I tried this Tallest Man On Earth album as the starting point into his career. Maybe my appreciation for folk music really is very limited but this just comes across to me as music than cannot possibly fail at what it sets out to do. I need risk, excitement! This is probably why I consider ASMZ to be the best folk band and everything else written by less apocalyptic and anarchist "folks" just doesn't cut the mustard.
From: Seginustemple | #101 I tried this Tallest Man On Earth album as the starting point into his career. Maybe my appreciation for folk music really is very limited but this just comes across to me as music than cannot possibly fail at what it sets out to do. I need risk, excitement! This is probably why I consider ASMZ to be the best folk band and everything else written by less apocalyptic and anarchist "folks" just doesn't cut the mustard.
I enjoy both the singer songwriter side of folk (60/70s and these days TMOE, Bon Iver, you name it) and neofolky stuff, and post-rock influenced folk stuff, and Beirut and what not
if there's one genre that'd be my 'thing' it'd be folk for sure.
-While his first two albums were so great BECAUSE it was mostly him and a guitar just doing a one track recording, the more polished production and layered compositions really fit the songs here most of the time -His writing has developed into a more pop oriented sound. While I am not sure I would enjoy him going even more in this direction, it's a good mix of his old style while bringing in new bits. There's less complex guitar noodling and more attention to the songwriting itself which is not a bad thing. Not that I disliked his more complex fast guitar stuff, far from it even, but you can't do the same thing over and over and still succeed three records in. -THE SONGS ARE GOOD -It's the Tallest Man On Earth. The Wild Hunt would have been the best folk record of 2010 if Koz hadn't come along and dropped the bombshell called Admiral Fell Promises. You really can't go wrong with Tallest Man On Earth. Unless you're Seg or Giggs and total downers LOLOL -Sorry.
Giggs did the same to me. Except I've just been hooked on Van Morrison for the past year. I literally have 800+ Van plays the last 3 months and maybe 800+ of basically everything else. God damn I listen to Van 50% of the time
honestly danny brown is really good don't get me wrong but sometimes his voice is just really hard to get into on some of his songs.
also i was studying to donuts earlier and my grandmother walked in the room and asked me what i was listening to and i gave her the backstory behind the album and she was even more impressed with the music after hearing that.
radiohead killed. every member of the band was on point (after 20 years they'd have to be a well oiled machine) and for the most part I enjoyed the setlist. played a main set and two encores - the three closers were idioteque, everything in its right place and paranoid android. not too shabby.
after radiohead my favorite concert was sbtrkt. this was probably due to the fact that I was rolling. good music though!
other ones of note: the roots, rhcp (was also rolling for those), st vincent, danny brown, beach boys, bon iver were all great. had never heard of white denim before bonnaroo but I really enjoyed that set. only caught the last three songs of tune-yards but they were her three best (gangsta, bizness, my country) and she's a great live performer.
Ughhh why doesn't Waffles have any of the free leech in "stock" right now. I literally have to get 200 GB or so of flac files in time for my new amp and headphones to get here.
1. Giggs/Vince have you heard of Michael Kiwanuka? He's this folk artist from Britain and he's apparently been a big deal over there but I just heard him the other day. He makes some pretty solid Bluesy Folk music.
2.1904 is in the running for best song of 2012 so far along with Pyramids.
3.I gave the new Metric a listen last night and wasn't too impressed. I'll do another listen today along with the new Japandroids.
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radiohead killed. every member of the band was on point (after 20 years they'd have to be a well oiled machine) and for the most part I enjoyed the setlist. played a main set and two encores - the three closers were idioteque, everything in its right place and paranoid android. not too shabby.
after radiohead my favorite concert was sbtrkt. this was probably due to the fact that I was rolling. good music though!
other ones of note: the roots, rhcp (was also rolling for those), st vincent, danny brown, beach boys, bon iver were all great. had never heard of white denim before bonnaroo but I really enjoyed that set. only caught the last three songs of tune-yards but they were her three best (gangsta, bizness, my country) and she's a great live performer.
i was also there
we are not very good about meeting up when we are at the same place
saw: Radiohead, RHCP, Beach Boys, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Feist, Superjam, Black Star, Danzig Legacy, Ben Folds Five, Flogging Molly, Puscifer, Tune-Yards, Flying Lotus, Fun., GZA, Fitz & the Tantrums, Bad Braines, Big Gigantic, Kendrick Lamar, The Joy Formidable, EMA, Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr, Moon Taxi, Bethesda, Chappo, The Silent Comedy
and like an hour of Phish before the rains came
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1. Giggs/Vince have you heard of Michael Kiwanuka? He's this folk artist from Britain and he's apparently been a big deal over there but I just heard him the other day. He makes some pretty solid Bluesy Folk music.
1. Giggs/Vince have you heard of Michael Kiwanuka? He's this folk artist from Britain and he's apparently been a big deal over there but I just heard him the other day. He makes some pretty solid Bluesy Folk music.
My dad introduced him to me a few months back. He's not bad and there's definitely some Van influence for example but he didn't blow me away or anything!
i was going to link this yesterday but it completely slipped my mind, very great stuff from this box set, and i'm sure the rest of the set will be just as great
it's tragic. there was a stage collapse last year in Ottawa at a show Rusty went to as well. I wonder if it's just coincidence that this has been happening more frequently the last couple years
who loves lists? atease loves lists. they just voted on their top 60s albums and it's a beast. here's just the top 50
1 | The Zombies | Odessey & Oracle [1968, UK] 2 | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds [1966, US] 3 | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico [1967, US] 4 | Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited [1965, US] 5 | The Kinks | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society [1968, UK] 6 | Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde [1966, US] 7 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [1969, US] 8 | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed [1969, UK] 9 | Os Mutantes | Os Mutantes [1968, Brazil] 10 | The Velvet Underground | White Light / White Heat [1968, US] 11 | The Beatles | The Beatles [a.k.a. The White Album] [1968, UK] 12 | The Beatles | Revolver [1966, UK] 13 | Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home [1965, US] 14 | Love | Forever Changes [1967, US] 15 | Otis Redding | Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul [1965, US] 16 | Scott Walker | Scott 4 [1969, US] 17 | Leonard Cohen | Songs of Leonard Cohen [1967, Canada] 18 | Nick Drake | Five Leaves Left [1969, UK] 19 | Van Morrison | Astral Weeks [1968, UK/US] 20 | The United States of America | The United States of America [1968, US] 21 | The Sonics | Here Are the Sonics!!! [1965, US] 22 | The Kinks | Something Else by the Kinks [1967, UK] 23 | The Beatles | Rubber Soul [1965, UK] 24 | The Rolling Stones | Beggar’s Banquet [1968, UK] 25 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [1967, UK] 26 | Charles Mingus | The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady [1963, US] 27 | Pink Floyd | The Piper at the Gates of Dawn [1967, UK] 28 | The Ronettes | Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica [1964, US] 29 | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme [1964, US] 30 | The Stooges | The Stooges [1969, US] 31 | The Kinks | Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) [1969, UK] 32 | The Beatles | Abbey Road [1969, UK] 33 | Isaac Hayes | Hot Buttered Soul [1969, US] 34 | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground [1969, US] 35 | The Flying Burrito Bros | The Gilded Palace of Sin [1969, US] 36 | Miles Davis | In a Silent Way [1969, US] 37 | Monks | Black Monk Time [1965, US/Germany] 38 | White Noise | An Electric Storm [1969, UK] 39 | The Beatles | Please Please Me [1963, UK] 40 | Caetano Veloso | Caetano Veloso [a.k.a. “Tropicália”] [1968, Brazil] 41 | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band | Trout Mask Replica [1969, US] 42 | Index | Index [a.k.a. The Black Album] [1967, US] 43 | The Byrds | Sweetheart of the Rodeo [1968, US] 44 | Bob Dylan | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan [1963, US] 45 | The Beach Boys | The Beach Boys Today! [1965, US] 46 | The 13th Floor Elevators | Easter Everywhere [1967, US] 47 | The Left Banke | Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina [1967, US] 48 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced [1967, US] 49 | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band | Safe as Milk [1967, US] 50 | Silver Apples | Silver Apples [1968, US]
it's weird seeing the beatles on a list they're eligible for not crack the top 10.
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os mutantes in the top ten is cool but i can't say i like any album in the top three and odessey and oracle top is just ugh
as is arthur being the third kinks album as is abbey road being the FIFTH beatles album as is the jazz contingent (well chosen as it is) being so low as is forever changes and astral weeks outside the top ten
actually, i don't like this list much at all!
edit: wait, they have please please me above a hard day's night too? come on
I decided to listen to all the Board 8's Top 500 Albums that I hadn't heard.
The first 2 were both Pink Floyd albums. I loved Dark Side of the Moon but never got around to Wish You Were Here and the Wall. So glad I did it now.
If you would've asked me after my first listen of "Wish You Were Here" how long that album was, I would've said an hour. How 5 songs can seem so massive and important that they stretch my imagination into time lapse is beyond me.
but yeah I really like Pink floyd.
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