1. Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid 2. Ice Choir - Afar 3. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja 4. Oval - 94 Diskont 5. Peter Murphy - Deep 6. Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect 7. Rodan - Rusty 8. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You 9. Hood - The Cycle of Days & Seasons 10. Jane Siberry - The Walking 11. Jim O'Rourke - Eureka 12. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns 13. Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern 14. Lyle Lovett - Pontiac 15. Mariah - Utakata No Hibi 16. Mikel Rouse & Mikel Rouse Broken Consort - Rouse: Jade Tiger 17. Motohiko Hamase - Reminiscence 18. Neil Young - Homegrown 19. Robert Wyatt - Last Straw 20. Sad Lovers & Giants - Epic Garden Music 21. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider 22. Stereolab - Dots and Loops 23. Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier 24. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? 25. Yamasuki - Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki 26. Woo - Which Ever Way 27. Reinbert de Leeuw - Satie: The Early Piano Works 28. Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi 29. The Spinners - Mighty Love Order/Albums subject to change.
That Nascimiento album is absolutely incredible. Love that you’re listening to Pharoah. I like Karma a lot but I’ll say if you dig him I strongly recommend giving Thembi a listen eventually too. One of my favorite jazz albums
That Rundgren album is special, man. And Mighty Love is killer. Like Pick of the Litter and the s/t feel like a very complete, well-thought-out record
Alright, here we go. 1. Gorillaz – Demon Days 2. Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt 3. The Ataris – Welcome the Night 4. Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions 5. Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy 6. Pat Benatar – Crimes of Passion 7. Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman 8. Gang of Youths – The Positions 9. Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels 10. The Antlers – Burst Apart 11. Jack Johnson – From Here to Now to You 12. Graham Colton – Here Right Now 13. The Breeders – Last Splash 14. Commodores – Midnight Magic 15. Britney Spears – Blackout 16. Built to Spill – Perfect from Now On 17. Aqualung – Memory Man 18. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head 19. Billie Holiday – Lady Sings the Blues 20. The Blue Nile – Hats 21. Soloman Burke – Rock ‘N Soul 22. Panic at the Disco – Pretty Odd 23. Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Coming 24. The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I 25. Pixies – Doolittle 26. Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co. 27. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 28. INXS – Kick 29. KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope
Fuck yeah. I definitely have a preference for Precious Time by Benatar, but I'm an outlier on that generally.
Listened to Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope. I didn't realise it was a double album going in, but I did basically zero research on any of these albums! My first thought was that this reminded me of Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, particularly how the skits / non musical tracks connect the songs together, and the general blending of soul music and hip-hop. However, Miseducation came out a year later, so the influence is probably going the other way. There's a lot more dance and electronica stuff on this as well. I do wish it was a bit shorter (which is my boring, standard response to my first listen to double albums), as I found myself flagging a little towards the end, but I was really into it at parts, and despite it's length, it does work very well as a cohesive album.
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid An album like this absolutely needs more listens, but on first impression I like "Aum/Venus/Capricorn Rising" the most out of the tracks. I am going to jump into Coltrane's Ascension, and then either circle back to Tauhid or do Deaf Dumb Blind.
Doesn’t get much better than Surf’s Up fer me, but if you want something sunnier in the post Smile era that’s still kinda odd, you might dig Wild Honey and Friends. they’re like 25 mins too, easy listens
Here's where I'm at! I always try to have at least 50% non white males to balance out the canon. 1. Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson 2. Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow 3. The Breeders - Last Splash 4. Toto - Toto IV 5. Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy 6. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief 7. Jim Croce - Photographs & Memories 8. Linda Rondstadt - Heart Like a Wheel 9. Don Henley - The Age of Innocence 10. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love 11. Donna Summer - Bad Girls 12. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy 13. Donald ***an - Kamkiriad 14. Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden 15. The Cure - Disintegration 16. Sam Cooke - One Night Stand in Harlem 17. Liz Phair - Liz Phair 18. Son Volt - Trace 19. Judee Sill - Judee Sill 20. The Sundays - Reading Writing Arithmetic 21. Nemo Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Floor 22. Savage - Tonight 23. Bob Dylan - Street Legal 24. Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex 25. Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter - Leather and Lace 26. Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co. 27. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland 28. The Staples Singers - Be Altitude 29. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Yeah Wild Honey is my pick. The Beach Boys Love You is also very, very good for a late(ish) album from them.
Hoping to complete this for the first time in 3 years! Living Legends - Classic (2005) Janet Jackson - Dream Street Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse The Gap Band - The Gap Band IV Lil Wayne - The Carter III Tupac - Me Against The World Ludacris - Word of Mouf En Vogue - Funky Divas Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On NWA - Straight Outta Compton Toni Braxton - S/T A Tribe Called Quest - debut Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months Ann Peebles - I Can’t Stand The Rain James Booker - Junco Partner Mya - Fear Of Flying T-Pain - Rappa Ternt Sanga The Spinners - Pick Of The Litter Grace Jones - Portfolio Living Colour - Pride Quincy Jones - The Dude Rotary Connection - S/T New Edition - Candy Girl Common - Be Commodores - Midnight Magic Shad - Flying Colours The Delfonics - S/T Four Tops - One More Mountain Dexter Wansel - Life On Mars
Living Legends - Classic This album could’ve been 4 hours long and I still would’ve wanted more. And perhaps one of the coldest lines I’ve ever heard: You a wise guy. Me? I’m a wise man I’m a little famous, you gonna die a fan
There’s a lot of good debate to be had on their best post-Smile stuff (I lean Holland myself) but to me “Surf’s Up” is for sure the best song in that era