Points: 227No. of votes: 11No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCITitle: HOW I LONG TO FEEL THAT SUMMER IN MY HEARTLabel: MantraYear: 2001
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Comments: Most of us have artists we love, and rant about, but secretly know aren't for everyone. It's all very well banging on about how terminally underrated Crispy Ambulance or whatever are, but if you live in the real world you know it will ever be thus.
BUT THEN THERE ARE THE RECORDS THAT YOU KNOW EVERYONE IN THE WORLD WOULD LOVE IF THEY'D ONLY BLOODY LISTEN.
That name, that awful underachiever's name, that's the only thing I can think of that has thwarted Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. That and maybe hearing some teenage stuff of theirs that well, isn't for everyone. On 'How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart' they shot their load.They pissed gold. They made a perfect album. No wizards, no Welshlanguage and no wacky rock outs (not that all three can't be great, but you know - they *tried* to accommodate). Just wave after wave ofclassic, elegiac love songs. This isn't about some stupid indie ghetto 'perfect 60s pop' malarky - these songs live and breathe in the real world. I keep imagining Euros Childs or John Lawrence just banging their heads against a wall and screaming "Well what else can we do?"
So err yeah, basically, you are all stupid scum and deserve to die.Alba
Recommended tracks: Honeymoon With You, These Winds..., Her Hair Hangs Long
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 245No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: THE FALLTitle: THE REAL NEW FALL LPLabel: ActionYear: 2003
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Comments: their best for 10 maybe 17/18 years - you know it's good when (a) the cover version is the weakest song and (b) they can use it as the basis for their current live set and we don't really mind at all... fletcher dexter
Recommended tracks: Contraflow, Open The Boxoctosis #2, Protein Protection
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 252No. of votes: 11No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: GHOSTFACE (KILLAH)Title: THE PRETTY TONEY ALBUMLabel: Def JamYear: 2004
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Comments: If you told me 10 years ago that Ghost would be the only real Wu-survivor still puttin out quality product I would've thought you were crazy but here we are... he's really the only one consistently putting out good shit, the one who's done the most to stay "true to the game" so to speak. I thought BW was okay (Supreme Clientele is pure genius) but I'm really lookin forward to this... Ghost is one of those guys I just really want to see succeed and stick around. Shakey Mo Collier
Recommended tracks: Tooken Back, Biscuits, Holla
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 252No. of votes: 13No. of #1 votes: 2
Artist: GILLIAN WELCHTitle: TIME (THE REVELATOR)Label: WEAYear: 2002
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Comments: Gillian Welch
Recommended tracks: April 14th Part 1, Revelator, I Dream A Highway
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 254No. of votes: 15No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: GOLDFRAPPTitle: BLACK CHERRYLabel: MuteYear: 2003
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Comments: Sticking a horse's tail on your arse turns you into a sexy hybrid of Kate Bush and Donna Summer - proven by the scientific electropopart extravaganza that is 'Black Cherry'. Avant-garde more in aspirations rather than in execution, if 'Felt Mountain' was a lonely walk in the woods, 'Black Cherry' is a more an effortless glide down a river of Alison's own vaginal juices - tho hardly as bawdy as Peaches, and a world away from the lewdness of Lil Kim. Even if that's not appealing than the tight programming and quirky hooks of Will Alexander should be. Pretentious? Mais naturellement.
Recommended tracks: Strict Machine, Crystalline Green, Black Cherry
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 262No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 0
Artist: CORNELIUSTitle: POINTLabel: MatadorYear: 2003
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Comments: Every time Keigo Oyamada returns to recording, he's something different, not necessarily for dilletantism's sake, but because he's borrowed something old and learnt something new - each album (and remix collection) speaks a different language to each other, as it were. In an ever-changing yet cyclical world, he sets his own agenda and he keeps it that way. Point is Keigo at his mostlovely and most loved.
Recommended tracks: Point Of View Point, Brazil, Bird Watching At Inner Forest
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 263No. of votes: 12No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: BIG & RICHTitle: HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOURLabel: WarnerYear: 2004
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Comments: Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?
Recommended tracks: Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy, Wild West Show, Six Feet Town
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
ah, ok then.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean M (Sean M), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link
My comments were heavily edited (a bit much so there, Steve, I've seen bigger on this thread than what I ended up with up there), but it was necessary as I went into a shamanic trance after Steve asked me to comment and eneded up with a fucking essay. But Drop was very well delved into and I still really like it. Point is still 3rd best Cornelius rec for me and 4th if I count CM, but it has some great moments still and I may put the original review on my blog soon.
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean M (Sean M), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Like I said, it was necessary and anyway, I said you could. Better the microsite than here (space and all), unless the microsite turns out to be a flight of fancy.
fantasma comes out on top. its more varied, like nick said, and comes off a little like odelay in places, if that appeals to you at all.
I still enjoy Odelay, but, uh, no.
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― comme personne (common_person), Thursday, 19 August 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 August 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― hector (hector), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link