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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: kosmo vinyl on April 03, 2013, 09:55:16 pm
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I figure if I start compiling my favorites through out the year, it will make making a final list easier. Not likely but here's my start.
Angeline Morrison - Are You Ready Cat?
Heidi Talbot - Angels Without Wings
Lady - S/T
Alice Smith - She
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
The Replacements - Songs For Slim
New Order - Lost Sirens
As usual there are some records I still need to get a hold of yet i.e. Warm Soda.
Favorites from late 2012 still in heavy rotation
Sugar & The Hi Lows - S/T
Ian Skelly - Cut From A Star
Brian Whelan - Decider
Looking forward to the pending releases of E.Joseph and Phantom Heart, second Villagers album and The Musgraves from the UK
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Glad you liked that Warm Soda. You should have come out to their gig last week.
That is definitely on my list, too.
Alasdair Roberts and Friends - A Wonder Working Stone
Cigarette - Gush
Hilly Eye - Reasons to Live
Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Ooga Boogas - Ooga Boogas
Paint Branch - I Wanna Live
Pete Swanson - Punk Authority
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time
Sun City Girls - I Mohini
Black Twig Pickers - Rough Carpenter
Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen
Warm Soda - Someone for You
Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Bruise
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Plus a variety of reissues/comps.
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Nick Cave
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I considered the Warm Soda show, but late running mid-week gigs are really rough on me these days... If it had just be them playing that night I would have made the effort, but the two additional acts just made for too late of a night.
Anyone see Drunk Tigers or The View last night?
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2013 shaping up to be a great year musically for me
The Virgin Marys
The History of Apple Pie (awful name great album)
Billy Bragg
David Bowie
John Grant - Queen of Denmark - not new but new to me
Eels
Ex-Cops
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock
Shovels and Rope
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The Mavericks and Yo La Tengo
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MBV
Nick Cave
Fidlar
Wavves
Can't think of anything else.
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MBV
The Knife
Chelsea Light Moving
Everything Everything
Kevin Gates
Marnie Stern
Suede
Underachievers
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can you really put the knife . . . when it hasnt come out yet? dont make me break out the leather.
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Mountains - Centralia
Oval - Calidostópia!
Paint Branch - I Wanna Live
Pere Ubu - Lady From Shanghai
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Foxygen
Yo La Tengo
Youth Lagoon
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foxygen
atoms for peace (i like radiohead and thom solo . . . and that is what this is)
how to destroy angels
bowie (yeah, soft in parts but all bowie)
depeche mode (i never say no to them)
wavves (best of year so far)
black crowes new live
chelsea light moving (so good to see that thurston still has it)
there has got to be more.
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Bowie
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Depeche Mode
Suede
Lady (thanks Kosmo!)
Also really liking the Justin Timberlake album just for something fun!
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Only heard the Chelsea Light Moving once on that NPR stream but that will probably be on my list too.
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the problem with all these lists is it reminds of the stuff i still need to checkout.. Suede, Paint Branch, etc
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can you really put the knife . . . when it hasnt come out yet? dont make me break out the leather.
Well I understand the mindset here but in this day and age, release dates don't mean much. I've listened to it a half-dozen times and love it, so I include it
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And yeah, Justin Timberlake will prob be on my end of year list.
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Suede
also very good
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Suede
also very good
it would be a good time for Suede to return to the 930 club. I guess their original guitarist isn't in the reunion. What is he up to as it doesn't appear he played on Duffy's last album.
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Mountains - Centralia
Oval - Calidostópia!
Paint Branch - I Wanna Live
Pere Ubu - Lady From Shanghai
Atom? - HD
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I heard a track off that Bowie album yesterday and it was much better than the first single.
Makes me want to hear more of it.
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the best part of all these lists is it reminds of the stuff i still need to checkout..
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I heard a track off that Bowie album yesterday and it was much better than the first single.
Makes me want to hear more of it.
I just picked it up yesterday...
its very good..but its brickwalled... hurt my ears to listen to it even though i picked up the vinyl which is supposed to be less compressed...
i don't know why they do this to good music..
the album sounds completely different from that first single..
its not very experimental though... a couple of tracks sound a bit like morphine... the template seems to be late 70s bowie...but in a more conventional straight ahead rock way..
i'll probably listen to it again now..
of course for someone who loves bowie as much as i do its such a huge and unexpected gift...
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Ugh. I hate overcompression. Most ugly thing you can do to music. We all have volume knobs and buttons on whatever we use to listen to music and are able to turn it up ourselves, thankyouverymuch.
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Contemporary compression came about in the late 90s as a dubiously "practical" solution to volume differences between MP3s. Unfortunately, it became an aesthetic choice of mastering style desired mostly by the labels, not the artists. And not just the majors; lots of indies, too. They wanted their releases to be louder than the competition and a "war" was born. Some acts did this relatively naturally through the sound they developed. A Hüsker Dü tune always blew away whatever came before it on the radio. Japanese noise and psych will hurt your ears because
fuck you! that's the way they like it.
A lot of people think that CDs are compressed but that's a myth. In fact a CD can hold a much greater range of volume (dynamic range) than vinyl. A lot of older music on vinyl actually was compressed but very subtly, not the "brick walling" prevalent today. This was especially true of classical music. The producers of the famous Mercury Living Presence releases worked with the conductors to hold back on the fortes and raise the pianissimos so that they didn't have to ride gain (raise and lower the tape input signal as the volume changed), resulting in a more natural sounding record.
Unless a label is intentionally screwing over their CD customers, if a new release CD is compressed then the vinyl will be, too.
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paint branch
tuxedo ep
california x (s/t)
jim james (late edit)
lots of good releases coming out in april
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The new Face to Face LP came out yesterday. One song sounds exactly like "Making Believe" by Social D. Not sure how I feel about the direction they took yet. I need to absorb the whole thing. On first listen though, I'm not sure how much it'll sink in.