― Flyboy (Flyboy), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 207No. of votes: 13No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: NEW ORDERTitle: GET READYLabel: LondonYear: 2001
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Seriously, why doesn't everyone adore _Get Ready_?
Recommended tracks: Crystal (album version with gorgeous intro), Close Range
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 209No. of votes: 10No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: D'ANGELOTitle: VOODOOLabel: CooltempoYear: 1999/2000
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Comments: Very few men in the R&B game can do, or have done, the kind of sexy that D'Angelo pulls off on Voodoo. I can't think of any other way to say it: it's *feminine*. Each song pulses, builds, relaxes, coils, pushes, pulls, writhes, bucks, but in a template of its own. D's cannot be gratified with verse-verse (foreplay-foreplay), chorus (do it), verse (token fondling), chorus-chorus-chorus (do it do it do it do it), fade out (sound familiar?) He plays with expectations so well - a song you're positive is about to reach its resolution, like Spanish Joint, finds enough in the tank to kick back into another long jam (much like Stevie Wonder's "Runnin"). Another song may, at the height of its ecstasy, simply break off hard, no explanation, a total withdrawal of pleasure. When a classic masculine voice breaks in, like Meth and Redman on "Left and Right" the textural offset sounds great, but their boasting ("drop that ass when i'm finished /and watch it smoke") reminds you of how subtle D plays it. Then again none of this amounts to a hill of beans if you're not down w/the sound but I find the songs just fabulously well-produced, very impressively orchestrated, and if only D'Angelo would stop mumbling you might even be able to sing along. But after a) writing the songs b) singing all the parts c) producing everything I'm willing to cut him some slack and say that it just goes with the indeterminate sexiness that typifies the whole joint. Basta! Tracer Hand
Recommended tracks: Spanish Joint, Left And Right, Untitled (How Does It Feel)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:00 (nineteen years ago) link
pick up the pace? pleeeeeaase?
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 209No. of votes: 21No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: JUNIOR SENIORTitle: D-D-DON'T STOP THE BEATLabel: MercuryYear: 2003
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Junior Senior are garage rock for a world where disco happened, i.e.our one. On stage Junior is a superstar and Senior is a menace;offstage Junior is shyly charming and Senior confusedly aloof. But Ilove Senior particularly after studying the credits and discoveringthat he does ALMOST NOTHING on this record except be his own bad bearself.
If you really want a reason why this album is (might be) important('important') then consider that it reclaims the canon for usfrivolous modern pop fans. Bob Dylan made TOTALLY GREAT records buthis imitators simply didn't until JS came and gummified him - bubbling up the Band was probably beyond them so they just sampled "Chest Fever" instead. Elsewhere we're served plastic dayglo Jaggers and inflatable bouncy Ramones and the MC5 run through a Spectrum sprite editor. More importantly though this stuff cheers you up and makes the sun shine.
Recommended tracks: Move Your Feet, Boy Meets Girl, Just Shake It Brother
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 210No. of votes: 9No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: THE WRENSTitle: THE MEADOWLANDSLabel: Absolutely KosherYear: 2003
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Comments: Because it's intensely passionate indie rock that makes a strong case for why Pitchfork is still worth reading after all.
Because as soon as I heard "Happy" the first time I made ten comp cdrs for my friends specifically so they could hear it, too.
Because after a week of non-stop listening, "Hopeless" suddenly clicked and may have become my favorite track of the year. I particularly love the piano climax at the end.
Because the synth strings on "Thirteen Grand" remind of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me-era Cure without making the song sound kitsch at all. turkey
Recommended tracks: Happy, Hopeless, Thirteen Grand
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 214No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: MICHAEL MAYER PRESENTS...Title: IMMERLabel: KompaktYear: 2002
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It's not an album as such but it's a mix compilation that introduces you to a range of artists and tracks you won't have encountered before unless you've been keeping score on the post-millennial contemplative form of dance music dubbed 'microhouse' for it's minimal yet intricate production ethos - squaring tech-house's pulsating parameters (with Terry Francis 'Architectures' as a reference point), stripping the original, deeper American sound of it's more obtuse personalised characteristics (the older vocal-led tracks from Deep Dish and Mood II Swing e.g. 'Stay Gold', 'I See You Dancing') and moving the filter-obsessions of Glasgow's DJ Q and the French crew off centre-stage, replacing them with shuffling beats and tiny clicks, sometimes escaping 4/4 formulas altogether, and wandering into extra spaces not quite explored or dwelled on.
Recommended tracks: Thomas Fehlmann 'Gratis', Akufen 'Psychometry (vol 3)', Frank Martiniq 'Adriano (Michael Mayer mix)'
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jamie, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jamie, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― david acid (gareth), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
-- ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (j.dubz@RoffleStationZero), August 18th, 2004. (later)
You're right. I really wished someone would have followed up my "Things Will Never Be The Same" track nomination with a "Beaches and Canyons" album nomination but it never happened.
― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Artist: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERSTitle: ELECTRIC VERSIONLabel: MatadorYear: 2002
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Comments: On their second album, Vancouver?s the New Pornographers take a shot at redemption for the bad artists and their sickly moons. By exalting the shabby (?From Blown Speakers?), making the trivial awesome (?Miss Teen Wordpower?) and generally coming off like an underdog despite having put out one of the greatest debut albums (2000?s Mass Romantic) in Canadian history, they pull off a terrifically nerdy pop album in the tradition of the Cars? Candy-O.Where their debut instantly made you a fan, with automatic-new-favourite-songs like ?Letter From An Occupant? and ?Wild Homes?, Electric Version isn?t so aggressively addictive. All the same elements are there, even reclusive Dan Bejar (who very rarely appears live the group), but they?re not presented as bombastically as they were before. The softer touch actually bodes well for the long-term enjoyment potential of Electric Version, because while the highs aren?t as exhilarating, the comedown afterwards isn?t as harsh.Horace Mann
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
COMING UP ON I LOVE MUSIC'S TOP 100 ALBUMS 2000-2004...
More 90s altrock sell-outsheroes!
Mad Mancs, Beyond Quintegenaridome!
And...HIS favourites...
KEEP IT LOCKED!!!
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Hi Salvador!! Yeah sorry I wasn't going to let accuracy get in the way of a one liner, I was mostly defending our celestial pal the moon from more mystical metaphors.
I am glad that Jonny G takes his place among the electroacoustic greats!
You really are an infantile little brat, aren't you? Maybe you can find someone to buy you a life.
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
buuuuuuurn.
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Radiohead, Belle and Sebastian, the Cure, the list goes on, really.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
The countdown will resume tomorrow.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I think it likely that FITEs will arise from this list but it would be nice if they weren't bitter.
Do The New Pornographers still sound like The Wonderstuff?
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
btw, you must have put an awe-inspiring amount of work into researching the archives for intelligent comments and recommended tracks. Great work!
― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
More like the dBs, I think, but I haven't heard a lot of the Wonderstuff.
― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link