Albums you haven't played for years and then play and it's wow!!
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kained&able
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Someone chucked on the manics holy bible the other day. I had forgotten that it was any good.
dave
dave
copliker said:
NAH - Man Vs Nature.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
skyscraper101 said:
As we're squabbling about the relative merit of old jungle albums here.......
Timeless is at least twice as long as it needs to be and hopelessly marred by wailing soul diva muppets and painfully dull "intelligent" passages.
These were unbelievably excused at the time because he claimed to like E.L.O. FFS!
"oh he's so eclectic"
If I remember right there was one decent tune and the rest was tedious.
ouchmonkey said:
what he said ^^^
Timeless was the reason I failed to get into dnb/Jungle earlier than I did. I bought it, it had a couple of OK tunes on it but the rest was as described by ouchmonkey
I had to wait a couple of years for New Forms to come along and then I went 'oh, this really good actually'
I had to wait a couple of years for New Forms to come along and then I went 'oh, this really good actually'
half_eaten_arm
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jbob said:
I really couldn't disagree more. Timeless was just bloody great. Yes there was other great stuff happening too but when I heard Timeless I was really taken back over its originality and fresh sound.
kained&able said:
It isn't.
I used to be a big Manics fan. I listened to some of their stuff again recently and wasn't impressed. IMO Everything Must Go is the only good album they've ever done: with a few exceptions (Motorcycle Emptiness is brilliant, for instance, and The Everlasting is nice) most of what they did before Everything Must Go consists of over-complicated lyrics shoehorned into clichéd punk tunes, and everything after is dull MOR.
Albums I've not played for ages and enjoyed? Loads recently, after getting my CD collection uploaded into iTunes:
Bent - Programmed to Love. Lovely, mellow electronicky sort of record.
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
Led Zeppelin IV
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
etc etc
Roadkill said:Noneeded IMO. That album is wonderful...
I've had the '
' ingrained in me, unfortunately. I used to get the ultimate piss ripped out of me for liking Suede. 
Seemed the only people to like them were the people who wrote 'soulmate' ads in the back pages of Select Magazine.
Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Manic Street Preachrs - Holy Bible
And one I have being playing lately with large amounts of wow:
Unwound - Fake Train
I used to be called a puff and a hippy because I liked Suede
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Manic Street Preachrs - Holy Bible
And one I have being playing lately with large amounts of wow:
Unwound - Fake Train
I used to be called a puff and a hippy because I liked Suede
Madusa said:I've had the '
Seemed the only people to like them were the people who wrote 'soulmate' ads in the bag pages of Select Magazine.
Maybe as a gay man I can get away with a liking for Suede.
Only up to the point that Bernard Butler left, though: beyond that point they started sounding too much like a Bowie tribute band for my taste.I've seen Brett Anderson twice this year, though, once at Popstarz and once in a church (
) in Islington, and he's been superb on both occasions. Some of those old Suede songs - So Young, The Wild Ones, The Asphalt World - sound so good when it's just him singing them with a guitar. IMO a lot of his solo stuff is good too. I'm discovering a new respect for the bloke.<e2a> On the recording of the Islington gig, which was one of those where you can pick up the CD shortly after the end of it, Jeff and I were right near the front near the microphones and you can hear us shouting. Jeff even yelled the title of a song - Scorpio Rising - he likes: Anderson looked and said 'I haven't practised that one, but just for that bloke over there...' and played the first few chords. Fame at last!
I'm just listening to the recording again. They buggered the sound up a bit for the first half, but it's still good to listen to.Roadkill said:Maybe as a gay man I can get away with a liking for Suede.
I've seen Brett Anderson twice this year, though, once at Popstarz and once in a church (
I have all their albums and a double album of b-sides.
lol, did you know that Ricky Grevais managed them for a bit in the early years??Roadkill said:<e2a> On the recording of the Islington gig, which was one of those where you can pick up the CD shortly after the end of it, Jeff and I were right near the front near the microphones and you can hear us shouting. Jeff even yelled the title of a song - Scorpio Rising - he likes: Anderson looked and said 'I haven't practised that one, but just for that bloke over there...' and played the first few chords. Fame at last!
Havent heard any of Anderson's solo work though...
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
LDR said:
If only I could be sure you were joking.
say it ain't so
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Irmin Schmidt - Filmmuzik
Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
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Cant help but to add my 2p worth on the subject of Goldie's Timeless.
Personally I was shocked to see how popular this album was at the time - the tracks on it are all pretty hard work and inaccesible, so I was quite pleased to hear so many people (who wouldnt normally make the effort, particularly with jungle) getting into it.
I remember the timing of the album quite well (a happy time for me) - the album took a long time to drop (at least a year late), and many of the tunes had been out and smashed during that time (angel + innercitylife especially)
All the tracks that were coming out as promos/releases where unlike anything that had been heard before. They were sophisticated, dark and distinct. They had a coherent sound that linked them together - most importantly they worked on the dancefloor as well as on the headphones. They really did take the music to another level - fair to say that they were groundbreaking.
IMO Timeless is a classic - it was the moment when the rave scene grew up and really got serious. Some people might think some if it is flawed - perhaps so. I listened to it for the first time in a long time earlier this summer and was blown away by it - more so than when it came out. Its not always easy to listen to, gets a bit lost at times, but the ambition is brilliant.
The scene was always about one-off dancefloor smashers, and I don't think anyone has really made a proper DnB album (that isnt just a collection of 12's and their B-sides) - Timeless has come closest.
The Guy called Gerald albums (28 gun + secret technology) are waay more flawed than timeless and pretty hit and miss to be fair. When they hit their classic though. As for roni's new forms it's great, but many of the tracks are just long loops played out for 5mins, and its nowhere near as risk-taking as Timeless. It's definitely one to go back and check out again.
Personally I was shocked to see how popular this album was at the time - the tracks on it are all pretty hard work and inaccesible, so I was quite pleased to hear so many people (who wouldnt normally make the effort, particularly with jungle) getting into it.
I remember the timing of the album quite well (a happy time for me) - the album took a long time to drop (at least a year late), and many of the tunes had been out and smashed during that time (angel + innercitylife especially)
All the tracks that were coming out as promos/releases where unlike anything that had been heard before. They were sophisticated, dark and distinct. They had a coherent sound that linked them together - most importantly they worked on the dancefloor as well as on the headphones. They really did take the music to another level - fair to say that they were groundbreaking.
IMO Timeless is a classic - it was the moment when the rave scene grew up and really got serious. Some people might think some if it is flawed - perhaps so. I listened to it for the first time in a long time earlier this summer and was blown away by it - more so than when it came out. Its not always easy to listen to, gets a bit lost at times, but the ambition is brilliant.
The scene was always about one-off dancefloor smashers, and I don't think anyone has really made a proper DnB album (that isnt just a collection of 12's and their B-sides) - Timeless has come closest.
The Guy called Gerald albums (28 gun + secret technology) are waay more flawed than timeless and pretty hit and miss to be fair. When they hit their classic though. As for roni's new forms it's great, but many of the tracks are just long loops played out for 5mins, and its nowhere near as risk-taking as Timeless. It's definitely one to go back and check out again.
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