Albums You're Digging II

Beck "Odelay"
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Two turntables and a microphones, bottles and cans and just clap your hanRAB.
Favorite Songs: Where It's At, Devil's Haircut, New Pollution, Hotwax, Jack-Ass


Daniel Johnston "1990"
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The greatest folkie since Guthrie.
Favorite Songs: Some Things Last a Long Time, Devil Town, True Love Will Find You In the End, Got to Get You into My Life


Modest Mouse "The Moon and Antarctica"
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RIP Isaac Brock 1975 - 2001
Favorite Songs: 3rd Planet, Gravity Rides Everything, Dark Center of the Universe, Wild Packs of Family Dogs, Tiny Cities Made of Ashes


Tom Waits "Real Gone"
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Trash can rapping for hobos.
Favorite Songs: Don't Go Into That Barn, Trampled Rose, Top of the Hill, Hoist That Rag, Green Grass
 
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Say Hi (aka Say Hi to Your Mom) - Ferocious Mopes

Mostly because I am in love with this song ("I Think I'll Be a Good Ghost")

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But the rest of it's really good too.
 
Chasing The Grail, by Chris Jericho's Fozzy. At first, I thought this band was just a bad gimmick and never really gave them a fair chance, but Chasing The Grail really is a fantastic modern thrash album.
 
For me, overall, Lateralus>10,000 Days>Aenima. The separation between the three is incredibly tiny though. Lateralus is just a sonic assault, with tracks that almost effortlessly seem to hypnotize and then steadily hammer themselves into your mind. The transitions are perfect and I think the album just flows so well, even with the abrasive Ticks & Leeches. Disposition/Reflection/Triad is the greatest end to an album I've ever heard. 10,000 Days is great because it's a much more personal album, and the band was able to retain their same power from Lateralus while moving on from talking about Saturn and mathematical sequences. The cold, almost robotic nature of Lateralus that makes it stand out so well in my mind is gone, but 10,000 Days stanRAB out almost for the complete opposite reason. Aenima is a fantastic record and laid the groundwork for Lateralus and 10,000 Days, and Pu**** and Eulogy are right up there in terms of my favorite individual songs.
 
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Typing up my last album review got me digging out all my old African folk albums again, this being among them. Absolutely sublime instrumental music this - the kora makes such a gorgeous little sound.

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^ Picked up a copy of this the other day. It's good enough, but not quite the best reggae I've ever heard.
 
The Eternal didn't do much for me either and I'm a huge SY fan. I just find it uninspired.

I suggest Evol and Confusion Is Sex. They're quite different, Confusion Is Sex (1983) is SY at their loudest. Might as well get Kill Yr Idols mini album, it usually goes with Confusion. Evol (1986) is when they started to change and be more melodic, but still iconoclastic. Brilliant album, quite dark and psychedelic. If you like these then go for Bad Moon Rising (1985).

From their later stuff (90s) I find Washing Machine (1995) to be absolutely brilliant, followed by A Thousand Leaves (1998). Their 00s albums are more unified in sound, but for some reason Rather Ripped (2006) is sticking out for me. Seriously there was no need for Eternal after that album. I'm waiting for them to change their sound again.
 
That's one of the ones that grabbed my instant attention too - I love that Middle Eastern feel it has to it (I'm even hearing a shade or two of a reggae backdrop - good stuff!). Build a Levee's my other favourite. Overall I think this definitely comes across as something that gets better with repeated listens. I guess I'll see how all that pans out eh.
 
Rod Modell w/ Kevin Hanton - Illuminati Audio Science
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Rod Modell makes some pretty awesome minimalist dub techno in his lonesome, and with Hanton on board the result is just as good as always. 66 minutes of illustrious, flowing beats. Not everyones cup of tea I am sure, but for those who enjoy the music it is well worth checking out the album (And the artist). Ridiculously deep. Great background music.

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Excellent album. The first I ever heard from them was The Snow Goose, I put it on while building an IKEA bookcase and it was very relaxing. It's instrumental, I believe it was a soundtrack/score. Moonmadness is also excellent, so I would check those two out after Mirage, then their debut s/t. All good. There's a lot of Pink Floyd in their sound without being as psychadelic.
 
I still liked This My Truth Tell Me Yours, it was okay, just a little boring. Though you're absolutely right about them becoming soft and losing their edge. The Holy Bible is something they will never come close to again. EVER.
 
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(1993)
Lucifersam urged me to check these guys out, amazing band. A vague starting point for describing them might be industrial/'alt' and it doesn't do them just either; album's a punishing and sardonic attack, the lyrics are really good, the drums/percussion and song structures are markedly inventive and unusual, as with all the truly standout banRAB of this era (Jesus Lizard etc). The industrial edge is quite subtle but it's definitely there, they really catch fire on the slower sinister nurabers. Not literally, that would just be a professionally-mastered recording of some men screaming and choking, which i know is what constitutes alot of good recorRAB but i'm rarabling now. I can never say no to any anti-pig band name/title, even if they are sometimes good for getting directions

edit. silly me, they also sound like Big Black
edit 2. I didn't even mention the horn section, my stupidity knows no bounRAB! They deploy this very effectively on a nuraber of tracks, here's a particularly fine example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgA-z50Fs44
 
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