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heres the thread where you list the best albums from years ago (5,10,20,whatever) that you first heard this year.

mine will probably be a running list, as i remember stuff. so far, though, i think the top three are these:

todd rundgren - a wizard, a true star
blue cheer - vincebus eruptum, outsideinside

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Dusty Springfield's Atlantic sessions
Ray Charles Atlantic Soul Sessions
Alot of Bacharach

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of Jackson 5 & Michael Jackson songs. Merck Records. Tied + Tickled Trio. Lots of jungle.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy Music - Siren
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Eddie Harris - Silver Cycles

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Even though it's only three years old, I've been listening to Tina & the Total Babes for several weeks now like crazy.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Unique 3 Jus' Unique
Capleton Prophecy (actually there were a bunch of dancehall and roots discoveries. . . Sizzla, Jacob Miller, Tenor Saw's album)
IAM L'Ecole Du Micro D'Argent

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

azoto - disco fizz
mnemonists - horde
minnie riperton - come to my garden

― :| (....), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

reggaeton.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Can - Future Days

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

DI
Field Mice
Much rave / jungle
Ash
Much microhouse
Nas
Swervedriver
That music doesn't have to be in album format to be worth listening to

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Luther Allison- Luther's Blues

This is a killer record. I had heard some Allison, so I knew the guy could really play guitar, but this is an excellent album. If you like blues, 70s r&b or a fan of intense guitar playing, I can't see one not like this one.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

sergio mendes and brasil '66
edu lobo
judy henske
blackburn and snow
pentangle
donovan
biosphere

all a bit quiet there but that's the mood i'm in...

― phil turnbull (philT), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Depeche Mode - Violator

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 15 November 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Charley Patton's Revenant box: the soulful call of the wrecking ball (talking about your pre-rock *rock* of blues across the wilderness)

― don, Monday, 15 November 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred Lane - Car Radio Jerome. Deliciously warped vocals with haphazard big band style backing and lyrics that suggest some unnamed mental illness.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

star soundtrack- v/a
disco deewane - nazia hassan
2,556,000 disco productions - bappi lahiri

― bulbs (bulbs), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

arthur russell, world of echo

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

peter brotzmann octet - machine gun
Donna Summer (mainly her stuff with Moroder)
sunn0))) - flight of the behemoth
beat happening
Miles Davis - sketches of spain
hanatarash
gypsy music
windy + carl - antartica
Bach
Mars - 78+
sergio mendes and brasil '66

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Dusty in Memphis
Fleetwood Mac, Heroes Are Hard To Find

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ghostface, ghostface, ghostface

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Luther Allison- Luther's Blues

There is a club 'dedicated' to Luther Allison here in Madison, WI called, well, Luther's Blues. They just got some new management and broke all the contracts with local bands in favor of more national acts. I don't know if this means there will be more or less gigs by wack blues shredders.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

kaleidoscope "tangerine dream"
bulldog breed "made in england"
stockholm monsters "alma mater"
happy hate me nots "out"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite a lot, as I am working on a "Top 1000 albums" list of my own, and as such I have checked out a lot of stuff that I thought I might like.

However, I think the winner, amidst several strong contenders, has to be Martin Newell's "The Greatest Living Englishman", followed by Kaleidoscope's "Tangerine Dream".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Bobbie Gentry

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

aw man, where to start...

Born Heller s/t
The United States of America
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
sun city girls reissues on eclipse

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My version of this thread, for individual tracks:

It's been a bumper year for discovering new old things

Just cause I want more people to post to it.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There's also this similar thread: what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked out by?

Along with my "Music For 18 Musicians" "discovery" (as noted on that thread), there was also

Magnetic Fields -- 69 Love Songs
Donnacha Costello -- Together is the New Alone
Galaxie 500 -- Today

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

these are probably a 'duh' for a lot of y'all around here, but i listened to deerhoof and destroyer for the first time this year and they were both a major revelation that made me not want to die. so i got that going for me....

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

fucking parson sound holy fuck!!!!! (as of this instant. holy shit. how come i managed not to hear this until now??)

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Fell in love with Bjork ("Homogenic" "Post" "Debut")
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
John Prine

― Bryan Civils (Nick Twisp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

tears in xray eyes, all three albums but especially 'wonderfully made' which i suppose is more of a comp than an album.

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Rediscovering dubstar I think.

― king of the eyesores (papa november), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Dixie Dirt -- A great unsigned band from Knoxville
Joni Mitchell -- "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" (I was always afraid of the mid-late 70s stuff until I heard this)

The Police -- not that I hadn't heard them before, but just realizing that I really fucking like them a lot

Kris Kristofferson
Bert Jansch
Richard and Linda Thompson

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

care, diamonds and emeralds
the buggles, adventures in modern recording
rediscovering the greatness that was the geto boys and early 90s hip-hop

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Jackson 5 for sure
TOnes on Tail - forgotten how much i liked em
John Martyn
T-Rex
The Aluminum Group

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Eno, Warm Jets through to Another Green World
Miles Davis, Dark Magus
TAGO MAGO!

― SEA BASS BATTLE (haitch), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

tim buckley
monoshock
new blockaders
butthole surfers (where have i been?)
los gatos
the shoes
sparks
goblin

― brock (brock), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

stevie wonder
shuggie otis
curtis mayfield
isaac hayes
takehis kosugi
henry flynt

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Beach Boys, Friends
Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
Slowdive, Souvlaki
Daft Punk, Discovery

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

mahalia jackson

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Frijid Pink "Defrosted"
Groundhogs "Split"

― Grimmer, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

William Basinski -- The Disintegration Loops
Emil Beaulieau
the K-RAA-K label
New Pornographers -- Mass Romantic (thank you, 00's poll)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Barry, tell me more about Disintegration Loops; a friend of mine was telling me about it the other day and it was intriguing. What does it /sound/ like?

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian,

Here's me freaking out the day I first heard William Basinski:

william basinski - is this the best ambient/drone stuff around or what?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Master P
8Ball and MJG
Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Emmylou Harris

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Phoenix
Stars
Mountain Goats
Morrissey

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana (album)
Shiina Ringo - Ringo No Uta (single)

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The first two Magazine albums: I was in a pub and this track came on ... real Monochrome Set guitar sound. My girlfriend said it was Magazine [My Tulpa]. I went out and bought it ... great stuff!

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The United States of America
Bread & Circuits / Indian Summer / Angel Hair / Heroin etc
Dropdead
early jungle
Acrimony

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

DROPDEAD!!! I've been going to Dropdead shows for like six years or something. They're probably the only band I've been seeing for such a long time and would still totally go see. I think they're taking some sort of hiatus while one of them (bob i think?) is in Japan.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Marmalade's "psych-pop" sessions

The companion disc to the book "Sweet Soul Music" w/ Otis Clay, George Perkins, etc.

James Brown's "Soul on Top"

Mary Lou Williams

Nino Tempo and April Stevens

the two Mer-Da records, particulary "Long Burn the Fire"

Earl Hines solo piano recordings of the '70s

Julieta Venegas

The Pretty Things' "Electric Banana" sessions

Robin Gibb's '70 solo album "Robins Reign"

The Zebedy Colt album of standards done gayly, "I'll Sing for You"--the funniest shit ever

Cymande

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

found artists and/or albums

Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Jimmy Scott - Falling in Love is Wonderful
Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Finesse
Silver Apples - Silver Apples/Contact
Joni Mitchell - Blue
XTC - Drums and Wires
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Tremendoid -- of the one's I've heard off that list (seven of them), those are OTM.

The Durutti Column, in particular, really needs more lovin' (LC's phenomenal).

My list..

Tom Waits - "Bone Machine"
David Bowie - "Low"
The Byrds - "Younger Than Yesterday"
T. Rex - "Electric Warrior"
That Algarnas Tradgard album that was mentioned a while back
Cluster/Harmonia
Eno's pre-"Another Green World" albums

― mj (robert blake), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

2004 was, among many other things, the year I found out about MANU CHAO.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sparks - no. 1 in heaven
change - the glow of love
chic - c'est chic
nature and organistaion
suicide
bad company
concord dawn
alden tyrell
paul kalkbrenner

― :| (....), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

in general:
arthur russell
cluster
piano magic

albums:
budd & eno - the pearl and especially ambient 2: the plateaux of mirror
the durutti column - the return of the dc (and many others)
annette peacock - my mama never taught me how to cook
hille perl - sainte colombe (french baroque music played on the viola da gamba)
lou reed - metal machine music (not as great as many people here say but not as bad as most people elsewhere say neither)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

lc not the return of the dc is my fave dc record

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Eddie, Christian McBride's website had an interesting music biz article about 'Soul on Top'.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Tower Recordings - Folkscene
Volcano Suns - Bright Orange Years
Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange
Dramarama - "Anything, Anything"
Miminokoto - Live
M83 (was late to this)
Jandek (only dipping my toes in, as of yet)
Cecil Taylor - Leaf Palm Hand, Student Studies, Cecil Taylor Unit, One Too Many Salty Swift..., etc.
Poison Idea - "Alan's on Fire"
Albert Ayler - Fondation Maeght Nights, Vol. 1, Live in Greenwich Village
Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Fela Kuti - Yellow Fever/Na Poi, Stalemate/Fear Not for Man, Confusion/Gentleman, V.I.P.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Chaka Khan & Rufus- Sweet Thing

The best song EVER!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sweet Thing" vs "What Am I Missing?" FITE!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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