LPs/albums you return to over and over
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Nowt really - I’m a novelty chaser
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Joni Mitchell Hissing of Summer Lawns
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
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seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Sinatra - “Swingin’ Session”
Ella Fitzgerald - “Hello Love”
Beatles - “Help”
Paul McCartney - “Ram”
Rolling Stones - “Let it Bleed”
Linton Kwesi Johnson - “Bass Culture”
The Who - “Sell Out”
High Llamas - “Beet, Maize & Corn”
John Martyn - “Bless the Weather”
Pink Floyd - “Atom Heart Mother”
MJQ - “Django”
George Barnes Octet - “Recordings 1946-49”
Too many to select from several thousand pieces of vinyl
Ella Fitzgerald - “Hello Love”
Beatles - “Help”
Paul McCartney - “Ram”
Rolling Stones - “Let it Bleed”
Linton Kwesi Johnson - “Bass Culture”
The Who - “Sell Out”
High Llamas - “Beet, Maize & Corn”
John Martyn - “Bless the Weather”
Pink Floyd - “Atom Heart Mother”
MJQ - “Django”
George Barnes Octet - “Recordings 1946-49”
Too many to select from several thousand pieces of vinyl
1st Black Sabbath album
1st This Heat album
Leg End & Unrest by Henry Cow
Slapp Happy - Slapp Happy or Slapp Happy + Desperate Straights
All three Art Bears albums
Both News From Babel albums
Trout Mask Replica
VdGG - Pawn Hearts
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Schlagerns Mystic/För Äldre Nybegynnare
ISB - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter + Wee Tam and the Big Huge
The Fall - Dragnet
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste + Three Friends + Free Hand
Can - Monster Movies + Tago Mago + Delay 68
The Faust Tapes
Kraftwerk 2
TD - Electronic Meditation
Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill
Amon Düül - Paradieswärts Düül
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Soft Machine's first three albums
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Kevin Ayers & the Whole World - Shooting at the Moon
HatN - Rotters Club
Egg - Polite Force & Civil Surface
King Crimson - 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th albums
Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
Comus - First Utterance
L Voag - The Way Out
Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets + Ummagumma (ffs!)
Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs
Sun Ra - Soundtrack to Space is the Place
Third Ear Band - S/T
Area - Crac!
Stormy Six - Al Volo
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
(Mostly) Same old white blokes with guitars etc that I was listening to when I was 20 and I keep thinking I'd got beyond. Blech. Tbf there's quite a lot of non-album early blues and jazz that I keep returning to so it's not all rock shit.
(Should add a three or four Magma albums but I've banned myself from them)
1st This Heat album
Leg End & Unrest by Henry Cow
Slapp Happy - Slapp Happy or Slapp Happy + Desperate Straights
All three Art Bears albums
Both News From Babel albums
Trout Mask Replica
VdGG - Pawn Hearts
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Schlagerns Mystic/För Äldre Nybegynnare
ISB - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter + Wee Tam and the Big Huge
The Fall - Dragnet
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste + Three Friends + Free Hand
Can - Monster Movies + Tago Mago + Delay 68
The Faust Tapes
Kraftwerk 2
TD - Electronic Meditation
Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill
Amon Düül - Paradieswärts Düül
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Soft Machine's first three albums
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Kevin Ayers & the Whole World - Shooting at the Moon
HatN - Rotters Club
Egg - Polite Force & Civil Surface
King Crimson - 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th albums
Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
Comus - First Utterance
L Voag - The Way Out
Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets + Ummagumma (ffs!)
Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs
Sun Ra - Soundtrack to Space is the Place
Third Ear Band - S/T
Area - Crac!
Stormy Six - Al Volo
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
(Mostly) Same old white blokes with guitars etc that I was listening to when I was 20 and I keep thinking I'd got beyond. Blech. Tbf there's quite a lot of non-album early blues and jazz that I keep returning to so it's not all rock shit.
(Should add a three or four Magma albums but I've banned myself from them)
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ska invita
back on the other side
i dont know what happened but this year everything pretty much pre-Covid sounds old to me
i love old music, i love going back and digging but at the moment everything sounds really dusty to me, even tunes from just a few years ago...for exapmle everything on the 2001 album thread sounds tired to me
maybe im just hungry for newness....or the energy in the world has shifted...or something
i love old music, i love going back and digging but at the moment everything sounds really dusty to me, even tunes from just a few years ago...for exapmle everything on the 2001 album thread sounds tired to me
maybe im just hungry for newness....or the energy in the world has shifted...or something
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Doors LA Woman
Dark Side of The Moon
Fleetwood Mac Rumors
Dark Side of The Moon
Fleetwood Mac Rumors
There'a a Vibe shift on rn
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Most of the ones I rinsed in my youth are a bit obvious. A couple of more obscure ones I've returned to a lot:
Espers - III
Civil Civic - Rules
Future of the Left - How to stop your brain in an accident
Espers - III
Civil Civic - Rules
Future of the Left - How to stop your brain in an accident
ska invita
back on the other side
are you feeling it?
im getting a little year zero doomsday ecological collapse techno-authoritarianism flavour
The 1991 album thread all sounded horribly dated to me. I very rarely listen to anything from between the years of 1982 and 2019. I'm sure I'm missing loads of really great stuff, but I think of it as the "tinny synths and whiny rock" period that we're now finally out of. First time of my life that I'm really excited about new releases in general.
Nothing that significant, just a revival of early 00s 'indie sleaze' according to this ludicrous article https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/a-vibe-shift-is-coming.html
ska invita
back on the other side
oh no im on a different vibe shift
The price of OG Babyshambles t-shirts has gone through the roof on ebayoh no im on a different vibe shift
ska invita
back on the other side
that is an amazing article of american hipster angst
" Everyone coming out of hibernation being like, What are people wearing? What are people reading? What are people doing? And it was different than when everyone had gone into the pandemic. It unsettled a lot of people,” Monahan says, commiserating, I think."
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Only thing I've noticed is a much greater diversity in the particular retro styles people are adopting - though I admit to not being the sharpest trend-watcher. The only vibe shift I'd like to see is the end of nostalgia in both music and fashion, because nostalgia has dominated for most of this millenium so far, and I think it does signify the lack of ability of society to move forward. In my head it's linked to the return of Leninism/Mild social democracy - i.e the inability of the left to move forward.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Nowadays with the internet teenagers are all in minecraft memes and ticktock dance moves, rather than new hair styles and musical genres.
ska invita
back on the other side
i sort of know what you mean.....the political world desperately needs a dose of change.."The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born".....so applicable to music too?
Morning waffles
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Is this really true? Any more than it ever did at least - revivalist music (or at least music that quotes heavily from past genres) has always taken up a significant chunk of space, especially in the music aimed at old people that we get exposed to... but the stuff the kids are into is often new & weird to my ears.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
"I can tell he’s theorizing on the fly when he points to the fact that there’s now a bouncer at Bemelmans Bar as evidence of the new embrace of old opulence."that is an amazing article of american hipster angst
" Everyone coming out of hibernation being like, What are people wearing? What are people reading? What are people doing? And it was different than when everyone had gone into the pandemic. It unsettled a lot of people,” Monahan says, commiserating, I think."
I reckon I might be up for a revival of early aughts indie sleaze tbf, I was just a bit too young for it the first time around, and I would think that I'm now slightly too old for it, but I suspect I'm probably a fairly similar age to the writer and interviewee there?
I mean, I'm open to persuasion, but I still reckon the most convincing argument I've heard on this point is the Reynolds Retromania one. As I've possibly said before, I don't think you could make a hyperpop playlist that would kill the Pet Shop Boys.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Screamadelica would be my most constantly played LP of all time.
Quite a few Parliament/Funkadelic LPs would be close behind. Electric Spanking of War Babies would probably be closest.
Quite a few Parliament/Funkadelic LPs would be close behind. Electric Spanking of War Babies would probably be closest.
I've not read Simon Reynolds' Retromania, mainly because I think my life doesn't need another middle aged rock journalist explaining to me why he thinks everything's already been done.
Does hyperpop need to 'kill' the pet shop boys?
Ron Merlin
Jus de chaussettes
Lifeforms - FSOL.
Puta's Fever - Mano Negra.
On A Storyteller's Night - Magnum.
Rising - Rainbow.
Chill Out - The KLF.
Ledena Trgatev - Terrafolk.
Puta's Fever - Mano Negra.
On A Storyteller's Night - Magnum.
Rising - Rainbow.
Chill Out - The KLF.
Ledena Trgatev - Terrafolk.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I judge all music by whether or not you could kill a Pet Shop Boy with it, what else is it good for? Nah, I think it's interesting to think in terms of decades, or even double decades - this is all speculation cos I wasn't around for most of it and certainly didn't have a time machine, but I think there's lots of music from the 1960s that would sound incredibly alien to someone from the 1950s or 60s, and similarly for the 70s, 80s and so on. I like Death Grips, but if you had access to a time machine, I dunno how mindblowing they'd be to a reasonably up-to-date early 90s music fan who dabbled in hiphop, industrial and punk/metal. So the hyperpop thing was shorthand for "if you put on a playlist of stuff from that genre and played it to someone involved in 80s electropop, how much of it would sound genuinely weird and incomprehensible, as opposed to just techniques that they'd be familar with but hadn't taken in that particular direction?"
toblerone3
Grrrrr
There are not a lot of albums that I play a significant chunk of and often. Although I am looking for good albums I am still quite singles and mixes focussed.
These are my three most listened to albums at the moment
1. Sault - Untitled (Rise) 2020
2. Quadron - Avalanche 2013
3. An England Story (The Culture of the MC in the UK 1983-2008), Soul Jazz 2008
These are my three most listened to albums at the moment
1. Sault - Untitled (Rise) 2020
2. Quadron - Avalanche 2013
3. An England Story (The Culture of the MC in the UK 1983-2008), Soul Jazz 2008
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
I used to listen to certain albums over and over...
Leftism, Endtroducing, Screamadelica, Ladies and gentlemen..., Original Pirate Material, OK Computer, first couple of Suede albums
... to name a few, but eventually managed to tire myself of them, so I rarely listen to them as a whole now. Also way too much choice now and new stuff to discover.
Leftism, Endtroducing, Screamadelica, Ladies and gentlemen..., Original Pirate Material, OK Computer, first couple of Suede albums
... to name a few, but eventually managed to tire myself of them, so I rarely listen to them as a whole now. Also way too much choice now and new stuff to discover.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Hammered the mix of that and Grime in the Dancehall
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