Purplepash, does that mean you consider Hey Mama and Gone filler? Also BEA really loves Gold Digger, so I will offer a controversial music opinion and say that it's in the bottom quartile of songs he's released. _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
Taking into account my opinions are based on one listen, and after Diamonds From Sierra Leone I was starting to lose interest and would have missed most of the lyrics. Neither of them were bad in anyway, just average to me, however with Hey Mama I was unaware of the story behind the song until I read up on it just now. I'll listen to it again with a different perspective, and also give Gone another go.
I get the Gold Digger opinion of course but it'll always be one of my favourite Kanye songs.
Nice ambient/minimalist pop from the bass player of This Heat. The bedroom recording sound reminded me a bit of Cleaners From Venus. Definitely a good find.
Purple, although I haven't listened to it, I know that I like Beat Happening, so give that try.
Susumu Hirasawa- Kyuusai no Gihou
Charles Wuorinen- Time's Encomium (For Synthesized & Processed Synthesized Sound)
Vlad Tepes / Belkètre – March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
in slaughter natives - in slaughter natives
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Jason Lescalleet- The Pilgrim
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Merzbow - Ecobondage
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Top example of musical exploratory endeavor. HIs early tone cluster-laden work is fascinating to me, I've always had an interest in chromatic composition. I make my own mal-educated attempts at chromatic stuff on guitar-- I'm even interested in tuning my guitar to all 2nds at some point, but this would mean a custom string set (and probably another guitar). Much easier to play on the piano. I lack Cowell's ambitions, but his piano works offer a world of technique which would be cool to try and translate to guitar. His later works are definitely less ambitious, but I'm okay with this, personally. It makes sense that he would try to apply some of the techniques which he had developed to more traditional compositions. Some of these later pieces (especially "Tiger") bear some kind of resemblance to what I've heard in free and avant-garde jazz, so I'm wondering whether Cowell was an influence on later jazz pianists?
1. Satie: 3 Gymnopédies & Other Piano Works // Pascal Rogé
3. Krzysztof Penderecki: St Luke Passion // Krzysztof Penderecki / National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus
4. Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae // Marcus Creed / RIAS Kammerchor
5. Canto Ostinato // Simeon Ten Holt
7. Lisbon // Keith Fullerton Whitman
9. Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks // Scion
10. Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo // Jeff Mills
12. Persian Surgery Dervishes // Terry Riley
13. Wind // Gigi Masin
14. Chill Out // The KLF
I've listened to a good deal of bleeps and bloops in my life, and I have to say that these are some of the bleepiest bleeps and bloopiest bloops that have ever crossed my ears. Bloopocity aside, this is an important electronic work. It was the first electronic work to win the Pulitzer Prize for music (whatever that's worth) and I can tell just from one listen that it had to have some influence on electronic compositions afterward. I like the music theory that the composer talks about too.
"According to the composer, the primary concern of the piece appears to be rhythmic, since only pure quantitative duration, as opposed to qualitative performance variable inflection, is available to one in the electronic medium, though, "the basic materials are the twelve tempered pitch classes, and pitch-derived time relations," (due to the constraints of the synthesizer).[2] As such, he composed, "with a view to the proportions among absolute lengths of events -- be they small (note-to-note distances) or large (overall form) -- rather than to their relative 'weights,'....conform[ing] to the basic nature of a medium in which sound is always reproduced, never performed."
(I was going to try to write something smart after this quote, but my brain is not working today. It's great piece of music.) 😁
Well, Jameth, I can continue giving you some guidance through my chart. So, Chill Out my man. 😁
Susumu Hirasawa- Kyuusai no Gihou
Vlad Tepes / Belkètre – March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
in slaughter natives - in slaughter natives
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Jason Lescalleet- The Pilgrim
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Merzbow - Ecobondage
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Darc Mind - Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
Beat Happening are one of the great lo-fi indie twee pop bands and Jamboree is in my decade chart so this was great to hear a b-sides and rarities compilation. I actually really like listening to b-sides and rarities compilations. They often give you a chance to learn more about the band, and have some great songs on them. This one not so much learning more. It was mostly recognisably Beat Happening, but in a good way. There is something about their songs that just don't quite sound right but sound right for me. Not so much any great songs either - it's just all consistently really good - but there is variety as you would expect from a comp like this. Of note is this compilation contains the ep they did with Screaming Trees and that was cool and interesting to hear, with Polly Pereguinn from that probably the best track on this comp. 8/10, & 16/34 for 2003.
Susumu Hirasawa was good last time Rocka, so let's try him again.
Baystate's best of the 2000's and Tunes To Give You Toothaches (2 picks left)
9. The Life Pursuit by Belle And Sebastian
10. Let's Get Out Of This Country by Camera Obscura
12. Night Falls Over Kortedala by Jens Lekman
13. My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura
14. Push Barman To Open Old Wounds by Belle And Sebastian
18. Gimix by The Avalanches
19. The Blueprint by Jay-Z
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18. Devotion by Beach House
19. Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant by Belle And Sebastian
25. Oh, Inverted World by The Shins
37. Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi by Camera Obscura
Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill by Grouper
This one was a pleasant grower. Thought it was a bit monotone and boring at first, but after 3 listens now I like it very much. Haven't read the lyrics but the atmosphere is fantastic, and the production unique. Her voice is so low in the mix that it serves more like an instrument than anything else, and the songs feel rich and full of sounds even though most of the time it's just one guitar and her voice. That reverb+delay on guitars is to die for. 8.5/10
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Try Jens Lekman before I do Purple
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Hayden's Top albums of 2000s (7 to go)
4. Belle And Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
7. Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - In The Heart Of The Moon
10. Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
11. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
12. The Books - The Lemon Of Pink
14. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
15. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill Edit: forgot to exclude that one
16. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
18. D'Angelo - Voodoo
22. M.I.A. - Kala
23. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Yep, this dude is a great vocalist, and an even better songwriter. Fun and exciting stuff that keeps you entertained.
Alright Ledzep, let's see how you like The Books.
Vlad Tepes / Belkètre – March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
in slaughter natives - in slaughter natives
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Jason Lescalleet- The Pilgrim
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Merzbow - Ecobondage
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Darc Mind - Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill
Happydeadmen- Eleven Pop Songs
1. Have fired blank machine gun rounds into an audience.
2. Have burned £1M in cash.
3. Have intentionally deleted their own entire catalog just before leaving the music industry for good.
House music is more brand new territory for me. Wiki describes this as ambient house, for which it also lists Selected Ambient Works, but the two albums seem pretty far apart, stylistically. This seems more akin to tape music or experimental hip-hop than to synth-based dance music. So, I guess I don't have a clear indication of the genre yet. Anyways, I love the weary, soothing aesthetic of this album, as well as the album's road trip concept, even if it's a little loosely adhered to. It does make you feel like you're on some dreamy trip to somewhere, though I don't think I heard anything that pointed in the way of the Gulf Coast aspect of the concept (?). But, as much as it seems to lean towards the experimental side of things rather than the EDM side of things, the experimentalism is a little ragged. It's largely just straight-forward tape music...some of the samples are a little over used, and some of the most prominent samples aren't exactly deep digs ("In The Ghetto", "Albatross", "Oh Well (Part 2)", etc.) or as well transformed as I've heard in hip-hop. It does offer a really cool atmosphere that I'll use as a change-of-pace in a different context, next time.
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Mix it up with some pop, unless this is a 20 Jazz Funk Greats type deal.
1. Satie: 3 Gymnopédies & Other Piano Works // Pascal Rogé
3. Krzysztof Penderecki: St Luke Passion // Krzysztof Penderecki / National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus
4. Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae // Marcus Creed / RIAS Kammerchor
5. Canto Ostinato // Simeon Ten Holt
7. Lisbon // Keith Fullerton Whitman
9. Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks // Scion
10. Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo // Jeff Mills
12. Persian Surgery Dervishes // Terry Riley
13. Wind // Gigi Masin
15. Zwölftonspiele // Josef Matthias Hauer / Ensemble Avantgarde
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
This is the second Jens Lekman album I've listened to and I'm still not sure what I think. I like his voice, and when his lyrics are interesting (like on A Postcard To Nina, and It Was A Strange Time In My Life), and sometimes there are some cool things going on musically (And I Remember Every Kiss, and again It Was A Strange Time In My Life), but mostly it's just good quality that's lacking something special for me on a personal level. The album started well, dragged a bit in the middle, and finished strongly with the last three songs. 7.5/10, and 12/20 for 2007.
Jameth, Wind is the only album I've heard and I liked it quite a bit.
Baystate's best of the 2000's and Tunes To Give You Toothaches (last pick)
9. The Life Pursuit by Belle And Sebastian
10. Let's Get Out Of This Country by Camera Obscura
13. My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura
14. Push Barman To Open Old Wounds by Belle And Sebastian
18. Gimix by The Avalanches
19. The Blueprint by Jay-Z
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18. Devotion by Beach House
19. Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant by Belle And Sebastian
25. Oh, Inverted World by The Shins
37. Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi by Camera Obscura
39. Underachievers Please Try Harder
by Camera Obscura
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