Urban75 Album of the Year 1994
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
The lesser spotted music fan version of the realtor's intriguing layout or bijou
19) Stereolab – Mars Audiac Quintet
Not the best Stereolab album (not a bad one though!) and in strong year and in the top 20. I'm proud of U75's Stereolab stanning. Well done all of you!
[U75 Stereolab Stanning - that's nearly a Stereolab style album name. U75 Stereolab Loop Stanning Pad - yep that's a Stereolab album name.]
Not the best Stereolab album (not a bad one though!) and in strong year and in the top 20. I'm proud of U75's Stereolab stanning. Well done all of you!
[U75 Stereolab Stanning - that's nearly a Stereolab style album name. U75 Stereolab Loop Stanning Pad - yep that's a Stereolab album name.]
18) Johnny Cash - American Recordings
The first of those great late career recordings. This really should be higher, not least because I forgot to vote for it.
The first of those great late career recordings. This really should be higher, not least because I forgot to vote for it.
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17) Kristin Hersh - Hips and Markers
A singer songwriter that I'm unfamiliar with. Is it any good? What's it like? I really don't know and I wouldn't like to say. I find it easier to assess and absorb avant garde contemporary classical music than I do singer songwriter albums. An album like this could become a part of your life and you will have a special relationship with it. Who am I to comment on that?
Anyway listen to it and love it and dance in a field at midnight singing the songs that you know off by heart.
Or maybe don't.
I don't know.
You do you.
A singer songwriter that I'm unfamiliar with. Is it any good? What's it like? I really don't know and I wouldn't like to say. I find it easier to assess and absorb avant garde contemporary classical music than I do singer songwriter albums. An album like this could become a part of your life and you will have a special relationship with it. Who am I to comment on that?
Anyway listen to it and love it and dance in a field at midnight singing the songs that you know off by heart.
Or maybe don't.
I don't know.
You do you.
Not catchy? Really? OK Buddy Holly was overplayed, but that record doesn't have any filler.
Indeliblelink
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They weren't buying this in 1994 as only 4 copies were released at the time.
When I said it fills a space I meant a sonic space not disk space. It never sounds thin or sparse. And that makes for a good continuous vibe.
I'm just not feeling hooked by any of the hooks unfortunately. I've just listened to Buddy Holly and I don't even remember it.
I defy you to name a better song about the systematic destruction of a piece of clothing.
14) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
It may shock you but I'm not really familiar with the works of the Aphex Twin. This is way more ambient than I was expecting (yes I know it's there in the title!). Like proper ambient, almost abstract industrial ambient. Like Tangerine Dream's Zeit or Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy for Lilith in places. Totally spacey.
It may shock you but I'm not really familiar with the works of the Aphex Twin. This is way more ambient than I was expecting (yes I know it's there in the title!). Like proper ambient, almost abstract industrial ambient. Like Tangerine Dream's Zeit or Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy for Lilith in places. Totally spacey.
That's quite specific! I can name two IMO catchier songs about sweaters though.
13) Pulp - His n Hers
There's a distinctive songwriting style associated with Pulp and there's probably lots to say about it. However I'm so struck by how the album art looks like AI art. I even find myself subconsciously counting fingers.
There's a distinctive songwriting style associated with Pulp and there's probably lots to say about it. However I'm so struck by how the album art looks like AI art. I even find myself subconsciously counting fingers.
AverageJoe
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At number 29. (and it's a beautiful horrible noise)
11) Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
Definitely an album that could only have been put together in a studio. Everything is geared towards a quite complex songwriting purpose. (It makes me long for purposelessness...) But see the above comments about singer/songwriters because meaning is personal.
Definitely an album that could only have been put together in a studio. Everything is geared towards a quite complex songwriting purpose. (It makes me long for purposelessness...) But see the above comments about singer/songwriters because meaning is personal.
9) Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Techno! It can be dancey or it can be sophisticated. This is dancey and sophisticated. How about that!
Techno! It can be dancey or it can be sophisticated. This is dancey and sophisticated. How about that!
8) Hole - Live Through This
I feel there's a discourse to be had about this. But actually Hole could keep the sound simple - quiet part/loud part. And deliver something raw. Similar melodic tricks as Nirvana and as idiosyncratic.
I feel there's a discourse to be had about this. But actually Hole could keep the sound simple - quiet part/loud part. And deliver something raw. Similar melodic tricks as Nirvana and as idiosyncratic.
AverageJoe
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Can't believe I forgot Underworld...but I remembered Orbital.
6) The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Still in their sampled guitars phase to confuse the rockists out there. A little dated compared to some of the albums lower down the list, but this one does bang indeed.
Still in their sampled guitars phase to confuse the rockists out there. A little dated compared to some of the albums lower down the list, but this one does bang indeed.
4) Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
I've spent a lot* of the last 30 years not listening to this. Big mistake.
*Actually all of it.
I've spent a lot* of the last 30 years not listening to this. Big mistake.
*Actually all of it.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
maomao
普費斯
Pantera, Napalm Death and Cradle of Filth right?
