Music Music Music

[Phoebe]

34. Autechre - Incunabula. I believe this is their first record and it's amazing. This could be released tomorrow and it would still be amazing. That is all, just amazing.

[Phoebe]

35. Bad Religion - The Process of Belief
Loved it, thanks to Akiva for this one!!

[akiva]

[poorpete]

Amazon Prime only has Stranger Than Fiction, True North, and Christmas Songs. Are either of the first two essential?

[akiva]

[akiva]

Davis' stuff from the late '50s until the late '60s is just excellent.

[Cazmonster]

I know that Mike is really into covers.



Puddles the clown covering Styx.

[Phoebe]

I have been working all day and all night while my kids eat leftovers and chips and salsa and cookies because I am a failed timelord. Ok, but at least I just figured out what kind of witch character to make in pathfinder and I have some amusing musics. Not the best but you know, I amuse myself.



I like this, but then, what Phoebe wouldn't like Delphic?

[Stan]

When clowns go old school.


Here's an older one with Postmodern Jukebox.

[Phoebe]

Keep surprise-hearing Garbage on the radio, Only happy when it rains. Irony, as people are always telling me how cheerful I am. Where is that little green smiley face that grins with the teeth? SO CHEERFUL!

What's up, album challenge? Can't get to 36, which is a day somewhere in early February as the year flies by, because I can't sit down at my computer for a full hour to do anything. Sighhhh. I need a speaker to plug my phone into, somewhere in the kitchen and laundry regions.

[poorpete]

Phoebe, some people do 100 movies in a year, it's still a big accomplishment, if you want to aim for that for music. Hope your enjoying this either way. Speaking of 100..

100 days 100 albums in review, in categories, sort-of-ranked but with not too much thought put into it, definitely subject to change. Highlights in bold.

Compilations (these are all quality, which is easy when all the best are picked)
Nina Simone Essential
Louis Jordan: Greatest Hits
Benny Goodman Trio & Quarteet: The Complete (1935-1939)
Gipsy Kings: Best of Gipsy Kings
Billie Holiday: 20th Century Masters
Ralph Stanley: The Best Of
Paganini: Violin Concerto 1 and 4
Scott Joplin: Original Ragtime
Andrew Sisters: The Best of...
Dolly Parton: Ultimate Dolly Parton

Musicals (all good hear too, tough one to rank, minus the top):
The Pirates of Penzance: 1968 Decca Recording
Sondheim: Sunday in the Park with George
Avenue Q: Original Broadway Cast
The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Wicked: Original Cast Recording
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd
Soundtrack: Kinky Boots
Soundtrack: The Music Man

2016-2017 (this was easier to rank, with the top 3 being superb)
Frank Ocean: Blonde
Beyonce: Lemonade
Sarah Jarosz: Undercurrent
Solange: A Seat at the Table
Adele: 25
Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.
Anderson .Paak: Malibu
Sturgil Simpson: A Sailor's Guide to Earth
The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir
Soundtrack: Trolls
Lin Manuel Miranda: Hamilton Mixtape
Sia: This is Acting
Drake: Views
Radiohead: Moon Shaped Pool
Justin Beiber: Purpose
twenty one pilots: Blurryface (sorry)

2000-2015 (tough to pick favs here too)
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Tune-Yards: W H O K I L L
Beck: Morning Phase
Lorde: Pure Heroine
Arcade Fire: Reflector
Kanye West: The College Dropout
The Lonely Island: Turtleneck & Chain
Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni Letters
Sharon Jones: Give the People What they Want
MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
Jack White: Lazeretto
Natalia Lafourcade: Hasta la Raíz
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
Taylor Swift: Red
Bruno Mars: Doo-Wops & Hooligans
The Jerry Cans: Nunavuttitut
Ed Sheeran: x
Beyonce: Beyonce
Skrillex: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

90s (some very good stuff here, but clear winner, but Liz was close)
Liz Phair: Exit from Guyville
Air: Moon Safari
The Breeders: Last Splash
Erykah Badu: Baduizm
LL Cool J: Mama Said Knock You Out
Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape
D'angelo: Brown Sugar
2Pac: Me Against the World
Wu-Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang
A Tribe Called Quest: The Love Movement
Brooks & Dunn: Brand New Man
Metallica: Metallica

80s: Now that's what I call great albums
Stevie Wonder: Hotter Than July
Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual
George Michael: Faith
Prince: Sign 'O' The Times
Bruce Springstein: Born in the USA
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Duran Duran: Duran Duran
Whitney Houston: Bodyguard Soundtrack
Christopher Cross: Christopher Cross
Toto IV: Toto

70s: The top two are pretty ace.
John Prine: John Prine
Dusty Springfield: A Brand New Me
Steely Dan: Aja
Yes: Fragile
Jackson Browne: The Pretender
The Beach Boys: Surf's Up
Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive!
Ramones: Ramones
Eagles: Hotel California

60s: surprising none hear that really stood out, but I think that's because 60s wasn't a blindspot for me.
Santana: Abraxas
Ray Charles: The Genius of Ray Charles
Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul
Otis Redding: Otis Blue
Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert
Miles Davis: In A Silent Way
James Taylor: Sweet Baby James
The Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go
Jao Gilberto and Stan Getz: Getz/Gilberto
The Monkees: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.

50s: more good stuff
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else
Judy Garland: Live at Carnegie Hall
Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry Is On Top
John Coltrane: Giant Steps

[Cazmonster]

Another cover for Mike. New Order's Blue Monday covered by Health.

[Phoebe]

Organizing them chronologically is a very interesting way to look at it. Anyway, been hearing this song on the radio and there's a particular sound on the track - 3:07 and beyond - that is so familiar, but I cannot figure out from where else they got it. It will eat at me until I can figure it out because I know I've heard this sound before and it's, like, in a song I know super well and can't think of. Argh! Nine inch nails???

[akiva]

You know I hate to hurt you
I hate to see your pain
But I don't know how to stop

[Iantha]

It's been a tough semester. Copeland has gotten me through.

[poorpete]

[Phoebe]

Everyone is offended by Meghan Trainor, apparently. Bah, whatever, she's ok. John Legend is really good though: .

[akiva]

The band sounds completely different from "Miles Smiles."

[Phoebe]

I know, I know how y'all feel about my charming, wholesome young men and their little band, but I love them like sons and this Tear in my Heart song is just undeniably a terrific song. And look how cute: that's his stunningly beautiful wife in the video, according to my kid. The Jr high kids look at this thing and say, sighhhh, there's a worthy goal! (No - actually they say #goals). But how nice! How lovely and luminous and attractive it all is. Here we have a happily married couple, with musics! I mean, I see a little more than that too (e.g. the drummer, etc), but look how totally cute it is. Unbelievable.

[Kyle]

I love twenty one pilots and have seen them live. Half my kids have seen them live two or three times. They are mindblowingly GREAT live.

I like this song, but it's so overtly an homage/rip-off of Should I Stay or Should I Go? But I'm okay with that.

The only problem I have is their newest song Heathens (released with Suicide Squad) which is about converting nonchristians to christianity.