Today I listened to Mutations by Beck. This may come as a surprise, but I have never heard this album before, and I only really know a few tracks off Odelay and The Information. I guess I only listen to him at parties when the goal is to block out the music so you can hear what your buddy is saying.
But I am glad I finally sat down to a whole album of his. I actually cheated a little and listened to it twice through last night, and then three more times today. The first spin went by pretty quickly. Perhaps because I was expecting a party-time album like other things I’ve heard of his. After realizing that this was not his college bar juke-box collection, I searched a little deeper. And my efforts (and it didn’t take much) were fruitful.
Beck has an uncanny ability to hold onto musical traditions but still come up with something completely fresh. Take this track “Tropicalia.” It’s a clear bosa nova groove, but instead of being afraid of being too obvious, he runs with it. He keeps all of the bosa nova essentials: funky trumpets, some triangle and cow bells, Spanish guitars, and monkey-type thing in the background. But don’t think for one second that you’re listening to “Girl from Ipanema.” It is so clearly Beck, and he is simply exploring a new costume. And yeah, his sporadic synthesizer explosions and wild sound fx helps separate his sound from say, Bueno Vista Social Club, for sure. “Canceled Check” is an other perfect example of this. Beck takes a traditional blues/folk song, keeps the staples, and runs with it until it is his own creation.
It made me think back to Deer Tick’s War Elephants and how it had fine folk/blues tunes that would be suddenly attacked by crazy effects and blatant anguish, and how it was so jarring. Here, Beck meshes his quirky effects into the mix so that they are a part of the song, not duct-taped to it. And so it seems more organic, which allows him to be even more playful. This makes every nuance really fun. And there is a wit here lyrically, too. He can make you smile about his sadness, like in “Bottle of Blues:” “Holding hands with an impotent dream in a brothel of fake energy…like a tired soldier with nothing to shoot.”
Most of the tracks are deep blues tracks, rooted in sorrow. Lyrics from "O Maria:" “I’ve been looking for a good time, but the pleasures are seldom and few…I’ve been looking for a new friend and I don’t care if he is decrepit and grey…The night is useless and so are we.” But has Beck created a tear jerker? No. But then again, does Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison” make you cry? No, but that sense of that longing and sadness is still at the forefront of the song.
Thanks Gab for the suggestions and actually getting me to listen to someone I should definitely know by now. It really was a pleasure. Well rooted in tradition, but experimental. Fun, but sentimental…
Day 5, Antlers - Hospice
I apologize because I cannot give this a completely legit review right now. This is because Hospice has to be listened to with top notch speakers with absolutely no background noise. My 6 year old Boss headphones and NYC streets and subways made it impossible to capture it all because the sounds are either very subtle or very large. I think it’s a concept album about someone either working or regularly visiting sick people at a hospital (pregnancy, perhaps??). I wish I knew, but I am not sure I want to put the time in right away. Not because I am a lazy reviewer and the Celtics are playing a big game tonight, but because the album didn’t completely jump out at me, even after three listens.
It is funny that I used that description, because this album jumps in and out of lowest lows and highest highs. I found myself turning my headphones up and down constantly, which is actually kind of annoying and I think it is a legitimate criticism. But when you get struck by a crash of synthetic noise and fuzz after hiding in quite and dark places, it is staggering in a very cool way. It is a great effect, even if it means I have to toggle with the volume.
But through it all, this album lost me in its dreaminess—like that book you love but can’t finish because you’re asleep in 5 minutes. It seems to float along with only a handful of moments that pin it down with clear melody and structure. It toys with an array of sounds: acoustic guitar, male and female voice, repetitive screeching effects, feedback, mandolins, and keyboards, and drums are used sparingly.
All in all, this is very original music where every sound is artfully crafted and may enduce an aural orgasm, but I wouldn't ever casually pop it on. Maybe once I figure out for sure if it is about a nurse at a hospital, I will give it to my midwife girlfriend and it will be her new favorite album and I'll learn to love it.
It is funny that I used that description, because this album jumps in and out of lowest lows and highest highs. I found myself turning my headphones up and down constantly, which is actually kind of annoying and I think it is a legitimate criticism. But when you get struck by a crash of synthetic noise and fuzz after hiding in quite and dark places, it is staggering in a very cool way. It is a great effect, even if it means I have to toggle with the volume.
But through it all, this album lost me in its dreaminess—like that book you love but can’t finish because you’re asleep in 5 minutes. It seems to float along with only a handful of moments that pin it down with clear melody and structure. It toys with an array of sounds: acoustic guitar, male and female voice, repetitive screeching effects, feedback, mandolins, and keyboards, and drums are used sparingly.
All in all, this is very original music where every sound is artfully crafted and may enduce an aural orgasm, but I wouldn't ever casually pop it on. Maybe once I figure out for sure if it is about a nurse at a hospital, I will give it to my midwife girlfriend and it will be her new favorite album and I'll learn to love it.
Day 4, Dawes - North Hills
Thanks Sam for this suggestion. I truly love this album. Biggest score so far. Dawes does contemporary American folk how it should be done: aware of its influences (The Band, John Hiatt, CSNY, in this case) and holding tradition at its core. But that isn’t to say North Hills is stale. They have their own take on the genre, but without going overboard. Even by recording the old school way, live and on tape, hey harnessed a very tight, well mixed, professional sound, without any frivolous additives from the production process—something many fall victim to when approaching this genre during this electronic era.
The first song on the album “Western Skyline” is gorgeous. It is about chasing love, maturing and correcting past mistakes. It tells a literal story without sacrificing poetry. “So I followed her here to Birmingham where the soil is so much richer. And though my aching pride might guide my hand – she did not ask for me to come. So I wait for her all through the day as if I wait for her surrender.” Matching the content, this track sounds so incredibly mature. There are two guitars, organ, piano, bass and drums and at least three part harmonies, and they stay off each others toes. A truly masterful blend.
And almost every song leaves this sweetness in the air. 8 out of 10 songs climax with some of the most beautiful choruses I’ve heard. They wash over my ears with heartwarming harmonies and spirited melodies that honestly blows you away. And unlike Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver, they don't have to soak the vocals with a ton of reverb to make their harmonies boom-in fact they use reverb very sparingly throughout North Hills. Keeping the vocals dry like this opens the band up on a personal level because singers sound so close, as if the are confiding in you.
If you dig this whole neo-Americana thing that’s going on in contemporary music, this is a must-have album. It may even be a must-have regardless. And to top it off, it is probably something your mother would like too, which is a plus because family summer BBQ’s are coming up.
The first song on the album “Western Skyline” is gorgeous. It is about chasing love, maturing and correcting past mistakes. It tells a literal story without sacrificing poetry. “So I followed her here to Birmingham where the soil is so much richer. And though my aching pride might guide my hand – she did not ask for me to come. So I wait for her all through the day as if I wait for her surrender.” Matching the content, this track sounds so incredibly mature. There are two guitars, organ, piano, bass and drums and at least three part harmonies, and they stay off each others toes. A truly masterful blend.
And almost every song leaves this sweetness in the air. 8 out of 10 songs climax with some of the most beautiful choruses I’ve heard. They wash over my ears with heartwarming harmonies and spirited melodies that honestly blows you away. And unlike Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver, they don't have to soak the vocals with a ton of reverb to make their harmonies boom-in fact they use reverb very sparingly throughout North Hills. Keeping the vocals dry like this opens the band up on a personal level because singers sound so close, as if the are confiding in you.
If you dig this whole neo-Americana thing that’s going on in contemporary music, this is a must-have album. It may even be a must-have regardless. And to top it off, it is probably something your mother would like too, which is a plus because family summer BBQ’s are coming up.
Day 3, Deer Tick - War Elephant
Deer Tick’s War Elephants made me tap my foot, and stager; nod my head, and bang it; smile, and drop my mouth wide open. It was an interesting mix of country, emo, rockabilly, and punk rock. Needless to say they toe a few lines, but I couldn’t decide if it was because they don’t know who they really are or because they are awesome and can do whatever they want. There are a few songs which seemed ripped off of a decent Bob Dylan album, but also a few moments I could swear I was listening to a Modest Mouse cover. They are strongest when they sit in one place or the other. For example, the first track “Ashamed” is a completely self-aware folk ditty and they run with it quite nicely. The track “Not So Dense” goes the other way, mashing twanged-out electric guitars and screaming vocals, and I dig it, too. The rest of the tracks fall somewhere in the middle—more or less.
I couldn’t help but likening these guys to one of those fake hunter bars with taxidermy on the walls, lots of wood, beer in cans, and cranky hipsters. To be more specific, this album reminded me of Redwood and/or Linda’s: two bars in Seattle, WA where cheep beer and well whiskey flows as liberally as hyperbolic opinions on God and “the media.” When you are at Redwood, Linda’s or the Bushwick, Brooklyn equivalent you are at a bar in the middle of a concrete city. It’s obvious that you are sitting in a physical mockery, but for some reason, nobody there thinks it’s too funny, which disturbs me. War Elephants works the same way. Punk rock Rhode Island kids singing country...pretty ironic.
Lyrically, War Elephants takes itself very (too?) seriously. It is provocative, but when it is all stacked up it comes off abrupt and overwhelming. By the time you get to track 13 and John McCauley is yelling “Christ, Jesus!” and claiming that he wants to kill himself and/or Jesus, I have to keep myself from shamefully laughing. I just don't believe it. I feel awful for saying this because I don’t doubt that this song is about John's cry for help during a depressing time in his life, and it saddens me to hear about someone’s destroyed relationship with God, but it I can't help it-I just don’t believe it. The muddled bass, the weird effects, the dramatic entrances and exits of the instruments, the repetitive lyrics. It just sounds like he is cashing in on screaming Jesus Christ backwards and being all blasphemous and angry-like. Just how these hunter bars in the middle of a city need to realize the humor of their irony, if you are going to wear neon-green aviators and sing country songs, you need have a sense of humor about it.
I couldn’t help but likening these guys to one of those fake hunter bars with taxidermy on the walls, lots of wood, beer in cans, and cranky hipsters. To be more specific, this album reminded me of Redwood and/or Linda’s: two bars in Seattle, WA where cheep beer and well whiskey flows as liberally as hyperbolic opinions on God and “the media.” When you are at Redwood, Linda’s or the Bushwick, Brooklyn equivalent you are at a bar in the middle of a concrete city. It’s obvious that you are sitting in a physical mockery, but for some reason, nobody there thinks it’s too funny, which disturbs me. War Elephants works the same way. Punk rock Rhode Island kids singing country...pretty ironic.
Lyrically, War Elephants takes itself very (too?) seriously. It is provocative, but when it is all stacked up it comes off abrupt and overwhelming. By the time you get to track 13 and John McCauley is yelling “Christ, Jesus!” and claiming that he wants to kill himself and/or Jesus, I have to keep myself from shamefully laughing. I just don't believe it. I feel awful for saying this because I don’t doubt that this song is about John's cry for help during a depressing time in his life, and it saddens me to hear about someone’s destroyed relationship with God, but it I can't help it-I just don’t believe it. The muddled bass, the weird effects, the dramatic entrances and exits of the instruments, the repetitive lyrics. It just sounds like he is cashing in on screaming Jesus Christ backwards and being all blasphemous and angry-like. Just how these hunter bars in the middle of a city need to realize the humor of their irony, if you are going to wear neon-green aviators and sing country songs, you need have a sense of humor about it.
Day 2.5, Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt, Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
I have set aside the weekends for “free listening” when I don’t have to force myself twice through an album. Not to say this is really a chore, but if I ignore listening to what I really want to listen to, then I fear music may become strictly academic, which would ruin the entire purpose of this whole endeavor.
But this weekend I half-cheated. I listened to two albums that were on the list, but I already knew them well : Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt, and Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago. Jay-Z is my favorite hip-hop artist, and it’s not just because he made a cameo experience with Phish in 2004. I love him because his flow seems incredibly musical. People often argue that he is too “pop,” but so is Michael Jackson, so are the Beatles. I don’t find that argument valid. Lyrically, he may not dive too deeply into the human psyche, or rap about sun gods and whatnot, but I often find that stuff distracting, anyway. To me, hip-hop is the best scat solo you ever heard, and the words are often just vehicles for the feeling—like a distortion pedal would be for a guitarist. (**Reading this over, I cannot really say I subscribe to this 100%, but I have to leave it in because I like the idea.)
Reasonable Doubt is not my favorite record of his, though it is essential in order to get to know the Jigga Man. I wouldn’t say he was still developing his style on this early record, but I just like other styles he adopted better. He slowed his flow over the years, which leaves more room for nuances of both production and voice. But there is no reasonable doubt—shit is filthy.
Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago is a godly blend of DIY production, melancholy falsetto, and lyrics of a bitter, fallen angel. It is an emotional workout for the heart, but easy on the ears. I sometimes wonder if For Emma, Forever Ago is what every musician’s soul would sound like after heartache, depression, and being isolated in a cabin in the woods for a while. I often consider trying it, but I don’t have enough to be sad about. Which is why I find this album a little overwhelming at times. Its graceful sorrow swoops through the entire thing, and I cannot emotionally match it. And this is not strictly regarding the lyrics. In fact, I can’t understand what the falsetto-singing homie is talking about most of the time (especially when he is singing in unison with himself). He could be singing “I just got laid and I came three times. My girl made me a sandwich afterward and I got backstage tickets to see Wu-Tang Clan tonight” and I would still think he was sad. But “too sad” is no real criticism. Albeit, this is a truly gorgeous album.
But this weekend I half-cheated. I listened to two albums that were on the list, but I already knew them well : Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt, and Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago. Jay-Z is my favorite hip-hop artist, and it’s not just because he made a cameo experience with Phish in 2004. I love him because his flow seems incredibly musical. People often argue that he is too “pop,” but so is Michael Jackson, so are the Beatles. I don’t find that argument valid. Lyrically, he may not dive too deeply into the human psyche, or rap about sun gods and whatnot, but I often find that stuff distracting, anyway. To me, hip-hop is the best scat solo you ever heard, and the words are often just vehicles for the feeling—like a distortion pedal would be for a guitarist. (**Reading this over, I cannot really say I subscribe to this 100%, but I have to leave it in because I like the idea.)
Reasonable Doubt is not my favorite record of his, though it is essential in order to get to know the Jigga Man. I wouldn’t say he was still developing his style on this early record, but I just like other styles he adopted better. He slowed his flow over the years, which leaves more room for nuances of both production and voice. But there is no reasonable doubt—shit is filthy.
Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago is a godly blend of DIY production, melancholy falsetto, and lyrics of a bitter, fallen angel. It is an emotional workout for the heart, but easy on the ears. I sometimes wonder if For Emma, Forever Ago is what every musician’s soul would sound like after heartache, depression, and being isolated in a cabin in the woods for a while. I often consider trying it, but I don’t have enough to be sad about. Which is why I find this album a little overwhelming at times. Its graceful sorrow swoops through the entire thing, and I cannot emotionally match it. And this is not strictly regarding the lyrics. In fact, I can’t understand what the falsetto-singing homie is talking about most of the time (especially when he is singing in unison with himself). He could be singing “I just got laid and I came three times. My girl made me a sandwich afterward and I got backstage tickets to see Wu-Tang Clan tonight” and I would still think he was sad. But “too sad” is no real criticism. Albeit, this is a truly gorgeous album.
Day 2, Robert Glasper - Double Booked
Thanks again Mike Kaplin for an other great recommendation. Perhaps not quite as "star-aligned," but still great!
Robert Glasper's album Doubt Booked is a split album with 5 acoustic piano jazz trio tracks and 5 fusion jazz tracks which plays with vocals, funky effects, and sax. The trio portion could remind you of a lot of other contemporary jazz artists such as Brad Mehldau, but it's a little more funky, and the changes and melodies aren't quite as intense. The drummer is probably the stand-out performer on the trio half of the album for sure, and is definitely a force throughout. Your traditionalist high school drum teacher would probably say he over-plays every song, but I think it is what brings this trio a few step beyond. The song "Yes I'm Country and That's Okay," is probably my favorite track and showcases the drummer in this way. The melody is polite and simple, and the drummer plays the hell out of it and turns it into a whole other walking, growing, moving machine.
Robert's playing is tight. I enjoy his melodies more than his improv, through. He tends to stick to keeping his left hand comping and his right hand soloing, and this keeps his riffs close within the feel and structure of the tune. I could go for some more exploration.
The second half of the album answers to that, though. It is much more experimental. The jazz trio backbone is still strong, but there are funky things like auto-tuned vocals, and a sax stuffed through a serious flanger, and wilder improv. In fact, sometimes there isn't a melody at all. However, there only seems to be one truly complete thought on this side of the album, and that would be the song "All Matter," which I think may be one of the weakest tracks on the album.
I think the concept of having two distinct styles of Glasper on one album is cool, but I think it falls short here because the two sides don't seem complete in themselves, nor do they really complete each other. No doubt this guy is one hell of a player and a pleasure to listen to.
Robert Glasper's album Doubt Booked is a split album with 5 acoustic piano jazz trio tracks and 5 fusion jazz tracks which plays with vocals, funky effects, and sax. The trio portion could remind you of a lot of other contemporary jazz artists such as Brad Mehldau, but it's a little more funky, and the changes and melodies aren't quite as intense. The drummer is probably the stand-out performer on the trio half of the album for sure, and is definitely a force throughout. Your traditionalist high school drum teacher would probably say he over-plays every song, but I think it is what brings this trio a few step beyond. The song "Yes I'm Country and That's Okay," is probably my favorite track and showcases the drummer in this way. The melody is polite and simple, and the drummer plays the hell out of it and turns it into a whole other walking, growing, moving machine.
Robert's playing is tight. I enjoy his melodies more than his improv, through. He tends to stick to keeping his left hand comping and his right hand soloing, and this keeps his riffs close within the feel and structure of the tune. I could go for some more exploration.
The second half of the album answers to that, though. It is much more experimental. The jazz trio backbone is still strong, but there are funky things like auto-tuned vocals, and a sax stuffed through a serious flanger, and wilder improv. In fact, sometimes there isn't a melody at all. However, there only seems to be one truly complete thought on this side of the album, and that would be the song "All Matter," which I think may be one of the weakest tracks on the album.
I think the concept of having two distinct styles of Glasper on one album is cool, but I think it falls short here because the two sides don't seem complete in themselves, nor do they really complete each other. No doubt this guy is one hell of a player and a pleasure to listen to.
Day 1, Rhapsody - Live in Canada
I guess I've decided to make this into a daily blog. I told myself I would never write a bog because they are way to self-indulgent and "mememe!", but I would be ignoring the trends of my generation if I never tried it. So here we go.
I don't think they are always going to be super elaborate, but I just wanted to archive my thoughts on each album.
So today was my first day and it was perfect. A little background: For the past three months, I was spending my time in the subways reading The Lord Of The Rings. It was my first time through the trilogy and it has been, without question, the best reading experience of my life. Because I was so into it, I knew I needed to take a break from reading and try something new with my two hours in the tunnel of death. So here we are.
The first thing I put on was a suggestion from Mike Kaplin. It was Rhapsody's Live in Canada. In some far off galaxy, the moons must have been aligned to have this be my first pick. Rhapsody writes songs strictly about kings, elves, dwarfs, and the dark shadow. Too perfect.
And I loved it. I got through it three times today. Rhapsody defines epic metal. They have a gregorian chant style chorus, a full string section, and massively distorted guitars screaming over their fine-tuned 80's metal. It was hard hitting, unrelenting, operatic, and wonderfully cheesy.
Thanks Mike.
I don't think they are always going to be super elaborate, but I just wanted to archive my thoughts on each album.
So today was my first day and it was perfect. A little background: For the past three months, I was spending my time in the subways reading The Lord Of The Rings. It was my first time through the trilogy and it has been, without question, the best reading experience of my life. Because I was so into it, I knew I needed to take a break from reading and try something new with my two hours in the tunnel of death. So here we are.
The first thing I put on was a suggestion from Mike Kaplin. It was Rhapsody's Live in Canada. In some far off galaxy, the moons must have been aligned to have this be my first pick. Rhapsody writes songs strictly about kings, elves, dwarfs, and the dark shadow. Too perfect.
And I loved it. I got through it three times today. Rhapsody defines epic metal. They have a gregorian chant style chorus, a full string section, and massively distorted guitars screaming over their fine-tuned 80's metal. It was hard hitting, unrelenting, operatic, and wonderfully cheesy.
Thanks Mike.
80 Albums in 80 Days
I wrote out a massive thread to my friends asking them for their top two, must listen to albums. I have 80 days left at my job, and it takes about 50 minutes door to door each way. So I figured that is enough time to listen to one album twice through each day. Thus became the 80 albums in 80 days journey.
I will only spend a whole day on albums I have not really listened to before.
Albums:
1) Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
2) Jimmy Eat World – Clarity
3) Polaris - Music from the Adventures of Pete & Pete
4) The Raincoats - The Raincoats
5) The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen
6) Various Artists - Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds From Iraq
7) The Devil Makes Three - Longjohns, Boots, and a Belt
8) Tony Williams – Turn It over
9) Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson – American Primitive: Pre-war Reverents 1898- 1918 vol 1&2
10) Richard Hell and the Viodiods – Blank Generation
11) The Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
12) Tinariwen – Aman Iman
13) Boris – Pink
14) smoke - white Williams (Order?)
15) Galactic – Ya Ka May
16) Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
17) Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
18) The Derek Trucks Band – Already Free
19) The Skeletons – Money
20) Beck – Mutations
21) The Sadies - Stories Often Told
22) Red Wire Black Wire - Robots and Roses
23) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes - Up from below
24) Son Lux - At War with Walls and Mazes
25) Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
26) Nneka - Concrete Jungle
27) Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part II
28) Mason Jennings - In The Ever
29) Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Rockin' and Romance
30) Paul Simon - rhythm of the saints
31) Fanfarlo - Reservoir
32) Beach House - Teen Dream
33) Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
34) Black Keys – Brothers
35) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
36) Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
37) LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
38) Nas & Damian Marley Jr. - Distant Relatives
39) 2 Pac - All Eyez On Me
40) Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Freshman Year
41) Caribou – Swim
42) Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
43) Caetano Veloso – Tropicalia
44) beach house- team dream
45) Beirut- Gulag Orkestar
46) bill whithers - still bill/ just as I am
47) the jacksons – triumph
48) timbaland and magoo - up jumps da boogie
49) Baroness - Red Album
50) Sigur Ros - Takk...
51) Hot Chip - One Life Stand
52) Mastodon - Crack The Skye
53) Tin Hat Trio - The Rodeo Eroded
54) Tinariwen - Imidiwans: Companions
55) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
56) minutemen - double nickels on the dime
57) cap'n jazz – analphabetapolothology
58) thee headcoatees - ballad of the insolent pup
59) Jonathan Richman - Rockin' & Romance
60) CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Reve
61) John Cale - Vintage Violence
62) Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
63) Robert Glasper - Double Booked
64) Rhapsody - Live in Canada 2005.
65) The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
66) Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
67) Gangstarr - Moment of Truth
68) Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
69) Van Morrison - Asteal Weeks
70) Ghostface killah - Supreme Clientele
71) Outkast – ATLiens
72) Air - Late Night Tales
73) Ween - The Mollusk
74) Deftones - Around the Fur
75) Cape Jazz - Various South African Ethno Jazz
76) Dawes - North Hills
77) The National – Boxer
78) The Frames - Burn the Maps
79) Bright Eyes - Casadega
80) King Khan and the Shrines- Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines
81) Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
82) kurt vile - childish genius
83) snowman - the horse, the swan, the rat
84) refused - the shape of punk to come
85) hot snakes - audit in progress
86) deer tick - war elephant
87) gilberto gil - refazenda
88) Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
89) The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
90) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
90) The Antlers - Hospice
91) david bowie - scary monsters and super creeps
92) new order - power, corruption, and lies
93) lou reed- transformer
94) Blue Scholars - The Long March EP
95) The Flaming Lips + Stardeaths and White Dwarfs - The Dark Side of the Moon
96) TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb- Idiots
97) cat power- you are free
98) lou reed- transformer
99) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
100)Amelie - Soundtrack
101) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
102)Portugal the Man - American Ghetto
Cheers, and I recommend everyone do this (circumstances permitting).
Alex
I will only spend a whole day on albums I have not really listened to before.
Albums:
1) Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
2) Jimmy Eat World – Clarity
3) Polaris - Music from the Adventures of Pete & Pete
4) The Raincoats - The Raincoats
5) The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen
6) Various Artists - Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds From Iraq
7) The Devil Makes Three - Longjohns, Boots, and a Belt
8) Tony Williams – Turn It over
9) Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson – American Primitive: Pre-war Reverents 1898- 1918 vol 1&2
10) Richard Hell and the Viodiods – Blank Generation
11) The Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
12) Tinariwen – Aman Iman
13) Boris – Pink
14) smoke - white Williams (Order?)
15) Galactic – Ya Ka May
16) Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
17) Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
18) The Derek Trucks Band – Already Free
19) The Skeletons – Money
20) Beck – Mutations
21) The Sadies - Stories Often Told
22) Red Wire Black Wire - Robots and Roses
23) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes - Up from below
24) Son Lux - At War with Walls and Mazes
25) Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
26) Nneka - Concrete Jungle
27) Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part II
28) Mason Jennings - In The Ever
29) Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Rockin' and Romance
30) Paul Simon - rhythm of the saints
31) Fanfarlo - Reservoir
32) Beach House - Teen Dream
33) Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
34) Black Keys – Brothers
35) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
36) Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
37) LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
38) Nas & Damian Marley Jr. - Distant Relatives
39) 2 Pac - All Eyez On Me
40) Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Freshman Year
41) Caribou – Swim
42) Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
43) Caetano Veloso – Tropicalia
44) beach house- team dream
45) Beirut- Gulag Orkestar
46) bill whithers - still bill/ just as I am
47) the jacksons – triumph
48) timbaland and magoo - up jumps da boogie
49) Baroness - Red Album
50) Sigur Ros - Takk...
51) Hot Chip - One Life Stand
52) Mastodon - Crack The Skye
53) Tin Hat Trio - The Rodeo Eroded
54) Tinariwen - Imidiwans: Companions
55) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
56) minutemen - double nickels on the dime
57) cap'n jazz – analphabetapolothology
58) thee headcoatees - ballad of the insolent pup
59) Jonathan Richman - Rockin' & Romance
60) CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Reve
61) John Cale - Vintage Violence
62) Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
63) Robert Glasper - Double Booked
64) Rhapsody - Live in Canada 2005.
65) The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
66) Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
67) Gangstarr - Moment of Truth
68) Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
69) Van Morrison - Asteal Weeks
70) Ghostface killah - Supreme Clientele
71) Outkast – ATLiens
72) Air - Late Night Tales
73) Ween - The Mollusk
74) Deftones - Around the Fur
75) Cape Jazz - Various South African Ethno Jazz
76) Dawes - North Hills
77) The National – Boxer
78) The Frames - Burn the Maps
79) Bright Eyes - Casadega
80) King Khan and the Shrines- Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines
81) Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
82) kurt vile - childish genius
83) snowman - the horse, the swan, the rat
84) refused - the shape of punk to come
85) hot snakes - audit in progress
86) deer tick - war elephant
87) gilberto gil - refazenda
88) Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
89) The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
90) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
90) The Antlers - Hospice
91) david bowie - scary monsters and super creeps
92) new order - power, corruption, and lies
93) lou reed- transformer
94) Blue Scholars - The Long March EP
95) The Flaming Lips + Stardeaths and White Dwarfs - The Dark Side of the Moon
96) TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb- Idiots
97) cat power- you are free
98) lou reed- transformer
99) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
100)Amelie - Soundtrack
101) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
102)Portugal the Man - American Ghetto
Cheers, and I recommend everyone do this (circumstances permitting).
Alex
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