Albums You're Digging II

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Not anywhere near as bad as allmusic's 2 star rating makes it out to be, but it's not exactly one of Beefheart's more interesting albums. In Further Than We've Gone it has probably the guy's worst song on it too.

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One of her later albums and probably her best. It finRAB her moving away from traditional country and into a much darker territory. ReminRAB me a lot of PJ Harvey's work. Excellent album, I just wish I'd heard it before I started my top 100.
 
Cool, it's free too so that's another bonus. I like what I've heard too, I'm on the second song. Lyrics work pretty well for me trying to figure out just what I want to do with my life. I guess I could see where it might be viewed as a rip off of Beck, but I love Beck and am always happy to find more of the same.
 
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It's classic...what can I say. Some of her best songs, including a couple of my personal favorites "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "Baby, Baby, Baby".
 
That's basically what I thought of it. I been rarely finding myself in the mood for some Steely Dan lately but along with Can't By a Thrill and Aja, that's an album I always find myself coming back to. Plus Barrytown is absolutely sublime.
 
Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables.

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As far as 80's hardcore goes,I'd take Black Flag's Damaged,Husker Du's New Day Rising,and Minor Threat ahead of this,but it's still awesome stuff.
 
Hope you like, let me know once you've had a chance to check it out.


Man I played this to death back in the day...so good.



Playing now. :cool:
 
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
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So there I was, trying to donate some time to doing something worthwhile when I thought I'd have a quick youtube spree, which entailed listening to Robert Wyatt's awesometastic version of Shipbuilding. Apart from that song, all I knew of Wyatt was that he seemed like a pretty down to earth and genuine kinda guy judging by his contributions to a documentary I saw about the Canterbury scene a year or two ago.

Anyway, I thought I'd go about fixing that by getting this and Old Rottenhat (which I'm yet to listen to). Needless to say, I'm really impressed by what I've heard. It's one of those albums that labels don't really do any just to, but having jazzy rhythms and quirky proggy time signatures held together by a voice as remarkable as Wyatt's makes for quite the listening experience.

Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky
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And as for this, I've had a month, only decided to give a first listen about an hour and a half ago, and I've already got through it end-to-end twice. Maybe I like it so much as I don't really know my way around a lot of older Swans material (yet), but I think this might just about end up being my pick for album of the year. Pretty seamless stuff when all's said and done. Oh, and the last verse of the whole album is one of the best song endings I've ever heard.
 
The problem with shoegaze is that it is really easy to do. Drown out poor composition and technical skill with loaRAB of effects and bam you got a shoegaze band. I am constantly sifting through so many mediocre banRAB to get to the good stuff. I stay motivated because the good stuff is REALLY good.

LSD and the Search For God are one of the mediocre ones, but they at least make for an entertaining listen.
 
I don't own any Dinosaur JR, dunno where to start really. I like Beyond, Farm was okay but it was a little too long, people say they were at the best in their 80s so You're Living All Over Me might be a good one or Bug.

Not sure what to get first :(

I agree what you said about Beyond though, intense riRAB etc.
Good album :thurab:
 
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