Points: 163No. of votes: 9No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: LOWTitle: TRUSTLabel: Rough TradeYear: 2002
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Comments: "La la la Song" is possibly the sweetest thing they've ever done, and "Tonight" is dreamy and magical enough to be on Loveless. They even manage to raise the pace on "Canada". Who could ask for more? (read more) Kilian Murphy
Recommended tracks: Canada
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
(I'm loving that you're still up doing this, stevem)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
"(That's how you sing) amazing grace" would be my recommendation from that album and maybe from Low's entire catalogue.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 167No. of votes: 13No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: THE MICROPHONESTitle: THE GLOW (PART 2)Label: KYear: 2001
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Comments: This record is easy to like because it is a labour of love - it is a home made record for the sake of recording rather than making good music. Simultaneously, the home recording asthetic is appealing and works well to create a continuous disc of changing ambience (rather than a bunch of singles cut together). Despite this casualness, there is some wonderful musical moments as well: delicate vocals, close overdub vocals, an interesting mix of easy sounds (acoustic intruments), non repetitive form and seemless yet sudden changes in direction. a good study of home recording and beautiful music. (read more) D Barclay
Recommended tracks: The Glow (Part 2)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
(Nice elephant tho)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link
But I expected more albums to be listed by this morning.
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 168No. of votes: 6No. of #1 votes: 2
Artist: JOHNNY GREENWOODTitle: BODYSONGLabel: EMIYear: 2003
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Radiohead's maverick guitarist (amongst other things) takes time out to score Simon Pummell's lifecycle-themed film.
Comments: The album's opening track, "Moon Trills" seems portentous of some grand celestial event; its elongated Messiaen-inflected piano chords and Ondes-Martenot wails form and reform in a harmonic spectra that travels slowly toward a dark meridian. Later, the starlit melancholy of "Bode Radio / Glass Light / Broken Hearts" unfurls in vivid plumes of glass harmonica and strings, and is shot through with dissonant adornments not unlike those emblematic of Debussy. The drowsy fantasia of "Clockwork Tin Soldiers," reverberates like falling glass marbles aleatorically tinkling a ballet for mechanical dolls. "Convergence" begins with a clash and percolates into a percussive, clattering cacophony, fighting the hegemony of beauty and melody. The banjo-driven "24 Hour Charleston" echoes the adrenalin rush of a thief in the night, as dramatic electroacoustics envelop the discordant melody. And the monistic "Peartree" with its angular, Ligetian organ harmony resonates as though the music were dispersing in the higher vaults of a gothic cathedral. In "Milky Drops From Heaven," a hurried horn takes on an animal character, the music destructing and reconstructing itself from moment to moment, as if the jazz band were tumbling up and down invisible stairs, their tempo varying at the rate of their descent. On the closer, "Tehellet" (the Hebrew meaning of which roughly translates as "hope, expectation") a languid cello is made to sound like a choir of seraphim heralding an ascent.
Perhaps Jonny Greenwood is not one of the luminaries like Messiaen or Penderecki, but here, their light reflects upon him, like the sun upon the moon. Salvador Saca
Recommended tracks: Moon Trills
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Battenburg 2, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 170No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: MOGWAITitle: ROCK ACTIONLabel: SouthpawYear: 2001
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Comments: For all the guff Mogwai took for the alleged monotony of 'Come On Die Young', they craft a perfect counterpart to theprevious album's searing depression with brooding optimism on 'Rock Action'. The album title misleads a lot of listeners, even though its islands of fuzzy warmth are punctuated by rousing, 8+ minute epics. Lee Wang
Recommended tracks: You Don't Know Jesus, 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
No. 89
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― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
.....
― jess, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Battenburg 2, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 172No. of votes: 9No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: EXPLODING HEARTSTitle: GUITAR ROMANTICLabel: DirtnapYear: 2003
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Comments: n/a (gmail me some if willing)
Recommended tracks: Rumours In Town
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
'Jonny In Wonderland Among The Talking Flowers
Jonny Greenwood loves the moon. When he performs as a member of Radiohead, the notoriously soft-spoken guitarist has been known to take a moment at outdoor concerts to silently point out its splendor to the otherwise oblivious audience. The music he composes is like the moon---arcane, otherworldy, and peculiar. Bodysong is infused with the same sense of wide-eyed wonder at the sublime.'
The album's opening track, "Moon Trills" seems portentous of some grand celestial event; its elongated Messiaen-inflected piano chords and Ondes-Martenot wails form and reform in a harmonic spectra that travels slowly toward a dark meridian. Later, the starlit melancholy of "Bode Radio / Glass Light / Broken Hearts" unfurls in vivid plumes of glass harmonica and strings, and is shot through with dissonant adornments not unlike those emblematic of Debussy. The drowsy fantasia of "Clockwork Tin Soldiers," reverberates like falling glass marbles aleatorically tinkling a ballet for mechanical dolls. "Convergence" begins with a clash and percolates into a percussive, clattering cacophony, fighting the hegemony of beauty and melody. The banjo-driven "24 Hour Charleston" echoes the adrenalin rush of a thief in the night, as dramatic electroacoustics envelop the discordant melody. And the monistic "Peartree" with its angular, Ligetian organ harmony resonates as though the music were dispersing in the higher vaults of a gothic cathedral. In "Milky Drops From Heaven," a hurried horn takes on an animal character, the music destructing and reconstructing itself from moment to moment, as if the jazz band were tumbling up and down invisible stairs, their tempo varying at the rate of their descent. On the closer, "Tehellet" (the Hebrew meaning of which roughly translates as "hope, expectation") a languid cello is made to sound like a choir of seraphim heralding an ascent.
Perhaps Jonny Greenwood is not one of the luminaries like Messiaen or Penderecki, but here, their light reflects upon him, like the sun upon the moon.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 176No. of votes: 7No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: HOT SNAKESTitle: AUTOMATIC MIDNIGHTLabel: SwamiYear: 2002
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Recommended tracks: Salton City
― Battenburg 2, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 186No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: CALEXICOTitle: FEAST OF WIRELabel: City SlangYear: 2003
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Comments: So easy to listen to, so transporting. Spaghetti western varmints on the spit and noodling tape-loops never tasted so good.Swing
Recommended tracks: Sunken Waltz, Quattro (World Drifts In)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 191No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: STEPHEN MALKMUSTitle: STEPHEN MALKMUSLabel: City SlangYear: 2003
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A brief "Song by Song" explanation by Stephen Malkmus (as found on the Amazon.co.uk listing!)
1. heavy blindness2. perky whimsy3. gawky fun4. emotional gravestone5. exile on indie street6. thin lizzy meets wire7. spazz out and run8. protest song against colonialism9. sad condom ad10. russian reggae11. tom petty is always in12. i said this was supposed to sound like"heroes" when we mixed it
Recommended tracks: Jo Jo's Jacket, Jenny And The S Dog
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 191No. of votes: 13No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGETitle: RATED RLabel: PolydorYear: 2000
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The brash guitars and driving drums are present and correct, but where you'd expect snarling venom, you get tuneful howling - Josh Homme a more despondent yet philosophical wolf rather than a raging one. Strangely it kinda works, QOTSA's knack for a catchy retro-metal hook (stuttering is always good) combining with some grim wit, devilish flair and energetic sass for a relatively refreshing debut avoiding most of the cliches atypical of the genre (why...why was I programmed to write PR blab).
Recommended tracks: Feelgood Hit Of The Summer, The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 202No. of votes: 10No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKSTitle: PIG LIBLabel: DominoYear: 2003
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The naysayers were wrong - Stephen Malkmus just bounces back brighter each and every time. This album was streamlined to the point of perfection, despite being at the very heart of things, a prog album. The subtleties and intricacies of Pig Lib only reveal themselves upon extended listenings, but boy are they worth it. His most solid work since Wowee Zowee and up there in the best releases of his career. dog latin
Recommended tracks: Animal Midnight
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Symplistic (shmuel), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 2 September 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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― comme personne (common_person), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
i like an awful lot of the records on it, including the #1. i admire the incredible amount of work that went into it. i did not participate, not for any aesthetic or political reasons, but simply because i'm too lazy. and i quite enjoyed reading through it. so i don't mean this as criticism, just as observation and question:
it's just really, really white. and i'm wondering what makes it all that different from all the other lists (rolling stone, q, vill voice, etc) that we constantly carp about? what makes this one any less carpable?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Saturday, 4 September 2004 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I think it's still Emma Bunton.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 4 September 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
count the number of non-white people in the top 100. see how many hands it takes.
count the number of acts in the top 100 whose fans aren't primarily white.
etc.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 4 September 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 4 September 2004 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Does anybody spot something odd about this list?
― Joe Kay (feethurt), Saturday, 4 September 2004 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
It's a very very male-dominated list, especially near the top. Not as male-dominated as most 'canonical' lists but still, not a single girl in the top ten, wtf!
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 4 September 2004 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Heh heh. Dizzee is the real winner!
― Vasquesz, Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
NO BOREDOMS AT NUMBER 1 = YOU ARE A BUNCH OF THOME YORK MOTHERFUCKER DOUCHEBAGS
― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Senor Embargo (blueski), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link