Ever since my list was posted, I've been silently coping with a crippling regret - "why did I pick all those shitty albums when I coulda picked these shitty albums instead" Just for fun, here's what I wish I picked and what I wish I didn't pick:
Shoulda picked:
Marianne Faithfull, broken English
Mazzy Star, So tonight that I may see
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde
Jenny Lewis and Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show your bones
The Smiths, Strangeways...
Shouldn't of picked:
Laura Marling, Alas I cannot swim
Neil Young, After the gold rush
Bob Dylan, Basement Tapes and Bringing It all Back Home
The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle
Radiohead, OK Computer
Anybody else have any Death Match regrets eating away at their musical vanity?
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If I could do it again, I'd put more soul and jazz on the list. Or, I'd knock a bunch of the classics out and put in more recent stuff I've been listening to in the last few years like...
ReplyDeleteAnimal Collective
Bon Iver
The Books
Constantines
Deerhunter
Destroyer
Dirty Projectors
Fleet Foxes
Los Campensinos!
New Buffalo
Okkervil River
Phosphorescent
Samamidon
Silver Jews
Titus Andronicus
The Walkmen
The War on Drugs
Wolf Parade
Zookeeper
What else are people listening to that's kind of recent?
This is not recent and it is not eating away at my musical vanity, but, if I had it to do over again, I would try to squeeze a Simon and Garfunkel album onto my list.
ReplyDeleteI regret not going with my first instinct: to list only my recent favorites based on what I've been listening to over the past 2-3 months. Instead I put down my all time favorites. I thought that not only would my picks get laughed at, but that I wouldn't have any picks in the competition. (I was almost 100% sure that no one else would have the new Pearl Jam album on their list....other than Andrew). Here's what my list probably would have looked like had I gone with my initial instinct
ReplyDelete1. JJ no 2 (absolutely love this album...very disappointed with jj no 3 so far)
2. Avett Bros--I and love and you
3. Frightened Rabbit--midnight organ fight (absolutely love this album, somewhat underwhelmed with new one)
4. Vampire Weekend--self-titled
5. Vampire Weekend--contra
6. Wilco--the album (i love me my wilco...apparently just like Steve D)
7. Spoon--kill the moonlight (their new album is growing on me)
8. Hercules and Love affair--hercules and love affair (I really think Antony's voice works well with the music)
9. Velvet underground--velvet underground (i used to own just the greatest hits, but finally got their albums...great pick-up)
10. pearl jam--backspacer (i love pearl jam...and i'm not calling it a guilty pleasure)
11. liz phair--exile in guyville (no idea why i never listened to this album until recently...maybe thought it was too hyped before listening to it)
12. Avett Bros--mignonette
13. animal collective--merriweather post pavilion
14. bill withers--lonely day: best of
15. heartless bastards--all this time
16. neil young--harvest
17. velvet underground & nico
18. dodos--visiter
19. dirty projectors--bitte orca
20. kings of leon--only by night
21. mgmt--oracular spectacular
22. fela kuti--best of
23. band of horses--everything all of the time (i got this after their most recent one and like it better)
24. various artists--goodbye babylon 6 disc set---6 discs of awesome folk/gospel...definitely worth checking out
25. burial--untrue
26. dodos--visiter
27 monsters of folk
28. alicia keys--the element of freedom
29. real estate--real estate
30. big star--#1 record/radio city (listening to it a lot after alex chilton passed)
Agreed on the soul and jazz, with the addition of hip hop. At the end of the tourney, we should each take on the task of completing a "Top Five of the Moment" list to share.
ReplyDeleteAlso, does anyone else sometimes wish we could do genre death matches? Classic Rock Death Match, Indie Death Match, Jazz Death Match, etc.? Not that I intend to spend the rest of my life on _____ death matches...
Andy W., you should not regret putting either of your Dylan albums, your Neil Young album, or the Zombies on here. If any of those made it into a match which I judged, they would be hard to beat. I wish I had put Neil Young's "Sleeps with Angels" on my list, as that is a great weird album from his latter career.
ReplyDeleteI also wish I had put more old blues on here, maybe the Revenant label's "American Primitive, Vol. I", Columbia's "Legends of the Blues, Vol. 1", or "The Complete Blind Willie Johnson". Old music that never gets old...
As for recent stuff I have been enjoying, I would agree with Brian on the Vampire Weekend. I also wish I had made room for a Hot Chip album (probably "The Warning") and Mayer Hawthorne's debut "A Strange Arrangement" on my list. And definitely more hip-hop: more Dilla, more Madlib, more MF Doom, Erykah Badu's last album, etc. I also have two recent albums by this funky/ jazzy/ experimental/ instrumental soul band called The Heliocentrics which I really enjoy.
I listen to almost all of the podcasts from Stones Throw Records...I still don't have an iPod, so I burn them onto CD-R's and listen in the car. It's like getting free CDs. Most of them are hip-hop mixes by cool new artists...The label's big wigs Peanut Butter Wolf and Egon are serious music-heads with an ear for talent new and old. Word.
I don't know. I think my list is pretty much perfect.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm excited to check out some of the hip-hop suggestions Eric threw out there.
Glad to hear you are interested in the hip-hop, Kevin. Looking back at my list, I guess I did include my favorite albums by the rappers I listed (Donuts, Madvillainy). I've also recently had the fun of discovering some hip-hop from the golden age which I missed the first time around: Gang Starr, Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, The Pharcyde, etc. Fun stuff.
ReplyDeleteI regret nothing......
ReplyDeleteJeff, not even that one time you drank miller high life...it never pays to live the high life
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