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Nice to know I can still find stuff that excites me. Just when I think I've heard all there is to hear.... Really, is there NO END to this music thing?
TIM BUCKLEY - Folk rock / jazz / experimental singer from the late sixties. Father of Jeff Buckley. Truly one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century. His voice gets me wet. I've only heard his first two (the first six are supposedly the best), but they are pure sixties folk rock songwriting greatness. Demilich, are you listening? Anyway, apparently things get much weirder from here on out, culminating in 1970's Starsailor.
WIRE - Post-punk from the late seventies, they recorded three critical masterpieces in three years and promptly disbanded. 1977's Pink Flag has a heavier semi-punk sound to it, and a ton of very short tracks. The next one, Chairs Missing, is a bizarro mix of punk, prog, pop, avante-garde, krautrock and about a million other things. Think London Calling on drugs. I haven't heard the third one yet, but the two I have are complete 10/10. After Christmas I bought about sixteen albums at once and decided to listen to them all about six times and, like a tournament, choose a "winner." (Yes, this is the dumb shit I come up with sometimes). Anyway, Chairs Missing won.
STUFF KICKING MY DICK IN I NEED TO EXPLORE FURTHER: Spacemen 3, Faust, Husker Du, Portishead, Aphex Twin and electronic music in general. Some newer indie pop sort of stuff is good but it is usually either hit or complete miss.
I get the feeling some of these prog/acid-folk albums will make the list.
TIM BUCKLEY - Folk rock / jazz / experimental singer from the late sixties. Father of Jeff Buckley. Truly one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century. His voice gets me wet. I've only heard his first two (the first six are supposedly the best), but they are pure sixties folk rock songwriting greatness. Demilich, are you listening? Anyway, apparently things get much weirder from here on out, culminating in 1970's Starsailor.
WIRE - Post-punk from the late seventies, they recorded three critical masterpieces in three years and promptly disbanded. 1977's Pink Flag has a heavier semi-punk sound to it, and a ton of very short tracks. The next one, Chairs Missing, is a bizarro mix of punk, prog, pop, avante-garde, krautrock and about a million other things. Think London Calling on drugs. I haven't heard the third one yet, but the two I have are complete 10/10. After Christmas I bought about sixteen albums at once and decided to listen to them all about six times and, like a tournament, choose a "winner." (Yes, this is the dumb shit I come up with sometimes). Anyway, Chairs Missing won.
STUFF KICKING MY DICK IN I NEED TO EXPLORE FURTHER: Spacemen 3, Faust, Husker Du, Portishead, Aphex Twin and electronic music in general. Some newer indie pop sort of stuff is good but it is usually either hit or complete miss.
I get the feeling some of these prog/acid-folk albums will make the list.
