Tell me some awesome albums to check out

[Winston*]

I feel like my music collection is growing stale to my ears and is in need of some awesome albums to freshen it up, so tell me them and I will listen and it will be good.

[Russ]

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[EvilShoe]

Random suggestions:
* The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
* Dirty Projectors - Rise Above

[[ETM]]

Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed (2003) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingers_Crossed_(album))

They're Aussies, though. Try to contain your hatred.

[D_Davis]

There's a whole thread in which I am discussing 50 awesome albums...

Some of those might be good.

:)

Here's an example:

The Last Man to Fly, by The Tear Garden

[Russ]

People Like Us Wobbly Matmos - Wide Open Spaces

"The hour long performance on this disc was captured live on October 5th 2002 when Wobbly, People Like Us and Matmos circled their wagons in the lecture hall of the San Francisco Art Institute. Having mutually agreed upon a country and western theme, Vicki Bennett (PLU), Jon Leidecker (Wobbly), and Drew Daniel and M. C. Schmidt (Matmos) pored over their archives of honky tonk classics, chopping and dicing Nashville's finest almost beyond recognition, and collectively restitching the mangled shreds in a kind of crazed digital quilting bee. Several tense rehearsals and strong pots of tea later, the foursome shuffled on stage and delivered the goods: from panoramic twangfests to offkilter waltzes to barn burning stompers. Flickering and tranquil one moment, and wildly slapstick the next, Wide Open Spaces hits the sweet spot between song forms and improvisation, and showcases the qualities that all three collaborating artists share: absurdist humor, baroque sample manipulation, and stuttering rhythmic frameworks that lurch and sway. While the presence of five samplers, four laptops, three CD players and a pedal steel guitar on one stage could have led to a tediously ego-driven "jam" or simply cacophany, the results feel lushly detailed but not cluttered, and swing naturally between structure and freedom. It's an international media magpie summit where country's chick-a-boom meets tech house's boom-tschak, and tearjerking sentiment and patriotic hokum are subjected to a dense shower of coughs, sputters and rude noises. Listening back to the recorded results, all three musical units agreed that this concert was mighty fine, and worth sharing."



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If you're into what most refer to as "experimental" "music", then I'd definitely recommend this one. Best of all, free download (http://www.peoplelikeus.org/dnload.htm) at Vicki's site.

[Skitch]

Clutch - Blast Tyrant

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[bac0n]

what do you generally look for in music? what appeals to you?

[megladon8]

A few I can listen to just about any time and never go wrong...


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[Derek]

what do you generally look for in music? what appeals to you?

Well, he's a Kiwi, so I assume he's into everything and anything influenced by The Velvet Underground.

As for a recommendation, go with the new The Field album, Yesterday and Today. Minimal techno does not get much better than this.

[Milky Joe]

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Dr. Dog - We All Belong

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Thomas Function - Celebration

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The Minders - Cul de Sacs & Dead Ends

[Thirdmango]

Ween -- The Mollusk

[SirNewt]

if you like folky poppy stuff ala Simone and Garfunkel check out the Decemberists

or that new Fleet Foxes ma jigger looked pretty good.

[monolith94]

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[SirNewt]

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Never listened to much SatFS. I should go do that.

[Winston*]

Well, he's a Kiwi, so I assume he's into everything and anything influenced by The Velvet Underground.


I suppose that's not far off but how did you come about that conclusion? 80s Flying Nun records?


As for a recommendation, go with the new The Field album, Yesterday and Today. Minimal techno does not get much better than this.
Dig the other The Field album I've heard. Good reading music.

[Winston*]

Random suggestions:
* The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2


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Ween -- The Mollusk
Love these albums


;160769']Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed (2003) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingers_Crossed_(album))

They're Aussies, though. Try to contain your hatred.
Don't like this band much. Find them a bit like a not very good Of Montreal and I don't really like Of Montreal much in the first place.


People Like Us Wobbly Matmos - Wide Open Spaces

If you're into what most refer to as "experimental" "music", then I'd definitely recommend this one. Best of all, free download (http://www.peoplelikeus.org/dnload.htm) at Vicki's site.

I've only listened to the Matmos album about the gay celebrities. It made me feel a little bit stupid.


if you like folky poppy stuff ala Simone and Garfunkel check out the Decemberists

or that new Fleet Foxes ma jigger looked pretty good.
Like these bands pretty well. Kind of sick of hearing Colin Melloy sing about dangerous old timey occupations.

[Winston*]

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Aesop Rock doesn't appear on this album, does he? I don't like Aesop Rock.

[megladon8]

No, I don't believe so.

It's all just DJ work. Vocals are samples, and I don't remember hearing his voice at any point.

[Boner M]

Have you heard Chris Knox's Seizure? Great Kiwi indie-rock.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Television and T. Rex