This was really refrshing and relaxing and gorgeous. Its fun hearing pop rock and folk rock from completely different cultural perspectives. As, while quite familiar, the sounds do deviate from my expectations in subtle and surprising ways, while also having a power over me that I tie to american/english speaking artists who made similar music in the 70s. As this is apparently a 1977 album that finally got released a couple years ago.
When I first saw the cover when assembling the list for this game, I loved how goofy and 70s the guy looked and I thought that maybe he was just old school. But nah, it makes sense now.
Anyway, about the music, its great. The opening like 12 minute track with all its distinct parts that yet all play into the theme and feel of the song, is a goddamn masterpiece. The melodies from the keyboard(?) are powerful and wistful and I love it. The psychedelic sounds of the guitars and the textures really push it from being a really good song to just transcendent.
After that the rest of the album is consistently a stunning mix of psych elements, folk rock, pop rock, jazzy pop, prog pop, and many other dreamy and well-integrated styles . In particular, the second to last track, "Yawma Konna" is broken into 2 or 3 distinct parts, the first half is cool, but then the uplifting, sunny jazz of part 2 is heaven, and then he goes back to the original folk pop sound and introduces strange sound effects to close it out... anyway, I love it.
1. The First Glass Beach Album - Glass Beach
2. Pull the Right Rope - Junior Brother
3. Kiwanuka - Michael Kiwanuka
4. Little Electric Chicken Heart - Ana Frango Elétrico
5. Two Hands - Big Thief
6. House of Sugar - (Sandy) Alex G
7. Come In - Weatherday
8. Somewhere City - Origami Angel
9. Between the Country - Ian Noe
10. Pony - Orville Peck _________________ -Ryan
Keep an eye out for anything Habibi Funk's reissuing. I think they only have a dozen or so releases right now, but they've been digging stuff up from whoknowswhere for a couple years now. Issues 003, 005, 008, 009, 011 & 013 are particularly good.
And that Dr. Alimantado is simply one of the best.
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Well I finally had to bite the bullet and download [censored] to hear this, as there's only a single legal physical copy of it and no legal digital version. Great, compact album with jazzy production and some serious bars from Mach-Hommy. The first track is iffy, but the rest is heat (although I wouldn't pay $3000 for it). It may be conscious hip-hop, but it's still hard as bricks. I've enjoyed his features, but this is my first time listening to one of his projects. I expect I'll seek out more in the future. 4/5.
I should note this album will be on my next 2017 team, and I expect everyone to only listen to it legally (required, because law). (I kid, I kid.) _________________ Doubles & Conch
Best Dressed Chicken In Town by Dr. Alimantado
Hayden wasn't kidding, this certainly is one of the best deejay/dub/roots reggae albums I've heard. May sound sacriligeous to some, but it was better than anything Upsetters/Lee Scratch Perry associated that I've heard. Think I prefer it to Heart of the Congos as well (although that's a slightly different genre), I was never as big on that one as most people. I'm a beginner when it comes to Jamaican dub and reggae scene, but out of 10-15 albums I've heard this is easily top 5, wonderfully uplifting jams, always the right length and varied enough to be engaging 100% of the time. The cover is great as well. Just over half an hour long, I can do back to back listen 😄 8.5/10
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That Big Thief album is cool, plus it has Not
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baystateoftheart 1990s/2000s charts mashup && "Whatever" list
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip
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Shub Niggurah - Les Morts Vont Vite
Midori - Aratamemashite, hajimemashite, Midori desu.
Charlie Morrow - America Lament
Meridian Brothers - Desesperanza
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Paix
MIKE - Weight of the World
The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
Laurie Anderson - Bright Red _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
I would say this was an interesting album. It's weird, it is quite varied by its sound palette and it does feel different enough that if this was put side to side with its peers, I would notice the difference. But I wouldn't say it was an absolute favorite. It was good. But I think the main take away from it would be how the album had this quality where I wished the album would envelope me. That quality of not being a part of the soundscapes prevents me from adoring this. But I will say this is a worthwhile album. Though I do expect other listeners to not be as impressed. Grade:75
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Led, Belle and Sebastian
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BEA's Top 100 Albums of 1993
(73) Donald Fagen-Kamakiriad
(82) Cracker-Kerosene Hat
(84) Blue Rodeo-Five Days In July
(85) Sugar-Beaster
(87) Kingston Wall-II
(92) Heroes Del Silencio-El Espiritu Del Vino
(94) Elements Of Crime-Weibes Papier
(95) Adorabale-Against Perfection
(97) Seefeel-Quique (R)
98 Billy Joel-River Of Dreams
Porno for Pyros is post-Jane's Addiction band, Perry Farrell fronted. Don't think I've ever heard any of their albums, how would you rank it alongside JA's other stuff? _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Porno for Pyros is post-Jane's Addiction band, Perry Farrell fronted. Don't think I've ever heard any of their albums, how would you rank it alongside JA's other stuff?
Honestly I need to listen to some Jane's Addiction before I could comment about that. Maybe later on, but I don't expect that coming soon. Though, now that you mentioned it, the quality of the mix does remind me a bit of the 1990 album.
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Keep an eye out for anything Habibi Funk's reissuing. I think they only have a dozen or so releases right now, but they've been digging stuff up from whoknowswhere for a couple years now. Issues 003, 005, 008, 009, 011 & 013 are particularly good.
And that Dr. Alimantado is simply one of the best.
Okay, thanks for the heads up! Its great that there are labels unearthing such things. I'll check them out!
This was really good. This band is just my jam. A couple great songwriters, a musical basis in the best genre of all time - Americana - some really kinda unsteady, woozy, uncertain sounding instrumentals, a vocalist who is a star in a very unique way, and a cool atmosphere. None of their albums (lol I have only heard 3) have yet truly cracked into my favorites lists, but all have been solid and I like what they are trying to do. And yes indeed "Not" is a cool ass song.
I think maybe I got this whole Big Thief experience jumbled cuz the first album I loved and listened to by "them" wasn't by them but was the amazing acoustic album by Lenker last year. I think I had heard Masterpiece by Big Thief before then but not really, i mean I don't remember it now. So songs by Adrienne Lenker was the first and the second album was... the Buck Meek album from this year. And now I am finally cathcing up on their band. Anyway, I'm rambling and saying a whole lotta nothin'.
I really did like this album, quite a unique indie rock album with a dreamy and gorgeous harmony and melody game, and some understated songs here. Noice.
Okay, 1950s music, not a genre, but a whole decade, I have heard such a laughably low amount of albums from that decade. So! I'll make a list of the top rated albums on RYM that are pre-1960 - including literally anything from 30s and 40s too i suppose but i think mostly 50s to start. And this list of 10 albums are albums I 1. have any slight interest in and 2. I have either not heard or can't say I know shit about even if I have "heard" it once. Here we go!
1a. Le sacre du printemps - Igor Stravinsky/New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein (1958)
1b. Le sacre du printemps - Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York / Igor Stravinsky (1940)
Note: if you pick the above please indicate which you think I should listen to.
2. Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley (1958)
3. The Goldberg Variations - Johann Sebastian Bach/Glenn Gould (1956)
4. Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris - George Gershwin/Columbia Symphony Orchestra / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein (1959)
5. Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Trio Pasquier / Olivier Messiaen (1957)
6. Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1954)
7. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book - Ella Fitzgerald (1956)
8. Pithecanthropus Erectus - The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop (1956)
9. Concerto for Orchestra - Béla Bartók/Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner (1956)
10. Chega de saudade - João Gilberto (1959) _________________ -Ryan
Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout
This most definitely was not my cup of tea. Sorry Chief. I couldn't really get into any aspect of it - it did very subtly remind me of Beautiful South, but very distantly.
3. Chief's Top 100
1. The Alan Lomax Recordings, 1959 by The United Sacred Harp Convention
5. The Power And The Glory by Gentle Giant
6. Temple IV by Roy Montgomery
9. Romanworld by Romanthony
10. Läther by Frank Zappa
11. The Purist by Byron Stingily
12. Watching From A Distance by Warning
13. The Way Of Eiheiji - Zen Buddhist Ceremony by Rev. Tetsuya Inoue
15. Undercurrent by Bill Evans & Jim Hall
18. Joplin: Treemonisha by Gunther Schuller / Houston Grand Opera Orchestra & Chorus
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
Porno for Pyros is post-Jane's Addiction band, Perry Farrell fronted. Don't think I've ever heard any of their albums, how would you rank it alongside JA's other stuff?
I don't like it nearly as much at all.
MercuryTurn your back on the pay-you-back last callProfile St. Louis
When talking about a piece of music so legendary and revolutionary, I feel quite insufficient. So, this will be the most layman of all layman comments.
This was good. It was strangely off-putting at times, made me somewhat scared. The dissonant parts are so wild and I get why it was such a revolutionary piece. I think this is really cool. I didn't just feel or picture darkness and gloom and terror, only sometimes, other times were gorgeous and soaring and inspiring. It was nice. I don't understand a lick of what made it so groundbreaking or controversial, but the sounds i heard were cool.
I will listen to some other renditions of it soon to compare and contrast and also that gives me a chance to relisten to this several times.
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