OK, you asked for this
(it's in my Bubbling Under and is BRUTAL x50)
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
louis are you excited?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
What do you think will win?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
My money is on SFA
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i reckon ulrich might take it
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
haha kerr you have GOT to stop doing this
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe all the votes were for the exhaustive write-up
3 for The Terse Crimp! OMG!
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I was almost right
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i reflexively voted for it because it was the only track here i'd heard xpost
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
john justen who did you vote for?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
gee i wonder who voted for deathspell omega?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
23 best albums (off the top of my head):
1) Ulver - Blood Inside2) Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche3) Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World4) Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra5) Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place6) Half Man Half Biscuit - Trouble Over Bridgwater7) Oceansize - Effloresce8) Volcano! - Beautiful Seizure9) Thomas White - I Dream Of Black10) Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel11) Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts12) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.13) Grandaddy - Sumday14) Youthmovies - Good Nature15) Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum16) Radiohead - Hail To The Thief17) The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars18) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat19) Darkspace - Darkspace III20) Six By Seven - The Closer You Get21) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart22) The Fall - The Unutterable23) My Computer - No CV
goodnight, and happy new decade
― Louis Jagger (acoleuthic), Thursday, 31 December 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome list! i really want to hear this lapsus linguae now but they seem to be pretty impossible to track down in the states. the stuff i already knew + that spotify playlist is all top notch tho
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 31 December 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
do me a favor though - and please collectively decide whether i'm supposed to be lj's mom or love interest (both is not an option).
I don't know why both can't be an option.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 January 2010 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Urgh, so much prog-wank! lol 00's
― beautiful sunrise in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
If I had a bit longer to digest it, the St Vincent album might threaten this list, but precious little else from 2009. Maybe Gyratory System.
― beautiful sunrise in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
When I saw your list I thought, 'Urgh, so little prog-wank!'
― I X Love (Abbott), Friday, 1 January 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha! That was my first post of the decade, thought it might as well be a nice little self-deprecating jab! Albums with prog elements: 1-4, 7-19, 21, 23, hence there are 4 albums here that aren't at all 'prog'. I make that quite a decent ratio!
You'd go mad for Lapsus Linguae fwiw
― agonising dusk in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
(and of those 4 albums, all 4 have songs with unorthodox structures that COULD be construed as 'progressive'...)
― agonising dusk in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
louis, i think <a href="http://scramblerseequill.bandcamp.com/">this</a> might be another band we can agree on. slightly dreamy pop with lots of out-of-left-field changes, and all the musicians can play their fucking asses off.
i'm not in love with the singer/songs or anything yet, but the music is really exciting.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, 26 February 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
oops
ooh didn't see this, Jordan! thanks, will check out! your last recommendation was sound.
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
my top 50 albums huh
cardiacs - sing to godvdgg - pwn <3s
fuck
can I just give 2?
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
an attempt at an UNRANKED remaining 48:
ulver - blood insidemansun - sixcardiacs - the seasidespratley's japs - ponythe fall - levitatethe fall - the unutterablevdgg - still lifeautechre - draft 7.30foetus - holethe cure - pornographyswirlies - they spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salonsmercury rev - yerself is steamsoft machine - thirdlapsus linguae - you got me fraichekayo dot - dowsing anemone with copper tongue (new one might join it when I finally get around to buying it)william d drake - the rising of the lightsthumpermonkey - we bake our bread beneath her holy fireneurosis - through silver in bloodtalk talk - spirit of edenwire - sendwire - 154the the - infectedhood - rustic houses, forlorn valleysmr bungle - disco volante (although their best two songs are on the debut)deep turtle - there's a vomitsprinkler in my liverrivermagma - mdkthe fiery furnaces - blueberry boat (fuck you)thomas white - i dream of blackneu - neudalek - absence (in your face whiney lol)cannibal ox - the cold vein (faaaaaace)duran duran - rio volcano! - beautiful seizureoceansize - efflorescejute gyte - discontinuitiespeter hammill - the silent corner & the empty stagecardiacs - gunscardiacs - heaven born & ever brightcardiacs - on land & in the seatim smith - extra special oceanlandworldthe fall - hex enduction houryouthmovies - good natureto arms etc - to arms etcthighpaulsandra - i, thighpaulsandrahalf man half biscuit - trouble over bridgwaterboredoms - super roots 7coil - musick to play in the dark
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
proooooog
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
List of 10 albums chosed by LJ that are good albums in my subjective estimation, ranked according to an objective sorting algorithm
autechre - draft 7.30wire - sendwire - 154boredoms - super roots 7the fall - hex enduction hourswirlies - they spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salonscannibal ox - the cold veinneu - neuthe fall - levitatethe fall - the unutterable
― 2 ℜ 4 u (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
you're a swirlies fan? figures i guess but i'd have had them as too childish for you
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
you missed "a little man and a house"!!
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
their worst album frogbs. sorry but it's true. still great but less so. imo, obv
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
its probably my 3rd favorite. I dunno, they're all worthy of laudation. What did you think of the Knifeworld album? (if you've heard it?) - it sucks that Tim obviously isn't on it, but IMO it's the next best thing
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
knifeworld album was cool & had a couple of screamers (unwreckaged, me to the future of you). also their recept eps have been good, maybe even better than the debut album material. monsoon bassoon album was obviously very good
the william d drake album in the list is my favourite non-tim-smith spin-off, but his solo album & spratleys japs are amazing as well
thumpermonkey are also cardiacs-influenced, u shd hear them
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's very solid. "Pissed up on Brake Fluid" sounds like something that would fit on a later day Cardiacs album. that said I feel their second album is going to blow it out of the water.
if you could pick 5 of these for me to hear, what would it be?
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 September 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
v difficult question that depends on what you've already heard. given what i know already
ulver - blood insidemansun - sixkayo dot - dowsing anemone with copper tonguewilliam d drake - the rising of the lightsthumpermonkey - we bake our bread beneath her holy fire
^^^if you leave this with mind unblown you can have your money back idk. they're mostly available on youtube or bandcamp
but the foetus, lapsus linguae and neurosis are also exceptionally important
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
voted Talk Talk...kinda boring choice, sorry!
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like to hear frogbs take on the Lapsus record.
Your description of The Terse Crimp is bang on LJ, I love that song.
I'm sure I've said this before, don't sleep on the Sea Nymphs records and also the Shrubbies record which was produced by Tim.
http://shrubbies.bandcamp.com/
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Sunday, 8 September 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
Ah this is cool. Forgot to say that North Sea Radio Orchestra's last album (I A Moon) is really superb and not far from any Top 50 list I could make (it's also dedicated to Tim Smith, albeit a little folkier and mellower than Cardiacs usually are). Similar personnel to Shrubbies iirc.
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Sunday, 8 September 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
ah yes, the 'nice little songs then monster title-track wig-out' trick. tends to obscure the littler songs a bit
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Sunday, 8 September 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
good album tho
last two tracks bringing the epic as well tbf
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Sunday, 8 September 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard the other two NSRO albums, both of them are pretty good. They sound a lot like Penguin Cafe Orchestra but I like NSRO better. You may like Birds a lot if you haven't heard it.
Just heard the Ulver album, metal isn't really in my wheelhouse (yet) but this is much different than that, very interesting and definitely not something I can really discern on one listen. I decided to listen to an earlier Ulver album too and it's very interesting, I can see why you like them.
Now listening to Mansun - Six...reminds me a bit of Mars Volta but not quite as over-the-top or obnoxious. Very good stuff so far.
― frogbs, Monday, 9 September 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
lj what do you think of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6GUq__yp24
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
deeply melancholy, effective synth build, simple melodic themes; basically a 3-minute mogwai song without guitars
v pretty but without the complexity or subtlety of narrative that really sets me off
some solo eno does appeal to me; my favourite stuff is on 'here come the warm jets', especially the cataclysmic descent into misanthropy that is 'driving me backwards'
― ... Jenks ... Neu! military£ ... snkkt! pickles Özil JTUPFRONT njhtdgs (imago), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
my favourite stuff is on 'here come the warm jets'
my man!
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
jets is the most lj friendly of the 70s song lps for sure
do you know on land? probably the most lj friendly of the ambient serie
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
Not at all. May investigate. I'd like to get into electronic music more, but artists like NWW, Current 93 etc have punishingly enormous discographies, dissuading me from the whole enterprise. Even The Fall took a long time to click.
― ... Jenks ... Neu! military£ ... snkkt! pickles Özil JTUPFRONT njhtdgs (imago), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:05 (eleven years ago) link