^Sounds very promising. Very promising indeed.

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David Guetta "One Love"

I felt like some catchy club type music. No complaints.

Oooh, do you like it? I hear Horchata all the time on the radio here and I love it, it makes me want to dance. Really want to listen to the album eventually!

Then listen to the whole thing for free on their site: Vampire Weekend - Contra

For me,
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A recent post by Jackhammer made me decide to finally get some Siouxsie and the Banshees albums. Might as well start at the beginning, but then skip one with a lower score and move on to Kaleidoscope which seems to get more praise.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream

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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope

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Just ordered the new Yeasayer album. Have listened to some of tracks, sounds promising. Different from their debut album, some of the tracks are almost made for the dancefloor ........

I know hey, it was about time I got those. Mojo I'm not gonna stop at the Best Of albums, I'm using them as a starting point. I have been seriously missing out :(

It's actually really, really bland compared to their first album IMO.

Yeah, and I couldn't stand their first album. I watched a documentary about Scott Walker soon after hearing "Vampire Weekend" for the first time. In the film, Brian Eno talks about how these days people complain about pop music so much that they don't realize that there are hundreds of indie bands that all sound exactly like Talking Heads and Roxy Music thirty years after those bands disbanded. This is exactly how I feel about Vampire Weekend, frankly. I'm a huge indie fan but these guys just push it.

Pretty savage stuff, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse is as good as those.
I downloaded this little beauty
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Lisa Hannigan-Sea Sew

Oh I remember Colbert had her on his show last year, she was truly amazing!
Links?

And that was a really, really bland album to begin with.

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Grizzly Bear-Horn of Plenty

Yeah I don't plan to stop there, I noticed that some had higher ratings on RYM and do plan to check those out, I just decided to go chronologically (sort of) for some reason. :D The second album, Join Hands, has a significantly lower rating through that's why I'm gonna skip it. But the first has nearly as high of a rating as A Kiss In The Dreamhouse and Kaleidoscope...so why not.

Downloaded:
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It's Krautrock but just the wrong country. Superb French Proggy Electronica with the ambience of Tangerine Dream and the guitar work of King Crimson. Love it.
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Jazz meets Dub and it works! A couple of average tracks but the album get's much better the longer it goes on.
Bought:
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At last I have a CD copy of this. Still not had a chance to blast it out yet though.
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Yeah I like cheesy Metal too. Both albums for £4? Had to be done.

Foreign Exchange- Connected...Because My First copy is missing...

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David Simons - Fung Sha Noon (2009)

Interesting avant-garde album along the lines of Moondog's material, except spookier and with more theremin. Baffling and beautiful simultaneously, but definitely a keeper!


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Parliament - Osmium (1970)

I've been needing me some more of these funksters for quite some time, and this is as good a place to start as any. Can't say I regret getting it so far! :]


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Seal - Seal II (1994)

All things considered, Seal truly is an oddball amidst the plethora of widely exposed musicians from the 90's -- he mixes a pedestrian yet occasionally experimental pop-soul sensibility with some of the lushest production values I've ever come across in an album. 'Kiss From A Rose' aside, there are a surprising number of extremely listenable tracks here, and I find it funny that nobody ever seems to talk about this guy anymore beyond his marriage to Heidi Klum anymore, as this is a pretty damn good release on the whole.

Fela Kuti- Beasts of No Nation
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nice line-up, Americana was one of the first albums i ever bought :p: Their best album is probably 'Ixnay on the Hombre' if I had to think back and pick one. Classic skate/pop punk, refined but not TOO f*cking light. And it has a cameo by Jello Biafra..

What do you think of the Manics album? Was it a Mojopin suggestion by any chance?

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Lee 'Scratch' Perry & the Upsetters (or just 'the Upsetters'? it changes) - Return of the Super Ape (1978)

The preceding 'Super Ape' was the first reggae/dub album I ever bought, simply because I thought the cover was amazing and had read Perry's name mentioned somewhere as being an influence on people i admired. I did not understand the significance of the production style I was hearing, nor even the weed references on the front...
But anyway, this album has a completely different tone from the utterly hypnotic chants and dubs of 'Super Ape', yet it still carries that unmistakably unique Scratch stamp... lots of weird noises (it sounds like he has brought a kitchens-worth of pots and pans into the studio sometimes), innovative use of scant resources and that classic foggy, pleasantly weighty sound i.e. the closest you can get to being stoned on music.
edit: also Scratch lends alot more of his MC-style rasping to this one, which always adds to the oddness. The last 'Super Ape' was entirely other singers I think, I'm guessing from his label? There are people here who will know this...

This was the last Lee Perry album to be recorded at his legendary Black Ark studio (self-built of course) and it is as fine a send off as one might expect; being recorded during what are, for most, the peak years of dub and reggae.

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(1983)

Another one, because I'm bawed.
This is much better than 'Ocean Rain', which seems subdued in comparison. It's still an undeniably epic, commercial sound - kind of like a U2 who can play their instruments and don't make you want to impale your jugular with a meat fork.

Would you rate it ahead of Crocodiles though?

Have yet to hear Crocodiles. Will make a point of posting here when I do though. you lucky people!!
And I don't think that Ocean Rain is a bad album by any stretch of the imagination either... just prefer Porcupine!

Bought these babies today on CD:
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About time. After a year I've FINALLY bought my favorite album.
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as well as:
MF DOOM- Unexpected Guests
The new Fat Freddy's Drop.

All for 25$ =D

Gotta be in my top 5 all time.

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Owen Pallett-Heartland
Curious about his work,seemed as good a place as any.

A link for this would be greatly appreciated.

As for me:
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It's been a while since I heard some decent Ambient Electronica that doesn't have to be tagged with Post Rock or try to be highly original. This is damn good stuff.

^ I might be checking that out soon Lee; one of my more ambient-savvy friends raved about it recently while we were hanging out.

Anywayz-

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Pet Shop Boys - Please (1986)
Synth-pop stone cold classic amalgamated with spacey late-80's ambient vibes. I could do without some of the 8+ minute disco remixes though.


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Pendragon - Pure (2008)

After a twenty year something career of being lame English neo-proggers, Pendragon land themselves a kickass drummer and take a few leaves from the Porcupine Tree in terms of songwriting, resulting in a, dare I say it....AMAZING leap in quality on every front that matters and a much needed reinvention of a band that had been stale since...as far as anyone can remember. Exquisite guitar work, interesting extended song structures and a general post-Pink Floyd atmospheric production approach make this one of those albums I wished I had picked up earlier.


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Lunatic Soul - S/T (2008)

Finally got my hands on a high quality rip of this after being turned onto them by Lee's post awhile back, and its every bit as awesome as I expected.

Pendragon? well fuck me gently with a chainsaw. That is a blast from the past. Is it really that good?

The Lunatic Soul tip should really go to Petula. http://www.musicbanter.com/prog-psyc...atic-soul.html

Not a patch on the magnificent Actually, which you should definitely get if you havn't already.

Let's just say that trading in the neo-prog keyboard solos for some serrated steel guitar-driven atmosphere has done the band a LOT of good. I'll send you a PM if you are interested. :)

...and I guess I should thank Petula instead then, hehe. ^^;;

Loveissuicide: Will check out immediamente.

Prince - Prince & The New Power Generation
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^Cause it was dirt cheap, and My Name Is Prince is badass.



DJ Fresh - Escape From Planet Monday
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^Cause it was an absolute dnb favorite years ago, and I realized recently I've lost my old copy. D:

Van Halen - The Best Of Both Worlds

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I remember buying that when I was 13 or so. Jump and Panama were my jam.

You're allowed to listen to the first 3 WASP albums.

It's the ones after that where they got this silly notion of being a serious band are the ones you should be ashamed of listening to ;)

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:D:D

Edit: With thanks to our very own Urban Hatemonger :).

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Teenager Of The Year-Frank Black

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I remember buying it the day it came out, which seems a long time ago (I must have been 12/13?)

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FINALLY

Feels like I've been waiting decades for this.

and yes I actually bought it.

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Oh hell yeah. Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh etc) delivers his finest album for a couple of years with a sound that's like Godflesh being forced through a leper and shat out. It's a good thing though. This is back to the noise and drone that he does best. ( I may have to do a beginners thread to his music sometime).

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How Punk should sound like at least to me. Anarchist brutal noise with the added dimension of male/female vocals from the comeback album from these legendary U.K punks.