Originally posted by JustSomeIdiot: The best 'new to me' music this year is probably the 80's rap I'm hearing for the first time.
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Paid In Full, 3 Feet High And Rising. To a lesser extent Raising Hell.
I picked up the debut from Terminator X (Public Enemy's DJ) called Terminator X and the Valley of the Jeep Beets a while back. It's class shit. Loving it so far - prolly not hard to find a cheap used vinyl copy either (mine was $4). If you're into Public Enemy (or De La Soul, or Eric B and Rakim for that matter), it's definitely worth picking up.
For whatever reason, I've been catching up with some highly regarded 1999 releases recently, and wow, Super Furry Animals' Guerilla, The Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I, and Built To Spill's Keep It Like A Secret are all pretty spectacular. Makes me wish I listened to better music in 1999.
I was pretty underwhelmed by Emergency and I, to be honest - must have been too hyped up for me.
However, 2008 has brought me The Replacements, and god bless this year for that.
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I picked up Andorra by Caribou and Taiga by OOIOO this week. Both are exceptional. I can't believe there wasn't more talk about that OOIOO record, it is pretty interesting.
Actually I started on the Gun Club kick by listening to Miami. They're both really solid albums. And there's a side project called the Pontiac Brothers with a guitarist from Gun Club. I've seen a couple of their records for cheap - it's decent Replacements/Stones-y rock 'n roll.
Between the two OOIOO albums I've heard (Green & Gold and Taiga), I like Green & Gold better, but like JGlass said, it's all good stuff.
Scaruffi recommended it to me. Totally WTF (Scaruffi called it dadaistic tape manipulation) monologues - maybe if Godspeed didn't take themselves so goddamned seriously, with stoner rock accompanying.
For example, on "David Bowie wants Ideas" some lady describes a dreamlike scenario where David Bowie sends her a toy xylophone and invites her to go help him record (in France...or Switzerland).
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"I thought: Yeah he'll take everybody's ideas and then we'll never hear from him again."
Then she meets David Byrne, picks up a perfume bottle shaped like the head of King Tut.
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"Then we proceeded to drink the perfume from large tumblers of crushed ice."
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I decided right then and there I was better off alone and would never speak to anyone named David again
Oh also wanted to say thanks to JGlass (I think..) for recommending OMD and the KLF. good shit!
This is the year when I actually bothered with this genre. I’m still VERY new to it, and I’m excited to see what I like and all the good music I’ve been missing.
Donna Summer
She was my first new addiction of the year. I was going through a disco phase and she stood out as the best from the genre. I only enjoy her work from 74-79. When she switched labels in the 80s her music took a HUGE fall. I really like her long 15+ minute tracks.
The Human League
I was surprised how experimental this band was. This was when I was going through my re-early 80s new wave phase. This is also when I started listening to The Associates, Echo and the Bunnymen, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (placed a little lower on my list) and a few others. This band stood out the most to me though.
Dead Can Dance
I found this band out when I was interested in who was the singer for the new Klaus Schulze album (crappy album by the way). It ended up being Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance. I really enjoy their mixture of goth and world music. My favourite album is Into the Labyrinth.
Pet Shop Boys
After my re-early 80s phase I started giving bands another try from the 80s that I didn't care about/ignored. It turns out that I like Pet Shop Boys more than I thought.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
I always liked this band, but I never went further than their greatest hits. This year I decided to give their albums a listen, and I very much like them.
Portishead
If it wasn’t for Third I wouldn't of bothered with them.
This year wasn’t as great as last year though. Last year I fell in love with Björk, The Magnetic Fields, Of Montreal, Scott Walker, Ricardo Villalobos, Laurie Anderson, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, The Books, The Chemical Brothers, The Fiery Furnaces and Antony and the Johnsons.
Most of these bands/artists I knew about but didn't bother with. Some things take time, and my mind can only handle so many new additions a year.
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