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Post by DayoRemix on Sept 8, 2023 19:13:07 GMT
Glad you posted that one, Ray..Most likely, Piano Magic will make another appearance in 2005..(Disaffected is my favorite LP of theirs)..They have also popped up in my contenders lists..
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Sept 9, 2023 14:15:31 GMT
2003
This wasn't a great year for me. The main thing I enjoyed was the Four Tet album 'Rounds' with its original melding of folk with fractured beats. I got to say I don't return to it much, but I reckon this is lovely..
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Post by fearlessfreap on Sept 9, 2023 19:10:25 GMT
2002
RJD2 - Ghostwriter
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Post by loveless on Sept 9, 2023 19:33:54 GMT
2003
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Post by toomanyhatz on Sept 10, 2023 4:51:27 GMT
I finally get my Elliott Smith pick. He really was something special. The later music gets, the more it becomes light or dark, cheery or dreary, bright or lugubrious. No dynamic, no dichotomy, no conflict. He never played that game. More than any other song of his, this is all of the above at once.
He was around for a while, and made a few albums (more than, say, Jimi Hendrix, on both counts) but there are few bigger 'what if' stories I can think of. I miss him.
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Post by davey on Sept 10, 2023 5:49:24 GMT
2003
Little Red Light - Fountains of Wayne
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Post by DayoRemix on Sept 10, 2023 7:28:51 GMT
2003
"Before we begin" Broadcast
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Post by DarknessFish on Sept 11, 2023 9:15:40 GMT
2003
Crescent - New Leaves
An obvious one for me, the sublime By the Roads and the Fields is one of my all-time favourite albums. I remember picking up the promo CD (which incidentally has better cover art, imo) in Vinyl Exchange for a couple of quid, because it had a sticker saying something like "melancholy songcraft and found sounds". Crescent had this habit of recording in open environments, and capturing the ambience of the environment, and that space and natural feel just translates to the whole sound. It's such a delicate, open sound, with that narcoleptic-rasta percussion and the beautiful positive poetry of the lyrics given a feeling of nervous pessimism by the downbeat vocals and increasingly tetchy organ. A thing of wonder.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Sept 11, 2023 11:23:11 GMT
Bonobo - Change Down This sort of semi generic downtempo was everywhere in the late 90's-mid 00's. It's not like I'm spoiled for choices anymore, and I actually bought this and liked it.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 11, 2023 17:05:47 GMT
2002
I was never particularly fussed about Eminem, found him a bit cartoony and the self-aggrandisement of My Name Is and The Real Slim Shady rather silly. Nevertheless when Stan came out - which somebody picked earlier - it made me think there might be something else to him but it wasn't until he produced Lose Yourself that I actually felt he made something that sounded vital and authentic that really stood out among the pop culture detritus that was floating around at the time. Given the obvious decline in chart music it wasn't that hard but I still think this was a touchstone for him that stood out and was a cut above the rest.
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Post by oh oooh on Sept 11, 2023 17:23:46 GMT
2002
Clinic's finest moment, an absolute monster which finally shows a bit more of them and a bit less of the Velvets (although that organ sound is still there - and why would you drop that?).
The video is a blast too.
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Post by loveless on Sept 11, 2023 20:43:44 GMT
I had "Lose Yourself" on my (extremely) shortlist for 2002 (a year I ended up abstaining from altogether). In terms of my enduring affection for both "Stan" and "Lose Yourself", a major part of the wow factor is "a new and different kind of track". You wouldn't hear either of those and consider them in any way analogous to some pre-existing template or form.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Sept 11, 2023 21:58:03 GMT
I had "Lose Yourself" on my (extremely) shortlist for 2002 (a year I ended up abstaining from altogether). In terms of my enduring affection for both "Stan" and "Lose Yourself", a major part of the wow factor is "a new and different kind of track". You wouldn't hear either of those and consider them in any way analogous to some pre-existing template or form. ..well apart from all the hip hop that came before it.
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Post by loveless on Sept 11, 2023 22:01:52 GMT
I had "Lose Yourself" on my (extremely) shortlist for 2002 (a year I ended up abstaining from altogether). In terms of my enduring affection for both "Stan" and "Lose Yourself", a major part of the wow factor is "a new and different kind of track". You wouldn't hear either of those and consider them in any way analogous to some pre-existing template or form. ..well apart from all the hip hop that came before it. Yes, virtually indistinguishable in every way.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Sept 11, 2023 22:37:19 GMT
There's something very white boy/mainstream about him. If Pearl Jam, or someone like that, went hip hop you feel they'd sound like Eninem
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