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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 13, 2023 16:37:54 GMT
Plus, the Hydra video is adorable..Glad you picked it..One of my top 5 off the board..
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 13, 2023 17:57:07 GMT
2000
"The Owl Service" Pram
Had some huge stuff from 2000..My favorite album of all time is from the year (Yo la Tengo- And then nothing turned itself inside-out), but I can't parse it for one song and I've already gone with a YLT track. With Movietone nicely taken, it left two well known and two obscure..Radiohead/Modest Mouse and Jackie o Motherfucker/Pram..Decided to make this my Pram pick (You knew I'd go with them eventually) Quirky, dark and off kilter..Perfect..
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Post by riggers on Aug 13, 2023 18:09:48 GMT
2000 Outkast-"Bombs Over Baghdad"
Firstly, sorry for my lack of participation lately, work is mental cos Summer holidays innit. Off to bleeding Wales to stay in a caravan with a couple of the kids tomorrow, but when I get a bit of time, I've got a couple of KILLER threads in mind...
However, this canon lark is what made me sign up, so I always feel obliged to chip in with my choices, even if I don't have much time for anything else. In early 2000, I was back living on my own after years of communal living. It was a pretty crap flat in a crap area and I was unemployed. Eventually, I got back into work and started on the path that I'm still on..
I couldn't afford to buy music very much, but I ended up getting some kind of cable box and watched a lot of music channels while drinking cheap wine and smoking rubbish weed. This was an absolute beacon of colour and excitement during a pretty moribund time for guitar music. Not only was it my favourite single of the year, it's one of the greatest records of all time.
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Post by loveless on Aug 13, 2023 20:43:42 GMT
2000Genius - I brook no countervolley Eminem - Stan "Stan" is fucking undeniable!
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 15, 2023 9:53:30 GMT
2000
Daft Punk – One More Time
Do you remember the fuss about the millennium? All that apocalyptic nonsense about the “bug” that was going to bring planes down from the sky and introduce Skynet (possibly)? Radiohead discovering Warp records and releasing the disappointing Kid A? All the pseudo-intellectual bollocks about “pre-millennium tension/angst” ? With hindsight the most symbolic event in ‘ol Albion was the grand folly of the Millennium Dome which looked like an upturned saucer and was totally shit. Remember Tony Blair signing Auld Lang Syne with the poor Queen? Truly the stuff of nightmares. Talk about a damp squib to mark this epochal moment in history huh? How bathetic, how appropriate, how “British”. Amidst all this depressing guff one record therefore stood out like a lump of gold in a river of mud and shit. Not just because it was really good and really popular but because in revisiting the ecstatic dancefloor rush of disco and house it provided the dismal charts with a ray of French electro sunshine that proved irresistible. Helmeted French wankers Daft Punk followed this up with Discovery in 2001 and for a brief moment they became Kings of Pop. Take that Thom Yorke! Up yer bum Robbie fucking Williams! Fuck off and die horribly Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Alistair Campbell, Peter Mandelson etc. Vive la France!
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 15, 2023 13:36:52 GMT
Such a vivid imagination..
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 15, 2023 16:29:30 GMT
Awww Fanx!
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 17, 2023 8:18:26 GMT
Somebody pick Ms Jackson ffs
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 21, 2023 6:41:02 GMT
2001
Daft Punk were a breath of fresh air initially. This track had a real celebratory optimism and can still make me feel full of the joys of spring.
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 21, 2023 8:18:50 GMT
2001
"Cashout" Fugazi
Last chance for a long overdue Fugazi entry..
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Post by loveless on Aug 21, 2023 9:50:04 GMT
2001
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Post by davey on Aug 21, 2023 20:17:43 GMT
2001
Always kinda liked this. That’s as good as it got in 2001.
Gold Day - Sparklehorse
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Post by rayge on Aug 21, 2023 21:19:53 GMT
2001
It'll be no surprise to any of you that on the whole, I'm a words guy rather than a music maven when it comes to songcraft. Someone else has already chosen something by Stephin Merritt, so I'm turning to someone that I'm increasingly convinced is the last of the great singer-songwriters - of my lifetime at least - yet he's hardly written anything that you'll hear people whistling in the street (not that anyone whistles in public any more - at least, not in my neighbourhood). This is a case in point, a rambling shaggy-dog story with some outrageous rhymes that eventually comes over all meta and develops into something else entirely. There's loads of stuff on the album it came from (The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane) that's terser, funnier, more surreal, more engaging even, but this is genius. Stick with it.
Jeffrey Lewis - The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex song
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 22, 2023 11:31:40 GMT
2001
2001. The future. Flying cars. Back to the Future 2 hoverboards. Alien monoliths in space. Lars Ulrich fighting Napster. That was around then, wasn’t it?
The future wasn’t exactly turning out as we planned and I was pretty deep into older music at the time so very little new music piqued my interest. In fact the only new thing in 2001 I bothered with was the debut effort by New York wankers The Strokes. A group of middle(upper) middle class types who decided to rejig garage rock for the 00s with some self-consciously “cool” New York CBGB style vibes that with hindsight was really an indicator that rock was over. Nevertheless, their concise, hooky, back-to-basic songs stood out and offered something fresh and direct at a time when few of their peers were offering anything similar.
Truthfully, the debut album is not some all-time classic as some claim and of course the hype was absurdly over the top (a sign of things to come) in a way that didn't benefit them in the long run. It suffers from production issues that made it sound tinnier than it needed to be and Casablancas’s “vocal recorded in a bucket” stylings didn’t help things either to be frank. Oddly, their debut EP, “The Modern Age”, sounded a lot better but nevertheless their best songs still managed to cut through and Hard To Explain is probably their finest moment.
They’re still making music apparently.
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Post by loveless on Aug 22, 2023 13:28:15 GMT
They’re still making music apparently. When I saw them as a support act for a sort of "legacy artist" in 2006 (17 years ago?), the whole thing had a real "You're still here?" ambiance.
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