What is your fallback album?

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Assuming this hasn't been done before -- say you're like me and you want to listen to something but absolutely not a single thing seems right or appropriate or even worth hearing, and you're staring at yer discs/vinyl/mp3 lists/whatever and know you need to hear *something*. What do you pick and why?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To answer my own question and get this into 'new answers' -- Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth, because it's so warm, gentle and immediately entrancing, perfect for any mood, or Faith by the Cure, given that Simon Gallup's introductory basslines on "The Holy Hour" instantly set me into a perfect mindset for enjoying a perfect album. If I just want to hear one song, then I will likely pick "Transmission" by Joy Division for the nervous energy, tension and release and its overall cool brilliant power or "Swamp Thing" by the Chameleons for the sheer sweep of the music.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, this is a good question. My stand-by as of late has been Boards of Canada's 'Music Has the Right to Children,' although I'm not even sure why. There's something about the soft green cover and the sheer warmth of it all that commands me to play it. Also, it seems perfect for so many moods and times of day. Some albums are definitely "night" albums, some are "headphone" albums, etc... But BOC works in almost any environment, and interestingly, the album sounds different in different environments--i.e. I notice different things about the music, and there are subtle shadings of nuance that leap out depending on whether the sun is out, whether it's dark, whether I'm drifting to sleep, etc. A lot of the time, though, I don't have a standby, and then I feel lost in the (relatively modest) sea of my music collection. However, that can be fun, too.

― Clarke B., Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK Computer. I just always enjoy it. Even Kid A and Amnesiac, albums I tend to think are better than OK Computer, I'm not always in the mood for.

― Melissa W, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weird, but not too surprising, that we gave pretty much the same answers for why the album is our stand-by: "Works in a variety of moods, environments; has warmth; etc." These seem like good qualities for a record to be one you return to.

― Clarke B., Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always return to an unassuming grey CD compiling Felt's 'Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty' and 'The Splendour of Fear.' The glisten and thump of this music always seems right, and then, about three- quarters of the way through, 'The World is as Soft as Lace' floats above it all like a chimera and never fails to astonish me. Ah, Felt.

― Martin Swope, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Godspeed You Black Emperor's first album always seems to land on the player. After living with roomates for too long, it tends to send them running for the hills and its great for coding once you've learnt to pass the blankly stare at the screen and drool plateau.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nico-Chelsea Girl. Why? Hmmmmmm. Cause it's dreamy, it's got those strings, that acoustic guitar, it's folky and gentle. She gave Jackson Browne his big break! And yet it's Nico, with all her icy beauty and Factory creepiness and hints of future drug casualty status. I don't know why, but I'm usually in the mood that sort of thing.

Years ago I would have said Hunky Dory, but I just wore it out over the years.

― Arthur, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Village Green Preservation Society", it seems from experience. I tend to fall back upon "straight good tunes" in such moments. Songs I know I'll like, that are both gentle and wicked and rhytmically varied. The songs' order also helps me decide what I really want to listen to, as when "Picture Book" ends, I'll change for something jumpier than "Johnny Thunder" if I'm feeling wired, or something quieter if on the opposite I need to be calm. It's that decisive tune.

― Simon, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For years, I've gone back to Debussy (standard stuff, La Mer, Faun, Nocturnes), and more recently Messiaen (L'Ascension, End of Time). I don't know why.

Works in a variety of moods, environments; has warmth; etc.
This is a good hypothesis, Clark, but you got it too soon. Kind of kills the suspense. Can you do that?

― dleone, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In order of usage: Portishead's Dummy, Versus's Secret Swingers, Graham Coxon's The Sky is Too High, Galaxie 500's On Fire.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Funny - I was picking out music to play at a friend's garage sale the other day and picked 'This is our Music' by Galaxy 500. It was definately a fallback album. Somber, slow, sunny - much like the day itself and people sifting through all the crap. Tonight I talked with family and had the Au Pairs in the background with the TV sound off (yeah, I know - we're in an energy crunch).

― jason, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society (someone beat me to the punch). Frank Zappa, Hot Rats. The Smiths, Louder than Bombs. Schubert's Impromptus. My Bloody Valentine, Loveless. Black Sabbath, We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stereolab - Music For The Amorphous Body Centre The Stooges - Real Cool Time MBV - Don't Ask Why Rolling Stones - Sway

― David Gunnip, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, but how do you get italics and bold on these threads. Don't seem to get the options in Internet explorer

Stereolab - Music For The Amorphous Body Centre; The Stooges - Real Cool Time MBV - Don't Ask Why; Rolling Stones - Sway

― David Gunnip, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, but how do you get italics and bold on these threads. Don't seem to get the options in Internet explorer

HTML :)

― Melissa W, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All year its been Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker. Other than that I guess Mogwai's CODY album, and a certain other bands much debated last paracetamol boxed album.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Selected Ambient Works 85-92. Always does the job.

― Omar, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The radio. When I catch the mood you describe it's usually cos I'm outthinking myself, or just bored to death with the same shit I put on to ritualistically fit certain moods. The radio makes me listen. When it's crap I switch stations or imagine alternatives.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All time answer: House Tornado. Recently: Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express and the Cannibal Ox album.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Current 'sitters' in the CD changer: Discovery, the Clearlake album, the Orb's 'Blue Room' single.

Liberty Belle is probably my all-time answer except I've not heard it for a year because Al's got my copy.

― Tom, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I tend to reach for one of : "Leftism" , "Kid A", any Kraftwerk, any disk from the Nuggets or Jam box-sets, New Order - "Technique", Any Kinks up to and including "Arthur", VU's "Loaded", or lately the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack or "Discovery".

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mr. Swope -- you don't fall back on any Mission of Burma records?

― Andy, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fairport Convention 69-71 best of, often just Matty Groves and about 3 others on repeat.

― chris, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, damn, "Village Green" and "Liberty Belle" are two, but everyone else in the world is already mentioning them. Also, the BoC album and "Scott 4" are in that second tier, but the undisputed No. 1, the album that I never fail to enjoy, is "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever."

― scott p., Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Computer world, Dare, So Tough, Ingenue, best of Chic.

Why? I don't know. I've listened to them hundreds of times and have never failed to be surprised by them.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dusty Springfield's recording of "I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten" *always* does it for me, but the albums of late have been Daft Punk's Discovery, the last two Luke Haines records, BoC's Music Has The Right To Children ...

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Curses, my pseudonymic cover blown... But to answer the question: Yes, the 'Signals, Calls, and Marches' EP, with the appended 'Academy Fight Song'/'Max Ernst' single, is fail-safe. However, it rather has the effect of making me want to jump up and down and bounce off walls, so maybe 'fall-back' isn't the right word...

― Martin Swope, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'little earthquakes'. 'six'. 'the lexicon of love'.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

any dean martin (greatest hits will surfice) or the first elastica album (virtually never take this out of by cd changer)

― bounder, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be able to answer this a few years ago, but maybe I've played those "fall back" albums a few too many times. Maybe "Kind of Blue"?

― Sean, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass is so calming and gorgeous--natch the Gram Parson comparisons, but still. And Artur Rubinstein's Chopin Nocturnes. And the only album that I can sleep to, Wallace Roney's Misterios, which, for all its Miles/Gil Evans comparisons, is a wonderful, beautiful, darktime sleepy jazz album by a musician who really does know his stuff.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Recently, a Fela Kuti mix tape did the trick. "Shuffering and Smiling", "Go Slow", "No Agreement", et al. VERY hard to resist.

Others include Datacide's Flowerhead and Landing's Centrefuge EP. And Mozart usually works, too, especially his string quartets. There's other classical music I love much more, like Debussy and Berg and such, but it's less robust than Mozart in terms of dealing with differing moods and listening environments.

― Phil, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth, because it's so warm, gentle and immediately entrancing, perfect for any mood"

once again ned and i are proven to share a brain.

lately it's been fennesz's achingly beautiful "endless summer."

― jess, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Make that the 478th time I've seen that Fennez record praised and wondered why I can never ever find it when I'm at a record store.

Ordering time.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nitsuh, have you tried Hard Boiled on Roscoe near Damen (773-755-2619)? I've been meaning to pop down there to look, among other things, for that same record, myself. I don't know if he has it for sure but that guy usually carries that sort of stuff.

― scott p., Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll have to take a look. It just struck me that Weekend might carry it as well.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nitsuh, it took me approx. 5 mos. to find that damn cd, but it was more than worth it. i dunno if mego just has terrible distribution in the u.s., but it also took me an inordinate amount of time to locate pita's "get out" and the fenn o' berg disc.

― jess, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ahh, Weekend: The only place in the world where one can buy a Kompakt compilation and a homemade bar of lavender comfrey.

― scott p., Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think this might overlap with the "Have you found your record?" thread from ages ago:

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Stones Roses, and Suede's Coming Up are the ones I tend to fall back on. Lately it's been the Josie and The Pussycats soundtrack.

But mostly I look a little longer and find something.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weekend Records & Soap looks like the coolest record store EVER. It helps, of course, that its proprietors are/were members of groups like Lake of Dracula and Bride of No-No (or at least tangentially related to such groups).

My "fallback album" would have to be either Ida's _I Know About You_, Franklin Bruno's _A Bedroom Community_, or Tsunami's _A Brilliant Mistake_. Simple Machines Records was a godsend for this little manchild. I haven't had to fall back in a while, though, and I could probably recall these albums note-for-note in my head. (And I've a feeling the new Jenny Toomey album coming out next month might join this list.)

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It helps, of course, that its proprietors are/were members of groups like Lake of Dracula and Bride of No-No (or at least tangentially related to such groups).

Ahh ... this would explain why, when I asked about B.O.N.N. Appetit, he was so keen on playing it for me, and seemed so oddly disappointed when I didn't buy it.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Omigod, I saw the Bride of No-no open up once for Man-or-Astroman in Austin or Houston, I can't remember. They played their usual sonic fury thing, and after the first song, some guy in the rafters yells, "You suck!" And the Brides kept their very-avant heads down, ignored the heathens, and played another yowling attack. After that, some other guy goes, "You fucking suck! Get the fuck off the stage, ho's!" The lead Bride kind of looks up, retunes, and plays again. After the third song, the Texans revolt--everyone starts yelling "Freebird!" Finally, the lead Bride flicks the audience off, breaking that precious fourth "performance-music" wall, and a beer bottle comes flying out of nowhere, but doesn't get close at all to the stage. Tension heightens and from then on out it was a full-on brawl between the aggrevated band and the increasingly hostile crowd. I wasn't a huge fan of the Brides, nor of course the audience, but it was the coolest battle of the philistines versus the artists I've ever seen. Way cooler than when half the audience walked out on Phillip Glass doing La Belle et le Bete. Talk about fish out of water. And I swear I've never seen a shorter set in my life.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Julie London's Julie Is Her Name Vol 1 and 2 does it for me, as well as Yo La Tengo's Fakebook, The Walkabouts with Satiesfied Mind and Cat Power's Covers record.

Hmm..I'm sensing a connection here. :)

― JC, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Depending on how I'm feeling: Jonathan Richman's I Must Be King, Leonard Cohen's Songs Of... or Child's View: Funfair.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I guess I'll say the one Buckethead album I own. I think it's called "Coma" and that's what it's good for-- putting you in a coma. It's really slow, clear-channel jazzish guitar stuff over downtempo drum n- bass. It's soothing, sweet, it's almost nonexistent.

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Order, Power Corruption and Lies - and Lowlife. The perfect combination of electronics and guitars.

― DJ Martian, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It depends what kind of mood I am in before I start picking. If I'm in an angry or depressed mood it is inevitably "Isn't anything" by MBV or "Circuses and bread" by Durutti Column that gets picked up and thrown into the CD player. If I'm after something more calming then it'll be "Architecture and Morality" by OMD / "Kingsbury Manx" by Kingsbury Manx / "The Telescopes" by The Telescopes / "Unholy soul" by the Orchids. All because they are nice little albums with not a bad track amongst them, all kind of lazy hazy and heard so many times that they are almost too familiar, but I'm always happy to reacquaint myself with them.

― Rob M, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blonde on Blonde or the Autoboigrophy of Reinhold Messiner

― anthony, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Holy Bible, Vol 2: Hard Knock Life, Immaculate Collection, Too Young To Die, or pretty much any of Outkast's albums.

― Ally, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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this year it has been my morning jacket. otherwise it's usually wilco's being there.

― ernest, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aphex Twin- Ambient Works Vol 1
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Kruder and Dorfmeister - Kicks compilation
Motorbass - Pansoul

Effective, if predictable

― K-reg, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

Someone mentioned Outkast. I'd agree with this "fallback." I only have Stankonia, and although I'm sick to death of "Ms. Jackson," and there's way too many lame skits (isn't that always the case, though?), I still hear something new every time I listen to it, either in the vocals or production.

Other prime suspects: Handsome Boy Modeling School -- "So, How's Your Girl?" Prime stuff. This album never loses it's flavor. And I can listen to Del on "Magnetizing" all day -- that's probably my favorite hip-hop track ever.

I'm also never bored by Counting Crows -- "August & Everything After" Beatles -- "Abbey Road"

Those are both the kind of album that doesn't get old, it becomes a part of you.

― Jack Redelfs, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Hampton Grease Band's Music To Eat. I love following the convoluted contours of these meandering yet aggressive/digressive 20 minute epics. I usually discover something new everytime.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

'In a Silent Way' or 'Forever Changes.'

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Something by Plaid
"Pig Lib" by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
"Geogaddi" by Boards Of Canada

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Great thread.
In 2004 : Galaxie 500 -- Today
Magnetic Fields -- 69 Love Songs
Polmo Polpo -- Like Hearts Swelling
Chameleons -- Strange Times
Mogwai -- Happy Songs for Happy People
Orbital -- Blue Album
(again, not necessarily my fave albums of this year or any other year, rather, there never seemed to be a bad time for listening to them)

All-time:

Drugstore -- Drugstore
Pulp -- This is Hardcore (most of their albums, truthfully)
Vainqueur -- Elevations

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Afghan Whigs - 1965
Bongwater - The Big Sell-Out
Brian Wilson - Smile

― Mog, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This year it seems to be Drive By by The Necks.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

fleetwood mac's "say you will" or rainer maria's "long knives drawn"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

There are several that get played altogether far too often, because I just end up grabbing one of them when I'm not in the mood to concentrate on something new and have already spent far too long scanning the shelves in bewildered indecision desperately looking for inspiration.

If I'm on my own or just with my partner:
Captain Beefheart - could be Safe As Milk, Trout Mask Replica (probably not if my partner's there 'though 'cos she's none too keen on it!) or Shiny Beast
Clash - London Calling
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue or Tutu
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Love - Forever Changes
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Pixies - Doolittle
Residents - Icky Flix
Slits - Cut
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (it's....errrr.... one of the cats' favourite!)

If my mates are 'round 'though, we do seem to have an inexplicable tendency to make drunken lunges for:
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
Dub War - Pain
Chumbawamba - Anarchy
Green Day - Dookie
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pixies - Doolittle (again)
Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks Or the Lifestyle

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Sun Ra: Out There a Minute
Sun Ra: Piano Recital
Oum Kalthoum: Roubaiyat el Khayam
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium [but I haven't had it for very long]

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young: 'Harvest'
A Tribe Called Quest: 'People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm'
Stereo MC's: 'Connected'

yeah.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Fugazi - End Hits
SP - Mellon Collie disc 2

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Spacemen 3 "Playing With Fire"

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now, it is:
The Fall - "This Nation's Saving Grace"

Honorable mention:
Pixies - "Bossanova"/"Trompe le Monde"
Miles Davis - 50s era earlier in the day, 60s-70s at night
Can - "Future Days"

Previously, it was:
Mos Def - "Black on Both Sides"
Prefuse 73 - "One Word Extinguisher"
Radiohead - "OK Computer"

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Miles Davis, On The Corner and recently, even more, In Concert: Live At Philharmonic Hall.
When I'm traveling, and can't decide what I want to hear on my iPod, I just shuffle all the Motorhead.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Notorious Byrd Brothers"

the first Moby Grape album

Mekons' "Rock 'n' Roll"

Big Star's "Radio City" or "#1 Record"

Howard Tate's Verve sides

Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin' Else"

Beefheart's "Doc at the Radar Station"

Sly's "Riot"

Bobby Womack's "Midnight Mover" comp

Easybeats' "Absolute Anthology"

Hassell/Eno's "Fourth World Vol. 1" (fave late-nite album ever)

"Tropicalía Essentials"

Regina/Jobim's "Elis & Tom"

Rolling Stones' "Aftermath"

side one of Love's "Da Capo"

anything by the Zombies

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Low, "Things We Lost In the Fire"

Smoke "Heaven On A Popsickle Stick"

Bob Dylan "New Morning"

Tom Waits "Small Change"

Radiohead "Kid A"

Louis Armstrong or Thelonius Monk "This Is Jazz" series

Erik Satie "Collected Works"

I definitely agree with the earlier posts that mention the "comfort & warmth" factor. These are definitely "rainy day & glass of wine" albums for me.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Creedence.

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

over the years...
weezer - blue s/t
weezer - pinkerton
prince - dirty mind
prince - purple rain
prince - sign o' the times
the velvet underground - VU and nico
brian eno - here come the warm jets
brian eno - ambient 1: music for airports
andrew wk - i get wet
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
neu! - neu!
can - tago mago
can - soundtracks
scott walker - scott 4
abba - gold
oneida - each one teach one
charles mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady
black sabbath - master of reality
t. rex - the slider
blue cheer - outsideinside

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit! bob dylan - blonde on blonde!

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Auteurs - How I Learned to Love the Bootboys
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

either Sundays "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic", Ice-T's "O.G., Original Gangster" or GWAR "Scumdogs of the Universe"
It all depends on where my hand lands first.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

lately:
Kanye West - College Dropout

over the past few years:
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Add:

Cat Power "Moon Pix"

Portishead "Portishead"

Autechre "Ep7"

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

― ainsley harriott, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Useta be The Holy Bible. Right now its probably The College Dropout, Hatful of Hollow or somethingby Half Man Half Biscuit.

― Richard C (avoid80), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

lately: geto boys - we can't be stopped

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

uptempo
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Descendents - Milo Goes To College

not-so-uptempo -
the Old 97's - Wreck Your Life
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

in between, the JAMC singles comp

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete - From All Sides (when winding down, usually drunk)
Lambchop - Nixon (see above)
a Feelies mix

― Will (will), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

New Morning's a good'n, too.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Tex La Homa If Just Today Were to be My Entire Life has occupied slot 1 in my home CD changer for more than a year now. I don't even know where I picked it up.

― mikef (mfleming), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Lately, it's been Stevie's "Talking Book" but I'm feeling those Miles and Mingus nominations too. How's this for gutted? My "Black Saint & The Sinner Lady" is missing and I have no idea where it has gone.

*fumes*

― Piers (piers), Thursday, 28 October 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

High Tide and Green Grass - Rolling Stones
I'm with Stupid- Aimee Mann
Desire -Bob Dylan

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 28 October 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Tall Dwarfs - Hello Cruel World

Actually, pretty much any Tall Dwarfs or Knoxy is good to listen to whatever the occasion.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 28 October 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Steely Dan;s complete discography on shuffle

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 28 October 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

'forever changes' thirded
meic stevens- outlander
james- laid
bonnie prince billy- sings greatest palace
the zombies
low- secret name
pulp- different class

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 28 October 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I completely missed the October revival of this, what's wrong with me?

My answers way the heck up top still apply though I haven't listened to either album much in a while -- however, I strongly suspect the imminent reissue of Faith will change this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World, Prince 1999, Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Bersuit Vergabarat Hijos del Culo

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin III is my in-the-car default album. I have a tape of it there, and it seems that even the hardest to please passengers will enjoy it, not to mention there's no feeling like driving alone rocking out to Immigrant Song or Out on the Tiles.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Revive!

Yeesh...I'm really uncertain about what I fall back on because I remain indecisive for hours on end...although lately it seems to be D.I. Go Pop, Chrome, or Music for a New Society that I turn to when I'm not in the mood for anything else.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 27 February 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

For the last six months, it's been Sam Prekop's self-titled.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 27 February 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

1. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
2. Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
3. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
4. Replacements - Let it Be
5. Brian Eno - Before and After Science

in that order...

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Still Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds Of Silence, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

nothing

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

silence

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

This is a problem I have very often. I am sometimes late for school because I'm in my room staring at my CDs and trying to figure out what I want to listen to on the train. (I have problems in video stores too.)

I find myself listening to Born Heller's debut a lot. It was one of my favorites from last year, and it's short enough so that I can listen to most of it in the time it takes to get to school. Also popular is Six Finger Satellite's Severe Exposure because it's energetic and short. At home, Easter Everywhere by The 13th Floor Elevators rarely leaves the chair next to the stereo where I keep recently played or purchased records, that may qualify as a fallback.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

The Cure's Disintegration and that other Bob's Planet Waves often feel right when nothing else does.

― -the-night-watch- (-the-night-watch-), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

i was listening to 'reading writing and arithmetic' and surprised at how much of my previous life was wrapped up in that record. every song had a different memory attached, strange and wonderful days in every note. it had been a couple years since i had listened to it completely and it did make me feel safe, warm and hopeful almost immediately. funny.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

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