Now this is what I was looking for. Country Blues that is immediate & real & raw. Character sketches that I can relate to. About human fallibility. About our flaws. Real life short stories that show just how little control we sometimes have over our lives & actions. The breadth of country music on display here is staggering and this is easily Gilmore's masterpiece. He's a worthy disciple of Townes Van Zandt, and I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who likes TVZ and his brand of country. This is now my favorite album of 1991. It's just that good. And my kids are memorized by the homespun lyrics. How they speak the simple truths of human nature in just a few lines.
Essential.
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bold statements about the quality of this Jimmie Dale Gilmore album. I have never heard it and now I am listening. So far its stunning. I likes it! Thanks for the recommendation. _________________ -Ryan
I wanted to dig a bit further into the 1991 musical diamonds an first tried your rec here above. But already the first two songs which are supposed his best put me off: a bit too far into country territory for me.
So I went through your top 99 and wanted to start with Daniel Jonston but couldn't find Artistic Vice on Apple Music. Btw I'm glad you like Daniel Jonston: for those who don't know him: there's no better introduction than the compilation
The Late Great Daniel Johnston : Discovered Covered by Various Artists
It contains cover versions of his songs on disc 1 and the originals on disc 2. Both are great but the latter learns that he's really weird and the first that he could write fantastic songs. But anyway I haven't looked any further for Artistic Voice (yet).
Which I loved immediately: it sounds like 60s garage rock and sometimes even a bit like the Velvet Underground (just guess what song of the Velvets Spectacle makes you think of?). Lo fi-er than this is difficult too imagine but it suits the music perfectly.
And then there was this one :
Blood by This Mortal Coil
This was a CD I bought because of You And Your Sister which is still one of my favorite songs ever and fantastically sung by Kim Deal and Tany Donnely. I didn't really like the rest of the tracks and there's a lot of filler (especially in the instrumentals) but when the female guest musicians sing it sounds fantastic after listening back to it. I had left this one out of my top chart but I have included them back in.
bold statements about the quality of this Jimmie Dale Gilmore album. I have never heard it and now I am listening. So far its stunning. I likes it! Thanks for the recommendation.
I know, right?! It's that good!!! 😁 I'm going to have to dig into his other stuff. If anyone has any other recs of his stuff, I'm all ears.
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I wanted to dig a bit further into the 1991 musical diamonds an first tried your rec here above. But already the first two songs which are supposed his best put me off: a bit too far into country territory for me.
I get that you're not into country, but I honestly think that this is one of those albums that could turn someone who's into indie rock on to it. Just do me a favor and listen to just side A (or side B, doesn't really matter) THREE times & maybe that country door swings wide open. 😁
So I went through your top 99 and wanted to start with Daniel Jonston but couldn't find Artistic Vice on Apple Music. Btw I'm glad you like Daniel Jonston: for those who don't know him: there's no better introduction than the compilation
The Late Great Daniel Johnston : Discovered Covered by Various Artists
It contains cover versions of his songs on disc 1 and the originals on disc 2. Both are great but the latter learns that he's really weird and the first that he could write fantastic songs. But anyway I haven't looked any further for Artistic Voice (yet).
Oh cool. I've never heard this. Will have to check this out! 😁
And do keep looking for Artistic Vice. It's one of his better albums. I not a huge Daniel Johnston fan (yet), but I've always really liked his stuff. On Artistic Vice, he's fronting an actual band, and you can tell he's just super psyched about it. He even just comes straight out & tells u that on the first song. lol. The songs are quite infectious and rock with a lot of great energy. If this had come out AFTER the hoopla with Kurdt name checking Daniel Johnston all the time instead of Fun, I think it could have been a modest hit in indie circles. I need to listen to Fun again. I think it may be underrated and misunderstood. But Artistic Vice is a good to great lo-fi indie rock and certainly deserves more attention than it got.
Which I loved immediately: it sounds like 60s garage rock and sometimes even a bit like the Velvet Underground (just guess what song of the Velvets Spectacle makes you think of?). Lo fi-er than this is difficult too imagine but it suits the music perfectly.
Me too! This little album has rocked my world since I downloaded it last week. Some of the ballsiest & primal garage rock out there. This is why Dead Moon are legends, boys & girls. Highly, highly recommended to anyone who loves garage rock. This is the real deal.
So I went through your top 99 and wanted to start with Daniel Jonston but couldn't find Artistic Vice on Apple Music. Btw I'm glad you like Daniel Jonston: for those who don't know him: there's no better introduction than the compilation
The Late Great Daniel Johnston : Discovered Covered by Various Artists
It contains cover versions of his songs on disc 1 and the originals on disc 2. Both are great but the latter learns that he's really weird and the first that he could write fantastic songs. But anyway I haven't looked any further for Artistic Voice (yet).
Oh cool. I've never heard this. Will have to check this out! 😁
And do keep looking for Artistic Vice. It's one of his better albums. I not a huge Daniel Johnston fan (yet), but I've always really liked his stuff. On Artistic Vice, he's fronting an actual band, and you can tell he's just super psyched about it. He even just comes straight out & tells u that on the first song. lol. The songs are quite infectious and rock with a lot of great energy. If this had come out AFTER the hoopla with Kurdt name checking Daniel Johnston all the time instead of Fun, I think it could have been a modest hit in indie circles. I need to listen to Fun again. I think it may be underrated and misunderstood. But Artistic Vice is a good to great lo-fi indie rock and certainly deserves more attention than it got.
I've checked out most of the tracks via Youtube. The first is also on that tribute album I told you about and it's covered by Teenage Fanclub: a great version.
As for the rest of the album: there's many oneven tracks on it like you can expect from Daniel Johnston but some of them are really good.
Talking about the most accessible album: that must be Is And Always Was which is nearly a regular rock album and still very much Daniel Johnston.
And Tilly I listened to two more of your albums in your 1991 top chart:
The first is this one:
For Keeps by The Field Mice
At first sight this is a a very twee album and therefore a bit juvenile but there are actually some good tracks on it like Of The Perfect Kind and Freezing Point. So I'm gonna include it but I'm not wild about it.
The second one is :
Still Feel Gone by Uncle Tupelo
An album I should have listened to already a long time ago because of my Tweedy affection. To be honest there's not much Tweedy on it and mostly Farrar but that doesn't matter: this album rocks and I like it.
And btw I'm listening now to Jimmie Dale Gilmore and I still think I'll need at least 20 listening sessions before I like it but I'll do my best to do at least one and maybe (but I can't promise) two full listening sessions. At this moment (after 5 tracks) I don't see anything but fairly regular country (and a bit of zydeco) in this album and he even makes me think about a Belgian artist who does country stuff. But My Mind's Got a Mind of it's own is funny.
In 1991 there were two Wagon tracks I loved so much I listened to them all the time: The Concept from Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub and The Wagon from this album.
God I love(d) that song when it starts to speed up around the second minute and then leads to a shredding guitar solo.
And most of all: this was the first Dinosaur Jr album I discovered so I could not do anything else but love the whole album.
Of course in hindsight and after listening to many more of their albums, this is certainly not their best, maybe because most of the tracks (apart from the Wagon and How ‘d You Pin That One On Me) have a very acoustic feel although the electric guitar solos are there (Water and Thumb and especially the title song are the best example of that).
This is maybe also their last real lo-fi album (also because of those short pointless titles like Muck and Thumb and Puke and Cry: those that came after were produced much better and gave the guitar playing much more credit. And of course at the time I didn’t know this was the first album without one of their key members who became even more a hero to me than J.: Lou Barlow who started Sebadoh.
Before I listened back to this album I had it at the 8th rank in the Dino catalogue. I didn’t change a lot of scores but it went up to the seventh rank anyway. And to the 13th in my 1991 rank.
But The Wagon still rules and I cannot do anything else that continue to consider it their best track and don’t get me wrong this album will always have a special place in my heart.
And Tilly I listened to two more of your albums in your 1991 top chart:
The second one is :
Still Feel Gone by Uncle Tupelo
An album I should have listened to already a long time ago because of my Tweedy affection. To be honest there's not much Tweedy on it and mostly Farrar but that doesn't matter: this album rocks and I like it.
Yeah. I LOVE this album. Just great Alt Country that isn't afraid to rock out. I think that first track - "Gun" - was written by Tweedy, and that's probably my fave, but the whole album is just great. I used to listen to this all the time back then. 😁
edit: I'm really surprised this is NOT ranked higher on BEA. It's pretty much a classic Alt Rock album - along with No Depression, and Tweedy went onto a super successful career with Wilco. It may be a notch below No Depression, but they're both essential to me.
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