Who can forget The Astronauts’ classic 1981 release ‘Peter Pan Hits the Suburbs’! But did you know they were still releasing amazing stuff in the 00s (admittedly as The Otters) and even now? If there’s anything you’re ambivalent about on your tracks ballot and you like seedy, melodramatic post-punk, you might decide to include this wonderful simmering mess: https://theastronautsband.bandcamp.com/track/melissas-party
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
^^^massively seconded. it's a little nightmare vision of the uk descending into hell
― imago, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Halcali were amazing.
There's a load of soca stuff missing from Spotify. For some reason the only version of Shurwayne Winchester's 2005 Road March winner Dead Or Alive is by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itgSyPxfqoE
The only version of Rikki Jai's Mor Tor is the vastly inferior remix with Machel Montano. Probably my favourite ever chutney song and something i'm always tempted to send people a link to when asked my family background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-lbinf_qSs
Lee Hyun-Hyun was a briefly huge, largely forgotten (afaict) K-Pop star in the early 2000s with a much stronger emphasis on Eurodance than more R&B-influenced contemporaries like BOA. All her albums are great - Vol. 4: I <3 Natural probably the best and most cohesive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Mtk9NGpU8
Maudlin Russian Italo-pop is pretty much my favourite music genre and Belaya Cheremukha by Tatyana Bulanova is peak mauldin-Russian-Italo-pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMIWx0W4Pzk&list=RDxMIWx0W4Pzk&start_radio=1&t=41
Spotify seems to have every Allison Moorer album apart from her towering achievement - The Hardest Part, the greatest country album of a highly competitive decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KNsOTmv8Vc
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
A couple of tracks from the MC Saizmundo album 'Blaen Troedar'. I can't find 'Cymraeg-Inglish' which was my track pick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7wxpLbJKUI&frags=pl%2Cwn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RioDyeN6FFY&frags=pl%2Cwn
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link
My non-streamable nominees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_yeUDgkdt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVg7kPDtg7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW5nm-ZRIZw
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
This seems to be the only online version of my non-Spotify nom (a live take of The Sharp Ease playing “L.A. Mist”): https://vimeo.com/32433014
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Saturday, 14 September 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4dZ41e5g6M
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 15 September 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
Not on Spotify for obvious reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deZeZcssHQI
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 15 September 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson's Objects In Space mix)
Epic peak of...this kind of thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ggbs7Z1P8
― nashwan, Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
a perfect bluesy dirge about time and falling out of love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqqn2-COxk
― ogmor, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
Nice one! I only nominated Fig. 5 fwiw.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
that song was everything I wanted from that whole scene, love them at their most acoustic. not a million miles away from the pink reason album I nominated as well, which is well worth a listen if everyday gets you in the mood
― ogmor, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 11:07 (four years ago) link
One of the few records made in Blackpool to make the poll, a topsy turvy tale of the highs and lows of the playoffs, originally released due to lack of evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1gLWCT4nNk
― saer, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 11:32 (four years ago) link
Plus Tech Squeeze Box - Cartooom!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UpwGaUonuQ
A hyper, frenetic genre-bending Picopop album, that is basically a half cartoon. Similar to Cornelius's Fantasma, but even more concentrated.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
*cough*
Pastebin link for nominations? The only way I can make a ballot is to go through an actual list with text.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
This is pretty well known I guess, but I still think this is the best work by Richard D. James and none of it is on spotify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aloryfd5ipw
― silverfish, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:45 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Seconded! Help us out here LJ (and if you don't know how pastebin works send me the raw full lists and I'll upload them)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
Tomorrow is the big day when I'll blitz the rest of the Spotify playlists and turn the data into spreadsheets or whatever. If I need help I will let you know though!
I think the actual voting thread may manifest early next week
― imago, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
Cool beans
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
thanks imago!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
VOTE FOR THIS SHIT BC IT RULES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhZUoqQ9enQ
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
no jay-z on spotify either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7-B1ru5U-Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radodNF77Ak
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6QwpeQ37dk
NATO - Chorjavon (or Chorchavon idk)
Former TATU manager Ivan Shapovalov had a bunch of minor projects, none of which were really any good with the exception of NATO - who seems to have been an attempt to do for pretend-terrorism what his other band had done for pretend-lesbianism. The marketing was monumentally tasteless but the single, an updated version of a Tajik folk song iirc, was stunning. The version on YouTube isn't quite as good as the original single but is still great.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
here are two extremely psychedelic blackened drone albums i love that aren't on spotify
The Crowned Heads of Europe / Sports - split [2008]https://thecrownedheadsofeurope.bandcamp.com/
Yoga - Megafauna [2009]https://yoga666.bandcamp.com/album/megafauna
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Friday, 20 September 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3fuGV1UAg
best pajo
― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
Submitting this for consideration because the only version available on Spotify is the instrumental:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsUoS9Q_Igs
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Went to see if the second Juno album was online in full anywhere these days and lol'd when I saw the uploader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXKSDd5GRA
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
someone had to do it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
3k views = almost definitely 6 ilxors who have listened 500 times apiece. you love to see it!
anyway any rock nerds who haven't heard that yet, it's v much worth yr 70 mins and will be high on my ballot if I remember to send one
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
you say that like you won't be pestered constantly in the last week of voting
― imago, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
btw lj listen to that juno record
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
copy
― imago, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Juno definitely getting a vote from me.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
same, it & the constantines s/t from the same year are like two v difft ideals of r0ck to me
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Some Japanese favourites.
Olololop - Broken beat something or other with minimal no-wave overtones, utterly fascinating to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfI_GjvoHc
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
ORRORINZ - Blow ya Shit (rough mix) More ridiculous broken/Osaka type stuff, great sample though.
https://orrorinz.bandcamp.com/track/blow-yo-shit-rough-mix
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Also Su Yaa...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dyVEBOFxHg
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
or Sa Yuu (duh)
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
Don't sleep on Jon Brion's one and only solo record, a lost power pop classic. seems to be region-locked on Spotify, here's a Youtube playlist as an alternative.
― Roz, Thursday, 26 September 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
Bardo Pond - Lord of LightMASSIVE psych rock cover of Hawkwind.
I was going to post Amon Tobin's "Four Ton Mantis" as well but apparently it's been scrubbed from the internet!
― Doctor Hu (Leee), Friday, 27 September 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
Farben - RauteLuscious glitch.
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet EarthIndustrial shoegaze.
― Doctor Hu (Leee), Friday, 27 September 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
Just want to mention that the 15th anniversary edition of Complex Simplicity, with some added tracks, is now on Spotify. The original album has been absent there for a long time, at least where I live.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 29 September 2019 10:11 (four years ago) link
trim's soulfood is a murky late night odyssey that covers a lot of ground while still adding up to something coherent, all carried off with a wry light touch. whole thing's on youtube but as a reminder/taster -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tbgFNyxYzU
― ogmor, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
just wanna remind everyone that The Juan Maclean album The Future Will Come is amazing and that I will be voting for it
― sleeve, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
it's also on spotify
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
regardless, the juan maclean >>>>>> lcd soundsystem
oh whoops, sorry!
― sleeve, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
revisiting all the DFA (& similar) stuff is quite disappointing. definitely remember spaghetti circus, casual friday and even stuff like laughing light of plenty & rub n tug being more exciting and less corny, oh well.
― ogmor, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
Jens Lekman's Maple Leaves is not on Spotify and it's probably my favorite song of his:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_03lbaLsk
― MarkoP, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
sampling a song that itself was a bunch of samples ("since i left you") is kinda odd
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 30 September 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9qGHqS9iU
― daavid, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
It doesn't sample Since I Left You. It just happens to sample Glen Campbell's version of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", while Since I Left You samples Tony Mottola's version of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix".
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
I've never heard of most of these acts (and most of you have never heard of me no doubt so who cares right?)
I propose that the 00's were the decade when the notion of a critically approved musical canon of new music disintegrated. Tastes in new music have maybe become too fragmented. The only commonalities of interest for the decade among ILM posters will be blog house, indie rock/metal, and hipster-approved R&B/hip hop.
Of course it's quite possibly an issue more of the changing ILM community than music fandom in general. Anyway wake me up when there's a poll of top "continuum" music for the decade.
― viborg, Thursday, 3 October 2019 04:28 (four years ago) link
Casual Friday is definitely not "corny" tho. Maybe heaping on the hipster irony a little overmuch but the rhythm is still smoking hot.
― viborg, Thursday, 3 October 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
The only commonalities of interest for the decade among ILM posters will be blog house, indie rock/metal, and hipster-approved R&B/hip hop.
fwiw I hate all of these except for *some* indie rock
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 October 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
i love generalizations about ilm’s taste, give me more
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
<3 Brad
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 October 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
Jens Lekman's Maple Leaves is not on Spotify and it's probably my favorite song of hisYou saved me from having to post it! Definitely top ten for me. I'm perpetually underwhelmed by later Lekman, after he got the goofy puns and sampling so right early on.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 6 October 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
I wanted to vote for Lekman's Black Cab but no one nominated it :( which i guess is my fault for forgetting to submit nominations
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 6 October 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
I don't know if the full 16m composition is streaming anywhere but you can hear about 3m of Robert Normandeau's Éden here: https://electrocd.com/en/oeuvre/14030/Robert_Normandeau/Éden
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 7 October 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTzWu2ys2s
https://previews.dropbox.com/p/thumb/AAmmq5IeEiS1hQKzXgAtI9Zhdw1Ra7TVj-Mp6zkNfZCuTlM4oYKYEC8NYR9EAKIMVbhWjXWJ0_KZP2-fvRAJ-O8Whrvbd5gZz4S2yTNO39RIL8VrB5vNCl1AxSUVYwr2os6zp3CmND76KIRDPVQW8GiLzlonKfTlCwiCvPkt2cJM49-QCCi52vMwXKth5e4kIlNDRdWB4u-5z4biWTmmAtpNvAGg6Uw1tCagfbItbLImoC4pSbMO5L52h48-tT1Os9isXNeYUxnOZv2KdgEUyWd46gt6bcSdMZbp41KTRIqz3XYBtnkZ6OflJZqVvf6mKU6VEKIKfpLwjuLR2XypXNAN/p.jpeg
― saer, Monday, 7 October 2019 10:55 (four years ago) link
that should have been an embedded image but it was disallowed by VAR
― saer, Monday, 7 October 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
the record is Darand Land obviously and is my only suggestion because I forgot the others
― saer, Monday, 7 October 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link