I finally got a copy for myself a few months ago. It's a stunner.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 11 December 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
ferraro himself is not funny it's just funny that the wire gave #1 of the year to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfwoSXQx_uw with some bs concept or whatever
― moonbop, Sunday, 11 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know anything about the bs concept! - I only listened to the record because it came up in the EOY list thread and I'd never heard of him before
― april wowak, Sunday, 11 December 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
voted bjork because I can't stand her.
I don't understand the music of this james ferraro guy and I don't care enough to explore any further because it's like listening to raw black metal production applied to indie stuff. he looks like a cool dude though.
― wolves lacan sandbox ed, Monday, 12 December 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
most people i know...thought the box was a very attractive object.
― sarahel, Sunday, December 11, 2011 5:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― skrillex pretend (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 12 December 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
most forks i know...thought the chair was a very attractive object
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Monday, 12 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
✔
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
picks from last 3 years are totally embarrassing
also, with most of the 90s stuff you get the feeling they were trying to do the "#1 albums as big statements" kind of approach to listmaking, the recent picks OTOH are more like random shit put together in a hurry or something. actress and ferraro are laughable choices, c'mon.
― cock chirea, Monday, 12 December 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
That Broadcast & the Focus Group record is great. Not embarrassing at all. To be honest, I wouldn't say the Actress record is embarrassing either, even though I'm not that keen on it.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 12 December 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
the actress record is great c'mon
― sisilafami, Monday, 12 December 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
xposts FOUR yrs dude, The Bug
― moonbop, Monday, 12 December 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
that bug record is great.
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Monday, 12 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
wtf man, broadcast and the focus group, actress, the bug are good records.
― wolves lacan sandbox ed, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
most people i know that bought the Ayler box were already Ayler fans and thought the box was a very attractive object.
― sarahel, Sunday, December 11, 2011 5:52 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
That's how I felt about it, being a longtime Ayler fan. But I actually felt like I was making certain allowances: yeah, it's got too many embarrassing outtakes from his worst record, but it's also got his Newport set with Milford Graves. Yeah, it's got two entire CDs of not-entirely-coherent interviews, but it's also got his lone recording with Cecil Taylor. I don't know where the idea that this box was supposed to be an entry point into, or even an overview of Ayler's work came about -- it's all previously-unreleased and, one assumes, for fans mostly. It's more important as a historical document than it is as a word -- first, last, or otherwise -- on Ayler's work.
― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
i likes that book album
― farah ferrigno, Monday, 12 December 2011 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
I cant wait to look back in a couple years at the most regrettable ILM threads
― superstition or schizophrenia? (henrietta lacks), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
couple of weeks when ilm is back you mean
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
why do people already regret albums they liked three years ago?
― wil smif, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.geeksguidetodating.com/book/images/28%20Rules%20of%20cool.gif
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Monday, 12 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
but then ironically the 28 rules are usually part of the selection process so
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Monday, 12 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
AD album is so terrible, can't imagine any of the things I haven't heard on here are worse.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
the Burial album is literally the most unmemorable thing I've ever attempted to pay attention to
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
you probably don't remember the most unmemorable thing you've attempted to pay attention to
― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
ahah
― sisilafami, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I know for a fact I don't remember the most unmemorable thing I've attempted to pay attention to because I've tried to listen to Burial multiple times and I don't remember a single thing about anything they've released.
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Burial really is one of the worst things on this list easy
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
arrested development is the gift that keeps on giving
― the deli llama, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
u dont even need a gift: dig your hands in the dirt, children play with earth
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
if you don't like the Metamorphosis mix of "People Everyday", you don't actually like music
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
almost all of these make more sense to me than having a totally middle-of-the-road Sonic Youth record as #1 of the year. Murray St was great but Thousand Leaves ... nah.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
'far side virtual' is by far the most worthless thing on here.
― nuhnuhnuh, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
it's ugly, stupid, pretentious, and you can't even dance to it.
― nuhnuhnuh, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol listening to Burial again and now at least I have something to remember them by now (all of the terrible shit Jamie XX does is very Burial-influenced)
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
arrested development aren't so bad, i just thought it was a funny choice for avant-gardey THE WIRE
― the deli llama, Monday, 12 December 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
mark s was maybe editor then
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
The Burial album is still grebt tbh, fuiud
― lebateauivre, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
maybe Ferraro is so bad that it will fade into obscurity and then get rediscovered by people who never grew up hearing the Microsoft Windows midi sound.
― skip, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
kinda redundant after his second album though, imo
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Mm, ok, put that way I see what you mean. Maybe Burial's first album is the best example of "you had to have heard it then" or something.
― lebateauivre, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
I reckon Untrue should have beaten Comicopera, but The Drift should have beaten the first Burial one.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
wire top trumps
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, Untrue got beaten on beard length
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
swans were robbed at the death
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
For what is worth Niun Niggung is fucking class and anyone who disagrees is a cloth eared cave dwelling cunt in a Hillman Hunter.
― jigsaw jenny, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://pablochiste.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/forrest_gump_303722x.jpg
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
How does one justify dismissing ATL as MOR and then in the same post call Murray Street great?
― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Like Murray Street is basically ATL with all the awesome unsettling skronk excised...
― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
― lebateauivre, Monday, December 12, 2011 7:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, December 12, 2011 7:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
lol
― wil smif, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Monday, December 12, 2011 7:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Monday, December 12, 2011 7:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
my favorite songs on each are "Rain On Tin" and "Wildflower Soul" so all i care about is the hippie epix
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
otm. I kinda forgot about wildflower soul. that's a good one.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link