Random Music Talk CIII; WHATCHA GONNA DO BRUTHA WHEN HOMOMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOOOOOUUU

[lazarus]

Naming our Rushmores at random.

So, for Los Campesinos!,

In Medias Res
Cemetery Gaits
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
2007, The Year Punk Rock Broke My Heart

Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future
As Lucerne/The Low
Ways to Make It through the Wall

This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind
Death To Los Campesinos!
Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1
As Lucerne/The Low

Pavement

Grounded
Gold Soundz
Fillmore Jive
Frontwards

This is tough:

Fin
Grounded
Gold Soundz
Shoot The Singer

They are a band who I just can't get into the albums of, but adore certain tracks from.

If there was a compilation of:

I Will Dare
Androgynous
Unsatisfied
Sixteen Blue
Answering Machine
Kiss Me on the Bus
Waitress in the Sky
Bastards of Young
Alex Chilton
Never Mind
Can't Hardly Wait

It'd be my favorite album ever. And, I think I've made a similar version of this post before.

I've heard an earlier record, but I'm going to compile a best of out of their three most popular releases:

1. I Will Dare
2. Hold My Life
3. Alex Chilton
4. Androgynous
5. The Ledge
6. Never Mind
7. Unsatisfied
8. Bastards of Young
9. Left of the Dial
10. Sixteen Blue
11. Here Comes a Regular
12. Answering Machine

But while I consider those three of the greatest albums of the 80s, I am not familiar enough with their other work to include it along with these classics.

Things I've learned today - there's like 20 good Replacements songs and the rest of fun but inessential.

I'd go:

Hold My Life
Alex Chilton
I Will Dare
We're Comin' Out
Kiss Me On The Bus
The Ledge
Bastards of Young
Unsatisfied
Valentine
Left of the Dial
Answering Machine
Can't Hardly Wait

This is an odd, arbitrary exercise. I mean, Let It Be is their last album on Twin/Tone and Tim is their first on Sire, so you guys are mixing "indie" and major label.

Are these three on a level apart from the others? Sure. And they certainly don't deserve to be sliced and diced as all three are stone-cold classics. But Hootenanny has a good number of standout tracks (and is just as eclectic as Let It Be, if not more), and All Shook Down is a solid album that despite not being very fun (it's overall a lighter, mellower affair) has great songwriting and is a step up from the vacuous Don't Tell A Soul. It's also pretty close to a Westerberg solo album, with a lot of sessions musicians playing.

From the horse's mouth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amg0C6valBo


Highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sasOpdyhDXc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyvqAbJDx2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFNBCqPqTog

 

[bono_212]

I wasn't suggesting a comp, I was basically saying those are the songs by the Replacements I like (of what I've heard).

 

[LemonMelon]

A request was made of me. As far as I'm concerned, listen to all three of those albums in full and your life will be improved because of it.

My homework this weekend is to listen to the three Replacements albums I haven't heard yet.

 

[lazarus]

Don't forget Stink. It might be an EP but it does have 8 songs. Kids Don't Follow, White And Lazy, and Go are all essential tracks.

 

[david]

A singing comet is better than the new Pink Floyd album. I wonder if Pitchfork will rate it.

https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. Original data credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de)

 

[iron yuppie]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but Of Montreal is a terrible band. They seem to have tried to latch themselves onto every trend in indie music of the last 15 years or so and never done any of them particularly well. Some of the newer stuff is just actively grating.

 

[u2popmofo]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but Of Montreal is a terrible band. They seem to have tried to latch themselves onto every trend in indie music of the last 15 years or so and never done any of them particularly well. Some of the newer stuff is just actively grating.

Their new albums are pretty much unlistenable, but their 2004 to 2006 stretch of 3 albums were pretty much as good as anything else happening in the indie scene at the time (particularly Hissing Fauna, which I know several of us rated on our favorites of the last decade). Bummer to see how much they've fallen (zomg, like teh Radioheadz!).

 

[Danny Boy]

I'm finally getting around to the new Foxygen album. Man, this thing is all over the place, but I love it. This is the kind of energy and experimentation that you only get from a young band still learning their chops.

Well, I'm sure the drugs help too...

 

[bono_212]

Their new albums are pretty much unlistenable, but their 2004 to 2006 stretch of 3 albums were pretty much as good as anything else happening in the indie scene at the time (particularly Hissing Fauna, which I know several of us rated on our favorites of the last decade). Bummer to see how much they've fallen (zomg, like teh Radioheadz!).

And of course, I prefer their newer material .

 

[u2popmofo]

I'm finally getting around to the new Foxygen album. Man, this thing is all over the place, but I love it. This is the kind of energy and experimentation that you only get from a young band still learning their chops.

Well, I'm sure the drugs help too...

I need to check it out, I really liked the last one.

 

[david]

Mark Kozelek missed a really good opportunity to call his Christmas album "Christmas- Suck My Cock"

 

[LemonMelon]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but Of Montreal is a terrible band. They seem to have tried to latch themselves onto every trend in indie music of the last 15 years or so and never done any of them particularly well. Some of the newer stuff is just actively grating.

What trend was Hissing Fauna latching on to? I'm not sure what you mean here at all because I can't think of very many bands as insular as Of Montreal.

I'm finally getting around to the new Foxygen album. Man, this thing is all over the place, but I love it. This is the kind of energy and experimentation that you only get from a young band still learning their chops.

Well, I'm sure the drugs help too...

I thought it was mostly unlistenable and half assed, except for the singles. How Can You Really is so good.

 

[Joey788]

Naming our Rushmores at random.

So, for Los Campesinos!,

In Medias Res
Cemetery Gaits
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
2007, The Year Punk Rock Broke My Heart

Straight in at 101
Avocado Baby
You Me Dancing!
The Sea Is A Good Place To Think of the Future

The National:

Terrible Love
Abel
Apartment Story
Sea of Love

St. Vincent:

Krokodil
Cruel
Northern Lights
Severed Crossed Fingers

PJ Harvey:

The Words That Maketh Murder
Long Snake Moan
Big Exit
Good Fortune

 

[IWasBored]

There were a few songs off aldhils arboretum that I liked. But that's the only Of Montreal album I've ever listened to.

 

[iron yuppie]

What trend was Hissing Fauna latching on to? I'm not sure what you mean here at all because I can't think of very many bands as insular as Of Montreal.

I thought it sounded a lot like all those freak-folk albums coming out around that time, a-la Strawberry Jam etc.

 

[gump]

Need to think about my LC! Rushmore. I'll say this, though: You! Me! Dancing! is the best running song of any artist, anywhere, ever.

 

[cobl04]

Ok so I made myself a bit of a list of albums I need to check out or officially add to my collection, are there any glaring omissions? Anything you've heard you reckon I might like?

FKA Twigs - LP1
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Clark - Clark
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait EP
Caribou - Our Love
Ex Hex - Rips
Johnny Foreigner - You Can Do Better
Lewis - L'Amour
Freddie Gibbs - Pinata
The Antlers - Familiars
Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
Robyn/Royksopp - Do it Again
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
TV on the Radio - Seeds
EMA - The Future's Void
New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Architecture in Helsinki - Now + 4EVA
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream
Tensnake - Glow
Electric Wurms - Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk
Kele Okereke - Trick
New Build - Pour it On
Eno/Hyde - Someday World
Eno/Hyde - High Life
Prince - PlectrumElectrum
Prince - Art Official Age
Kevin Drew - Darlings
SZA - Z EP
Deadmau5 - While(1<2)
Tycho - Awake
NehruvianDOOM - NehruvianDOOM
BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG3
Dum Dum Girls - Too True
Les Sins - Michael
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Banks - Goddess
Stephen Malkmus - Wig Out at Jigbags
Chet Faker - Built on Glass
DZ Deathrays - Black Rat
Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
The 2 Bears - The Night is Young

 

[liamcool]

I think you'd dig:

Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Tortoise - Tortoise

 

[iron yuppie]

Wild Beasts: Present Tense.

 

[bono_212]

Is this just stuff from this year?

 

[cobl04]

Just this year, yes.

 

[u2popmofo]

Please don't start with Brill Bruisers, my e-friend.

 

[u2popmofo]

Hay coblur, u mite liek teh knew U 2 allbum.

 

[Joey788]

Anyone happen to grab an extra ticket to one of those Savages concerts in NYC next January?

 

[Danny Boy]

Brill Bruisers is on my short list for AOTY.

 

[bono_212]

I don't rank it that highly, but I love it.

 

[u2popmofo]

It's a good album, and I like it, but I think there are better albums to start with.

 

[liamcool]

Johnny Foreigner's D E V E S T A T O R is mighty pretty, dumb name aside.

 

[bono_212]

It's a good album, and I like it, but I think there are better albums to start with.

Very true. If this is your first foray into The Pornos, then I'll have to side with Mr. Mofo, here.

 

[LemonMelon]

Twin Cinema all the way, one of the better power pop records of the past decade or so.