Travels With Myself And Another by Future Of The Left
This one's even better than How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident. It's less artsy and noisy, the lyrics are somewhat weaker too, but the songs are much catchier and better written. I love How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident, but at times the songs seem to be a platform for Andy's ramblings, rather than the good songwriting being reinforced by great lyricism. This one maybe have one of the funniest songs of all time (Singing Of The Bonesaws), but the lyrics are still driven by Andy Falkous' hilarious British humor. The way he sings makes even the sad and serious parts of songs sound funny. Like "Throwing Bricks At Trains", which is a story of two friends (Reginald J. Trotsfield and The Fearsome Brown) climbing on the railway bridges and throwing bricks at passing trains, but with a great twist of course.
"Reginald I, I cannot love you
I cannot love a man who cannot learn to love himself
The bricks, they are just sad reminders of former glories
Though they are barely more than stories
They wandered through our homes at night"
There's some true genius in comparing bricks to person's life story and former glories. I've put How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident on several times since hearing it in the game earlier and it never failed to put a smile on my face. I guess I'll play Travels With Myself And Another even more regularly. 8.5/10
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Turn on the Bright Lights is some (more or less) exquisite post-punk
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Tha1ChiefRocka 1990s/2000s charts mashup
Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Smart Went Crazy - Con Art
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle
Shiner - The Egg
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Wilderness - Wilderness _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Stange math rock album with minimal hushed vocals and a free improvisational feel to it. The songs drift along at their own pace with no clear boundaries, but it all flows well. I'm having a hard time determining how good this is, because compositionally it seems to be greatly unique. They've only got one other album, which I'll have to have a listen to as well.
So hard for me to pick, but I'm going to go with Con Art, because I just think more people should listen to it. BTW, you can skip the final track, because it's just a twenty minute field recording of almost nothing.
Hala Strana- Fielding
Precipitation - Meditations on the Self and the Other
Perigeo - Non È Poi Così Lontano
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
Il Baricentro - Sconcerto
White Woods : Spaceship Earth
Musette - Datum
Pretty Lights - Taking Up Your Precious Time
Grim - Folk Music
The Work - Slow Crimes
Con Art by Smart Went Crazy
I love the sound on this one. Violins, super clean guitar sound with just enough compression, excellent crunchy sound in the more distorted parts. Snappy drums and great sounding bass. And none of that should be a surprise, since both Jeff Boswell (guitar) and Devin Ocampo (drums) of Faraquet were involved, while the leader of this band, the vocalist and guitarist Chad Clark, went on to form the band Beauty Pill and work as a producer with several bands including The Dismemberment Plan, Sparklehorse, Fugazi, Marc Ribot, Bob Mould, The Wilderness and others. In this sea of familiar names, it's strange that I've never heard of Smart Went Crazy. Anyways the record is pretty good, none of the songs were fillers and it all felt very coherent, maybe a bit too laid back. It lacked the punch of some of my favourite post-hardcore and math rock albums. Since I like the sounds and overall aesthetic, I hope it'll grow on me. 7.5/10
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Grim - Folk Music
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Tha1ChiefRocka 1990s/2000s charts mashup
Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle
Shiner - The Egg
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Wilderness - Wilderness
KMD - Black Bastards _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Con Art by Smart Went Crazy
I love the sound on this one. Violins, super clean guitar sound with just enough compression, excellent crunchy sound in the more distorted parts. Snappy drums and great sounding bass. And none of that should be a surprise, since both Jeff Boswell (guitar) and Devin Ocampo (drums) of Faraquet were involved, while the leader of this band, the vocalist and guitarist Chad Clark, went on to form the band Beauty Pill and work as a producer with several bands including The Dismemberment Plan, Sparklehorse, Fugazi, Marc Ribot, Bob Mould, The Wilderness and others. In this sea of familiar names, it's strange that I've never heard of Smart Went Crazy. Anyways the record is pretty good, none of the songs were fillers and it all felt very coherent, maybe a bit too laid back. It lacked the punch of some of my favourite post-hardcore and math rock albums. Since I like the sounds and overall aesthetic, I hope it'll grow on me. 7.5/10
Loving this!!! 😁
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
I always found Santana a bit take it or leave it, although I have seen a couple of great videos of some live songs, so haven't really listened to much of them. I did enjoy their debut which I think I listened to a while ago due to this game. I probably liked this one a little better. It had a good balance of chill and energy that kept it mostly interesting. Mostly got into the instrumental songs with their latin influence more than the ones with vocals. I'm giving this a 7.5/10, but it's a high 7.5/10, and 25/35 for 1970.
I really liked The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle.
Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 by Jameth (last pick)
1. Lorca by Tim Buckley
5. Hark! The Village Wait by Steeleye Span
6. Chicago by Chicago
8. Funkadelic by Funkadelic
9. Band Of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix
10. Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs
13. Workingman's Dead by Grateful Dead
15. Third Ear Band (Elements) by Third Ear Band
17. Flamingo by The Flamin' Groovies
23. Everything Is Everything by Donny Hathaway
Right out of the gate, Interpol is certainly a band that wears its influence on his sleeves. I have found a review of the album by Andy Kellman that, although positive nicely tackle this. Let me take the easy way out and quote it verbatim :
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One might go into a review like this one wondering how many words will pass before Joy Division is brought up. In this case, the answer is 16. Many are too quick to classify Interpol as mimics and lose out on discovering that little more than an allusion is being made. [...] This record is no fun at all, the tension is rarely resolved, and -- oh no! -- it isn't exactly revolutionary, though some new shades of gray have been discovered. But you shouldn't allow your perception to be fogged by such considerations when someone has just done it for you and, most importantly, when all this brilliance is waiting to overwhelm you.
I pretty much agree with everything on this. Interpol isn't inventing nothing new on here, but what they do they do it so well.
34. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
87. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
105. Merriweather Post Pavillon - Animal Collective
120. If you're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
127. Violator - Depeche Mode
135. All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
136. Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
146. Teen Dreams - Beach House
152. Moving Pictures - Rush
163. Currents - Tame Impala
baystateoftheartNeil Young as a butternut squashProfile Massachusetts
I listened to this a couple days ago but couldn't post about it then, so my memory is not as clear now. It's a really good nocturnal vocal jazz album, one of many in the 50s. Short and sweet. No complaints about the vocals or instrumentation, but I don't love the song selection. The lyrical gender politics feel a bit more regressive than other acclaimed vocal jazz albums of the era. 3.5/5.
1960: Have Guitar, Will Travel - Bo Diddley
1974: Rock N Roll Animal - Lou Reed
1981: Prayers On Fire - The Birthday Party
1986: Infected - The The
1997: Slightly Odway - Jebediah
2005: Wolfmother - Wolfmother
2006: Just Like The Fambly Cat - Grandaddy
2008: The Long Now - Children Collide
2009: Baby Darling Doll Face Honey - Band Of Skulls
2011: Thank You, Happy Birthday - Cage The Elephant _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
There's a Japanese power electronics duo called White Hospital that released one album called Holocaust in the 80s. The two members disbanded after the one album. One went on to do ambient music under the name Vasilisk (I've added one of his albums) and the other went to create more power electronics stuff, which would be this album. The album starts off with a mellow kind of synth thing that lulls the listener into a false sense of security before screaming at them mercilessly for a few minutes. The whole album isn't great, but it served it's purpose as an interesting listen for it's runtime.
Hala Strana- Fielding
Precipitation - Meditations on the Self and the Other
Perigeo - Non È Poi Così Lontano
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
Il Baricentro - Sconcerto
White Woods : Spaceship Earth
Musette - Datum
Pretty Lights - Taking Up Your Precious Time
The Work - Slow Crimes
Neil Ardley - Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows
I like Wolfmother, in fact I have their pick which I caught at an excellent show several years ago. But this is one of my favourite videos on yt and the exact reason why I love Mike 🤣 _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle by The Olivia Tremor Control
It's like the most psychedelic Beatles work was produced in the 90s, but even more psychedelic and experimental. There's some United States Of America and maybe even Os Mutantes and that Brasilian psychedelic tropicalia thrown in. I liked the songs and I liked most of the experimental sounds, but what I didn't like was the distribution. There was too much "empty space", if that makes sense. Of course the biggest wrongdoer is Green Typewriter. It's 10 songs with the same name which aren't really cohesive, and it's because of them that the whole second part of the album lacks any flow. The first Green Typewriter track is great though. 7.5/10
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Tha1ChiefRocka 1990s/2000s charts mashup
Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
Shiner - The Egg
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Wilderness - Wilderness
KMD - Black Bastards
Gravitar - Freedom's Just Another Word For Never Getting Paid _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
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