Hopstretch Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Paul Kelly -- Songs From The South Great stuff. Beefy may or may not agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Is that damning with faint praise or does that category just seem more expansive to you than most of the world? Not damning in the slightest. The innumerable qualifiers are a result of the hypercompartmentalization of electronic music in to endless subgenres and time periods. Allow me to expand a bit: Left coast means California, durr. Breaks in this case means "funky breakbeats," a style of dance music popular in CA to this day. Most of it is bloody awful. There are notable exceptions, like YAP. The first half of the 1990s was the golden era of electronic dance music, period. The California scene was particularly fertile during this time period. So in more easily parsed English, the eponymous YAP album is in the running for the best example of a great scene during its peak. The historical specifics are not important to the general population, and are probably known only to obsessive nutjobs like myself. That said, the music can be appreciated by anyone with ears. This is all one really needs to know about YAP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvIuodPmEg A review I wrote on "Sunrise" sometime in the late 1990s: Downtempo is a music of subtlety, it is often the smallest details that make or break a track. And so it is with this song that it's the fiddly bits - the spaciousness of the reverb, timing of the delay effect on the main melody - that lend so much passion and immediacy. The main arpeggiation is wonderfully mesmerizing as the rest of the song fades away and leaves it pulsating in the foreground. Simply, but powerfully emotive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I appreciate the education, although I do know what Left Coast and Breaks mean. I might be old but I ain't ignant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I appreciate the education, although I do know what Left Coast and Breaks mean. I might be old but I ain't ignant. Condescension was really not what I was trying to get across in my overly-thorough explanation. The entire subject by nature is filled with obscure minutiae, and I started on the ground floor. Now please put away that laser sword. Now Playing: The Postal Service - Give Up (2003) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Condescension was really not what I was trying to get across in my overly-thorough explanation. The entire subject by nature is filled with obscure minutiae, and I started on the ground floor. Now please put away that laser sword. Now Playing: The Postal Service - Give Up (2003) I meant the part about appreciating the education, Knuckles. I also liked the clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Van Morrison - Moondance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Paul Simon - Graceland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 The New Mastersounds - Ten Years On Before that, something quite nice: Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 She & Him -- Vol. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 She & Him -- Vol. 2 Just got this yesterday, but haven't had a chance to listen. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Just got this yesterday, but haven't had a chance to listen. What do you think? I liked the first one better in comparison, but both seem to have the same throw-back pop style. Entertaining but not particularly compelling as music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me Going to give this another shot, first impression was not great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Field Music - Measure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Horace Silver - The Baghdad Blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 moar pavement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 David Oistrakh, Staatskapelle Dresden - Tchaikovsky: violin concerto, Sarasate: Navarra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 The Church -- Heyday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 The Stranglers - UA Singles 1977 - 1982. Three discs of melodic British "Punk"..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Radar Brothers -- The Illustrated [Cap] Garden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Zoe Keating's One Cello X 16: Natoma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Zoe Keating's One Cello X 16: Natoma good choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrarroyo Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Anything by Erin Boheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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