Listen to an album you've never heard by an artist you never listen to and then tell us about it!

Nabozo, keep going with Galaxie 500 i think they just get stronger as they go.
― scott seward, Tuesday, March 26, 2024 5:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks. I hear slightly different influences on the second album: some jangle, The Cure, twee jams, prettiness alla Durutti Column, a lot of things that the term "slowcore" obfuscates. It's like a time capsule. Snowstorm is a beauty. At times I have to pretend I don't hear the vocals, the melodic lines are not so varied, but overall it works a charm.

I love hearing Jordan enjoying Dylan’s funkiness. I’ve come to realize that that almost everyone influenced by him leaves off that part of his style.

Martina McBride, Wild Angels and Evolution: dull and duller (or maybe it was duller and dull).

Re drum and bass albums, people in this thread could make a tremendous mistake

I had no idea listening to a single album one time was such a fraught experience.

I don't think I've ever listened to that Grooverider record, Tim, will be doing that today ty. :)

i'm listening to nektar's remember the future via randomly skimming this thread. these guys sure did hear the yes album, but no complaints about 35 minutes of totally decent prog.

i love nektar. they could jam up a storm.

over the years i have determined that this is my fave by them. double album where they recorded live in the studio. no overdubs. they shred. engineered by dieter dierks. it sounds so good.

https://www.discogs.com/master/25991-Nektar-Sounds-Like-This

a double live in the studio heavy prog album made in two days. more people should try it.

putting this on now--let's fuckin' rock

I had no idea listening to a single album one time was such a fraught experience

I was kidding of course, but on a slightly serious note I think choice matters a bit more when a single album is likely to act as a stand-in for a person’s initial experience and understanding of a genre.

For instance Kemistry and Storm’s DJ Kicks is a good d&b DJ mix for early 1999 but substantially less good than pretty much every preceding K&S DJ mix (none of which were released commercially, sadly) for the basic reason that the entire scene was busily effacing almost everything good about the music at that point.

OTOH if the objective is to find out what happened to d&b at the end of the nineties then it is the perfect choice.

I’m listening to Orbital for the first time (In Sides) and am both charmed and wondering what the heck took me so long.

yeah i came to orbital late too. i don't know why i thought they were...something else. cheesier? not serious? but i had the wrong idea about them for some reason. better late than never!

In fairness they can be pretty cheesy at times, though not on In Sides.

a double live in the studio heavy prog album made in two days. more people should try it.

― scott seward, Wednesday,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_Worldwide

Is barefoot jerry considered prog?

no. progressive country rock.

Fair enough

That Grooverider mix does indeed rule, ty. Also it's way more syncopated and less 2-steppy that I expected given 'hardstep'.

Maybe I'm confusing hardstep with jump up? I love the energy and basslines on the DJ Aphrodite radio set, I've come back to it a bunch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxWjgEJgd9Q

I listened to the AR & The Machines record recommended. I enjoyed it when it was spacey and droney, but it kept going back to a bit of 70s blues rock guitar and it would take me out of it. I enjoyed it but don’t think I’d go back again.

Totally get that the boogie guitar pushed you out of the space -- that's what pulled me in though, seeing how the German sense of cosmic grew out of the Anglo sense of cosmic at the time.

echo is more solid space. the double album that he put out a year later.

i was thinking about doing the new beyonce but holy hell billionaire statement albums are friggin' looooooong. so long. like as long as texas. as long as peak oil capitalism and as long as it takes to drill all the oil you will need to make all the 200 gram vinyl copies of this thing. jesus. plus, you know, half cornball stump speeches and half okay r&b. its like homework. i think little kids would love the fun stuff on it though. they should make a 30 minute little kids version. for me.

Yeah, it's 78 minutes, like it's still 1996 and they're trying to maximize the amount of music that can fit on a CD (the new Church album is 73 minutes... i thought everyone stopped doing this. are CD's back??)
"Cowboy Carter" wasn't as country as i was expecting, but it went out of it's way to head off any criticism that it wasn't country enough (and that whole digression about "what even is genre?" was a bit hokey). In retrospect, i think it lost me when the second song was a cover of Blackbird, complete with foot-tapping.

Jordan, that DJ Aphrodite mix above was a fun way to start this morning, but i kept wishing he wouldn't get on the mic so often because it kept interrupting the vibe. Will try the Grooverider next.

i was thinking about doing the new beyonce but holy hell billionaire statement albums are friggin' looooooong. so long. like as long as texas. as long as peak oil capitalism and as long as it takes to drill all the oil you will need to make all the 200 gram vinyl copies of this thing. jesus. plus, you know, half cornball stump speeches and half okay r&b. its like homework. i think little kids would love the fun stuff on it though. they should make a 30 minute little kids version. for me.

Never expect somebody to encapsulate my thoughts so perfectly, but... this sounds right. Feels wearying before I even start. And I know some of it will be fine to great, but, hard to work up the gumption to take this kinda thing in sometimes.

I'll just keep playing this new Playboi Carti/Camila Cabello track over and over again. Gives a lot more than it asks. Alphonse Pierre called it "some good ol’ fashioned expensive nonsense" and that sounds about right.

Decided to apply this challenge to 1969, my birth year. I looked at various "albums from 1969" lists until I found one I didn't know: Almendra, the debut album by the Argentine psychedelic band of the same name. It's great! Not a million miles away from other Latin American rock of the same era, but drawing on some Argentine folk and cultural forms. A lot of it is kind of dreamy, but some of it really rocks. Like this track, which is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg2EdtBguc4

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Honestly I'd never really heard them. They're not so much of a UK thing so they were hardly turning up on the radio. Anyway this was completely tedious, I was skipping through to the next track by side 2. People who haven't heard The Band think they sound like this, and are pleasantly surprised to find they don't. This is why I always avoided drugs. Maybe it's not a good album to start with? Therefore I moved on to...

Aoxomoxoa
Not much better, this band is not for me I now realise. Too much dum-diddle-dum-dum-diddle-dum-dum. And the 8-minute droney vocal thing would have worked better in the hands of Yoko Ono. No doubt I should be listening to Dick's Pick's Vol. 137 or whatever instead, but you know what I think I'll pass.

I tried listening to Aoxomoxoa once and had much the same reaction.

It's not fair to drugs to blame them for Grateful Dead

Everywhere I've lived in the US there has been a weekly Grateful Dead radio show being broadcast -- either the syndicated "Grateful Dead Hour" or something similar but locally-produced. Catching one of these shows is the only time I've ever heard the band and it always seems to me like the worst music. I understand they have a huge cult following but it's mystifying that these radio shows exist, and have done so for decades.

I have literally never heard the Grateful Dead played on the radio. I've also never had a conversation about the Grateful Dead with anyone. Never known anyone to own one of their albums. Yes, US and UK, chalk and cheese basically.

I'll just keep playing this new Playboi Carti/Camila Cabello track over and over again. Gives a lot more than it asks. Alphonse Pierre called it "some good ol’ fashioned expensive nonsense" and that sounds about right.

― mr.raffles, Friday, March 29, 2024 8:03 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

mr raffles listen to whole lotta red challenge

^^ I keep meaning to do that but have been very busy w/other listening/ripping

It's not fair to drugs to blame them for Grateful Dead

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 31 March 2024 20:18 bookmarkflaglink

lol I thought the same

I'd never heard the Grateful Dead anywhere before although I knew someone who liked them at uni, but he was also the only British person I've ever met who liked Phish, tbf he was quite into drugs. he did play me some Phish once which I did not enjoy although no memory of what it actually sounded like. I listened to a double CD best of once and I did like a few songs on it but not that many out of 2 CDs worth so never bothered to follow up on them

i like the grateful dead! here is their first trip to England!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-CW12fBNA

I'll just keep playing this new Playboi Carti/Camila Cabello track over and over again. Gives a lot more than it asks. Alphonse Pierre called it "some good ol’ fashioned expensive nonsense" and that sounds about right.

― mr.raffles, Friday, March 29, 2024 8:03 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

mr raffles listen to whole lotta red challenge

Been listening to Carti since Magnolia.
WLR was good, as was Die Lit. I kinda never really get the album I'm hoping for from him though. Which is fine.

Thanks for pointing me to this Carti/Cabello new song.

Ahh... enjoy!

El Guincho has really made a lot of nice records at this point. Maybe there should be a thread or something?

there is!

oh nice!

Wild. It's all super old stuff, predating the work w/ Rosalia.
Ok. I'll stop hijacking the thread now.

I’ve been sampling some Django Reinhardt / Stephane Grapelli tunes. Never listened to them before. They cook. What’s the place to start? (I think this fits the thread though any album by them is likely to be an after the fact comp)

All of Reinhard's recordings are from the pre-album era (he died in 1953), and there are a fucking ton of them, so try The Essential Django Reinhardt as an entry point. It's a two-CD set that should cover all the bases.

^hey thanks 2 discs is perfect

yep that one is great

i owe this thread for helping me get over my jane siberry fear. i'm listening to her last album Ulysses' Purse from 2016 and its lovely! not typical. dreamy. in some ways she reminds me of a lost Mcgarrigle sister. my favorite Mcgarrigle Sisters album is Matapedia and i can only imagine that Jane Siberry is a fan of it as well. i like the meandering qualities of these songs. not stream-of-consciousness exactly but conversational while still poetic. she isn't all about rhyme which i appreciate. i think i'm going to go backwards and listen to her Three Queens Trilogy next. Three albums from 2008/2009/2011.

Ulysses' Purse was revamped and re-released as an album called Angels Bend Closer which I only heard last year. My main complaint was that she hires a small army of musicians who she somehow manages to make vanish behind walls of synth pads. I didn't think much of the "conversational" lyrics either.
I would recommend her debut though that might strike some listeners as standard 1981 art-folk.

the walking will change your life scott. or it won't!