GY!BE's album 'Yanqui U.X.O.' is one of the greatest instrumental records of all-time

But didn't Albini record Yanqui U.X.O.? And doesn't he normally just record the band pretty much as they normally sound live, sans wild production techniques?

"Paradise"
"Song Of Solomon"
"The Bluest Eye"
&, her best and most recent book: "Love".

damn, i think i actually like "Jazz" more too.

Anyway, that last Scenic album craps all over the entire GYBE output.

Having said that nowhere near as good as 'It takes two'.

Enthusiasm is great.

-- Zachary Scott (ZachRScot...) (webmail), December 4th, 2006 12:02 AM. (Zachary S) (later) (link)

That is normally his intention, but it seems neither party was entirely happy with what they ended up with. I don't think they've spoken since (note that it was Hogan and not Shellac that invited them to Shellac ATP).

it's the enthusiasm of a 19-yr-old (which is great!), but not the frame of reference! i have said this before, but what i really don't get about louis is that the stuff he says these things about is the stuff people my age and a bit older would have eulogised when they were louis' age! i am pretty sure that most 19-yr-olds do not listen to mansun or blur or godspeed whatsit. people who are 25 did, when they were 19.

i fell asleep during spiritualized once! but i don't think that necessarily means they are bad. i like spiritualized.

He also had Spiritualized's 'Pure Phase', bought apparently on a whim, and Mogwai's first 3 albums. I started with them and worked my way inwards; now the 90's are by far my favourite and most comprehensively-owned decade in music! My knowledge of contemporary indie/alternative acts is much more sketchy, I'd say; retrospective discoveries are so much more satisfying than great new releases IMO.

Now, if we could only forget that bit about Bach...

You have no idea how big of a trap this is.

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A trap, eh? Hmm, it was only meant as a statement of personal preference...

the 90s were amazing. i grew up in them after all, they made me! the best things about the 90s:

- commercial pop rave and eurobosh all over the charts
- trip-hop
- angsty female singer-songwriters who were not just angsty but arty and experimental and visionary
- both classic old-skool r&b, and the first stirrings of hyper-modern timbaland-driven r&b
- spice girls and britney spears

notice the LACK OF BLUR IN THAT LIST.

again i recognise the crate-digging for old stuff mentality, that's not so weird, but it normally gets applied to...60s-80s. the 90s is a bit fresh in people's memories.

hang on, louis, what did you like when you were 12/13?

there's one every year!

2006 = Joanna Newsom - WhYs allegedly...

I'd snort but if someone had told me kids would still be wearing Nirvana t-shirts a decade on, and not 2006's version of Rave Pants... :(

When I was 12/13, I was deeply into The Cure (Pornography being my starter, an album I didn't see as dark or unlistenable but tuneful and imaginative) and XTC (NONSUCH), and I also loved early Pink Floyd, King Crimson and The Byrds. I still love all of them, but I have since found things I love yet more (not much in XTC's case, though). The only thing I liked as a child that I have grown to love yet more in my early adulthood is Steve Harley's greatest hits album, an absolutely spectacular compilation of intelligent, grade A+ pop.

My friends listen to very little that I do. Some are into their jazz big-time, some prefer things like The White Stripes and Sublime, others Belle and Sebastian, many are into classical, quite a few are trendy indie-kids who name-drop Clap Your Boy Most Likely To Wolf Steady, others are cooler indie kids who name-drop Les Savy Fav and Throbbing Gristle in the same sentence (these ones tend to have a music-taste most similar to my own, even if the overlap tends only to be in our immediately contemporary taste, and even then not particularly extensive). Quite a few are into shit like Wolfmother, emo, post-punk bollocks like the whole Razorlight thing, bad, commercial R&B, or sissy guitar queef such as Damien Gray. Some are rockists who espouse the overarching brilliance of The Rolling Stones and then declare that BRMC are the only contemporary act they have any time for. Nobody else likes Mansun. Where, I wonder, does this leave me?

P.S. I'd probably love YS, yes, based upon what I've heard. Although it probably could have done with more effects/computerised bleeps... :P

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), December 4th, 2006.

in fairness i should have added:

i was sitting down.

and mega-stoned.

I'd be interested to know if he thinks the recorded version sounds as fuck-awful as I do! And I'm not even the type to get bothered by such things usually but I can barely make it three songs in to Ys (record) without wanting to scream. I should upload that live stuff in the Ys thread really... the difference is like night and day.

haha this is also indicative of my own tastes (by which I mean that I naturally have an affinity for futuristic-sounding blips and bleeps), which is why I listen to techno and house and r&b and hip-hop and pop rather than indie!!!!!

I'm just a bit wtf-ed at ver kids... at least they've kind of broken away with the whole EMO thing lately, or maybe even Nu-Rave, but it's been years coming, the Kurt-T-Shirt thing is a bit passe now I guess.

Of course Lex's kids (on the bus) do none of this but Grime really isn't that big in Hull you know?