Well, it's about damn time. What old albums and artists have you discovered in 2007?

after that thread re Sly Stones return a few days ago, its been There's a Riot going on .. ever since.
never got it until this current fixation.
then in the build up to the Prince freebie next week, i have totally dug out the 13 of his albums from the archive, and rediscovered them all again.
its been a total blast - and subsequently finding it hard to care about listening to anything else to be honest.

been buying lots of vinyl and old shit this year, big finds:

traffic
rainbow
thelonious monk

ok i know i said not to but

MONK?? MATT HOW CAN THIS BEEE

cj mac 'come and take a ride' appreciation

'true game' is the album
matt u know it?

Been getting into Calypso lately - "London is the Place for Me" and all that.

I had never heard Basement 5, Jerry's Kids, Frightwig, Sick Things (the Australian one)or England's Glory before 2007, and I love all of them.

MONK?? MATT HOW CAN THIS BEEE

-- The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, July 5, 2007 7:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

well...as much of a dork as i am, i'm sort of ashamed to admit that i've never really ventured into jazz very much at all. i bought david s. ware "go see the world" back when it came out for some reason, and also a couple years ago the "essential miles davis" 2CD...but anyway last year a friend dragged me to see the Vandermark 5 at a rock club in st. paul and i was pretty blown away....

so now i'm just a jazz baby, sort of picking famous dudes i've heard of at random and checking them out...got love supreme, live @ village vanguard, art blakey and jazz messangers free for all, and "kind of blue"...picked up a monk record recently and loved it, even though it's not supposed to be one of his best...it's called "it's monk's time", i like it a lot but i guess i don't know better?

jazz is intimidating for me, so i've decided just to blunder through and check stuff out like when i was a kid w/rock. it's been pretty fun so far. great music, even if i probably don't get all the subtlties yet.

deej,

not familiar will def. check it out though

Most of the people mentioned here:

Tropicalia S/D, Classic or Classic, etc.

Old badass NYC boogie rock/proto metal:Mountain, Cactus, Dust. Good shit.

Neil Young -I had never taken the time to properly dig in. Swallowing the complete downloaded oeuvre all through the week. And the Tropicalia thread reminded me to get lots of Milton Nascimento I had never heard.

Tangerine Dream, Phaedra, Ricochet, Stratosfear - this stuff is fantastic
Wolfgang Voigt's Gas stuff from the late 90s - this stuff immediately became some of my favorite ambient/electronic music
Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians
Miles' Tribute to Jack Johnson
Metal Machine Music & other noise stuff too esp. Merzbow
Peter Gabriel, s/t #3 - this is a great pop record
Prince, Dirty Mind, 1999, etc - yep, somehow I avoided hearing this awesome stuff until 2007
Early Black Sabbath - again, despite the ubiquitous hits, I somehow avoided hearing the albums
Laurie Anderson, Big Science - definite classic, totally weird in such a great way
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Left Handed Dream - another really wonderfully bizarre pop album

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In terms of "listening for a few albums worth of their songs for the first time" - Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainwright. Also Savina Yannatou, Mathilde Santing, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
Must be more, prolly.

Hehe, I just started a thread on my most recent example, VNV Nation. What else, hmm...

Pixies, Wire (see: "they did it first" bands I used to/still resent), Diana Ross

Most of the people mentioned here:

Tropicalia S/D, Classic or Classic, etc.

-- o. nate, Thursday, July 5, 2007 1:00 PM (Thursday, July 5, 2007 1:00 PM) Bookmark Link

Talk, Talk

wings - they were ubiquitous and bilious but i've been tapping my foot to them this week

ohio players - 2nd division funk but still pretty good

betty davis - 1st division funk and... ya know the rest probably

death ambient - surprisingly good even for frith

wendy carlos - a little annoying but the obsessiveness shines through

ohio players - 2nd division funk but still pretty good

^^^also best album covers EVER

deej that video was awesome btw!

Nico...(shame on me for waiting so long)

J.D. Souther...(for those times when even the Eagles aren't mellow enough)

Little Feat/Lowell George...(always assumed this was the stuff of "jam bands")

recently:
Rockpile
Vic Godard & the Subway Sect

Fleetwood Mac: Kiln House. Always hated it before.

Rainbow/Dio
John Fahey

Elvis Presley - Elvis At Sun, Elvis Presley, Elvis, '68 Comeback Special (DVD), From Elvis In Memphis (I'd never really ventured any deeper into Elvis than Greatest Hits territory before)
Focus
Bert Jansch
Glaxo Babies (somehow managed to miss them first time 'round)
Manicured Noise (ditto)
Steve Reich - Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective

Disco Inferno - despite playing a gig with them in the early 90's and often rehearsing next to them in the same east London practice place I never listened to them at the time

my purchases have been pretty much 50/50 old new this year so i seem to be getting into really good old stuff on a weekly basis, but most notably:

kate bush
solo-peter gabriel
first gabi delgado solo album (produced by conny plank - mindblowingly good)
catherine ribeiro
buckingham/nicks album
and most recently "high priestess" by karma

Disco Inferno is a must. I didn't think you were even allowed to post on ILM unless you gave Ned your address so he could send their music your way and after you take a small quiz on them the following week.

Matt, nothing wrong with It's Monk's Time! As you've found out. I'm sure we've done a thread with everyone's opinions on the Columbia stuff, but I'll set mine down here: Really great. You'll also dig Monk's Dream, Criss Cross and Straight, No Chaser (the one with "Locomotive," etc., not the soundtrack, although that's fine too), I'll bet.

Emmylou Harris, particularly Roses In The Snow, Light Of The Stable, and Blue Kentucky Girl
Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors (definitely need to check out more of her stuff)
Henry Mancini - Mr. Lucky Goes Latin
Chico Buarque de Hollanda & Ennio Morricone - Per Un Pugno Di Samba [1970]

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cool thx for the advice. i think the next jazz person i'm checking out is mingus. i think "um ah um" is the one to get i guess...

oh, and Tony Joe White...(bought the Swamp Music box on a whim, and have been swimming in it ever since)...

Yeah, that's a good one re Mingus. A REAL good one. And the remaster that's in print is one of those CDs where the bonus tracks really bring it, too.

Disco Inferno is a must. I didn't think you were even allowed to post on ILM unless you gave Ned your address so he could send their music your way and after you take a small quiz on them the following week.

EXACTLY.

rockford, I'm amazed! Which band were you in?

xpost to M@tt

Mingus Ah Um is definitely a PERFECT starting point, one of my all time fave albums. Pithecanthropus Erectus is a little on the subtler, less immediately accessible side, but I highly highly recommend it. xpost to

its good as a starting point cuz in some ways it hits all the bases w/r/t his strengths ... maybe not as good as some of his other albums but the most wide ranging + consistent

This year:

Beat Happening - black candy, jamboree, s/t

Minutemen - A cousin gave me a copy of DNotD when I was like 13 and I never really "got" it until this year. Play it all the time now, made casette copies of performances on DVDs, WAY into em.

Freestyle Fellowship - To Whom It May Concern

Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet, The Wolf (holy crap guys, fuck the haters, this shit is great)

This I had previously dismissed, rediscovered this year and now love:

Ultravox - John Foxx era (including his first two solo albums)
Wah! - first album and singles collection
Simple Minds - first four albums (cherry-picked them, though)
The Church - post-_Starfish_ output (ditto)
Associates
Verlaines - the best-of
3Ds - love much of it but not all
Select Flying Nun material from the last 10 years

Of course, there's plenty of stuff I re-investigated and still pass on (i.e. Icicle Works).

Most of my current fads are stuff I've turned onto since about November - Electrelane, Califone, the Tropicalia stuff started about then too but went mental in about March and again now. Can't think of much else old stuff I'm really into this year - I've enjoyed a lot of new stuff lately.

(cough)mbv(cough).

Speak up, sonny.

(cough)mbv(cough).

well, its about damn time

Oh, loads of Boredoms, but that's cos of reissues.

The Pogues
Throwing Muses

Oh yeah, Electrelane for me too.

does ned have this site coded so sirens go off whenever the letters "m" "b" or "v" are posted?

add another thumbs up for 'mingus ah um'. 'better get hit in yo' soul' is the kind of song that can make you forget about the bad day you had, kind of like coming home from work to your new puppy

got the CCR boxed set this year, made the jump from fanboy to super-fanboy

iron maiden - piece of mind. guitar on 'the trooper' rules

P.I.L. - first album & metal box. didn't realize how much the rapture had borrowed from these fellas

echo & the bunnymen - crocodiles. couldn't get into it a couple years ago and finally got it, by way of hearing P.I.L. and then going back to it

does ned have this site coded so sirens go off whenever the letters "m" "b" or "v" are posted?

Yes. I mean, no. I mean...

(I'm bored at work and this thread's in new answers. The rest follows!)

Also Andrew Hill - I already had Passing Ships but didn't dig it that much, and I finally got Black Fire after he died.

June Tabor
Kornog
Doobie Brothers
Steeleye Span
Paul Bley

for me, I can second a few bands already mentioned in this thread -- like Nick, I recently got into both Electrelane and Califone, both utterly fantastic bands, and I also just checked out the Minutemen a few months ago, and I like that record (Double Nickels) a lot too -- a lot of the Prince stuff too, it's such a huge discography that I never checked out anything post-Sign O the Times til this year, and it's hit-or-miss but some pretty great stuff in there!

most recently though, I checked out the Jesus Lizard about a week ago, picked up Liar on a whim (having not heard more than a song or two in passing before) and I absolutely love it, which considering I already enjoy Big Black, the Birthday Party et al., is not all that surprising

Kate Bush
The Slits
Toy Love
Odessey and Oracle (I know!)
Ali Farka Toure
Anthology of American Folk Music

...yessongs.

/shame

I'm mortified that it took this long, but Chuck Berry. The Great 28. The song Memphis is what did it, holy crap is that a great song.

amon duul
the buckingham nicks record
dead can dance
charlemagne palestine
marty robbins
fairport convention
larry heard

David Axelrod

The Mummies

Thought of another one - Turbonegro! How did I miss them etc

Mingus at UCLA '65 - Music For Monterey/Not Played etc.

Not for Mingus beginners but on a personal level it's a record I've literally waited all my life to hear, and I wasn't disappointed.

Timi Yuro, Joan Baez, Richard & Linda Thompson.

It's actually cool to see people with huge musical knowledge and broad tastes can still be getting into a somewhat well-known artist for the first time - it's just a testament to how much great music there is.

Minutemen - A cousin gave me a copy of DNotD when I was like 13 and I never really "got" it until this year

Funny, similar thing happened with me. My brother brought this home when was about 13 or 14, I loved it, but never bought my own copy until April. Soooo good!

Also, lots of talk on Mingus on this board so far. I like Ah Um just fine, but there a few that I like a whole lot more: The Clown has the utterly incredible "Haitian Fight Song", one of his best songs, I think; Blues & Roots has got "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" and "Moanin"; then there's Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, so good, too! These three are incredible.

It's actually cool to see people with huge musical knowledge and broad tastes can still be getting into a somewhat well-known artist for the first time - it's just a testament to how much great music there is.

OTM

I can't think of too many, but I've been impressed with the Karnatak classical electric mandolinist, U Srinivas. But I don't remember if I "discovered" him (with help from someone here) in late 06 or in 07. (Actually, I have heard less new-to-me, old or new, music this year than I have in possible a decade or so, but that's okay because I'm dealing with more pressing matters.)

Judee Sill, Tim Buckley, Telescopes, Windsor for the Derby, Magic Hour

i feel so ashamed to admit but "humble pie" man, they are great!!!

"Mingus at UCLA '65 - Music For Monterey/Not Played etc.

Not for Mingus beginners but on a personal level it's a record I've literally waited all my life to hear, and I wasn't disappointed."

Interesting.

Marcello / anyone - have you heard Cornell 1964? Any good?

Forgot to mention them earlier: Shakti, Amon Tobin.

dave bixby - ode to quetzalcoatl
complex - s/t (what an amazing record)
christopher - whatcha gonna do?

why yes i have been reading the acid archives thankyou very much

NEU!

Stoner.

(an x-post, but then again)

Disco Inferno- D.I. Goes Pop.

This CD turned up in a box of CD's I recently discovered in our crawl space. Years ago I stored some boxes there for a friend and, I guess he just missed this one when he picked up his stuff.

Anyway..great shit. Listening to this unsettles me, but in a good way. I love its chaotic nature and great vocals. This doesn't sound much like 1994 to me. Seems to me they were a but ahead of their time.

Good, good...

lol ned

Barbara Manning

I've been diving into nineties emo like The Promise Ring, Braid, Mineral and the like a lot recently. My other most recent discovery is Circle Takes The Square's 2003 album As The Roots Undo. They're so immensely original and creative!

Furthermore I've just discovered Wire this week. Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW is my favorite song in ages!

Barbara Manning

Yay! Get the _Super Scissors_ box that just came out. 3 CDs, cheap!

Furthermore I've just discovered Wire this week. Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW is my favorite song in ages!

Oh boy, you're in for a treat! The first 3 albums will change your life. Or at least make it more enjoyable.

hey, I just did get that Super Scissors box...really good, seems like the blueprint for a lot of the indie-chick stuff (Liz Phair, etc.) that followed in the 90's...I thought I was buying a water-damaged box set, but I guess it was designed to look that way...neat!

This summer it's been all about the soft pop/country California mafia.

Beau Brummels - Bradley's Barn is as good as Sweetheart of the Rodeo. How did I miss these guys before?

Hearts and Flowers - The first album is OK. The songs tend to be a bit samey because of the arrangements, but the last cut, "The Road to Nowhere," has great harmony singing. What is it about California boys/girls and three part harmonies? Creamy goodness. The second album is much better. It is more pop with a bit of psych thrown in the mix. "Ode to a Tin Angel" is a near perfect combination of harmony, strings, goofy psych lyrics, and great drumming. Almost up there with some of the best stuff by Millennium.

notorious big
mf grimm
betty davis

Sort of discovering The Flower Kings now. They are closer to the spirit of 70s prog than most neoprog acts. Which is great.

gracie fields..oldham tinkers...los jaivas

Some of the recent jazz highlights: Solo Monk, Basie's April in Paris, Cannonball Adderly's Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!

I expect to keep finding new old jazz forever. It's more embarassing to discover serious gaps in my metal education. I'm not sure how I was functioning without Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath or Sabotage. And the early Metallica albums -- what planet was I on when those came out?

Well, thanks to that link to Cope's 50 greatest Krautrock records, I've been listening to tons of albums and groups I've never heard before--and had heretofore thought unlikely that I would.

Currently blowing my head is Popol Vuh's "In Den Garten Pharaohs" which is astounding, and with all the BOADRUMANIA running around these parts, highly timely.

Loads of old FlexiPop bands. Never heard this stuff back in the days and now enjoying it immensely.

here's my bid for most embarrassing ILM post (ever?):
PET SOUNDS.

royal trux
minutemen
oblivians

sooo glad

gang starr, gorecki, dead c, enslaved, leonard cohen

A second on Sir Douglas Quintet mentioned earlier upthread, also lately (been on a vinyl kick!):

The Masterplan - Colossus of Destiny
all the Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson re-issues
Chuck Berry - The Definitive Collection / Howlin' Wolf - same
Comus - First Utterance
Morgen - s/t
Chris Bell - I am the cosmos
Linda Perhacs
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
Buffalo - Volcanic Rock
Blues Creation - Demon and Eleven Children
Exuma - 1 and 2
Bwana - s/t
The Upsetters - Super Ape
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come/ST
Pentagram - First Daze Here:Vintage Collection
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Richard Lloyd - Alchemy
DMZ - S/T
Bevis Frond - New River Head

Evie Sands (her debut album is unbelievably great! Ordinarily I can't really be bothered with late-sixties blue-eyed soul, but Any Way That You Want Me is just so solid, front to back. Her other album's really good too, only way less consistent.)

William Basinski (I forget what line of reasoning led me to ignore The Disintegration Loops for so long but they are GRATE and got me to dive headfirst into Basinski's endlessly rewarding back catalogue.)

Steely Dan (yeah yeah yeah, shame on me, but as it turns out Aja is apparently one of like my five or ten favorite albums ever. I find their albums to not be particularly compulsory outside of it, Pretzel Logic, and Can't Buy A Thrill, but I'm still loathe to sell any of their other albums back just because I have total confidence in their capacity to suddenly reveal their majesty to me someday.)

The Wedding Present (aka the band which gives me what Orange Juice and Felt and god only knows which other C86 bands I gave a shot couldn't.)

if you like the köln concert and you want to dig deeper into keith jarrett, i can only give you one advice. listen to the sun bear concerts. they are the <a href="http://musik.antville.org/stories/440809/";>best</a>.

album: Canaxis

1957 Tito Puente - Dance Mania - Fun, classic Puente, party music.

1963 Etta James Rocks the House - Decent live recording, but I prefer her studio stuff.

1967 Young Rascals - Groovin' - Per recommendation from the 1,000 Albums You Should Hear Before You Die book. Aside from the title hit, it sucks.

1969 Pentangle - Basket Of Light - I admire Bert Jansch's guitar playing, but am not often in the mood for this kind of English folk.

1971 Carla Bley - Escalator Over the Hill - Interesting jazz concept album. She's no Mingus, but it might grow on me.

1971 Thin Lizzy - They've got a nice folky-prog sound here. No concise rockers like on their third album, but not bad.

1982 Marshall Crenshaw - Meh. Buddy Holly lite. Never liked that single ever since I was a kid.

1982 The Bongos - Drums Along the Hudson - Awesome reissue. They share the crazy rhythms of The Feelies and The Woodentops. Yum.

1997 Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike - Totally and completely missed this when it first came out. I don't know if it was hard to find in the states or what. Nice pop reggae stuff, nothing truly amazing. Sounds like he shot his wad here and hasn't done much since, much like his cousin Tricky.

2000 AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip - I saw them live that year and it never occurred to me that their new album might be any good. It is! I was listening to Alice Cooper guest DJ on the radio and he played "Safe In New York City." Great thick, log-thumping groove.

Abruptum "In Umbra Malitae Ambulabo, In Aeternum In Triumpho Tenebrarum"

1970 Tommy James. Shit is wonderful.

Gentle Giant

Which somehow (don't ask!) reminds me: 2007 'sbeen the year I heard the solo debut of Garth Hudson's. And also Percy Thrillington's. :)

Aerosmith's s/t through Rocks.
Exuma
Larry Coryell
Tony Joe White

Boredoms. Boredoms. Boredoms. Boredoms.

Also Harry Nilsson, though I recall listening to him when I was a wee babe with my parents.