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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (2 Viewers)

25.04 - Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread - 2011

Songs - Where Your Head Goes, The floor

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Single-groove, which i initially used to refer to EDM's tendency to decorate a rhythmic loop without structural variance, is the modern equivalent of strummy, which i been fighting since before punk democratized music-making. In my own song-writing, even arranging, i've sacrificed up to 8 or 9 grooves or distinct song ideas to get a properly integrated, cogent shape, with each hopefully referencing and supporting and applying pressure upon each other, to make a song. And i'm an ol' man in a basement aint nobody gonna hear. The people i worked with and for backinaday did similarly, or else they didnt get published. As a result, I resent 9 ideas becoming 9 songs.. LCD Soundsystem's year's work is less musically complex and compelling than a 45-second Todd Rundgren rant, and he's 75 years old. I don't want you not to enjoy them, merely not insist that i should.
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It's dance music :shrug:

 
wikkidpissah said:
Single-groove, which i initially used to refer to EDM's tendency to decorate a rhythmic loop without structural variance, is the modern equivalent of strummy, which i been fighting since before punk democratized music-making. In my own song-writing, even arranging, i've sacrificed up to 8 or 9 grooves or distinct song ideas to get a properly integrated, cogent shape, with each hopefully referencing and supporting and applying pressure upon each other, to make a song.
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Could you give some examples of what you mean, please?  I'm not quite certain I get what you mean.  I suspect I express it differently.

 
Too Much of Nothing - Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes sound like field recordings of some hill folk.  That's part of what makes them so special.

Fall Out Boy - GTA/Where is yr boy - Pop Punk is one of those subgenres where you love the bands that came out during your late teens.  Sorry this isn't my era but it's got some hooks

Spoon - Don't You Evah - I recognize this as one of the Spoon albums on my iPod.  Love it.

Staralfur - Sigur Ros - Luck of the draw but I got their other song yesterday or two days ago since it's now Friday AM.  TGIF I guess.  I may have mentioned it already but this appeals to me much more now than when I was younger.

 
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4:41 a.m. shufflin'...

Neighborhood #1 - Pinball 🔥

pretty cool kickoff - hummable beginning, chugged along, picked up some nice steam - with layer upon layer introduced ... ok, Arcade Fire, i'm looking closer - 8.5

You Never Give Me Your Money - Phil Ramone & Co.

i'm here shuffling instead of procuring my magic feeling - i much prefer "Golden Slumbers" from this section, but this is a meaty enough Macca effort - 8.0

In The Eeeeeevening - LZ Sound System 

emblematic rockin' stuff from Zep, but this one never did it for me - 6.5

Remedy - Robinsons 

best song the Stones never did - it's thick and crunchy, with an utterly infectious groove - 9.0

The Righteous & the Wicked - Richard Socks

exhibit A of why RHCPs never grabbed me - 4.0

Style - Swifty Lazar

never thought i heard one of her songs ... but this is, somehow, familiar sounding. expected a different style from TayTay ... guess this is where she opts for "growing"?  there's a pretty cool song buried beneath the much too slick over production, but it's suffocated, renders this one borderline disposable - 6.0

Smoove Operator - Sharday

yeah, big 80s staple here ... as silky and snappy as i remember - 8.0

Autumn Sweater - I Got It

used to run into Ira Kaplan every now and then when doing my Hoboken rounds ... this tune is perfectly simpatico with the man, a cool breeze blew in, another smoke lit up - 8.0

Fight the Good Fight - Canadians; not Rush

surprised by the adventurous riffage here ... don't know much Triumph, but this has a meaty lil' funk nod - not overly pretentious, some crunchy playing ... enjoyed very much - 8.0

Closer to Fine - Blue Babes

on my Spotty already ... it's a seriously irresistible tune - i'll gladly pour another cuppa with this one ... great job, ladies - 10

final tally:

2 cuppas

10 tunes

7.6 avg

8 smokes

good morning - the shuffle is the word - keepin' it interesting to the Nth - Saludé! ☕

 
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Eephus said:
It's dance music :shrug:
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A younger, sillier, and more obdurate me would have agreed with both of you. I would have added it's only partly supposed to be art, but heavy on the entertainment factor when done right. I would have said, it's rock n' roll, which is dance music derived from jump blues. 

I wouldn't have even said LCD was rock n' roll. I'd have chalked it up to a disco derivative. 

We all grow. I'm still confused by it all.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
I don't even pretend to actually know anything about music. I enjoy it, but I don't really understand it in any serious way.

Reading a post like wikkid's reinforces how little I know. But that's okay--I like what I like.
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Same for me. Don't know anything about meter,keys,notes or technical difficulty of what I'm hearing just know whether I like it or not. Most of what I like is very simple and basic I'd guess.

People always talk about what great musicians the members of Dream Theater are but I find them terribly boring.

 
Steiner's log, May 29th, 2020, 0738:

As I emerge from "The Chamber" after having spent a 2nd night there, all I can think of is getting to my next pick, but between reading through so many pages and pages of wit and rambling intertwined with each other, I remain right up to the very last second unsure of what choice to make, so once again I reach for an album that wasn't a consideration until about 4 rounds ago...

25.14: The Ocean Blue - The Ocean Blue (1989)

The promising young band who couldn't overcome the grunge, making the album a bit of a breath of fresh air in its time.

For the playlist: Between Something and Nothing and Drifting, Falling.

 
mphtrilogy said:
nice, but no Sara Smile... :(

and been getting into bridge of sighs a lot these days, its a masterpiece... on my list...
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"Sara Smile" isn't on this album, but "She's Gone" is.

Was trying to stay away from the common hits, but happy to add it in.

@KarmaPoliceplease swap "She's Gone" in for "Had I Known You Better Then".

 
El Floppo said:
And I'll reiterate re lcd Soundsystem...this kind of music is like men's shirts. All basically the same ####- torso, sleeves, collars, buttons. But like the music, not all men's shirts are the same. And from an artistic standpoint, there are lot of people out there cranking out stuff of zero impact with very few that get it right from an object and subjective level.

The getting right isn't because the structure needs to change, it's because the details throughout are done right and well. I've heard a lot of wannabe lcd Soundsystems the last 15 years and I have no doubt wikkid could crank out some passable stuff better than most of what gets made...but I also have next to no doubt that the details wouldn't make it transcend the way these outfits that are so loved, like LCD, do.
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I think part of the allure of LCD Soundsystem is the unironic acceptance of being uncool.  They came, they made some music, they disappeared (and then came back etc).  Everything was very self-aware.  Their first single was about how the music world had passed them by.  Murphy was 31 when they formed LCD Soundsystem, which is practically ancient in electronic music circles.  Some of their biggest hits are songs about finding out a close friend has died on a late night phone call and lamenting that you no longer go out and party with all your friends anymore.  There is something quintessentially uncool about both LCD Soundsystem and James Murphy, but in their embrace of their uncoolness created something unbelievably cool anyway.

 
otb_lifer said:
dunno how many wires we would've crossed had you been drafting sans gimmick, but ... yeah, i could see you pilfering a couple/few of my oeuvre.

if notebook serves, this is your damn jam

:popcorn:
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Yes, yes it is. I think I played that twice a night for a year or so when I was nineteen. I don't think The Damned would have lasted until the 22nd or so round with me in the draft. But it may have been [redacted] that I took, just for its diversity of sound.  

 
otb_lifer said:
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You Never Give Me Your Money - Phil Ramone & Co.

i'm here shuffling instead of procuring my magic feeling - i much prefer "Golden Slumbers" from this section, but this is a meaty enough Macca effort - 8.0
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Golden Slumbers is my favorite from the album, but for me Carry That Weight and The End need to be attached to it, and that wouldn't work on a shuffle.

 
rockaction said:
Yes, yes it is. I think I played that twice a night for a year or so when I was nineteen. I don't think The Damned would have lasted until the 22nd or so round with me in the draft. But it may have been [redacted] that I took, just for its diversity of sound.  
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[redacted] is better than "London Calling" ... i called it out in my writeup, sans title, of course ... though i doubt any of this lot were hot on it. 

maybe Foghorn, or ... ?
 
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otb_lifer said:
[spolier]

[redacted] is better than "London Calling" ... i called it out in my writeup, sans title, of course ... though i doubt any of this lot were hot on it. 

maybe Foghorn, or ... ?
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I think Eephus and one or three others would be on it. But especially Eephus. Then again, it wasn't taken, so it sounds like it would have fallen to me. I can tell you I'd have a hard time drafting in the twenties and not hitting it eventually.

 
otb_lifer said:
ya know, Samsung pushed a firmware update on my phone a few weeks ago ... making my keyboard more sensitive than a truck full of emo boyz - #### this.   

and my autocorrect can go eat a ####, while we're at it. 
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Not-so-firmware, eh? More like touch-sensitive, eh? Eh?

 
krista4 said:
I'm listening to a lot of stuff tonight from The Chicago Era, and it reminds me of pizza. 

Wait, let me explain.  Mr. krista grew up with this horrible non-pizza thing in the OH/PA/WV area where they just cook the crust and sauce, and then when it comes out of the oven they throw a bunch of provolone and the toppings on it.  Awful, right?  But it's what he grew up with and he loves it. Similarly, there is a pizza called "Pizza King" or "Arni's" that I grew up with (I think @shuke might have it by him, too?), which I recognize objectively is not a good pizza, but I grew up with it and love it.

Similarly, anything I listened to in that 1996-2001ish time of my life is pretty much going to be beloved by me, because that's when I musically grew up (along with my senior year of college).  I'm not saying any of this is awful like that pizza is, but I know I'm going to appreciate it more than anyone else.  

Which is also why there's probably no additional records from that time period that I'll be sniping from anyone else.  The stuff I'm taking will be mostly highly personal to me.
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I grew up in western PA and now reside in NE OH but think I know the area where Mr K grew up.   Could be around East Liverpool.  He could have grew up a little south of there.   

Pizza quality seems to decline in general as you travel south along the eastern part of the US.   Pizza is great where I grew up and live.  Food is about thing that was great where I grew up.  

 
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