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Post by fearlessfreap on Sept 29, 2023 11:42:13 GMT
I'm finding it difficult to come up with anything, so I'll pick a Dalek song
I prefer my hip hop to be funky, but if I approach this as rock rather than rap, I like it.
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Post by DayoRemix on Sept 29, 2023 15:17:47 GMT
Ah, dammit, I had you down as being a cert to vote for Dalek, and now I feel bad. It was always between Coil and Dalek until I realised Paavoharju was 2005. Went back and forth between the two..Was hoping Ray would come through and take Piano Magic off the board..Thankfully, Freap came through with the Dalek
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 3, 2023 11:01:38 GMT
2005
Another one of these nothing years. I was working for a bank earning shit money, smoking a lot of weed and sharing a house with two lasses who I would shortly never see again. In November I flew off to India to escape it all. Musically I think I was listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin. Very little stands out in my memory but I do recall liking this at the time so I'll pick it. I guess it says something about the period that a fictional, "virtual" band stood out more than old fashioned ones but Albarn is a talented fella who had some pop nous and Gorillaz gave him a chance to spread his wings a bit. The Demon Days album was surprisingly good and rose comfortably above what could have been simply a cartoonish novelty act and Dare was the shimmying highlight. Bonus points for somehow managing to incorporate a cameo from a decaying Shaun Ryder but the stars of the show are really the backing vocals and slinky electro groove.
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Post by riggers on Oct 10, 2023 11:51:00 GMT
2004
The Go! Team-"The Power Is On"
It's getting more difficult to come up with stuff for this. Not least because by the 21st Century, music had become increasingly fragmented and less vital in the wider world....
When I look at my earlier picks in this thread, there's stuff that clearly belongs in some kind of 'Canon'. At this point, I'm just remembering records I liked from the year in question.
By the mid 2000's, I was in a proper relationship, doing a proper job, had given up playing in bands and was doing my best impression of a grown up. The one element of my life that allowed me to retain that connection to eternal youth and Rock n' Roll was the fact that I was doing a couple of shows on a community radio station in Wythenshawe (WFM. 97.2). The deal was that I did a mid morning show, usually with a co-presenter but not always, where I had to interview people about local community projects and do 'ooh, have you seen that funny thing in today's news?' bollocks.
Every third track I played was my own choice, but it still had to be fairly commercial, so things like 'Teenage Kicks' or the Beatles/Stones etc..
The payoff for this was getting my own show, from 8-10pm on a Monday night. I had a complete free rein to play anything I wanted. Any genre, and I bloody loved it. I was the John Peel of Wythenshawe. Even though my Dad, my Sister and my then Mrs. (who only listened to the first half hour before one of her soaps started (I should have known then...) were the only guaranteed regular listeners, I started to get the odd email and because it was online, I had people from the Mojo board tuning in. Even from that Americky.
Anyway, the point of telling another chapter of my bloody life story is that choosing this track today reminded me that I first heard it when I turned up to do a show and this album was amongst the promos and freebies in my little pigeon hole waiting for me.
I probably selected this track at random, while reading the press release and Googling them.
It seems astonishing that the whole thing was the work of a bloke called Ian from Brighton. Even more astonishing that he then assembled a live band to perform it exactly as it is on the record. It's all great, but this track in particular still has the power to make me smile like an idiot and crank up the volume. It's very evocative of that early New York hip hop, the kind of stuff that Mick Jones was mainlining round the time of 'Sandinista!'
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Post by riggers on Oct 10, 2023 11:59:10 GMT
2005
Sleater-Kinney-"Entertain"
Not as much to say about this one really, but it reminds me of the same era as my above post, when I was doing the radio show and had started to occasionally feel a little old and out of touch. I would get sent promos of contemporary stuff, but it wasn't all great so I still felt compelled to seek out interesting new stuff.
I was still buying CDs then, and this album was being highly praised. I took a chance and it's great. This track in particular.
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Post by fange on Oct 12, 2023 4:16:03 GMT
2004: Wilco - Spiders (Kidsmoke)
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Post by DayoRemix on Oct 19, 2023 7:16:17 GMT
Geez...Go into the hospital for a week and come back to find the thread collapsed..WTH..
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 19, 2023 7:56:35 GMT
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Post by DayoRemix on Oct 19, 2023 8:01:30 GMT
oh hell..Didn't see it..(It' not pinned!) never mind my petulance..As far as "ok", I will be eventually..Thanks for asking..
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Post by loveless on Nov 13, 2023 21:03:44 GMT
Belatedly...
2002
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Post by loveless on Nov 13, 2023 21:14:24 GMT
Even more belatedly...
1997
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Post by loveless on Nov 13, 2023 22:06:24 GMT
And, yet again, belatedly...
2004
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Post by rayge on Nov 18, 2023 18:16:12 GMT
2003
The last year for which I had a reasonably long short list, with the Libertines best single, Don't Look Back into the Sun, and great albums from Jeffrey Lewis and Grandaddy, but I'm going with the rock rush (and some great lyrics) of Cumbria's finest...
British Sea Power
(wish there was a better video, though)
2004
Tempted by Bloc Party's Helicopter, but I'm going to go for the Libs' self-referential break-up song
2005
Jeffrey Lewis's City and Eastern songs was tempting, but fuck forever
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Post by rayge on Dec 18, 2023 14:57:37 GMT
1997
Seeing as DF choes the stand-out track from Godspeed's debut, it's up to me to choose one from the other great album released that year, YLT's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One: not as easy as it sounds, as there are half a dozen good ones on there, but this one best exemplifies their wonderful way of meshing woozy, dreamy harmony vocalising with guitar noise.
Yo la Tengo - We're an American Band
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