February is Music Writer Exercise Month #MWE • Page 3

Which of these have you not heard? I'll pick three of them for you:

Butch Walker - The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites!
Will Hoge - The Man Who Killed Love
Logan Brill - Shuteye
Charlie Worsham - Rubberband
Striking Matches - Nothing but the Silence
Mandolin Orange - Such Jubilee
Jon McLaughlin - Indiana

 

Might put together a list and attempt this but mostly just wanna jump on @Craig Manning's endorsement of Shuteye

 

An all-time heartbreaker:

 

One of my favorite album closers of all time. Total gut punch of a song

 

Only one I've heard is the Mandolin Orange record.

 

Get chills just thinking about it. I have no idea what she's been up to lately, but I really want another album from her. She's one of my big "why isn't this person a superstar?" artists.

 

i feel like there have been enough times I've been like "how the hell have you not heard this" but I can't remember

just guessing:
unwound - leaves turn inside you
the stooges - raw power
the stone roses - s/t

 

gonna come up with my list saturday

 

Alright, going to give you the Butch, Logan Brill, and Jon McLaughlin records.

 

I've heard the 3 classic Stooges records. Oddly enough, I already had The Stone Roses lined up!

 

drive like jehu - yank crime
roky erickson - the evil one

 

I have the 13th Floor Elevators record lined up, too. Clearly on the right wavelength. Haha

 

Committed!

 

few things better than that roxy music album

 

@cshadows2887 was pink floyd one of the holes for you? i feel like they were one

 

Yeah my blind spot for Roxy Music confuses even me, feels like it should be right up my alley

 

They are. Maybe it's time for Piper or Animals.

 

animals!

 

I’m so happy that this thread is active for the first time in four years.

If for some reason you’re having trouble thinking of albums, highly recommend searching the #MWE hashtag on Twitter to see others’ lists.

Some other good sources are NPR’s list of 150 great albums by women, Pitchfork’s Sunday Reviews archive, and the “Definitive Albums” thread here on Chorus!

Also, put Destroyer’s 2011 album Kaputt on your list because it is perfect.

 

Not really a traditional source but Autostraddle does some EOTY lists and monthly round-ups for queer and trans musicians that I pulled from for some of my list if anyone is looking to diversify in that regard

 

1. Riperton, Minnie - Perfect Angel
2. Cash, Roanne - Seven Year Ache
3. Ramones - End of the Century
4. Browne, Jackson - I'm Alive
5. Stone Roses, The - The Stone Roses
6. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
7. Big Country - The Crossing
8. Lowe, Nick - Labour of Lust
9. Walker, Butch - The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites
10. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
11. S Club 7 - Sunshine
12. 13th Floor Elevators - The Pychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
13. X - See How We Are
14. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
15. Brill, Logan - Shuteye
16. Specials, The - The Specials
17. Faithfull, Marianne - Broken English
18. Eno, Brian - Another Green World
19. McLaughlin, John - Indiana
20. Tygers of Pan Tang - Spellbound
21. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
22. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
23. Tonto's Exploding Head Band - Zero Time
24. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
25. Womack, Bobby - The Poet
26. Baker, Chet - Chet Baker Sings
27. Saunders, Fernando - Cashmere Dream
28. Pink Floyd - Animals

 

couple on there i think you’ll really love

if you don’t love X our friendship is over

 

I’ve heard and liked Los Angeles. I know this one isn’t as beloved as Wild Gift but a song from it popped up somewhere and it really wowed me.

 

Got mine locked in!

 

OK, I'm aiming to get up to speed with the canons of hip-hop and metal, so this is the list I'm running with. Probably a lot of "how have you never heard that" in there, but thats what I'm here for.

Open to any edits at this stage, particularly when it comes to the metal albums.