This was a great listen. Those vocals are piercing straight to the soul, she belts in a meaningful way. Musically it was pretty good, but also pretty standard, otherwise I think I'd rate it near perfect... really dug it. 4/85.
2. Burzum - The Ways of Yore, possibly one of the only black metal artists from that region I actually liked somehow. Don't remember listening to this one in particular, but then again I don't remember.
3. 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers 1950s 1956
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan 1950s 1957
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott 1950s 1958
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters 1960s 1960
Back at the Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith 1960s 1960
Sunday at the Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio 1960s 1961
Jazz Samba Stan Getz / Charlie Bird 1960s 1962
Night Life Ray Price 1960s 1963
A Christmas Gift for You Phil Spector 1960s 1963
Rock 'n Soul Solomon Burke 1960s 1964
Live at the Star Club Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis 1960s 1964
Olympia '64 Jacques Brel 1960s 1964
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield 1960s 1964
I've Got A Tiger by the Tail Buck Owens and His Backaroos 1960s 1964
Bert Jansch Bert Jansch 1960s 1965
Blues Breakers John Mayall with Eric Clapton 1960s 1966
Da Capo Love 1960s 1966
Wild Is the Wind Nina Simone 1960s 1966
Midnight Ride Paul Revere and the Raiders 1960s 1966
Black Monk Time The Monks 1960s 1966
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds 1960s 1966
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
I've listened to some strange albums and this is right up there with them as one of the strangest albums I've listened to. At first I was quite into it. Some noisy, challenging songs to start off with but they were good. By the second half of the album though the insanity was starting to become a bit too much for me. It just sounded like someone fucking around really. I quite liked California but this one not so much. 7/10 and 28/34 for 1995.
Considering the time of the year I feel I have to choose this one.
Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s by Tha1ChiefRocka (last pick)
2. Don Caballero 2 by Don Caballero
3. Con Art by Smart Went Crazy
5. Clandestine by Entombed
6. Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle by The Olivia Tremor Control
9. Black On Both Sides by Mos Def
10. Alice In Chains by Alice In Chains
11. Black Bastards by KMD
12. Operation: Doomsday by MF DOOM
14. A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey by R.L. Burnside
16. Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black
by Public Enemy
Not exactly what I was expecting, which is good. This has to be one of the earlier crossover albums I've heard; it's really more of an alternative album than a strictly hip hop one, but it still has the feel that a hip hop album should. But not in 1991. I can imagine that most hip hop heads in 1991 would've dismissed this as some really wack stuff. I'll have to go back to see what other albums were released around that year, but this would've certainly been an anomaly. Anyways, the music is laidback "slacker rap" as someone described it. Luscious Jackson is really the only other thing I can compare this to, but their first EP came out a year later.
Purple, certainly a not fun record with Disco Volante. I'm sure that Dusk At Cubist Castle will go over much better.
Oliver Coates- Upstepping
Matthew Herbert - Around The House
ZNR -Barricade 3
Annea Lockwoodโโ Glass World Of Anna Lockwood
Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
Josef Anton Riedl โโ Josef Anton Riedl
Vuemorph- In Expectancy of the Monumental Awe
Crucial Bunny vs. Prince Jammy - Fatman Dub Contest
Foehn- Hidden Cinema Soundtrack
Sd Laika - That's Harakiri
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
A Christmas Gift For You by Various Artists Merry (Happy) Christmas Everyone! 'Twas fitting PurplePash. I'm kind of surprised I haven't heard this one before now for how much I like these artists individually. For me Christmas music is classical and crooners, so hearing country or soul/motown genres do Christmas music usually is a turn off. There were a few on here though that had great energy. Oddly enough I love this stuff outside the Christmas music stuff, so just an odd combination took it down a bit, but still a solid 3.5 (the country would get a 2...).
2. Foehn- Hidden Cinema Soundtrack Chief!
3. 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die
Tragic Songs of Life The Louvin Brothers 1950s 1956
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan 1950s 1957
Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott 1950s 1958
At Newport 1960 Muddy Waters 1960s 1960
Back at the Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith 1960s 1960
Sunday at the Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio 1960s 1961
Jazz Samba Stan Getz / Charlie Bird 1960s 1962
Night Life Ray Price 1960s 1963
Rock 'n Soul Solomon Burke 1960s 1964
Live at the Star Club Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis 1960s 1964
Olympia '64 Jacques Brel 1960s 1964
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield 1960s 1964
I've Got A Tiger by the Tail Buck Owens and His Backaroos 1960s 1964
Bert Jansch Bert Jansch 1960s 1965
Blues Breakers John Mayall with Eric Clapton 1960s 1966
Da Capo Love 1960s 1966
Wild Is the Wind Nina Simone 1960s 1966
Midnight Ride Paul Revere and the Raiders 1960s 1966
Black Monk Time The Monks 1960s 1966
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds 1960s 1966
Exactly as it says, this is is eerie kind of background music that doesn't really grab the listener, but it was serviceable for it's duration.
Seth, The Louvin Brothers are one of the great foundational country acts.
Oliver Coates- Upstepping
Matthew Herbert - Around The House
ZNR -Barricade 3
Annea Lockwoodโโ Glass World Of Anna Lockwood
Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
Josef Anton Riedl โโ Josef Anton Riedl
Vuemorph- In Expectancy of the Monumental Awe
Crucial Bunny vs. Prince Jammy - Fatman Dub Contest
Sd Laika - That's Harakiri
Peter Principle- Tone Poems
baystateoftheartNeil Young as a butternut squashProfile Massachusetts
This might not be groundbreaking, but it's a very well-made and fun 90s alt-rock record with a handful of standout tracks. I enjoyed it more than I was expecting to. Good job Dave. 3.5/5.
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2. Dub contest sounds fun.
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3. BEA / RYM Chart Mashup (2010s)
BEA 19. An Awesome Wave - โ (alt-J)
BEA 21. AM - Arctic Monkeys
BEA 22. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
BEA 32. The King Of Limbs - Radiohead
RYM 40. Minecraft: Volume Alpha - C418
RYM 47. Mista Thug Isolation - Lil Ugly Mane
RYM 50. Ravedeath, 1972 - Tim Hecker
BEA 51. Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
RYM 55. No Love Deep Web - Death Grips
RYM 56. The Glowing Man - Swans
The source in my next post should be:
a) BEA / RYM Chart Mashup (2010s)
b) RYM Friends Chart (2010s)
c) Pitchfork 200 Best Albums of the 2010s _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
The Ways Of Yore by Burzum
I'm pretty sure that's not how they celebrated Xmas in the 15th century, but well. Varg had a good streak of solid albums in the 90s until he went to jail. His albums from here onwards (those that I've heard at least) pretty much suck. There's nothing worse than derivative and mediocre dungeon synth, even if he's basically invented the genre. Unfortunately he was released from prison, but fortunately he has been releasing music that's a bit better from there on. This one is a solid dungeon synth/medieval music, gets a bit boring at times but it's diverse enough to listen to the whole thing in one sitting (an hour and 8-9 minutes). Alternate Skyrim soundtrack maybe, where they went more with the middle ages feel. 7.5/10
(2)
No Love Deep Web is possibly their best, and continue with that mashup, it looks good
(3)
Lowkey's chart was solid, hope the next one will be too
VanillaBean 2010s chart - the last of 2010s charts I swear, but I'd like to finish my own 2010s chart in the next month or so
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
NieR: Automata - ๅฒก้จๅไธ [Keiichi Okabe], ๅธ่ถณๅญๅพ [Keigo Hoashi], ้ซๆฉ้ฆๅนธ [Kuniyuki Takahashi] & ็ฌๅฐพ็ฅฅๅคช้ [Syotarou Seo]
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Various Artists - Sinogaze Vol. 1
Eldamar - The Force Of The Ancient Land
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
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Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystallize
Ghost (SE) - Meliora
Ambersmoke - Lay My Bones Beneath The Valley Oak
Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
Disclosure - Settle
PUP - The Dream Is Over _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Serviceable dub that works for its short 30 minute runtime. First track was probably the most interesting musically.
I don't know what your opinion of Grizzly Bear is, but I think Shields may be better than Veckatimest.
Oliver Coates- Upstepping
Matthew Herbert - Around The House
ZNR -Barricade 3
Annea Lockwoodโโ Glass World Of Anna Lockwood
Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
Josef Anton Riedl โโ Josef Anton Riedl
Vuemorph- In Expectancy of the Monumental Awe
Sd Laika - That's Harakiri
Peter Principle- Tone Poems
Marble Sky- The Sad Return
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
This did go over much better. I was hooked from the first song...after a start like that I was always going to listen to the whole thing hoping for more of that. Although nothing ended up being as excellent as the opening track, for a while it was a really good psych pop album. Heavily influenced by The Beatles (surely Define A Transparent Dream must have been a "let's make a Dear Prudence type song" - and I thought it was great!), with it's harmonies, melodies, and hooks, it also has some interesting noise, dissonance, and effects going on. The Green Typewriters suite was a lot more experimental, more to do with the title of the album I imagine, with it's atmospheres and ambiences, most of which worked, but not all of it hit for me. After that a few more good quality psych pop songs to finish. A really enjoyable, fun and interesting album. 8/10, and 22/42 for 1996.
Rocka there's actually an album on your list I've already heard! It wasn't exactly my thing but you might appreciate it more. Sd Laika - That's Harakiri
Now I am going to do LedZep's all time - filtered for 90's albums of which I've heard 12 out of the 20 (5 of which are in my all time), so topped up with some of his 2010's chart.
Top 100 Greatest Music Albums (90's edit) & Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s by LedZep
(5 picks)
17. Wish by The Cure
26. Jar Of Flies by Alice In Chains
*47. Superunknown by Soundgarden*
43. I See A Darkness by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
60. G.A.D. by Hladno Pivo
61. Images And Words by Dream Theater
67. My Arms, Your Hearse by Opeth
74. ลฝena Dijete by Urban & 4
84. Good by Morphine
2. Marrow Of The Spirit by Agalloch
*I've decided for this list to include albums I haven't listened to since before 2015 when I joined this site so they only have a ranking but no rating on BEA from me.
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