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travelful
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- #11
- Posted: 05/01/2018 13:01
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About to start my day off with this Donovan record. 
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dihansse
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Age: 60
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- #12
- Posted: 05/01/2018 17:04
- Post subject: Re: Get To Know A Top 10: May Thread - Tilly
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | By a landslide with 40% of the vote, Tilly is the winner of the second poll. So here are the ten albums we will be discussing during the month of May:
1. A Gift From A Flower To A Garden - Donovan
2. Finally We Are No One - múm
3. Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan
4. Peace & Love - Dadawah
5. Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
6. Victorialand - Cocteau Twins
7. Blue Afternoon - Tim Buckley
8. Nocturne - Wild Nothing
9. Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno
10. Another Setting - The Durutti Column
Again, you can listen to as many of these as you have time and energy for - no pressure to get to know all ten well. This discussion also doesn't have to take place in order, because different people will be listening to them at different times.
Drop your musings, analysis, etc. here as the inspiration hits you. And where possible, interact with what other people have been saying for a more interesting discussion. |
For one reason or another I totally missed the first topic with albums of Luigii, sorry  
I only have two album in this list I have already listened to in the contect of my discoveries per year topic:
Bill Callahan:
and this was my comment then (it's now ranked 64th on my year chart of 2009):
"unfortunately this album isn't album is not available on Apple Music or Spotify so I had to listen to it on Youtube. The beginning of the album didn't convince me completely but after while the singing style of Billy Callahan and the way the songs are orchestrated got under my skin and I'm sure this could be a grower as well and that's the reason that I will put this in my personal top chart although at this moment it won't be high in rank."
and on Townes Van Zandt:
"For the Sake of the Song is not bad but the other tracks didn't appeal very much to me": so this album didn't make it to my top charts.
And I didn't include Victorialand in one of my charts either.
So out of three albums I listened to yet Bill Callahan wins for the moment. I will listen to the other seven in the coming days and already started with Donovan (which I already like better than his other albums including his greatest hits).
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Jimmy Dread
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- #13
- Posted: 05/01/2018 17:31
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I'm not going to prejudice what others might say/think about these LPs, but for me out of the five albums on this list I've heard two of them are BEAutiful, two are so-so and one is total bilge. I'm sure Tilly knows which one falls in the latter category 
Probably need to give the other 5 a spin, starting with that Durutti Column LP (I've only ever heard LC which was OK but it's currently residing in my garage waiting to be sold...)
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Tha1ChiefRocka
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Location: Kansas
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- #14
- Posted: 05/01/2018 19:44
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| Gowi wrote: | | Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: | Now, I remember why that Donovan album is so good. I don't care for Nick Drake that much, and this album was a better version of Pink Moon before that album was an apple in Nick Drake's eye. That 2nd album is so fragile sounding, I'm afraid to even cough during it, for fear of knocking Donovan and his Scottish folkiness right over. I know Donovan caught flak for being a Dylan imitator by some (a ridiculous accusation) did Nick Drake ever get called a Donovan imitator?
I used to listen to the Donovan's greatest hits album all of the time. I enjoyed revisiting this whole album. |
Outside of being earnest folk albums, I don’t think Nick Drake’s efforts and this Donovan album have anything in common. They have two completely different approaches, not to mention their atmosphere is entirely different. I always feel Nick Drake’s efforts are more “earthy” while Donovan (especially here) conveys a more “airy” tone. Both are emotionally poignant, just in different hemispheres.
Drake has more in common with Walker rather than Dylan or Donovan |
Fair points.
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dihansse
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Age: 60
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- #15
- Posted: 05/01/2018 20:33
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I listened to two albums of the list:
The Donovan album started off real fine: the first two tracks are great and really show off the folky Donovan style in the best way. The rest of the album follows this up in the same way but not always with the same song quality and in many instances fairly repetitive especially because there's 22 songs here. So finally not one I will select.
Then I picked the album which I thought would appeal to me the most (and to be honest a bit strange that I didn't pick it up in 2012) at first sight and I fairly liked it, especially the first half. To me it's a bit a more dreamy/shoegaze and more electronic (though there are guitars here as well) version of The War On Drugs however much the music has got its roots in the eighties. It's gonna be a competitor for best personal album of the list. The highest rated track, Paradise, is in fact my least favorite song as it is to me a bit of a weak imitation of a Depeche Mode song.
The only thing I've got with this album Tilly, if you like this album so much because of it's references to the eighties and college rock, why not go for the real thing(s)?
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mickilennial
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Location: Detroit
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- #16
- Posted: 05/01/2018 20:39
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| Quote: | | The only thing I've got with this album Tilly, if you like this album so much because of it's references to the eighties and college rock, why not go for the real thing(s)? |
I'm pretty sure he likes both. I'm pretty sure he can like both.
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- #17
- Posted: 05/01/2018 21:57
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| dihansse wrote: |
Then I picked the album which I thought would appeal to me the most (and to be honest a bit strange that I didn't pick it up in 2012) at first sight and I fairly liked it, especially the first half. To me it's a bit a more dreamy/shoegaze and more electronic (though there are guitars here as well) version of The War On Drugs however much the music has got its roots in the eighties. It's gonna be a competitor for best personal album of the list. The highest rated track, Paradise, is in fact my least favorite song as it is to me a bit of a weak imitation of a Depeche Mode song.
The only thing I've got with this album Tilly, if you like this album so much because of it's references to the eighties and college rock, why not go for the real thing(s)? |
yeah. Like Gowi, I'm kinda confused.
Do you mean because it's less authentic? Or that the original innovators typically sound better?
Regarding 80s College Rock, I know all that stuff VERY well. and I found Nocturne an EXTREMELY refreshing update of that genre.
Here's what I wrote in my chart...
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JIGSAW PUZZLE
Finally! Someone loves The Cure and 80s college rock as much as me. Thank you, Jack Tatum, for this absolute gift of an album. One giant homage to the 80s college rock of my youth. Just like me, every guitar line, every bass line, every drum fill has become a part of Jack’s DNA . The strings from Morrissey’s first solo album, early JAMC vocal stylings, the bass of MBV. It’s all here. Like pieces of an elaborate jigsaw puzzle. Rearranged. Put back together to create something entirely new. A reimagining of 80s college rock by the ultimate fan.
But, just like me, it’s mostly about The Cure. The Cure’s shadow over 80s college rock is similar to Sabbath’s over metal/stoner rock. It always comes back to them. And Robert Smith is quietly, ( very, very quietly) one of the most influential guitarists of all time. His swirling, kaleidoscopic guitar licks are all over this album. And Robert Smith makes up the bulk of the pieces of this here jigsaw puzzle.
Grade: A+. There’s really only one question when it comes to this album. If it had actually come out in 1987 instead of 2012, would it be considered the best college rock albums of all time? Because this is 80s college rock perfected.
I’m a massive fan of 80s college rock. Let’s face it - it’s what I grew up on. It’s part of my DNA. And this is EASILY some of the best college rock this boy has ever heard. It captures that winsome, romantic spirit at the heart of so much of 80s New Wave. There was a ton of hope in that music. A naive, romantic innocence. And its so great to find that spirit so alive and well here. Intact. Inviolate. And I will be returning to its well often I have a feeling. Long live the 80s! Wink
Aside: This album also reminds me that I NEED to get back into the Pale Saints. I have a feeling that they’re a big influence on JackTatum as well, but I don’t know them well enough to be sure. |
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- #18
- Posted: 05/01/2018 22:00
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| Jimmy Dread wrote: | I'm not going to prejudice what others might say/think about these LPs, but for me out of the five albums on this list I've heard two of them are BEAutiful, two are so-so and one is total bilge. I'm sure Tilly knows which one falls in the latter category
Probably need to give the other 5 a spin, starting with that Durutti Column LP (I've only ever heard LC which was OK but it's currently residing in my garage waiting to be sold...) |
lol. I certainly do.
Which one did u find BEAtiful (besides Mum, I know u dig that one).
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Jimmy Dread
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- #19
- Posted: 05/01/2018 22:10
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| Tilly wrote: | | Which one did u find BEAtiful (besides Mum, I know u dig that one). |
The one in the pretty box with all the inserts I picked up in Near Mint condition which made you a teeny bit envious 
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- #20
- Posted: 05/01/2018 22:12
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| Jimmy Dread wrote: | | The one in the pretty box with all the inserts I picked up in Near Mint condition which made you a teeny bit envious |
ugh! u had to remind me!!!
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