Listen to 1000 albums.

This is good - I like !

It certainly is, had this for a while now after someone on here recommended it a while back, can't remember who now, but yes, very good album.
 
Album 60: Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin (1999)

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Jus gave this one a try. Surprised it didn't get much reaction on here, I thought it was a quality album. A really great sound. I'd heard the name before but never heard anythign of his as far as I'm aware, will definitely try outsome more of his stuff. Any recommendations?
 
Dear God no!

:lol: Whatever. You haven't liked anything I posted so I was expecting this. People need to see past the members of the band. It's a very good album.

Edit: On second thoughts, Youtube has just decided not to save the playlist I made and I can't get Spotify and it's not on Last.fm so we'll just pretend this never happened. :)
 
:lol: Whatever. You haven't liked anything I posted so I was expecting this. People need to see past the members of the band. It's a very good album.

Edit: On second thoughts, Youtube has just decided not to save the playlist I made and I can't get Spotify and it's not on Last.fm so we'll just pretend this never happened. :)

Ah, I was only joking really. I could have got you the Spotify link (if it's on there).
 
If you could, I'd appreciate it. It's quite a good album. I've not heard a bad review yet.
 
Tired Pony - The Place We Ran From. I'll post it back up if he finds it on Spotify. Otherwise I won't bother.
 
Jus gave this one a try. Surprised it didn't get much reaction on here, I thought it was a quality album. A really great sound. I'd heard the name before but never heard anythign of his as far as I'm aware, will definitely try outsome more of his stuff. Any recommendations?

Glad to see some appreciation for Nitin Sawhney - it really is a great album!
I have seen him live a couple of times as well and unusually for this type of music, it was a great live show with all sorts of guest performers and different arrangements.

As far as I am concerned, 'Beyond Skin' is his best effort but he does have plenty of other albums to check out - think he did at least 3 albums before getting proper recognition and has done a few since - I dont know them all and I did find a couple of them to be a bit weak.

Personally I also recommend:
Displacing The Priest - Nitin Sawhney - Spotify
Prophesy - Nitin Sawhney - Spotify
Philtre - Nitin Sawhney - Spotify
 
Actually you know what I just listened to Philtre and have decided its not as good as I remember so try the others instead !
 
Can't remember what I've actually posted about anymore

And as nobody's posted an album today:

Album 57: Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992)

Class album had it for years, really need to explore them more.

Album 62:
Yoñlu
- A Society In Which No Tear is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (2009)


Not sure on this. Some of it was good, some showed potential and some was damnright awful. Interesting backstory though and I appreciate listening to it on that basis.


This was listenable, not an album I'd listen to again I'd say as I don't think it really works and the bits that do work I think sound a bit like seasick steve so I'll probably stick with him.


Found this a little bland on the first listen but I'm giving it another go at the minute and it's grown on me a lot.

Malcolm Middleton: Into The Woods (2005)

Liked this a hell of a lot. Lots of different styles in there and plenty to keep me interested. Lyrically he goes from some excellent stuff to painfully bad lines like "watching eastenders on tv" and "I bought you steak Mccoys" but thankfully they were few and far between. Definite relistener this one.

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Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Thrills, Apr 1998

Very electic but then we shouldn't expect anything else from mehro and I for one am glad for his quirks as this was a good find. Some of the tunes felt like they belonged in those films in the 40's where a character would randomly burst into a melancholy tune but ignoring them there is plenty of very good stuff on here.
 
Nobody can find an album good enough to better mine :cool:

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Album 67: God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl (2009)
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Spotify Link

BBC Review
If Stuart Murdoch's efforts with effervescent Belle and Sebastian are a little too twee for your liking, then his latest project may be a spoon of sugar in something that just wasn't your cup of tea to start with.

For those open to an unapologetic homage to the celluloid and stage musical however, this is something of a treat. Conceived five years ago, and partially fulfilling Murdoch's long-standing ambition to create a project with the pop glamour of Motown, God Help The Girl is a narrative album which may yet become a film. Heroine Eve is 'played' by Catherine Ireton, with a supporting cast of vocalists selected from entrants to an online talent competition, guest singers Neil Hannon and Asya, and a pool of 80 musicians.

Eve may be a girl with demons, as laid bare in country closer A Down And Dusky Blonde, but the tracklist is a variety show of emotional peaks and troughs that conjure potential stage scenes in every bar.

Act Of The Apostle is high-kicking chorus line fare; like Chicago with knee-socks instead of stockings and suspenders. Musician, Take Heed makes full use of the 45-piece orchestra, with potent strings and a tinge of the epic Abba about it.

Come Monday Night was the listenable proceeding single, perhaps the most typical of Murdoch's prior output, but it's the second: a smoother, slower and even funk-tinged version of the Belle and Sebastian song Funny Little Frog, sung by contest winner Brittany Stallings that will be the most intriguing to fans of old.

Murdoch's girl-group are sweet on the ear and the eye, and if the film comes to fruition there will doubtless be a following of fans with their own aesthetic imaginings and expectations to meet. Anticipation always was half the fun. --Keira Burgess
 
Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin: I didn't much care for this when it came out and I think it sounds quite dated already. Uses too many of the sounds (that bloody awful bending bassline stuff) and techniques (nature sounds and spoken word samples running throughout) I personally dislike for me to enjoy it.

Drugs Made Me Smarter: Sounds like someone fecking about with one of these:

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The Quemists: A mixture of shite techno and shite rock = shitex2

The Walkmen: Okay-ish. Sounds like someone's been listening to the basement tapes a bit too much.

Pop Will Eat Itself: Shite then, worse now.

Malcolm Middleton: I always got the two out of Arab Strap confused and thought he was the beardy one. I enjoyed it more than expected and might return to this one. His voice lets it down a bit though, it doesn't really connect on any emotional level, but the lyrics are pretty good. I enjoyed Burst Noel in particular.

Tame Impala: This is what the 60s sounded like from inside a sofa cushion. Not bad, not very good either.

Future Sound Of London: This kind of music really isn't my cup of tea. I don't really see the craft in it, it's like someone's going through all the sounds on their new FM synth and recording it as they cycle through the presets. I like some of the sounds but I don't have the patience required to appreciate it possibly.

Slayer: Not a fan of thrash, but at least the songs are all pretty short. Sound far too similar though.

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Reading the Pitchfork review, I wondered how could an album so great have passed me by unnoticed? When I listened to it I remembered that it hadn't - I heard it when it came out and dismissed it as average American angst-rock. Feelings haven't changed, can't understand how it's rated so highly.

Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record: Pointless. Just listen to the Piaf recordings of these songs if you like that stuff, if you like Wainwright, listen to her stuff. Don't understand the need for this record's existance.

Alabama 3: Irritating. Don't like it.

Roots: As above, only slightly less so.

Gospel: Screamo shit.

Silver Jews: Heard a few of their songs before but they are just a litle bit too dull. Like Smog but with all the interesting, slightly sinister stuff striped out of it.

Yonlu: Fairly promising fragments show this guy could have been a talent. The story does add an edge to the music though.

Venom: No thanks.

Snow Patrol...erm, I mean Tired Pony: Sounds like Snow Patrol.

God Help The Girl: First line of that BBC review just about sums it up for me.

Decorativeed: Miserable, prematurely aged git. Bring back the 1930s, I say!
 
I sort of gave up on this thread. Can someone post something excellent I've never heard before please?`
 
Album 68 - Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell

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Social Distortion achieves the perfect balance between their two major influences, the country anguish of Johnny Cash and the furious punk rock sound of early Clash, on their 1992 album Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, making it the band's finest hour. The band tears through a fair share of rollicking, straight-ahead hard rock with songs like "Cold Feelings" and "When She Begins," but they also show a reflective, heartfelt, country-inspired side with songs like "This Time Darlin'" and the hard rock tribute to "Folsom Prison Blues," the cold blooded, murderous tale "99 to Life." At times the band slows down the pace a bit more than on earlier albums, but the band hasn't lost any of the edge or attitude they had as the brash young punks who recorded Mommy's Little Monster. Social Distortion classics "Bad Luck" and "Born to Lose" find a more mature Mike Ness still continuing to play the familiar role of the steadfast underdog with better results than in previous efforts. This album had all the earmarks of a major commercial success with some radio friendly tunes and strong production, but it never found the large audience Epic records expected. Regardless of the sales totals, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell finds Orange County's most enduring punk band, Social Distortion, at their creative peak, and this album is the crown jewel of their entire catalog.

Wiki
- Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Last.fm - Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell - Social Distortion - Listen at Last.fm
Spotify - Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell - Social Distortion - Spotify
 
I sort of gave up on this thread. Can someone post something excellent I've never heard before please?`


One of the albums of last year for me:

Pyramids with Nadja - Self/Titled

I'm a huge fan of Nadja, the drone/doom side project of master musician Aidan Baker.
Aidan Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Last year Aidan teamed up with Hydra Head's ultra progressive outfit Pyramids for a tour-de-force of aural sexiness.

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pyramids with nadja – Pyramids with Nadja – Discover music at Last.fm



YouTube - Pyramids with Nadja - An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome

EDIT: The embed thing on Youtube isn't working for me at the moment.
 
Tut tut. First someone posts a second album on friday and now someone's posting at the weekend...

Yobs and thugs.
 
Pyramids with Nadja - Droney feedback stuff is my thing, but I thought this sounded plodding, sterile, dull and lacking in beauty.

Friendly Fires: This dancey indie-pop stuff really isn't my thing. The singer's voice really reminded me of someone else - that guy out of Datarock (who possibly styles his voice on David Byrne).
 
Can people please number their albums. Makes it a lot easier to follow. Jaysus, I was going to post Friendly Fires at the beginning of this thing but I thought they'd be too well known. Tis a decent album. 4/5 excellent songs but the rest is a bit meh.
 
Future Sound Of London: This kind of music really isn't my cup of tea. I don't really see the craft in it, it's like someone's going through all the sounds on their new FM synth and recording it as they cycle through the presets. I like some of the sounds but I don't have the patience required to appreciate it possibly.

Fair enough if not your thing - I know this type of stuff will not appeal to everyone and you will never hear it on the radio. It does need patience and a few listens to appreciate - shame you can't hear what I am hearing when I listen to this!

As some one else noted, I did actually post one of their more challenging albums and could have gone for something more accessable for those who arent into this stuff. Believe me, there is a lot of craft that goes into putting together these type of soundscapes.
 
Album 60: Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin (1999)

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Beyond Skin - Nitin Sawhney - Spotify

AllMusic Review:
Nitin Sawhney's Beyond Skin works on at least two levels. First, it's a plea against racism and war, relating, as Sawhney writes in the liner notes, that one's identity is defined only by oneself -- that identity is "beyond skin." Second, the music is an extremely accomplished blend of classical, drum'n'bass, jazz, hip-hop, and Indian elements. The album's political statements are seen most clearly in the samples imbedded in the beginning and ending of most tracks. Dealing with nuclear testing and identity, the samples are effective in setting the tone for the songs. The music is quite lush, featuring among other instruments, tablas, pianos, and cellos to equally beautiful effect. The production brings a crystal-clear polish to nearly every element in the mix, whether it's the passionate, intense vocals of the Rizwan Qawwali Group on "Homelands" or the stunning, impossibly gorgeous voice of Swati Natekar on "Nadia." The entire album is bathed in eclectic touches which never fail to maintain a poetic, accessible sense of charm and wonder. Rarely has electronic music been crafted with as much substance and style as it has on Beyond Skin. Sawhney travels back and forth between genres quite effortlessly. "Nadia" is as good a drum'n'bass track as one is likely to find. "Letting Go" suggests the coffee-table trip-pop of Morcheeba's Big Calm. "The Pilgrim" is moody, soul-searching hip-hop aided by the wiry vocals of Spek. "Tides" is an excellent, breezy jazz number suggesting Vince Guaraladi in his finest, most experimental moments. "Nostalgia" sounds like a more-relaxed Lamb. "The Conference" is a treat, featuring incredible vocal interplay that simply must be heard to be believed. "Beyond Skin," which opens and closes with a sample of Edward Murrow reading the poem "Now I'm become death," is a powerful conclusion to Sawhney's pacifistic vision. Accessible, frightening, emotional, and most-of-all accomplished, Sawhney's Beyond Skin is a remarkable album of rewarding, organic music.

Really fecking like this one Rood, never heard of him/them before so great post. I will be exploring further :cool:
 
Gonna post one tonight I think, I'll see what takes my fancy later.