Re: Desert Island Albums: The Storm
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
.....and because I'm a greedy so and so, here's another 5 in case my first choices get damaged on the Island.
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
90s
Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Ozomatli - Ozomatlil
Goats - Tricks of the Shade
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Special mention:
Fugazi - Repeater
00s
Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Lcd Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
Outkast - Stankonia
Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Ozomatli - Ozomatlil
Goats - Tricks of the Shade
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Special mention:
Fugazi - Repeater
00s
Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Lcd Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
Outkast - Stankonia
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
I forgot all about this one! I was a little bit obsessed with it for awhile back there and it should definitely have been up for my consideration even though, ultimately, I don't think it would've made it. It's beautiful in its way for sure, but it's pretty depressing.
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So many mentioned I'd forgotten about...
Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
and
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Which brings to mind this masterwork, which is a definite coulda, shoulda been a contender, no clue what he's singing about but it's heartbreaking:
For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver (2007)
Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
and
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Which brings to mind this masterwork, which is a definite coulda, shoulda been a contender, no clue what he's singing about but it's heartbreaking:
For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver (2007)
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
Raising Sand - Plant & Krauss
Hot Fuss - Killers
Long Road Out of Eden - Eagles
Get What You Need - Undertones
Hot Fuss - Killers
Long Road Out of Eden - Eagles
Get What You Need - Undertones
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
If I'm honest, there ought to be 2 compilations in my 5 (Your new favourite band - The Hives, and Muchus Gracias - Kyuss), but that would be cheating. Instead, I have these:
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Hypodermix - Battle for a Generation
Mad Marge & The Stonecutters - Mad Marge & The Stonecutters
Public Enemy – How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???
Tinariwen – Aman Iman: Water Is Life
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Hypodermix - Battle for a Generation
Mad Marge & The Stonecutters - Mad Marge & The Stonecutters
Public Enemy – How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???
Tinariwen – Aman Iman: Water Is Life
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
It is indeed beautiful in its own way - and one of those was seeing them perform it live just before Covid - I’ve never seen such a rousing and emotive performance of Geraldine by both the band and crowd on an early Sunday afternoon. Everyone giving their heart and soul - and the band had clearly not just turned up to go through the motions and get the bucks!!last.caress wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:27 am I forgot all about this one! I was a little bit obsessed with it for awhile back there and it should definitely have been up for my consideration even though, ultimately, I don't think it would've made it. It's beautiful in its way for sure, but it's pretty depressing.
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
Iommi - Fused
Rush - Vapor Trails
Audioslave - Audioslave
The Darkness - Permision to Land
Queens of the Stoneage - Lullabies to Paralyze
Rush - Vapor Trails
Audioslave - Audioslave
The Darkness - Permision to Land
Queens of the Stoneage - Lullabies to Paralyze
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power (2003)
From about 1997 to 2003 I bought very little new music. Then from the comfort of the Cider Bus at Glastonbury I watched a band hitting each other with plastic herons and playing the most intriguing art-rock while a 10 foot bear danced through the crowd. A few weeks later I bought their debut album, and it was just as good.
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (2005)
Probably the only album I've ever bought based purely on the band name and album artwork, without knowing anything at all about the band or the music contained therein. Fortunately it was brilliant.
!!! - Myth Takes (2007)
My equivalent of Rio's Wildhearts - a band no-one else I know cares about, or can even pronounce their name, but I will praise to the heavens.
Foals - Antidotes (2008)
Their debut album, when they were making quirky maths-rock rather than stadium-filling stuff.
White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001) Guitar, vocal and rudimentary drums, but an incredible sound.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda: Bat For Lashes, Kasabian, 2manydjs, Delphic, The Polyphonic Spree, The Streets.
And Everything Everything, so I can post again the best content ever created for the internet:
From about 1997 to 2003 I bought very little new music. Then from the comfort of the Cider Bus at Glastonbury I watched a band hitting each other with plastic herons and playing the most intriguing art-rock while a 10 foot bear danced through the crowd. A few weeks later I bought their debut album, and it was just as good.
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (2005)
Probably the only album I've ever bought based purely on the band name and album artwork, without knowing anything at all about the band or the music contained therein. Fortunately it was brilliant.
!!! - Myth Takes (2007)
My equivalent of Rio's Wildhearts - a band no-one else I know cares about, or can even pronounce their name, but I will praise to the heavens.
Foals - Antidotes (2008)
Their debut album, when they were making quirky maths-rock rather than stadium-filling stuff.
White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001) Guitar, vocal and rudimentary drums, but an incredible sound.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda: Bat For Lashes, Kasabian, 2manydjs, Delphic, The Polyphonic Spree, The Streets.
And Everything Everything, so I can post again the best content ever created for the internet:
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
And a late, late entry for the 90s:
The God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
The God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
I really have been ignorant of music since 2000 onwards... I've not even heard of the majority of stuff being posted!
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I thought that too as my CD collection (by year of release) drops off a cliff around 1999 but I was surprised how many made my shortlist plus half a dozen mentioned in posts by others I loved but had forgotten about.
The Teeny's (if Prophet goes that far) might be a the real killer, loose shortlist forming in my head has two Springsteen albums FFS. Cutting edge or what
The Teeny's (if Prophet goes that far) might be a the real killer, loose shortlist forming in my head has two Springsteen albums FFS. Cutting edge or what
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
I suspect a lot of us are of a similar age!Junco Partner wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:23 am I thought that too as my CD collection (by year of release) drops off a cliff around 1999 but I was surprised how many made my shortlist plus half a dozen mentioned in posts by others I loved but had forgotten about.
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-5: Proper Noughty
OK, so the 2000s seemed to have led to fewer votes all round, this time, with 80 different bands/artists selected.
Only two bands got 4 or more shouts, namely
Radiohead with 5 in total, and Arctic Monkeys getting 4.
The Darkness, LCD Soundsystemn and The Killers were all vying for third place with 3 each.
Only two bands got 4 or more shouts, namely
Radiohead with 5 in total, and Arctic Monkeys getting 4.
The Darkness, LCD Soundsystemn and The Killers were all vying for third place with 3 each.
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-6: Collections
Only 3 this week, pop (and other forms of music) pickers, but, flipping up everything onto its head, this time you cannot select conventional studio albums.
The field is in fact nice and wide, where today, adding to the 25 you've already got, are 3 collections, which can be
1. A band's greatest hits
2. A compilation of a certain type of music (mixes also acceptable)
3. A reissue of a classic, with all the demos etc, or, even, as I have selected, a live album (that also happens to be a bootleg)
It can even be your favourite number of Now That's What I Call Music (I practically wore out the cassette of the first one of these).
My three:
I bought this because a girlfriend bought second hand their first album and we wanted to get some idea of what the rest of the albums sounded like.
One of those compilations that seemed to get better every time I played it. The sleeve was great, the stuff to read about the band was all good, but the variety of the music was totally unexpected. I've done this repeatedly since, grabbing a 'best of' from a band or artist I wanted to know more about. This one really stood the test of time.
Thank Your Lucky Stars - The Smiths
I saw their final show in London, as much as no-one knew what was going to happen to them. This was three or four months before that
Some unexpected tracks played on this one; excellent sound quality. Still kicking myself that I never actually took the plunge and obtained this bootleg on vinyl. A brilliant band, who, on their day, were even better than their records live.
R&S back catalogue mixed by one of their DJ disciples, iirc from the original sound recordings.
The field is in fact nice and wide, where today, adding to the 25 you've already got, are 3 collections, which can be
1. A band's greatest hits
2. A compilation of a certain type of music (mixes also acceptable)
3. A reissue of a classic, with all the demos etc, or, even, as I have selected, a live album (that also happens to be a bootleg)
It can even be your favourite number of Now That's What I Call Music (I practically wore out the cassette of the first one of these).
My three:
I bought this because a girlfriend bought second hand their first album and we wanted to get some idea of what the rest of the albums sounded like.
One of those compilations that seemed to get better every time I played it. The sleeve was great, the stuff to read about the band was all good, but the variety of the music was totally unexpected. I've done this repeatedly since, grabbing a 'best of' from a band or artist I wanted to know more about. This one really stood the test of time.
Thank Your Lucky Stars - The Smiths
I saw their final show in London, as much as no-one knew what was going to happen to them. This was three or four months before that
Some unexpected tracks played on this one; excellent sound quality. Still kicking myself that I never actually took the plunge and obtained this bootleg on vinyl. A brilliant band, who, on their day, were even better than their records live.
R&S back catalogue mixed by one of their DJ disciples, iirc from the original sound recordings.
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-6: Collections
I'll limit myself to VA albums.
All of the Trojan reggae/dub collections are ace (I came quite close to putting the Christmas one on this list), but I think this is the collection that opened my mind to sounds and other records the most.
Trojan Dub Box Set
This came up in another thread recently, but the Creation sampler, Different For Domeheads was a really important record for me in my late teens when I first discovered John Peel and the then indie scene that I became obsessed with. Along with two Loft/Weather prophets songs, there's brilliant stuff from the Jasmine Minks, The Pastels, Primal Scream, The Bodines and Biff Bang Pow.
Creation Records ~ Different For Domeheads
35 years later, another label-based compilation that I loved was Mono No Aware from the brilliant Berl;in-based PAN. There have been absolutely loads of stunning and original releases on this label (Amnesia Scanner, NHK yx Koyxen and Pelada being personal favourites) and this makes for great headphone listening.
PAN Records - Mono No Aware
All of the Trojan reggae/dub collections are ace (I came quite close to putting the Christmas one on this list), but I think this is the collection that opened my mind to sounds and other records the most.
Trojan Dub Box Set
This came up in another thread recently, but the Creation sampler, Different For Domeheads was a really important record for me in my late teens when I first discovered John Peel and the then indie scene that I became obsessed with. Along with two Loft/Weather prophets songs, there's brilliant stuff from the Jasmine Minks, The Pastels, Primal Scream, The Bodines and Biff Bang Pow.
Creation Records ~ Different For Domeheads
35 years later, another label-based compilation that I loved was Mono No Aware from the brilliant Berl;in-based PAN. There have been absolutely loads of stunning and original releases on this label (Amnesia Scanner, NHK yx Koyxen and Pelada being personal favourites) and this makes for great headphone listening.
PAN Records - Mono No Aware
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Re: Desert Island Albums: Chapters 1-6: Collections
New Order Substance
The Rolling Stones The Brussels affair 73 live album
Depeche Mode 101
The Rolling Stones The Brussels affair 73 live album
Depeche Mode 101
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Beautiful South Carry On Up The Charts
Dance Craze
U2 Live at Red Rocks
Dance Craze
U2 Live at Red Rocks
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