As an act of kindness, i'll be listening to & reviewing The Wire's Top 50 Albums of 2008...
I've heard three. I know of a further five without having heard so much as a chord from any. The other 42 are completely new to me. I don't mind, honestly, just get me a pint sometime, or something. I'll do four a day, until Christmas, starting with The Bug's 'London Zoo', which sounds shit. I might not be able to do them all, with being owned by less then six people some of them might not have been uploaded to the internet, and i'm not giving my hard-earned to someone for a record that might not be brilliant. I'll be honest, and won't needlessly criticise stuff just because it's from some pissy genre for grungy girlymen. I don't hold much hope though, i'm open to hearing new stuff, but when someone puts The Fall's 'Imperial Wax Solvent' in their top records of the year, you have to laugh, most Fall fans will tell you it's not a great record.
#1 The Bug - London Zoo
Is this a joke? Can i rip into this without looking racist? It's pathetic. It's a fucking raggae LP, how can that be good? Only plebs would listen to this shit, there's nothing endearing about it whatsoever. If i had to say something good about it, hmmm, 'Freak Freak's okayish, kinda Burial-y, 'Poison Dart' has a tune in there somewhere, the Ricky Ranking track isn't awful. This is a very bad record, you might aswell listen to Beanie Man. 2/10
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zim zimmer who got da keys to my bimmer
who am i? girls dem sugar
:D
I use to love that track!
I couldn't sleep and the reggae dance hall was always on with goldfinger on radio one that tune usualy got played for the whole show in some form or another.
I used to be really into reggae dancehall...
Buju Banton especially... then he pissed me off with all of his gay-bashing antics.
I still love roots and dub type reggae though. Burning Spear. Lee Perry... I was just listening to Super Ape last night.
Just a quick question:
How many times do you listen to an album before reviewing it?
In normal circumstances, i wouldn't even condsider starting to review a record until i'd heard it a dozen or so times.
In this case, once.
Okay then
I don't disagree with you over London Zoo, mind.
Suck it
Maybe I wouldn't put London Zoo at #1, but a 2/10? It's an incredible dubstep album!
Lol.
Do you get any joy from listening to music? Or do you just rigidly mark everything out of ten and post about on the internet like some deranged autistic loser with nothing better to do?
Please tell me this was a rhetorical question.
Meanwhile, back on planet earth
whose turn is it to get the coffee's in?
can I have one please!
a splash of milk and no sugar sweetie.
I start positive music threads most days.
CTRL+F Kansas, go back a few pages, you'll see.
Can you not summarise the thread in an act of kindness to save me the trouble?
Sorry but I think that KiK gets some unfair criticism for his posts......
I used to think that he was controversial for the sake of it, but on balance I've decided that he he only talks bollocks for some of the time...
I also have thought he was just being controversial for the sake of it
... I still do.
He seems to come out with pretty ridiculous statements and readily criticises other genres of music he knows people on here like, it seems he does this as he knows it will provoke some kind of an argument.
this sounds like a mission man
be careful or you might hert yourself...
oh I quite like The Bug and I'm far from being a pleb.
I, for one, am very excited to see the results of this.
Means I don't have to listen to them, but I can still look cool chatting about them down the pub.
That's what he's thinking too!
Zing, etc. But seriously, I hope this actually all happens.
me too
I really enjoy his reviews
^ this is all I want from music.
It's like an obscure musical Advent calendar!
What joy!
Well - after that review of The Bug
I'll be listening to everything you hate.
Generic band.
As much as I enjoyed reading that Nightmare Before Christmas
thing and the people going absolutely off it below, I implore you to go out dancing or something instead of wasting a huge amount of time doing this.
#2 Philip Jeck - Sand
This is actually reasonably pleasant, in a kind of sweeping soundscape-y way. It's an album i'll listen to again, certainly. I'd anticipated it to be quite pretentious, indeed it might be, but it's very soothing, in a kind of 'Life is Full of Possibilities' way, a record you could put on in the background late and night and fall into. I quite like it.
7/10
Great!
Hospitals next...
#3 The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
Extremely confusing. I don't get it when bands write songs, and then ruin them with loads of shitty feedback or whatever it is. Lots of this just sounds like the soundtrack to a bad Willy Wonka nightmare. Most of it's undecipherable. A couple of tracks, like 'This Walls' & 'Scan the Floor for Food' could be good if it wasn't for the complete TNV-like butchery.
1/10
kissinginkansas do yuo wanna be in my eight piece funk band were gonna be called teh funktapus
Actual gold
I'm chuckling away in my kitchen at this.
Oh my god
Someone give dukebox moneys
Fail. The correct score was 10/10
You missed the point with this one. It's the best album of the decade. As Adam Stonehouse described it: it's a "slow drive into the Californian endzone."
Like the bit in Fear and Loathing with all the bats.
Or, like being in a chaotic jungle having just been stung by a weird bug.
Or, like the Thunderbirds when the spaceship flies too close to the sun, and they all start melting.
Put this album on again, LOUD. Repeat.
# 4 John Butcher - Resonant Spaces
I can't find this record, but he's a saxophonist so how good can it be, seriously? I've listened to a few tracks from his other records. Saxophone-y.
2/10
this thread has the potential to be the best thread on the internet ever.
I'm digging it muchly.
hahahaha!
Listen to John Coltrane or Charlie Parker
before you write off an entire instrument.
best review ever
Lol
Saxaphone-y ha ha ha ha .........
Thats the whole career of John Coltrane fucked in a sweeping review !!
Bring it on !!!!!!
Saxaphone-y
Hahahaha
Idiot
This is such an infantile review of what could be a great record. "Oh, he's a saxophonist, so it must be a pile of shit." That's like saying, "Oh, this guy's black, so he must be a criminal."
Jesus, pretentious people like you piss me off SO MUCH.
*ticks box*
There's another one, team. I reckon we can rack up fifty misuses of the word "pretentious" before this thread is out.
Also, you might want to reading this before you start taking kissinginkansas too seriously:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
Don't spoil it!!!!
saxophone-y
is the best wilfully-ignorant putdown i've heard in a while :)
'raggae'
LOL
Why the lol?
It's a raggae/dancehall record. You mustn't have listened to it.
you misspelt it
it's reggae, you retard. Maybe you were looking for 'ragga'
sorry, pal.
It's the first time i've used that word in my life.
God bless you dear sir
For reviewing albums already reviewed countless times before in other places but these.
Your service is truly commendable and an act of kindness above all rest.
Fucking ponce.
charming.
wut?
he's not allowed to reveiw albums because they've been reviewed elswhere?
i think it's the fact that
he's packaging it as a great act of philanthropy. which does make him look a bit like a fucking ponce.
it's going to take me 40 hours, pal.
40 hours that you will never get back
I can't believe some people still get wound up by these threads.
carry on, though.
You like The Fall, don't you?
What did you think of Imperial Wax Solvent?
it's alright
not as good as their albums in their earlier part of this decade but
infinitely better than the record before it (Reformation) which was a genuine stinker.
Second half of the album gets a bit samey though, and I still don't think I've made it all the way through 50 Year Old Man. Wolf Kidult Man is the best tune on there. Deffo wouldn't put in my top 10 of the year though.
slight formatting fail, there.
honestly, what's the point?
you'll like some of the songy, melodic ones and dislike all of the experimental, jazzy, electronic, heavy, out of your very stringent and narrow music taste ones.
There you go, no need to review them now. Listen if you want, but just don't bother telling us what you think
you used to be interesting.
people change kik
it's the way of the world. Every rose must die
And much in the same way, your anti-indie indieism started as a pleasant divergence only to became a bit of a chore for everyone involved
on the other hand: fuck off, i was never interesting
#5 Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Not as boring as i'd thought it might be. A vast improvement on God's Money, which is one of the worst records i've ever heard. It's nice enough, kinda Morrocan market-y. Quite tranquil, inoffensive, dreamy. 'Bebey', 'Afoot' & 'Dust' are all lovely. Just a shame 'Princes' is so horrific in a London grimey towerblock MC sort of way. A grower.
6.5/10
Titchy Strider
is a bit shit unfortunatly they should have got a better MC in for that bit. He is kinda one of the only Grime MC's with a work ethic to get going and get on random tracks like this though unfortunatly.
i can't believe tinchy strider is popular
DEAR KISSINGINKANSAS
A COUPLE OF THE GUYS GET TOGETHER SOME TIMES AT THE WEEKEND AND WE GO ONLINE AND CRITIQUE ALBUMS IN A VERY BORING AND IRRELEVANT WAY WHICH NO ONE CARES ABOUT DO YOU WANT TO COME NEXT TIME WE'RE GOING TO DO IT IN THE COTSWOLDS
See I didn't know you could get wireless internets at ATP
Everyone could've hung out between the bands and reviewed everything, how ace would that have been
Not as good as my Mika Miko review. Bloody review thief.
link pls
#6 The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
This is magical. Absolutely wondrous. Sort of ambient electronica coupled with TV soundbytes. It sounds just like the music in the background of that fake Teletext at stupid o'clock. I don't see how listening to this could fail to make anyone smile. Completely different to any other record i've heard.
8.5/10
hey, maybe i've sold you short
Bloody Hell
Wondrous?! Are you okay?
Rudi Arapahoe
You should listen to Echoes From One To Another. Then there will be two records that will be completely different to any other record you have heard. in the same way.
This is indeed a good album
Good taste, sir
Advisory Circle is one of the best recods I have heard all year.
Try listening to it in a pretty darkened room at about 3am. Magical. Like the bomb just dropped.
#7 Evangelista - Hello Voyager
Female-led dark, almost surreal alternative-ness. Pretty hard to digest. I'm really struggling for words here. Parts are interesting enough but it sounds quite dated, and there's something quite unnerving about it all.
5/10
you've listened to seven albums in under four hours
well, 6.
most have been 30-40 minutes long. Completely doable. I'm taking a break now, eating marshmellows, watching Buzzcocks, drinking beer.
Don't be so ungrateful.
I didn't see you offering to do this for us!
Cocteau Twins-ish ?
You make this one sound a little bit interesting.....
I'm going to knock it on the head for tonight.
I've got a headache and don't trust myself to be as insightful and consistant whilst groggy. I'm going to put my slippers on & listen to Sun Giant, then get my beauty sleep. Back tomorrow.
I think you should be paid for this epic voyage of discovery....
Maybe someone could set up a Wiki page to comemmorate this task by KiK ?
Obviously he's going to hate them all
but anyone who says this isn't going to be at least a bit funny is severely incorrect.
Their number three is, like, a home demo that they own the only copy of, an attempt to humanise their list by actually trying to listen is very welcome in my books, fuck knows I can't be arsed to do it.
I think he'll really like the Arthur Russell album.
The Bug was the worst show I have ever seen but I love London Zoo
must have caught them on a bad night- a REAL bad night.
This has the potential
to be the best DiS thread ever.
Agreed
I am enjoying this a lot.
#8 William S Burroughs - Real English Tea
I can't find this anywhere, and i'm pretty disappointed at that, because i love the guy lots. I've seen a couple of documentaries on him, though, and heard most of Dead City Radio, so i'm gonna go out on a whim and say that this will probably be good.
8/10
The Fall next
Exciting isn't it?
KIK
I've got admire your spirit....
TBH The Wire's list looks so fuckin pretentious, I just looked for some stuff i had heard of and then sighed at the remainder.
Why is it pretentious?
Fucking hell that's a retarded comment
So it's pretentious because it includes stuff that you haven't heard?
Jesus, the attitude on this boards depresses me so much sometimes. Surely the fact they're attempting to include less well-known records is a good thing...makes a change from seeing fucking Cut Copy and Fleet Foxes on every single list. Personally, I'm really looking forward to trawling through the stuff I haven't heard, because there are bound to be some gems in there.
^this
bsclly
You're a narrow minded prick.
The Wire is so anal.
not as anal as some of the people on this thread :P
sorry
out on a whim?
raggae?
for someone who spends a lot of time typing you're not great at it.
also, champion, how can a list be pretentious? it's just stuff you don't know about or don't like. Grow up.
i made a spelling mistake that's already been point out!
HOLY SHIT.
*pointed
that's embarassing
*embarrassing
good thread, carry on
Haha
OK
perhaps not pretentious...i take it all back.
#9 The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Quite ballsy, but at the same time more listenable than i was expecting, a few good tracks here. The band sound surprisingly tight, it's not a bad little record, only really let down by the opener & 'Senior Twilight Stock Replacer' which are both dogshit. I've never really been a fan of the Fall, tbh, i can only really do them in small doses, but on their own, some of these tracks are decent enough and i'll have another butchers at this.
6.5/10
#10 The Caretaker - Persistant Repetition
Kooky. 44 minutes of near-silence. Nice, in an ethereal, dreamy sort of way, but not really something i'd spend money on. More documentary soundtrack than serious album.
5/10
Well....
...thats his best album to date I think, and a lot of his other albums you can d/l free from the web. so you don't pay!
<3
You like frightened rabbit though don't you?
Your haughty musical opinions + the fact that you like frightened rabbit = ?
this is actually brilliant
#11 Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Over two hours of my life i'll never get back. Six tracks of 15ish minutes of background music. Boomkat said this was 'too good to review', i think that's a cop out, they just couldn't be arsed. Like the last one it's not offensive in any way, just fuck all happens.
3.5/10
Where are you getting all these albums from?
KIK
I'm curious, where are you actually getting these albums from? What's the procedure here? Nick from Soulseek, listen on media player then delete?
hmm
wonder why he hasn't replied to this....chances you wouldn't like the answer so you probably shouldn't ask! :D
I love this record
i think the sounds are really sharp and beautiful. It's one of my favourites of the year. Lulls me into smiles.
Don't quote Boomkat mind - they are in sales - like the OMM they never give a crap review.
this thread is actually useful
i'll probably check out the 2 he has given strong reviews which I would never have done on the strength of them being in the wire because I find the wire so inaccessible. I dont see why people are complaining, it's just his opinions and humorously written, nothing wrong with having specific tastes and if records from this list do impress him then it means it really must be a strong record that non wire readers might enjoy
^ this
i can't see why people are getting so wound up over this thread
it's a game that DiS plays with itself
someone says/does something slightly at odds with the consensus, people go over the top with their objections, other people ask why they are getting themselves wound up.
I'm glad really, i like these sort of threads and the fact they develop like this, theyre funny and people sometimes actually examine their position and think about stuff. Much better than 'isn't KID A brilliant?' threads.
yeah
people have opinions, people have opinions of opinions it goes on for infinity, Its just when people criticise for starting a thread, like they dont have a right to their opinion, I dont get it, why not start a thread its not like there is a limited amount of threads, I guess im going against what im saying by criticising others for criticising
what a stupid thing to say, dont be an idiot
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/anarmyofnone/uroboros.jpg
i'm going through this
and noting all the ones that sound like i might like them. it's a lot more honest and concise than most music reviewing, so it's much less like hard work.
good thread, thank you x
#12 Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
16 tracks-worth of occaional beeps. Absolute pomposity, pointless dross.
1/10
^^
best one so far
Pointless bleeps aren't as good as bleeps over swear words.
This thread and the ATP one are both gold though.
Who would this album appeal to ?
KiK - Did you listen to the whole album ?
You must have thought at the halfway point. "This is akll the same, I'll move on to number 13 !! " No ?
That would have been unprofessional.
exactly.
that's why i did it.
It's just testcard music, apparently.
I'm not sure who it would appeal to. I listened to most of it, yeah. With all the tracks sounding so similar i shuffled through a couple of them, but, well, it's not very good.
Well thanks for yr honesty.
Your integrity is unsullied KiK.
Move on to number 13.
one-bit music
i think. How "hip" wire is...<sigh>
http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2007/11/one-bit-music.html
Ikeda is fuckin ace
It's difficult to get it on just listening though. If you get a chance to see any of his performance thingies just go. It makes a hell of a lot more sense. I don;t really think he works on record.
#13 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
At least these are songs, that have structure, and someone's singing, mostly in tune, and people have bothered learning their instruments. On first listen i thought it's not really something i'd go for, it's a little straightforward, but putting your toe-tapping hatreds to one side you start finding it quite affable. The title track, 'More News From Nowhere' & 'Midnight Man' are all honest, tolerable tracks. Infact, it's a solid enough record, a kind of more mature, smokey, moustached, on-the-road Alligator or Boxer. Well done.
7.5/10
* 3 of the tracks of this record were corrupt, i must admit.
^ not that i don't like straightforward music.
I'm in love with you.
htis is teh best review ever
Where can I see the full list?
Is it online anywhere? Or should I just buy the magazine? There was a copy in Lowestoft WHSmiths the other day, it made me chuckle a bit seeing it there.
here...
http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/3172289350/show/930425
Thanks dude.
LOL at Vampire Weekend being in there.
Samesies
what will happen when KiK gets to Earth...?
I reckon he might really like the Earth record, as it goes.
not a chance
He knows I love it
i'm familiar with Earth
grungy shite.
That sounds like a description of their early work
I reckon you might be pleasantly surprised.
I reckon I could probably say "I reckon" a few more times
You're consistent, I'll give you that
I really do hope you like this album. It's wonderful.
shh, you might put him off
I reckon I already have
what do you reckon?
add me
to the list of people loving this thread. looking at the wire's top 50, I only actually own about 10 of these, and I'll probably check out the rave reviews you give.
Please start doing this for a living
the world needs more music critics who don't take any shit regarding drone.
drone is awesome
ahs he reviewed any drone idk
I don't think so
He seems to have reviewed a lot of ambient/electronica already.
maybe there should be a 'what is the best drone album of 2008' thread
I think we need to hear more about 2008, nobody is saying anything about it.
I can't wait until you get to that
Alva Noto record.
Where's the next installment?
Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground
won't be 'til tonight, though. I've got all-day football to think about.
Whats going on with this?
No update for days.
*less than two days.
Oh no! Days and days!
We're outta the loop! We're outta the fuckin' loop! My RSS feed is fucked!
He probably hasn't listened to a single record, the lovable bullshitter.
"raggae"
brilliant. you managed to rip into it without being racist, but you tripped over your own ignorance in the process.
by the way, the bug, aka kevin martin, is a white man. white skin. not black. does that make it more or less pathetic, do you think?
neither, unless you're racist.
you racist.
wow, and I thought this guy had devotion
http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14922&pid=553140&mode=threaded&start=#entry553140
I'm on the edge of my seat here
WHERE IS THE UPDATE?!?!?!!1
(although that sounded sarcastic, I am really enjoying these)
KiK !!!!!
C'mom KiK...
Is this going to be completed by Christmas.
I think you've bitten off more than you can swallow (or some other inane mataphor)
Whats going on ?
Haha, I'm glad that I've read this thread
you're a worse attention seeker than me.
By the way 'London Zoo' isn't really my kind of thing but it's definitely worth more than a 2/10, I even quite enjoyed a couple of tracks.
Keep going mate
37 albums in 9 days, should be a piece of piss.
Sorry chaps, i've been busy listening to my music library Z-A, tidying up the tags & rating everything out of 5.
I'll be back onto it sharpish.
And as for GalacticVirgin, it was more entertaining on here when you left, daft cunt.
Is anyone else getting shades of Karl Pilkington here?
What a wonderful thread.
I'm getting that Advisory Circle album though, sounds bitchin'
#14 Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground
Nice, absorbable, slightly off-kilter songsmithery this. I'm quite fond of it. Only a couple of turkeys on here. Reminds me a little of Phosphorescent.
7.5/10
You're being quite generous with your reviews
And you're reviewing The Wire's Top 50...I don't get it.
*bookmarked*
#15 Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic
So far as album names go, this is the greatest in the history of music. Sadly, it's a fucking tribal record, although y'know, it's kinda fun, and 'Mpombo Yetu' is particularly amusing, in a good way. I kinda like it.
5.5/10
That is a fucking great name!
It is!
I'm going to buy it on the strength of that alone.
#16 Autechre - Quaristice
Clinical, robotic, unhuman, average. Hard to get too attached to, really. Would probably sound okay after a mouthful of ecstacy. Get them confused with Autolux, so i'm marking them down for that aswell.
3/10
Keep going ...
... you're doing a grand job. And there are some corkers to go.
My flatmate's been off on the sick this week, resulting in slower than expected progress with this.
I'll definitely get it done, just waiting for the fuckers to piss off out of the living room!
the magazine
has a few more genre specific lists and loads of chats with different artists/label bosses - worth a look.
Late contender for thread of the year...
I'm enjoying the fact that Ads by Google is offering me "raggae".
I haven't logged in for weeks
and did it merely to say that this thread is one of the funniest things I've read/seen in ages. I was actually crying with laughter at some points.
Sir, I commend you.
this is brilliant.
I love how kissinginkansas pretty much has to finish this now, i haven't got a clue about 4/5ths of those Wire albums - this is nice and digestable
I'm glad he didn't completely slate the Kasai Allstars record
as quite frankly, I love it and believe the music to be as good as the album title...
I like this thread lots
Good going KinKy tits
I look forward to the rest
Why are people still humouring this idiot?
Efterklang were in there somewhere weren't they?
I'd be interested as to what you made of them.
oh no they weren't.
I, I just imagined that. Portishead then.
...Wait a fucking minute. Vampire Weekend? TRICKY?
I like this thread
The Wire has me flummoxed. Have even HEARD OF about 10 of these. Pray do carry on with the controversial snappy reviews xx
#17 Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music
Fuck knows what this is. Part Indian garage, part Trevor Nelson. Either way you don't need to listen to it.
1/10
i got chips on my shoulders and a fish that ain't even battered yet
is that one of their lyrics?
"H'ya like ma, Aiya Napa, H'ya like my SYTLE" or summat.
dunno man
you tell me. you listened to the record, right?
yeah, man.
cool
so in other news i'm really looking forward to #18.
I hadn't opened this yet
I don't know how you can force yourself to listen to a whole album, unless they're really good. I might imitate you though, with my high levels of free time in the next few weeks.
You can't imitate this freestylin'
Bump
More Bump
even MOAR bump
"It's a fucking raggae LP, how can that be good?"
at least you went into it with an open mind then.
#18 Luomo - Convivial
This is actually alright. I've never been really quite sure what House music is, s'just slow Dance, innit? Some nice chill-out room vibes here. Lovely stuff. I think i went to a House Club once, took quite a lot of ecstacy, them were good times. Just nod your head a bit and move yer feet, you'll be right. My mates sometimes talk about Frankie Knuckles, i just nod and say he's good. Elsewhere, i just had some Guacamole; not quite sure about that, i'll be honest. Sorry i've left this for a few days, mad goings on in kiK towers.
8/10
Anything rated 8/10 is surely better than
"actually alright" right?
don't judge the judge.
my name is onkar judge
#19 Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur
82-year-old guy plays Jazz.
0/10
disappointing.
I want more vitriol.
Can we have more words describing the shit stuff please?
hello,
i'm also enjoying this thread. put more words in the next few reviews though please, particularly the ones you deem shit.
i am in love with kik
for real
what ever happened to this thread
:(
The guy quit the site
as part of his New Year resolution to stop going on the internet so much
I ought to do this too
:( come backkkkkkkk
keep going
please.
I was wondering what happened here...
I enjoyed this thread, resurrect please.
Love how defensive all the chinscratchers are getting
please keep this thread going forever.
hehe
yeah man, keep it going
Groan.
FACE FUCKING PALM.
a great example of why you should always
read the latest post to see if a thread is going anywhere. i'm nowhere near satisfied.
This thread started off in a fiery and spirited manner
which led me to have high expectations for the remainder. Unfortunately its initial tumescence has subsequently tailed off into flaccid disappointment, like the hollow braggadocio of a two push charlie. 3/10.
:(
#20 - Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
Thought i might like this, but no, bobbins. S'pose it'd be alright to watch stars to, or something equally retarded. I mean, it's okay, but not a lot happens. The first three songs are ten minutes plus each, that makes no sense to me. Note to musicians: songs should be between two and four minutes. Thanks. Might like if you like Panda Bear, or whatever.
5/10
a true wtf?
YAY
#21 Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery
61 minutes of someone banging those daft metal drums they have in community centres. 'World Music', <rolls eyes>.
1/10
:D
if anyone wants to listen to him here's his myspace
http://www.myspace.com/lukasligeti
The first song badly balafon dance system has such an obvious level of depth.
its so off the mark it beggars belief
"such an obvious level of depth"?
What a silly and immature thing to say.
You're ruining the thread.
you're just so awful
it really genuinely makes me angry
Community Centre World Music - Should be a new genre of music
...... all bands within this genre should contain "daft metal drums"
Yay
Review
I review this review of the Wire's reviews O/10.
Minutes of MY life that I will not get back.
There's always one.
and that looks like a letter O there anyway, which makes absolutely no sense. Go and have a wash.
Can I rate that put down at 10/10 .......or 1O 0ut 0f 1O
#22 Hercules & Love Affair - S/T
The first on the list i already had, and one that won't need explaining to any of you, i doubt. Don't want to disappoint anyone by being positive, but it's a standup record. Could listen to it all night. If you're an absolute sponge who for some reason hasn't heard of it, erm, late 80s American Russell-loving clubby Dance.
8.5/10
It's back!
keep going slave girl
i often wonder what the fuck these overly punctuated objet's d'art are
go wire solver
bring the noise
#23 Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez
Guitar-based music from the country Niger, NIGER. Can't lay into it really, it's reasonably enjoyable. Some pleasant tunes. Sounds a bit Asian aswell. Imagine an Indian wedding taking place during the middle of Ace Ventura 2. Y'know, tribal.
6.5/10
#24 Jandek - Glasgow Sunday
Experimental, part groany, part completely unskilled banging of things that may or may not be instruments. Every track sounds exactly the same. Boring.
2/10
How has this been here for 3 weeks without
any Jandek apologists rushing to his defence?
I think he listened to the wrong album
It was actually 'Glasgow Sunday 2005' on the Wire list, not 'Glasgow Sunday'. The one they did recommend has only 2 tracks (so "every track sounds exactly the same..." seems to refer to the other one).
Anyway, consider this the obligatory 'rushing to the defence'...! It is a great great album. Alan Licht and Loren M Connors wailin' on 2 electric guitars, Heather Murray playing lap guitar and singing wordless backup. One of his very best albums.
#25 Robert Ashley - Concrete
Amongst the most pointless things i've ever heard. Some sort of weird operatic nightmare-like shit. Just an absolute waste of fucking time.
0.5/10
#26 Tricky - Knowle West Boy
Get him mixed up with Goldie. This is better than a Goldie LP would be. Part cheesy nonsense, part okay pop record. There's a decent track midway through called 'Past Mistake', sort of Air-like, or mid-late 90's smokey electro whatever. It's alright. 'Cross To Bear's a little similar. It's okay, but a bit too '40-year-old semi-maintream artist/jack of all trades king of none/pointless'. If he concentrated more on the Massive Attack-y material he could probably do an okay album.
5.5/10
I can't see how you can fail to like the next one.
Listen to Maxinquaye
Really, do it.
I'm jonesing for an update right now
Seconded.....
Sometimes I think the KiK hopes this will slip away unnoticed.....
More please.
My favourite thread on DiS ever - and that's coming from a dedicated Wire subscriber.
In the days when I could be arsed 'blogging' one of my favourite things was pulling out the most ridiculous, genuine band names from Wire. For example...
http://arlingford.blogspot.com/2007/06/return-of-ten-more-actual-band-names.html
astral social club sometimes posts here
makes great music, you should check him out.
Shame you didn't have the stamina to see this through
It was good while it lasted.
I revisited it a couple of months back.
but i think the time had gone, no-one was really that bothered, so i started listening to good albums instead.
I'm so disappointed you didn't get to Earth or Portishead
I got that Portishead record when it came out.
Didn't dislike it by any means but i couldn't see what the fuss was about either. Surely, to borrow a term some of you grungey benders are fond of, it's about as 'MOR' as music gets?
those two things aren't related, before you jump on that.
Wasn't going to
I've never called anything MOR in my life, as far as I can remember.
Not really
it's slightly terrifying. Eerie or something. It sounds very John Carpenter. And some of those guitar and drum parts are very bizarre sounding.
where the fuck is KiK's reply?
the page says there is one
oh
KiK
You're just over halfway there. Please carry on.
Hahahaha
It's nearly time for KiK's 'As an act of kindness, I'll be reviewing The Wire's Top 50 albums of 2009/the decade'. Looking forward to that one with baited breath...