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This is pretty basic, but what albums/artist do you think are really really good, and maybe me (or other people) should go listen to them?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 7 October 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

most of the stuff I could write about would be pretty typical, and my writing would pale in comparison to the writing of others who like the same records (what could I say about "loveless", for instance?).
Some records that make me very happy that are never mentioned are...
Jazz:
Pete LaRoca Sims "Turkish Women at the Bath" (Eastern sounds)
Lee Morgan "Search for the New Land" (Similar mystical feeling)
House"
Mod Wheel "The Way" (Ronan you will love this one from 1997 by Tom Middleton)
Moodymann "The Dance (DJ Tonka remix)" The original is more "avant-garde", the Tonka remix is pure piano-house.
Oh and nobody has mentioned these labels: Schatrax, Plastic City, Combustible, Adult Only.
As for indie I can't think of anything right now.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 7 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

David Bowie. I won't date anyone who can't listen to Bowie. Pick an album, I tell em, or I'll kick you to the curb.

Everything else is pretty negotiable and subject to my own moods.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Also -- "theme from Knight Rider."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 October 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Mines'thewaythewindwhipsthewater'

www.minesmusic.com

― Rdoo12-niner (rms), Monday, 7 October 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Boa Morte - "Soon it will Come Time to face the World Outside"
Beachwood Sparks - "Make the Robot Cowboys Cry"

You'd all have most stuff I'd suggest, but these are ignored on ILM.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 7 October 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

what could I say about "loveless", for instance?

That it's a life-changing experience that gives a vision to a greater universe? For example. :-)

If we're going to invoke B*******d S****s, let's talk the Walkabouts for a nice long time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 October 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

listen to aida by derek bailey.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 7 October 2002 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Los Angeles Free Music Society The Lowest Form Of Music 10CD boxset

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 7 October 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"Return of The Mack"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 7 October 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

oh Ned I all I meant is that I couldn't be as eloquent as that! You proved my point with your post, silly!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I could go on about Star Time or Discovery or Entroducing or Since I Left You or Follow the Leader (that's Eric B. and Rakim, not KoRn) or Dig Your Own Hole or London Calling or Boom Selection Issue 01 or Paul's Boutique or Fun House or Stickyfingers or De La Soul is Dead or Giant Steps or Supermodified or The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan or Stankonia or better yet ramble on about Radios Appear for the hundredth time, but to be honest the one thing that I can say with full confidence is that the one thing I have heard most recently that makes me glad to have ears, to be alive, to know what music is like, is Eddie Hazel's cover of "California Dreaming". A simple, sort of sighing bit of nice-enough la-la-la pop is transformed into the pinnacle of all things tragic and heavy-hearted about funk, all the soul-wrenching beauty of "Maggot Brain" with the added attraction of Hazel's voice itself, haunting in its intensity and sadness.

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 7 October 2002 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

records I will never tire of pushing on people:

The Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home

Smart Went Crazy - Con Art

The Posies - Frosting On the Beater

Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloons

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 7 October 2002 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

everyone should own a copy of tha g code.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god, this is almost as hard as "What music do you like?"

Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, Kristin Hersh's Strange Angels, Pavement's Brighten the Corners, Laura Nyro's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, the Wipers' Youth of America, the Modern Lovers' self-titled one, the Feelies' Crazy Rhythms, R.E.M.'s Murmur, the Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady, Prince's Around the World in a Day, XTC's Drums and Wires, Babes in Toyland's Fontanelle, Parliament's Mothership Connection, ROIR's Singles comp, Rhino's DIY series, the Cars' first one, Wake Ooloo's Hear No Evil, the Sweet's Desolation Boulevard, the Motels' All Four One, the Circle Jerks' Group Sex, the Krush Groove soundtrack, Robin Hitchcock's I Often Dream of Trains, X's Los Angeles, Television's Marquee Moon, Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle, Adam and the Ants' Dirk Wears White Sox, the Monochrome Set's Tomorrow Will Be Too Long: The Best of the Monochrome Set, the Cramps' Songs the Lord Taught Us, the Repo Man soundtrack, John Linnell's State Songs, Basement Jaxx's Rooty, Radiohead's Amnesiac, Steely Dan's Katy Lied, the Kinks' Muswell Hilbillies, Yoko Ono's Approximately Infinite Universe, Richard and Linda Thompson's I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, Leonard Cohen's New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Miles Davis' Bitches' Brew, Carlos Garnett's Black Love, Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder, Horace Silver's Song For My Father, Lambert Hendricks & Ross' Everybody's Boppin'!, Tom Waits' Small Change, the Gourds' Stadium Blitzer, the Velvet Underground's self-titled one, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, Jonathan Fire*Eater's Wolf Songs for Lambs, Komeda's The Genius of Komeda, Kate and Anna McGarrigle's Dancer With Bruised Knees, Cornelius' Fantasma, Cat Power's Moon Pix, Tsunami's A Brilliant Mistake, ABBA's ABBA Gold.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Five records I tend to push on people when they say "what should I get that's not like all my other records?"

VA: James Brown's Funky People, Part 2
Fairport Convention: Liege & Lief
Zorn/Frisell/Lewis: News for Lulu
Wire: Chairs Missing
The Clean: Compilation

― Douglas, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I usually hop on the whatever bandwagon passes me by. I also usually miss it. I was always clumsy.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 05:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Adam & The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox; Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked, Vibing Up The Senile Man; Aztec Camera esp. High Land Hard Rain; Bauhaus esp. In The Flat Field; Adrian Belew - Desire Of The Rhino King; Big Youth; Black Uhuru; Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish; Buzzcocks; Can; Captain Beefheart esp. Trout Mask Replica; Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds; Chumbawamba esp. Anarchy; Clash - London Calling; Colourbox; Cure - 3 Imaginary Boys; Ornette Coleman esp. The Shape Of Jazz To Come; Damned - Black Album, Strawberries; Miles Davis esp. Kind Of Blue; Delta 5; DJ Shadow - Endtroducing; Doors; Bob Dylan esp. BOTT, Desire, Love & Theft; Elephant 6 Collective esp. Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel; Brian Eno - 1st 3 solo; The Fall - Early Years, Live At The Witch Trials; Faust; Flaming Lips esp. Soft Bulletin; PJ Harvey; Heartbreakers; Richard Hell & The Voidoids; I-Roy; Joy Division; Killing Joke esp 1st 3; King Crimson esp. Discipline; King Tubby; Kleenex / LiLiPUT; Lemonheads esp. C'Mon Feel....; Linton Kwesi Johnson; Magazine / Howard Devoto; Maldita Vecindad - El Circo; Mano Negra - Puta's Fever; Mercury Rev esp. All Is Dream; Charles Mingus - esp. Mingus Ah Um & Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus; Minutemen esp. Double Nickels On The Dime; Mob - Let The Tribe Increase; Monochrome Set esp. 1st 3; Van Morrison / Them - everything up to 1975; Neu!; Nirvana - Bleach; Orange Juice / Edwyn Collins; Penetration; Lee "Scratch" Perry; Pere Ubu esp Modern Dance; Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn; Pixies; Prefab Sprout; Ramones - 1st 4; REM - Murmer, Reckoning; Roxy Music - 1st 3; Ruts; Siouxsie & Banshees - Scream; Slits - Cut; Small Faces; Smiths - 1st s/t; Southern Death Cult; Supergrass esp. I Should Coco; Talking Heads esp. Fear Of Music; Television - 1st 2; Theatre Of Hate; Errol Thompson - African Dub All-Mighty; Tones On Tail; U-Roy; Vibrators; Tom Waits; Wire - Pink Flag; XTC esp White Music; Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention (only the stuff with The Mothers 'though!).... ummmm.... that's all I can think of right now!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I used to listen to about ninety precent of Stewart's collection/

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Dare I ask? DJ Martian to thread. Ask your boss if you can have a fortnight off. I'm sure they'll understand.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

DJ martian likes all recs released this year of course. and every other year.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

albums and compilations i love that never get mentioned (well, hardly evah)- all post 1989(predictably ;)

Archive 'Londinium'
Various 'Asphodelic'
Depth Charge 'Nine Deadly Venoms'
LTJ Bukem presents 'Earth 3'
Kruder & Dorfmeister 'DJ Kicks'
Coldcut 'Let Us Play'
Shut Up & Dance 'Death Is Not The End'
Various 'Atlantic Jaxx: A Compilation'
Broadcast 'Work And Non Work'
Etienne De Crecy 'Tempovision'
Super Discount 'Super Discount'
Way Out West 'Way Out West'
Nu Yorican Soul 'Nu Yorican Soul'
Various 'Gilles Peterson Worldwide Volume 1'
Inner City 'Paradise'
S Express 'Original Soundtrack'
Boymerang 'Balance Of The Force'
DJ Shadow 'Pre-Emptive Strike'
Sasha & Digweed present 'Northern Exposure vol 1'
The Orb 'Orblivion'

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll be honest; I can't name 500 uber cool acts that speak to me at any given moment. There are only a handful of records at any given time that I feel deeply. Here are the records that are churning my butter at the moment:

The Golden Dream Of Hank Williams: Hank Williams

A cheap k-tel style comp put out by Candle Light Music in the late 70's. I bought this record at a garage sale for a buck. Settin' The Woods On Fire is really doing it for me.

Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Johnny Cash

Another comp bought for a buck at the garage sale mentioned above. Understand Your Man, Folsom Prison Blues, and I Walk The Line are getting a lot of play. I am noticing that I cannot get through an entire LP side anymore. I need to start making mix tapes.

Various tracks: Soledad Brothers

Johnny Walker is Jack White's Housemate in Southwest Detroit, and he is 1/2 to 1/3 of the Soledad Brothers. They are just about my favorite Detroit group at the moment. Shaky Puddin from the Sympathetic Sounds Of Detroit Comp, and Sugar And Spice from the Italy 7" are getting a lot of play at the moment.

The Fats Domino Story Vol.3: Fats Domino

Sweet Lord Jesus, I love Fats Domino! Blue Monday is the first song I listen to every day. On Sunday I gets my rest, because Monday sho' is a mess. I don't think a better couplet has ever been written.

There are others, the Jr. Walker And The All-Stars, and Martha And The Vandellas Motown Anthologies are getting quite a bit of play as well. The first Wire album is getting a good chunk of play as well. That is about it really, for now at least.

― mt, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

A few random selections:

June of 44 - Four Great Points
Hoover - Lurid Traversal of Route 7
The Pixies - *
Unwound - *
Shotmaker - *

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite pop album for ages was Haircut 100's Pelican West. Don't think I've ever heard anyone else heap praise on this wonderful record.
Other stuff that maybe doesn't get recommended enough: Big Star: #1 Record/ Radio City, Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque, Boo Radleys: Giant Steps, Duran Duran: Decade, Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona, X-Ray Spex's first album, Simple Minds: New Gold Dream, Orange Juice: Orange Juice, The Posies: Frosting on the Beater, the Sugarcubes' 1st and third albums, Echo and the Bunnymen: Crocodiles.
Plus I despair of anyone who hasn't heard the Pixies, but jealous of anyone about to discover them for the first time. Try Surfer Rosa/ Come on Pilgrim or Doolittle first.

― Paul Cunningham, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, now I have to do this too....another chance to be self-indulgent.

- KILLING JOKE by Killing Joke
- FUNHOUSE by the Stooges
- NIGHTTIME by Killing Joke
- WHITE NOISE by Cop Shoot Cop
- ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DOLLAR e.p. by Gang of Four (*perfection*)
- DESTROYER by Kiss
- DRUMS & WIRES by XTC
- IT'S ALIVE by the Ramones
- GET OFF THE CROSS WE NEED THE WOOD FOR THE FIRE by Firewater
- PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY by Firewater
- FANTASTIC SPIKES THROUGH BALLOON by Skeleton Key
- RATTUS NORVIGICUS by the Stranglers
- SINGLES GOING STEADY by Buzzcocks
- UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT by the Soft Boys
- PEGGY SUICIDE by Julian Cope
- DRESSED TO KILL by Kiss
- EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES by Gavin Friday
- IT'LL END IN TEARS by This Mortal Coil
- GO2 by XTC
- AT WAR WITH SATAN by Venom
- FAIR WARNING by Van Halen
- THE MODERN LOVERS by the Modern Lovers
- Q:ARE WE NOT MEN by Devo
- DUTY NOW FOR THE FUTURE by Devo
- THE RAVEN by the Stranglers
- BIZARRO by the Wedding Present
- GROUP SEX by the Circle Jerks
- NO SLEEP `TIL HAMMERSMITH by Motorhead
- PAUL'S BOUTIQUE by Beastie Boys
- PIECE OF MIND by Iron Maiden
- MASTER OF PUPPETS by Metallica
- THE GOOD SON by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
- Y by the Pop Group
- STRANDED by the Saints
- EMOTIONAL RESCUE by the Rolling Stones (no joke..I love this record)
- PROTECTION by Massive Attack
- FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS by Sisters of Mercy
- NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD BOYS by the Dead Boys

Individual, "perfect" songs that thrill me *EVERY* time:
- "Eighties" by Killing Joke
- "She Sells Sanctuary" by the Cult
- "Loose" by the Stooges
- "(I'm) Stranded" by the Saints
- "To Hell with Poverty" by Gang of Four
- "Kennedy" by The Wedding Present
- "Nostalgia (For an Age Yet to Come)" by Buzzcocks
- "Adrenochrome" by the Sisters of Mercy
- "Spellbound" by Siouxsie & the Banshees
- "East Easy Rider" by Julian Cope
- "We Are the Road Crew" by Motorhead
- "Follow the Leader" by Killing Joke
- "She Is Beyond Good & Evil" by the Pop Group
- "Crowded Room" by XTC
- "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil.
- "Uncontrollable Urge" by Devo
- "Wiggly World" by Devo
- "Neat Neat Neat" by the Damned
- "Wasteland" by the Mission (very guilty pleasure)
- "Two Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden
- "Monkey Man" by the Rolling Stones
- "Rip Ride" by Venom
- "Do It Clean" (the live, Royal Albert Hall version on the blue e.p.) by Echo & the Bunnymen

...and loads more.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloons

Yes! Yes! YES! And in this vein Soul Coughing (Ruby Vroom if you're just going to have one), dEUS, Firewater, and New Wet Kojak.

I don't hate you if you're not swept away by the Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen and Black Love, but I'd like to hear why.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I neglected to mention that "Mutiny in Heaven" by the Birthday Party makes me grin like a ravenous tiger shark.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Haysi Fantayzee-Battle Hymns for Children Singing

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh. Last one. "I Feel Insane," the first song on Daisy Chainsaw's ELEVENTEEN album might very well be the best song *EVER* recorded (shitting from a great, splattery height on your precious Stevie Wonders and your Bob Dylans).

...or not, but it certainly conjures that impression in my head when I hear it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Vitalic-Live at Fuse, it's only available through Soulseek or the like, but it is the greatest thing on earth.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I love pop music.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, now I have to do this too....another chance to be self-indulgent. [snip]

Individual, "perfect" songs that thrill me *EVERY* time:[snip]

Damn! Great list.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Jazzanova - In Between
the most neglected release on ilm this year :-)

― Johan (Johan), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Keiji Haino: Affection

― Lek Dukagjin, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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