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argonaut
art ensemble of chicago (*the meeting*; didn't hear other new one)
atmsosphere
david banner, *missisippi: the screwed and chopped album* (will
probably make my top ten. slower, sadder, bluesier, dubbier,
spacier, and more beautiful than *mississippi: the plain old
regular album* or whatever he called it. which is also good.)
the blue series continuum (their *music of matthew shipp* one)
burnt by the sun
burst
james carter (*gardenias for lady day*)
cerberus shoal (*chaiming the knobblessone,* or however you spell it)
crime & judy EP
the darkness
dj wally
the ex EP (a promo advance, i think)
five horse johnson
the grails
merle haggard (probable 2003 top ten, possible 2003 top five)
harvey milk (singles collection)
hella EP
the international playboys
natalie lafourcade
laika (i liked their best-of late last year too)
lil jon and the east side botz (techincally 2002, but who cares. "get
low" obessives should also seek out the super-fast merengue remix)
magic carpathians project
manta ray
modey lemon
my morning jacket
neurosis and jarboe (way more for neurosis than for jarboe)
rancid
semiautomatic
simply saucer reissue
wadada leo smith + anthony braxton
duane sodaberhrk (*unfortunately,* 2nd CD by him i've liked this year)
omar sosa (his new solo piano one)
bubba sparxxx (definite top ten, probably my number one -- only real
competition is brooks and dunn, though i think bubba's got it)
supagroup
31 knots
caetano veloso best-of
why? EP (*the early whitney* -- liked his earlier-2003 album, too)
winfred e. eye
ying yang twins
neil young (his new one, plus a couple of those new reissues)
*the blue series sampler*

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Obvious question: WHAT THE FUCK'S WITH ALL THE JAZZ, CHUCK?????
Answer: I have no fucking idea. I thought I hated jazz these days.

link to previous links with lists on them:

another dumb long boring list of 2003 albums i don't hate

― chuck, Monday, 22 September 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Jazz, the new rock and roll. And yes, the Bubba Sparxxx is sweet. So is the Darkness actually getting released over here, then? Bemusing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

even more obv question: who's got the biggest, chuck or Martian? ;)

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That Art Ensemble of Chicago album is gnarly!

I haven't heard of this "screwed and chopped" Mississippi! That sounds right up my alley though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

well, this list moves Bubba, Merle, and Banner screwed-and-chopped up a few notches on my over-flowing to-listen-to stack.

Had no idea James Carter had a new one -- cool.

Atmosphere thrilled me at first, then I started to get a little disappointed, and now I'm loving it again -- prob. Top 5 right now.

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck, please go get yourself copies of the Eddie Gale reissues

no one else seems to care.

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This time, you have surprised me.

― Al Andalous, Monday, 22 September 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I was also unaware that James Carter FINALLY put out another album. I haven't heard that particular Blue Series one either...I keep really wanting those records to be good, the Antipop/Shipp one has probably been the most satisfying so far. The Leo Smith/Braxton album sounds like it could be fascinating.

I keep looking at the Rancid album every time I go to the record store.

I've been listening to the new Dave Holland live album, the Bad Plus, the new Kurt Rosenwinkel (which is kinda 'meh' but with great moments), and the Modern Machines record.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

'The Meeting' is, I think, a newer recording than the ECM 'Tribute to Lester' release, but the ECM is prob. the better alb, despite the fact that Joseph Jarman isn't on it, if only 'cos it has an incredible 12 min soprano sax blow out from Roscoe Mitchell as its centerpiece. The percussiony pieces on both recs reminded me greatly of the No Neck Blues Band.

Also gd:

*'And..' - Marc Copland (w/ Michael Brecker and John Abercrombie)
*'Scrapbook' -William Parker (also on Thirsty Ear, w Billy Bang on free jazz violin gulp)
*'Dream Sequence' - Kenny Wheeler (series of sessions recorded over seven years - released on Evan Parker's label - very lush and yeah, dreamy)
*'Divine Radiance' - Tisziji Munoz (post-Sharrock out gtr skronking w/ Pharaoh Sanders and that specky keyboard guy from the Letterman show!)
*'Sonic Trance' (terrible title!) - Nicholas Payton ('young lion' trumpeter goes down the 'On The Corner' route - not dissimilar to the Dave Douglas alb)

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

That Nicholas Payton album is great, and surprising as hell. Of all the players of his generation, Payton is the one I never would have picked to embrace electronics.

You like the DJ Wally, chuck? I think it's the worst entry in the Blue Series yet (though the new David Ware is right down there with it).

I like both the Art Ensemble discs, but I think the Pi one is my favorite, because they need at least four people to really get cooking. The ECM trio date just sounds like, well, a trio. Having Joseph Jarman back is huge for them.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have to get that Nick Payton. It's the kind of thing I just want to buy reflexively, but I was restraining myself because even though I like all his other stuff, I'd say, "oh, you don't need ANOTHER wannabe-hip trying-to-get-the-jamband-kids funk album from a jazz musician." I really want it to be good though, and I love his band.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

when does the laika record come out? does she sing? i don't like it when she sings, i'd rather listen to her whisper.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

how about a list of recent records you haven't much enjoyed lately?

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I forgot their names. And if I didn't, it would be a REALLY long list.

I don't hardly like *anybody* when they whisper. And I think I like Laika best when they *talk*. (The album's supposedly out in October.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah the chopped and screwed mississipi is real nice -- one of the better commercial screwed releases i've heard.â—Š

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised to see My Morning Jacket and Young on your list, Chuck, given the recent ambiguity you displayed on a recent Young thread. Both grow on you, though. And is that Chopped and SCrewed version of Banner widely available? I need to snag a copy, since from track 7 to the end, the original is nearly perfect.

THis challenges me to catch up with my jazz fo sho. And Bubba is also my number one at this point, followed DBT and the Stripes.

― Chris O., Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I'm still ambiguous about my morning jacket, chris -- it still seems to quit on me after a few songs, except for that guitar solo. but for now, at least, i'm not gonna get rid of it. and it does have four or so songs that grab me toward the beginning. and though i still have no idea what the words are, his voice *is* growing on me.

not sure how available the banner is -- it's not a bootleg or anything, if that's what you're asking (i.e.: first time I heard of it was in *Ice* a couple months ago, and it wasn't on the "going underground" column. The record label sent it to me just like any other album.). Its cover looks just like the cover of the other one, but thru night vision goggles that make it an eerie midnight green, which is appropriate giving the Garvey's Ghostness of its sound.

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

given, i mean.

I don't remember ever hearing any other screw music, by the way -- So for all I know, screw is *always* this beautiful. Though I doubt it -my guess is that Banner's slow bluesy stuff LENDS itself to the sound.

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And Michael Watts really figures out how to use spaces in the music to lighten Banner's heavy voice, too -- The regular album gets pretty oppressive toward the end, but on the screwed one, the second half is actually the best part.

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah...I'm ambiguous about the *Greendale*, too (I have mixed feelings about almost ALL albums I like -- what, didn't you ever read *Stairway to Hell*, Chris??), but I thought what I wrote on that other thread made it clear that there are things I *like* about it, too.

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=3FMW59CLXV&ean=602498602911

― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

k ... all makes sense to me, Chuck.

Yeah, ambiguity is a big part of all music writing I suppose; guess I wasn't sure of how absoulute/enthusiastic these lists you post were. I hear ya on the Young record; that one's on my top ten simply due to the things I've responded to positively (the humor, the story, the sound, the three great *songs* out of 10).

― Chris O., Tuesday, 23 September 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

And, no, I actually haven't read Stairway to Hell yet, for whatever odd reason. :-)

On my radar, though ...

― Chris O., Tuesday, 23 September 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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