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THE MUSIC DRAFT - DRAFTING THREAD

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muttyeah416

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The Knife - Silent Shout

My only electronic pick. I was going to take Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right To Children, but it got snatched real quick.
 
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Ford Prefect

GAAAAAAAAY
Ok, so I've been a bit distracted by a girl for the past few days and have no idea what round I'm still in. If the OP's properly updated though, then no one's picked this and I'd like to claim it for myself:

John Cale - Paris 1919

I'll have to get caught up with the rest of the thread eventually... then again, on the other hand, cute girl willing to sleep with me...
 
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AlternativeUlster

Absolutely pathetic part deux
Ford Prefect said:
Ok, so I've been a bit distracted by a girl for the past few days and have no idea what round I'm still in. If the OP's properly updated though, then no one's picked this and I'd like to claim it for myself:

John Cale - Paris 1919

I'll have to get caught up with the rest of the thread eventually... then again, on the other hand, cute girl willing to sleep with me...
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Whoa there, first the 15 year old girl from Mexico and now another lady. Seems like your tag is misleading good sir. How did you even get that thing Ford?

But yes, that John Cale record. You are correct and indeed the one that now has in play. Good job, good job. If I were you, I would be sleeping the cute girl as much as possible. It has been a month and a half since I've last gotten laid. :/
 
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AlternativeUlster

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Crack the Sky - Crack the Sky
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Richard Foss said:
The astonishing success of Crack the Sky's eponymous first album raised expectations that the band was never able to fulfill for the rest of their career. Critics and audiences alike delighted in the wry, intelligent lyrics, complex and powerful progressive rock, and carefully crafted harmonies. Radio programmers were more ambivalent. Songs like "Ice," She's a Dancer," and "Surf City" all got nationwide airplay, though none actually became a real hit. All of them deserved more attention, but the label never focused their promotional efforts on any one of them, and as a result there was no hit single. (Shades of Moby Grape's first album.) Rolling Stone's designation of Crack the Sky as "Album of the Year" for 1975 helped did as much as anything the record company did, and in retrospect their award was well-deserved. The album still holds up very well, especially the delirious "A Sea Epic," one of the rare examples of a driving and complex progressive rock song with a really good sense of humor. Three years and two albums later, when Crack the Sky did a live album, most of the songs were from this album. They obviously knew where their best material was and played to their strengths. Highly recommended.
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Song Sample: She's a Dancer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bfiqbLQCMo
Get OOP album here: http://rapidshare.com/files/156764700/1975_Crack_the_Sky.rar.html
*Fun facts: My dad's all time favorite album too and was the only full album he made me download off of Napster once I told him I could get free music. It took like 2 weeks to finally find it and then another 12 hours to download because I had a 56k modem. Those were the days.

Bunnybrains - The Bunnybrains
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Peter of the Pessimist Club said:
This album was released on the major (ok, major indie if you insist) label Matador in '95 on vinyl only. Quite a strange thing to do, especially back then and especially for such a big label. But totally cool. I got it when I saw them open for The Frogs at NYC's late, lamented Coney Island High. They were giving them away for free. In fact they had copies scattered all around the club. And it's not a cheap-o, either. The whole thing comes in a heavy, pink vinyl silkscreened sleeve. The album itself has a nice cover with a cartoon by a New Yorker magazine cartoonist. Inside is a nice inner sleeve (I've included photos in the file) as well as lyric sheet and various sundry items like photos, random porno ads, a Bugs Bunny birthday invitation addressed to "Dear Fan" (Place: Your mouth I'm coming), etc. Quite a package, indeed.

The recording itself is all 1 take live-to-DAT in the studio, completely improvised music and lyrics. The production is real good. There's some hilarious spoken bits as well, particularly Eg The Poet's opening piece. The band were (are?) from Danbury, CT and proffer noise-freakout jams and Fugs-style goofiness. I like 'em. If you don't know them, you should check this out.

A note on the album's title: The only thing on the record and packaging itself is on the spine where it says "The Bunny Brains - Bunny Brains". The band's website, as well as RateYourMusic lists it as I do in the title above (and they list Eddie & the Hot Rods as "similar artists", haha). Discogs lists it as S/T. After I ripped the vinyl to CD and put it in my iTune, Gracenote listed it as "Bunny Brains (aka Pink Bag)". But anybody could have done that. Also, they alternately write their name as Bunnybrains in the liner notes.
Anyway whatever. It's the fuckin Matador album.
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Get the album here which they give away for free here:
http://pessimistclub.blogspot.com/2009/02/bunny-brains-bunny-brains-easter-1995.html

Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
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Heather Phares said:
On their debut album, Fingers Crossed, Architecture in Helsinki felt like they were just getting their bearings. This gave the album, and the Australian indie pop collective's mix of symphonic and electronic pop, a tentative, first-steps kind of charm. However, after a spending a year on the road tightening up their live act, and a little while longer in their wonderfully named Super Melody World studio recording their second album, In Case We Die, the group sounds much more assured. Everything on In Case We Die, from the intensely sweet melodies and vocals to the widescreen production, delivers the kind of playful pop majesty that Fingers Crossed's best moments hinted were within Architecture in Helsinki's grasp. "More assured" doesn't mean "less creative" though; this is a second album that really does expand on the sounds and ideas of the debut instead of just rehashing them. Indeed, Fingers Crossed's standout pocket symphony, "The Owls Go," feels like a template for In Case We Die's lush, playful, multifaceted sound. Most of the songs have lots of parts and changes to them, such as the opener, "Neverevereverdid," which begins with a spooky, operatic fanfare, then becomes delicately rambling folk-pop, and finally morphs into speedy, shouty Krautrock. Despite the ambition of songs like this and the suite-like "In Case We Die, Pts. 1-4," the album never feels ponderous; in fact, it's often even cuter than Fingers Crossed was. "It'5!" and "Cemetery" are adorable without being saccharine, and touches like the power-drill solo on "Frenchy, I'm Faking" and jungle sound effects on "Need to Shout" ensure that the album's more polished sound never feels slick or stuffy. Even In Case We Die's most straightforward moment, the single "Do the Whirlwind" — which is so sleekly synthy that it could almost pass for straight-up dance-pop — shares at least some of the quirky warmth of more homespun-sounding songs like "Tiny Paintings." An album with this much vibrant, irresistible, Technicolor music to its name could have only come from a place called Super Melody World. Not only is it a delight to hear Architecture in Helsinki come into their own on In Case We Die, but the fact that it comes so soon after their debut makes it all the sweeter.
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Song Sample: Do the Whirlwind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXIzyquw-kc
*Note cute music video attached

Current 93 - Dog's Blood Rising
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Ned Raggett said:
Having established his art on initial releases, Tibet makes a stunning declaration of purpose on Dogs Blood Rising, one of the most frightening, nerve-wracking records ever released. Interspersing quicker tracks and two lengthy evocations of destruction, Dogs Blood shows Tibet and his collaborators -- including, as always, Stapleton -- combining everything from invocations of Yukio Mishima to Christianity in a harrowing blend. Opening track "Christus Christus" sets the tone with its heavily flanged and looped vocals, chanting the title over and over again against a wash of sound, but it's the following track, "Falling Back in Fields of Rape," which truly begins to set this album apart. With guest vocals courtesy of Crass singer Steve Ignorant, who recites lyrics clearly meant to play on both senses of the word "rape," everything -- from recurrent chants of "War!", other choral moans, varying percussion, heavily treated musical snippets, and fragment loops -- builds and fades throughout the mix. When a young girl's voice takes over the main lyrics after a snippet of a nursery rhyme is sung, the sheer sense of creep out grows even higher. It's even further intensified as Ignorant's rasping shouts of the main lyric start floating up through the mix like a mantra from hell. "From Broken Cross, Locusts" provides a semi-respite in ways, but only just, chanting from Tibet and others floating low in the mix as a recurrent, strange drum loop sets the overall pace before a sudden, frazzled ending. "Raio No Terrasu (Jesus Wept)" ratchets up everything to the level of apocalypse -- the music doesn't pound and explode, but the ever-more pained, wailed voices chanting the title phrase or other similarly disturbed lines, or simply calling and keening unintelligibly, become a disturbing, fractured and tape-treated collage of sound. "St. Peters Keys All Bloody" concludes the album on a perversely calm note, with Tibet speaking in a snarl, then softly singing "The Sounds of Silence" and "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkel. It's a chilling coda to a striking album.
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Song Sample: Falling Back in the Fields of Rape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDOiIg_rHz0

Urge Overkill - Saturation
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said:
When they hit the major labels, Urge Overkill followed through on their promise with the blistering Saturation. It's stadium rock by clever post-punkers who are smart enough to not let their carefully crafted image interfere with the music. Every one of the 12 songs is a killer, from the outlandish menace of "Stalker" to the moving ballad "Back on Me," as well as the tongue-in-cheek "Woman 2 Woman" and the radio hit "Sister Havana."
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Song Sample: Sister Havana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm__hVQXnQo
 
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Vox-Pop

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Ford Prefect said:
Ok, so I've been a bit distracted by a girl for the past few days and have no idea what round I'm still in. If the OP's properly updated though, then no one's picked this and I'd like to claim it for myself:

John Cale - Paris 1919

I'll have to get caught up with the rest of the thread eventually... then again, on the other hand, cute girl willing to sleep with me...
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Real good choice. :D

Edit: Ford, what's the story with the 15 year old girl from Mexico?
 
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AlternativeUlster

Absolutely pathetic part deux
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We Are Gone?
picked by Nihilism in Round Seven
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Kenyon Hopkin said:
Like their moniker implies, the Unicorns are whimsical, riding in a mythical world of lo-fi experimental pop. The Montreal trio (with help from several friends) is strangely lovable and lovably strange, sort of like a lo-fi version of the Flaming Lips. Bookended with the titles "I Don't Wanna Die" and "Ready to Die" (which abruptly ends the album), Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? has some accessible moments, while balancing some ambitious ideas with synths, recorder, pennywhistle, and clarinet. "I Was Born (A Unicorn)" best sums up their mindset: "We're the unicorns/We're more than horses/We're the unicorns and we're people too." Add to that a trilogy of songs that somehow ties together something about ghosts and a song that critiques U.S. foreign policy and you've got an idea of the range here. Even if their shows supposedly involve puppets, homeless people, or fighting bandmembers, these unicorns are, for the most part, real.
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Song Sample: Tuff Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZQwy4qPIo
*In my younger and more vulnerable years, I saw these guys play when I first moved to Lawrence Ks and a girl gave me a unicorn horn to wear during the show. I made out with some girl in the Replay bathroom. I feel in love iwth Lawrence Ks that night.

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
picked by KarmaKramer in Round Eight
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Ned Raggett of AllMusic said:
Starting an album with a clattering of industrial rhythms sliding into a huge clap-and-stompalong with angelic vocals and what sounds like the Brotherhood of Man on a vocal loop tip not far removed from Suicide or Laurie Anderson is one way to make a mark. The fact that Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox himself, sings like Brian Wilson and produces his voice to sound like it is another, though it has to be said that it just makes his Animal Collective membership all the more clear at this point. Person Pitch is very much an end product of a variety of musical trends in whatever can be called indie rock in the early 21st century -- big-sounding, absolutely dedicated to texture and sonic playfulness, and somehow aiming to make a lot of interesting ideas seem kinda flat. There's no question there's both an audience for Panda Bear's work and the sounds he's playing around with, and to his considerable credit he creates a series of moody and memorable loops throughout. Songs like "Take Pills" and "Good Girl" are miles away from the rhythm-by-numbers of many of Panda Bear's contemporaries; importantly, after so many bands that just want to sound like late-'60s Beach Boys lock, stock, and barrel, the fact that there's a recognition that production and beat technology didn't stay frozen in time stands out. At its best, with the song "Bros," there's a beautiful transcendence that lives up to all the promise that has surrounded Panda Bear's work, the song slowly but surely evolving into a fantastic epic that could easily stand on its own as an EP. Still, the sweetness is almost too gooey, and what should be providing a healthy contrast ends up dragging the best instrumental moments down more than once, almost literally getting in the way of the striking sonic collages. It may be heresy to some, but conceivably Person Pitch would be at its best if it were strictly instrumental.
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Song Sample: Comfy in Nautica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_gjUbvqNg

Boston - Boston
picked by NameGenerated in Round Five
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Vik Iyengar said:
Boston is one of the best-selling albums of all time, and deservedly so. Because of the rise of disco and punk, FM rock radio seemed all but dead until the rise of acts like Boston, Tom Petty, and Bruce Springsteen. Nearly every song on Boston's debut album could still be heard on classic rock radio decades later due to the strong vocals of Brad Delp and unique guitar sound of Tom Scholz. Tom Scholz, who wrote most of the songs, was a studio wizard and used self-designed equipment such as 12-track recording devices to come up with an anthemic "arena rock" sound before the term was even coined. The sound was hard rock, but the layered melodies and harmonics reveal the work of a master craftsman. While much has been written about the sound of the album, the lyrics are often overlooked. There are songs about their rise from a bar band ("Rock and Roll Band") as well as fond remembrances of summers gone by ("More Than a Feeling"). Boston is essential for any fan of classic rock, and the album marks the re-emergence of the genre in the 1970s.
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Song Sample: More than a Feeling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm_-sW4Vktw

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
picked by Mason in Round Six
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Steve Huey said:
One of the most distinctive records of the early alternative movement and an enduring cult classic, Violent Femmes weds the geeky, child-man persona of Jonathan Richman and the tense, jittery, hyperactive feel of new wave in an unlikely context: raw, amateurish acoustic folk-rock. The music also owes something to the Modern Lovers' minimalism, but powered by Brian Ritchie's busy acoustic bass riffing and the urgency and wild abandon of punk rock, the Femmes forged a sound all their own. Still, the main reason Violent Femmes became the preferred soundtrack for the lives of many an angst-ridden teenager is lead singer and songwriter Gordon Gano. Naive and childish one minute, bitterly frustrated and rebellious the next, Gano's vocals perfectly captured the contradictions of adolescence and the difficulties of making the transition to adulthood. Clever lyrical flourishes didn't hurt either; while "Blister In the Sun" has deservedly become a standard, "Kiss Off"'s chant-along "count-up" section, "Add It Up"'s escalating "Why can't I get just one..." couplets, and "Gimme the Car"'s profanity-obscuring guitar bends ensured that Gano's intensely vulnerable confessions of despair and maladjustment came off as catchy and humorous as well. Even if the songwriting slips a bit on occasion, Gano's personality keeps the music engaging and compelling without overindulging in his seemingly willful naiveté. For the remainder of their career, the group would only approach this level in isolated moments.
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Song Sample: Add It Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlbZ6mSyuqU

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
picked by muttyea416 in Round Six
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine said:
Belle & Sebastian's second record, If You're Feeling Sinister, is, for all intents and purposes, really their first, since their debut in 1996 was not heard outside of privileged inner circles. And If You're Feeling Sinister really did have quite a bit of an impact upon its release in 1996, largely because during the first half of the '90s the whimsy and preciousness that had been an integral part of alternative music was suppressed by grunge. Whimsy and preciousness are an integral part of If You're Feeling Sinister, along with clever wit and gentle, intricate arrangements — a wonderful blend of the Smiths and Simon & Garfunkel, to be reductive. Even if it's firmly within the college, bed-sit tradition, and is unabashedly retrogressive, that gives Sinister a special, timeless character that's enhanced by Stuart Murdoch's wonderful, lively songwriting. Blessed with an impish sense of humor, a sly turn of phrase, and an alluringly fey voice, he gives this record a real sense of backbone, in that its humor is far more biting than the music appears and the music is far more substantial that it initially seems. Sinister plays like a great forgotten album, couched in '80s indie, '90s attitude, and '60s folk-pop. It's beautifully out of time, and even if other Belle & Sebastian albums sound like it, this is where they achieved a sense of grace.
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Song Sample: The Stars of Track and Field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgohBw0hL-k
 
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AlternativeUlster

Absolutely pathetic part deux
Vox-Pop said:
Real good choice. :D

Edit: Ford, what's the story with the 15 year old girl from Mexico?
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Oh no, it is nothing really. It was in another thread about Ford saying that he was horny and was thinking about hitting on a 15 year old girl with braces. He didn't do anything so he is an upright citizen. I'm sorry for mentioning it dude...
 
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AlternativeUlster

Absolutely pathetic part deux
Damn, I totally crashed for about 7 hours and I am still super tired. Tonight I am not going to be update the first two posts until the morning. I need some more sleep.
 
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AlternativeUlster

Absolutely pathetic part deux
As for tonights pick, I am still debating. I have like 8 I would like to squeeze in in my last 2 but that of course isn't happening.
 
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vatstep

This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
 
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Cyan

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Nothing pressing left to pick... I think my final pick will be an album of traditional Scottish stuff nobody here has ever heard of.

I'm Irish and I still love it!
 
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teepo

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man this is getting hard. been debating over geogaddi, silver apples, cluster 2, lp5, endless summer, harmony in ultraviolet and such for my electronic pick, but i decided i had to go with

coil - the apes naples
 
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AlternativeUlster

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Cyan said:
Nothing pressing left to pick... I think my final pick will be an album of traditional Scottish stuff nobody here has ever heard of.

I'm Irish and I still love it!
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I'm the complete opposite, I have like 20 records that I could possibly pick and I think for overlooked albums, I am just going to list them all and hopefully decide on one of them to choose. I will have eveything updated in a bit.
 
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Wes

venison crêpe
Stupid record companies and their endless compilations confusing me!

Need to do more searching for today's pick.
 
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Wes

venison crêpe
Bah screw it, don't think such an album exists. So I'll go with this:

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
 
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AlternativeUlster

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Wes said:
Bah screw it, don't think such an album exists. So I'll go with this:

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
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And I think you have picked the first album to have 2 alternate versions too that are more than just track listings (like This is It? or the self titled Clash record). Like for the US version they had to rerecord alot of the samples they couldn't get the rights for the US release. Sweet candy.
 
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