A Century of Music

[axolotl]

I may be alone old here, but it seems like so much dreck surrounding so little of value or substance. Convince me otherwise...

No, that's not your responsibility.

Puff Faddy

Hee-hee. No worse than any of his chosen names, tho'.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I may be alone old here, but it seems like so much dreck surrounding so little of value or substance. Convince me otherwise...

No, that's not your responsibility.



Hee-hee. No worse than any of his chosen names, tho'.

I'm not gonna argue otherwise - I find the late 90s wanting. There are some highlights - I really like Californication by the Chili Peppers, Eminem's early stuff, The Roots but as I look over the albums, I'm not sure I can get excited even with 10 albums of this year (compared to other years where I spin 20 albums and that seems inadequate). Granted 69 Love Songs is like playing 4 albums

Did I really put Puff Faddy - even for my history of quick typing errors, that's a funny one, as you pointed out, due to his multiple name changes

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I'm not gonna argue otherwise - I find the late 90s wanting. There are some highlights - I really like Californication by the Chili Peppers, Eminem's early stuff, The Roots but as I look over the albums, I'm not sure I can get excited even with 10 albums of this year (compared to other years where I spin 20 albums and that seems inadequate). Granted 69 Love Songs is like playing 4 albums

Did I really put Puff Faddy - even for my history of quick typing errors, that's a funny one, as you pointed out, due to his multiple name changes

Puff Faddy is a very popular rapper in Northern Ireland.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (1999)
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)

Between a 56 min album and a 172 min album, I'm not gonna get anywhere in this year

It's been several years since I've listened to 69 Love Songs, and man it's such a good album (and I'm not usually too high on low key indie) - I ask myself the same question that I ask each time I play this album: "Why don't I play this one more" and come up with the same answer
IT'S TOO DAMN LONG
Yes each song is really good, elegant, heartfelt, poignant, but, Jesus, almost 3 hours for a guy who likes to hear an album's full glory is trying. Despite my enjoyment can I name one song on this album - alright I can, but they do tend to blend together. Sometimes length detracts and makes one hesitant to break an album out - definitely don't break out Sandinista or even Songs in the Key of Life as much as I enjoy each of those albums.
But hey, was delighted to spin today. Hopefully more than 2 albums tomorrow

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (1999)
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)

Between a 56 min album and a 172 min album, I'm not gonna get anywhere in this year

It's been several years since I've listened to 69 Love Songs, and man it's such a good album (and I'm not usually too high on low key indie) - I ask myself the same question that I ask each time I play this album: "Why don't I play this one more" and come up with the same answer
IT'S TOO DAMN LONG
Yes each song is really good, elegant, heartfelt, poignant, but, Jesus, almost 3 hours for a guy who likes to hear an album's full glory is trying. Despite my enjoyment can I name one song on this album - alright I can, but they do tend to blend together. Sometimes length detracts and makes one hesitant to break an album out - definitely don't break out Sandinista or even Songs in the Key of Life as much as I enjoy each of those albums.
But hey, was delighted to spin today. Hopefully more than 2 albums tomorrow

Californication is a very good album with awful sound quality. The band must've shared their drugs with the recording engineer(s).

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Blur - 13 (1999)
Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret (1999)
Wilco - Summerteeth (1999)
The Roots - Things Fall Apart (1999)

Overall a nice day of music:
a) Once again my opinion that Summerteeth is a better album than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is confirmed as true.
b) though I'm a bit Blur fan, I never break out 13 - such a good vibe
c) though I've spun several times before (though not in awhile) really enjoyed the Built to Spill album a lot, more than I remember in the past. Gotta revisit it more frequently

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Moby - Play (1999)
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999)
American Football - American Football (1999)
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun (1999)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness (1999)

Some New Years weekend listens to wrap up 1999

 

[axolotl]

Moby - Play (1999)
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999)
American Football - American Football (1999)
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun (1999)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness (1999)

Some New Years weekend listens to wrap up 1999

I have every single one of these.

P. S. Are you going to do anything speshul before Y2K?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

^
Indeed a little Y2K delay of sorts in getting to 2000 music but today starting with the 2000 playlist including:

"Beautiful Day" by U2
"Ms. Jackson", "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" by OutKast
"Stan", "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem
"Idioteque", "The National Anthem" by Radiohead
"Yellow" by Coldplay
"One More Time" by Daft Punk
"In the End" by Linkin Park
"Letter From An Occupant" by The New Pornographers
"Music" by Madonna
"Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down
"Oops I Did It Again" by Britney Spears
"Bye Bye Bye" by NSYNC
"Bent", "If You're Gone" by Matchbox Twenty
"Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches
"Hanging by A Moment" by Lifehouse
"Independent Women Pt I" by Destiny's Child
"Shake Ya Ass" by Mystikal
"It's My Life" by Bon Jovi
"Country Grammar" by Nelly
"Good Fortune" by PJ Harvey
"Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by Queens of the Stone Age
"Who Let the Dogs Out" by Baha Men
"There You Go" by Pink
"One Armed Scissor" by At the Drive-In
"If I Ever Feel Better", "Too Young" by Phoenix
"Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols
"Southern Hospitality" by Ludacris
"Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker
"I Just Wanna Love U" bY Jay-Z
"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" by D'Angelo
"Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan
"Lovely Head" by Goldfrapp
"Come Pick Me Up" by Ryan Adams
"You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)" by The White Stripes
"Minority" by Green Day

 

[Ojai Sam]

^
Indeed a little Y2K delay of sorts in getting to 2000 music but today starting with the 2000 playlist including:

"Beautiful Day" by U2
"Ms. Jackson", "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" by OutKast
"Stan", "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem
"Idioteque", "The National Anthem" by Radiohead
"Yellow" by Coldplay
"One More Time" by Daft Punk
"In the End" by Linkin Park
"Letter From An Occupant" by The New Pornographers
"Music" by Madonna
"Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down
"Oops I Did It Again" by Britney Spears
"Bye Bye Bye" by NSYNC
"Bent", "If You're Gone" by Matchbox Twenty
"Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches
"Hanging by A Moment" by Lifehouse
"Independent Women Pt I" by Destiny's Child
"Shake Ya Ass" by Mystikal
"It's My Life" by Bon Jovi
"Country Grammar" by Nelly
"Good Fortune" by PJ Harvey
"Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by Queens of the Stone Age
"Who Let the Dogs Out" by Baha Men
"There You Go" by Pink
"One Armed Scissor" by At the Drive-In
"If I Ever Feel Better", "Too Young" by Phoenix
"Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols
"Southern Hospitality" by Ludacris
"Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker
"I Just Wanna Love U" bY Jay-Z
"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" by D'Angelo
"Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan
"Lovely Head" by Goldfrapp
"Come Pick Me Up" by Ryan Adams
"You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)" by The White Stripes
"Minority" by Green Day

It’s almost all terra incognita to me. MG wouldn’t arrive for 7 more years so in 2000 I was still listening in solitude to older music of one kind or another.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

It’s almost all terra incognita to me. MG wouldn’t arrive for 7 more years so in 2000 I was still listening in solitude to older music of one kind or another.

I have the same gaps too Sam, and you're right, when I joined the MG in 2009, my musical exposure for stuff from 2007 onward increased. The 1990s is often the biggest gap to me because from 1994-99 was residency combined with marriage and my first two children coming along. No time for music - but hey I eventually caught up

 

[axolotl]

I have the same gaps too Sam, and you're right, when I joined the MG in 2009, my musical exposure for stuff from 2007 onward increased. The 1990s is often the biggest gap to me because from 1994-99 was residency combined with marriage and my first two children coming along. No time for music - but hey I eventually caught up

These are not my gap years, or my Gap jeans, either.

I looked at this list and dozens of okay and not-so-okay earworms leapt out at me.

I may never probably will forgive you for that.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000)
Outkast - Stankonia (2000)
Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

Busy workdays and lengthy 1+ hour albums make 2000 slow-going but able to hit some good un's over the past 2 days including huge hip hop albums

Random thought: I've heard the Avalanches album before but really gelled with it now years later. Between Monday's playlist and album listen today, heart "Frontier Psychiatrist" now twice and just cracks me up (that is, makes me laugh...I'm not in need of a Frontier Psychiatrist...I'm not even on the frontier).

 

[axolotl]

To recap...

an aquatic scene depicts three rubber rafts with about ten people in each. The water has white crested waves. The left raft is separated from the leading two by a chest high wave. A person stands in the right raft and is facing back to the last one with an arm raised. The band's name is written in white letters near the bottom with the album's title below it; both use the same block capital script.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man (2000)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (2000)
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (2000)
Coldplay - Parachutes (2000)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (2000)
Ween - White Pepper (2000)
O Brother Where Art Thou (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2000)

How is it possible that Mass Romantic is over 20 years old?

White Pepper is my favorite Ween album - a big part of it is the super catchy "Bananas and Blow", such a funny take on Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" (one of my fave Zevon's songs). But the whole album, where the "Brothers" Ween turn their protean abilities to 70s music giving us playful takes on prog, Steely Dan, 70s hard rock.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Monday and moving on to the next year - 2001
As usual I've been listening to a playlist of singles and album tracks from that year including:

"Last Nite", "Hard to Explain" by The Strokes
"Fell In Love with a Girl" by The White Stripes
"Island in the Sun", "Hash Pipe" by Weezer
"Fallin'" by Alicia Keys
"Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliott
"Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue
"Crystal" by New Order
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", "Digital Love" by Daft Punk
"Izzo (HOVA)" by Jay-Z
"Survivor" by Destiny's Child
"Get the Party Started" by Pink
Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz
"How You Remind Me" by Nickelback
"Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige
"Chop Suey!" by System of a Down
"Pyramid Song" by Radiohead
"Drops of Jupiter" by Train
"New Slang" by The Shins
"The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World
"Where's Your Head At" by Basement Jaxx
"Mississippi" by Bob Dylan
"All For You" by Janet Jackson
"Let Me Blow Ya Mind" by Eve
"U Got It Bad" by Usher
"41 Shots (American Skin)" by Bruce Springsteen
"Hella Good", "Hey Baby" by No Doubt
"Everything Hits at Once" by Spoon
"Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling
"Emerge" by Fischerspooner
"Hit Em Up Style (Oops!)" by Blu Cantrell
"Blurry" by Puddle of Mudd
"Imitation of Life" by R.E.M.
"Ain't it Funny" by Jennifer Lopez
"Bang" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
...and many many more

 

[axolotl]

I have earworms rushing in like a flood.

My fave: "The Middle"

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)
Weezer - Weezer (Green Album) (2001)
Spoon - Girls Can Tell (2001)

Quite the opening group of albums for 2001 - and thank God for 2001. I have long groused about the excessive length of 90s artists that decided to use the full palette of a CD's length without having the quality material. So kudos to these groups that produced lean, tight quality albums (The White Stripes come in at the lengthiest 40 min, Weezer at 28 min(!))