LPs/albums you return to over and over

[toblerone3]

Hammered the mix of that and Grime in the Dancehall

I've got the original 40 tunes mix downloaded off the website, before the legalities reduced the number to just 21 cleared in the official release.

 

[killer b]

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?"

There seems to be a lot about some modern popular forms that seem incomprehensible to previous generations of music fans - we only have to consider the general distaste most people over 40 hold for overdriven autotune for example. Plenty of other sounds in modern pop that are pretty alien to older listeners ears.

It's definitely true that similar sounds to Death Grips can be found in more experimental industrial & hip hop forms of previous musical generations (The Bug, Techno Animal, Antipop and the like spring to mind), but surely this is true of earlier music forms too? Echoes of techno and house music can be found in the more outre disco and industrial music of a decade earlier. Punk rock's antecedents can be found in the looser garage rock of the 1960s. The Pet Shop Boys built on the electronic dance music of Moroder etc. Sure there's moment when stuff seems to move particularly fast, and maybe it's pretty slow atm - it still feels to me like there's regularly new and novel sounds cropping up in music though.

 

[krtek a houby]

Lately returned to A House I Am the Greatest, some nice production by Edwyn Collins and Dave Couse always giving it loads with his earnest and passionate vocals.

 

[nogojones]

half your age minus 5 years.

This drags it back quite a bit. Erm... things I was listening to back then that still cheer me when they come on and that I can listen to all the way through...

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bruford - One of a Kind
De la Soul - 3ft High
Public Enemy - It takes a Nation
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
A Tribe Called Quest - Peoples Instinctive Travels... and Low End Theory
X-Clan - To the East
Gang Starr - Step Into the Arena
VA- Tighten Up Vol.2
VA - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
Theolonious Monk - Monk's Blue
Joni Mitchell - Blue

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[maomao]

Dinosaur Jr - Dinosaur, YLAOM, Beyond
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation, Washing Machine, Murray Street
Neil Young - Zuma
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Such a boring list once I write it down.