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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 22, 2023 20:14:35 GMT
I saw ‘em in 2004 at a festival but some div elbowed me in the face and I spent the rest of the gig trying to fix my glasses. That’s how compelling they were.
Many bands only have an album or two in them (at best) but even so there was something about the vertiginous fall that followed that basically killed any goodwill people had towards them. As if you’d been conned somehow.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 22, 2023 20:16:13 GMT
By the mid 00s someone saying “We really need a new Strokes album!” was about as commonplace as someone saying “we really need Chinese Democracy!”.
Weird.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 24, 2023 12:49:37 GMT
2001
U.S. Maple - Rice Ain't Afraid of Nothing
So many contenders for 2001 again, but I'm giving the nod to U.S. Maple who were unlucky not to have been included before. Acre Thrills is their stadium jangle album, if you ask me, moving away from the Sonic Youthisms of their earlier work, and applying their ultra-Beefheartian deconstructions to a REM-dominated world. Almost, just almost, hitting a triumphant soaring riff before fragmenting and collapsing inwards constantly.
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Post by osgood on Aug 29, 2023 8:37:52 GMT
2001
Due to a huge workload, this and the next few years I was largely disconnected from whatever was happening in the music scene (yes, even more so than before) so a review of the 2001 list of albums released is mostly uncharted territory for me. Rings Around the World was one of the few I checked at the time and got me hooked. In hindsight, I don't think it's the masterpiece some claimed it to be, but it is still a pleasurable listen with some high ponts. This was and still is my fave from it, I especially love how the different instrument layers get changing as it goes along.
Super Furry Animals - Run! Christian, Run!
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Post by fearlessfreap on Aug 30, 2023 12:43:19 GMT
By 2001, singles no longer mattered, and Billboard was going by plays rather than sales. Album tracks were now allowed in the hot 100. No matter, I was done. I had to go with something that was on an independent label and didn't sell all that well. I've tried to pick songs that had a strong connection to their particular year, but I can no longer do that.
Madlib (as Yesterday's New Quintet) - Sun Rays
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Post by riggers on Aug 31, 2023 13:57:08 GMT
2001 Guided by Voices-"Glad Girls"
Unfortunately I don't have any special memories linking this song to 2001. At that point, I was only vaguely aware of GBV as another US alt-rock band that I hadn't heard yet. I eventually got into them in around 2008/9 as a result of hearing their best of, "Human Amusement At Hourly Rates", which I would argue is all you really need. I know they have a longstanding faithful following, but they also have a discography of almost Zappa-esque proportions. They were also wildly inconsistent with their production early on, stubbornly mining a lo-fi aesthetic which for me, makes a lot of that stuff an unedifying listen.
I think that sadly it may become the norm for the next few years of this exercise that I'll be googling 'best records of'..(insert year), but i was really pleased when this one came up. It's from 'Isolation Drills', but I know it from the best of and it's possibly the best example of what they do best. It's a powerpop classic from the beginning, but has a muscular, Who like push and pull to it, as well as a breathlessly euphoric vocal delivery, which builds to a climax during the middle eight roughly 1.42.... '..the light that passes through me'.
Then you get some tinkly guitar appegios while Bob Pollard intones another great vocal line, in a song with multiple great little melodic passages and it's off again to a refrain of the majestic chorus. A glorious record.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Sept 1, 2023 19:45:37 GMT
2002 My nomination is The Roots 'The Seed (2.0)'
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Post by loveless on Sept 1, 2023 21:48:17 GMT
Cody Fucking Chesnutt!
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Post by davey on Sept 4, 2023 17:39:29 GMT
2002
What’s Golden - Jurrasic 5
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Post by DayoRemix on Sept 4, 2023 18:05:59 GMT
2002
"Deep Space 9mm" El-P
Pretty sure someone else will choose Interpol for me..This is just a great track from a great album with a great video..
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Sept 4, 2023 18:15:55 GMT
Never thought Id see the day when Dayodead picked Emerson, Lake and Palmer!
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Post by DayoRemix on Sept 4, 2023 20:53:20 GMT
Never thought Id see the day when Dayodead picked Emerson, Lake and Palmer! They finally came up with some Street Prog!
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Post by osgood on Sept 4, 2023 21:14:23 GMT
2002
A few faves from this year, with good albums by Flaming Lips, Supergrass, Drive-By Truckers, Derek Trucks, and the twin releases by Tom Waits. But I have to go for something off Sea Change, one of Beck's finest records, a bit in the opposite direction from his previous albums. A bunch of tracks deserve being picked, and I'll go for this one with its wonderful string arrangement.
Beck - Paper Tiger
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Post by DarknessFish on Sept 5, 2023 16:27:55 GMT
2002 Interpol - Obstacle 1
Ok, I'll help Dayo out and pick Interpol for 2002, though there were some classics released this year. This can be my big obvious pop track. What more can you say? Haircuts that skope would surely approve of, guitars as spiky as an Immortal codpiece, and the ridiculously crisp sound of that rhythm section. Good job there are no ropey lyrics to ruin the effect.
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Post by rayge on Sept 8, 2023 17:25:00 GMT
2002well, I've managed to mislay the grey notebook in which I shortlisted every year as best I could. I get the feeling that BSP, the Libertines and maybe Mogwai or the White Stripes featured for this year, but no matter, as I spent the last hour or so updating the canon archives ( please check to see I haven't made cockups) and noticed a passing reference by dayo to a group I hadn't considered at all, largely because I didn't really hear them until the late Noughties, and had no sense of their music being tied to a particular year, any more than their songs - they made 14 albums in total - ever seemed to be tied to any particular style or genre. They were probaby the last band I ever fell in love with. The personnel changed from record to record, and they could pull of intricate songs full of wordplay and modernist tropes, instrumentals both ambient and anthemic (often featuring the guitar of the one constant member, Glenn Johnson), lo-fi and hi-, and managed to conjure all kinds of moods and emotions. I hoovered up as much of it as I could, but never got the sequencing of the records in my head. So I checked on discogs, and 2002 saw the release of their 6th album, Writers without Homes, and the one track from it that I immediately recognized was the first one, so I dug out a video, played it three times in a row at ever increasing volumes, and thought, yeah, that'll do. It's virtually a guitar bass drums rock band set-up on this track, but what they do with it...I could go on and get all rhapsodic about it, but I've got a greenhouse to water and a Spanish omelette to look forward to. I'm sure not many will like it, but those who do, will probably like it a lot. It needs to be played loud (and preferably on headphones) for best effect, but I always say that Piano Magic - (Music Won't Save You From Anything But) Silence [/a]
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