I'm not adding the album for this one right now. It was pretty decent. Blaine was the violinist for the Avant-Gard band Tuxedomoon, so if you know what their music sounds like, then you can kind of get an idea of what this sounds like. An eclectic group of songs that are unique, but not necessarily memorable. His album "Night Air" is supposed to be better, but I figured that I would start from the beginning.
Jameth, try Lisbon by Keith Fullerton Whitman.
Vlad Tepes / Belkรจtre โโ March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Jason Lescalleet- The Pilgrim
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Darc Mind - Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill
Ojas - The Trance Tape
Karin Krog- Joy
Slapp Happy โโ Slapp Happy or Slapp Happy
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
A great album! I'm a fan of Preoccupations, with Viet Cong being my favourite album of theirs, so it was good to hear where they sort of started. I've now listened to the whole Women/Viet Cong/Preoccupations discography on BEA and it's all really good. I look forward to listening to this again. 8.5/10, 7/16 for 2008, and 53/100 for 2000's.
Rocka: Slapp Happy โโ Slapp Happy or Slapp Happy.
Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by Tha1ChiefRocka (last pick)
3. Black Eyes by Black Eyes
6. Miss Machine by The Dillinger Escape Plan
7. Drum's Not Dead by Liars
10. Wilderness by Wilderness
11. Freedom's Just Another Word For Never Getting Paid by Gravitar
12. Let's Stay Friend by Les Savy Fav
13. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill by Grouper
15. A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure by Matmos
16. The Obliterati by Mission Of Burma
18. Absence by Dรคlek
Isla by Portico Quartet
An excellent nu jazz record. A bit of electronica, a bit of ambient, and a lot of modern experimental jazz. That's my favourite style of 21st century jazz. 8.5/10
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Well since it's your last pick, let's try something different. Dillingers for you Purple.
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Hayden's Top albums of 2000s (4 to go)
4. Belle And Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
10. Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
11. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
14. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
16. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
18. D'Angelo - Voodoo
22. M.I.A. - Kala
23. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
25. The Motifs - Cross Paths
27. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
I've heard the German singer Dagmar Krause with a couple of artists, Henry Cow and Art Bears, but Slapp Happy was her first group. I think. Anyway, this album was OK. It was a mix of Art Pop and Cabaret music, which was fine, but never really made an impact on me.
Blu & Exile is my next choice for you on Hayden's chart.
Vlad Tepes / Belkรจtre โโ March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Jason Lescalleet- The Pilgrim
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Darc Mind - Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill
Ojas - The Trance Tape
Karin Krog- Joy
Wacลaw Zimpel - Lines
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
That was a great chart to explore. I might have been hoping for a few of the others for the last pick but this ended up being a great choice. Dillinger has always been in the neighbourhood of music I listen to but from what I've heard of them I thought they would be too heavy and growly for me. So this is the first album I've heard of theirs, and judging by this they are actually not that far removed from what I like, just a bit more extreme, and with more growling, screaming and shouting mixed with the singing, and often all in the same song. I can often find growling vocals a bit much to handle, especially when it dominates over the music, but during this album it was the music I was really enjoying and the variety of vocals were mostly adding to the appeal. And the music was really worth listening to, powerful and atmospheric, and always interesting. There were some great songs on here - Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants, and the run from Sunshine The Werewolf to Phone Home. I was surprised how much I got into this album. 8/10, and 17/46 for 2004.
The Pilgrim sounds like something you would like Rocka.
Time to travel around the world again with Jameth's best of the 2000's. There are five albums in common with my 2000's chart and 21 I haven't heard.
Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by Jameth (5 picks)
1. In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic by Kasai Allstars
2. Circle Of Drums by Olatunji
3. Bowmboรฏ by Rokia Traorรฉ
5. Drinking Songs by Matt Elliott
8. Colour Green by Sibylle Baier
9. Karunyam Volume 1 by Chitravina N. Ravikiran
10. African Gnaoua Blues by Majid Bekkas
13. Congotronics by Konono Nยบ1
14. Egypt by Youssou N'Dour
15. Auris by Tara Fuki
^^^I expanded and re-arranged that chart somewhat, so it's a little less awful now. I didn't have a ton to add to it, but hopefully you haven't heard some of them.
I'd listened to part of this one before, but when I started to do my watch laters, I figured I'd save the whole thing for later.
This one is a slow burn. I mean a reeeeeeaaaallll slow burn, but it was definitely worth the payoff. Composed while his father was dying, Lescalleet's dismay certainly shows on this record. about 50 some odd minutes of slowly building turmoil eventually explode near the back 20 minutes or so of the album with a great noise wall that illustrates the frustration that someone dealing with death eventually goes through. What I just talked about in my diary with the "I Am A Lake of Burning Orchids" album, what seperates good noise from bad noise is dynamics. At least to me.
Nothing else to say really. Great album, but will probably take a few more listens to fully have my head around it.
Tap, if you're out there, could you tell us why this one ranks so highly on your chart? I'd be interested to hear.
Purple, Sibylle Baier is an interesting private press/home recording release.
Vlad Tepes / Belkรจtre โโ March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
David Shea - Satyricon
The Last Emperor - The Legend of Bigfoot
Nate Young - Regression Vol. 3 (Other Days)
Darc Mind - Symptomatic Of A Greater Ill
Ojas - The Trance Tape
Karin Krog- Joy
Wacลaw Zimpel - Lines
Colin Potter-2 nights
So, this seems to use the same build and release structure used by GSYBE, with the 14 or so minutes of synth squelches and field recordings that close out the album also seeming to follow suit. It kind of took me by surprise, with the first 15-20 minutes not really giving any indication of the impending buildup...I figured it was gonna carry on with the initial minimalist, ambient soundscape. Still, I didn't find it to be all that enthralling of a journey. I've got a lukewarm opinion of GSYBE (which has unfairly spilled over to this album), and this was really just a more electronic version of of the same format that tiresomely drones from one work to another on their albums. Ignoring the macro structure, there wasn't much at the smaller scales that I found to be more than mildly interesting.
Let me know if I'm overlooking something, Chief.
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I think it's time for March To The Black Holocaust, with Halloween coming up.
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Tha1ChiefRocka's 57 Greatest Music Albums
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
9. Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks // Scion
10. Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo // Jeff Mills
15. Zwรถlftonspiele // Josef Matthias Hauer / Ensemble Avantgarde
16. 6 // Supersilent
17. Berg: Wozzeck // Christoph Von Dohnรกnyi / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus
19. Colored Music // Colored Music
20. Tape Music - An Historic Concert // Otto Luening / Vladimir Ussachevsky
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