Random Music Talk CXXII: 2018 It Is

[lazarus]

Camp NOPE.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

For anyone into ambient music, Nils Frahm has a new album out called All Melody. It's currently helping me get to the end of this workday.

 

[LemonMelon]

For anyone into ambient music, Nils Frahm has a new album out called All Melody. It's currently helping me get to the end of this workday.

I'll co sign this. It's a lovely album, more synth driven than his usual work.

 

[david]

The new MGMT is out and it’s really good.

 

[nielsgov]

Yeah. I've already listened to it a few times the past two days.

 

[cobl04]

About to see Roger Waters. I can’t quite believe it. I’ve loved Floyd for more than half my life now... going to be something.

 

[kabigon]

I'm sleep deprived with a nosebleed ticket today, but have a much better one for Tues. Can't wait

 

[cobl04]

Fuck me.

Old fashioned Cobbler post when I get home.

 

[Axver]

Neil and Liam Finn have been magic the last two nights at Taronga Zoo.

Hope you Melbourne people are going to the Zoo shows there later this month.

 

[iron yuppie]

I went through Pixies' catalogue over the last few days. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle (and Come On Pligrim) are still among the best albums of the 80s. The quality seems to me to really drop off after those two, though. I don't know if they became generic, or if everyone else just started ripping them off, making them seem generic. But the edginess seems to have dulled significantly on Bossanova and Trompe le Monde.

 

[lazarus]

Bossanova is a bit of a slog but still has a handful of great tracks. I think Trompe le Monde is a hell of a lot of fun, and at least rocks out more. It's surprisingly consistent for a longer album.

 

[Joey788]

This year's already looking like it's going to have some cool debuts.

I've been listening a lot to this up-and-coming folk artist Haley Heynderickx. She reminds me of Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten a bit, though a little more eclectic.





Also, this band Goat Girl looks like one to watch. I think "The Man" is just a fun, awesome song with a great music video.

 

[cobl04]

I was at the cricket the other night, and I heard a song that sounded so much like God Put a Smile Upon Your Face. Pretty sure it was instrumental, sounded like an older, jazzier song that Coldplay had just ripped off. They've done it before (Talk). Anyone got any idea?

 

[bono_212]

I've never heard anything by Field music before, but I am *quite* into this new record of theirs:



and



Were my two biggest takeaways from it.

They sound like the Beatles doing New Wave, so apparently that means they sound like XTC, I'm told.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I was at the cricket the other night, and I heard a song that sounded so much like God Put a Smile Upon Your Face. Pretty sure it was instrumental, sounded like an older, jazzier song that Coldplay had just ripped off. They've done it before (Talk). Anyone got any idea?

I've heard that on many occasions on various different sports broadcasts. I'm curious too.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Speaking of Coldplay...Adam Rippon (awesome American figure skater) skated to "O" last night. It was beautiful and is probably my favorite post-Viva La Vida Coldplay song.

 

[nielsgov]

I'd agree with that. It's pretty jarring on the album coming after the awful Sky Full of Stars.

 

[Joey788]

Sky Full of Stars should’ve been a one-off single. It ruins the flow of that album. Oceans into O would’ve been an excellent closing duo.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I actually like Ghost Stories quite a bit. It felt like they were changing directions and returning to a more familiar sound and then they went and released A Head Full Of Dreams.

 

[cobl04]

Pitchfork names Aquemini as the best album of 1998

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-50-best-albums-of-1998/?page=5

 

[lazarus]

Take the Cockplay crap to the designated thread where it belongs ffs.

 

[nbelcik]

Pitchfork names Aquemini as the best album of 1998

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-50-best-albums-of-1998/?page=5

Give me Aeroplane Over the Sea or give me death

 

[cobl04]

That album fucking sucks. More than any other album I've ever listened to, it is completely mystifying how it has so much love. I got 30 seconds into that song where he screams about Jesus non-stop and threw it out the window.

 

[LemonMelon]

The music is passable lo-fi indie folk that's been done a million times and the lyrical abstraction ranges from intriguing to forced. I would definitely say the album is more influential than great. Listen to Elliott Smith or The Microphones instead.

 

[LemonMelon]

FWIW, that list is garbage. More pandering to hip hop fans by including the worst Tribe album, a RZA solo album and one of Jay Z's least inspired records.

Worthy albums completely skipped over to include unremarkable albums by popular hip hop artists:

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues (are they fucking serious putting The Love Movement on there instead of this??)
The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop OST
Duster - Stratosphere
Anathema - Alternative 4
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
Mansun - Six
Los Planetas - Una Semana en el motor de un Autobus
Amon Tobin - Permutation
The Coup - Steal This Album (way ahead of some of the mediocre hip hop they included)
Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
12 Rods - Split Personalities
At the Drive In - In/Casino/Out

I could keep going. The year wasn't as bad as they made it look.

 

[Axver]

Anathema - Alternative 4
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
Mansun - Six

Are you just covering your Aussie bases so that Shepp Daniel, Vlad, and I don't get mad?

PS Alternative 4lyfe

 

[LemonMelon]

I'm not a huge fan of Choirgirl Hotel but it's a very creative and interesting album. Totally worthy of recognition.

The Mansun and Anathema records are really good.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

The Coup - Steal This Album

Hell fucking yeah!

Are you just covering your Aussie bases so that Shepp Daniel, Vlad, and I don't get mad?

PS Alternative 4lyfe

 

[cobl04]

I was gonna say no, cos otherwise he would have included Beautiful Sharks, but I looked it up and it came out in 99. Then I thought maybe Elsewhere for 8 Minutes, but that came out in 97. Damn.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I would have Beautiful Sharks very high on any best of '99 list.