The point of these threads is to encourage people to look for new and interesting music. We do this by listening to and ideally discussing albums we've never heard before. Many of us already listen to new music daily, these people are in it to venture "out of their comfort zone" by listening to albums they otherwise wouldn't have, or just to have a good time.
reposting this for convenience lasagna cat was a webseries back in 2008 the format of the series is hard to explain verbally you'll get the jist from just watching a few of the vids youtube.com/watch?v=o0Lv8irN66U youtube.com/watch?v=vubtGImJXqk youtube.com/watch?v=dZ2q9NmYf6g the project's last upload was on january 14th, 2008. by that i mean every video up on the channel prior to the reboot was uploaded on that one day. the channel laid silent for 9 years. out of nowhere, on the 9th of this month, this was uploaded to the channel. youtube.com/watch?v=ADM2WG1PsRs this was then followed by this video on the same day, an ad a real call in line asking for people's full names and number of sexual partners they've had. youtube.com/watch?v=IN7LQNDkobA today, the channel uploaded 13 new videos, 12 new installments of the lasagnacat series, and a 5 hour video of the results of the sex survey. everybody who called in got a custom reply. note that the background footage slowly changes with the video. also note the ending. youtube.com/watch?v=KgmoMO66uPg one of these videos is a 1 hour uninterrupted video of John Barrymore III contemplating the philosophical aspects of the aforementioned strip. youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw one of the videos features Justin Roiland singing In the Air Tonight. youtube.com/watch?v=6_NeqMAAsBk also there are several separate youtube channels and websites that correspond with the project in an arg like fashion, including both channels in this video. one of the videos on odie's channel was uploaded 4 years ago. the rest on both were posted today as well. youtube.com/watch?v=x3NLa4ebX4E youtube.com/watch?v=XS6MOep2wLs it's too much to list out here. this will likely be dissected over the course of weeks, so this is all just very surface level shit at this point most likely. i'm scared.
Gabriel Carter
Damn that's fucking crazy. Do we know anything about the people behind it? That ending was high art.
>was subscribed to lasagna cat for five years >got a fuckton of uploads in one day out of nowhere what a surprise. One of the best channels became even better.
The Matrix fight-parody video slayed me. Goddamn perfect.
Had no idea about the other channels though. Will have to check them out.
Cameron White
oh boy. guess i'm /upallnight/ at this point.
Brandon Rivera
Supersilent - 6 (2003) >free improvisation
Definitely the poppiest, most accessible free improv release I've ever heard. Helge Sten (Deathprod)'s roots in ambient give this a very dreamy, textural quality, losing a lot of the angularity that's so often present in free improv. Sometimes it's a bit too light, which is mostly prominent when they take on more of a post-rocky sound, but this is mostly pretty beautiful stuff. The instrumentation is varied, the pieces flow beautifully and naturally, which all makes for a nice listen, and a great entrance point for free improv.
3.0+
Ákos Rózmann - 12 Stationer VI (2012) >electroacoustic
The first piece is monstrous. It's a lurching, ugly, massive twenty-minute long electroacoustic piece that shatters every preconception I had about the genre being generally somewhat light and airy. It's noisy, hypnotic, and most importantly it's interesting and entrancing. The other three pieces are cool enough, but nothing quite reaches up to the first piece. Some parts of the last piece that focus a lot on mouth sounds and squeaking get really irritating, but barring that it's still a decent piece.
3.0-
this is like next level weird internet shit
i never thought lasagna cat would come back, especially not in this weird-ass way
Jackson Garcia
hey
Leo Adams
glad you liked supersilent
Christian Miller
it was good! gonna check out the rest of their stuff.
Charles Lewis
I have a lot to get through so it's all gonna be short and shitty bare with me.
>New Order - Substance Glad I'm giving these guys another chance because this comp is tops. Only bad song is " State of the Nation" which isn't even that bad. Even the two-disc version has some bangers. Can see this getting a lot of replay. 8
>Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone If you have never liked an album more because of how much fun it was: 1) I feel sorry for you 2) you probably should miss this. Lots of really well-executed synthpop tunes. Favorite tracks were the redone "Reaganomics", "Touch-Tone Telephone" and " Eighth Wonder" are all great pop songs. There's a few whatever songs but the humor here is more akin to TMBG and less meme-y than the Mouth projects. 7
>Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing Certainly not the mind-numbing experience I'd hoped for but pretty damn surprising and eventful. I think everyone here could get at least something from this. I could just copy more RYM descriptors like "meditative" or "mysterious" but I think y'all should just decide for yourself. 7
>Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden A few years ago I believed >All country is shit A year ago I believed >All country pop is shit And now I'm not sure what I believe. Every track before and including "No Train to Stockholm" is solid. Wasn't super sold on all the orchestration though. 7
>Brian Eno - Before and After Science I don't really like any of Eno's "Art Rock" stuff but this was my favorite of that kind. "By This River" and "Backwater" are two of his best songs. 6
>Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works A lot of memorable and beautiful moments here, especially on the closing track, but this is balanced with a fair amount of far too short tracks that left me hanging. I'm sure this guy is very capable and talented, I just felt wanting more on most of this. 6
Carson Rogers
>Eliane Radigue - Adnos I-III Hypnotic, but very guessable after about the first forty minutes. While "Trilogie de la mort" featured plenty of beautiful surprises, here is a three hour drone album where every 10 minutes the drone currently playing fades out while a new one fades in. For three discs. Not bad at all and the drones played are pretty satisfying, I just wish I was caught off-guard somewhere here. Formulaic experimentation isn't quite my jam. 6
>Flipper - Blow'n Chunks It's less dumb bullshit than their other one but it's just non-expansive performances of good studio songs. 6
>Frodus - Conglomerate International Sellmeagod-core that would've been waaay better had they stuck with the edgy factor. Way too much dumb filler shit in here. 5
>Sweet Valley - So Serene By far the best thing Nathan Williams has ever put out and it's still kinda crap! 5
And holy shit so much Cocteau Twins BBC sessions was just stuff that had already been recorded in worse quality and played worse. These guys were probably really shitty live. There were a lot of good pop tracks on Four-Calendar Café, but I see why someone that's an "Etherealist" might hate this project and see it as their "selling out point". Not amazing, but "Bluebeard" is seriously one of their bests. The Spangle Maker is a great EP with two of their best songs and one okay song. The 12-in Pearly Dew-Drops 4eva. Tiny Dynamine had one great song and three okay ones. Echoes in a Shallow Bay had four boring songs. Milk & Kisses was bad but not quite irredeemable. Makes me think if they kept going their next album would've been awful. 4, 6, 8, 6, 4, and 4, respectively.
what next
Matthew Gutierrez
primavera sound
Aaron Reed
Pine Smoke Lodge - El-Ahrairah (2010) >drone, ambient
Cool drones and all, but nothing goes anywhere and all four tracks drag on for far too long. Lack of progression in drone is a bad thing, especially when two tracks on the album crack twenty minutes and the other two are nearly ten. A really cool idea is presented, but nothing is built upon that idea, it's just repeated and repeated with no variety at all. Because of this, it really doesn't have any low points, but it has no distinguishable high points or remarkable moments either. The tribal closer is really cool, but no other track has even half of it's memorability or compositional wonder.
2.0+
Adrian Garcia
Scientist - Best Dub Album in the World
I’m not sure if it quite lives up to its name (mostly b/c I’ve heard like no dub) but I gotta admit, this is groovy as hell. It’s only 26 minutes long but in that time it really manages to pack a punch. There’s pretty much everything you’d expect in dub - heavy bass, ska-y upstroke guitar, dope drums and a ton of reverb. The drums are probably my favorite (who would’ve guessed?) because there’s some that have this awesome echo-y slapping tone that’s just the coolest. It sounds like someone is smashing the top of a tin garbage can in a deep, watery cave and I pretty much picture that every time it happens. That contrasts quite well with the heavier, steel-sounding drumming, which kind of sits in the foreground of most tracks.
Even cooler - there’s extensive use of sound effects. There’s sharp little lasery effects that fly through the recording. Half the time they sound like Star Wars blasters and the other half they sound like radar blips. Kind of electronic and makes me think about how influential this stuff was on early hip-hop production and (I’m assuming) electronic music.
I think the thing I like the most about dub and all reggae in general is how founded it is in rhythm. I guess that’s a dumb statement because all music is - but it embraces it so much. And I think about it more when I hear these genres. There’s a really heavy bassline in every track that just dominates. And the drums mostly sit in the front of the mix, until it fades for the guitar, sound effects or whatever to just take over. As a result, it feels very cyclical and so relaxing.
Anyway, I’m probably just stating the obvious at this point but this is really just superb all the way around.
4/5
Elijah Howard
>Dadawah - Peace and Love
this is actually the first reggae album I've ever heard.. havent even listened to bob marley or anything. this was great, i debated really hard between a 4 and a 4.5, and it would have easily been a 4.5 if the rest of the tracks were as good as "zion land". hypnotic, warm, and religious.. love it
4/5
Lucas Lopez
I love this meme an unreasonable amount.
Also, have you heard everything by Cocteau Twins? Seems like you've reviewed one of their albums every chart
Yeah, that Dadawah album is definitely one of the best reggae albums I've found. A lot different than the other stuff I've heard though, it feels way darker and more spiritual. Triangle might be able to hook you up with some recs if you're interested, he knows the most about the genre afaict
Also, your chart makes me want to check out Flockaveli again t b h
Isaiah Hughes
>first reggae album woof great album, not a good representation of the genre I must say though. It really is a very unique combination of reggae and nyabinghi, which is traditional, religious rastafari drum music. Not much else like it out there. glad you liked it though!
(bob marley ain't worth it desu, if anything go for The Congos next)
Thomas Lewis
ayy, you liked it!
I like your descriptions of the drum sounds, your wording really captures the sound accurately.
Jason Robinson
We listened to all of A Love Supreme in class last week and people were making countless supreme jokes in whispers. Was kinda annoying but 10% funny.
>Also, have you heard everything by Cocteau Twins Other than an album that's, like, TECHNICALLY a Cocteau Twins album because it was made by all of the members minus the bassist just not credited as a Cock Twins album and also their first album, yes I have. Very solid discog so far.
Connor Scott
Yeah, it was dope! Glad you liked the description, took me a while to figure out what exactly those drums sound like.
Gonna potentially check out the Sly album tonight because I like what I've heard from dub so far.
Sounds like a fun class dude, I wish I had taken something like that. At least you know your class has an okay sense of humor though
Also, damn that's a lot of material. I've dug what I've heard by them so far but haven't had the chance to dive into anything other than their big two
Austin Fisher
for real how is this album cover not a meme.
It's really shitty jazz fusion and it's literally a euphoric fedora. It could probably fit for any given zappa album honestly.
Sebastian Moore
As a huge fan, I'd say The Pink Opaque, Heaven or Las Vegas, and Treasure are their only worthwhile ones unless you're super into post-punk/dream pop/ethereal wave. Otherwise, all of their bolded material is great.
Logan Ramirez
>Watched a whole fucking hour of the lasagnacat sex survey video >my call didn't show up I called in only a few days ago so I wonder if it even got in. Only three more hours to watch I guess.
It's time for slumber though good night.
Charles Richardson
you better fucking link it if you find it
Jaxson Garcia
...
Colton Reyes
back trip was p cool, sat on the edge of a river and stared into the reflection of the trees for what must have been 6 hours, can recommend LSD
Brody Moore
i didnt write this don't ruin my purity
Lucas Evans
>>Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden 'leather and lace' + 'for a day like today' are such great songs. this reminds me i wanted to relisten to his album with nancy sinatra
Jackson Rodriguez
It's friday motherfuckers. I've got like two hours free right now, so hit me up with an album.
#neat
Christopher Smith
>hit me up with an album. : )
Zachary Richardson
If LSD is so good then why didn't It fix your taste?
Joshua Barnes
...
Jacob Fisher
yamir chort
Jose Gomez
>Adnos I-III review Hm now im not as motivated to sit through it
I honestly thought it was you desu
Shit thats real good, all of those albums are amazing Glad you put playero 37 on it Maurizio is a basic channel side project btw
Joseph Barnes
they better i must have listened to like half of the stuff you had on your chart that there wasn't a lot left to choose from
Jason Sullivan
lol i still have a lot of very popular albums and the occasional daily core album :/
Dominic Long
>New Order - Substance that record sucks tee bee aich
looks a good chart from what I've heard on it, is that your favourite Basho apart from Visions yam?
Nathan Baker
I'm stuck at home with a furious snow storm raging outside pls gib cozy reccs for this.
David Myers
>tfw I made a chart for this
Easton Young
was gonna rec something folky like Vashti Bunyan
noisey/shoegazey music like galaxie 500 works quite well too imo, not that it snows often here
Ryan Scott
>frantz, vashti, sibylle, nick, linda and boubacar on the same chart
I'm downloading every single other one of these fucking records.
But regardless From Gardens Where We Feel Secure should 100% be up there too. No comfier record.
Luke Jackson
>no atmoblack
Elijah Lee
too easy probably
Tyler Thomas
No that IS my favorite basho album
Good chart
David Gutierrez
>You're Living All Over Me are you ready for the best fuckin noise rock on the planet?
Liam Edwards
Really? What makes you like it so much? It's probably my 3rd favourite after Visions and Voice of the Eagle, he doesn't use his voice quite as much which is what I think sets him apart from other AP artists
Isaac Thompson
Thats not the best noise rock album but luckily the best noise rock album is also on the chart ;)
Jason Butler
>honestly thought it was you desu this upsets me
Joseph Ross
please
Xavier Baker
>that record sucks Get out
Justin Powell
I did, however, write that next post
Dylan Fisher
i might give it another go but I turned it off before the end when I was going through my dad's records years ago. New Order just ain't for me apart from a couple of songs which are fantastic.
Justin Cooper
Someone who is good with programming and/or software here: what's the best way to trace moving points in a video? I need to mark up the joints of animals and create dots that follow them.
This is not on Spotify.
Levi Hall
oh fuck that hits the spot baby
this too
thanks mateos time for cozy time
Isaiah Morgan
D.R. Hooker - The Truth
Heard this one? Pretty good
Xavier Baker
bruh
Ryan Diaz
Will listen a bit later, playing some gita now
Jose Lopez
Cloudfare had a leak, be prepared to change your trips
Jace King
Nobody's taking my trip
Kevin Hill
Also if you have a pass, change the password
The leak was probably nothing but you might as well be safe
Adrian Cox
is that you playing the guitar
Blake Baker
yes i am a cute animes
Hunter Young
damn
Evan Walker
Carnaval let's go
Kevin Rodriguez
Some love for Emmanuelle Parrenin? Hot damn I don't remember the last time I saw that name even mentioned on Sup Forums. Siq.
Jonathan Flores
Luigi Russolo - Die Kunst Der Geräusche
This italian man invented noise as a musical concept. Interesting for the historical value and some of the most vocal pieces are actually pretty good, but I don't love it.
Levi Gomez
hanabi a slut
Ryan Young
Rudi
hair?
Jayden Murphy
I'm a huge pleb when it comes to old music, can anyone rec me stuff from before 1990?
Islaja is really great, have you heard ulual yyy?
Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
The odd vocal production on this album makes it extra comfy
Landon Morris
No jokes about balding pls!!!!! (Or I'll send hampus to you lol) No bfr I had long hear when I was like 17 but it's gotten better over time
Dylan Cook
???
>Frisk Frugt my man
underrated 2015 aoty right there
If you like that, you'd probably like Van Dyke Parks and Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys. He borrows a lot of Parks's baroque pop, but also incorporates elements of Krautrock-esque electronica
based on a lot of the other spacey and psychedelic stuff you have on there, Krautrock seems like a fine idea
Parker Taylor
>Islaja is really great i'll do it next then, from the snippets i've heard it's really sweet. if i like it i'll listen to ulual too
also you might like these burzum - filosofem coil - the ape of naples cocteau twins - heaven or las vegas mercury rev - yerself is steam
and for music from before 1990 you can't go wrong with tago mago or pink moon
Brayden White
"I get high on life!!" -tier opinions, as typically is the case from you.
Camden Thomas
I love pet sounds, I'll check out that other stuff
Isaiah Green
moca best girl if u dont have a trip... people can't steal it biosphere substrata is best album for cold weather >>New Order - Substance >that record sucks tee bee aich this is a real opinion someone has
Joseph Robinson
Cool, and I feel like I recognize your name, but in case you're new, welcome to daily, friendo
Jeremiah Russell
everyone's seen my trip though any other websites this affected we should know about?
Joshua Mitchell
>music from before 1990 that's pretty freakin' broad category I'll do my best to be concise though
>1920s Henry Thomas - "Ragtime Texas" Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929 Blind Lemon Jefferson - King of the Country Blues Lonnie Johnson - Steppin' on the Blues Tommy Johnson - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order (1929-1929) Charley Patton - Founder of the Delta Blues Eck Robertson - Old-Time Texas Fiddler >1930s Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night The Carter Family - 1927-1934 Blind Boy Fuller - East Coast Piedmont Style Skip James - Complete 1931 Sessions Blind Willie McTell - Early Years (1927-1933) Jimmie Rodgers - The Essential Jimmie Rodgers Woodie Gutherie - Dust Bowl Ballads >1940's Lead Belly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy Vol. 1 >1950s Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads & Blues Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Will Do Hank Mobley - Jazz Message #2 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um Ravi Shankar - Music of India: Three Classical Ragas The Stanley Brothers - Complete Columbia Recordings >1960s Richard Abrams - Levels and Degrees of Light Sandy Bull - Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava Max Roach - We Insist! Ultimate Spinach - s/t White Noise - An Electric Storm The Beach Boys - Smile Sessions >1970s Baby Huey - The Baby Huey Story Robbie Basho - Visions of the Country Cluster - Cluster II Simon Finn - Pass the Distance Dadawah - Peace & Love Exuma - s/t Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms John Fahey - America Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me a Song of Songmy Keith Hudson - Nuh Skin Up Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Hound Dog Taylor - Beware of the Dog The Trees Community - The Christ Tree >1980s Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window Human Sexual Response - In a Roman Mood Mikey Dread - World War III The Units - Digital Stimultion They Might Be Giants - Lincoln Nomeansno - Wrong
Easton Rogers
Triangle, rate my History of Rock Music's week on porto-blues and country and western blues
A few anachronistic examples included
Christopher Phillips
Gonna relisten to it sometime soon since so many of you like it so much, its been a while and I've liked a few synthpop albums since
Jason Collins
this is a class I'm taking btw
Kayden Brooks
inb4 too much muddy waters
Adrian Evans
so one time jim asked me about grindcore and i realized there's almost nothing in the genre i actually really like anymore not to claim i'm too "mature" for it
when's the last time that happened to you?
well, pic related is actually kinda cool and melodic even tho it probably has the worst guitar tone of all time
Colton Baker
I'm not sure what "proto-blues" means, but it's a decent list at least just from a quality standpoint serving as a complete historical perspective on how blue developed into rock though? very sparse. Leaves out a lot of critical delta and early chicago musicians that were vital to the early rock sound. Jimmie Rodgers is only really relevant if you're gonna spend time on country as well.
Lincoln Morris
good this is proof that bullying works
Benjamin Lee
also >only one delta musician >Sam Cooke (who debuted after rock was already a thing) (also not even blues) >only chicago blues is muddy waters >putting obscure/irrelevant artists on this list when you haven't even covered the essentials
Kevin Gray
I'll bring my ratings and reviews of Fishmans discography on here. Starting by release date order. >Neo Yankee Holiday: 7/10
People will say the Fishmans unique dreampop style only truly started with Kuuchuu Camp. But I disagree. It was already a thing way back on Neo Yankee Holiday. The album is basically Fishmans all over. Reggae and dub, check. Weird experimentation and distortion? Check. Dreampop? Well, Some moments already hint at that more ethereal later work of theirs. So yes. It's emotive as well. I want to give the good rating for this one for being such a solid and good album overall but you know when an album is just lacking something? Such is the case with NYH. So a 7 stands.
Easton Ward
>Orange: 5/10
I never liked Orange much. Since day one it was sort of an odd one for me. Fishmans stripped out of reggae AND dream pop? I mean what the hell is this even? "This wouldn't sound like fishmans" i thought with myself before listening to the album. Of course I always admired that organization of instrumentation that Fishmans had going on, much similar to a jazz band. So yeah i was still expecting something good.
What we have here is indeed not at all like a Fishmans record, this is more like your 90s indie rock with lots of 60s, 70s and 80s pop influences and yeah it's not really that good. The timing is good, the players are good, but the music just doesn't blend. The songs don't sound like songs, the drums don't fit in the same room with the guitars and they end up sounding more like a collection of sounds beating one over the another instead of blending in perfect harmony. Good instrumentation and compositions but it's just a mess. I blame a little the mixing team as well.
Ryan Cooper
Come iiiiiiiiin i heard a voice from insiiiiiide Also this has some of his best guitar work and the opener is the best american primitivism song ive ever heard I know bashos voice is what sets him apart but i liked that it wasnt as present because some of these are definitely better without vox
Mfw no trip master race
Old music is overrated anyway
Robert Walker
Kuuchuu Camp: 9/10
This is obviously the quitessential Fishmans album along with Long Season, and one of my favorites. A combination of downtempo that is about as good as anything offered by the top bands worldwide at the time (Mezzanine, Portishead) and dreamy dreampop making up some sort of an agitated but subtle night ambiance. Just really massive and good arrangements.
David Torres
>Long Season: 10/10 Long Season would have been easily the best track on about almost any album that was created in the world. Mystery, tension, experimental yet wholly accessible, complex arrangements, a sublime discharge of landscapes and emotions. One of the greatest albums of all times
Jackson Collins
also forgot to mention epic. Truly it is a phenomenal epic
Thomas Brown
Akasaka Blitz: 9.1/10 The version of Go Go Round this World is absolutely jaw dropping and is one of the best Fishmans tracks ever, all other tracks were nice as well. Sounds like an extended kuuchuu camp, even their take on Long Season will feature elements and instrumentation closer to night cruising or lucky guy than the studio version of the track itself. But pretty great and filled with epic moments peculiar to Fishmans.
