does that have “thunder in the afternoon”? is that song available anywhere besides dodgy comps?
― brimstead, Saturday, 23 November 2019 05:47 (four years ago) link
octobeard, have you tried Simmy’s Tugela Fairy? It’s produced by Sun-El Musician and even better than Africa to the World imo.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 23 November 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
oor neechy and michael b's decade polls were very helpful
This is otm, between these and you, imago, getting into Scott Miller (thereby causing me to re-read his book Music: What Happened?) it really set the pace for a lot of my listening this year. If I had to narrow it down to one album, it would absolutely be Thin White Rope's Exploring the Axis. Like a goth Grateful Dead, except it actually sounds more like Talking Heads than either goth or the Dead!
https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/exploring-the-axis-2018-remastered-edition
(Close runner-up is Frozen Concentrate's A•Fro•Zen•Con•Cent•Rate, which is 100% unstreamable and which I barely could find on $l$k, though I guess the vinyl still goes for pretty cheap. It's totally glittering college pop, somewhere between Fleetwood Mac and Lizzy Mercier Descloux)
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 24 November 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
2020 time!
Introspective by an absolute mile. Why didn't you tell me, ILM. (Oh, you did?)
Special mention to Patricia Taxxon's Pix & Bit which came out late last year and which I didn't find out about until June
― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
y no nü thred
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
quite a specific concept idk
― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Oh man I’m glad you got into Introspective... I got really into it a couple years ago... turns out PSB are better album artists than single artists!!!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
I noticed your answer for last year was Actually!
― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
oh god introspective is the fuckin best
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
lol i liked that you mentioned my love of Rio just now as I sort of group those two records together in my head
― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
the fuckin widescreen 80s
Hydroplane - S/T
― Evan, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Oops looks like that was my answer last year. hmmm
― Evan, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
oh wow i have a very easy and obvious answer for this year: night nurse by gregory isaacs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
The song "night nurse" is fire ... guess i should listen to the whole album
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
the whole album is on the title track's level it's ridiculous
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Real answer is probably Son House's Father of Folk Blues.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
Mine is either Lloyd Cole's Standards, East River Pipe's Shining Hours in A Can or Voodoo. I don't know *why* no one on here mentioned the D'Angelo record before.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Carlton's The Call Is Strong (1990) and Joe McPhee's Nation Time (1971), were those records, personally
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
didn't discover it in 2020, but i did enjoy my time with gene clark's no other more than any other album this year
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, December 2, 2020 11:48 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
That collection of East River Pipe is some of my all time favorite music. How has a song like 40 Miles not made into a pivotal scene in an HBO character drama yet? Why isn't Springsteen covering his songs? He's being a bit too overlooked honestly.
― Evan, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Bill Fay, Time of the Last Persecution without a doubt. Absolutely floored me.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Re Your Album of 2019 (that was released before 2019): why did ppl cite the Arthur Russell album that was released in 2019? Oh well, great album (Iowa Dream, on bandcamp with a bunch of his others).In recent years, I've been belatedly discovering more by Robert Wyatt, incl. prev unreleased solo, expanded reissues of Soft Machine and Matching Mole, also, if you scroll upthread here, his work with Michael Mantler etc---lotta links to streams:Robert Wyatt: Classic or Dud?Also, on YouTube: the first two Soft Machine studio albums---new to me!
― dow, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
For me, this year, would be between Elvis Presley Elvis in Memphis, Hypnosia Extreme Hatred and Evil Spirit The Imageless Mirror.
― o. nate, Thursday, 3 December 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
Pat Methany & Lyle May - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
― Tim F, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
Evelyn "Champagne" King's Get Loose is probably the best album I heard this year.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
that is def the best album ever made
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington. It was a gift from a friend a number of years ago that I never played, and forgot I owned until recently.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
― kitchen person, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:24 (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This probably would have been my answer in whichever year I first heard it.
― Tim F, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
the best album i discovered this year was probably jimmy giuffre — "western suite"
i listen to it all the time now
― budo jeru, Thursday, 3 December 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
I can't even remember how I stumbled across this Barbara & Ernie album, but I apparently listened to it so much they ended up my #1 artist in my Spotify Wrapped for 2020. It's quite nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApQoFzmJXw
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 December 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
Michael Head & The Strands - The Magical World of the StrandsTakashi Kokubo - Jamaica ~ Waves And Light And EarthSign Libra - Closer To The Equator
― Evan, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
veedon fleece. i'd listened to it before but never with sustained attention
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
it's the best album ever made
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
probably danny brown's last lp.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
The first album by The Left Banke, and Forever Breathes the Lonely Word by Felt.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
100% Proof - The Tubby Hayes Orchestra
― calzino, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
NRBQ at Yankee Stadium, or Pretzel Logic
― enochroot, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link