why isn't Tarnation on ilm 100 records?

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i know i did not submit a list (i saw the whole thing late). but what about you? (in case you are wondering about posting the correct answer: "uh, because people didn't vote it" answer this instead: Tarnation - CLASSIC or DUD?)

― pina, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i recently saw paula frazer play a beautiful, intimate, romantic show. it made me want to get her new album but i haven't. i like both of the tarnation records i have but i rarely listen to them. warren defever produced some of gentle creatures, added to the ghosttown appeal.

― keith, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic. Mirador is excellent, a completely unique vision of the west. Perfect soundtrack to the closing of "The Wild Bunch."

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's classic for me. gentle creatures is one of the best records ever - as arty as folk music ever got, very very impressive singer! isn't it? not many people responding though. good to hear paula frazer's back. solo hmm. solo sucks...

― pina, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

Is the the only Tarnation/Frazer thread? Odd. Anyway, the new album Now It's Time is *really* nice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

Really really nice. I mean, I always liked her stuff, but this is quite an album, very lush, passionate, dramatic...it puts me in mind of my dad's favorite female country records from the seventies, but in a slightly more fraught way. Maybe the timing has finally come around right for her to be noticed more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I definitely need to get this. I'm assuming it is in the same vein as 'Mirador'

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering this, so...

ILM Top 100 Records -- The Full List

Manic Street Preachers @ #5? Really?

― John Justen waitin to get his W2s back so he can file his tax and ball out (john, Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

Clearly they were in May 2001.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

NEVER FORGET.

― John Justen waitin to get his W2s back so he can file his tax and ball out (john, Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

I expect Take That would do a lot better in a 2007 poll.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

ned otm, the new one's really good. i hate to say it's her best because i've only been listening to it for a few days, but i kind of think it is. it's not exactly "in the vein" of mirador. more like bringing the musical expansiveness of her last few "solo" records back to bear on the dark-ballad mode of those tarnation albums. ("solo" in quotes because all her records have basically been paula frazer plus whoever was around at the time. those two tarnation albums have almost completely different line-ups.) anyway, i like this a lot. it reminds me of neko case's album from last year, but more focused. more grown-up, maybe. and her singing is really something. she always had the voice, but she's a lot more in command of it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 1 February 2007 07:28 (eighteen years ago)

(it's telling -- and not inaccurate -- that instead of the old patsy cline comparisons the promo material for the new one mentions vashti bunyan, gene clark and neil young.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 1 February 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I love love her 4-track comp but haven't heard anything else with her; in what order should I investigate her solo stuff / Tarnation stuff?

― Leee, Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

mirador and gentle creatures are wonderful dark americana releases; her solo albums and the 'new' tarnation album (there is really no difference b/w that and her solo output though) are more scott walker 60's poppy influenced. I really really love Mirador; less so her later stuff, but it's all pretty good.

― akm, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

and i actually like the later stuff better, i think it's more distinctive than the early tarnation albums. but those are good too. to get a good sampling, i'd do mirador and now it's time both.

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

Just discovered this band, through the '1980 Onwards' 4AD-comp. Beautiful stuff. Makes me wish 4AD had more country-bands.

― Mule, Saturday, 21 December 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago)

The pre-Gentle Creatures album I'll Give You Something to Cry About is worth hunting down if you can find it. A lot of it was rerecorded (or touched up) for Gentle Creatures to give it that 4AD haze, but the songs are a little more stark in their original presentation.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 December 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago)

Thanks, will look!

― Mule, Saturday, 21 December 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

There is a new album, What Is and Was. First in 10 years with the newest band lineup. It's great.

https://newhighrecs.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-and-was

― akm, Monday, 3 July 2017 19:49 (eight years ago)

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