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

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.

dronestreet- i've never really 'kept up'. in fact such an idea frightens me off a bit, there is so much music out there that is *new to me* that i dont really care about somethings literal age. so i've spent the past ten years drifting in and out of canons (mostly hiphop and indie) and i have a world of discovery still ahead of me. i feel quite anxious about 'starting' genres like techno or noise or whatever but i can't imagine being jaded about it. so hopefully some of my enthusiasm may rub off :D

xxpost

I think you got it, then.

i am noticing a crazy amount of cLOUDDEAD on these lists. when did anticon type stuff stop being a joke? is this stuff worth relistening to? i hated it all when i was 15.

only about halfway through compiling my spotify playlist but it's gettin' real http://open.spotify.com/user/unbornwhiskey/playlist/4hDNgcCm3JXFuIQIKS1elu

i am noticing a crazy amount of cLOUDDEAD on these lists. when did anticon type stuff stop being a joke? is this stuff worth relistening to? i hated it all when i was 15.

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:13 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol it never stopped being a joke, some people just never realized it

oh thank god.

spotify didn't have a lot of what i put on my list, but:

http://open.spotify.com/user/grannykart/playlist/5p7vsDk2F3M1dYLqi1mQBC

not gonna lie, I still bump the Boards of Canada remix of "Dead Dogs Two"

that's an excellent track.

you guys would bump a Boards of Canada remix of Rebecca Black, though

damn right.

wouldn't go that far

now a Boards of Canada remix of Farrah Abraham, that would get played for like a week straight

songs from albums i did not vote for but which are great and i wish i did and yeah:

Oneida - "Brownout In Lagos" (Rated O)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE5F2XYWmUo

Yura Yura Teikoku - "Machibito" (III)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTv8Gz0z36M

Magik Markers - "Body Rot" (Boss)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYEZJ9r8VI

Dälek - "Classical Homicide" (From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9rs9PSG9qE

Angel'in Heavy Syrup - "A Series of Water Mind..." (IV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtng4G2tGd4

The BellRays - "Kill the Messenger" (Let It Blast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8xXpXd18z8

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.