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Post by thommmmm on Dec 9, 2008 20:50:32 GMT -5
this thread, i hope, will blossom and mutate into something worth outsourcing data assimilation for.
what choo gotta do is name an album or two that you are almost certain no one else has ever heard that has altered your music listening habits in a very positive way.
for example:
"first class" by class.
it's alternating synthetic and organic melodies and timbres and lovely lonely songs about love and aliens and science. good for all-nighters and evenings that begin at 2AM.
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Post by polishq on Dec 9, 2008 21:36:16 GMT -5
"The Villain That Love Built" by The Billy Nayer Show
Extremely strange, clever songs delivered by a frontman with an acute sense of theatrics, with a smattering of autoharp and a song called "The Girl with the Vagina Made of Glass".
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Post by sashwap on Dec 9, 2008 21:56:48 GMT -5
the shunned country by bob drake.
this album is something like 52 songs in 40 minutes. hyper-short but meticulously arranged folk/prog/bluegrass/math-rock songs, with humorously macabre lyrics. bob drake is apparently some sort of virtuoso at every instrument and a wizard in the studio to boot (he plays and records everything himself). this album is mostly centered around banjo.
i also recommend his album the skull mailbox and other horrors.
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Post by polishq on Dec 9, 2008 21:58:38 GMT -5
the shunned country by bob drake. this album is something like 52 songs in 40 minutes. hyper-short but meticulously arranged folk/prog/bluegrass/math-rock songs, with humorously macabre lyrics. bob drake is apparently some sort of virtuoso at every instrument and a wizard in the studio to boot (he plays and records everything himself). this album is mostly centered around banjo. i also recommend his album the skull mailbox and other horrors. Seconded. |
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Post by sashwap on Dec 9, 2008 22:00:23 GMT -5
also you guys are assholes for putting album titles in quotations instead of italics.
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Post by thommmmm on Dec 9, 2008 22:05:44 GMT -5
also you guys are assholes for putting album titles in quotations instead of italics. an asshole for not putting the word asshole in super giant bold font. |
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Post by mike on Dec 9, 2008 22:07:02 GMT -5
the ready set by ryan pound
just a really nice cheerful acoustic/almost acoustic. it puts a smile on my faaaaaaaaace.
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Post by sashwap on Dec 9, 2008 22:20:05 GMT -5
also you guys are assholes for putting album titles in quotations instead of italics. an asshole for not putting the word asshole in super giant bold font. |
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Post by sashwap on Dec 12, 2008 12:08:29 GMT -5
hey thom so where can i dig up that class album?
i have a new entry:
jennifer gentle - valende
not a person, but a band from italy. the whole middle section of the record is made up of gorgeous, dreamy acoustic finger-plucking, almost drone-like folk songs, all ethereal voices and hazy psychedelia. like that one song on sung tongs. there's also a long noise improv, which isn't that essential. otherwise, it's great stuff! the album is bookended by 2-3 tracks that, if you were asked to choose a name for the band that made them, you might come up with something like "the helium beatles & their kazoo chorus."
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Post by thommmmm on Dec 12, 2008 12:35:19 GMT -5
uh well-o-well-o-well-i'll trade you class fer jen. gen.!
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Post by sashwap on Dec 12, 2008 16:24:25 GMT -5
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Post by thommmmm on Dec 12, 2008 21:11:38 GMT -5
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Post by karpe on Dec 13, 2008 0:19:58 GMT -5
Talons is great: www.barkandhiss.com/talons/5.htmli would classify 'songs about babes' as only the second good country album i've ever heard (the first being yankee hotel foxtrot). that is to say: it's not really country, but it's amazing. free, too. |
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Post by simo on Dec 15, 2008 14:10:14 GMT -5
i really like jennifer gentle
the beginning and end remind me of really early laughing gnome era bowie (especially that last song)
the middle parts are nice as well
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Post by sashwap on Apr 24, 2009 15:16:29 GMT -5
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