It just seemed to me like a record in thrall to its own massy tones, and hence reticent to actually forge a definitive path, to fight for its own worthiness. As I say, this could change. I'm quite drunk.
i like it when the ends clarify the beginnings
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
^ i think this trend has already begun to wane - interest in "noise" (both as a music & as an interestingness signifier) peaked a couple years back
― contenderizer, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
I felt the opposite, like it gained a lot of momentum in a way completely divorced from what could be classified as noise in the more traditional sense.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
this may be so, i dunno. that's not the feeling i get, but maybe i'm too far removed from ground zero (being old, etc). if so, nu-noize is more about surprising and intriguing textures in a nonconfrontational context.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd be seriously interested to hear what noise fans thought thee best noise record of the year was.― Frank Sumatra (NickB)
― Frank Sumatra (NickB)
Okay, I'm quite obviously not the right person to answer this -- I only dabble on the fringes of the "noise" genre, and enjoy the crossover (i.e., inauthentic) stuff the most. Nonetheless, here's what I liked this year that had some/partial noise elements to it:
Boris and Michio Kurihara - Cloud ChamberCarlos Giffoni - Adult LifeExcepter - Debt Dept.Fuck Buttons - Street HorrrsingKawabata Makoto and Michishita Shinsuke - Basement EchoPatti Smith and Kevin Shields - The Coral SeaMerzbow - Dolphin SonarPrurient - And Still, WantingSonic Youth, Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow - SYR 8: Andre Sider Af Sonic YouthThurston Moore - Sensitive/LethalTim Hecker and Aidan Baker - Fantasma ParastasieTom Carter - Shots at Infinity 1Yellow Swans - Deterioration
― ilxor, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone posted a concise version of the top 50 list yet?
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Danke schon!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Da mods should post it at the top of the tread maybe.
Thanks for the noise list ilxor, have not been paying attention to that side of things at all of late. Still not heard Yellow Swans yet.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw them for their last ever gig in Barcelona, was pretty amazing, I could feel my diaphragm vibrate I think.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe you should think about taking it out before noise gigs?
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
This list, Spotified where available (sorry non-Europeans!)
01 - Portishead - Third02 - Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair03 - Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too04 - Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna05 - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend06 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)07 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours08 - Air France - No Way Down09 - Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III10 - TV on the Radio - Dear Science11 - Bug, The - London Zoo12 - Young Jeezy - The Recession13 - M83 - Saturdays=Youth14 - Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak15 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes16 - The-Dream - Love/Hate17 - Santogold - Santogold18 - Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling19 - Studio - Yearbook 220 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular21 - Deerhunter - Microcastle22 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles23 - Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid24 - Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill25 - Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster26 - Torche – Meanderthal27 - Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman28 - Fennesz - Black Sea29 - Lau Nau – Nukkuu30 - Quiet Village - Silent Movie31 - El Guincho – Alegranza32 - Luomo – Convivial (instrumental version)33 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull34 - Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You35 - Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside36 - Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X37 - Gas - Nah und Fern38 - D. Lissvik - 7 Trx + Intermission39 - Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive40 - Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista41 - Solange - Sol Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams42 - Stephen Malkmus and Jicks - Real Emotional Trash43 - Alex Moulton – Exodus44 - Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 0845 - Girl Talk - Feed The Animals46 - Fall, The - Imperial Wax Solvent47 - Sébastien Tellier – Sexuality48 - School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms49 - Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me50 - Boris – Smile
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
My favorite CC track:
Yes "So Haunted" is amazing.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Hardly any chat on the winner. Ppl only interested in kanye and erykah?
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
People talked Portishead to death months ago.
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Which is okay because in some ways they work better as heartless, brain-munching zombies.
and kanye and erykah werent talked to death last year?
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
why are you singling them out over Gang Gang Dance and Vampire Weekend who have been talked about on this thread just as much?
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Who cares???
― ilxor, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
kanye got way more talk before it came on the list. when it appeared. After it appeared.What quite are you trying to imply blueski?
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Portishead don't have an easily-accessible persona, ergo this board isn't going to spend all that much time rehashing them.
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean seriously, which things are the ppl on this board more likely to talk about:
a) megalomaniacal superstar spends an entire album whining about his exb) megalomaniacal crazy woman hippie-vomits one of the most bizarrely-compelling albums of the decadec) repressed band makes chilly, emotionally severe album that is a celebration of music production and song arrangement
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
sounds real good tho
― i'm lost (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Absolutely! But considering that music discussion here is driven by narrative rather than analysis, there's only so much ppl are going to say about Third, whereas you can talk about 808s... and New Amerykah... forever.
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm most likely to talk about c) tbh, but then I'm certified insane
― Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll talk about them all because i love them all
http://www.obb1.com/images/EasyLife_04-11-08.jpg
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
ok everyone lol @ me etc, but i slept on that portishead record all year, and it's fucking me up something fierce right now
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
silly kevin
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
*points finger, lols*
― ABC-DISNEY-PITCHFORK (The Reverend), Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― ABC-DISNEY-PITCHFORK (The Reverend), Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I would like it if the people who hadn't heard many of the "obscure" picks of 50-21 would check them out.I'd like to hear that Alex Moulton. Every link I find online has expired/been taken down.
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, February 13, 2009 8:38 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
maybe buy it?
― gucci mane gretzky (deej), Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
lol u old
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
srsly
― rev. al shipley (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
u can buy mp3s u goofs
― gucci mane gretzky (deej), Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
e.g. emusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/Alex-Moulton-Exodus-MP3-Download/11202674.html
― juicy sweet are (electricsound), Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/Exodus/dp/B001BVTAKI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1235016881&sr=8-2
― gucci mane gretzky (deej), Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry for double-lol
― ABC-DISNEY-PITCHFORK (The Reverend), Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
ya it made me double :(
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
:((
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a doublole surely
― rev. al shipley (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i linked to the last.fm streaming link for Exodus in the original post
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:01 (Yesterday) Bookmark
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39073000/jpg/_39073630_hunt_bbc203.jpg
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 19 February 2009 10:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Unfair target, maybe: HGN probably shells out the cash for more music than a lot of ILX0rs (see posts passim) and I get the impression he's a try-before-you-buy kind of dude ... as indeed am I, unless a recommendation is spectacularly glowing, and comes from someone I'd trust with my life/first-born/etc.
THAT SAID ...
:)
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 19 February 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Grimly is right. I check out stuff I don't know on mp3 then buy if I really like it. In this case I do and I will when I can afford it.
― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
boy did i sleep on gang gang dance. would've made my top 5 for sure had i heard it in time.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
are their earlier stuff any cop?
― Disco/Very (Roz), Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The earlier stuff is more straight-up experimental rock, less influence from hip-hop, dance/house, etc.
I'd check out God's Money, their previous album, and delve deeper if you enjoy that one.
― ilxor, Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
will do, thanks.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
If I had heard this album in time, I would have nominated it:
e.s.t. (Esbjorn Svensson Trio): Leucocyte
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
re: purchases vs nicks, my search for d.lissvik via a 'studio' search brought wolfgang voigt's studio 1 comp which relates i believe to the gas entry on the list. haven't heard gas but this studio 1 is bringing a great deal back home right now.
― whatever, Thursday, 19 February 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link