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Palace Revolution 2000
Leonioid, you might enjoy the Strypes.
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Palace Revolution 2000
Leonioid, you might enjoy the Strypes.
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Bastion
This thread is embarrassing.
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Bastion
This thread is embarrassing.
I'm curious - why would you say something like that?
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LeonidP
I bought
- Chuck
- Steve Earle
- Rancid
all are great! Anything else I got, I downloaded free (except some of the special Stones releases)
Now this is a most interesting and enlightening post. I know several of them, but many I am not familiar with. But I definitely have a list to make. Thanks Wonderboy.Quote
wonderboy
Thee Oh Sees - Orc. Just a really solid garage rock record, one of the more accessible rock records I listened to this year. Fun listening, good for background music and attentive listening.
Algiers - The Underside of Power. Revolutionary experimental rock album. The performances on this album are just so incredible. I don't think many other rock groups have captured goth, folk, soul, blues, and post-punk in as vital a way as Algiers. Full of unrest.
Feist - Pleasure. Singer/songwriter folk rock albums are no good, right? This one is!
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke. Bass rock album. Clean in production and lush in instrumentation. Poetic, moody, angsty, and very unique.
Kirin J Callinan - Bravado. The cover art for this album is a straight faced man getting peed on. Strangely, it's the most standard part of this album. Extremely lush and melodramatic, there's not really a better title for this one. Kirin is at once portraying a comedic parody of masculine party culture while also being genuine and lonely. Don't take it too seriously, but also don't act like those key changes aren't pulling your heartstrings.
Sun Kill Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood. Two hours of beautiful experimental folk music. Stories, rambling, digging deep into compelling small moments and feelings. Good for reading to.
Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time. Independent southern hip-hop double album with southern hip hop, rap-country fusion, gospel, culminating in a second disc that's full of introspection and moodiness. The desire to take risks and try different things is so impressive here. I think that hip hop music is like horror cinema; there is no other place in the culture currently that is undergoing such constant experimentation and reinvention. No exaggeration.
BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION I, II, and III. Essential 2010s hip hop from this "boy band". Diverse, undefeatable energy. The most fun, quirky, exciting hip hop this year. Bleeds ingenuity from every single track. I don't know how the hell you can top this sort of creativity, but this is the artist I am most excited for the future of.
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me. Heartbreaking. An achievement of grief-stricken songwriting. A hard record to listen to, not for its experimentation, but for its honesty. Not entertainment, but beautiful.
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Palace Revolution 2000
PS Just wanted to tell Wonderboy I thought Saturation 2 was the really good one.
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wonderboy
Sometimes I fear I have lost that gift.
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GasLightStreet
There's only 2 for me. With what my life consisted of in 2017 there wasn't really any interest in music other than Bob Marley, which my wife loved to listen to, yet alone new music. My wife loved Jason Isbell too so THE NASHVILLE SOUND we both got when it came out, she got it as a download and I bought the CD. Oddly enough, neither of us listened to it other than a few times, she still liked to listen to SOUTHEASTERN. There wasn't time or energy to absorb it. Right after it came out she really had a hard time so she lost interest in the new album, among a lot of other things, which was really bizarre yet I didn't exactly notice at the time. When you're consumed with taking care of someone you don't notice that they aren't doing ABCDEFG etc anymore. It's eye opening later on with what doesn't matter anymore when you get to a way where pain is your concern and not talking to whoever and all kinds of things. I see something she wanted to do or wanted to do something with and it hits me - I know she wanted to but she couldn't so it didn't matter anymore.
That's very weird.
While she was dying but before she was unable to communicate worth a shit, she sang Three Little Birds a lot. She loved to have porch time so I'd walk her or wheel her out and she'd sit in her chair or wheel chair at the table and we have bird feeders and lots of birds come around and could watch the sun come up through the banana trees so Three Little Birds was a natural fit. She also insisted that every little thing really was going to be okay, which, in a way I guess is right but in so many ways it isn't but that's life. The other thing she loved to sing out is the "Woe yoy yoy yo" in Buffalo Soldier. I think it was a tandem thing for her pain as a kind of 'I'm still here right now but it sucks' well as an acknowledgement of dying, a kind of 'oh wow this is happening'.
A few days before she died (she was in an air bed for just over a week) I played her U2's new single at the time You're The Best Thing About Me. She was able to smile and slightly nod her head and she grabbed my hand and squeezed it. We had bought tickets in May to see them at the Superdome (Sept 14) when she could still move around, which the night of the show turned out to be 1 night before she died (the show was on a Thursday, she died that Saturday morning). In her almost comatose state she insisted that I go. When we got tickets she insisted that I go no matter what. She was in such decline that I almost didn't but she would've been very disappointed if I didn't. She loved U2. So I played her the new song a few times, she always admired my way to do things and not ever get caught, or as she liked to state, "get in trouble", like magically avoiding the police. So that bit about "I'm the kind of trouble that you enjoy" really rang out.
So when the new album came out I ordered it and there are some songs on the record that, lyrically, have a connection to my life now, which is, I guess, not intentional of course but certainly has some bizarre timing or coincidence, not really sure what word(s) to use. There are a few things that speak to me, I'll leave it at that.
I guess the thing that really gets me sometimes is the aspect that life goes on, movies and books and records continue to come out that she would've liked to have seen, read and listened to and she can't, like the U2 album. But that's really no different than "The sun will come up tomorrow no matter what". It's just so much less interesting and meaningful without her around, which is something I have to accept fully and acclimate to the mentality of the sun will come up tomorrow and if she was here I'd do this and that regardless and that includes listening to new music that we both liked etc. The house in most ways still is the same as when she was alive. I've not had the energy or desire to make any changes, and there are a lot of things I don't necessarily want to change because even though it is technically now my house it's still our house and there's no reason to arbitrarily get rid of things just because she's gone. It's not a shrine, it's more of a museum at the moment, as her sister and I joke to each other.
I figure if there is to be a shrine it will be me living my life. I look forward to getting back into listening to music this year. Because this year HAS TO BE BETTER than last year. 3 cats, a dog and my wife died last year - with 1 cat and 1 dog dying 10 days apart in December. How could 2018 be worse?
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wonderboy
Thee Oh Sees - Orc. Just a really solid garage rock record, one of the more accessible rock records I listened to this year. Fun listening, good for background music and attentive listening.
Algiers - The Underside of Power. Revolutionary experimental rock album. The performances on this album are just so incredible. I don't think many other rock groups have captured goth, folk, soul, blues, and post-punk in as vital a way as Algiers. Full of unrest.
Feist - Pleasure. Singer/songwriter folk rock albums are no good, right? This one is!
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke. Bass rock album. Clean in production and lush in instrumentation. Poetic, moody, angsty, and very unique.
Kirin J Callinan - Bravado. The cover art for this album is a straight faced man getting peed on. Strangely, it's the most standard part of this album. Extremely lush and melodramatic, there's not really a better title for this one. Kirin is at once portraying a comedic parody of masculine party culture while also being genuine and lonely. Don't take it too seriously, but also don't act like those key changes aren't pulling your heartstrings.
Sun Kill Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood. Two hours of beautiful experimental folk music. Stories, rambling, digging deep into compelling small moments and feelings. Good for reading to.
Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time. Independent southern hip-hop double album with southern hip hop, rap-country fusion, gospel, culminating in a second disc that's full of introspection and moodiness. The desire to take risks and try different things is so impressive here. I think that hip hop music is like horror cinema; there is no other place in the culture currently that is undergoing such constant experimentation and reinvention. No exaggeration.
BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION I, II, and III. Essential 2010s hip hop from this "boy band". Diverse, undefeatable energy. The most fun, quirky, exciting hip hop this year. Bleeds ingenuity from every single track. I don't know how the hell you can top this sort of creativity, but this is the artist I am most excited for the future of.
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me. Heartbreaking. An achievement of grief-stricken songwriting. A hard record to listen to, not for its experimentation, but for its honesty. Not entertainment, but beautiful.
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swimtothemoon
Gaslightstreet, that was such a touching and thoughtful tribute for your wife,
soulmate and the life you shared together. I’m stunned...So beautiful...thanks for sharing this with us. 2018 will be a much better year for you!
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Stoneage
I do envy you who persists with these lists. I must admit I don't even buy albums anymore. Strange days indeed...