Style Council - Introducing The Style Council 1983 Paul Weller is an utter, utter god of pop. He's made of music. Follow this record with early Jam albums then leap into his recent covers album, Studio 150, a lesson on flawless musicianship. Weller's output covers the seventies (The Jam - In The City 1977) to the now and he's been right where music is every moment of those almost thirty years.
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress 2003 The albums recced above are very fine, though I would place Tigermilk before them. This, their latest, is magical. It sparkles and laughs and is tastily melancholy. It is the bright sun shining on a pretty girl's swinging perfect hair, it is the clipped click click of her heels as she walks down the street. It's sweet and funny and sad and the music slips through your fingers like days. Belle and Sebastian are the love children of Gram Parsons and Dusty Springfield.
The Lemonheads - The Best of the Lemonheads The Atlantic Years 1998 And really, this rec is not just because there's a brilliant Sentinel vid to "The Outdoor Type" or because I love "Big Gay Heart". It's a lovely album and is a nineties antidote to all the grunge and the wrist-slitters you are being recced. (Which is not to say that isn't good music, it just that music partook of a particularly melancholy slice of the nineties generation.)
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies 1983 Changed the direction of music at the beginning of eighties.
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill 1986 This is clever, vocally and lyrically sweet, rock and punk and rap.
N'Sync - Celebrity 2001 No, really. You want to know where music has been in the last thirty years? This album is like the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap and the Bassac rivers - three mighty influences, three major directions, occassionally it flows backwards! But you don't sell millions of albums without having something that makes people want to listen to your music. And that's pop, baby.
Kasey Chambers - Barricades and Brick Walls This is where country music is coming from.
I know you said five, but frankly, that's impossible. Annie Lennox - Medusa (though Bare is also brilliant) Living Colour - Vivid De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising Kate Bush - Sensual World George Michael - Faith Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet AC/DC - Back in Black The Pixies - Doolittle Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Oh My God! You just have to listen to everything!!!
I've privileged pop, rap/hip-hop and country music because it seemed you were getting a lot of grunge and rock recs from everyone else.
If you do try Einsterzende Neubaten, I can recommend their doco soundtrack, Berlin Babylon. I'll get back to you when I'm reunited with my cable connection.
And now to bed. I'll wake up tomorrow with a completely different list, I just know it.
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Date: 2005-03-26 06:41 pm (UTC)Paul Weller is an utter, utter god of pop. He's made of music. Follow this record with early Jam albums then leap into his recent covers album, Studio 150, a lesson on flawless musicianship. Weller's output covers the seventies (The Jam - In The City 1977) to the now and he's been right where music is every moment of those almost thirty years.
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress 2003
The albums recced above are very fine, though I would place Tigermilk before them. This, their latest, is magical. It sparkles and laughs and is tastily melancholy. It is the bright sun shining on a pretty girl's swinging perfect hair, it is the clipped click click of her heels as she walks down the street. It's sweet and funny and sad and the music slips through your fingers like days. Belle and Sebastian are the love children of Gram Parsons and Dusty Springfield.
The Lemonheads - The Best of the Lemonheads The Atlantic Years 1998
And really, this rec is not just because there's a brilliant Sentinel vid to "The Outdoor Type" or because I love "Big Gay Heart". It's a lovely album and is a nineties antidote to all the grunge and the wrist-slitters you are being recced. (Which is not to say that isn't good music, it just that music partook of a particularly melancholy slice of the nineties generation.)
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies 1983
Changed the direction of music at the beginning of eighties.
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill 1986
This is clever, vocally and lyrically sweet, rock and punk and rap.
N'Sync - Celebrity 2001
No, really. You want to know where music has been in the last thirty years? This album is like the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap and the Bassac rivers - three mighty influences, three major directions, occassionally it flows backwards! But you don't sell millions of albums without having something that makes people want to listen to your music. And that's pop, baby.
Kasey Chambers - Barricades and Brick Walls
This is where country music is coming from.
I know you said five, but frankly, that's impossible.
Annie Lennox - Medusa (though Bare is also brilliant)
Living Colour - Vivid
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Kate Bush - Sensual World
George Michael - Faith
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
AC/DC - Back in Black
The Pixies - Doolittle
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Oh My God! You just have to listen to everything!!!
I've privileged pop, rap/hip-hop and country music because it seemed you were getting a lot of grunge and rock recs from everyone else.
If you do try Einsterzende Neubaten, I can recommend their doco soundtrack, Berlin Babylon. I'll get back to you when I'm reunited with my cable connection.
And now to bed. I'll wake up tomorrow with a completely different list, I just know it.