This album is at #31 on my overall chart. Recorded live in Chicago in 2005, this is a great document of everything that makes Wilco a great band. So many great songs from so many great albums...this two disc album could have easily been stretched to four without ever getting dull. The audience is stoked, particularly for winning tracks like "Via Chicago", "Jesus, Etc.", and "Misunderstood". A positively great performance by one of the greatest bands of our time. A must have live album.
This album is on 8 BEA charts. 4 of them are mine. It's on 4 year charts, 1 decade chart, 1 overall chart, and 2 custom charts.
Sounds good - added to the listening queue. I rarely add live albums to my charts either, unless they are of exceptional stature or include material not found in studio albums.
An unheralded jazz-rock album from early 2000s. I think these guys used to play support to Morphine on the Boston scene. It's a great, varied bunch of songs, sometimes jazzy, sometimes soulful, sometimes funky.
I've been listening to Loscil quite a bit recently, and he needs some credit, his album Submers and Plume create some really deeply atmospheric ambient music without being too passive or wallpapery sounding. And despite recycling similar arrangements he is able create what seem like wildly different moods at times (Submers sounds like your underwater in the depths of some ocean trench, Plume sounds airy and like a hot motionless summer day or something like that)
Quite simply the best collection of grime instrumentals ever released, well that I've heard so far, but I don't think it can get any better than this. There's something really special about these tunes, they evoke a sense of nostalgia in me for a time and place I never experienced, that's really fucking impressive. Look past the lo-fi styling’s of a lot of the album, you get gifted to some of the most emotionally rich electronic music ever, an attribute that really gave Ruff Sqwad an edge over their peers. Grime from what I’ve heard is relentless, maybe not if you're Trim, but the majority is in your face and claustrophobic, it's an assault on the listener and is one of the things that make it great, but variety is the spice of life and Ruff Sqwad offer it up like no one else. These songs breath, they let the listener breath, they let the mc breath and fill up a room, rather than tear it down. The strongest point of this album is also its weakest however, the fifth track Functions on the Low totally steals the show, every time I listen I go back and play Functions about 5 times in a row, it's the best song ever, full of beauty and pain, good and bad rolled into one, it's life at its most brutally honest, joy tinged with sadness, depression laced with hope. The fact it was made in a shared bedroom of two teenagers from a poor area of London(The song was produced by XTC, his brother/roommate Fuda Guy is also in Ruff Sqwad), by a then child who is rumoured to have only made a handful of tracks ever is just like the song, heartbreaking and yet perfectly poetic, living forever through the 5 minute odd slice of ecstasy you made on a shitty computer, in your bedroom, on an evening where you were probably trying your hardest not to do your homework or something along those lines. It came into my life rather late, I don't think I had heard it prior to this compilations release, but it is one of possibly a couple of dozen songs that I couldn't live without, the only song to ever make me cry(i think). That being said, the like of Together, Anna, Tings In Boots, etc. are classics, they don't stand up to the best song ever, but then again, nothing does. They are a joy to behold and the whole album flows together beautifully, you wouldn't think it's a collection of rare, lost, and classic cuts spanning years being put together nearly a decade after they were made, it's a testament to both Ruff Sqwad and No Hats No Hoods, it's the album that got me into grime, something I’m sure you are aware I have been delving into almost exclusively to for about 6 months, I’m not going to lie and say it changed my life(I guess every album does, but it never had a profound impact on me), but from it and what I discovered as a result (out to nezz) it definitely enriched it to no end. Listen to it, get emotional, and be transported to another world.
There are a couple on my Top 50 chart that appear on my chart only. They are
Wayne Krantz - 2 Drink Mininum and Long To Be Loose
Crazy good jazz guitarist who sounds like nobody else. I'm sure that some of the notes and chords that he plays on guitar don't actually exist. Both albums definitely worth a listen if you're into guitar music. Video of him playing a track from Long To Be Loose live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgswhBHPeI8
Haiku D'Etat - Haiku D'Etat
Hip Hop superduo featuring Aceyalone and Mikah 9 from Freestyle Fellowship, and Abstract Rude from Abstract Tribe Unique. You'll probably know the track Non Compos Mentis from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyvymjYTd_E
Hi-Fidel & Dj Crucial - Traveling Between St. Louis And Chicago
Quite simply the best collection of grime instrumentals ever released, well that I've heard so far, but I don't think it can get any better than this. There's something really special about these tunes, they evoke a sense of nostalgia in me for a time and place I never experienced, that's really fucking impressive. Look past the lo-fi styling’s of a lot of the album, you get gifted to some of the most emotionally rich electronic music ever, an attribute that really gave Ruff Sqwad an edge over their peers. Grime from what I’ve heard is relentless, maybe not if you're Trim, but the majority is in your face and claustrophobic, it's an assault on the listener and is one of the things that make it great, but variety is the spice of life and Ruff Sqwad offer it up like no one else. These songs breath, they let the listener breath, they let the mc breath and fill up a room, rather than tear it down. The strongest point of this album is also its weakest however, the fifth track Functions on the Low totally steals the show, every time I listen I go back and play Functions about 5 times in a row, it's the best song ever, full of beauty and pain, good and bad rolled into one, it's life at its most brutally honest, joy tinged with sadness, depression laced with hope. The fact it was made in a shared bedroom of two teenagers from a poor area of London(The song was produced by XTC, his brother/roommate Fuda Guy is also in Ruff Sqwad), by a then child who is rumoured to have only made a handful of tracks ever is just like the song, heartbreaking and yet perfectly poetic, living forever through the 5 minute odd slice of ecstasy you made on a shitty computer, in your bedroom, on an evening where you were probably trying your hardest not to do your homework or something along those lines. It came into my life rather late, I don't think I had heard it prior to this compilations release, but it is one of possibly a couple of dozen songs that I couldn't live without, the only song to ever make me cry(i think). That being said, the like of Together, Anna, Tings In Boots, etc. are classics, they don't stand up to the best song ever, but then again, nothing does. They are a joy to behold and the whole album flows together beautifully, you wouldn't think it's a collection of rare, lost, and classic cuts spanning years being put together nearly a decade after they were made, it's a testament to both Ruff Sqwad and No Hats No Hoods, it's the album that got me into grime, something I’m sure you are aware I have been delving into almost exclusively to for about 6 months, I’m not going to lie and say it changed my life(I guess every album does, but it never had a profound impact on me), but from it and what I discovered as a result (out to nezz) it definitely enriched it to no end. Listen to it, get emotional, and be transported to another world.
Best promotion I've seen so far! Made a believer out of an old timer :). Added it to my listener queue.
NickVolosSegnahc Reve4Profile Land of the Argonauts, Centaurs and other such creatures
An unheralded jazz-rock album from early 2000s. I think these guys used to play support to Morphine on the Boston scene. It's a great, varied bunch of songs, sometimes jazzy, sometimes soulful, sometimes funky.
Good selections, especially "The Kicker" - surprised to see it in 1 chart only.
SingingPeasant96Coming-of-AgeProfile In the aeroplane (maybe it's over the sea)
This album is #35 on my overall chart. Drive-By Truckers were just a stepping stone for Jason Isbell, and everyone pretty much knew it. You can't keep a songwriter as prolific and as good as Isbell to 3 songs per album for long. Sirens is his solo debut, and it's bursting with an "I'm free" attitude. Isbell is all about great songs, and this album is loaded with them. If country music used Jason Isbell as its career model instead of trucks and beer and basic redneckery, we'd all be living in a better place...and we'd all like country music a lot more.
This album is on 5 BEA charts. 4 of them are mine. It's on 1 overall chart, 2 decade charts, 1 year chart and 1 custom chart. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
Of her mystery
And crashing through the walls
Of dying history
If country music used Jason Isbell as its career model instead of trucks and beer and basic redneckery, we'd all be living in a better place...and we'd all like country music a lot more.
No doubt about it. I do think the album he put out this year is his best yet. _________________
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You're chart is sooooooooo american. It's like a diner in here.
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