2022 to 1998: 25 albums I appreciate
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Topic: 2022 to 1998: 25 albums I appreciate
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 2022 to 1998: 25 albums I appreciate
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 11:58
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This is a list of some of my favourite albums from these years without repeating act's names for this list. Note that not all of these acts are in PA. These might not be my faves from the act, and I could have chosen others. I made a playlist with a favourite track from each (in a couple of cases only the whole album was available but the link hopefully will be timestamped). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4KCo2bN8VtKZL7MUGmXDbrI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4KCo2bN8VtKZL7MUGmXDbrI 2022: The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention 2021: Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready 2020: Ciśnienie / Lód 9 - Brass Album 2019: Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology 2018: Julia Holter - Aviary 2017: Yolk - Solar 2016: David Bowie - Blackstar 2015: Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous 2014: Swans - To Be Kind 2013: Kosmischer Läufer - The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83: Volume One 2012: Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber 2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon 2010: Univers Zero - Clivages 2009: Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré 2008: Portishead - Third 2007: William D. Drake - Briny Hooves 2006: OOIOO - Taiga 2005: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase 2004: Guapo - Five Suns 2003: Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 2002: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. 2001: Air - 10 000 Hz Legend 2000: Broadcast - The Noise Made by People 1999: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun 1998: Pram - North Pole Radio Station Feel free to vote for up to five choices, if you enjoy at least that many, and feel free to base any votes on my music choices in the youtube playlist even though you might well prefer other tracks from the albums. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 13:30
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Bowie's Blackstar gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 13:45
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Guapo > NSRO, Yolk, AvH, Swans, UZ, Magma ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 13:51
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David Bowie - Blackstar ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 14:07
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Thanks to Greg for this list! ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 14:12
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 14:33
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That's a fantastic list with lots of great stuff. Our tastes are not that different. Blackstar, To Be Kind, I a Moon & The Noise Made by People are straight five star masterpieces with Univers Zero, William D. Drake, GSYBE, Guapo and some others not far behind. Edit: I somehow missed the Cisnienie Brass Album, another 5 stars for me. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 15:08
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Guapo - Five Suns ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 15:35
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Bowie Melody echo chamber |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 15:41
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Awesome list, Greg! I had no problem concurring with six of your choices: Aviary Taiga The Miraculous Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré I a Moon Choirs of the Eye Clivages but only voted for the first five (as requested in the OP--which, apparently, nobody else read). ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 20:30
| Blackstar. Great album. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 06 2022 at 20:53
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The Smile got my vote. Not too much on the list that I am a big fan of, but I do like I A Moon. I seem to recall liking the Yolk album, which I listened to a couple of times and Clivages. Bowie has always been hit and miss with me and while the story behind the release of Blackstar is quite historic, the album itself didn't really hit the mark with me. I suppose I should give it another listen as it has been awhile. ------------- 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 07 2022 at 01:19
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2022 The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (amazing live) 2021 Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready 2016 David Bowie - Blackstar 2004 Guapo - Five Suns 2002 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. I'm very much into The Smile for the time being. Time will tell if it holds up compared to older favorites (such as Swans, Kosmisher Laufer, Portishead, Kayo Dot and a few more...)
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: December 07 2022 at 03:02
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Thanks Greg. Really good list with about half that I have or listened to and regard highly. The other half is either unknown or ones I have wanted to explore further. For this poll this time, voted on the Smile, Swans, Yolk, Kayo Dot, and Guapo. Could have gone with the albums by GY!BE, Bowie, Magma, Broadcast. Also, really liking the track by Cisnienie. Listening to it for the first time as type this. I do like some brass. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 07 2022 at 09:49
| Godspeed and Bowie, love those albums. The rest I don't know. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 07 2022 at 10:03
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Hi, Can't vote ... have too much listening to do before that ... I don't like the idea of voting for a favorite when I don't know at least half the stuff! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: December 07 2022 at 13:20
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Lingua Ignota's Sinner Get Ready could make the list for me (instead of Godspeed), but I'll have to listen to that album a bit more to give it a place in my mind between all the others that I like quite a lot. So, provisionally, my five are: 2020: Ciśnienie / Lód 9 - Brass Album 2019: Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology 2018: Julia Holter - Aviary 2015: Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous 2002: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 07 2022 at 18:03
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Blackstar Taiga Yanqui U.X.O. Choirs Of The Eye Five Suns (My favourite off the list) An awesome list of adventerous music. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 08 2022 at 17:19
Thanks all.
I love Cisnienie, but then I love music that builds up to huge crescendos and that;s kind of what they do. "Fratres" is another particular fave of mine from the band. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
mathman0806 wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 08 2022 at 18:33
I appreciate that you would consider trying to listen to all before voting, but no need to as I wasn't asking to vote for a favourite per se, but instead to vote for up to any five that you enjoy. If you get my drift. I am more interested in the comments than the votes themselves, so people should feel free to talk about the albums they like and don't like even if they are uncomfortable voting. I haven't voted in these polls and I know all of them, of course -- valuing all of them makes it harder. I will try to vote based on my tastes du jour -- and on Thursdays fowl, sadly, is off the menu (no Swans, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys or other fowl in my Aviary). I love Swans, so I guess the Yolk's on me... The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready Julia Holter - Aviary Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon There are about 19 others I could almost as easily vote for -- with Pram I really wanted The Museum of Imaginary Animals, which is more owl than fowl. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: December 08 2022 at 19:10
I decided to go with Bowie, Melody's Echo Chamber, Godspeed!, Lingua Ignota, and Kayo Dot. Not surprised to see Blackstar running away with the poll  ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 09 2022 at 00:23
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 09 2022 at 01:01
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Magma, UZ, NSRO, Bowie, Hausswolff. ------------- 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 09 2022 at 01:15
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Forgive me for stealing parts of your post to make my own point
...but
to me has become one of those albums that trancends being an album. In a similar fashion that Rock Bottom... or perhaps Verklärte Nacht, He Loved Him Madly, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima... and some of Schostacovich' String Quartets (8th & 15th) goes beyond, over and underneath experiencing music (as Swans often do too). I have to prepare myself or "get ready" if you will. Like sometimes I decide on Toy Story 3 or Hunger Games over... Andrej Rubljov, I'll reach for Volume Two over Rock Bottom. I can't have my soul crushed on a daily basis. -So what I'm trying to say is that while it most certainly won't be for everyone, I think anyone who is seriously into music should listen to Sinner Get Ready at least once.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 09 2022 at 14:55
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^ I feel bad in a way saying how much I enjoy Sinner Get Ready, and in fact Caligula is my favourite Lingua Ignota album and I enjoy All Bitches Die as it makes me wonder if I have much of a soul to crush -- or maybe it was already crushed. It does emotionally impact me, similar to how Threnody can impact me -- and when I called Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima nice I had listened to it, but to quote Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D. (Garth Marenghi's Darkplace), "I guess I use sarcasm as a defence ... Maybe if everyone who'd ever been close to you had died, you'd be sarcastic too." I listen to too much true crime stuff perhaps, so it has desensitised me. Thank you very much for bringing her to my attention. It does move me. As for not hearing Cisnienie, Vanishing Twin or Melody's Echo Chamber at all (you might have since I brought them up more than once), happy listening! I have a song from each album in the playlist I created in the OP, but... Cisnienie makes a kind of epic post-rock that specialises in building up to huge crescendos (reminiscent of modern-day Swans). The Brass album and JazzArt Underground are both very good (they can get a bit samey sometimes as they do have a kind of formula). Anyway, these are my two favourite tracks by the band: Vanishing Twin is a modern band that draws on the sounds of Broadcast, Strereolab, and Pram (which has very much been my thing). My favourite album is The Age of Immunology, but I also like music off Choose Your Own Adventure and Ookii Gekkou. This is the one I have in the playlist: And for another Melody's Echo Chamber is another kind of loungey psych pop/ psychedelia band with etheral and echoey female vocals. Like Stereolab, Pram, Broadcast, and Vanishing Twin it drawns on old Frrench chanson and loungey music like Serge Gainsbourg and various French female singers of the 60s. Very much in my wheelhouse. This is from her album this year (love this): And in my playlist: I adore Julia Holter, especially for the Aviary, Have You in My Wilderness, and Loud City Song albums. here's the playlist with one song curated by me from eavch album in the poll again in case anyone is interested (superb stuff there, imo). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4KCo2bN8VtKZL7MUGmXDbrI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4KCo2bN8VtKZL7MUGmXDbrI ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: June 20 2023 at 22:51
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Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (ignored psych/kraut/postrock gem!!!) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. Guapo - Five Suns David Bowie - Blackstar |