, Smoke, Belle, Original Face, Flower of a Zero, each one itself an exponential musical experience, let alone the synergistic eruption the 12 songs in succession present, leaving your self a limp, flacid, obliterated mass abandoned by the side of the samsaric tollway from the Dharma Pop Yoga of Bell.



Stuart Davis - ¿What (2006)

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Tracks:
01. Good Wyrd 2:44
02. AC/DC 3:14
03. April Showers, April Tears (Saul Williams) 0:59
04. Easter 3:36
05. Dirty Purity 3:22
06. Parker Posey 3:12
07. Murder Suicide 2:46
08. Before Beyond 4:30
09. Voodoo Dolls 3:59
10. Rape Game 3:04
11. What 3:59
12. Glass 3:28
Total running time: 39:53

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 89.6 MB

Review Notes
There is something to love on every one of Davis' albums, but this one here? Wow. This one borders on flawless. When I first saw him perform live, I was completely mesmerized. On stage (and, I hear, off) the guy is a bizarre and brilliant combination of a deeply mystical seeker and an ever-expanding id on overdrive. His albums seem to ping-pong back between these sides. (Perhaps following the journey of the man himself?) But with this one he seems to have found the sweet spot between the two Stuarts, blending them seamlessly, elegantly, raucously into an album of wild and gorgeous alternative pop/rock songs. One great one after another. Seriously… give this one a go.



Stuart Davis - Something Simple (2008)

Stuart Davis - Discography (1993-2008)

Tracks:
01. Already Free 3:43
02. The River 3:25
03. Deity Freak 3:21
04. Wand 3:25
05. Twisted Mystery 3:35
06. Fear Of Light 3:30
07. Nothing In Between 4:13
08. Sugar Bullets 3:38
09. Sky God 3:30
10. Universe Communion 4:41
11. Miracle 3:29
12. White Plumb 2:23
Total running time: 43:53

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 98.1 MB

Review Notes
A decided attempt to be more radio friendly, Stuart pulls some of his punches – or does he? On the surface, these tunes are radio friendly but within the lyrical brilliance for which Stuart is known there are still the sharp, honest observations (this time, about spirituality and love) than would normally ever get play because his insights are just too darn true. Yeah, you can rock at his shows but there's something sacred about his music – it is no surprise then that his street teams are known as "punk monks". Stuart worried he might lose the literati (Kevin Smith era, give or take a gen or two) that have helped fuel his decade-plus independent career, but I think there's no worry about that – this album may not explore the dark side of human nature as much as the "silver album" or be as taboo shattering as "Bell", but what "Something Simple" says about love and connection is just as insightful. Don't think of it as a radio-friendly Stu album, think of it as Stuart's love album.



Download

Idiot Express (1993) Click here
Bright Apocalypse (1999) Part 1 Part 2
Stuart Davis (2001) Part 1 Part 2
Bell (2003) Part 1 Part 2
¿What (2006) Part 1 Part 2
Something Simple (2008) Click here


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Pjotr Panski
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