Get To Know A Top 10: May 2018 Thread - Tilly - Music

mickilennial
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Age: 35
Location: Detroit

Relistening to Nocturne and I find it very relaxing and nice. Perfect spring weather music. I love the midpoint between the jangle pop and dream pop soundscapes that Wild Nothing do here yet they never sound derivative or bland.

Luigii

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Age: 28

dihansse wrote:

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 Brick wall

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).

If you want to venture onto the April List, here is the link. Even when I have a feeling you might not like anything from the top 10.
https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20004

mickilennial
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Location: Detroit

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"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."

I literally just listened to it on spotify a hour or two ago...

Luigii

Gender: Male
Age: 28

I am halfway into Nocturne and damn this is that good shit. Can totally see this record getting into my list for not only 2012 but also the decade. Will post the grade in a bit but I definitely see a 90 or 95 for this album. Gives me some Tycho vibes.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

Tilly wrote:

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...

Quote:

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.

It was not so much a comment on this album in particular but that I didn't nearly find any of your eighties and college rock references in your overall chart, and the closest to that is another latecomer of 1999 being the Pinback album.

Mercury
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Location: St. Louis

I think Tilly’s Chart is a perpetual work in progress. Insofar as he had a chart of his faves then he started his diary and he started from the ground up and based off his new lives and diary entries he seems to have put this thing together based off that. His fave album ever from what I recall is Pornography, but not here, cuz again he’s sorta starting fresh. Like a newborn baby lamb. Or something.

As for this:

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

Well I am not familiar with all of them. The only ones I’m really familiar with at TVZ and Blue Afternoon. So, yeah I have a lot of listening to do for this top 10, and as Tilly is my fave person on this site (or at least one of the select people I enjoy talking to the most) I need to give more attention to these albums. I own that Wild Nothing album and it’s good. But haven’t heard it in years.

Anyway, it’s an inter sting top 10.
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-Ryan

ONLY 4% of people can understand this chart! Come try!

My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

Mercury wrote:

I think Tilly’s Chart is a perpetual work in progress. Insofar as he had a chart of his faves then he started his diary and he started from the ground up and based off his new lives and diary entries he seems to have put this thing together based off that. His fave album ever from what I recall is Pornography, but not here, cuz again he’s sorta starting fresh. Like a newborn baby lamb. Or something.

dihansse

Gender: Male
Age: 60

Gowi wrote:

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"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."

I literally just listened to it on spotify a hour or two ago...

This was a quote of a comment I made a year ago and I'm also still not sure if there are regional differences between the albums Spotify offers Wink

I know Apple has those differences.

mickilennial
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Location: Detroit

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Finally We Are No One by múm

I’m enjoying this well enough, but I feel like I’m not that in love with the textures and soundscapes here to say it will have staying power for me. I would definitely utilize this as background music when I need to write or relax, but for me this one doesn’t connect with me all too much. I don’t want to write it off as “background music” but I can’t help but think of it in that way.

dihansse

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Age: 60

Gowi wrote:

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Finally We Are No One by múm

I’m enjoying this well enough, but I feel like I’m not that in love with the textures and soundscapes here to say it will have staying power for me. I would definitely utilize this as background music when I need to write or relax, but for me this one doesn’t connect with me all too much. I don’t want to write it off as “background music” but I can’t help but think of it in that way.

I have been listening to it as well and my feeling was exactly the same.