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Everyone has an album(s) which they can listen to over and over, while still loving it more every time...I wanna know your favourite albums and why you love em.
Mine are... The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses. The greatest album by the greatest band of all time, beautiful record, you know someone is decent if they love this record (I know Ben Gibbard likes em). I listen to this album all the time and find something new to love each time. Don't know if they were a big band in America but they were massive in the indie world over here. A bunch of Manchester lads too, incredible debut. Rubber Soul - The Beatles. Their best album, pretty much perfect and the only album were the Paul McCartney songs are as well regarded as Lennon's. You can hear them mature on this record, obviously influenced by Bob Dylan, The Byrds and it sounds beautiful. The cover is perfect too and In My Life can still make me cry. Biggest Bluest HiFi - Camera Obscura. Love this record, its influenced by all the right things (British 80s indie, motown, 60s girl groups) and doesn't sound like a pastiche. It's very indie and quite twee but it's got some incredible tracks on it, Swimming Pool in particular. The vocals are perfect and Eighties Fan is one of the best song of the 2000s. |
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This is a great topic.
We Have The Facts and W're Voting Yes - Death Cab for Cutie. Death Cab for Cutie. I tend to like albums that are nostalgic and that evoke feelings from my childhood. I remember me and my brother listening to this record when we would be cleaning our house, blasting it with the doors open in the country where we lived. The album grew on my hugely over time, as the first time I heard it I didn't like it very much. It also the most cohesive album I've ever heard. Transatlanticism is in the same boat, my second favorite album only by a hare. Give Up - The Postal Service. This record got me out my rap phase, when I was like 12. It got me into Indie music and away from crap music. If any album is perfect, its this one. A Weekend In The City - Bloc Party. I know a lot of people don't like this record, but I don't care. Its so perfect. The lyrical content is so great, and the music matches it brilliantly. The way it makes me feel is so amazing its really hard to describe. Aja - Steely Dan. The classic, this takes me back to my early childhood. Clever, soothing, and dynamic, this my favorite Dan album. Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada. Probably the greatest electronic album ever, its a feast of amazing beats and melodies, painting pictures of my past in my mind while I hear this record. These guys are geniuses. Pure and simple. When lava flows underwater it behaves differently. And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men. |
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Beatles - Rubber Soul
Steely Dan - Aja Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Lately I've been getting more and more into Steely Dan though... Aja is honestly probably the best album... the arrangements of the songs are all nuts-- every rhythm instrument seriously lays it down the whole time and the solos are perfect. The horn fills and stuff creep in with the best timing. The lyrics are all out of control, too... it's like two of the creepiest guys in the world somehow managed to write super great songs. I would love to find out more about their recordings and how they did them/what kinda gear they used/what kinda outboard gear was used on them. I have the Aja DVD and have searched far and wide on the net, but I'm still lookin for more info. (ultrautsukushii) |
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I wouldn't neccesarily call Fagen and Becker creepy, but I get where you're coming from. It would take a weird motherfucker to write "Hatian Divorce". Aja, Gaucho, The Royal Scam, and Countdown to Ecstacy are my favories, but Aja is the best. Although I love how cynical The Royal Scam is, and I love Gaucho and Countdown, you just can't beat Aja. Especially the first half of the album. When lava flows underwater it behaves differently. And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men. |
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Yea I know exactly what you mean about Aja-- although the lyrics are a bit brigther than their other albums (although still dark), the music just can't be topped.
But ya, to me Gaucho is probably the darkest of their albums... I think that feeling stems from the feeling that a lot of that stuff might've been autobiogrphical. I think Gaucho (aside from the opening tune) suffers from being too digital or tamed or something. The drums are just not as lively as they should be. Everyone's Gone to the Movies is definately a creepy song though... that being said, behind Aja, I think I like either Katy Lied or Gaucho... after which comes The Royal Scam. Lately I've been wondering what kinda guitars Becker used back in the day-- I read one interview where he said he was borrowing Denny Dias's telecaster for some of the recordings, but I'm sure he used something else sometimes, too... in the liner notes of Aja is he playing a duo sonic or a mustang or something? (ultrautsukushii) |
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Here's mine:- Electric Warrior - T.Rex. Pre-glam era, Bolan at his lyrically whimsical best. This was my first ever "bought" record, as opposed to taping off the radio. Still have the original vinyl, including rare limited edition poster, 38 years down the road. One of the few releases that I own on both vinyl and CD and am happy to. Still sounds great. Entirely coincidentally, tomorrow is the 32nd anniversary of Bolan's untimely death. So many of today's folkie releases have some roots in this record. The Clash - The Clash. The record that changed my mind and musical tastes forever. These were the songs that made my long hair short, and my wide trousers narrow. Inspiring stuff. Hated by parents and the establishment alike. As a fifteen year old at the time, whatever Joe Strummer said was gospel. Encouraged to attend the infamous Sex Pistols/Clash/Damned/Heartbreakers gig at the Black Swan in Sheffield by my school art teacher, I've never looked back. Adam and The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox. Took me to places I have never returned from. Hearing this record forced me to buy a guitar. There was simply no way out of it. Stone Roses - Stone Roses. For most of the reasons That Jim has elaborated. Not the greatest band of all time, but without a doubt the greatest debut. And for that reason they could never repeat the formula. A Camp - A Camp. Vocals that will melt your heart. Lyrics that will break it. My favourite album of all time. Not bad for a "side project". Death Cab For Cutie - You know why. Great thread Jim. And the hardest part is yet to come |
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I lost the liner notes a while back so I couldn't tell you. But I kind of think The Royal Scam is their darkest record. If you think about songs like "Dont Take Me Alive", "Hatian Divorce", and "Everything You Did" are all kind of dark. But its interesting you bring up Gaucho as their darkest album, as it was definitley their darkest time as a band. A song they were really proud of got erased during the album's production, Becker got hit by a car, I think also his girlfriend died, and then they broke up. So maybe thats reflected in the music, but besides the sort of menacing "Glamour Profession", I don't find it to be that dark. I think "My Rival" is one of the funniest songs ever written, and "Time Out of Mind" is probably the most upbeat song about heroin use that I've ever heard. Would you agree with me that Pretzel Logic is their weakest album of their original run? When lava flows underwater it behaves differently. And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men. |
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Quote: A song they were really proud of got erased during the album's production, Becker got hit by a car, I think also his girlfriend died, and then they broke up.
Assuming you mean the band? It is perfectly acceptable to break up with your girlfriend after she has died. No one will judge you. Having never heard Aja, can you assure me that I am going to be blown away. Or will it just sound like dated American AOR? Keen to know. And the hardest part is yet to come |
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I was talking about the band breaking up. Well, if you don't mind Fagen's voice or jazz inspired rock songs, it should definitley blow you away. I think ever if you don't think its amazing, you'll be able to respect its greatness musically, for the reasons that Steven had. When lava flows underwater it behaves differently. And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men. |
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You've got a point on Weekend in the City, both Sunday and Waiting for the 7.18 are brilliant songs. Sunday is an absolute gem of a song. You know how certain songs/albums just remind you so much of one moment in the past? Well Weekend in the City reminds me of college and going to London for an interview at a university down there. I listened to it on the 200 mile journey down and all the time I was in London, and the album reminds me of a cold November day in London. I know one lyric on the album is "the Northern line is the loudest", referring to the London underground and weirdly I was listening to that album on the underground that day. The whole album reminds me of that day and London, and for some reason I have really good memories from that day. (P.S. I didn't get into the university). |
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Yeah for me, Sunday, Kruezberg, Waiting for the 7.18, and I Still Remember are my favorite songs on the record as well. Its interesting, you probably can feel the theme of the record more than I can, as the album was kind of described as being about the feeling of living in modern day England. Theres a great interview with Kele about the album. http://www.guardian.co.uk/musi...popandrock.features1
To me, the record reminds me of winter, as I would listen to it non stop when I lived in the countryside with rain just pounding on my roof. Theres just something desolate and bleak about the album that is really tremendous. When lava flows underwater it behaves differently. And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men. |
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Top 5 of the Moment (Off the top of my head)...
Pedro the Lion- Winners Never Quit Suicide- Suicide Sufjan- Seven Swans The Wrens- The Meadowlands Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights |
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Fuck yes! _______________________ Don't fuck with the tropics. |
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Yea, Steely Dan apparently had some rough times during gauch-- I've also heard that they were switching record companies and they were discontent with the fact that their records would sell for more money and apparently becker was gettin' too deep in the dope.
The Royal Scam is pretty dark though... even down to the cover, which I think is great (although I heard it was some kinda leftover and they weren't really happy with it). To me the Fez seems kinda weak... (in comparrison to their other stuff). If it weren't for the crazy guitar solo/drums, I would say green earrings is weak too. The opening song is great though... and you know they had to be rolling on the floor writing the line "in your technicolor motorhome". Maybe I was offbase calling them creepy, but seriously, what planet are these guys from?! Nobody else comes close to the ridiculousness of their lyrics (including all the ludeness that comes with it), and yet you hear their stuff in malls and grocery stores every now and then. I think Fagen's statement on the Aja DVD sums his musical outlook up-- where he says he likes fake jazz as well as fake fake jazz... basically degrading his own music to fake fake fake jazz, which he said with a completely straight face with that ridiculous pencil thin mustache. But yea, recently one of my friend's friend's, from England, hadn't heard steely dan before and I gave him Aja and he said he couldn't even finish it because he thought it was so terrible. He apparently likes other jazz and stuff but couldn't stand it. Steely Dan seems like it's one of those groups that people love to hate or love to love. (ultrautsukushii) |
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Yeah I know what you mean about The Fez, its pretty weak. And I agree with you that Fagen and Becker were odd motherfuckers, but if they were normal, and their lyrics were normal, would you like them as much? I'm with you, they were weird dudes, but I think its a good thing, a huge part of what makes them so unique. And your point about your freind not digging Aja is a good one. I remember getting into Monty Python's Flying Circus and thinking they were the funniest people ever, but so many people just don't get it. They see the show they just don't think its funny. Its too ironic for them, like Steely Dan. I read something on wikipedia that said Rolling Stone called Steely Dan "the perfect musical anti-heroes of the 70's" which is a terrific point. There so odd and strange, but you can't help but love the band for it. I'd love to get my hands on that Aja DVD, do you know how I could get a hold of it? When lava flows underwater it behaves differently. And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men. |
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