This Weeks Albums Playlist [Archive] - Page 3

ken foree

30/10/2009, 4:23 PM

alisdair roberts, scottish troubadour, fans of will oldham and jason molina (with whom he's collaborated) would likely trip when they heard this - where are the young irish fellas like roberts i ask ye.

'spoils' is his latest full-length, utterly fantastic, moving, affirming.
'the wyrd meme' - an even more recent EP that is equally as good.

lots of the following bands/artists:

emeralds - slabs of new-age drone, non-ironic 80s sound-art fetishism.
james ferraro - see above
steven r. smith - 'cities', this guy's new album, amazing. a soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic movie like the road i posted in the movies thread. the beautiful and haunted sound of urban disintegration.
weakling - wiki says it best: "Weakling was a progressive/black metal band from San Francisco. The band never toured and released only one album, Dead As Dreams, recorded in 1998 and released on tUMUlt Records in 2000."

dead as dreams is absolutely THUNDERING music, obliterating at times. fans of metal, check this stuff.

stann

01/11/2009, 7:57 PM

Ooof, follow that! :D

Just got a pile of random stuff in at the same time, some new, some CDification of earlier tape/vinyl, half-way through listening.

OMD - Architecture And Morality
ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire
Human League - Dare (lovely revisiting these, three of my faves from way back, sometimes patchy, mostly wonderful)
Basement Jaxx - Scars
Cornershop - Hold on It Hurts (an absolute joy!)
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Zero 7 - When It Falls
DJ Shadow & Q-Bert - Camel Bobsled Race (well, I have it now, but meh)
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement (tasty!)
Air - Love 2

superfrank

01/11/2009, 9:39 PM

What do you make of the new Jaxx album stann?

stann

05/11/2009, 7:46 AM

Am not sure really, generallly good though.
It starts off pretty decent, but then it really lifts a few tunes in with the brilliant Santi White and Sam Sparro efforts.
It's a bit of a grower I'd say. :)

Wolfie

27/01/2010, 12:34 PM

West Ryder Pauper.. - Kasabian
Bleach - Nirvana
Murmur - R.E.M
Brighten the Corners - Pavement
Goo - Sonic Youth
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones

Pauro 76

27/01/2010, 1:02 PM

Contra - Vampire Weekend (much better than their first album)
Its Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sigh No More - Mumford and Sons
Heartworm - Whipping Boy

stann

27/01/2010, 3:30 PM

Before starting in on the new stuff, was just catching up on a late contender for Album of the Year 2009, Bitte Orca from the Dirty Projectors.
Took a few listens but wow, what a record! Arty and poppy in equal measure, would struggle hugely to put any label on them though, or compare them with anyone. Rather just recommend that anyone who hasn't heard them yet should make it their business to do so soon. :)

twoenz

27/01/2010, 4:30 PM

Fyfe Dangerfield: Fly Yellow Moon.

Pauro 76

29/01/2010, 10:45 AM

Massive Attack 'Heligoland' is much better than their last, 100th Window. Some very good tracks, but the Damon Albarn and Guy Garvey (Elbow) collaborations aren't as good as expected.

jebus

29/01/2010, 2:05 PM

Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies
The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love
Blur - Blue Jeans
Elliot Smith - Thirteen

and Lyric FM have been my soundtrack for today so far :)

Wolfie

29/01/2010, 2:54 PM

Picked up Televisions 2nd album "Adventure".

Looking forward to checking that out later.

If its half as good as "Marquee Moon" it will be great.

Wolfie

07/04/2010, 12:47 PM

Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
Wowee Zowee - Pavement
Goo - Sonic Youth
Kingdom of Rust - Doves
Abbey Road - The Beatles

stann

07/04/2010, 1:10 PM

Good lot to get through over the next while!

Stone Roses - Stone Roses (continuing the CDification of the record collection!)
Inspiral Carpets - Greatest Hits
Adrian Sherwood - On-U Sound Crash Slash & Mix (a best of mix comp)
Goldfrapp - Head First
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter (the Supernature remix album)
Husky Rescue - Ship Of Light
Hot Chip - Coming On Strong (and a Bugged out mix double)
Roudoudou - Tout L'Univers: Listener's Digest
Oh No Ono - Eggs

Also can I heap praise upon both Heligoland and Groove Armada's Black Light, both excellent returns to form.
And vote for Gorillaz - Plastic Beach as the early contender for album of the year 2010, stunning piece of work.
(Oh, and for Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix as my new album of the year 2009 :smile: )

superfrank

14/04/2010, 8:47 AM

Sonic Youth - Goo.

Have to say, I'm really likine this album. I wasn't too sure what to expect but they remind me a lot of Jefferson Airplane in some ways.

Wolfie

14/04/2010, 12:32 PM

Sonic Youth - Goo.

Have to say, I'm really likine this album. I wasn't too sure what to expect but they remind me a lot of Jefferson Airplane in some ways.

Really got into this album recently as well - its 20 years old this year. They put most young bands to shame.

If you like this album you'd probably like Daydream Nation and Dirty by the same band.

Great music that's thankfully difficult to pidgeonhole.

brianw82

15/04/2010, 5:17 AM

De/Vision - Popgefahr

I've gotten huge into Synthpop over the past 6 months but never really 'got' these guys. Picked this album up in Prague over the weekend (sadly, it's unlikely to be found on shelves here) and it's the style done to absolute perfection. One spin this and the melodies are burned into one's brain and repeat listens are mandatory. I'd possibly question its staying power if it's so good so quickly but right now I'm loving it.

Pauro 76

20/04/2010, 8:35 AM

Wolfie

27/07/2010, 1:09 PM

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Butterfly House - The Coral
Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stone
Quarantine the Past - Pavement
Journal for Plague Lovers - Manics

Pauro 76

29/07/2010, 10:00 AM

Ash: A-Z Vol 1
Always been a bit of a guilty pleasure, a lot of cracking tunes here, they sound as good as ever.

MGMT: Congratulations
Less 'Kids' more 'Kid A'.... But this just sounds a self-indulgent mess though with stupid in-jokes about Brian Eno. May be a grower though.

Quoting myself here, but 'Congratulations' did grow on me. Liking it now...

Other albums on the playlist..

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (superb)
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Deftones - Around The Fur
Kele - The Boxer

Wolfie

29/07/2010, 12:23 PM

Quoting myself here, but 'Congratulations' did grow on me. Liking it now...

Other albums on the playlist..

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (superb)
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Deftones - Around The Fur
Kele - The Boxer

Good to see Arcade Fire back in action. Is it a new direction or a follow on from Neon Bible, Pauro??

Pauro 76

30/07/2010, 7:54 PM

Good to see Arcade Fire back in action. Is it a new direction or a follow on from Neon Bible, Pauro??

New direction, a lot less of the strings, church organs and despair... but a real mix of styles, Month of May is quite punkish and Wasted Hours is quite a chilled out strum along. Sprawl II verges on disco and it's amazing. There's two two-part epics (if that makes sense), Sprawl and Half Light. Countless highlights, but it's best to let the album grow on you.

Wolfie

02/11/2010, 12:44 PM

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Bossanova - The Pixies
Humbug - The Arctic Monkeys
Places Between (Best Of) - Doves

Wolfie

08/03/2011, 12:44 PM

Decade - Neil Young
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
Different Gear, Still Speeding - Beady Eye
The River - Bruce Springsteen
The Promise - Bruce Springsteen
Essential Bob Dylan (2010 re-issue) - Bob Dylan

Sullivinho

08/03/2011, 9:50 PM

Dynamite Steps - The Twilight Singers
Blues for the Red Sun - Kyuss
Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond

stann

09/03/2011, 12:37 AM

The new lot this week include:
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
LCD Soundsystem - The London Sessions
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Happy Birthday: The Best Of Altered Images

CraftyToePoke

09/03/2011, 1:32 AM

Animal Kingdom - Signs And Wonders
Soledad Brothers - The Hardest Walk
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Beth Orton - Pass In Time
The Pine Hill Haints - The Cold Cold Hand (Alabama Ghost Country Music)

Pauro 76

09/03/2011, 9:02 AM

Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (follows on from Seldom Seen Kid, pretty good)
REM - Collapse Into Now (back to their best!)
Radiohead - King of Limbs (took a while, but sinks in, very atmospheric, especially the last three tracks)
DJ Shadow - Entroducing (listened to it for the first time, brilliant stuff)

Wolfie

09/03/2011, 12:21 PM

Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

Great album thats bookended at the beginning and end with two absolute classics - "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Gets What you Want". Complete genius for, what year?? - 68? 69?

Could have been a Hat-trick if they left the "rock" version of "Honky Tonk Women" on the album.

May I heartily recommend "Sticky Fingers", "Exile on Main Street" and "Beggars Banquet" also.

stann

12/03/2011, 1:25 AM

Great album thats bookended at the beginning and end with two absolute classics - "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Gets What you Want". Complete genius for, what year?? - 68? 69?

Could have been a Hat-trick if they left the "rock" version of "Honky Tonk Women" on the album.

May I heartily recommend "Sticky Fingers", "Exile on Main Street" and "Beggars Banquet" also.

'69. Lots going on around it, inside and outside the band.
"Gimme Shelter" is one of my favourite songs of all time. Heard or read a great line about it some time ago, something about Richards' guitar intro wheeling like a malevolent vulture circling the corpse of the sixties. Nice.
"Midnight Rambler" is another top, top tune.
Not as much of a fan of Sticky Fingers as it goes, but slot in Out Of Our Heads instead and you'd pretty much have the best four Stones albums there though.

bennocelt

19/03/2011, 5:05 PM

The Con by Tegan and Sara
Bugged In/Out by Errol Alkan
Play This by Coldcut
Substance (Disk One) by New Order
Savana by Ali Farke Toure
Some Kate Bush best of
Alas I Cannot Swim by Laura Marling
1990 by Daniel Johnston

going over this thread in search of some good music - big thanks for Tegan and Sara - they are awesome:D

BonnieShels

19/03/2011, 9:56 PM

I once chased Tegan and Sara, inadvertently around Australia. Melbourne, Adelaide and then Perth. Missed their gigs by one day each time. Got to see Les Savy Fav instead. That rocked all kinds of bawlls.

cornflakes

19/03/2011, 11:16 PM

Death - The Sound of Perseverance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TznBgoUFeY&feature=related)
Magrudergrind - 62 Trax of Trash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9rSaeInyc&feature=related)
and a Luke Kelly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvt25IsIZ0) CD my friend made. He is a truly great singer

ken foree

22/03/2011, 2:23 PM

Magrudergrind - 62 Trax of Trash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9rSaeInyc&feature=related)

you might like pig destroyer? phantom limb is one monstrous album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlXzZyTYbEc

cornflakes

22/03/2011, 6:22 PM

you might like pig destroyer? phantom limb is one monstrous album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlXzZyTYbEc

Great band. Prefer the Prowler in the Yard album tho.

Insect Warfare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVb9WrUfasY) are quality too.

ken foree

22/03/2011, 7:57 PM

Great band. Prefer the Prowler in the Yard album tho.

Insect Warfare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVb9WrUfasY) are quality too.

cool thanks, must check both. do you like the norwegian b. metal stuff (xasthur, leviathan, etc.)? i'm into some of it and lately a few bands like esoteric and weakling. also a soft spot for all that newish doom/drone metal (e.g. sunn)

cornflakes

22/03/2011, 9:05 PM

cool thanks, must check both. do you like the norwegian b. metal stuff (xasthur, leviathan, etc.)? i'm into some of it and lately a few bands like esoteric and weakling. also a soft spot for all that newish doom/drone metal (e.g. sunn)

Wouldn't be too into Black Metal, I like Immortal, haven't listened to much tho
Ya I like a bit of doom. Electric Wizard, Weedeater, Khanate, Eyehategod good bands
I prefer grindcore and death metal. I like it fast

ken foree

23/03/2011, 1:58 PM

Wouldn't be too into Black Metal, I like Immortal, haven't listened to much tho
Ya I like a bit of doom. Electric Wizard, Weedeater, Khanate, Eyehategod good bands
I prefer grindcore and death metal. I like it fast

funny, slower the better for me! (sunn are god's b0ll0cks.) but i see we share some taste in stoner stuff like e. wizard and khanate. SLEEP? (OM and high on fire guys' first band) are probably my favorite from this "scene" or "genre" or whatever. their 65 minute dopesmoker song is epic, an overused word these days, but very true in this case. that insect warfare link is pretty insane alright, i could get into some of that no problem.

cornflakes

23/03/2011, 7:11 PM

funny, slower the better for me! (sunn are god's b0ll0cks.) but i see we share some taste in stoner stuff like e. wizard and khanate. SLEEP? (OM and high on fire guys' first band) are probably my favorite from this "scene" or "genre" or whatever. their 65 minute dopesmoker song is epic, an overused word these days, but very true in this case. that insect warfare link is pretty insane alright, i could get into some of that no problem.

Just listened to the first twenty minutes of "Dopesmoker", brilliant stuff. I think you could convert me to a die hard doom fan

ken foree

24/03/2011, 1:14 PM

Just listened to the first twenty minutes of "Dopesmoker", brilliant stuff. I think you could convert me to a die hard doom fan

hahaa i love it, you look down at your watch and think, only forty minutes to go! :D great stuff indeed. on the other end of the spectrum, i was checking out the 'prowler in the yard' track lengths yesterday, they're all like a minute and a half long! if you really like that sleep album, check out 'holy mountain' by them. chugging and sabbathy in the vein of electric wizard.

cornflakes

24/03/2011, 8:09 PM

hahaa i love it, you look down at your watch and think, only forty minutes to go! :D great stuff indeed. on the other end of the spectrum, i was checking out the 'prowler in the yard' track lengths yesterday, they're all like a minute and a half long! if you really like that sleep album, check out 'holy mountain' by them. chugging and sabbathy in the vein of electric wizard.

Ya some of the best grindcore albums are really short, Napalm Death's "Scum" album has 28 songs in 33 minutes. If you want to get into grind listen to bands like Assuck (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDjJCHP0gXc) and Discordance Axis. Theres even a grindcore band called Drogheda (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJEx56EhzA&feature=related) (Not that good tho).
Im loving Sleep going to look into getting a couple of albums

Pauro 76

27/03/2011, 5:45 PM

The Vaccines - What Did You Expect (cracking debut)
Burial - Untrue (only got into it few weeks ago, great late night listening)
The Strokes - Angles (it is a grower actually)
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies (classic)

SwanVsDalton

28/03/2011, 1:01 AM

Bargain trawl round London turned up:

Sonic Youth - Dirty
Destroyer - Your Blues
Jeffrey and Jack Lewis - City And Eastern Songs
Mogwai - Special Moves

All for about �16. The Mogwai live album features their live film 'Burning'. Ace.

ken foree

28/03/2011, 7:06 PM

The
Burial - Untrue (only got into it few weeks ago, great late night listening)

that's a cool record pauro 76 - my friend likened it to coming down off drugs while early-morning cabbing it back from a club through deserted urban streets - i have to agree with him. dunno if you like four tet or thom yorke but they collaborate with burial here, to f'kin good effect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWEMkE4NNF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47lhzL2KCI&feature=related

Pauro 76

29/03/2011, 2:01 PM

that's a cool record pauro 76 - my friend likened it to coming down off drugs while early-morning cabbing it back from a club through deserted urban streets - i have to agree with him. dunno if you like four tet or thom yorke but they collaborate with burial here, to f'kin good effect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWEMkE4NNF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47lhzL2KCI&feature=related

Listened to it for the first time getting a London nightbus a few weeks ago. Some albums sound amazing at a certain hour.

stann

06/04/2011, 8:01 AM

Among the new arrivals this time:

The Strokes - Angles: First impressions are that the kicking it's getting is not really justified. Seems like it might be a grower. It's certainly no Is This It? but did anyone really expect that?
Cornershop - ...and the Double 'O' Groove Of: On the other hand this has been a surprising disappointment. Never been let down by a Cornershop album before. The tunes (Topknot and The 911 Curry in particular), and Bubbley Kaur's vocals, start well but soon begin to get samey and even, dare I say it, to grate.
Blue Aeroplanes - Spitting Out Miracles: Recently popped back into the brain after however many years, picked it up second hand online, and delighted that it's still gloriously patchy but still swoons in all the right places. Bury Your Love Like Treasure, Winter Sun and the title track are just wonderful.

Wolfie

08/04/2011, 12:58 PM

The following are no strangers to the stereo this week:

Different Gear - Beady Eye
Decade - Neil Young
Marquee Moon - Television
Draw the Line - David Gray
Essential - Bob Dylan
Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement
The River - Bruce Springsteen

David Gray has had his critics over recent albums but "Draw the Line" features some brilliantly crafted songs. "Full Steam" featuring Annie Lennox is particularly good.

BonnieShels

10/04/2011, 5:09 PM

Pauro 76

10/04/2011, 8:13 PM

Had a fairly quiet week re albums however having purchased the new Foos album (Wasting Light) I have to say I'm suitably impressed. Seems like a return to form. Dave's lyricism in some songs is weak as always but some of the drumming and guitaring is stunning! All hail Pat Smear!

Loving new Foo Fighters record, easily up there with their best work. White Limo is heavy as feck, very welcome return to form for them.