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

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

for some reason it's surprising to me that some dude doesn't dig Ween

nb I preferred the first draft of that post, "for some reason it's surprising to me that some dude doesn't go in for Ween," but it was voted down by the part of me that's not 12

they're really kinda whatever to me, i just get weirded out by the fervor of their fans who really want you to know those guys are more talented than the fucking beatles or something

To be fair, the Fucking Beatles were a pretty shitty band.

hey a hoy hoy, thanks for pointing out to my list upthread. it ended being a rough draft of sorts but i'm glad a few ilxors are getting something out of it.

ReRe: US Maple. you need to listen to acre thrills cos that's the paroxism of al johnson in terms of stealing/mocking every rockish vocal cliche out there. basically the guy never put together so many "ohyeahs", "alrights" and "heeeeeeys" as on acre. it is also their best 'riff' record to me. so so many great guitar lines, those two cats (rittmann + shippy) are undisputed champs in my book.

i meant paroxysm, sorry for the typo

I love that this thread is turning into a US Maple lovefest.

Well it is a thread about the best music of the last 15 years they were bound to come up

ultraglide in black vomit

― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:39 PM (2 hours ago)

lol, not a fan i take it?

Couple of albums that possibly missed out because I didn't see them in the database (and I didn't do any write-ins): John Zorn "A Dreamers Christmas"... Group Doueh "Guitar Music From Western Sahara"...

― Cong rat ululations (seandalai), Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:40 PM (2 hours ago)

aw shit. that's two more on the "forgot to remember" pile:

Masada Chamber Ensemble - Bar Kokhba
Group Doueh - Guitar Music From the Western Sahara

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.

Yeah, I broke most of my self-imposed rules at various points. Langley Schools I half-rationalised on the basis that it was barely released first time round.

OK, there were only 2 things that really weren't on Spotify (Capsule and... someone else I've forgotten) and in some cases the album I chose wasn't available so I chose something else representative by that artist. I did it "backwards" so it starts with my number 50, one song from each album.

http://open.spotify.com/user/masonicboom/playlist/4EY0P1pseHIk5Vf90iFE2Y

Now I'm gonna start with some other lists, starting with Dan's. Awesome, looking forward to it!

woah, emily flew off the handle a bit upthread, chill out love.

Props to this thread for getting me to check out the Wolf Eyes/Braxton collabo...this is intense.

I'm still working my way thru' emil.y's list. So far I love Comet Gain and Matmos. Paavoharju was on both hers and seandalai's list I think and that has me more fascinated than head over heels in love atm. I keep going back to it tho' so there's something there just beyond my reach.

I should probably try to give When Saints Go Machine another go.

I do just have so much trouble with that guy's voice. But the track on Dan's list is nice in an Active Child sort of way.

WSGM's album is unassailable to my ears - it's like a warm bubblebath of sound for me. I get that people don't like the guy's voice, but it really doesn't bother me. I think it's fun to think of his voice as a celestial Chubby Checker rather than the obvious Antony comparison.

WCC: try "Church And Law" and "Konkylie" from that WSGM album; the former is a Knife-esque pop stomper and the latter is a madrigal

When Saints Go Machine is the first band in awhile that seems to both win fairly universal ILM approval and make me wonder if I'm maybe listening to a different WSGM than everyone else. I could not get into it at all. But then I used to despise Royal Trux, who are now one of my all-time favorites, so I know that some acts are growers.

dude's voice is an example of the importance of context for me; there are a bunch of things which I would (and do) consider ugly or unappealing about the way he sings, but he slots so well into the music that the negatives become positives and it all makes sense to me

seandalai's list is grrr8. as are many others. i'm feeling kinda left out after not getting around to this but the world probably won't miss a list topped by ys. or maybe i'd have been interestinger and gone for sapphie. the world will never know.

weird thing about wsgm's dude's voice is that on first listen he sounded exactly like arthur russell to me (like to the extent that i thought they had sampled a song i somehow hadn't heard), but now i hear only a slight touch of that in him.

DAMMIT I forgot to vote for of Montreal (corny indie fuX0rs etc blah blah)

btw re this wolf eyes / anthony braxton album - i have a hair police / wolf eyes split tape, the wolf eyes side of which is a braxton collab (even though it isn't credited as such) - is this the same thing?

dude's voice is an example of the importance of context for me; there are a bunch of things which I would (and do) consider ugly or unappealing about the way he sings, but he slots so well into the music that the negatives become positives and it all makes sense to me

― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:12 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. I would normally hate that kind of soft-pallet type thing, but it hey, it works here.

i like arthur russell too though.

Merdey: What's Sapphie?

i have a hair police / wolf eyes split tape, the wolf eyes side of which is a braxton collab (even though it isn't credited as such) - is this the same thing?

― emo mcgee vs ricky hitler (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:00 AM (2 hours ago)

somebody on discogs says that the wolf eyes side is a boot of the WE/braxton album. i don't own the tape, so i don't know for sure

Sapphie = amazing Richard Youngs album

http://www.pitchfork.com/peopleslist/

the list came out. radiohead were in the top ten of hiphop listeners twice.

damn you, Kanye

I don't know what I expected but this Radiohead/Radiohead/Arcade Fire/NMH result seemed all but inevitable and is really kind of depressing

what is it about In Rainbows? I just don't get that album at all, at least not as an entire body of work; there are individual songs on it that I like but none I've really felt compelled to go back and play

like, I feel like its placement/canonization is almost entirely due to the band giving it away for free

i think i was v wrong in expecting a bit more variety. not much more but meeeeh.

chill out love.

o_O

Sapphie = amazing Richard Youngs album

I totally prefer Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits, but I feel like I'm really missing something, because everyone raves about Sapphie. It seems like a much more standard acoustic guitar album to me, what is it that so captivates everyone?

lol, not a fan i take it?

― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no I love ultraglide in black! I was riffing on "Black Vomit" which I posted upthread alongside the Dirtbombs comp.

anyway, bugger that, i'm back on the listening train. Picked Sexuality by Seb Tellier.

what is it about In Rainbows? I just don't get that album at all, at least not as an entire body of work; there are individual songs on it that I like but none I've really felt compelled to go back and play

like, I feel like its placement/canonization is almost entirely due to the band giving it away for free

tbh I feel like it's nearly impossible for any Radiohead album past, say, Amnesiac to really be evaluated fairly, on its own terms. In Rainbows is short and sweet but I think it's also the point where a lot of people realized, four years on since Hail to the Thief, that hey, maybe I'm not really a big fan of these guys despite what everyone tells me

also Wolf Eyes/Braxton is Anthony Braxton playing a live gig with Wolf Eyes. classic if only for the exchange at the beginning here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzctEOvsh4

"Anthony, whaddya wanna hear man, 'Leper War' or 'Black Vomit'?"
"Black. Vomit."

tbh I feel like it's nearly impossible for any Radiohead album past, say, Amnesiac to really be evaluated fairly, on its own terms. In Rainbows is short and sweet but I think it's also the point where a lot of people realized, four years on since Hail to the Thief, that hey, maybe I'm not really a big fan of these guys despite what everyone tells me

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:20 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

that theory would've held a lot more weight before King of Limbs

Radiohead's fine, but I barely listened to Hail To The Thief and haven't heard anything they've done since. And I have a suspicion that I only rate Kid A as highly as I do because it was a really amazing album to hear for the first time while doing whippits.