Recommend me an album to buy today.

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Something from the last couple of years ideally. Any genre, any artist, but I want a couple of sentances about WHY I ought to buy it. I shall check this thread this morning, and my lunch break will be at 1pm, when I go and buy the album that's convinced me most. Winner gets a kiss.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

just bought Ladytron's latest. had heard 'seventeen' on the radio and thought it sounded retro but nicely dark as well. the rest of the album sounds just as good. occassional hooks, robotic voices, massed synths bashing away. what more could one person want?

― phil turnbull (philT), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Far too dispassionate, phil! You've gotta be ruthless! You've gotta be OTT! You've gotta convince me it's the greatest album ever or I'm just gonna buy more Wu Tang solo stuff!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

It's out today!!!! Pet Shop Boys : Disco 3. Because it's the best synth-pop band ever... Because we like to dance... Because we can't stand more groups like The White Stripes... because Paul Weller is boring... because there is nothing else new (and good!) out there (well, there is : Nick Cave - Nocturama), because we love them!

― Panagiotis Pileidis (Panagiotis Pileidis), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

the Sea and Cake, 'One Bedroom'. It's gorgeous, succinct, and features a simply stunning cover photo. The last track is a cover of Bowie's 'Sound & Vision'. It's easily my favourite album of the year(hah), and just might become yours too.

Though it's on Thrill Jockey, and might not be out in the UK yet. If that's the case, pick up His Name Is Alive, 'Last Night', because it's almost as great.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

St Etienne - Finisterre, because their albums are really fun to buy, basically. If reissues count, I'd go for So Tough...or if you can find a copy, Pizzicato 5's Playboy & Playgirl or Happy end of the World...all for the same reason.

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

That's better. But no. You mentioned Nick Cave, that automatically draisn all enthusiasm from you're argument. And Paul Weller, even as a negative contrast to show PSB in greater light, eurgh. No no no! Try harder!

PS. New rule - once an album has been rejected, no one else can recommend it!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, forget what I said earlier: go buy Saint Etienne records.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

BUY EN VOGUE'S "FUNKY DIVAS." IT IS FUNKY

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I just re-bought it last week when i went to the record store w/ the FAP crowd from here, so it just stuck out in my mind.

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Parker Tapes" Cassetteboy- because all albums should feature Frank Sinatra admitting to being an Al Queda member and a segue between Sting and KRS-One "Message in a bottle- THAT'S THE SOUND OF DA POLICE!".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Edan, Primitive Plus. One of the better rap albums released last year. Very retro without being derivative; isn't influenced by Golden Age rap so much as it could be a geniune piece of it. The last song on the album pitch-shifts an old Japanese folk song. Intelligent, absurdist fun. What I wish hip-hop was more often. (Bonus points for its album cover, featuring a 50s style-robot.)

― JS Williams (js williams), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Edan is top of the list thus far!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"Yanqui U.X.O." from Godspeed You Black Emperor. A nice reflective, ambient and dronish album, engineered by Steve Albini. Great crescendos and melodies. "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls" is the highlight, but all of it is full of intensity and feeling. And you also get schematics for the "dangerous liaisons" between the music industry and the warfare industry! Isn't that nice?

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Mindflayer - "Take Your Skin Off"

THERE IS A CAVE WITH TWO NEADERTHALS IN IT. THEY FOUND COLD WAR ERA ELECTRONICS AND DRUMS AND ARE MAKING MUSIC.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

(in case you haven't got it)
from last year, John Zorn - IAO: Music In Sacred Light

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

From their webpage:

Mindflayer were the first people to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for a musical performance. They are also the only modern band accurately
predicted by Revelations! (But not by Nostrodamus. Nostrodamus was a fraud.)

Mindflayer consist of:

SPACE - Torturing analog electronic devices until they die
TIME - Hitting things with sticks until they fall apart

Notable past Mindflayer performances:

Krakatau August 26 1883
Tunguska June 30 1908
Wes's Basement September 28 1996
Safari Lounge January 22 2000
Fort Thunder July 29 2000 (The Unexpected Show)
Bulb House Nov 23 2000 (The Marathon Show - with Special Guest)
Munch House Aug 31 2001 (Ooo Ah Ah!)

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly, Virgin Exeter had no Mindflayer! Shame. I got Edan - if it's crap, I'll set fire to your house, JS!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

You'll have to travel a-ways to do it. And it's an apartment. And if you hate the CD, you hate fun. Post your thoughts on it, please.

― JS Williams (js williams), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

And if you hate the CD, you hate fun.

Swear to god, I WILL kill this meme somehow.

I just re-bought it last week when i went to the record store w/ the FAP crowd from here

Ah yes. And what thought you of the other picks?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Stay tuned for the bonus track at the end of Primitive Plus: the antithesis of a battle rap and pretty fuckin' funny

― Oops (Oops), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Define 'meme' please Neducator.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The word's probably been around forever but in recent years it refers to any sort of net trend/catchphrase/thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Calla's Televise. Dark, gothic pop. Very pretty, at times very rocking. It's very good.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The concept of memes was first coined by Richard Dawkins in his book 'The Selfish Gene'. He started by looking at the role of genes in human evolution....

"But looking at the richness and complexity of life on Earth, Dawkins freely acknowledged that an ethology of the gene alone was simply not robust enough to explain evolution. So he applied a Darwinian view of culture, as well. Dawkins argued for the concept of memes - ideas that are, to use the felicitous phrase of William Burroughs, "viruses of the mind." Memes are to cultural inheritance what genes are to biological heredity. A meme for, say, astrology, could parasitize a mind just as surely as a hookworm could infest someone's bowels. Ideas - like genes - could compete and cooperate, mutate and conserve. They, too, are operated on by natural selection. Human evolution, Dawkins postulates, is a function of a co-evolution between genes and memes. "

(from a Wired article about Dawkins)

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.cheebadesign.com/dengamleskolen/2-live-crew.jpg

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Having read that book, I ought to have fucking remembered, eh?

Oh, and jess, stop it!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Definitely Maybe so you can give it to me and we can review it together...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

ehehehehehehe... Download it! Steal it!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Edan - The Conclusion.

I really liked it! Very cheap and dirty and funky sound, and his rhymes are wicked. I got the N*E*R*D album the other day, and Primitive Plus seems to be the total opposite of that, but just as enjoyable. A good suggestion!

I shall have to make a habit of doing this once a month or so.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)

And my apartment smoothly avoids arson at the hands (and oily rags) of Nick Southall!

― JS Williams (js williams), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

Resurrect.

I have two albums in my basket at Amazon (Sulk by The Associates and It'll End In Tears by This Mortal Coil) plus another on the way from hmv.co.uk (Glenn Branca's The Ascension); pick me another to stick in my Amazon basket. Two conditions; one, you've gotta suspect I'll like it, and b; it's gotta be on 24-hour dispatch.

GO!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and it's cot to iii; be more than £7.35 so I can get free delivery on orders over £25.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

You got the Cody ChesnuTT elpee yet?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 September 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No; I recognise the name but can't think of specifics? Do tell... It's nearly in my basket...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

have you written about that marcello? did i miss it...do you like it?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Get Ranking Miss P presents Sweet Harmony (2CD - Trojan).

I think I'll get the Chestnutt thing MC, is it out over here yet?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, out here now on One Little Indian - apparently as a direct consequence of what I wrote about it back in March.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

go get johnny cash
at san quentin, the most punk
rock album ever

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 September 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

How To Kill The DJ Part 1.

dark 80s style house music.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw today in Smiths that Uncut reviewed it again, marcello. don't they trust you anymore?

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think you'll like Sulk. I don't like Sulk.

I would recommend Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss.

― David. (Cozen), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I went for Johnny Cash; it seemed appropriate. Though I have taken note of everything else!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Get tThe Associates- "Sulk", and with a nice pair of head phones on, sit down and take notes on how great the production is.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

nick what do you think
of the johnny cash album?
all-time classic, yeah?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 13 September 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the haiku writer
is correct about johnny
his albums are good.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 13 September 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I am waiting for
it to arrive; I think it
will be here next week.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 13 September 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

No it won't.
Download Laurie Anderson
or her song, "O Superman".

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Glenn Branca is
here. Cozen; yer syllables are
all fukt up just there.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I just hit enter too early. It's just a normal couple of sentences. Download it, it is the saddest song.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sons and Fascination by simple minds (make sure you get the "secret" double lp version)

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

actually i nearly stopped writing for uncut altogether when i saw that. everything i suggested to lester six months previously then gets ripped off. but then peschek rang up, gushingly apologetic, offered me the cale lead for the next ish...so ok, but i have warned them, do it again & i'm out.

― Marcello Carlin, Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I second 'Sons and Fascination'. 'Sulk' is great too.

Nick, get Japan's 'Gentlemen Take Polaroids' reissue, which comes out Sept. 15th. You might like it...

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

REVIVE.

I have the 50,000 People Can't Be Wrong... Fall comp in my Amazon basket. It is £9.99.

I was going to say "Recommend stuff to get me up to £25 please!" but I have just looked at the HMV site and it is £9.99 there too. So, who's been to the new HMV sale? Their BIGGEST EVAH, of course. What's worth getting?

RECOMMEND BARGAINS!! I HAVE ABOUT £30 TO SPEND!!!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the veils - runaway found strictly for "The Leavers Dance"

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot deal with glooprock till the Embrace album comes out. And then I will never want for glooprock again.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Glooprock?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Blame Tim Hopkins.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Search it in the archives actually; it only exists on ILM, and then only about four times (including now).

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The Lovesong of J Alfred Glooprock.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

gotcha isn't that moperock?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

but the veils isn't gloopy.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kind of reappropriating it. Urbane Hymns would be a big, nasty example of glooprock. MBV may remain forever shoegaze.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I went in the HMV sale yesterday because the last time I went in there, Pulp's 'We Love Life' was £3.99. In THE BIGGEST EVER SALE! yesterday it was £8.99.

They're selling off a lot of Michael Jackson albums for £3 each. They're expecting him to go down.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh, I could do with lots of Michael.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Said the 13-year-old boy to his lawyer.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

im evil, i like urban hymns

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

if they have off the wall for $3.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Urbane Hymns is too shiny and does not have enough noise.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

it does have too much Ashcroft though...

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, FAR too much.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Have a cup of tea with me and my nipples Nick.

― Ashie (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Have cup of tea with me and my nipples Nick.

― Ashie (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

That's rather bizarre.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Well has inserting images been turned off? Because the picture Richard tried to post of himself drinking tea shirtless has not shown up.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Very odd.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

you have to use IHTTP

buy this

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I already own it, Jon.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

this?

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope; I doubt they'll have it in Exeter though.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf is ihttp.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick - Embrace are not Glooprock. Embrace are Miseryballad. They will never be Glooprock!

― ___ (___), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jamonline.it/jam87/images/ashcroft.jpg

― ashie, Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Let's revive this thread. What record should I buy today?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

save up for new order release (or buy new order" retro")

― bernard hook, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, i'm placing an intl shipment order from amazon today for a textbook i need - since i'm paying shipping costs already, might as well pack in a cd or two. for those of you who know what i like, tell me which of these i need most urgently:

raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx
herbert - around the house
klf - chill out
aphex twin - SAW 85 - 92
omnio trio - deepest cut/the best-of comp
gravediggaz - six feet deep
pole - 1

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

and feel free to recommend me something else altogether, i probably don't own it

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You NEED Raekwon and Aphex off that list.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Antique Glow by Kelley Stoltz! It's the psych-folk-Kraut-wibbly noises pop songs that Wilco desperately wish they were doing but aren't! Sample mp3s here!

Also The Pretty Toney Album is ESSENTIAL if you don't have it.

― haitch™ (haitch), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Not a recent album and you probably already have it:

ARKane - "i" -> so long you'll lose yourself in it but you'll be too blissed out of your head worrying about finding the exit. "love from outerspace" is freakily classique. i never really want to dance to it, i only imagine myself moving to their sound. hmmmmm

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty Toney is fucking boss.

I have "i", and have written about it. I like.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Get either of these wonderful Soul Jazz releases :

The Sound of Philadelphia (Philadelphia Roots Vol 2)

Sounds From The Burning Spear.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody who doesnt have the soft machine first two albums twofer should seriously consider buying it today.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

One more album needed to get free postage from Boomkat. Currently on the list: Mogwai, Broken Social Scene, Bibio, William Basinski...

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

anybody who doesnt have the soft machine first two albums twofer should seriously consider buying it today.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I. A. Bericochea - Sueno

― Kaliova (Kaliova), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

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