This isn't exactly a top ten and not everything was released last year but here it is in random order: 1. Animal Collective - Spirits.../Danse... (reissue) I didn't really 'get' _Here Comes the Indian_ or _Campfire Songs_, but the first disc of this reissue has some surprisingly catchy pop undercurrents amidst more abrassive sections. 2. Outkast - The Love below The Andre disc is great. You also hear him deploying all these Top 40 production tricks on tracks that aren't exactly traditional chart fodder. Does anyone know what the sample is on the last track? The electronics sound familiar. 3. Monk - Solo Monk I think it may have been a tip from Skip frm ages ago. 4. M Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent All i can say is you should try to check this out. 5. Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music Heard this at a shop. Doesn't try to hide its influences, i think. One of the tracks makes me think of Bowie. 6. Parmegiani - performing live in melbourne incredible music w/ a sense of humour. 7.Yasunao Tone - live @ ATP at Cambersands 8. Jim O'rourke - Live @ ATP at Cambersands anyone else see Jim's set? i couldn't really see what he was doing, but he seemed to be moving around quite a bit on stage. Seemed to be more than a laptop... Anyone? 9. Love of Diagrams - live somewhere the drummer is great! 10. Delilo - white noise finally read this. 11. Robin Fox solo and with Anthony Pateras. Vocal Concret?! I sorta know these guys but, tis good. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
Cheers Skip! I had actually been holding out, waiting for Sony to remaster Monk's back catalogue which had actually begun ages ago w/ Live at the It club but then seemed to stall (compared to their treatment of Miles). I don't have the prior version of Solo Monk on CD so i can't compare. Anyone care to comment? The other reissue/remaster i had meant to mention on my year end list was Dylan's _John Wesley Harding_. Now, this is possibly heresy to some, but i have never really _dug_ Dylan. Mind you all i had for ages was that 3cd best-of. Still, i'm not sure i connect w/ some of his albums that many love. It's that feeling you get when you think you should like something more than you really do (for whatever reason) but it's not really hitting you. That's not to say I actively disliked the stuff I heard. Anyway, to get to the point, i think JWH is one I can quite honestly say i dig (FWTW). The other surprise for me was Nashville Skyline. It's hard to believe Dylan ever sounded like that; his vocals i mean. Anyone who's never heard this should check out how different he sounded then. And the Man in Black makes a cameo on the first track too! --- skip heller <thisparadise@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
on 12/27/03 7:45 PM, aaron chua at aaronchua22@yahoo.com wrote:
3. Monk - Solo Monk I think it may have been a tip from Skip frm ages ago.
Then my work here is done.
sh
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on 12/29/03 2:49 AM, aaron chua at aaronchua22@yahoo.com wrote:
Cheers Skip! I had actually been holding out, waiting for Sony to remaster Monk's back catalogue which had actually begun ages ago w/ Live at the It club but then seemed to stall (compared to their treatment of Miles). I don't have the prior version of Solo Monk on CD so i can't compare. Anyone care to comment?
The complete Columbia solo set is the one I have, and I'm fine with it. As for the Bob, I think we'd better ask the whole list: are we ready for a Bob jag? sh
The other reissue/remaster i had meant to mention on my year end list was Dylan's _John Wesley Harding_. Now, this is possibly heresy to some, but i have never really _dug_ Dylan. Mind you all i had for ages was that 3cd best-of. Still, i'm not sure i connect w/ some of his albums that many love. It's that feeling you get when you think you should like something more than you really do (for whatever reason) but it's not really hitting you. That's not to say I actively disliked the stuff I heard. Anyway, to get to the point, i think JWH is one I can quite honestly say i dig (FWTW). The other surprise for me was Nashville Skyline. It's hard to believe Dylan ever sounded like that; his vocals i mean. Anyone who's never heard this should check out how different he sounded then. And the Man in Black makes a cameo on the first track too!
--- skip heller <thisparadise@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
on 12/27/03 7:45 PM, aaron chua at aaronchua22@yahoo.com wrote:
3. Monk - Solo Monk I think it may have been a tip from Skip frm ages ago.
Then my work here is done.
sh
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