100 Things That I Love About Music

Damn straight, but you know what's better? The music that grow on you with each listen, it tenRAB to be the albums that i have to put a bit of work into that i appreciate the most. I'm sure you'll touch upon this though.

Great thread idea by the way!
 
There wasn't really ever one specific thing for me, I've just always loved album art as long as I can remeraber. As a little kid in the early 80s I was fascinated by gatefold artwork on albums my older brother owned like Close to the Edge by Yes or The Wall by Pink Floyd. As a teenager in the early 90s I was a huge electro-industrial fan and loved the art of Wax Trax and Mute banRAB like KMFDM, Die Warzau and Nitzer Ebb. When I was majoring in graphic design in the late 90s I found myself loving a lot of electronica artwork, especially from labels like Ninja Tune and Instinct. In the past 10 years or so I've found myself getting more into older album artwork, especially jazz from the 50s and 60s, but I love a lot of current album art too. The album whose artwork I remeraber being impressed by most recently was Burial's "Untrue" which I downloaded just the other day. It's one of those albums where I really may have to buy a hard copy because I liked the artwork so much.
 
Yeah, and I dig it.

There's no other way to describe the sound really, unless you're a smartass and refer to it as "shit", simply because you don't like it.
 
#89. Women With Attitude

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Nuff said again:

Siouxsie & The Banshees-Hong Kong Garden
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Janis Joplin-Maybe
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Patti Smith-Horses
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Melt Banana- Monkey Man
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#72. David Gilmour.

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Everyone is a fanboy of something. I don't care who you are and what you listen to. I worship at the altar of Gilmour. I can even now appreciate his faults. His last solo album, whilst still enjoyable; was'nt exactly groundbreaking. He is 'frightfully middle class' and vocally he is good but not superb. However his guitar work still absolutely blows me away. It's not particularly technical or innovative but it just touches me deep inside. Yes it's a rotten old clich
 
I think Last.fm is good for a certain demographic. I don't really use it for much, mainly to scrobble what I'm listening to, but I think for people with a limited music collection it is a great way to discover music they wouldn't have had the opportunity to come across.
 
Really? I think it went up. An NME reader (i.e. polar opposite of "cool") would never admit to watching such a documentary.

The further you are from an NME reader, the cooler you are.

QED.
 
If I may submit to encourage the competition of this undertaking...

#60 & 1/2 The Violin​

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Kudos and good karmic vibes to whomever it was that said; "lets make an hour glass shaped box of spruce attach a maple neck barely 20 cm long and string it with the intestines of sheep. We'll tune it to perfect fifths and tickle it with a bow strung with...what else but the mane hair of a horse."

What's incredibly fucking beautiful to me about music is that someone so wanted to express themselves through sound and melody that they fashioned this and so many other great instruments to do so.

It's a tangible reflection of the immense creativity and passion in the construction and relating of music; both the sound we hear and the way it makes us feel.
 
Bono is a big d!ckwad, but I love putting on some of U2's 1980's albums. I enjoy them a lot. I also find Fat Mike to be an immature, annoying, and rude son of a bitch, but I enjoy quite a few NOFX songs.
 
#84. Afro-Beat

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One of the most joyous genres ever put on this earth, yet it barely get's a mention in the Western world. This is music going full circle and yet sounding so fresh and full of vitality. I dare anyone with more than a passing interest in Soul/Funk to not be impresssed by this genre. It is based upon two guys: the legendary Fela Kuti who at one point released fourteen albums in just over a year and his son Femi Kuti who has incorporated Hip Hop and Reggae into his sound (indeed Mos Def has guested on a few Kuti tracks). Afro-beat also retains and maintains it's lyrical prowess in championing the injustice's inherent in many African cultures.

Femi Kuti (Father):
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Fela Kuti (son)
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