Great music discoveries from other people's (p4k) lists I want to talk about

An album that seemed to be strangely absent from most of the ballots I've seen is that Broadcast/Focus Group album from a few years back. It was astounding to me, even as a fan of Broadcast. One of the few instances (maybe the only instance?) that I agreed with The Wire about the album of the year.

I think SVIIB's albums are all so damn good that whichever one you hear first is going to push that "OMG this is the platonic ideal!" button for someone predisposed towards liking their kind of thing.

x-post I saw that Witch Cults record turn up on several people's lists!

(I voted for the wrong Broadcast record - I realised only after voting closed that I selected The Noise Made By People when I wanted to vote for Work And Non Work. D'oh!)

Witch Cults was on my ballot.

haven't picked up any new stuff out of other people's lists. ariel caralle reminds me that i neglected to consider oneida and zola jesus, which bums me out.

I goofed and left the On! Air! Library! album off my list. Somedays I like it more than Alpinisms, and definitely more than the followups.

Love that Witch Cults album.

I also want to point out the Gus Gus albums on my list, which have both aged spectacularly:

#89 Polydistortion (1997) http://open.spotify.com/album/5fxWFy7VEFTb3i1C8w7MNR
key tracks: "Gun", "Believe", "Why?", "Purple"

#11 This Is Normal (2001) http://open.spotify.com/album/28vsgjXJonjc34Je9HrFb1
key tracks: "Ladyshave", "Teenage Sensation", "Starlovers", "Snoozer"

I strongly considered adding Attention as well but ultimately felt it was too uneven: http://open.spotify.com/album/6FiqDpq028FAsCRQTIZzac
key tracks: "David", "Call of the Wild", "I.I.E."

http://open.spotify.com/album/6kbPC07HWF2QzSi0ZkSSZu - La Llorona by Lhasa de Sela, another cool Latina lady (RIP).

Capsule is also awesome, and were on my list, but not on Spotify, but you will just have to take my word for it and take the plunge on WORLD OF FANTASY.

Funnily enough, I had listened to Gus Gus before (due to stanning from certain quarters on another thread) but didn't feel familiar enough with it to include it.

listening to the Spotify playlist of my ballot on shuffle just had a skit from The Love Below ("Good Day, Good Sir") that ends with the line "Behold, a lady!" segue into "My Superman" by Santigold

xp: that second Gus Gus album is really, really great IMO

Damn, though, Dan, I do wish you would just make a compact list where you pick your fave track from each album, because that is, like, 20 hours of music or something.

dan did you just agree with yr own recommendation?

haha I can do that

in fact, I usually do a mondo EVERYTHING list and then a "personal fave" list, I just didn't because I was actually doing some work

xp: I like to think of it as reinforcing my own recommendation

You, too, Melissa! (Though to be fair, you have only posted 2 albums, not 20 billion.)

Wow, I am demanding about demanding Spotify playlists be made for me today, huh? ;-)

Yeah, I listened to Polydistortion not long ago for the first time in over a decade. It's amazingly good! I really don't think I thought much of it back in the day, so maybe my tastes have just caught up with it.

Okay, let me get started on that, WCC.

a hoy hoy, you could have found out about Tijoux here (not that there's anything wrong with not reading every sing post in every single thread here):

spanish language hip-hop

fauxmarc tends to just put stuff out there without jumping up and down drawing a lot of attention to himself, but I would recommend watching him more.

...http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/71a7ac6b/ is the sort of list that fascinates me and might keep me going for the rest of 2012...

^^ looking at that list reminded me that i forgot 'OV' by orthrelm - clearly top 10 material.

rudi: those are the sort of threads i love. i currently have

Rolling African Dance / Urban Music Thread has new answers
Return of the World Music Thread: 2012 has new answers

in my bookmarks, where i'm making myself try to listen to a new youtube every day (usually every other day). my problem is really that i just dont follow up anything i hear and like.

Actually:

spanish language hip-hop

thread bookmarked, have nothing to add though :)

― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Saturday, February 20, 2010

and talking of not following things up, i'm listening to the SOSB record. It has a sound I adore, that kind of Stereolabby type thing but never feel compelled to buy into/repeat listen. Maybe its just because I don't know enough about it. Either way it is going onto what will become a massive relisten/download list.

ha! and i ctrl+f'd it - it was in my bookmarks and now I remember doing the exact thing i just said! i need to download stuff, repeat listen etc.

i think i've become too set in my ways for this. so far have managed to dislike asobi seksu, ana tijoux, capsule and orthrelm. d'angelo is great (!), but i knew that going in.

but hey, gus gus polydistortion is sounding pretty great atm! i remember disliking this album way back...

US Maple, I'd recommend Talker and Acre Thrills in roughly that order. Purple On Time (the only one in the P4k db) is about as traditional as they get.

^^ 'talker' is prob my fav - though i don't listen to 'acre thrills' in a long, long time. 'purple on time' is - without a doubt - the more tradicional album from them but it still deserves a lot of love. 'my lil' shocker' is such a stunning opener.

re broadcast: tender buttons was my number one. i would have put witch cults on my list but i tried to list only one record per artist. (i screwed up anyway and had two fennesz albums, ah well.)

Yeah, I listened to Polydistortion not long ago for the first time in over a decade. It's amazingly good! I really don't think I thought much of it back in the day, so maybe my tastes have just caught up with it.

― Old Lunch, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:33 AM (12 minutes ago)

this, i guess

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/01gdGDqetro5AeAdposln1

Here's an abridged list, which has one song from each album on the original playlist with one caveat; the three double albums I picked (The Fragile, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming) have one song from each disc

There is no strict pattern behind the songs I picked; some were because I love them, some were because I feel they are representative of the album. In some cases, I didn't want to pick a well known single but couldn't deny that that was the song I responded to most strongly; in other cases, I gravitated towards a song unlike most of the rest of the album that just speaks to me.

I think the only obscure-ish/under-the-radar things on my ballot were Bumblebeez 81, Giant Drag, maybe Charlotte Hatherley and Alpha... Bobby Conn's The Golden Age doesn't get nearly the amount of love it deserves. Write-ins I regret writing off: Spinanes - Arches & Aisles, Kleenex Girl Wonder - Graham Smith Is The Coolest Person Alive, Seekonk - Pinkwood, Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur.

Eff it, here's my ballot again: http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/351fd856/

^^ 'transmaniacon' and 'insignificance' could totally be on my list, if i remembered them. also great to see someone reppin' for the for carnation record - prob wouldn't be on my list if it weren't for the fact that nothing in there strikes me as much as 'emp man's blues'.

oh crap how did i not vote for that giant drag album?

so psyched about this thread b/c i can't parse the old thread anymore

here is my list, spotify playlist to come probably: http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/1b34d33d/

also dan your placement of the year zero remix record might actually get me to listen to it?

Oh word? That's great! I think Year Zero is a decent album on its own but that remix album is absolutely next level; it makes several okay songs into genuinely great things (looking esp. at you "Capital G")

That's a fab list Brad. Good to see a lot of repping for The Drift. Those who voted for it though - how often do you/have you actually played it? It's a phenomenal bit of work but it's also one of the few bits of music I'm very often too scared to play.

i actually think i was making an unconscious point in having the drift so near to voodoo which are two records i listen to very rarely except when i am in an extreme mood

That's definitely how I feel about Moon Pix and some of Lisa Germano's albums. I start getting sucked into that world/headspace when I listen to them, so they're definitely just sometimes albums.

The Drift - I played it solidly for about a month when it came out. At least once a day. Then I probably listened to it 3 times a year at best for 5 years and much more regularly in the past 12 months.
I just realised that I missed Mary Timony off my list. I love Mountains and The Golden Dove. I feel like they need some post Bat For Lashes critical re-evaluation.
I started a spotify playlist for my list but inadvertently added a couple of albums from local files so I need to edit. consider it a work in progress.
Also, someone needs to re-issue the Life Without Buildings album right now. Any labels interested? I can help make it happen. I'm evangelical about the greatness of that band.
http://open.spotify.com/user/simonoblique/playlist/3Fc6bziQYfq2M9L7qN4Rn1

Life Without Buildings is that band with the album that I liked a lot whose name I can never seem to remember for more than 5 minutes. Had 'em confused with Architecture in Helsinki for forever. But I'm writing it down now!

http://open.spotify.com/user/chronochromie/playlist/3FALyasZw1k6BBnMX9BFAf - Promised playlist of one song each from all the albums on my ballot that are actually on Spotify.

I've seen a fair bit of love for that Mary Timony album on these lists. Know a few fans irl, so will definitely consider giving the whole thing a listen.

Maybe I'm a bit too jaded, but I can't imagine discovering more than one or two albums that I missed from that time period, up until 2009, which is when I stopped trying to keep up. Especially considering how much time I spent in college radio / working in a record store.

I had a list of ~100, but removed anything I couldn't recall listening to in the last year-plus. Thus, 38 made the cut: https://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/eb77b9b8/

Also, I should re-listen to Life Without Buildings, I remember liking it nearer the time of it coming out, but never owned it myself.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/d173f3ce/ - this is mine for those who care. Not sure it's that original or that full of under-the-radar stuff, but then I don't know what is and isn't to you, so have a gander if you like :-)

I love earlier Helium and later Mary Timony solo stuff, but I still haven't properly delved into that late-period Helium/early solo Timony "Magic Era".

US Maple, I'd recommend Talker and Acre Thrills in roughly that order. Purple On Time (the only one in the P4k db) is about as traditional as they get.

^^ 'talker' is prob my fav - though i don't listen to 'acre thrills' in a long, long time. 'purple on time' is - without a doubt - the more tradicional album from them but it still deserves a lot of love. 'my lil' shocker' is such a stunning opener.

― rusty_allen, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd say Acre Thrills is a pretty good midpoint to start with.....Talker is great but it's the US Maple's fan's US Maple record....Sang Phat Editor is great too and well shit they are basically the greatest band so

i have tried so so hard to get US maple.

on occasion, they've hit me just right and i've thought for a moment i might <<understand>>, but i always wake up the next morning with underpants on my head.

I'll repost my list here too. Pretty sure the order would be quite different if I did it again, but I've not had any head-smacking realisations of stuff I missed (though I might have not been cheeky and put my own band in there, ha). The one album I've found myself re-listening to the most from this exercise is the Tarwater one, which is bloody awesome, and it only hasn't been on heavy rotation in the intervening years because the LP is really flimsily pressed and skips a lot whatever the weighting.

So have been working my way thru' the Top 20 of emil.y's list, mainly because the majority of her whole list was entirely unfamiliar to me.

Comet Gain and Herman Düne have cheered me greatly. Matmos and Tarwater I liked a whole lot as well.

I'm not sure what to make of Paavoharju, I keep going back to it but I'm not sure that I could be said to enjoy it. It's a bit beyond me I think.

Have just dipped a toe outside the Top 20 and Eleanoora Rosenholm is doing it for me right now. I think this may have come up on the EOY poll? Not sure.

Yeah, me and a few others were repping for Eleanoora Rosenholm. Was actually introduced to them by Algerian Goalie, and am very grateful. They're something of a concept band, but it isn't obvious to non-Finnish speakers.

Also, I'm greatly flattered that you're listening to my list!

I need to check into Eleonoora Rosenholm one day... That track Kerr used to play in Outloud was pretty cool. Too bad you don't get the lyrics, they were funny.

About halfway through Orchestra of Bubbles by Ellen Allien & Apparat. I think I love this? idk I don't really have anything to frame it in or compare, so I may do a bit of reading.

Paavoharju's second album Laulu Laakson Kukista is also great by the way, even contains some relatively pop moves.

tempted to put together a list for this posthumously

why because bored.

only listened to the first two luomo records the past 12 hours

thank you crucial people who put vocalcity and the present lover on your lists

it's interesting to compare the p4rk and ILX top 100 lists mostly because they're not so terribly different. ILX is a good deal more inclusive of female and nonwhite artists, which is great, but musically the main difference is that p4rk skews towards indie rock, while ILX skews towards electronic music, pop, rap and R&B. makes me wish i were more fond of those genres...

i mean i like rap and some pop, but my primary interests draw me in other directions.

Listening to Dagger Paths by Forest Swords. This, again, ticks the boxes of something I'm totally down with but don't know enough about or when it would grab me to listen again. It's fascinating though. A kind of dubby indie vocal less Gang Gang Dance type of thing?

only listened to the first two luomo records the past 12 hours

thank you crucial people who put vocalcity and the present lover on your lists

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:24 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

incredible albums btw

only listened to the first two luomo records the past 12 hours

Such fantastic recs. I absolutely love 'em.

holy crap the thing tuomas picked at #1. this is so crazy beautiful.

It's amazing, isn't it? Probably my favourite techno album of the 90s, it's so timeless and evocative.

it was one of the best things i've heard recently. i've been making a list of things i need to download from this and relisten to, it has gone to the top of my list.

i've been trying to listen to one or two records from the spotify playlist i made a day

saturday i found out i like some noisy blues band called califone. listened to some decent but forgettable alt hiphop, that brand new record i knew i liked but never spent time with, some other things that didn't grab me. this morning i listened to the chemical brothers 'come with us' because of dans list. i'd only ever heard a greatest hits. it was good! a lot less 'lol we really like tomorrow never knows' than i remember them being, so i really enjoyed it.