Posts by Lisa Davis46

Uuuh, this extended version is actually pretty great.

Anyway, there’s a new album out lately...

(it’s got righthere.)



I guess Stuart just doesn't miss... 🙏

Look, I don't know, maybe it's Thursday for Dennis Hall41. 😁

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Gerald Jackson48 said:Jamie is a woman, and honestly, she’s an incredible jazz trumpeter.

I messed up again, just like I did back at Vanderbilt. 😁 Wow, okay, here's another one. Honestly, it's incredible. 😛

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Amanda Lopez50 said:Can I make a suggestion?
If you're going to suggest an album, just give me a sentence or two about it first. I guess it helps. Maybe.

I'm on the same page as Xavi here. When I first started suggesting stuff on this thread, I used to go pretty deep and write out full descriptions for every album, but then I realized nobody else around here really does that. It felt like I was just exhausting myself with all the typing when apparently just dropping a link and a photo is enough for everyone else... but honestly, I still think it’s better to have a little context beforehand. Even just a few quick lines or maybe—and I think this might actually be better—a bit of a personal take on it. 🙂

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analogbear40 said:I don't get why anyone would put a cap on how many albums we suggest. Especially when interest is picking up... I mean, you can always change that setting whenever you want. It could go better, or obviously, it could go south.

There’s really no point in listening to all of that. I guess you could, if you wanted to waste your time, but honestly, why bother?

I guess I’m on the same page as analogbear40 regarding limiting the number of album suggestions. We should keep them to a minimum, just like our own list. Between Thursday and Friday, there’s way too much stuff to get through. It’s hard enough just to listen to everything or at least catch whatever actually sticks out to us. 🙂

Dylan’s debut, Early Frost, is just a stunning, beautiful album.
😍

Right now, I'm mostly getting pulled in by Paradise Birds. It's my first time hearing Jamie Branch, and wow!
I'm also digging Grimes and Rhye right off the bat...

Plus, signing on for Xavi—Jordi Savall is incredible. Honestly, his stuff really hit the spot for me yesterday and again this morning.

My own discovery was my, uh, last-minute album suggestion, though I won't be voting for them...
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Poll time!

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analogbear40 said:11:59 PM
😁

😁
What can I say? It was a long day.

It’s not some local thing, it’s more like RYM—anyone can write whatever they want on there...
He's definitely an American. But, I guess the guy who gave it four stars is too.

😁
Don't sweat it, though some of this stuff actually gets on my nerves a bit.

We don't really have much housewife energy going on with the albums we've got,
so starting next week, I'm thinking we should just stick to American music.

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I have no idea what this is, but my algorithm served it up to me today.
(this was right after I gave 'Circle of Light' another listen...)

Wait, is fassgodard one of the regulars here? I had no idea...
😁

Sorry guys, but what is with all this poking around today?
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Anyway, check this out—our guys actually made it onto progarchives.

They're pretty great...

urbanheron4 said:

Glass Bead Game – Garden of Light (1980)
Genre: American Pink Floyd

...survey.

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redbear12 said:Jordi Savall – el Nuevo Mundo: Folias Criollas (2010)

redbear12, this album is honestly stunning. Again.

Amanda Lopez50 said:Maybe they’re going to cut me loose now, but I don't think I can walk away. 🙂

San Salvador - la Granda Folie (2021)

Xavi, cut the crap. 🙂 It’s pretty great that you can't!
I'll finally get around to listening to that album, I guess... I just didn't have the chance when you mentioned it over on the other thread.
🙂

Maybe I'll throw in a suggestion to beef up this already killer list, though I guess I don't want to be that person who suggests something every single round...

Thanks, Amanda Robinson4, we're really trying here! 🙂 Honestly, the most important thing to us is just getting you guys to bite on the topic and actually want to come back here every Thursday and Friday. After a while now, it feels like we've finally gathered a solid group of people in one spot—people who aren't just showing us new music, but are actually discovering stuff themselves too. I'm just bummed that some folks have totally vanished; I hope everything is alright. Our buddy baribba hasn't been around for a while either... maybe it's just life, I guess. I don't know. 🕺

No rush, it'll happen when it happens. 🙂

I'm hoping The Doors play tonight... or tomorrow at the latest. I guess I'm feeling too restless to just sit at my computer right now, and this intro is actually pretty important to me. Plus, I need to rewatch that documentary to refresh my memory, and I’ve kind of spiraled into some Nietzschean philosophy reflected in most of Morrison's lyrics.

Also, I just wanted to say that voting was incredibly hard this time around. I managed to listen to almost every album, more or less. It was tough picking just eight. I really have to highlight the last suggestion, Blake Mills and his 'Mutable set', which blew me away. It's my first time hearing him, but his music has such a specific vibe—it's like pure peace and healing in these crazy times. Just beautiful ambient electronica mixed with acoustic vibes; very minimal, not many words, but somehow warm, gentle, and soft. I really liked the review by Thomas Jurek on AllMusic:

Mutable set combines The instrumental and production prowess of 2018's nearly ambient instrumental look and The poignant songwriting sensibilities of 2014's Heigh ho, only more softly. Released during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, its songs are concerned with timely topics: The strange pace of modern life that races while seeming to stand still; individual and societal isolation, climate change, the exterior state of the world and its people, as well as Mills' interior universe.
(...)
Mills leaves his ego OFF Mutable set and serves The songs with Care, attention, and tenderness. And while this record sounds bleak on the surface, there's a strange sense of comfort in these songs; they acknowledge the sad state of the world even while attempting to transcend its darkness and uncertainty.

Anyway, thanks Kokeza for this awesome recommendation. I hope there are more coming! 🙂

redbear12 said:Do you happen to know Italian? 😁 To me, this whole work, (this piece 🤔) sounds like a precursor to musical theater, as weird as that sounds, even though that form only existed in Italy for a short time before being suppressed by opera.

I'm not sure, but some parts were easy enough to understand! 🙂 Well, a little. As a musical or even a play, it makes sense. But to me, it felt fun and cheerful; it doesn't have that heavy melodrama you get in opera. And I don't know exactly where the line is where opera emerged from various vocal musical forms like cantatas and oratorios... maybe you know?

redbear12 said:By the way, that guy used to compose these pieces where cats meow, dogs bark, and all sorts of animals make noise.🙏

And this actually sounds pretty interesting! 😁

redbear12 said:Maybe you've heard of Jordina Savall? The next thing will probably be something from "his" catalog.

Never heard of them, but just send it my way! 🙂

2021 : Full list of albums (suggestions and picks) : III

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Misfits - Famous Monsters (1999)
Psihomodo pop - Godina zmaja (1988)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Absencen (2005)
Tool - Ænima (1996)
Harley Poe - Satan, Sex and No Regrets (2012)
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako (2004)
Brian Eno - Before and After Science (1977)
His Name Is Alive - Mouth by Mouth (1993)
David Bowie - Young Americans (1975)
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The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure (2007)
Cymande - Cymande (1972)
Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman - Songs From The Victorious City (1990)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme (2012)
Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)
Autechre - SIGN (2020)
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (1974)
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Laibach - Spectre (2014)
Korneli Group - 1941. (1979)
Orange Goblin - Frequencies From Planet Ten (1997)
Public Image Ltd - The Flowers of Romance (1981)
Giles Corey - Giles Corey (2011)
Raul Seixas - Krig-ha, Bandolo!
Ron Geesin - A Raise of Eyebrows (1967)
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975)
Boyd Rice And Friends - Music, Martinis And Misantrophy (1990)
Scout Niblett - The Calcination of Scout Niblett (2010)
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Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (2012)
Cornelius Cardew - The Great Learning (2010)
Clutch - Blast Tyrant (2003)
KBO! - Forever Punk / Pozovi 93 (1998)
Raison d'être - In Sadness, Silence And Solitude (1997)
All Them Witches - Lightning At The Door (2013)
The Band - The Band / Brown Album (1969)
Lida Husik - Your Bag (1992)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk (1967)
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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
Ugly kid Joe - America's Least Wanted (1992)
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music (1981)
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
Hule - Istine se ne bojim (2002)
The Gun Club - Miami (1982)
The Waterboys - This is the Sea (1985)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About The Weather (1985)
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1966)
Boban Petrović - Žur (1981)
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David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir - Harmonic Meetings (1986)
Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock (1970)
New Bomb Turks - At Rope's End (1998)
Antenat - Subing (2006)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Chromatics - Night Drive (2010)
James - One Man Clapping (1988)
Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium (1990)
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Chernobyl (OST) (2019)
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Terry Riley - The Harp of New Albion (1986)
Opeth - Damnation (2003)
Zabranjeno pušenje - Das Ist Walter (1984)
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss spun (2017)
Kamasi Washington - The Epic (2015)
Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built (2009)
The Devils - Dark Circles (2002)
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown (1974)
Supersilent - 6 (2003)
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Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell (1986)
Arsen Dedić - Čovjek kao ja (1970)
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in Comatorium (2003)
Music from Saharan Cellphones 1 i 2 (2011)
Motus Vita Est - Cogito Aude (1990)
Demon Fuzz - Afreaka! (1970)
KLF - Chill Out (1990)
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark (1999)
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David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir - Harmonic Meetings (1986)
Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme (2012)
Killing Joke - Killing Joke (1980)
Neurosis - Souls at Zero (1992)
Myrkur - Folkesange (2020)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (2020)
Kamasi Washington - The Epic (2015)
Autechre - SIGN (2020)
J.J. Cale - Naturally (1972)
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (2020)
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redbear12 said:What a total flop (if you ask me, anyway). 😵

Just wanted to say, I had such a great time today painting in that early morning light! Honestly, I could see myself listening to this during those early hours—maybe paired with a cappuccino and a cigarette (yeah, I’m still messing around with rolling my own). 🕺 It's got soul.

I probably won't get through everything in time, honestly. I'm only on *The Low End Theory* right now, but man, there are just so many incredible albums this time around. I think I'll give Primal Scream a shot too. If more people jump in, maybe we’ll actually see some kind of tie at the top... 😉

Dennis Hall41 said:Sure, tomorrow. I'm totally wiped right now. I'm no detail-oriented wordsmith like Darnielle, but I guess AHWT isn't bad enough to insult a tired opener.😁

Nice. 🙂

I'm actually pretty stoked for the intro! 🙂

The albums from this group are honestly great.

I think I have somewhere in here both *Debi* and *Strange Days*, but they seem to be scattered all over the place... though they're definitely among the first ten tracks. 😉

Things are heating up, so feel free to blast everything you've got until midnight. We've updated the rules, effective immediately:

Steven Newman50 said:We’ll all listen to and "review" one Album of the Week, which we'll pick beforehand via a poll.

Each album gets its own dedicated thread for reviews.

Album of the Week Selection
Drop your suggestions here, then we'll vote in a poll to choose the Album of the Week based on whoever gets the most votes. There's no limit on how many total suggestions we get, but each person can only nominate one album.

There aren't any strict criteria for the picks—they can be massive hits or totally obscure indie stuff. The only requirement is that they're available on YouTube or a similar public streaming service. The whole point is to have a shared activity where we listen, suggest, discover, and review things together, just like we started doing in the last thread.

We're proposing Thursdays, from midnight to midnight, with the poll following on Friday. You can vote as much as you want. It's not a hard rule, but it would be cool if the person whose album wins opens the new thread as soon as the poll wraps up. We'll have new album threads open by the end of the weekend at the latest.

🙂

A little refresh for the thread!

northernangler8, give me a suggestion! 🙂 maybe Amanda Robinson4 and I will both bow out if we get some more people to join us. 🙂