Album Of The Day!

[Stenners]

This is new, seriously unlike everything else I will TRY to stick to this one

album of the day, new concept of simply posting up Album of the day, I will

try to keep it further in the back catalouges as I am covering new stuff

in LPF Album Reviews.

 

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Neutral Milk Hotel

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Folk/Indie

Released: Feb 98

 

And for an obvious choice of topic, i'm going to choose for what people that listen to this

sort of stuff an obvious choice of record. Anyone well basically anyone that has heard this

album eventually get won over by it, I remember when I first got given my Oink account that

I would chance it. I heard good things about this album & i'd be damned if I was left out...

I wasn't over keen on first listen & I didn't give it much more chance, when Toxic1 made the

discovery that I had downloaded this album he persuaded me to listen again... and for that

I thank him as this is a brilliantly produced lyrical marvel which sounds intimate, personal &

most important emotional. The vocals on this album are mind blowing, you can almost picture

Magnum picking up an accoustic guitar and singing all of this stuff right in front of you the vocals

remind me of a young Bob Dylan, the inclusion of various brass instruments and such show you

were the likes of Arcade Fire are aiming but thus far missing, this is a beautiful album which

has aged superbly & will forever be rememberd as a milestone in indie music, it was also listed

in the top 10 albums you have never heard.

 

For details on how to get this album please consult me

 

Running Time: Approx 39mins

Tracks: 11

[HaziLPTonz]

this seems basically like the LPF album reviews without a rating, and are you really going to post one EVERY day?

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The Avalanches

Since I Left You

Club/Dance/Turntablism/Funky Breaks

Released: Nov 27th 2000

 

Who remembers these guys? Well now days maybe not so much, they still have

a large and curious fan base who have been waiting & I shit you not, 7 years for

a follow up. For now anyways who remembers this group? These Turntablists/

Producers hit it big with smash hit 'Frontier Psycyatrist' tearing up the UK & Aus

charts. What you have hear is an incredibly fun and dancey record which offers

up lots of fun playful dance music I guess, not crappy hardcore dance music which

is just a repetetive drone with thumping, no this is fun an original & reminds more

of 'Beastie Boys' rather then 'Groove Amada'. I pretty much put extracts of this

abum or the entire album on when I throw a party or am asked to provide music

for parties, it's theme, tune & key promotes a degree of emotion as well, it's not

cold like most dance music which is often left to do just the one thing & thats

to get people to dance. This one scores on multiple lessons because it can be

enjoyed in a dancing situation or just on a general listen as the is tones and keys

to connect to, the vinyl sounds & the way it bleeds into each track is just

another reasson why I love this album.

 

Other Facts:

#4 Juice Magazine 'Greatest Australlian Albums Of All Time'

#5 Pitchfork Media 'Top Albums Of The Decade'

Both singles debuted in top 20 of UK Charts

 

Tracks: 18

Running Time: Approx 1hr

 

Please contact me for details on getting this album

 

Music Video:

 

Frontier Psycyatrist

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0

 

Since I Left You

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VfAuFAgHpzc

[Toxic1]

Both albums listed above are quite amazing and are great cds to have in your collection. Good luck Stenners on keeping this thread going consistently. Wouldn't an "Album of the Week" been a little easier to maintain? From what I notice, alot of people here have a hard enough time listening to a new album every month let alone every day.

[Stenners]

I will probably crash n burn soon enough, but I won't have internet access every day of course

 

But I will try

[Stenners]

Suprised that the has only been 1 request so far, I knew it would be a bit sparse but this is shocking! I'm suprised people that even claim to like turntable music haven't even oppted for Avalanches....

[Stenners]

It's midnight, im bored

 

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Pulp

Different Class

Britpop/Pop

October 1995

 

The era of britpop produced alot of bands, some were good & some were okay + the

were alot of shit ones along the way. To me Pulp were the best one, not Blur & not

the horrendously over rated Oasis..... Verve could of done it but they sort of blew it

last second with Urban Hymes which was okay but a bit cliche. Anyways back to this

album, what is the to say about this album? It's very rare for albums to have such massive

appeal to people into Alternative music and the mainstream... not only does this album

do this it is also a firm faviroute of both classes. The synth pop almost new-wave in style

was a band around a decade into their career and this is where they peaked, the lyrics

are funny and whitty but with minimal effort and minimal change in sound the band could

go from whitty & funny to creepy & it is that which I really admire about this album. Nothing

sounds forced, the hooks are everywhere, the isn't much more catchy albums, it's an album

suited for several occasions and full of plenty of floor fillers. It's an album of pop genius & is

pretty much sums up what pop music should be all about, catchy, whitty & clever... with

a couple suprises and interesting arrangments thrown in you have a great album... the 2

singles that everyone remembers from this album 'Common People' & 'Disco 2000' to this

date in the UK occupy a large number of air time on the radio.

 

Tracks: 12

Length: Approx 52mins

 

Common People

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F39RS3I0D0Y

 

Disco 2000

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=61ThRHYFQvU

 

Mis-Shapes

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eWiilrBq9vw

 

If you want details to get this album NOW please contact me

 

1998 Q magazine readers voted Different Class the 37th greatest album of all time; a repeat poll in 2006 put it at number 85. In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was voted number 70 of Channel 4's 100 greatest albums.

[Toxic1]

Love Pulp!

[Stenners]

Its all about Jarvis! Lyrics and his unusual yet totally indearing and charming delivery and are the peak of brit pop!

 

Though they were a bit shitty before His N Hers!

[Black_Angel]

Pulpppp <3

They're so northern!

And Common People is like, my anthem, innit :]

"I took her to a supermarket, I dunno why but I had to start it somewhere".

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Joy Division

Unknown Pleassures

Rock/Post Punk

June 1979

 

This band are massivley influential, no one can deny it, you can hear elements of their

sound all the way from Xiu Xiu to Arcade Fire & are comparable to the like of The Cure,

pretty cold in their sound and utterly hypnotic this album uses the combonation of spacey

riffs with synths to create a sound which was way ahead of it's time. The minimal nature

of this album is particually appealing, it adds to the sense of paranoia and lonliness that

this album is trying to emote and it does it with such devestatingly unreal effect, it's just

an album that sends shivers down your spine whenever you hear it, it's just an album that

you know won't be replicated, it's just one of those albums you can stick your neck out on

the line for and say 'THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE'. The production

on that note is also superb, the vocals hit you without over powering the drums, guitar

or keyboard, the mix is done in such a way that the part that should stand out, stands out

I have said it once and I have said it before, I believe this is one of the greatest albums ever made.

 

Tracks: 10

Running Time: Approx 38mins

Here is an unofficial video for Disorder

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QrzGpVOPcTI

 

Facts:

In 2000 Q magazine placed Unknown Pleasures at number 19 in its list of the 100 Greatest British

Albums Ever. Pitchfork Media placed it at number 10 in its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1970s.

 

For details on getting this album, please contact me

[Usiel]

Nice music, guys... well, in my case, I've chosen this one: (I'm sorry Matt, dear, forgive me, but I think I had to do it, just for remember a part of my past)

 

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Shalom

Shalom

Rock classic

January 1990

 

Well, I'm sure, soo sure, no one know them. As you'll guess, they're spanish and they're from where I live (This is one of the reason, I posted it here). Some of their song are amazing: Gente sin fe (People without faith) Solo en la Niebla (Alone in the Fog). Lot of people considered them great and although this band isnt exist actually, There's lot of people who still remind them. They got a nice success at the beginning of the nineties but luck wasnt with them and now they're a listless rock legend of the past.

For more information or details, you've this http://webs.ono.com/shalom/.

 

Unfortunately for some of you, it's in spanish, but well, there are some vids and lots of pics where you neednt to know my mother tongue (although you should know it a little bit :-P )

At the beginning, I said that if I posted it here it was 'cos I've some reasons to do it. The first one it's already said, but, there's one more.

Shalom was part of me, part of my past, and although they dont exist as a band nowadays, they marked my life in the music's world. They were my first band and with them, I could know that music is part of my life even when I wasnt born yet.They got it, the two guitarists (my uncles) and the manager, my dad. :clap:

[Stenners]

Seeing as this might be the final one for a little while due to circumstances,

I might as well do it about one of my faviroute albums of all time.... and alot

of you that know me better will see this one comming.

 

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Modest Mouse

Moon & Antarctica

Indie/Alternative

June 2000

 

This album pretty much is the soundtrack to my college years & still pretty much is

I don't think many albums have had as much lasting impact on me then this album.

It resembles many memories, highs and lows, an album where confussion, sense of

doom and paranoia run free but also with the posetive negatives thrown in. It brings

memories of me and friends on the beach playing 3rd Planet with our accoustics and

pots from the BBQ we just had.... it reminds me of Paper Thin Walls being played at

a house party where I met someone that I cared about, it's the album that braught

me and other people I know closer due to common interest, this is the album that

has shaped and moulded me to the person I am today... it may remind me of some

things I don't want to remember but mainly it reminds me of some pinnacle moments

of my life, when time was a bit relaxed and at the moment of my life when I felt a sense

of improvment. The reasson this album has done this to me & other people I know

is because it is simply about the uncertaintly of existance, questioning religion, society

and ethics viewed by others, lyrically Isaacc Brock was on fire, you can forget your

Float Ons, this is the stuff that hit hard.

This was Modest Mouses debut for major label, sony owned Epic, this caused concerns

amongst the Mouse fan base who had grown to love their Punky and Spontanious sound

and while that is minimised on this effort it is still present, but the change in sound impresses

rather then dissapoints.... this is band showed a sudden amount of growth in such a short

space of time... this is an album that displayed an artist who has just realised something

pretty deep & heavy and it was genuine growth. Bands constently try to re-invent their

sound... Linkin Park for example recently did this but that sounded forced and top relevent

to the current trends, this album on the other hand seemed so natural & for a major label

debut, was the total opposite of what you would expect, where as before they were noisey

yelpy and generally scitz for the most part with the odd accoustic song thrown in, this album

showcases mainly sounds of the more melodic and gentle kind but deliverd in a very spacey

bleek and in an emotoinally embarking way, it is the type of music you would expect to hear

on a revelation... on a journey of self realisation.

The are plenty of songs on this that I will consider all time faviroutes and certainly would

generally rank amongst the best of the 00's, 'Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes' with it's bouncey

catchey bass line goes from bouncey infectiousness to one of the most brilliantly deliverd

hooks/choruses your ever likely to hear. Isaac could of easily botched this chorus up and

made it sound artificial by trying to adjust to the ears of potential listeners, instead he

just spazz's, spazz's hard.... his deliver of 'DOES ANYBODY KNOW A WAY A BODY COULD

GET AWAY?!?!?!' delivers the sheer confusion, anger and fear such a statement should

provoke, it isn't deliverd to please listeners it's deliverd to reflect what he is feeling. Then

you have 'A Different City' a general statement to modern civilisation, the feeling the

music provokes is a very hectic one, full of anger and general confusion "I'm watchin TV

I guess thats a sollution/I got given a recipte that said I didn't buy nothing' which can

roughly translate to 'I thought I got a solution but really I got nothing'. 'Paper Thin Walls'

has a cow bell and is incredibly poppy but the actual message is all about paranoia.. the

title does sort of suggest this 'these walls are paper thin/and everyone hears ever single

sound' or 'everyones a vouyer watchin me watch them right now' which implies what you

think about others also applies to you.... another good line from said song is 'its been

agreed the whole world stink/so no one showers anymore' as in Everything sucks lets

give up on approving it, if everyone else is like it why should I be any different?

I could go on but the spacey feeling, the abrupt guitars, shows a much darker & enlightening

Modest Mouse then previous and indeed proccesing records, it is pretty much a one off from

them and whilst they have shown some moment like this in previous records and ones after

to varying degrees of success nothing really quite hit the spot like this did. It may be a tad

over long but if you perservier with it you would experiance the feelings and emotions of

Isaacc at the time as well as hear some genuinly thought provoking lyrics, this album is one

of if not my all time faviroute & I know it's not the best album in the world but those in a

moment in their life of self discovery, paranoia, lonliness or generally confused should give

it a quick listen as the is something that is bound to relate to you.

 

Running Time: Approx 60mins

Tracks: 15

 

Unofficial Music Videos

 

Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes (short)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b7hQsBBwB48

 

A Different City

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWTx93CX90

 

3rd Planet

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LbqYzArcTqQ

 

Cold Part

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e1hqtjFXGDU

 

Paper Thin Walls

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sdyjLh5fU

 

Dark Center Of The Universe

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C0otTE8qJRg&mode=related&search=

 

Sorry for the long read, if you read it all you will understand my love for this album

 

Facts:

Pitchfork Media ranked the album as the third best album of 2000, trailing Radiohead and Sigur Rós. In early 2005,

they named it the seventh best album of the years 2000 through 2004.

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Pixies

Doolittle

Rock/Alternative/Indie

1989

 

Before I start off lets look at some of the artists clearly inspired by the Pixies:

Nirvana

Modest Mouse

Lemonheads

The Jesus & Mary Chain

Violent Femmes

Les Savy Fav

Blonde Redhead

Mudhoney

Janes Addiction

Be Your Own Pet

..... I could go on

 

Now most bands would probably have been inspired by this release in particular, 1987's Doolittle

saw a band jumping away from convention in an era which had been very inconsistent musicly... this

is the album that inspired the grunge movment, mainly Smells Like Teen Spirit, which was Kurts

attempt to sound like the Pixies. This album is full of memorable songs, you would of heard a good

half of the album before listening to it without realising it, 'Here Comes Your Man', 'Monkey Gone To

Heaven', 'Debaser', 'There Goes Your Gun', 'Pain'.... all of these songs I had heard before I had

even listend to the album. The play on vocals is great the way Black and Deal harmonise and bounce

off of each other is great & a real odd couple, yet it works so well. Deal's soft more melodic vocals

over Black's Barks, Yelps and Screams is the perfect combonation, this was also the album which

shows more range to Pixies, although 'Sufa Roser' was a superb album, it lacked the diversity shown

here.... this album has everything from Punk, Noise Rock, Pop Rock & just well... rock & because

it jumped so far away from Convention it sounds like an album released recently rather then in the

80's & that is the main reasson it is todays album of the day, the fact that after almost 20 years

this album still sounds like it was made this year.

 

Music Videos:

 

Debaser

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCoOlUjhlc

 

Monkey Gone To Heaven (Live 2006)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRrTl2J2w8&mode=related&search=

 

Facts:

 

Doolittle appeared on several end-of-year "Best Album" lists; both Rolling Stone and The Village Voice placed the album tenth, and independent music magazines Sounds and Melody Maker both ranked the album as the second best of the year. NME also ranked the album highly, placing it fourth in their end-of-year list

 

A range of music magazines have since acclaimed Doolittle as one of the quintessential alternative rock albums of the 1980s. Rolling Stone, reviewing Doolittle again in 2002, gave the album five stars out of five, remarking that it laid the "groundwork for Nineties rock."[42] Doolittle has received a number of international accolades and is consistently noted as one of the best albums of the 1980s in any genre.[41]

 

Following its release, Doolittle sold steadily in America, and broke sales of 100,000 after six months. By early 1992, while the band were supporting U2 on their Zoo TV tour, the album was selling 1500 copies a week. The middle of 1993, two years after the band's last album, Trompe le Monde, saw sales average 1200 per week. Doolittle was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1995.[48] Ten years after the breakup, Doolittle was still selling between 500 and 1000 a week; the reunion tour saw sales creep back up to 1200 a week. At the end of 2005, best estimates put total sales in America at between 800,000 and one million copies

 

Album Chart Posistions (1989) (Peak)

US Billboard 200 98

UK Album Chart 8

French Album Chart 66

 

Hot PressIrelandTop 100 Albums[50]2006 #34 Juice Australia The 50 Best Albums of All Time[51]1997#2NME UK 100 Best Albums[52]2003 #2 PanoramaNorway The 30 Best Albums of the Year 1970–98 1999 #1 QUKUltimate Music Collection [53] 2005 Rolling Stone US The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 2003 #226 Spin US 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005[54]2005#36

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Bloc Party

Silent Alarm

March 2005

Art Punk/Alternative/Rock

 

An album that was released over 2 years ago now, this album is still proving one

thing most NME bands can't do right now..... that is prove Bloc Party had a sound

on this, their debut LP, that could stand the test of time.... sure I say that after

only 2 years but anyone that goes to any Scene/Rock night at any bar/pub or club

could still wager 2 or 3 songs off of this LP being played. Before Bloc Party where

produced to death, this album offerd a slick, polished yet disjointed sound which

provided some of the best songs from 2005, Helicopter perhaps being the strongest

example of this... it is pretty much the ultimate indie disco floorfiller of recent years,

it has not 1 but 2 hooks! Which in it's self is pretty impressive as they both shatter

what most british guitar bands hone on. Other songs such as 'Shes Hearing Voices'

and 'Banquet' are also great songs to dance to, the majority of the album is up beat

and before they got schitzo politicical on us they did some good honest fun songs.

It's hard to rate this album now without a degree of backfire after the dissapointing

'A Weekend In The City' but I still rate this album very highly and for those of you

that haven't heard this album, do check it out.

 

Info:

 

Silent Alarm is the debut album by British rock band Bloc Party, charted at #3 in the Official UK Charts. It was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize. It was named NME's album of the year for 2005.

 

Music Videos:

 

Helicopter

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2R6S5CJWlco

 

Banquet (Fort Minor sampled this on the mixtape!)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GzDvbQtqyOs

 

The Pioneers

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=52jWkrfjakk

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Smashing Pumpkins

Siamease Dreams

July 1993

Rock/Grunge

 

Often considerd one of the best albums from the Grunge era this album showed

a band in turmoil, a band on the brink of disintegration, a band which was so close

to ending that this album may never of surfaced.... Billy had problems and the was

absoloutly no doubt about it, he was this close to quiting.... then he wrote 'Today'

one of the finest rock songs of the 90's. If that's not enough reasson to seak out

this album how about the dramatic symphonic ballad 'Disarm' the brilliance that

is 'Cherub Rock' and the rocking.... errrm 'Rocket'. All in all this showed a band

in the Grunge genre that actually had variety, diversity and creativity.... in my opinion

this album easily surpasses the over rated 'Nevermind' but not only did this album

offer lavish melodies, ballads, heavy riffs but also walls of noise as well as guitar

solos.... these elements which lacked in Grunge lead to it being a stale genre with

little variety and therefor little life.... Pumpkins embrace these elements and have

as a result crafted one of the most timeless Grunge albums of all time as well as

one of the must haves of the 90's.

 

Info

In 2006, Q magazine readers voted Siamese Dream the 54th greatest album of all time.#

In 2003, the album was ranked number 360 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of

the 500 greatest albums of all time. Pitchfork Media ranked it as the 18th best album of the

1990s. "Siamese Dream" was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the

Grammy Awards of 1994. Along with a nomination for Cherub Rock for

Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal, this was the Pumpkins' first Grammy nomination.

"Quiet" was set to be released as a single instead of "Rocket" but it never finalized.

Two songs from Siamese Dream were included in Guitar World's list of the

100 greatest guitar solos of all time. Readers voted "Geek U.S.A." at number 54,

and "Cherub Rock" at number 97. Besides the four singles from the album,

"Geek U.S.A." and "Mayonaise" received radio airplay.

 

Videos:

 

Today

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RHUd896Sur0

 

Disarm

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QQtLoJlQD6E&mode=related&search=

 

Cherub Rock

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t1N_qX_r4Iw

 

Rocket

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdgj0cSgPLo

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Jim White

No Such Place

Alt.Folk/Trip Hop

Feb 2001

 

The album that shows Jim White at his best, a musician that takes classical Folk

sing/song writer elements and twists them by providing Gospel choruses, Trip Hop

beat undertones & by implementing trippy elements into his music. It's always nice

to see a Folk musician sounding truley different and this album does this very well

'Handcuffed To A Fense In Missisipi' is the deffinative track for first time listeners, it's

trip hop beat storms threw, the hook is massive and it's a brilliantly approachable

song. '10 Miles To Go On A 9 Mile Road' is one of my faviroute songs from the decade

& people who get to hear this album, upon first hearing will probably immediatly think

Beck, I mean considering he mixes Folk/Country/Trip Hop is enough to stimulate this

feeling, but upon further listens you will realise how much more accomplished and

varied 'Jim White' is as a musician. The album is at it's best when it goes from upbeat,

uptempo warm music to cold down tempo & spacey music, the effortless transistion

helps the albums overall appeal, on top of this musical ability here is also an album with

brilliant tounge in cheek delivery & great whitt, offering lyrics that back up the quality

of the music.

 

10 Miles To Go On A 9 Mile Road

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWahwJOM1I

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Fugazi

Steady Diet Of Nothing

American Underground Rock/Post-Hardcore

July 1991

 

This band are a bit special, refusing to lend their name to merchandise of any sort

in order to let the music do all the talking, they had to do it right or face certain

bankrupsy. This band is a genuine case of one that puts the music ahead of anything

else & by only playing all age venues so that all their fans can see them increases

the respect I have of this band even further. This, their 2nd full release showed the band

going for herk-a-jerk rhythems and not being quite as high tempod as their debut it was

a nice change in sound, a natural one, one that was pulled off very convinsing in such

a way that the album provided was more then adaquoute to proceed 'Repeater' despite

the high expectations placed on them as it was a brilliant record. This album shows some

of the most inteligant Post-Harcore rock your likely to hear in the 90's & considering the

band had only been around for 4 years by the time this album was released they do sound

pretty mature whilst not being totally grounded. It's an accomplished album which should

appeal to those looking at the roots of Harcore music & 90's underground rock

 

Reclamation (Live)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozi4U5pWc3w&mode=related&search=

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Goose

Bring It On

Feb 2007

Electronica

 

On Fatboy slims label (Skint) this band have slowly been building their profile, this

is Sleazy electronica which is saving Skint from unfashionable caving in. Who would

of thought belgians could do this? It's probably one of the best electroninca album

(with rock dynamics) to come out in years. So why is this album so enjoyable? The synth

is dirty, the vocals are pretty much perfect for the genre & the hooks are unbelivably

strong.... it all sounds similar but its different enough to give the album it's own identity

one of my favioroute songs, 'Black Gloves' is high tempo'd and borrows rap as a main

influence... it's just one of the punchiest and danciest electonica sounds your likely to

hear. This is carried out threw out the majority of the album with only a few albums

not really accomplishing their job.

 

Black Gloves

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gcyChmAMpjo&mode=related&search=

 

British mode

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I0eMErWfA-k

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Jim White

No Such Place

Alt.Folk/Trip Hop

Feb 2001

 

The album that shows Jim White at his best, a musician that takes classical Folk

sing/song writer elements and twists them by providing Gospel choruses, Trip Hop

beat undertones & by implementing trippy elements into his music. It's always nice

to see a Folk musician sounding truley different and this album does this very well

'Handcuffed To A Fense In Missisipi' is the deffinative track for first time listeners, it's

trip hop beat storms threw, the hook is massive and it's a brilliantly approachable

song. '10 Miles To Go On A 9 Mile Road' is one of my faviroute songs from the decade

& people who get to hear this album, upon first hearing will probably immediatly think

Beck, I mean considering he mixes Folk/Country/Trip Hop is enough to stimulate this

feeling, but upon further listens you will realise how much more accomplished and

varied 'Jim White' is as a musician. The album is at it's best when it goes from upbeat,

uptempo warm music to cold down tempo & spacey music, the effortless transistion

helps the albums overall appeal, on top of this musical ability here is also an album with

brilliant tounge in cheek delivery & great whitt, offering lyrics that back up the quality

of the music.

 

10 Miles To Go On A 9 Mile Road

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWahwJOM1I

 

At first, I thought you were reviewing an album by the great Jim White of Dirty Three. I was like "how did I not know of this". Alas, it's a different Jim White. Hehe.

 

By the way, all great album recommendations so far. This album and artist above I'm unaware of though.

 

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Will you be recommending anytime soon, arguably, two of the best albums of all time by Talk Talk?

[Stenners]

I plan to do Spirit Of Eden in the not so distant future

[Toxic1]

I plan to do Spirit Of Eden in the not so distant future

 

Cool cool. Laughing Stock too! >:o

[Stenners]

Yes Yes, okay lol

 

I wan't to cover alot of bands, so the will be a gap between them

[Toxic1]

Of course, I'm just playin around. Do yo' thang brotha.

[Stenners]

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Explosions In The Sky

Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever

Post Rock/Experimental

September 2001

 

Bands restrained by boundries of music are... well... can get pretty dull... never

a problem here! This bands debut full lenght LP shows a band dipping in and out

of Prog Rock, Metal, Gothic, Indie.... the list goes on. The majesty of this? The

fact it all works together so well going from all out destructive heavy riffs to the

most tentalisingly soft and dreamy melodies so effortlessly, so suddenly truly keeps

the listener guessing. This is by no stretch of the imagination a pop record with

no song clocking in at under 6minutes I guess one of the best comparissons for

this band would be the likes of 'Mogwai' that thrive off of long instrumentalisation

rather then going for hooks.... in fact this album is almost totally instrumental but the soundscape

provided by these pieces of work are so lavish, unpredictable whilst at the same time

focused & tantalising that you will find yourself comming to this album over & over

again.