I dipped my toes into Vocalcity after reading all the crazy hype around here, but I never managed to get into it - and still can't to this day - I guess it was just too house-y for me.'Present Lover' otoh just blew my mind when it came out - so rich, so emotional for a record drenched with a cold glamour sheen (perfect cover art). So human for a record based on allegedly de-humanizing cut-ups and mechanical sounds.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Like Baaderonixx, I think I must have checked out Vocalcity and just not been taken by it, hence why I didn't bother investigating further. In fact, despite having been heavily into IDM/post-rock in the early 2000s Vladislav Delay passed me by completely. I intend to rectify this. Can anyone suggest a POX cuts, or a couple of essential albums - I know he has a lot of pseudonyms.
― Sonny Chevrotain (dog latin), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cut by The Slits.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
The present lover the album and vocalcity are both essential imo. The present lover song is one if my all time favourites.
― prego, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
despite a couple of duff tracks (inc. "pride"), "the unforgettable fire" is a great record.
― Michael B, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I enjoy most albums posted in the rolling Krautrock thread, but I was knocked out by You's "Electric Day"
― Ópen W. (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 12:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
kind of an uh elastic approach being taken to the definition of "classic album" itt at the mo
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
the fuck is luomo?
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, maybe. I don't like Luomo.
― Ópen W. (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
more like an elastic approach being taken to the phrase "anything pre 1990"
― beemer douchebag (DJP), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
vladislav delay's multila is pretty essential. "huone" is a stunner off of that one.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I didn't notice the pre-1990 stipulation in the original post, whoops (I think that Sleep record is from '92 or '93)... But that's kind of an early cut-off point, isn't it? Especially given that there've been--at least in rock--almost as many post-'90 years as pre-'90 years at this point.
Re: Vocalcity and Luomo in general, yeah, I mean if you've got a general aversion to house, this stuff isn't so radically different that it'll convert you or anything (it's really pretty reverent in its way). At the time, for me, Vocalcity managed to both beat most all other "IDM" I was aware of in terms of sound design, texture, detail, and compositional chops, while also being groovy as hell (I wasn't so aware of house proper at the time).
Vladislav Delay's Anima to me is essential... Very abstract, but with the same pulsing, teeming-with-microscopic-life organic sensuousness of the Luomo stuff, and a vibe of detached, cerebral dread rather than more obvious "dark" dread. The sound design is just astonishing (but listen to it loud in a room, not on headphones, for maximum effect).
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
there've been--at least in rock--almost as many post-'90 years as pre-'90 years at this point.
:-O
― Sonny Chevrotain (dog latin), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Of course, I meant album-oriented rock... It's kinda true, no?
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess... That's frightening though.
― Sonny Chevrotain (dog latin), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Very true... Continuing the Luomo love, here's Philip Sherburne's really outstanding review of the '05 reissue:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4929-vocalcity/
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sam Cooke - Night Beat. Damn.
― thinveneer, Sunday, 25 September 2011 10:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's not a proper album but The Kinks - Ultimate Collection really knocked my socks off.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 25 September 2011 11:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp to the stuff about pre and post 1990; i've honestly no idea why i said that in the first post! since then we've taken it to mean any vaguely canonical album from any era.
original Luomo hype here btw:Luomo: The Present Lover
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 September 2011 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
My thought was that 1990 is a year likely to catch most ilxors in their teenage years and therefore formative years of musical taste. Obviously there are some older and younger, but most ilxors are early 30s I think. And, I don't know how old you are, piscesx.
― My hetfield very root with me what can I lou? (rustic italian flatbread), Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
mm i'm 37 so yeah i was thinking 'classic' as in 'old' meaning i guess 'before i was a teen' so you're right. but yeah this thread eventually became 'what was the last album you got that people generally think of as classic, that you were knocked out by'.
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Out To Lunch, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Free Jazz, Ascension, Saxophone Colossus
and I'm just getting warm
― gospodin simmel, Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Alan Lomax Southern Journey Volumes 7 (Velvet Voices) and 8 (George Sea Islands) are amazing.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
picked up a couple of the Kinks Deluxe thingies recently; the mono version of Face to Face(my fave Kinks, period) especially kicked my arse in a good way.
― Gerald McBoing-Boingxxpost: i like that that one is a double disc set with some underrated singles/b-sides (i.e. "i need you" and "who'll be the next in line")
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 25 September 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, it really seems to hit all their high points with only a handful of key tracks missing (I added "The Village Green Preservation Society", "Picture Book", "Destroyer" and "Picture Book" to my digital version.)
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 26 September 2011 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bruce Langhorne Hired Hand OST
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 26 September 2011 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dr John - Babylon, which I heaerd for the 1st time 2 weeks ago. It was made WHEN????~?
― factcheckr (eat my dirt), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
got reacquainted with The Contortions "Buy"
― Michael B, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Todd Rundgren mentioned above, I will nominate Something/Anything? SO good.
Also James Carr's A Man Needs A Woman
― uhhhhhh (admrl), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
The My Bloody Valentine one. I've listened to a lot of those 90's/00's 'canon' albums, stuff like Funeral, Aeroplane, etc., but this is the only one where I can totally understand why it's regarded as a classic
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is happening to me atm with If You're Feeling Sinister
― I would like some lulz from the lulzman's wife's EXCELSIOR (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rush, "Moving Pictures" which I haven't enjoyed since I was a freshman!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also XTC Skylarking which I thought I'd hate.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
most of the early Popul Vuh catalog
― Brad C., Monday, 3 October 2011 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ Popol
dirty mind, especially 'uptown' and 'head'
― prego, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dirty Mind.. man alive what a set of wall to wall tuuunes that is. they got the bed on the front cover for about $5 from some bloke in a garage sale.
― piscesx, Monday, 3 October 2011 21:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
know I'm late to this but I'm a big fan of who loves the sun
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
― public static Session currentSession (John Lennon), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
REM nostalgia fest made me love "Lifes Rich Pageant" all over again. Last time I listened to it was about 18 years ago.
― Michael B, Sunday, 9 October 2011 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Alvarius B - Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset
HOLY SHIT
― difficult to adjust to ilxor being a low frequency poster (ilxor), Saturday, 22 October 2011 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Obscured By Clouds, which I sort of subliminally knew was great but hadn't heard in about 20 years...
― dlp9001, Saturday, 22 October 2011 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (does this count?) - Amazing! Wish I had seen them in 80-81, holy Moses!
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 23 October 2011 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had NEVER heard Obscured By Clouds until the new remaster. It's really entertaining!
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 23 October 2011 03:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp aye The Book I Read on that is a classic.
― piscesx, Sunday, 23 October 2011 04:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
COUNTRY LIFE POLL
― Bee OK, Sunday, 23 October 2011 04:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pretenders - Learning to Crawl. I had The Singles before, but I didn't know the first three albums were so good too.
― anorange (abanana), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just listened to "The Who Sell Out" in its entirety for the first time ever yesterday and was absolutely blown away. I've always loved The Who, but mostly as a singles band. This was amazing.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
― ilxor, Saturday, 25 February 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
tindersticks - the something rain. what a comeback. late night music which goes well with a bottle of côtes du rhône and a joint. the circle from the first to the last album. both are very ripe fruits, but the new one is deliciously fresh at the same time. a miracle.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 25 February 2012 20:23 (1 year ago) Permalink