Re: [acid-jazz] Best/Worst/merely Blah of 2002

From: Mark Allerton (mark@warmspot.compulink.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 11:13:25 CET

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    I can imagine your shock... listening to an album by a stale formulaic
    rock band, only to discover it's full of stale formulaic rock, buying a
    compilation of old Verve tracks only to discover it's full of old Verve
    tracks, or buying a five year old Fila Brazilia LP only to discover it
    sounds a bit 90s. Damn those evil record companies!

    So I will let your comments about "Cookie" slide - you are clearly
    suffering from PTSD. Get well soon!

    On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 08:44 PM, Stimp wrote:

    > Ok, so here's my list for 2002. What I did is looked thru my
    > collection and
    > dug out everything I bought, within the last 12 months, with a 2002
    > release
    > date.
    >
    > Here's my best
    > -Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around (the best of the
    > batch, imo)
    > -Mr. Scruff: Trouser Jazz
    > -Herbert: Secondhand Sounds
    > -DJ Chebb i Sabbah: Krishna Lila (AMAZING!!!)
    > -Antibalas: Talkatif
    > -Melvins + Fantomas: Millenium Monsterwork
    > -Below The Sea: Les Arbres Depayseront D'avantage (fans of Godspeed You
    > Black Emperor! and Mogwai will love this)
    > -Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis + Remixes (Persepolis is absolutely
    > essential,
    > while the remixes are merely lukewarm to bad)
    > -Suba: Tributo
    > -Sigur Ros: ( )
    > -Polmo Polpo: The Science Of Breath (an ambient electronic must-have)
    > -Manu Chao: Radio Bemba
    > -Cinematic Orchestra: Every Day (This is some seriously fresh shit.
    > Totally
    > original and fresh. Already looking forward to their next one!)
    > -Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui U.X.O. (Very similar to their
    > earlier
    > stuff, but so damn grandiose in scale and GOOD!)
    > -NIN: And All That Could Have Been
    > -Blackalicious: Phrenology
    > -Hank Williams III: Lovesick, Broke And Driftin' (WOW!!! Far better
    > than
    > his dad, and just as good as ol' granddad!)
    > -Tom Waits: Alice
    > -Merzbow: Amlux
    >
    >
    > Now, for the worst:
    > -Melvins: Hostile Ambient Takeover
    > -Verve Remixed: (It's been done SO MANY BLOODY TIMES!!!!)
    > -Rudy Ray Moore: 21st Century Dolemite (unfunny, for the most part,
    > mixed in
    > with bad songs and WAY too much use of the word Motherfucker)
    > -John Zorn: IAO (Sounds like any one of ten albums he's already put
    > out, and
    > far from essential)
    > -Pearl Jam: Riot Act (If you own any of their first 3 records, you
    > already
    > know what to expect. Stale formulaic rock)
    > -John Zorn/Mike Patton/Ikue Mori: Hemophiliac (At fifty bucks a crack,
    > this
    > was a complete ripoff. It's autographed by all three and limited to
    > 2500
    > copies, but that's really the only thing worth mentioning here. It's
    > not
    > bad, but it ain't good either)
    > -Me'Shell Ndge'Ocello: Cookie: the Anthropological Mixtape (Sounds like
    > crossover Missy Elliot-ish nonsense at times. Way too slick-sounding,
    > not
    > nearly as organic and gut-bucket funky as everything that came before
    > it)
    > -Thievery Corporation: Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi (They've added
    > ABSOLUTELY
    > NOTHING to these Verve tracks!! Owning alot of the original albums
    > which
    > are featured here, this cd was a complete waste of money for me. Have
    > your
    > buddy burn you a cd and you'll get exactly the same thing.)
    > -Bugge Wesseltoft: Out Here In There
    > -Nils Petter Molvaer: NP3 (VERY disappointed in this one. Lacks the
    > haunting, dense production of his previous 2 releases, and his trumpet
    > playing didn't grab me nearly as much this time around)
    >
    >
    > Finally, the so-so, mostly because it's been done before:
    >
    > -Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where
    > -Peace Orchestra: Reset
    > -Herbaliser: Something Wicked This Way Comes
    > -Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi
    > -Fila Brazilia: Maim That Tune
    > -Stanton Moore: Flying The Coop (not nearly as good as "All Kooked
    > Out")
    > -Tom Waits: Blood Money (I NEVER thought I'd find a Tom Waits album
    > merely
    > so-so. Surprise)
    > -V/A: Afrotronic 2 (sounds like every other comp. Save your money)
    >
    >
    > Your turn,
    >
    > Stimp
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >



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