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

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

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

― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:37 PM (22 minutes ago)

^^^ (like the original track too tbh)

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

― Melissa W, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I forgot about Lhasa when doing my list :-(

me too :-(

i hated it all when i was 15 = when did anticon type stuff stop being a joke?

Hm, yep, I definitely trust your 15 year old self to know what music 'is a joke' and isn't. Fucking twat.

tbh i still have p similar taste in hiphop now 9 years later.

lol awesome let's smoke out all the anticon apologists for proper ridicule

I ran out of time to make one of these. did anyone's list include either of these releases?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWH0M57n5XQ/Tz15Tf4KakI/AAAAAAAAAdc/HNGBvaKRoo8/s1600/weabbw.jpghttp://www.thedirtbombs.net/images/albums_large/large_ifyoudont.jpg

lol awesome let's smoke out all the anticon apologists for proper ridicule

― some dude, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 10:51 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh no, some dude is going to ridicule me for liking better music than him, oh no oh help, watch me cry tears of blistering pain.

Oh, hang on a second, who had the Dismemberment Plan as their number one? That... doesn't seem to be me.

http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.5542900.1.sticker,375x360.boom-v1.png

did anyone's list include either of these releases?

no, though i did go for ultraglide in black. tbh, i just wasn't thinking of comps, though the 'bombs are obviously best represented by their singles.

if i had the chance to redo my ballot, i'd consider wolf eyes' dread and would definitely include if you don't already have a look.

emil.y i'm just fucking around, have a lifelong chip on my shoulder about anticon that i like to indulge

It'd be pretty cool if, a couple weeks from now, Pitchfork initiated The People's List Of Shit They Forgot To Include On The People's List.

Or indeed The Peoples List of Records They Stupidly Placed Way Too Low In The List.
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out. Placement in my list (actual): 22. Placement in my list (If I could revise after relistening for the first time in a couple of years): 6.

My list: http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/16b8d1d5/

Not sure what's obscure, a lot of it is quite ILXy even though I wasn't around for most of the timeframe. If you haven't heard Paavoharju then check them out.

thanks for reminding me to play Lindstrøm tonight!

That Low "Christmas" album is so handy as a thing to play on Christmas that won't alienate people but isn't the usual carols

i woulda voted for ultraglide in black if i'd remembered it. along with 900 other things.

ultraglide in black vomit

Couple of albums that possibly missed out because I didn't see them in the database (and I didn't do any write-ins): dEUS "In a Bar, Under the Sea", The Crepes "What Else", John Zorn "A Dreamers Christmas", Jonquil "Lions", Group Doueh "Guitar Music From Western Sahara", Richard Youngs "Sapphie", OOIOO "Feather Float", John Fahey "Georgia Stomps...", Faust "You Know Us".

If you haven't heard Paavoharju then check them out.

Made a note of this in the OG thread but it's more germane here: I checked out Paavoharju sight unseen after noticing their presence on a number of ballots and I'm very glad that I did.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/7d38e3d1/

even though The Holy Bible is 94, they still had it on the ballot. not sure why it was on there (maybe bonus special edition stuff) but its incredible.

also, i left out Ween completely by accident and forgetfulness, but other than that I think this list sums up a lot of the past 16 years for me.

If this poll had covered the last 20 years, Ween would've been one of the most represented acts on my ballot rather than entirely absent.

you could've just voted for Tenacious D instead, same difference

Sorry to hear about that thing where you were born with no ears, some dude.

i just miss having all those ween threads to ruin haha

Surprise surprise, I love seandalai's list. Though he does include some stuff that I discounted - I went for no comps in the end, and stuff recorded in '77 (Langley Schools I'm looking at you) is pretty definitely a no-no in my book.

they are basically the greatest band so

Re: US Maple, no question