What album would you propose to write about for the 33 1/3 book series?

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I once asked this question at a party (after explaining the concept) and got some interesting responses. It's not necessarily your favorite album of all time -- it's more likely an album that you'd have a lot to say about, whether that's because you're particularly knowledgeable about it, because you have a personal connection to it that makes for a good story, or maybe because you have some kind of overarching crackpot theory about it you want to let loose.

Nabisco offers these for himself: Max Tundra Mastered by Guy at the Exchange (tales of girlfriend-stealing, with one chapter about Don Caballero and one about how the song "Lysine" allowed me to give excellent advice to a friend with a cold sore); XTC's Skylarking (finally unpacking the obvious life-cycle composition and sequencing of songs, plus 90 pages about how "Mermaid Smiled" is better than "Dear God").

Of course, I'm not sure I actually have one. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Funkadelic "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Luomo's "The Present Lover" or Jimi Tenor's "Intervision", without hesitation - maybe the only two records that are personal favorites but also resonate emotionally for reasons related to experiences outside of merely listening to them.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Biggie's Ready to Die, maybe Miss E...so addictive, or perhaps the first Big L album

― deej., Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Or Diamonds & Pearls but Matos already did Prince.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I will only write about Prince or Finns who owe a great debt to him!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

The Monkees, Headquarters. A great album with an even greater backstory.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

I want more reasons why, too! Make your pitch!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Send me an advance first.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I could write a lot about the first Drugstore album, but it would be a very depressing read.

"Different Class" would be a more playful affair. A few years ago, I did in fact start writing a story about "Different Class" and a Pulp concert which directly led to a breakup with an ex-girlfriend, with the whole thing being a pseudo-allegory about the death of Britpop. I wrote about ten or fifteen pages but could never finish it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

> I want more reasons why, too! Make your pitch!

Is this thread sponsored by MediaBistro?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what that means!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Ages before I heard about this series, I had this exact same idea except calling the books "Sleevenotes". It was going to be my route to riches I tell you. Bloody gutted it's already been done. Is this series available in the UK?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

the Funkadelic bit would have to cover my introduction to the album via a taped copy. for quite awhile I was convinced that the weird panning, EQing, volume changes, and out-of-control reverb sounds were the fault of crappy tape dubbing. only later upon purchasing the CD did I realize the album was SUPPOSED to sound that way. At which point both my mind and ass were freed. would also cover that indie band that re-recorded the album right down to all the "wrong" production touches (I forget their name tho)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

1000 Years of Trouble - age of chance
a life changing release for a fey indie fan in leeds 87. ground breaking sonically as well as visually. opened the doorway for so much that followed afterwards, the cut-n-paste issue re kisspower 12" that virgin never released, but peel played, the unrecognition of janet jackson/jam & lewis lifting a sample loop 100% for rhythm nation, the live show featuring a typical rock band setup and hip hop dj, something quite rare in 1986, the personalities involved, and last but not least the cycle gear.
the memories of the band posing late one cold winters saturday night in leeds in their gear while everyone else dashed home to get out of the cold. the lead singer 'quitting' - causing the band to go in directions that killed their chances ..
etc etc

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

I would kill to do a 33 1/3 book on the Geto Boys' self-titled album. I have intense memories associated with that cassette and several worthy anecdotes (including, but not limited to, the time when I made my father (a captain in the United States Navy at the time) take me to see the Geto Boys LIVE at the Capital Center in Landover, Maryland in the early '90s -- on the Government's dime, no less (they owned a Skybox at the arena and picked up the cost of the tickets!); as well as the story of the locked box that I kept the tape in for fear of my mother finding it, listening to it, and punishing me severely (it also contained some starter-porn like a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and a copy of a last will and testament that I wrote for myself -- of of which was eventually discovered years later).
I think the book could tell some interesting tales about the creeping of gangsta rap into the lives of 16-year-old, painfully white, suburban upper-middle class kids...

There's my abridged pitch... does somebody know somebody over there?

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

I'd totally read that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

If I had to pick one, it would be Pavement's Wowee Zowee, but I'm not sure what my proposal would be. I probably would write a more insightful/interesting book about U2's Achtung Baby, though.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

My life just isn't all that interesting, but I've heard some great music!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

I had this same discussion with Matos, Jen and donut christ a while back, and still feel very strongly that I should write an illustrate a graphic novel based on The Soft Bulletin.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

that's write and illustrate...

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Jaymc! In all seriousness, though, how does that series work? I imagine the writers are invited by the publisher? How many of the books are by "names" (speaking in relative terms of course), a'la the Joe Pernice one... I would really love to write this!

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

well, the implied reason for choosing one's book for a 33 1/3rd series is how prominent a cornerstone record it was for him or her... I wish I could think of one that would actually be "known" enough to actually be truly considered for a title.. but here goes..

* Negativland Escape From Noise
* XTC Black Sea
* Donna Summer Walk Away: 1977-1980
* Meat Beat Manifesto Storm The Studio
* De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead
* Renegade Soundwave Soundclash
* Pell Mell Flow
* Trumans Water Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox And Ass
* Human League Dare
* Heaven 17 Penthouse And Pavement
* The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace
* Severed Heads Come Visit The Big Bigot
* Christian Death Only Theatre Of Pain
* Janet Jackson Control
* Michael Jackson Off The Wall
* Michael Jackson Thriller
* Rick James Street Songs
* Kitchens Of Distinction Love Is Hell
* The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically
* Amon Duul II Tanz Der Lemminge
* Ministry Twitch
* This Mortal Coil Filigree & Shadow
* Nick Drake Bryter Layter
* Hochenkeit Omu4uh 4aholab / 400 Boys

and probably many many more I'm forgetting right now...

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

ooooh do Truman's Water

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I think it would have to be a double of Blur's Parklife and Great Escape.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

You do Truman's Water!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

(ur, I'm pleasantly surprised, but surprised none the less about how many Trumans fans we have here...)

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

honestly though, in that list above, I really do think there needs to be a book on Negativland's Escape From Noise. In a college radio/underground sense, it was a winner across all types of underground music fans, and -- personally -- it really changed the way I looked at music (I got it the day it came out, purely out of curiosity, when I was 15), and would love to take up that task.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

At the risk of erring on the side of indie orthodoxy: Slint, "Spiderland." Its hyper-local, kids-in-band, load-the-gear-in-Mom's-old-Volvo genesis vs. the universally name-checked touchstone that would become over the next decade. The Rosetta Stone qualities of the album (hokum or no). It's still a creepy black monolith of a record that's held onto a surprising amount of its mystery over the years -- I'd like to read this book at the very least.

One could make a theoretically similar pitch for Possessed's "Seven Churches" I suppose.

x-post: Admittedly, I haven't listened to "Mastered By Guy At the Exchange" in a while, but can someone explain the Don Cabellero connection to me? I assume we're talking about the band and not Joe Flaherty.

― pm, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

"Painfully white?" Holy crap -- does it really, like, hurt?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

This may shock you, nabisco, but PIGMENT IS ACTUALLY A NERVE CELL NUMBING AGENT! All of us whiteys are suffering in pain and despair all the time, but are yet too modest to admit it.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Re: M.B.G.A.T.E. -- the song "Acorns," which I would say was my favorite thing on the album if only everything on the album weren't my favorite, claims itself to be in part about Don Cab splitting up, in typical-Max "I only sing about things that happen to me" fashion -- except of course midway through it starts to seem like a metaphor as well. (I’m still working out how the spitting-blood-in-the-sink-of-a-German-hotel-bathroom fits in: might just be coincidental detail.) Anyway, as Max writes and Becky sings, “At least we have Storm and Stress to show for the D.C. implosion.”

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though, in my life MBGATE has reached levels of textual depth akin to the Bible. Or at least Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Here would be my book on Don Caballero's For Respect

"Damon admitted watching SCTV a lot, hence the album name.. they liked Bitch Magnet's Ben Hur and probably Rush and Voivod and shit like that. But I could be wrong. Then one of the guys starting chewing gum and got into delay pedals and all crazy effects and basically made the band sound more pussy. (Don't kill me, Damon, with your dragon breath.. please)"

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Oops, donut, my comment was directed to Adam, as in he should do Truman's Water. The first time I'd even heard of this band was on a t-shirt of Adam's from many days gone by.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

i have a close friend here in SF from Dublin and he can't pronounce "TH" so instead of "three", he says "tree". funnier than hell. so to hear him say "Tirty Tree and a Tird" would make me giggle.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Okay: to be more specific anything I wrote about Max Tundra would be about how midway through loving it just on the basis of sound I realized that its primary preoccupation was the fact of Max having stolen his best friend's girlfriend. This was shocking to me: I remember sitting down on my bed and laughing at the sudden realization that that's why his last album was called Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be. I could empathize with this: I was once considered to have stolen a best-friend's girl (a year after he broke up with her, but oh well). So I started listening closer, and a bizarre sequence of events started to unfold: everything on this album began to seep into my life. It became something of a guide, something of a religious text. The first highlight was when I was on the phone telling someone about the weirdness of the whole thing, and said person said "ouch," and I said "what?" and she said "oh, sorry, I have a cold sore, it won't go away" -- and there once again: "Lysine! Max says lysine helps with cold sores! He is guiding me through my life!" And there were further highlights, but I'm saving them for the book.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

I'd also like to write one (though I don't think it would work as a comic the way Soft Bulletin would) about They Might Be Giants' Lincoln because I was just old enough when I got into that record to be half on the side of just thinking it was amusing and quirky as a kid and realizing how ridiculously cynical, dark and generally unhappy it is if you pay even a little bit more attention.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I thought I'd got rid of this album and on checking, was glad to find I didn't. I'm gonna give MBGATE its first play in a couple of years and try and approach your mindset on this one. Quality.

As for me I'd probably do Songs About Fucking. If you consider the sleevenotes and factor in the tour diary for the final Big Black tour, there's a ton of material to expound on, although the idea of any of it being remotely interesting for almost anyone else makes me giggle like a schoolgirl

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Any of the following....

Q:Are We Not Men?.. by Devo
Destroyer by Kiss
Killing Joke by Killing Joke
Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam & the Ants
A Night at the Opera by Queen
Damaged by Black Flag
Group Sex by the Circle Jerks

...basically, any album I've started an In Praise of... thread about.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

DI Go Pop by Disco Inferno.

If something more well known, Music for the Masses by Depeche.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I could also do something only slightly embarrassing-to-myself about 10,000 Maniacs' In My Tribe, in a more old-and-common field.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

I'd read donut christ's Escape From Noise book, he's the man for the job

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco's book sounds amazing.

I think I could do a killer one on Baxendale's You Will Have Your Revenge - all pictures of popstars and astronauts and Stevie and Er*ca and tales of what it was like to be seventeen and trying to live like Tim Benton's fantasies of how seventeen year olds should live. I can still probably recite most of the lyrics offhand, which I probably shouldn't admit.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Definitely Galaxie 500 - On Fire, because it's like my musical "soul-mate" haha, but I know hardly anything beyond the superficial details of the band's history/legacy, and I think that guy that writes the liner notes for the rykodisc re-issues would be a lot more qualified. Oh well, there's always someone else more qualified... Otherwise, I would like to see someone do: Slint - Spiderland, Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand, Sonic Youth - Sister, or Bjork - Homogenic....... and maybe Kate Bush - Hounds of Love, just for kicks.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

"Dusty in Memphis" and Jackie DeShannon's "Laurel Canyon" immediately come to mind. Phil Spector's Christmas Album, too. But my real dream is Nino Tempo and April Stevens' "All Strung Out," although I can't even fathom the disinterest that would great that proposal. Also, Pretenders II would certainly be a gas to do. Oh God, and that first Bob Neuwirth album....

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

And while I'm in the market for abuse, Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" would be fun, too. Although I might want to think about an album where the people invovled actually remember the sessions....

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

The usual suspects -- Dig Your Own Hole, Discovery, Paul's Boutique. Yeah.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Reasonable doubt or the blueprint, and i could expand on my theory that Jay-Z is the poet laureate of capitalism. It would be called Can't Knock the Hustle, of course.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock

― Grand Epic (Grand Epic), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

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I would want to write about A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory, as it was the first album I heard that made me go "Wow, this is way better than anything else I've ever heard!", but there's already an ATCQ book for that corny first album I never liked much. My second pick, Outkast's ATLiens is also stymied, but I like Aquemini a great deal better than Peoples Instictive Travels and the Yada Yada Yada, so that one isn't quite as offensive to me. I guess my next choices would be Michael Jackson's Thriller, which I'm surprised hasn't been given the treatment already, GZA's Liquid Swords, and Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh.... Jay-Z Unplugged. There we go.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

DO IT. (IE, propose it next time around.)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Jay-Z's Unplugged special was very tied to me realizing that MAINSTREAM RAP IS NOT EVIL (OMG! He's working with the Roots and wearing a Che Guavera shirt, he must be okay!), so I have a lot to say about it, even if I didn't buy the actual CD until a couple years ago. Plus all sorts of other contextual ish. I think I could write a damn book about it.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

Plus, it's something I discovered at its point of relevance, as opposed to most of my other favorite albums.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

The funny thing is it took, like, another year for my Talib Kweli-listening ass to admit I loved every second of it.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

I could write quite a bit about Counting Crows' This Desert Life. It sparked my messageboard addiction, comforted me during my lonely junior high year and somehow found its way into a large junk pile just last year...It's interesting how something once so valuable and important becomes useless within a matter of years.

― Tape Store, Sunday, 13 May 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

buckner and garcia - pac man fever

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

the wisdom of snrub

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

Reviving this, out of interest.

― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:43 (fourteen years ago)

I pitched a Talk Talk one a few years ago; got through a couple of rounds of 'auditions' / consideration but not the final hurdle.

If I were to pitch another one I'd have to think a lot about it, as I'd want to write about the industry / production primarily, rather than a record I necessarily love.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah. I think having an angle and particular access to hitherto exclusive information would be a must. I could name any number of albums I love and would enjoy writing about, but it's also important to remember YOU ARE WRITING A BOOK about it and need to have something worthwhile to say about it other than gushing prose about how marvellous it is. Nick, I could see you doing something like 65DaysOfStatic, although they're probably not really canon enough to merit a book of that kind.

― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:05 (fourteen years ago)

I like Tim's question: "I think this part of the thread is an interesting one that we should run with again: what album would you propose that some one else in particular (ILXOR or otherwise) write about?"

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)

about

― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)

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― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

I'm bummed that Fugazi's "In on the Killtaker" has been shortlisted a few times but never makes it. I wish someone would do that one.

― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 18 November 2011 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

is that one considered the fugazi masterpiece or something?

― scott seward, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)

Would love to write books on several YMO or YMO-related albums particularly BGM or Technodelic or Hosono's Paraiso. If anything I just want to know what that guy was on all these years.

Other albums which I'd love to read or write about:
Aqua - Aquarium - mostly curious if the band really did have a sharp sense of humor and lived to be despised or if they were sincere about everything

Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? (I could probably write this one)

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery - I feel like these guys were really trying to write the greatest album in the history of everything, plus their de-facto interview like 20 years after telling stories about meeting Giger and Ginastara are fascinating

They Might Be Giants - any number of early albums, would really like to know what these dudes thought about back then

Cornelius - Point

The KLF - The White Room

― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

What would you write about Point?

― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

the symbolism that some of the tracks have (especially compared to previous work), and a lot about how it's intended to be more an album of disjointed sounds rather than songs, why it sounds like there are like 10 musicians doing the job of 4 or so, and what compelled the guy to choose certain sounds over others and the feelings they were supposed to evoke, really just an interesting album overall

― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)

I'm not sure which album I'd pick, but I'd love to read a Robyn Hitchcock book that treated him more like an actual person than a charming collection of eccentricities.

― dlp9001, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

xpost I dug it out again and listened to the whole thing in the bath the other night (was it you I was chatting with about this one?) I'd forgotten just how much I love Drop and his cover of Brazil and that last track.

― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah I listened to the Richard D. James album (also maybe an interesting 33 1/3 topic) and this in a row as both were albums that I thought had a very unique piecework feel to them that I hadn't heard in a long while. it seems like Point is holding up much better over the years. I mean I have to give some respect for "Tone Twilight Zone" which is really kind of a sappy instrumental but every single thing is placed so perfectly that I can't help enjoy it. Also the way the album gradually loosens up then completely lets loose is awesome. The songs themselves are very good. Whereas the RDJ album seems like it would just fall apart without all the unsettling effects and drill-like percussion.

― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

The High Llamas' Hawaii or Super Furry Animals' Mwng.

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

Come To Daddy would be a good one. It seems to encompass everything RDJ was trying to do at the time.

― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

Man, if Sinker did one on Dragnet or Y, I would buy five copies instantly.

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― housebroken in a broken home (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World.

― Turrican, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

Come To Daddy would be a good one. It seems to encompass everything RDJ was trying to do at the time.

yeah probably more interesting than the RDJ album. i'd add Windowlicker in there as well. kinda seems like he basically ran out of ideas/motivation after that

― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America

― Love stream of mic checking (Eazy), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

We did RDJ Album at DRC recently and it was the melodies and tunes that jumped out. It really didn't seem radical anymore. Just lovely.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

Would probably go for Immer by Michael Mayer if that's allowed.

― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

is that one considered the fugazi masterpiece or something?
― scott seward, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:03 (3 hours ago)

It's the one they first recorded with Steve Albini in Chicago, before scrapping the whole album and doing it again themselves; and it's also the point where they were being courted by Ahmet Ertegun in the wake of Nirvana-mania. A lot of people consider it their peak period in terms of live performance, too.

― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:50 (fourteen years ago)

kinda seems like he basically ran out of ideas/motivation after ~~that~~ Drukqs

― billstevejim, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

if i was a good writer i would like to do one about "big science" by laurie anderson

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

yeah I know a lot of people stand up for Drukqs but I'm not sure how much innovation there really was there, kinda just seemed like Aphex by-the-numbers

― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

I kinda remember 'Drukqs' getting a much less enthusiastic response than its predecessors upon release.

― Turrican, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

It came out just a bit late - people had jumped all over the drill'n'bass bandwagon and its axle was broken by that point. It was the first aphex album that didn't completely bowl people over with new ideas, although it still has some great bits

― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

It lacked a USP. It's just a compilation of stuff rather than an album with an aesthetic. People didn't know how to consume it. I still don't.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

drukqs totally had an aesthetic

― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 18 November 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

uptempo electronic jams w/distinctly aphex-y melodies and beats set against beautiful prepared piano pieces

― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 18 November 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

Bjork - Homogenic, Post
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsum
Can - Tago Mago, Future Days
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Depeche Mode - Violator
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, Dots & Loops
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

― Moka, Saturday, 19 November 2011 00:19 (fourteen years ago)

I have a crackpot theory about Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator) that I thought I'd like to get off my chest. I started writing the book to see if I could pull it off. I couldn't. But that's the album I'd write about if I had the chops.

― DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Sunday, 20 November 2011 03:58 (fourteen years ago)

I feel like these guys were really trying to write the greatest album in the history of everything, plus their de-facto interview like 20 years after telling stories about meeting Giger and Ginastara are fascinating

These stories are hilarious/totally full of shit.

― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:02 (fourteen years ago)

At least the Giger ones are!

― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:02 (fourteen years ago)

OR maybe they've just become ridiculous in my imagination over the years. iirc Emerson said Giger had a palatial dining hall with a table made of giant penises and chairs made of human skeletons, and that the toilet in the bathroom was a monster/electric chair hybrid, and all this silly stuff.

― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:07 (fourteen years ago)

I'm thinking I should write the Brain Salad Surgery book. It would be my devolved memories of him talking about Giger + (plus) my dad's devolved reminisces of listening to it in college, seeing them live, etc. "Greg Lake held up a Book of Mormon* and said if anyone believed in it, we were all fools and liars. I swear, I was waiting for lightning to hit him. But they did have a really cool drum solo."

*because the concert was in was Salt Lake
**this story was actually about Ian Anderson but I'M USING IT ANYWAY

― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:12 (fourteen years ago)

I could also write about how during the synthesizer jam bit of "Karn Evil pt 1 1st impression" I like to imagine a SPACE KNIGHT battling a SPACE MOTH with a SPACE LANCE though that would probably be better suited to a drawing.

― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:18 (fourteen years ago)

do you think they would do a 33 1/3 comic book

― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:18 (fourteen years ago)

There's a great ELP 33 1/3 book out there waiting to be written. But it's not Brain Salad Surgery.

http://irrelevanttroubadour.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/lovebeach.jpg?w=360&h=360

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 20 November 2011 05:03 (fourteen years ago)

You mean

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9ul9zN2Tf1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

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