Desert Island "Discs" Draft (2010-2019) - We Did It (1 Viewer)

[Ilov80s]

Rd 4 U.F.O.F. by Big Thief (2019)

genre: folk rock

The impact is so quiet you might miss it, but it’s revelatory enough that you can’t escape it. -Rolling Stone

Everything is made from the same matter. Some part of all of us is capable of submitting to darkness, just as some part of all of us is capable of conjuring light. - Olivia Horn

Cattails

UFOF

Open Desert

 

[Northern Voice]

I'll go

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)

Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

The Suburbs

Ready to Start

We Used to Wait

 

[Northern Voice]

Rd 4 U.F.O.F. by Big Thief (2019)

genre: folk rock

The impact is so quiet you might miss it, but it’s revelatory enough that you can’t escape it. -Rolling Stone

Everything is made from the same matter. Some part of all of us is capable of submitting to darkness, just as some part of all of us is capable of conjuring light. - Olivia Horn

Cattails

UFOF

Open Desert

My favourite on this one is Not

 

[El Floppo]

You guys can skip me. Too much going on today to concentrate.

 

[Ilov80s]

My favourite on this one is Not

on the the album.

 

[rockaction]

So @Abrantesand @Dr. Octopusfor three ITC.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

4.14

Album: Turn Off The Radio (Build A Garden)

Artist: Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real

Release Year: 2019

Save a Little Heartache

Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)

Stars Made of You

Lukas is the son of Willie (back to back legacy picks for me). While there is a hint of country in his music, it's more rock with some pop and soul sensibilities. This record came up as a recommended pick on Spotify and I fell in love on first listen - before I even researched the band and found out that he was the son of Willie Nelson. I've gone back and explored some of his past catalogue as well and I like them a lot but this one is still my favorite.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

@simey enters the chamber

 

[Dr. Octopus]

5.02

Album: God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise

Artist: Ray Lamontage

Release Year: 2010

New York City's Killing Me

Beg Steal or Borrow

Are We Really Through

I celebrate Ray's entire catalogue but this is my favorite of the decade at issue - if we opened it up to the prior decade I'd probably claim a different favorite however.

 

[simey]

Lukas is the son of Willie (back to back legacy picks for me). While there is a hint of country in his music, it's more rock with some pop and soul sensibilities. This record came up as a recommended pick on Spotify and I fell in love on fist listen - before I even research the band and found out he was the son of Willie Nelson. I've gone back and explored some of his past catalogue as well and I like them a lot but this one is still my favorite.

I like Lukas a lot. I saw him and his band at two different Farm Aids, and he was also one of the main guys when I saw a tribute show to The Last Waltz.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I like Lukas a lot. I saw him and his band at two different Farm Aids, and he was also one of the main guys when I saw a tribute show to The Last Waltz.

You’re up by the way.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I wasn’t sure with chamber rules if I was supposed to make one pick or two but will be running out for the night after I walk my dogs so I made the second one to keep it moving. 

 

[simey]

4.15 - No Justice - Federale (2019)

The band Federale is sorta a cross between Indie, alternative country, and spaghetti western. I dig their sound. Give it a try.

Aim for the Heart

She's Headed for the Highway, I'm Bound for a Train

Fire on the Hill

Talk is Cheap

 

[simey]

5.01 - Lonerism - Tame Impala (2012)

I like the dreamy psychedlic music on this album. The singer's voice makes me miss John Lennon and The Beatles.

Elephant

Mind Mischief

Sun's Coming Up

 

[simey]

Floppy said to skip him so those ITC are:

@Abrantes

@rockaction

@landrys hat

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

I'll go

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)

Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

The Suburbs

Ready to Start

We Used to Wait

This was my next pick. Not as great as Funeral but still damn good. 

 

[rockaction]

Okay, this is where the certitude of the recentness of the first four sort of drop, and we're left with memory. 

Herewith probably the finest punk album of the decade, sounding unapologetically like The WIpers in spots -- other times just in a weird freak out sonic jam.  Lyrics provided by a North American Middle Eastern graduate student on reflection of his time in Jordan. Probably the most legitimately paranoid album since El-P worried about domestic drones.

5.05. Red Dons. Fake Meets Failure. 2010

And all I’ve got now
Is sitting here all alone
With everything I own
Watching people pass by
In fascination of their destinations
All the places where they will go
Let go Let go

So if you see me tonight
Well I’d hope you’d pass me by
‘Cause if saw me tonight
You’d know I’m not alright
And I miss you tonight

My Life In Exile

There's only room
For those who believe in us
Persona non grata
Come see the world through a villain's eyes

There's a danger in defying
All of the high ups
Thank you pariah, pariah, pariah

Pariah

 

[rockaction]

@landrys hatis ITC, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Northern Voice]

My favourite on this one is Not

on the the album.

Right. Pretty rare for bands to put two albums in a year these days.

 

[landrys hat]

5.06 Temples - Sun Structures (2014)

This was a really good decade for psychedelic rock. 

Shelter Song

Keep In the Dark

 

[landrys hat]

if tasker is skipped then @KarmaPolice itc

 

[Eephus]

.01 - Lonerism - Tame Impala (2012)

Kevin Parker had an interesting decade

 

[Eephus]

5.05. Red Dons. Fake Meets Failure. 2010

Queued

Never heard of them but I like all Dons except Milton Keynes and Trump.

 

[Eephus]

4.15 - No Justice - Federale (2019)

Also queued and never heard of

 

[rockaction]

Queued

Never heard of them but I like all Dons except Milton Keynes and Trump.

Sweet. They're Portland, OR-based, now sort of an international band. I think their days are largely done, though they're still technically active. Saw them in Boston years ago -- they were playing a two gig day and I caught the matinee -- and we were part of the forty or so people there, so they're not a national draw, but they're respected in punk circles. I think my love might be because of the sonic yet traditional punk sound that I think the teens really missed. They also cut a more mid-tempo one in 2016, which might be more others' speed. I think John Bender of this board enjoyed a post or two I made back then of that new album. 

 

[simey]

Sweet. They're Portland,

Federale happens to be a Portland band too.

 

[El Floppo]

Do I owe one or two?

 

[Eephus]

Do I owe one or two?

2

 

[Eephus]

Federale happens to be a Portland band too.

I thought the artist was No Justice which is a different band out of Oklahoma

 

[Eephus]

Preexisting conditions

2    .    9    ---    Steve Tasker
3    .    7    ---    Steve Tasker

3ITC

@El Floppo x 2

@Abrantes x 2

@KarmaPolice

 

[simey]

I thought the artist was No Justice which is a different band out of Oklahoma

In my original writeup where I gave info on the band and album.  I said the band Federale blah blah blah, but then I deleted it about 20 minutes later, cause I don't feel like my descriptions make people want to check it out. I think sometimes the opposite happens.   I'm going to keep it short for now on. Maybe. Actually my shortened writeup still says the band Federale. 

 

[Eephus]

I've been listening to Red Dons and Federale.  Snap judgement they're both tight musically but are held back a bit by their lead singers.  Maybe I've been listening to too much Sinatra.

 

[Eephus]

In my original writeup where I gave info on the band and album.  I said the band Federale blah blah blah, but then I deleted it about 20 minutes later, cause I don't feel like my descriptions make people want to check it out. I think sometimes the opposite happens.   I'm going to keep it short for now on. Maybe. Actually my shortened writeup still says the band Federale. 

I like write ups.  There's more you can say about an album vs. a song.

 

[simey]

I like write ups.  There's more you can say about an album vs. a song.

That Federale album is their 5th. I actually like the lead singers voice, and he didn't start singing until their 4th album. They started out as instrumental psychedelic spaghetti western sounding band. There is a woman that comes in now and then on songs, but most of the time it is not with words. Some members of the Oregon Symphony sit in on the album. The lead singer, songwriter, and composer, Collin Hegna, also plays bass in The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

 

[Ilov80s]

Queued

Never heard of them but I like all Dons except Milton Keynes and Trump.

Corleone or Johnson at 1.01?

 

[Eephus]

That Federale album is their 5th. I actually like the lead singers voice, and he didn't start singing until their 4th album. They started out as instrumental psychedelic spaghetti western sounding band. There is a woman that comes in now and then on songs, but most of the time it is not with words. Some members of the Oregon Symphony sit in on the album. The lead singer, songwriter, and composer, Collin Hegna, also plays bass in The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

I'll keep an eye out for them. 

West Coast

 

[Eephus]

Corleone or Johnson at 1.01?

Big Daddy Don Garlits

Final answer.

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

Don Wells

Edit: Desert Island rules. 

 

[landrys hat]

4.15 - No Justice - Federale (2019)

The band Federale is sorta a cross between Indie, alternative country, and spaghetti western. I dig their sound. Give it a try.

Aim for the Heart

She's Headed for the Highway, I'm Bound for a Train

Fire on the Hill

Talk is Cheap

Thanks for this.  I am really diggin Aim for the Heart.

 

[Ilov80s]

Big Daddy Don Garlits

Final answer.

I have to revise, Draper is my Don.

 

[simey]

Don Wells

Don and Gilligan both like(d) their reefer.

 

[El Floppo]

2

I've lost track, and have to run, but...

Fka Twigs- lp1 ... For me, the unheralded progenitor of a lot of cool sounding young woman indie crossover. Album still sounds great, highlighted by two weeks, one my favorite tunes of the decade.

Savages- Adore life (tough call vs their first which I love because of two tracks- she will and husbands) and because it hit me square in nads when it came out. But this one has a couple of rippers too (the answer, t.i.w.y.g), and feels more well rounded to me...the sophomore album to a great first that improved on it. Great rhythm section and super self important vocalist 

 

[simey]

@Ilov80s joins the chamber with Abrantes and KP

 

[El Floppo]

Savages- Adore life (tough call vs their first which I love because of two tracks- she will and husbands) and because it hit me square in nads when it came out. But this one has a couple of rippers too (the answer, t.i.w.y.g), and feels more well rounded to me...the sophomore album to a great first that improved on it. Great rhythm section and super self important vocalist 

Slower songs like adore are stronger on this one for me.

 

[rockaction]

I've lost track, and have to run, but...

Fka Twigs- lp1 ... For me, the unheralded progenitor of a lot of cool sounding young woman indie crossover. Album still sounds great, highlighted by two weeks, one my favorite tunes of the decade.

Savages- Adore life (tough call vs their first which I love because of two tracks- she will and husbands) and because it hit me square in nads when it came out. But this one has a couple of rippers too (the answer, t.i.w.y.g), and feels more well rounded to me...the sophomore album to a great first that improved on it. Great rhythm section and super self important vocalist 

These two artists have been, even before your drafting, tops on my list for listening to. I hope that gives me the impetus to do so. 

 

[Eephus]

Years Leaderboard

2010 - 9

2016 - 8
2014 - 8
2011 - 8

2012 - 7
2013 - 7

2015 - 6

2019 - 5

2018 - 2

2017 - 1

 

[El Floppo]

These two artists have been, even before your drafting, tops on my list for listening to. I hope that gives me the impetus to do so. 

Big savages fan...bummed they split and bummed the rhythm section side project never materialized beyond a single. They set up for a week residency prior to their second album right across the street from me a small club...I found out about it the day after they wrapped. Lead sing had a tune out this year that wasn't bad...but I'm still holding for more

Fka twigs- that first album and eps really grabbed me. Felt like bjork, but more ethereal and lofi. Iirc, the second one didn't do much for me so I kinda gave up on her. Should probably relisten.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Love the Savages getting taken, another band I was looking at for this spot.  Seems like there is 3-4 artists taken already where I had their other album ranked slightly ahead of the one drafted, but they are close and of course there are no wrong answers here.  

Will go in a different direction and hope one of those albums drops to the next pick.  Instead I will take those hard rockin' Brighton boys that hooked me right away with a sound that struck with a QotSA sound, but was surprised it was just 2 of them playing.  

5.XX:  ROYAL BLOOD - ROYAL BLOOD (2014)

Figure it Out

Out of the Black

Loose Change

 

[rockaction]

 I said the band Federale blah blah blah, but then I deleted it about 20 minutes later, cause I don't feel like my descriptions make people want to check it out.

Untrue untrue. I love hearing why people are into it. It makes me want to listen to it more. 

 

[Ilov80s]

Rd 5 Melodrama by Lorde (2017)

genre: pop, electropop

Lorde’s writing and fantastically intimate vocals, ranging from her witchy, unprocessed low-register warbles to all sorts of digitized masks, make it matter. She has said the album’s conceit is a house party and its unfolding dramas; indeed, Pure Heroine’s cool snark is now a hotter passion, in its millennial-skeptical way. - Rolling Stone

And as much as Melodrama is an album about young adulthood and numbing yourself to the pain and making regrettable mistakes, what I maybe love most about it is that it’s very much an album about listening to music and loving music and recognizing the ways that music infects our lives, changing the way we view things. - Consequence of Sound

Homemade Dynamite

Supercut

Green Light