What was the last record you fell in love with?

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Me: 'Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome' by Parliament. It sounds like the greatest thing on Earth right now.

― Johnathan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably the new Jay-Z album. It really is good, you know.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*Blubbers* You mean, I'll never fall in love with a record again? ;)

Anyway, the most recent were Searching for the Young Soul Rebels and "Stand and Deliver." The latest new release was probably *yawn* Daft Punk.

― scott p., Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But WHY is it so good?

(And don't tell me to go read Ally's review because I did and I am still unconvinced.)

Most records I've bought lately have had holes in various parts. But the dancehall rip on the new Missy album sounds like The Greatest Song In The Whole World Right Now.

― jess, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmmm. Probably the Losing True EP by Ida, Tsunamin Audio Prism by Seamonster1, or A Trick of the Sea by Piano Magic. Hearing Paranoid for the first time was also pretty damned exciting.

I feel like there've been others, more recently, but I can't think of them.

― Phil, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The last full album I fell completely head over heels for was the long- delayed third album by NYC's Firewater, PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. I hate to admit it, but IS THIS IT? by the over-hyped Strokes is pretty fabulous. Actually, the re-release of the Soft Boys' UNDERWATER MOONLIHGT (...AND HOW IT GOT THERE) really got me too.

― alex in nyc, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The last record I completely fell in love with from start to finish was the New Pornographers' Mass Romantic. God, what am I, a *Pop Kid*? Sheesh.

― Arthur, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But WHY is it so good?

Imagine an album that is at base all about a guy who thinks he is god, acts like he's god, at once has a sense of humor and is completely serious and is backed by music that sounds like the most elegant party in the world both set to great beats and just queasy and off-center enough to sound like it's about to collapse in on itself. The Bowie reference is perfect because this all *sounds* like mid-seventies Bowie in a wholly different context -- all the coke is there, all the pristine paranoia and lashing out. Jay-Z has at once delivered an album that cements his standing and makes him look like a complete freak, and it sounds FUCKING GREAT. I'm even willing to overlook the presence of the nabob of nothing that is Eminem. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sold.

(Okay, you never had to sell me on Jay Z in the first place, but I wanted a second opinion, doctor.)

― jess, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, keep in mind I could be talking out of my ass. But if you're still up for it, enjoy. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What Ned said - if you want to hear absolute messianic insanity from a coke head with way too much cash set to the lushest background in a long time, you buy the Jay-Z album.

Incidentally, the last time I fell in love with an album was Jay-Z as well. The Blueprint is tight.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And Jess, if you weren't initially convinced by Ally's review, YOU HAVE NO SOUL. ;-) I tease, it's just that Ally's reviews keep knocking me on my butt because they are so good. Oh yes.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought it was well documented that I HAVE NO SOUL.

― jess666, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, you are insane.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*gibbers, raves, falls over*

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't make us put an Elizabethan Collar on you, buddy.

― jess, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Jay-Z record is superb. This year's been fantastic for new albums, or maybe I've just been making the right choices for once. But I'm not 'in love' with it - its supreme self-regard makes it brilliant but not loveable. So "Romeo" by Basement Jaxx.

― Tom, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

digital love, because it is unrequited.
confield, because it is boring postcards corroded
ride wit me, because it rides low (no, i don't know what that means either)
bourgie bourgie, because i have a glitterball (i don't actually, but hey i can fake it)

― gareth, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sunhouse - crazy on the weekend, another boot sale baragin (50p). In theory I should loathe it Gary Clarke's mumbling non voice, a splash of harmonica here and there and the sort of guitar solo which has aging Cream fan's going 'nice licks', but it's all done in such a humble, understated way and I love his baffled voice which has a lot of Nick Drake about it.
Although it came out in 98 they've apparently split up already due to 'personal problems'. No doubt in 20 years time it will be revived as a lost classic .

― Billy Dods, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Watch for Tomorrow" by the Now Time Delegation. Awesome, get on your feet, yell and shout soul music led by Tim Kerr of the Big Boys. Fantastic stuff.

― Sam, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Super Furry Animals-Rings Around the World. The Avalanches-Since I left you. And most of all Daft Punks new one, I can't remember the name for some odd reason, it's friday and I'm hungover. But I love it, especially "Too Long". Absolute class.

― Ronan, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am currently madly in love with two albums I bought yesterday: Bjork's _Vespertine_ and Skinny Puppy's _Back And Forth Vol 5: Live In Dresden_. As far asi individual songs are concerned, "Auroroa" - by Bjork. Before that, it was "hell bent" by Kenna.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good lord- Sunhouse?? Quite possibly one of the worst bands in existence (and they even had ex-Telescopes in them- still managed to be God-awful)

For me it was *ahem* The Pattern's 'Immediately' (hi Andy). It roX0r, loike.

― emil.y, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Dilate' by Bardo Pond, primarily because of its melancholiness. I have a feeling I shall play the Missy one quite a bit more as well. The Velvet Underground's VU...better than Loaded!

― Bill, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bill, how does Dilate compare to their other albums. i was going to buy it but never picked it up in the end.

― gareth, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

album: "In Search of..." - N*E*R*D (falling in love with an album happens a couple of times a year) single: "(Drawing) Rings Around The World" - Super Furry Animals (with a single song it can happen several times a week)

PS I haven't yet heard the new Jay-Z album. Do you have promo copies, bootlegs or is the thing alreadycan downloadable?

― JoB, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

searching for the young soul rebels, jimmy ruffin - "i'll say forever my love," mercury rev - all is dream, neil diamond - "forever in blue jeans," wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot, dylan - "positively 4th street"

― fred solinger, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

JoB: It's all over the net, download-wise. The entire thing, since finding it on a private sharing space I have seen it on numerous other sites - not taken the time to check if it's "real", obviously, since I already have the real tracks. I've also seen HELLA bootlegs of it all over, hundreds of 'em. Again, can't vouch for the quality or realness.

It comes out next week! Buy! Buy! Buy!

― Ally, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gareth, I only have Lapsed as well, but Dilate is more restrained, more intent on making something beautiful out of the noise instead of just making noise. (Oh God what on earth must I sound like?) Quieter. (Only one song, 16, is a true barrage).

― Bill, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, Dilate hasn't impressed me as much as the last couple of albums, but I can confirm thanks to the mega-kick-butt Bardo/Mogwai live show I saw in June that live they still damn well bring it all on in concert. Well worth seeing.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd just like to add Sunrise by Pulp into this. Got the 12" last week and am playing it repeatedly, can't get enough. Anyone else heard this yet?

― Bill, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It comes out next week! Buy! Buy! Buy!

Tomorrow, acc. to Amazon, but, holy shit, list-priced at $19.97! which may be a first. Switcha flow getcha dough fo' shizzle. Or something like that.

― scott p., Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'one touch.' i listened to it nonstop for two weeks.

― maura, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Steve Wynn "Here come the miracles" and "In Search of..." by N*E*R*D

― nathalie, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just last week, two loves in one, 'Vespertine' + 'Druqs'.

― Omar, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

snap

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LRJ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Probably:

http://www.mostwanted-online.nl/shop/catalog/images/b9acb5927d229393c03de6a065e4a421.jpg

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Had it for a while now, but its sheer brilliance has only shone through within the past couple of weeks (after many, many hopeful listens):

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005UK0N.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

*swoon*

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-188064-001.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 25 September 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009LNRLE.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1119301571_.jpg

'cos it's the midpoint between the 13th Floor Elevators and Vision Newsun Creation. And then some.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Monday, 25 September 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I'd exhausted his catalogue by now but I never realised how whimsical and sad "Please Call Me Baby" by Tom Waits is.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0009F9O6W.02._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1114727890_.jpg

― LC (Damian), Monday, 25 September 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

How "in love" is "in love"?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 25 September 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s99384.jpg

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 25 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

er,

gonna be totally unoriginal and list an obvious one:

tv on the radio - 'return to cookie mountain'

other one's from recent years:

broken social scene - 'you forgot it in people' (obvious, i'm sure)

blonde redhead - 'misery is a butterfly' (yes, in spite of the underwhelming reviews!)

elliott smith - 'from a basement on the hill' (have fallen in love with all his records at some stage, but this one, being the most recent, took a hell of a lot more listens to absorb. a dense and wildly versatile collection of songs)

katatonia - 'the great cold distance' (this is hands down the most intelligent 'metal' record i've heard in years. astonishing and simply put, single-handedly responsible for keeping the genre interesting.

oldies, that i've been falling in love with all over again:

bjork - 'debut' (would gladly listen to this on repeat all day)

wilco - 'being there' (reliving the bliss of hearing 'hotel arizona' for the first time)

bob dylan - 'john wesley harding' (maybe only my 4th or 5th favourite by the man, but it's beautifully structured with one of my most beloved closers of all time)

red house painters - 'ocean beach' ('summer dress' still has me waxing nostalgic about girls from my past)

converge - 'jane doe' (a monstrous, towering, all-consuming ode to heartbreak. one to throw on in the absence of hope and self-belief)

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

of the recent ones: Harold Budd's "Avalon Sutra", Massimo Zamboni's "Sorella Sconfitta".
oldies: Clara Nunes "Alvorecer", plus these days I've really fallen in love for the Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "Signs of Life", which I once regarded as their weakest.

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Probably "Maggot Brain"; I'm in a funky mood.

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

in 2006 i finally listened to dylan's debut in it's entirety. fantastic. the vocals were so huge and raw! and after hearing what seems like dozens of versions, the best "man of constant sorrow" ever.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

the good stuff house cd-r on time-lag

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

Cluster - Zuckerzeit

"Hollywood"...I know it's been done to death, but I still have to say that if this was a new song that came out tomorrow, if would fit right in. Amazing.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Bidfurd, I picked up Carnival in Babylon as my intro to Amon Duul II and was sorely disappointed. Given that I'm after precisely what you describe ("'the midpoint between the 13th Floor Elevators and Vision Newsun Creation") Is the self-titled a better bet?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kayodot.net/images/choirs-cover.jpg

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hoosteen, you want to grab Tanz Der Lemminge, Yeti, Wolf City, and fer Amon Duul uno: Plays Phallus Dei, Disaster, and Psychedelic Underground. xpost

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet. Thanks.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hoosteen, I had the same exact experience you had, with downloading Carnival in Babylon and being a tad disappointed. It just didn't match the descriptions of their sound that I had read. Did you download it from the same place I did, the mp3 blog to Krautrocksampler?

Anyways, that's not not the self-titled pictured above, that's Yeti. I'm in the process of downloading that, Phallus Dei, Psychedelic Underground, and Tanz der Lemminge right now. I'm hoping that they scale back the singing a little bit, but who knows.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Er...what he said.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c672/c67260m4a43.jpg

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

CONGOTRONICS

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/images/mastodon.jpg

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Alice Cooper - School's Out

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I picked it up at a local record shop. Somewhat shocked it was at an affordable price.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I listened to a twofer of Ege Bamyasi and Soon Over Babaluma for the first time. Today, I haven't listened to anything else.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
In my office, with my afternoon beverage, loudly. I can't seem to get into anything else by them, though.

― pj (Henry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hosteen, do it, get hold of Yeti!
It's unhinged like the 13th Floor Elevators and spacey and ebbing and flowing like VCN. You'll like it!
(I've never heard Carnival in Babylon)

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kelis - 'Kaleidoscope' Cosmic Rock/R&B has never sounded so great.

― danzig (danzig), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jana Hunter / Devendra Banhart -- Better than all of the other DB i've got (4 titles)

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

The current Juana Molina, Son. Better than Segundo, which was one of my total-fall-in-love-with records, and A LOT better than the intervening Tres Cosas.

In general, I fall in love with 3-4 records a year. So far this year, it's really only been Son and Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, although I'll confess to being in crush with Cansei De Ser Sexy. Last year it was MIA, Amadou et Mariam, Konono #1, Bright Eyes, Spoon, Run The Road, Sleater-Kinney . . . Last year I was in love a lot more.

― Vornado (Vornado), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

lucifer's friend, 1st album.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I never got into that Lucifer's Friend record.. or any of their albums for that matter--I sold my copy of the 1st LP. What about it do you love so much?

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

the music.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

i'm totally down for the sub-zeppelin/purple vibe generally and they did it really well - i'd rate them with leaf hound and orang-utan as bands that should've been big. or bigger than they were.

i don't care much for them after the second album.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Off the top of my head, "Tell Me When to Go."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

happy hate me nots "the good that's been done"

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

TV on the Radio - Cookie mountain.
how banal.it took me awhile,but recently i can see its greatness clearly.

― emekars (emekars), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Neko Case--Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

I've played this much more than any other 2006 record.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS
-- max (maxrea...), September 26th, 2006.

yes.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

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