sleepy jack 100
 

I know there's a sickening amount of 100s going on but this one we'll be finished. It's basically all the albums I've gotten into this past year. I also decided none of the albums/artists on the old 100 are going on here just because they're pretty predictable anyway even if only about 20% of them would've made it on here.


100. Port O'Brien:
The Wind and the Swell
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You'd think after the Decemberists and Modest Mouse indie bands would drop the sea imagery but Port O'Brien decided to take it to a new level with their shout along songs of being a Fisherman's son they take you into their history of the life of a salty sea dog, sometimes sad and stormy sometimes happy and hot, but always exciting.

Where's your first 100?

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ill-100-a.html

EDIT: Oh and Catie (I'm too lazy to PM you but I know you'll look at this) you'll like this band. They're basically what would happen if Rosa took their instruments sailing.

EDIT EDIT: You'd probably like them too Proggy, they're indie-folk (which I know you're into) and they're also from around your own stomping grounds.

Ok, thanks for the rec. Btw, I read through your last top 100 thread and noticed The Last Hour isn't on your favorite songs list for your #1 album. What do you think of the song?

There's no Elliott Smith song I don't like and it was kind of ridiculous of me to list favorite songs because I like all the songs on the album but I like it all, especially recently. It seems like every time I listen to Elliott something new jumps at me and I've probably played all his albums at least a hundred times.

Did your tastes broaden since you made the last one? If so, it would be great to see another one.

Ok, but what do you think of the specific song? Like, just another great Smith song, one of your favorites etc. I'm just curious since it's oftentimes my favorite Smith song (They rotate).

I think it's my second favorite (at the moment) off the album. I think my favorite song off it is Let's Get Lost though.

I've recently gotten more into electronic music and I think my taste in rap is finally more definitive. So I'd say so, there isn't going to be much metal or anything though or even much rock to be honest. I'm still not big into classic rock either and they'll be even less on this list (on the last one I think it was pretty much just the Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and the Beatles.)

99. Squarepusher:
Ultravisitor
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I'm really pissed I can't find a (full) video for Iambic 9 Poetry it's one of my favorite pieces of music I've heard recently and if the whole album was that good this would probably be number one. But oh well, there's really only one word I can use to describe this album (and Squarepusher in general) it's interesting and sometimes I don't like it but I never find myself listening to it and yawning.

I will be downloading everything in this thread and commenting on it eventually pretty much just cause i luv u etanz.

ur my popsicle heart<3

I'm so excited to see what number 1 is <(^___^)>

98. Tickley Feather:
Tickley Feather
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It's very hard for artist to be experimental nowadays; alot of the times the result is just a laughable pretentious mess other times it's a stroke of brilliance. Between those two extremes you have Tickley Feather; there's no hint of genius here and yes sometimes the music isn't exactly coherent but the oddities are more endearing then unnecessary and there's the charm. It's an amateur psychedelic pop album, with layers of vocals and odd noises all stuck in a lo-fi bubble and the rest is like a special high, where everything is oddly watery sounding but magical all the same.

Sounds interesting. Have you written many of these reviews beforehand? I'm trying to do that, I've done about 20.

Nah I just do the list then write them as I post them.

I don't have the attention span to attempt something like this. And regardless, I don't seem to enjoy music enough...I've been compiling albums for about a month now and I'm not even close...around 45 or so.

How many albums do you own? I've found that keeping an RYM account helps.

Me?

Not too many, around 1800 or so, so if I ever did manage to make a list of 100 of my favorites, it'd be 6% of my total collection. I think an album has to be really special before I would include it in a list like that.

I'm looking at the list now, and there aren't too many obscure artists on it. Moreover, half of albums on it are from the new millennium (as that was when I really started to appreciate music), so it draws a skewed portrait of my taste in music anyways.

Port O'Brien-The Wind and the Swell
A permanent add to my collection :D I'm a sucker for indie folk done right. That's what this simply is. There's a few dull spots but that's pretty much made up for by exceptionally goodness of other songs.
Really good songs: I Woke Up Today, My Eyes won't Shut, Five and Dime
Kind of boring: A Puffin, A Branch of You and Me, Tree Bones

Great album! My second favorite Squarepusher album, only after Music Is Rotted One Note. I actually like his weirdness. Damn freaky at times.

97. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet:
Savvy Show Stoppers
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Canadian instrumental neo-surf rock has never sounded so cool or really been done that much anyway. Canada isn't known for its beaches and sunny days but Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet seem to suck you into that world anyway.

Since I'm still earlier in the list would anyone mind if I took off the more known albums on my list in favor of more obscure albums? I mean Elliott Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc all the stuff I use to talk about alot isn't on here because nothing on the old list is going to appear here but there's about ten or so albums that get discussed pretty frequently on there now.

Sounds good to me.

I have been wanting to check out Square Pusher for a while now. Is this the best album to go with?

Squarepusher-Ultravisitor
I couldn't stand this album. Really boring -not for me.

I always liked Hard Normal Daddy.

Tickley Feather-Self Titled
It has this kind of beyond lo-fi sound that Ariel Pink uses that I really don't like. I mean I like lo-fi because it sounds sincere, authentic and real. So this severe under production has the same affect on me as over production. It's just kind of gross. As far as musical content goes. It's a pretty solid album.

thnx for the responses catie. I'll get this going again when I finish the reorganization hopefully tomorrow.

96. Edan:
Primitive Plus
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For those of you who don't think white kids can rap, listen to this. The production and beats are excellent and the lyrics are silly as they are brilliant.

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Savvy Show Stoppers
They kind of sound like they look, dorky and cool as fuck. Good instrumentals are something special. And that one song from Kids in the Hall made me nostalgic. All in all a pretty damn good album. No special favorites and nothing I didn't like.
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I think Ariel Pink is pretty sincere. He's trying to recreate something he loves and his music is nostalgic to the bone. He's said that he's trying to use cassette as a instrument just as much as a medium; its a reaction to the fact that just about anyone can make a pristine album these days and also a way of creating a special type of texture and atmosphere.

I can understand not liking it, but to say he is less sincere than, say, Pavement or Sebadoh, I think, is misguided. He justs dresses his music in different clothing than those guys do. Listen to "Immune to Emotion"; lyrically, it sounds like it could have been written by Lou Barlow.

I didn't mean sincere to have anything to do with intentions. I mean I'm sure he wouldn't do that style if it wasn't something he liked. I meant sincere like true to the real sound. It's a little bit too faded, a little too hissy and it comes of with this fake filmy feeling that I just don't like. It's not a believable live real sound which is what I always thought lofi was about. I can see how someone could like it. It's cool that someone went down that avenue but I just don't like it is all.

I love Beauty and The Beat, don't have this.

Edan-Primitive Plus
I don't have a good enough rap base to objectively judge this album but I know I really like it.

That's a really interesting point, about lo-fi being based around achieving a "live sound" in many cases. I'd never thought of it that way...but it's probably true for some bands (I'm sure you could tell me of a few who definitely had this as a primary motive). I always saw lo-fi as more an act of near-desperate ambition. The artist had this music he wanted to share with the world so urgently that he couldn't wait until he had the means to record it "properly." Anyway...I guess Ariel Pink probably wouldn't classify himself within the classic lo-fi contingency, because he's trying so hard to achieve a very specific sound, which is kind of the opposite of the lo-fi methodology. His music might sound underproduced, but really it's been produced to an extreme. Likewise...I can see why someone wouldn't like his music (even I get tired sometimes of turning up his records more than any other just to hear them properly, because his songs are so damp with saturation).

Thanks for responding so clearly and openly. It's about time this forum got down to documenting a near-academic obsession with pop music...everyone needs to post with your level of consistency and passion.

This is interesting.
Thanks.

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Please sir, can I have some more?

Also, thank you for introducing me to Squarepusher. Tetra-Sync is absolutely brilliant.