i can do since...1999. 99 - Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun 00 - Radiohead - Kid A 01 - Daft Punk - Discovery 02 - Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People 03 - Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow 04 - Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned 05 - Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain 06 - Liars - Drum's Not Dead 07 - Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam 08 - Black Pus - Black Pus 4: All Aboard The Magic Pus
― Creeztophair, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
takes a nation of millions to be white
list away, pappa
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm Your Man" is the only one of those mentioned 1988 ones that is any good at all (and possibly House Of Love - I haven't heard anything by them other than "Shine On" - which was nice and catchy)
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
it's hard not to be canonical and a bit boring about old music unless you know the era (or at least a specific genre of it) really well. Probably there were albums released in those decades that I'd like a lot more than the ones I listed if I was aware of them
this is exactly why i don't know (or really care tbh) about old music, i already know i can never know the era like i know mine, and i also know that my appreciation of my favourite music is almost always heightened by knowing my era, so...getting into the past always seems like an unnecessarily sisyphean task. also, my reaction to anything canonical is to avoid it for as long as possible, the entire process of canonisation appalls me.
i do like miles davis, alice coltrane &c...i think i've had like 2, maybe 3 can albums on my computer for over 2 years now and still haven't got round to listening to them.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Canonisation is good and important. The classical canon exists for a reason and it's the same with the rock canon. Plus all musical genres should be judged from a criteria not too unlike classical music.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
clash of the tits
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 09:47 (fifteen years ago) link
judged from a criteria not too unlike classical music
Lol, by these criteria every album on your list is shite. Oh hang on, what am I doing?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"This is exactly why i don't know (or really care tbh) about old music, i already know i can never know the era like i know mine, and i also know that my appreciation of my favourite music is almost always heightened by knowing my era, so...getting into the past always seems like an unnecessarily sisyphean task."
I pretty much agree with this. Most of the time when I get into old music it's more because the specific artifact represents some idea or style that seems really crucial to me in an atemporal sense. Like, with Can, I don't really care about the position in 1970s music, their influence on post-punk etc. It's really much more about what they were doing with rhythms and grooves, which strikes me as existing on this horizon of, um, jagged funkiness (stay with me here) that a lot of my favourite music gets to but has difficulty getting past (perhaps in the same sense that you can't get past a horizon. So the reference points for Can for me are not so much Faust or P.I.L. and more other stuff from a whole host of styles which I feel exists on that same horizon. I made a comp the other day with Can's "Spoon" and Talking Heads' "The Great Curve" but also 2-step, A Guy Called Gerald jungle, Matias Aguayo, dancehall, Bubba Sparxx, 'O'Rang... It makes more sense to me to think of Can in a constellation like that, one that, I guess, effaces the canonical hierarchy between all these things but without extinguishing the point of difference that is uniquely Can's. I think Can are important, but I don't think you (or, perhaps, rather, I) can grasp that importance terribly well by approaching them with some more typical canonical framework such as "krautrock".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, you can still read old music internally without having a surplus of circumstantial knowledge (knowing what mingus phrases quote monk phrases etc). linking it with whatever you have heard and making those kind of connections is what makes listening to old music out of context so exciting imo.
― strgn, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
absolutely, i can relate with the lyrics of say, byrne, bowie, wilson and richman, probably more than yer average r'n'b or hiphop lyrics. totally white aesthetic i apppreciate, but if a white middle-englander can escape into the world of gangsta rap then i don't see why he or she can't transport themselves into 60s california. are you saying, lex, that you don't see the point of listening to music unless you can relate it directly to your era?
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Personally, I listen to a lot of old music exactly because it's so different from today's music. I don't know any current artists who'd give me the same vibe as Fela Kuti or Curtis Mayfield or Alice Coltrane. And I love finding about all the musical as well as other connections between the musicians and tunes of the past, it simply gives one's appreciation of the music and the era more depth, kinda like doing historical research. But I guess there's a difference between the type of music fan who wants to keep up with the music of today and only selectively listens to old music, often based on its connections to current music (I used to be like this when I was younger), and the type of fan who's lost track of current directions in music and only selectively listens to new music, but finds older music a more exciting and more easily manageable whole to dig into (I'm like this now). I'm not saying either approach is better than the other, but for a person like me, whos simply doesn't have the time and the energy to keep up with all the current developments and trends even in genres I like (let alone recorded music as a whole), the latter approach seems more comfortable and intriguing.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Lex's point is that there's a social aspect to enjoyment of Lil Wayne that is missing for David Bowie by and large.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess? i think what i like is the sense that the aesthetic i'm listening to is a living, breathing one. it's not that i can't transport myself into whatever aesthetic, i don't find i'm missing anything when i listen to the supremes or joni or whoever, it's perhaps that i just don't see the point of making the effort to get into an aesthetic which was the zeitgeist of people 40 years older than me.
when i first went to university i made a real effort for maybe 5 months to get into the old music i thought/was told i "should" like and i'm not joking, it almost all sucked...dylan, stones, beatles, bowie. dreadful! so many hours wasted trying to get into them. those 5 months may have put me off delving into the past 4 life.
xpps yeah the social aspect is impt, but it's also the sense that this artist or this scene could go anywhere or do anything and i ~don't know what it is~. watching a tennis match on replay when you already know the result vs watching a tennis match live. the former, you can appreciate the skillz etc but there's no thrill, it's done and dusted, we have the result and we're into the next round already, keep up.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I can see the point, yes, but I don't think it's wholly valid. If you are a person who's interested in old music and know about the musical and social history of the era, then you can put it into context, even if the context is unavoidably partial (but then again, so is today's context - no one can ever see the whole context to anything). If this weren't true, you couldn't really appreciate old books or movies either, right?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like anything (but specifically it might be like Eng Lit at school) - the past is much more fun when you find out things for yourself and make/invent your own connections. Helpful too if you're an old geezer like me who's lived through multiple nows and can still gain random or not-so-random pleasure from any of them.
Unhelpful is the schoolmaster/cod liver oil swallow it/it's good for you approach that too many people in power still take. For example I was put off listening to "classic soul music" - i.e. JB, Aretha, Stax etc. - for the best part of the eighties because of didactic twats in the NME, The Face etc. telling me the eighties music I liked was crap and fake and plastic and that I should listen to half an hour of Aretha every morning to learn about dignity. This at a time when hip hop, House, Jam & Lewis etc. were rewriting the rulebook practically every day - so if nothing else there wasn't any TIME to listen to "old" music, there was more than enough exciting new stuff to keep up with and find and yet there were all these palsied old twats in the NME and the fanzines moaning about ten years after punk it's all gone down the bog Buzzcocks and I'm YELLING fuck aren't you listening to Husker or Swans or Sonic Y or Big Black get out of your fucking provincial indie ghetto.
Then I discovered all that classic soul stuff for myself, spontaneously, and I realised how fucking great it really was, but I wouldn't have gone near it with all that capitalised Red Wedge Soul Passion & Honesty jaded music-crit baggage loaded onto it.
What's amusing now is to see people like Reynolds, who back then was in the vanguard of reaction against all of this, now moaning on about things they don't understand and haven't experienced properly (viz. Funky House, but that's just one example) and how we should all fall in obeisance to the Wire/Dissensus doctrine and so Pip Pyle RIP >>>>>> all modern music and that's just stupid, he's just turned into everything he used to hate. Or whinge whinge whingers oh the Verve album's a pile of shit and I felt guilty about buying it but I bought it FOR FUCK'S SAKE rap + R&B + grime + dancehall's going through a CLASSIC phase RIGHT NOW get out of the fucking graveyard and learn about living again, stop swallowing the corporate Guardian Music/Radio 2/Q line, pop music's in a BLOODY GREAT STATE at the moment and it's all there to be investigated and heard and loved. Right now I do feel that it's one of these times when again I don't really have the urge to delve back into the past (apart from the albums blog but that's a different past which nobody goes into much and not one affiliated to Rock's Rich Tapestry, thank fuck); I'm hearing amazing new tracks every bloody day at the moment and if I can still get a kick from now at my age then there's no excuse for anyone else.
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I meant that, like, you hear Lil Wayne on the radio and in clubs and the like far more easily than David Bowie. You'd have to have an incredibly selective social network with kind of idiosyncratic social practices to surround yourself with seventies glam in public to the extent that you can with chart rap. But it turns out this isn't what Lex meant really anyway!
Anyway I don't disagree with your general point Tuomas. I wasn't trying to say that a work's historical context isn't important to me, but that the stuff I like also has to be able to transport itself out of that context as well. The experience can't be entirely curatorial. The, as you say, unavoidability of partiality-of-context makes overly canonical presentations of taste seem a bit fictional and even dishonest to me, and I always think that something is being repressed when i read people talk about the music in those terms. For me there's got to be a relationship of mutually creative articulation between actual history and the listener's, more, erm, astrological take on the music they like.
x-post - what Marcello said! Specifically the first three paragraphs but I agree with the rest too pretty much.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
In reynolds' defence, at least he appears to like donk-bounce...
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
But it turns out this isn't what Lex meant really anyway!
it's what i meant as well! talked about that more on the past vs future music thread the other week, but i totally agree re the social factor - it's kind of the tangible manifestation of my nebulous "living, breathing aesthetic" thing.
really relate to marcello's 2nd para, it's no coincidence that all the music i love i got into either accidentally or before i was aware of music criticism generally. there's so much "you must listen to this album in this way" baggage with old music and, as with marcello in the 80s...new music takes up all my time now! those can albums i have, on every occasion i've nearly listened to them i've ended up being distracted by "ooh another young jeezy leak" or "ahh must go on beatport spree today actually" or "whoop whoop new ciara video on youtube".
the music of the past i most want to get into is 80s freestyle but i have no idea where to begin (debbie deb greatest hits is as far as i've got).
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"xpps yeah the social aspect is impt, but it's also the sense that this artist or this scene could go anywhere or do anything and i ~don't know what it is~. watching a tennis match on replay when you already know the result vs watching a tennis match live. the former, you can appreciate the skillz etc but there's no thrill, it's done and dusted, we have the result and we're into the next round already, keep up."
Yes this is so true. Something similar I wrote w/r/t funky house:
"Later on, we'll be able to look back and discern a narrative, to signpost almost precisely the moments when the goalposts were shifted and the paradigm transformed. But right now all such narrative flourishes are up for grabs, and the resulting sense of uncertainty is as satisfying as it is disarming for a critic like me. Critics like to look into the rearview mirror and think they see the future; what distinguishes UK funky house from any other style currently going is not merely that this story hasn't been written, but that it's moving so fast and so multi-directionally that such attempts at prophecy seem feeble even before they hit the page. To be able to accurately predict the future is fun, but to be in the thick of it, to hear the future emerging so unexpectedly that it confounds your predictions... there's quite seriously nothing better."
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
*goes off and checks Blissblog update for donk content*
OK, I'll let him off on that front...
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
This list will probably be different in a day or two's time, but for now...
1965 Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 1966 Beatles Band - Revolver 1967 Sgt Pepper 1968 Everly Brothers - Roots 1969 Dusty in Memphis 1970 Curtis Mayfield - Curtis 1971 Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story 1972 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust... 1973 John Cale - Paris 1919 1974 Sparks - Kimono My House 1975 Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert 1976 ELO - A New World Record 1977 Eno - Before and After Science 1978 Eno - Music for Airports 1979 Sister Sledge - We Are Family 1980 David Bowie - Scary Monsters 1981 Kraftwerk - Computer World 1982 Associates - Sulk 1983 Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones 1984 Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes 1985 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 1986 REM - Lifes Rich Pageant 1987 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love 1988 Todd Terry - To the Batmobile... 1989 Blue Nile - Hats 1990 KLF - Chill Out 1991 KLF - The White Room 1992 kd Lang - Ingenue 1993 Saint Etienne - So Tough 1994 Morrissey - Vauxhall and I 1995 Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix 1996 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 1997 Simon Warner - Waiting Rooms 1998 Air - Moon Safari 1999 Underworld - Beaucoup Fish 2000 Various - Sound of the Pirates mixed by Zed Bias 2001 Paul McCartney - Driving Rain 2002 Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season 2003 The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight 2004 LMP - A Century of Song 2005 Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House 2006 James Yorkston - The Year of the Leopard 2007 Soulsavers - It's not how far you fall... 2008 The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting how your list gets progressively less "canonical" the nearer it gets to now.
(nice to know I'm not alone in remembering Simon Warner though; he deserved better than permanent residency in the MVE bargain basement...)
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
it surprises me how many people pick compilations for one year
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost Yeah, I think what gets overlooked in the canonical debate is that there were just fewer albums released back in the 60s/70s, well, at least relative to the previous few years.
Other thing on a personal level is that I've pretty much gave up on reading the music press now, though still get Mojo through my letterbox, so I'm not 100% sure what the 'canonical' releases of the past few years have been, other than say Arcade Fire/Radiohead. Nowadays I'm not particularly interested in where something ranks in the wider world of current critique or pop culture history, I'm really just interested in where and how it fits into my world.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
For me the past few years have very definitely been a case of, not so much how new music will fit into my world, but how it might change or even enlarge my world. And, one way or another, sooner or later, the best new music still somehow manages to reach me without recourse to the dying dinosaur that is the music press. Which has to be a good thing.
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't understand the "my world" vs "wider world" distinction in the slightest.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
what do you mean? you don't understand why people care about the wider world part?
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Unhelpful is the schoolmaster/cod liver oil swallow it/it's good for you approach that too many people in power still take. For example I was put off listening to "classic soul music" - i.e. JB, Aretha, Stax etc. - for the best part of the eighties because of didactic twats in the NME, The Face etc. telling me the eighties music I liked was crap and fake and plastic and that I should listen to half an hour of Aretha every morning to learn about dignity.
This pretty much echoes my experience. There's probably a whole bunch of people who didn't get into soul music for years because NME, Face etc just made it seem really boring and un-fun. Pretty sad to contemplate this, in retrospect.
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i just thought ignoring everything from before you were born until you were in your mid 20s was the norm
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I like this discussion, one of several good ones round these parts lately on what I've come to think of as pastism, an adherence to the past at the expense of the present. I've become almost totally wedded to past musics, and the talk around here lately has jarred me to try to figure out why and what that implies. This classical music teacher John Rohnsheim gives a nice critiqueof pastism among both composers and audience:
Q: Do you think you should totally . . . you should know tonality, before you go off, before you create what's inside you?
Well, see . . . I . . . this might reflect my own opinion of today's music, in some form, OK? See, I'm against neo-clacissism. . . I'm not against it, it's just worthless. You can't repeat the past. People who try to repeat the past, there's something gone wrong - no, it's an end of something. Obviously we're in a decadent period of the arts. Everybody's making things over again. That's a sure sign that no one has anything to say. And that goes on all the time, including rock music now. The Rolling Stones traveling, 59,000 people go to Cincinnati Stadium to see the Rolling Stones last weekend? 59,000 people? They made millions of dollars? What in the hell are the Rolling Stones saying that's so vital for young people? My god, they existed when things were . . different! Are they doing anything really different? What's going on? Films being made over, ah, going back to tonality and doing things with tonality . . .
Q: So you think its like beating your head against the wall.
A: (shouts) NO!!! Just people who don't know what to do, they have no imagination. AND, you are a servant of now. You can't . . be . . from a different era. . . you can't pretend that you're living one thousand years ago, or one thousand years from now. You are a NOW person, you have to confront what NOW is, and somehow transcend it! Don't let it control you, but you control it. So we are, so . . . Tonality is Dead! Done! Finished! Boring! Dull! Boom! And all the people that compose, who make fashion now? Boring as hell! Terribly boring. They have no vitality. No conflict. Dullards. My opinion, and I know people who actually play in . . I can name two people, I know people who play in these groups, these musicians, I know these musicians, I've worked with them. I've told them, they agree with me, but they still do it.
― dad a, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Lol, by these criteria every album on your list is shite.
Not using the criteria that was used in the 18th and 19th century to judge the music that has actually become classic. Particularly prog holds up fine using 19th century criteria.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
65- Johnny Cash- Sings Ballads of the True West 66- Merle Haggard- Swingin' Doors & The Bottle Let Me Down 67- Loretta Lynn- Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) 68- Johnny Cash- At Folsom Prison 69- Merle Haggard- Same Train, Different Time 70- Kris Kristofferson- Kristofferson 71- Dolly Parton- Coat of Many Colors 72- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band- Will The Circle Be Unbroken? 73- Waylon Jennings- Honky Tonk Heroes 74- Tanya Tucker- Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)? 75- Guy Clark- Old No. 1 76- Waylon Jennings- Waylon Live 77- Emmylou Harris- Luxury Liner 78- Willie Nelson- Stardust 79- Hank Williams Jr.- Whiskey Bent & Hellbound 80- George Jones- I Am What I Am 81- John Anderson- 2 82- George Strait- Strait From the Heart 83- The Judds- Wynonna & Naomi 84- George Strait- Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind? 85- Mekons- Fear & Whiskey 86- Steve Earle- Guitar Town 87- Randy Travis- Always & Forever 88- Rodney Crowell- Diamonds & Dirt 89- Keith Whitley- I Wonder Do You Ever Think Of Me 90- Dwight Yoakam- If There Was a Way 91- Garth Brooks- Ropin’ the Wind 92- Alan Jackson- A Lot About Livin’ & a Little ‘Bout Love 93- Jimmie Dale Gilmore- Spinning Around the Sun 94- The Mavericks- What a Crying Shame 95- Emmylou Harris- Wrecking Ball 96- Lyle Lovett- The Road to Ensenada 97- Shania Twain- Come On Over 98- Vince Gill- The Key 99- Lucinda Williams- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 00- Terri Clark- Fearless 01- Alejandro Escovedo- A Man Under the Influence 02- Dixie Chicks- Home 03- Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road 04- Big’n’Rich- Horse of a Different Color 05- Gary Allan- Tough All Over 06- Alan Jackson- Like Red on a Rose 07- Josh Turner- Everything Is Fine 08- Jamey Johnson- That Lonesome Song
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 August 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
A bit expanded and revised since last time...
1967: Love - Forever Changes 1968: Silver Apples - Silver Apples 1969: Scott Walker - Scott 4 1970: The Velvet Underground - Loaded 1971: Can - Tago Mago 1972: Neu! - Neu! 1973: Fripp and Eno - (No Pussyfooting) 1974: Cluster - Zuckerzeit 1975: Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity 1976: David Bowie - Station to Station 1977: Brian Eno - Before and After Science 1978: Magazine - Real Life 1979: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 1980: Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth 1981: Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here 1982: The Cure - Pornography 1983: The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge 1984: Talk Talk - It's My Life 1985: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy 1986: Depeche Mode - Black Celebration 1987: Prince - Sign 'o' the Times 1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 1989: Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire 1990: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas 1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 1992: Tom Waits - Bone Machine 1993: The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen 1994: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In 1995: Slowdive - Pygmalion 1996: Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind 1997: Mogwai - Young Team 1998: Spiritualized - Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 1999: Low - Secret Name 2000: Radiohead - Kid A 2001: Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2002: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 2003: Four Tet - Rounds 2004: Madvillain - Madvillainy 2005: Daft Punk - Human After All 2006: Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye 2007: PJ Harvey - White Chalk 2008: Portishead - Third
― stephen, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
50 YEARS OF MUSIC ACCORDING TO ME (Yes, I am bored, why do you ask?)
1966 - The Horace Silver Quintet - The Cape Verdean Blues1967 - Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding1968 - The Beatles - The Beatles1969 - The Flying Burrito Bros - The Gilded Palace of Sin1970 - Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead1971 - Judee Sill - Judee Sill1972 - Wishbone Ash - Argus1973 - Can - Future Days1974 - Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic1975 - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks1976 - Ramones - Ramones1977 - Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue1978 - The Cars - The Cars1979 - Van Morrison - Into the Music1980 - The 2nd Chapter of Acts - The Roar of Love1981 - X - Wild Gift1982 - Donald Fagen - The Nightfly1983 - Dolly Mixture - Demonstration Tapes1984 - R.E.M. - Reckoning1985 - The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash1986 - Prince and The Revolution - Parade1987 - Death - Scream Bloody Gore1988 - Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man1989 - Boredoms - Soul Discharge1990 - Sonic Youth - Goo1991 - Autopsy - Mental Funeral1992 - The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde1993 - A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders1994 - Nas - Illmatic1995 - Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves1996 - UGK - Ridin' Dirty1997 - Pavement - Brighten the Corners1998 - Tom Varner - The Window Up Above: American Songs 1770-19981999 - Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock2000 - Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred2001 - Ellen Allien - Flieg mit Ellen Allien2002 - F.M. Knives - Useless & Modern2003 - Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway2004 - Mihály Dresch Quartet - Egyenes Zene2005 - Richard Hawley - Coles Corner2006 - Bob Dylan - Modern Times2007 - Ulver - Shadows of the Sun2008 - William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune2009 - Bat for Lashes - Two Suns2010 - Ghost - Opus Eponymous2011 - Destroyer - Kaputt2012 - Grimes - Visions2013 - Haim - Days Are Gone2014 - Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi2015 - Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
Cutting this off at 2015, to give the newer stuff more time to sink in, and because 50 years seemed like a good round number.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Nice list o. nate
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Some years I’m struggling to pick just one out of, like, five. Other years I’m finding it hard to select any at all (mostly late 70s-mid 80s).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
Alright, I'll bite…
Disclaimer #1: classical notwithstanding because it’s just too complicated otherwise.
Disclaimer #2: it’s an extremely boring list for the most part, but it’s accurate relative to my FeELiNgS.
1963 Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady1964 Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds1965 Son House – Father of Folk Blues1966 The Beatles – Revolver1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced1968 Van Morrison – Astral Weeks1969 Miles Davis – In a Silent Way1970 Black Sabbath – Paranoid1971 Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda1972 The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.1973 Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon1974 Edward Vasala – Nan Madol1975 Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here1976 Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène1977 Ashra – New Age of Earth1978 Ralph Towner – Batik1979 PiL – Metal Box1980 Joy Division – Closer1981 The Cure – Faith1982 David Darling – Cycles1983 R.E.M. – Murmur1984 Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break the Oath1985 Tom Waits – Rain Dogs1986 Slayer – Reign in Blood1987 Sonic Youth – Sister1988 Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden1989 Pestilence – Consuming Impulse1990 Depeche Mode – Violator1991 Talk Talk – Laughing Stock1992 Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-921993 Nirvana – In utero1994 Portishead – Dummy1995 Dissection – Storm of the Light’s Bane1996 Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants1997 Radiohead – OK Computer1998 Gorguts – Obscura1999 Tenhi – Kauan2000 Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country2001 Robert Rich – Somnium2002 Agalloch – The Mantle2003 Darkspace – Dark Space I2004 Steven R. Smith – Antimony2005 Murcof – Remembranza2006 Negură Bunget – OM2007 Frode Haltli – Passing Images2008 Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill2009 Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimension2010 Deathspell Omega – Paracletus2011 Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos2012 Dordeduh – Dar de duh2013 Gris – À l’âme enflammée, l’âme constellée…2014 D’Angelo & The Vanguard – Black Messiah2015 2 8 1 4 – 新しい日の誕生2016 Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool2017 Lingua Ignota – All Bitches Die2018 Ungfell – Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz2019 Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance2020 Turia – Degen van licht
― pomenitul, Thursday, 20 May 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
I did this awhile ago for 1966 - Face to Face by the Kinks. I'll need to be a lot more bored to do any more.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
Only took me about 15 minutes thanks to RYM.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 20 May 2021 02:09 (three years ago) link
Yes, RYM was my secret weapon. Obviously some gaps in my knowledge: pop, dance, r&b, country, the late '90s...
― o. nate, Thursday, 20 May 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
I laffed at this…
andy paltridge (andy)Posted: March 3, 2003 at 3:08:48 AM1994: hootie and the blowfish - cracked rear view1995: semisonic - pleasure1996: matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you1997: stereophonics - word gets around1998: barenaked ladies - stunt1999: stereophonics - performance and cocktails2000: toploader - onka's big moka2001: jamiroquai - a funk odyssey2002: toploader - magic hotel
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Thursday, 20 May 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
It might take me 15 minutes to choose between two albums, never mind a year's worth, never mind 60 years.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 20 May 2021 10:10 (three years ago) link
Since this Kennedy Kid has been alive:
1963 - Ellington/Mingus/Roach - Money Jungle1964 - Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch1965 - Andrew Hill - Point of Departure 1966 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds1967 - Love - Forever Changes1968 - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks1969 - Miles Davis - In a Silent Way1970 - Stooges - Fun House 1971 - Sly Stone - There’s a riot goin’ on1972 - Bowie - Ziggy Stardust1973 - Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure1974 - Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia 1975 - Eno - Another Green World1976 - Augustus Pablo - King Tubby meets Rockers Uptown1977 - Bowie - Low1978 - Elvis Costello & the Attractions -this year’s model1979 - The Clash - London Calling 1980 - Talking Heads - Remain in Light1981 - Kraftwerk - Computer World1982 - Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska1983 - Tom Waits - swordfishtrombone 1984 - Echo & the Bunnymen Ocean Rain1985 - Prefab Sprout- Steve McQueen1986 - The Smiths - the Queen is Dead1987 - David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive 1988 - Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden 1989 - Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique 1990 - KLF - Chill Out 1991 - Talk Talk - Laughing Stock 1992 - Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted1993 - Tindersticks -s/t 1994 - Aphex Twin - Select ambient works 21995 - Tricky - Maxinquaye 1996 - DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 1997 - Spiritualized - Lady’s & Gentlemen we are floating in space 1998 - Mark Hollis - s/t1999 - Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 2000 - Radiohead - Kid A2001 - Bjork - Vesperine2002 - Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season2003 - Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound 2004 - Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the Estate2005 - Broadcast - Tender Buttons 2006 - oanna Newson - Ys 2007 - Panda Bear - Person Pitch2008 - Earth - the Bees made Honey in the Lion’s Skull2009 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (compilation) 2010 - Emeralds - Does it look like I’m here ? 2011 - Julianna Barwick- The Magic Place2012 - Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Timon Irnok Manta2013 - Grouper - the Man who died in his boat2014 - Mica Levi Under the Skin OST2015 - David Bowie - Blackstar (1/8/16) 2016 - Huerco S - For Those Of You Who Have Never (and also those who have)2017 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - async 2018 - Eli Kaszler- Stadium2019 - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen 2020 - Demdike Stare & Jon Collin - Sketches of Everything 2021 - Merope - Salos2022 - Carmen Villian - Only Love from Now On2023 - Steve Gunn & David Moore - Let the Moon be a Planet
― KorovaMilkbar, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:58 (two months ago) link
Solid
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:42 (two months ago) link
Yeah, not gonna even quibble with that list
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 22 March 2024 10:03 (two months ago) link
did anyone do a "every year up to 1963" in the hidden replies?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 22 March 2024 10:55 (two months ago) link
someone do 2025 to 2050. the future is now.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:29 (two months ago) link