What was the last album that floored you?

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The last album that made you say, 'wow.' They don't come very often.

Mine was Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn's "Mustt Mustt."

― Debito (Debito), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

cliched, yes, but the new basement jaxx. all the ilx overintellectualization couldnt ruin for me the visceral response i have whenever "good luck" comes on.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I just didn't read the thread. I was away for a few days, and it got so damn long.
Myself, I'm also really digging the new Shins.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

last instrumental album : Warren Cuccurullo - Thanks to Frank
last vocal album : David Sylvian Robert Fripp - The First Day

― bahtology, Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

DARKNE33 - PERMI3310N 2 1AND

― CA1STAR3 (calstars), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Fever to Tell

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 30 October 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

all the Harry Mudie/King Tubby Dub Conferences, which I think are better than any other dub I've heard. (and that includes KT meets Rockers Uptown)(but I like East of the River Nile more than that anyway)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Radio blackout" maybe. Or "Present lover".

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Not to be an ass... but could you included artist names?

― Debito (Debito), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The last album that I really felt strongly about was the Decemberists' Her Majesty the Decemberists.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't remember but it must have been a long time ago. this question is really depressing

― ron (ron), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Basement Jaxx' Kish Kash is the last album I can remember in the last year or so that had me bouncing in my seat on the subway as I listened. I mean, it was all I could do not to get up and start dancing in the aisle.

..but most recently, I've really been enjoying the heck out of the remasters of OMD's Organisation and Architecture and Morality, which I just picked up. So, so good ... they're just about all I've been listening to for the last week. I fear I will wear them out, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it; right now I'm soaking in a bath of gorgeous texture.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 30 October 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Grimfist - Ghouls of Grandeur.
Maniacally heavy death metal.

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Not an album, but I nearly broke down crying when I heard Joe Strummer's "Coma Girl" for the first time.

The string runs from Belle & Sebastian's "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" have been in my head for days, and the rest of the album is brilliant.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Those were T Raumschmiere and Luomo respectively, o assy one.

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

André 3000000000000000000000000000000: The Love Below

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, 'Room on Fire'

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the mars volta album kind of kicked my ass

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the new nogaxt. gotta get it.

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Alexander Kowalski "Response"

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

the baptist general and the earlies - 25 easy pieces.

― cool kid of death, Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mclusky - Do Dallas

Seems like a billion years ago that this came put but it was only about 18 months ago. Their new stuff (with albini again) is proving to be very dissapointing so far.

― neil, Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll be reviewing Response on Stylus soon, Siegbran.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

all the Harry Mudie/King Tubby Dub Conferences, which I think are better than any other dub I've heard

Man, i so wanna hear this - what label? I think "Lawrence of Newark" by Larry Young was the last album I heard which kind of floored me but, prompted by /ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?thread.php?msgid=3933607 and being stuck all day at home having to do some work I decided to pull out my Stockhausen records and was most pleased with Record One of "Kurzwellen".

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

having just picked up the T. Raumschmiere singles i want to hear the lp. damn that stuff is Quality.
hope the lp is all as good !

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

albums are for chumps

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh but whaddya gonna do?

'The Love Below'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I was listening to an album and thought "Wow" was Bowie's Low, as it happens.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I was listening to an album and thought "Low" was Bowie's Low, as it happens.

(sorry, couldn't resist)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I was reading a post and thought "Ow" was etc etc

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

the last thing I heard which absolutely floored me was kagel's 'exotica' just ebfore i went to sleep, then before that it was listening to stockhausen's 'stimmung' the night before.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

okay just saw that dada. will try and get it today or tomorrow.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I listened to "Stimmung" right after reading the thing in Wire about it - and dammit if i couldn't get the bit about Stockhausen surely having listened to The Goons' "Ying Tong Song" before composing it out of my head.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i never heard the goons so er...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man, are you in for an experience and a half

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Madrugada's Grit knocked me sideways, I must admit. And The Postal Service's Give Up turned out to be better than I could ever have expected it to be. And...Bitmap's Alpha Beta Gamma attacks you from within like a virus, so it does.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

New Khanate. Fucking HELL

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Deadly Snakes "Ode to Joy" has been on repeat in my car for a month now. I have yet to figure out why people around here haven't been mentioning it more.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sun Kil Moon - Ghost of the Great Highway....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The last album I heard that A) made me think "dear God, what the hell is this!?! and why have I not heard this before?", and B) haunted my soul even after the disc stopped spinning = either Lightning Bolt's Wonderful Rainbow or Mr. Lif's I Phantom (an '02 release, I know).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I just remembered, i played Ween's "God Ween Satan - The Oneness" the other night (the CD version), first time I'd heard it in years and it's frigging great, in fact I might even be so bold as to venture that it "rocks my muthafuckin' world".

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Mogwai - "Hunted By a Freak"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Nina Nastasia, "run to ruin"

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Faith No More's "King for a Day Fool For A Lifetime" floored me when it came out. you could fuck, fight, flop, drink, puke to it. I just listened to it for the first time in years the other day and it still kind of floored me.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

'want one'. no matter what anyone says.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

bubba sparxxx. certain moments on the album got to me so much i couldnt bear it.

― lid, Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

jaylib: championsound

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying to remember when I heard the Basement Jaxx album in relation to when I heard the Outkast double album; whichever one was later is my answer (although I guess you could count Kenna even though I'd heard most of it last year).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

MF Doom - Viktor Vaughn: Vaudeville Villain
Jaylib - Champion Sound

I got them the same day...

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Honestly? Well,.... http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000AGWK8.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg. Really. It had no right being as good as it turned out to be (Eleventh albums by bands well passed their primes rarely are). I cite Andy Gill's production and Dave Grohl's drumming as the source of the greatness here, actually.

Beyond that,...it's been a dang long while since I was truly floored.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

André 3000000000000000000000000000000: The Love Below

ditto

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

If we're talking about particular songs rather than an album, like some of you are doing, then I'll say "Bart" by Ruby, which I heard for the first time in 20 odd years about fifteen minutes ago thanks to
http://www.sub-tv.co.uk/schoolsmusic.asp. For those of you in the UK who are in their 30s and remember schools and colleges TV stuff should click on it right away for a real blast from the past.

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Individual song-wise, the frenzied segueway between "The Coming of Spring" and "House of Jealous Lovers" on Echoes by the Rapture, did make my ears perk right up.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

matthew dear, leave luck to heaven

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 October 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fiery Furnaces Gallowsbird's Bark - I seriously think that this record is perfect. It's easily one of the best debut albums that I've ever heard, right up there with Slanted & Enchanted and 36 Chambers: Enter The Wu-Tang. It zoomed right into my personal canon, and I listen to it constantly.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 30 October 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

As far as albums go, Bubba Sparxxx really killed me with those amazing Timbaland beats ... and before that, DBT's "Decoration Day" made me shiver with some of its lyrics.

But, really, I get knocked out every time I listen to hip-hop radio these days in the car. This has to be a golden age for hip-hop singles. Murphy Lee ("I don't need a fucking hook on this beat"), Ludacris, Lil Jon, Young Gunz, Chingy, 50 Cent, Outkast, 213, Obie Trice ... list goes on and on ...

― Chris O., Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ill second the lightning bolt and say that "room on fire" was maybe half a good song away from flooring me. it still gets my rump shakin though.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"room on fire" was maybe half a good song away from flooring me. it still gets my rump shakin though.

I'd agree with that. While I'm not necessarily floored by it, it's way more enjoyable than I'd anticipated.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

lightning bolt 'ride the skies'
and before that
pil 'second edition'
and before that
springsteen 'nebraska'

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green: Call Me. All I knew before was the Greatest Hits & I can't believe how good all the songs on this album are. This is like the greatest album of all time.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll second McLusky Do Dallas.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the love below...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 30 October 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 30 October 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Pitchfork couldn't be more right, really.

My answer: boring old Kish Kash (haha)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 30 October 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

10 minutes ago, The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips From the Chocolate Fireball.

Last week, Long Fin Killie - Houdini.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 30 October 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

bonnie prince billy - i see a darkness makes me say "wow," or any of that words its analogous comrades, everytime i hear it.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 30 October 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

all the Harry Mudie/King Tubby Dub Conferences, which I think are better than any other dub I've heard

Man, i so wanna hear this - what label?

Moondisc. Are you in the US? I got them at Dusty Groove.
Just checked their website and they're all out of stock. I could burn you a copy of them. Perhaps a trade can be arranged?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 October 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

UNKLE: Never Never Land. Sheer beauty, I tell you.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 31 October 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

AIR: 10,000 Hz Legend

No, really. I've heard many great things since then, obviously, but this is the last full "recent' album that floored me.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 31 October 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll third the Mclusky Do Dallas love-in.
Amon Tobin's Out From Outwhere is a close second.

― Shaun (shaun), Friday, 31 October 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Dizzee/Basement Jaxx. What's next?

I want to be floored again!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 31 October 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I like too much stuff.
Last one, T.I. Trap Muzik
turned my head around

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 31 October 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"ill second the lightning bolt and say that "room on fire" was maybe half a good song away from flooring me. it still gets my rump shakin though"

I played it at a party here and failed to get anyone's rump shaking. I'd say, in fact, it sorta cleared the dancefloor. That said, I do enjoy it. It is better than I expected.

― ddrake, Friday, 31 October 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

houdini floored me the first time i heard it cause that buttergut ep wasn't that great.
most recent? misty dixon. apparently, only, because i didn't have any of the eps beforehand.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 31 October 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I finally realised that it must have been Grace by Jeff Buckley. Have a feeling it is very unsound to say such on this list. Dizzee Rascal's certainly floored me but there was so much baggage coming into that with all the hype surrounding it that I think I was floored before I even put the needle to the vinyl. Mind you one night coming home slightly pissed I sparked up a bowl and listened to Boy In Da Corner again, and was floored (and it wans't just the hydro). Whereas with Grace I came in totally fresh.

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 31 October 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

'Speakerboxxx', Andrew WK's "I Get Wet", and the new Fall record all come to mind pretty quickly. I'm feeling really excited about newish music again!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 31 October 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Irony points?

― Shaun (shaun), Friday, 31 October 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I might agree with Kenan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 31 October 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A track by Avenged Sevenfold which was utter METAL and which might make me sound like a 16-year-old by saying so. But them's the breaks.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Moondisc. Are you in the US? I got them at Dusty Groove.
Just checked their website and they're all out of stock. I could burn you a copy of them. Perhaps a trade can be arranged?

I'm in the UK. I'll have a hunt round London, they'll show up somewhere.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 31 October 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

some of xenakis' 'krannerg' really floored me last night.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 31 October 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'd say, in fact, it sorta cleared the dancefloor. That said, I do enjoy it. It is better than I expected."
yeah, it's actually not as reliant on dance-ability as the last one, but its hooks are so much stronger. definitely a brilliant pop album, but i only stumbled upon first listen.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 31 October 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"some of xenakis' 'krannerg' really floored me last night.
-- Julio Desouza

Word. I got into Iannis Xenakis (along with Steven Reich) a few months ago. It's great stuff.

Heh, I just *got* Judas Priest a couple of weeks backs. Sad Wings Of Destiny/Screaming For Vengeance were great fun to listen to for the first time. So yeah, they floored me.

I half expected the new Jaxx to be great so I can't say I was floored by it. But I do like it quite a bit (maybe my #3-4 record this year behind Dizzie, Luomo, and maybe Maja Ratkje).

― Luis, Friday, 31 October 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

song = Mirah, "Don't"
album = ???? (Can't even remember what I bought recently)

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 31 October 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Mu- Afro Finger and Gel.
It's still killing me.

― Beta, Saturday, 1 November 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah Harmer - Wish You Were Here. They always played her on Richardson's Roundup and I thought she sounded so sweet and knowing and I saw her CD on sale today and I love it. I like the song called 'Basement Apartment' because I live in a basement apartment and it's kind of about how she's in love with some guy but I like the lines about how it smells like bleach and the water drips all night and I think we are very similar. There are slow songs and songs with strumming guitar.

― d k (d k), Saturday, 1 November 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

i'd say that flooring on the very first listen is a very different experience to being gradually floored over time.

in terms of first listens, i'd say that either/or is a pretty quintessential answer for me. i remember listening to it in its entirety, realising by record's end that every track had been nothing short of exceptional.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Drift

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Can't believe some smart-ass hasn't said Metal Box.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think it would be more interesting if we started saying that things "ceilinged" us.

― A Tiny Footpath (Bimble...), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

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