yet MORE albums i kind of like this year

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I have a feeling I'm being way too open-minded these days, so feel free to try to convince me that any of these aren't actually any good, okay? Anyway, this list consists of new albums I've connected with since the last list I posted, and albums I'd mistakingly left off of the two lists I posted earlier (which can be linked to below):

More albums from this year I like

Okay, here's the new (alphabetical) list:

king sunny ade reissue
bad plus
david banner sampler EP (no guarantee i'll like the whole album)
black tape for a blue girl best-of
caramelize
ralph carney
james chance one-disc reissue sampler
circle
commander cody and his lost planet airman (king biscut live album)
cooler kids
deerhoof
kathleen edwards
entombed
essential logic reissue
four tet (the manitoba album completely bores me, though)
jackyl
junior senior
bappi lahiri (*bappiwood remixes*)
laika best-of
local h EP
mass destruction
mensen
notwist *shrink* reissue
notwist *12* reissue
notwist *nook* reissue (i might prefer ALL of these to *neon golden*!)
on trial
party of one
pelican (some people say this is an EP, unless i'm confused)
the riffs
r.p.w.l.
serart
shutdown 66
spring heel jack
swimming pool q's
yasunao tone
turbonegro (still probably the dullest album they've ever made)
the vanishing
wide right
weird al yankovic ("bob" is pure genius, i'm sorry)
michael yonkers band (recorded 1968, not released til now)
*visionquest visionlive*

The most likely one of these to make my top 10 is probably Junior Senior, unless I wind up voting for old music like I did last year.

― chuck, Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, kathleen edwards is totally last year.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

like, totally.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought she was only last year if you're Canadian. Oh well.

― chuck, Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

black tape for a blue girl best-of

Woohoo! Embrace your inner goth! (sez the rabid Black Tape/Projekt fan on this board)

circle

I need to hear more by these guys, but that new album is elf-in-space head-meltingly great.

the manitoba album completely bores me, though

I am not surprised by this. (You might like M83, you might think that's even more boring.)

mensen

Hells yes.

turbonegro (still probably the dullest album they've ever made)

But but but the Def Leppard stuff!

spring heel jack

As in the Brit d'n'b-gone-jazz collaboration duo?

I like them there Notwist. A hell of a lot more than Wilco, that's for sure (and that early we-love-Metallica stuff is also cool).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Riffs! Yay for Portland punks who look like CBGB toilets incarnate! (I feel less alone in this world now.) Chuck you have GOT to hunt down the Amazombies' cd Bitches & Stitches on Go Kart.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

But I gotta say the Shutdown 66 record sounded like generic garage stuff to me (see Mondo Topless, The Chain, D4, etc. etc. and whathaveyou). But I think I've said that about every garage album I've listened to this year, so don't mind me.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, you're not Cdn?
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
I gotta go talk to someone at Immigration. Shit.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i knew that if i just left you alone that you would listen to an Entombed album and like it. better late than never.
my favorite album of the year is: wonwons-original punk super stars
but it came out last year.

― scott seward, Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

But Scott, this is the SECOND Entombed record I've liked! I liked that one on Man's Ruin a couple year ago where they covered "Black Juju" and "Ballad of Hollis Brown" and Captain Beyond too, remember?!

I wasn't that crazy about Amazombies, Jeanne (didn't even get through the album), but I'll try to listen some more. Shutdown 66 are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more convincing Sonics or Shadows of Knight ripoffs than D4, the Chains, or Mondo Topless, if you ask me. (My favorite garage album this year is still Deadly Snakes, though, by far.) As for the Riffs, their previous two albums were so lame that I'm shocked that they finally made a decent one. And for some reason, the opening song sounds a lot better on CD than it does on the 7-inch single. I also enjoy how they're quoting the Clash all over the place these days, but they could just as well be a 1988 LA hair-metal band -- which is to say, who they're really stealing from is Hanoi Rocks.

And Spring Heel Jack are indeed those old drum'n'bass/jazz guys. I've liked every album I've ever heard by them, bizarrely enough (which is about four or five by now), though I really have nothing whatsoever to say about them otherwise. This new one is a live album, with Matthew Shipp and William Parker and wacky people like that on it.

So far, the opening instrumental of the Turbonegro album, which sounds like something off *Synchronicity* to me, is my favorite part of it. But I swear they're just not rocking as hard as they used to. And more and more, their shtick seems to be climbing up its own asshole or something. (Where I'm sure it enjoys itself, nonetheless.)

― chuck, Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Which Circle album, Chuck?

Junior Senior seems as if it were programmed by robots to make me hate it, but I love that record nonetheless.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I've liked every album I've ever heard by them, bizarrely enough

Nutty! I figure you would have them pegged as bloodless bores or something (I've always liked them myself).

the opening instrumental of the Turbonegro album, which sounds like something off *Synchronicity* to me, is my favorite part of it

Interesting comparison...I will have to relisten again with that in mind. But that's what called Hysteria specifically to mind and the gang shouts sorta added to that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i wanna hear the turbonegro and the circle album. i have a feeling that circle are my favorite band ever and i've never heard them. they are on faust's label, no?

― scott seward, Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

>>Which Circle album, Chuck?<<

I meant *Raunio*, the live album (I think), which Allmusic.com says came out in Feb 2002, so maybe I shouldn't have listed it, unless that's just when it came in Finland. I only ever heard one album by them before, and I liked that one, too. I forget what it was called.

More and more, I'm thinking I might actually be a closet bloodless-bore fan, though. Weird, huh?

― chuck, Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

and entombed i wanna hear. i forgot about that, chuck. but then you are always looking for a cover of hollis brown that bests nazareth's version. i don't think you woulda liked their last abum that much-too slayerish-but the one before that-uprising-you woulda liked. it swings really hard. i can't remember if you had ever heard wolverine blues.

― scott seward, Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Raunio's the only one that I've got and I LOVE it. I need to track down some more...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I sort of dropped off on Spring Heel when they started drifting jazz, but Ned, they had some early material that was really truly anything but bloodless: I have a C-60 somewhere of what I assume are 12" tracks from before they went album-format, and some of them are as ragingly tactile as any jungle I've ever heard. 68 Million Shades was quite good, I think, but I was actually pretty disappointed when I finally found it, since their softened noodly-jazz vibe had spread out to replace the flat-out burn of the stuff I'd heard. (Granted: I'm sure it burned more for me personally because I'd never really listened to jungle before that -- 94 or so.) (Also granted: it was sort of fun when I kept going into stores and accidentally asking if they had any Spring-Heeled Jim, to which the more clever clerks would respond "you're thinking of the Morrissey song.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been wanting to hear the SHJ-Low split record, but can't find it. Anyone have it?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I should reemphasize, Nabisco, I AM a fan of SHJ! And I very much love the early stuff, I've got a number of the Rough Trade era singles, but I can still for all that readily tell how they might have been seen as something distinct/not as hem-hem 'pure'/not as exciting as the original jungle stuff because it lacks the insane boasting/MCing/toasting which is such a hallmark of that material. But if you're talking sheer insane musical rush in and of itself, I'm with ya there.

Regarding Circle -- Raunio is the live album indeed and it's a corker, but trust me on this one: Sunrise. Dear god in heaven it's great. Circle might well have released something via Faust's setup but I first heard about them through Acid Mothers Temple; there's a cut on the three disc thing AMT put out via Earworm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

When did Sunrise come out, Ned? Raunio I heard cuz my friend Butch runs Squealor Records (onetime home of AMT and High Rise).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometime last year, I believe -- if the catalog numbers are any indication, it was after Raunio (I've got both releases through Elcko).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.phinnweb.com/circle/albums/

this has good info on circle releases and HOLY SHIT they put out an album with MARBLE SHEEP one of my fave japanese psych bands. i knew they were my new favorite band. apparently an album came out on Faust's Klangbad album in 2002.

― scott seward, Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

klangbad label, obv.

― scott seward, Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i found it. the klangbad album is called alotus. plus, they have two exclusive tracks on a klangbad sampler.

― scott seward, Thursday, 29 May 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm supergrateful for these threads, though it reaffirms I seriously need to get a net connection and soulseek and stuff for the house. Most of this stuff isn't easily accessible in this town. Only album of these I've heard is Turbonegro, which indeed is good if nonetheless their worst album.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 30 May 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Another really good album this year is Manitoba - Up In Flames.

Does anyone else love this album?

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 30 May 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

>>Only album of these I've heard is Turbonegro, which indeed is good if nonetheless their worst album.<<<

The ones I really think you might like, Anthony, are Riffs, Mensen, and Junior Senior. And obviously, that Local H EP -- way better than their last album.(And hey there Jeanne Fury -- If YOU haven't heard the Mensen album, you DEFINITELY should, too...Come to think of it, that Mensen one might wind up being good enough for my top ten, too.)

― chuck, Friday, 30 May 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, Mensen, I'm on it. P.S. I have the new Turbonegro album and I haven't even listened to it yet for fear it'll bring me down on them. Quite content to play the Ass Cobra reissue over and over, though. The Amazombies remind me of a lesser Bangs, but it's true that they're not knockouts like *sigh* Brody Inc. (who, by the way, are supposedly putting out an album by the fall). And Deadly Snakes are a fucking trip. Great stuff.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 30 May 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

>> The Amazombies remind me of a lesser Bangs<<<

At first I thought you said they remind you of a Lester Bangs, ha! But actually, I never understood what people liked about the Bangs in the first place; they just struck me as total run-of-the-mill girl punks. So if the Amazombies are lesser, no wonder I don't get them...

― chuck, Friday, 30 May 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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