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71. The Church - Heyday: 8.5/10
Favourite track: Already Yesterday
Least favourite track: Trance Ending

72. Twin Shadow - Forget: 6.5/10
Favourite track: I Can't Wait
Least favourite track: Slow
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Not usually my style of music, but this album flows quite well with 80s influences which are far closer to my own tastes.
Sadly Twin Shadow didn't follow the same receipt with further albums so his debut is probably the best.

72. Twin Shadow - Forget: 6.5/10
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Biggest Fan - The Album Edition 73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II

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Gillingham returns with not a complete unknown name in these parts. That's his third nomination after Salif Keita and Graveyard.

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73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II
Nominated by Gillingham (#482)
Genre : Tape Music, Ambient, Minimalism, Drone (#3 in the RYM Tape Music chart)

Descriptors : repetitive, ethereal, minimalistic, hypnotic, atmospheric, instrumental, sombre, sparse, aleatory, soothing, meditative, soft, lo-fi
Length : 2 tracks - 75:00

AM ranking : #unranked
Artist Ranking : #1453
RYM ranking : #71 for 2003 and #3871 overall (3921 ratings @ 3.69/ 5.0)
Metascore : N/A
15.3k unique listeners and 90.3k scrobbles on last.fm

Choice cuts : dlp 2.2 / dlp 3

and calling out Gillingham for his views on this beloved album.
Gillingham wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 6:24 am


Biography from Last.fm

William Basinski (Houston, 1958), a New York-based classically-trained clarinetist and saxophonist, specializes in compositions for loops and drones. He began experimenting with compositions for piano and tape that created a melancholy ambience via looped and overdubbed melodies with Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (1980), released on Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (Durtro, 2002 - Die Stadt, 2004), and A Red Score in Tile (1979), released on A Red Score in Tile (3 Poplars, 2003).

Shortwave Music (1982), some of which appear on Shortwave Music (Noton, 1998), processed and assembled snippets of radio broadcasts to produce atmospheres at the border between musique concrete and ambient music. The River (1983), collected on the double-disc The River (Noton, december 2002), was the most mature expression of "shortwave music".

Melancholia (Durtro, 2003 - 2062, 2005) collects more loop-based vignettes from the 1980s, closer in feeling and scope to Erik Satie and Brian Eno.

During the 1980s, Basinski often played saxophone during multimedia performances, and was a member of the Gretchen Langheld Ensemble, which later evolved into House Afire. In 1989 he opened his own loft for the creative arts, nicknamed "Arcadia". Throughout the 1990s he refined his song-cycle Hymns of Oblivion. In 1997, Basinski launched his performance-art act Beautifying America. He also formed the electronic ensemble Life on Mars. Basinski has also created videos and films, notably the "ambient film" Fountain (2000).

Watermusic (2062, 2001) was the archetype of his subsequent shimmering, lulling, gentle ambient music for electronic keyboards, later continued on Watermusic II (Durtro, 2003). Instead of "disintegration loops", water music is softly and slowly tonal music for the Voyestra synthesizer.

The four volumes of The Disintegration Loops (Musex, 2002-2003) are just that: loops of tapes that disintegrated during the recording process. Basinski adds a melodic commentary at the synthesizer and turns them into symphonies that evolve in a predictable but highly emotional manner. The effect is mesmerizing and opens new avenues to minimalism. This is the crowning achievement of the techniques first experimented with Variations.

His collaboration William Basinski + Richard Chartier (Spekk, 2004) is one of his most subtle works. The music defies Physics, evolving while it hardly changes at all: subconscious listening at its most ethereal. The first part grows slowly over the course of 21 minutes but remains fundamentally shapeless: a shadow without a body. The microscopic events that create the illusion of life remain embedded in the quantum lattice, below the threshold of human experience. It feels a bit like listening to the sea inside a shell. Whatever it is, it is rarefied and unbound, an echo of a large and concrete mass of vibrations. The second part (36 minutes) is unusually eerie and sensible. Basinski rarely leaves this much substance in his compositions. This one feels like the light of a shimmering rotating object, emanating in all directions, broadcasting to the universe its constant motion. The effect on the ears and the mind is similar to cosmic music. As the radiation deteriorates, its wavering notes feel like star dust drifting into gravity-less empty space. Each speck emits a slight tremor. Their cumulative effect is one of peaceful resignation to meaninglessness.

Still zigzagging between reissues of his old "tape & loop" constructions and his new ambient soul, Basinski achieved the celestial sound of Silent Night (2062, 2004), a composition for synthesizer that has little in common with Basinski's old aesthetics and more in common with Harold Budd.

Basinski's romantic soul surfaced again with the 50-minute ambient sonata for piano and distortion The Garden of Brokenness (2006). The music is created by the interference between the two threads (the looped piano melody and the stream of noise). The result is perhaps his most serene and optimistic work. If previous works focused on music that was "decaying", this one seems to focus on music that is being born.

A fan's review
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5.0 stars

Living
Basinski wanted to permanently save some of his early works from the 80s. He took magnetic tapes containing the recordings and passed them through a tape-head to digitize them. During the process he noticed the tapes were damaged and every revolution through the tape-head caused the material to disintegrate; the process became his new project. Basinski didn't expect the event to occur but learned how to replicate it. He employed the same tactic for the rest of the loops causing the same effect as the original process. Manipulating the law of causality, that is a result is the consequence of its actions, allowed Basinski to develop one of the most memorable atmospheric recordings in history.
If you like this, also listen to :
Shift to the Ghost - Numina(2007)

The Tired Sounds Of - Stars of the Lid (2001)
The Winter Ray - Natural Snow Buildings (2004)


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16 Cochemea - All My Relations - nicolas - 6,800 - ( 9 ) - 35.1k
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18 - Twin Shadow - Forget - Moonbeam - 6,763 - ( 8 ) - 6.4m
19 - Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party - LiveInPhoenix - 6,750 - ( 10 ) - 1.5m
20 - James - Laid - Zombeels - 6,725 - ( 12 ) - 1.7m
21 - Courtney Marie Andrews - Painter's Hands and a Seventh Son - LiveInPhoenix - 6,725 - ( 10 ) - 17.5k
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24 - The Elgins - Darling Baby - mileswide - 6,650 - ( 10 ) - 7.4k
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26 - Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp - VanillaFire100 - 6,605 - ( 10 ) - 131.8k
27 - Graveyard - Graveyard - Gillingham - 6,571 - ( 7 ) - 1.5m
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29 - Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák - DaveC - 6,539 - ( 9 ) - 35.2k
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition 73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II

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73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II

Basinski's Disintegration Loops project is a bit love it or hate it I think. You could even call it slightly controversial. I'm in the group of listeners who loves it. Disintegration Loops I is my favourite out of the four, but they are all quite mesmerizing. Is it repetitive? It sure is, but every next iteration in the loop is just slightly different from the last. Most of the time you don't even notice this, but listening for a bit longer you start to hear that what you're listening to isn't quite the same as what you listened to a couple of minutes ago. Of course, the loops are 'deteriorating', 'falling apart' or disintegrating. It makes you listen to the details of the actual sound, much more than with most other music types (aside maybe from ambient and minimalism). This all might not seem so special, but it all sounds so very organic and even pleasing in a weird way. Another thing I love about the sound (because for me these loops are all about sound), is the timbre of the horns (or what seem to be horns). It makes for a very melancholic sound, which fits the way these tracks were made and the disintegrating quality of it all. And that's all besides the context of the project, made in the period around the 9/11 attacks. Knowing this and looking at the album artwork makes listening to the loops not just melancholic, but even haunting.

If you really think this music (or sound/noise whatever you prefer) is too boring for you, try listening to it while doing something else. Or maybe even better, while slowly falling asleep and letting your thoughts drift along. Try not to interpret or judge the music, just let it wash over you.
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition 73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II

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The Disintegration Loops II - 5/10

I wasn't much of a fan of the original Disintegration Loops either, and my general feelings carry over to this album. I like the concept of a tape loop slowly decaying, but the actual 75 minutes of music here just aren't my thing.
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition 73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II

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William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II: 7
I just listened to the first two Disintegration Loops albums back to back. There obviously isn't much variation to be found there and the appeal is the same. As much as I'm usually not much for repetition, there is something captivating in this loop of ambient music in a death struggle. It creates its own mood. The best part of all the tracks is the same: the end where the songs finally disintegrate completely. Perhaps you could view this as sad, but there is something beautiful about the sound itself.

Part II does actually have the weakest links in the series up til then: dlp 2.2. It's far from bad, but the central music that's on repeat seems a bit more basic. Dlp 3 on the other hand is about as epic as such a sound allows to get and is a definitive highlight of the project.

I'm not sure if a rating of 7 is right, but grading things like this is always a special challenge.
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition 73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II

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William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II 2.9 (my #24 for 2003)

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73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II: 7/10
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73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II (2003) 7/10
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73. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II: 7.5
Love particularly the last 5 minutes or so, when the disintegration really kicks in. Cathartic.

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Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 74. The House of Love - Babe Rainbow

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Finally an album from your host, ME ! It felt like the randominator REALLY hated me until now.
So we get a record from the later stages of the House of Love career - after two acclaimed albums, this one didn't make it. Is it going to swoon you ?
And of course y'all gonna hate it

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74. The House of Love - Babe Rainbow
Nominated by spiritualized (#66)
Genre : Jangle Pop, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia (#59 in the RYM Jangle Music chart)

Descriptors : warm, psychedelic, melodic, male vocals
Length : 10 tracks - 43:38

AM ranking : #unranked
Artist Ranking : #1098
RYM ranking : #165 for 1992 and #7237 overall (380 ratings @ 3.66/ 5.0)
Metascore : N/A
5,1k unique listeners and 71.8k scrobbles on last.fm

Choice cuts : Crush Me / Girl With the Loneliest Eyes / Feel



Biography from Last.fm

The House of Love are a British rock band who were primarily active from the late 1980s to early 90s, and reformed in 2005. The band's original lineup was: Guy Chadwick (vocals, guitar), Terry Bickers (guitar), Andrea Heukamp (vocals, guitar), Pete Evans (drums) and Chris Groothuizen (bass).

Bickers left in 1989 and was replaced by Simon Walker, who in turn was replaced by Simon Mawby in 1992. Andrea Heukamp left the band in 1988, returning briefly in 1991.

From the same genus as Echo and the Bunnymen, My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain, The House of Love arrived on the scene in the late 1980s with a psychedelic, textural rock sound. Songwriter Guy Chadwick provided personal, romantic musings over lush layers of 80s studio bliss, enhanced by Terry Bickers' guitar-playing.

The band formed in Camberwell, London, England in 1986, and released a series of singles, leading to their debut untitled album on Creation Records in 1988. They then signed to Fontana in a whirl of publicity and money. Things went off the rails at first as their next two singles flopped and work on their new album progressed slowly. Tensions grew between Chadwick and Bickers, exacerbated by drug use, leading to Bickers's departure in 1989. But the resulting album (again officially untitled but usually referred to as the 'Butterfly' album after its cover design) went top 10; and a remake of their early single Shine On caught the retro guitar-pop fashion in the wake of the Stone Roses and was a moderate hit. Later in 1991 a compilation of B-sides and outtakes was released, usually referred to as A Spy In The House Of Love as a paperback of the Anaïs Nin novel of the same title appears in the cover photo.

The following album Babe Rainbow (1992) failed to follow the success of the Butterfly album: its lush, pristine production rendered hopelessly out of date by the emergence of the rave-influenced Madchester scene and the US grunge invasion. Their final album, Audience With the Mind (1993) barely charted and the group disbanded.

Considering the previous animosity between Guy Chadwick and Terry Bickers, there was some surprise when in 2005 the two reformed The House of Love. Pete Evans returned on drums and Matt Jury handled bass duties. They went on to tour the U.K. and Ireland and release an album Days Run Away to some praise.

In March 2008 House Of Love played in Lima, Peru, for their first South American performance ever. Almost the entire concert is to be seen on YouTube. The gig featured two new songs bringing hope to fans that the band is still working on new material. In September 2008 Guy played solo at the South Pop festival in Isla Cristina, Spain.

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5.0 stars

Was your life ever just somewhere else and you missed an album, only to find it years later and it simply blew you away. Such was my discovery of Babe Rainbow. And right now, as I write, with my speakers at more volume then I care to admit, I’m in heaven.

Babe Rainbow came on the heels of two of the finest albums in my collection from House Of Love, and is a splendid continuation of their saga. With each outing, this band managed to not so much redefine themselves, but take surefooted steps in their sonic adventure of song writing, lyrics and the recording process, bringing a freshness to the nature of their musical beings. While House of Love have an emancipated sound that is unique to them and them alone, there's a steady progression of the learning process and this album is no exception. All that House of Love have experienced, all that challenges them, all that has intersected in their lives is brought forth in the recording studio, with the result being intoxicatingly romanic neo-psychedelic music created to wash over you like the shimmering colours of a warm afternoon’s sunset.

I’m not going to go into the flawless guitar work, or the little hidden eggs that pop up at unexpected junctures to surprise you, or that this album feels that it has stepped into a space that is a bit more clear, or that the lyrics have an intelligence to them, or that nothing has been left to chance, you can read all of that in my other reviews for House Of Love.

What I am going to say is that this band was one of the most psychedelic of the neo-psychedelic bands that came out during this period. Groups such as Jesus Jones and The Stereophonic’s, who hit it big and then died with the Manchester Music Scene copied House Of Love’s style and production. That being said, House of Love have never lost themselves, even with all that was happening around them, they simply got back together, content to just be themselves, knew what they had to offer and went on producing some of the finest hypnotic intoxicatingly harmonic dream-laden music of all time.

I completely missed this one at the time and I can’t say I’m sorry I did. If I hadn’t, then I probably wouldn’t be feeling as cool as I do at this minute, lost in these swirling guitars that play off each other, the vocals that rise and fall, only to become intertwined with the instrumentation to the point where it's impossible to tell where one begins and the other leaves off. This is a very personal immersive and impressive piece of music. So if you somehow sidestepped this release, please take my word for it, Babe Rainbow is an amazing collection of songs.
If you like this, also listen to :
Lincoln - They Might Be Giants (1988)
Unisex - Blueboy (1994)
Sunshine Thuggery - The Siddeleys (1988)

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1 - The Church - Heyday - CupOfDreams - 7,963 - ( 8 ) - 211.7k
2 - Toy Love - Toy Love EP - Brad - 7,629 - ( 12 ) - ??
3 - Selda - Selda - panam - 7,567 - ( 9 ) - 165.9k
4 - Tinariwen - Tassili - bonnielaurel - 7,500 - ( 9 ) - 494.2k
5 - Salif Keita - Moffou - Gillingham - 7,450 - ( 10 ) - 372.3k
6 - Cowboy Junkies - Miles from Our Home - Henry - 7,330 - ( 10 ) - 118.4k
7 - Tall Dwarfs - 3EPs - Spiritualized - 7,282 - ( 11 ) - 46.2k
8 - Motörhead - No Sleep' Til Hammersmith - Holden - 7,238 - ( 8 ) - 3.6k
9 - Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun - CupOfDreams - 7,236 - ( 11 ) - 1.8m
10 - The Fall - The Real New Fall LP: Formerly 'Country on the Click' - Michel - 7,143 - ( 7 ) - 349.2k
11 - Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity - Moonbeam - 7,013 - ( 8 ) - 19k
12 - Marva Whitney - It's My Thing - schaefer.tk - 6,933 - ( 9 ) - 121.9k
13 - Mavis Staples - If All I Was Was Black - antonius - 6,882 - ( 11 ) - 72.9k
14 - Pretty Things - Parachute - Zombeels - 6,842 - ( 12 ) - 450.3k
15 - Graham Coxon - Love Travels at Illegal Speeds - Toni - 6,829 - ( 12 ) - 1.3m
16 Cochemea - All My Relations - nicolas - 6,800 - ( 9 ) - 35.1k
17 - Hood - Cold House - CupOfDreams - 6,800 - ( 12 ) -
18 - Twin Shadow - Forget - Moonbeam - 6,763 - ( 8 ) - 6.4m
19 - Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party - LiveInPhoenix - 6,750 - ( 10 ) - 1.5m
20 - James - Laid - Zombeels - 6,725 - ( 12 ) - 1.7m
21 - Courtney Marie Andrews - Painter's Hands and a Seventh Son - LiveInPhoenix - 6,725 - ( 10 ) - 17.5k
22 - Eddie Cochrane - 12 of His Biggest Hits - M24 - 6,667 - ( 6 ) - 217.2k
23 - The Band - Stage Fright - Henry - 6,658 - ( 12 ) - 340.5k
24 - The Elgins - Darling Baby - mileswide - 6,650 - ( 10 ) - 7.4k
25 - Four Tet - FabricLive.59 - Krurze - 6,609 - ( 11 ) - 128.9k
26 - Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp - VanillaFire100 - 6,605 - ( 10 ) - 131.8k
27 - Graveyard - Graveyard - Gillingham - 6,571 - ( 7 ) - 1.5m
28 - Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels - SL3 - 6,545 - ( 10 ) - 197.4k
29 - Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák - DaveC - 6,539 - ( 9 ) - 35.2k
30 - Jay-Z - American Gangster - FrankLotion - 6,517 - ( 12 ) - 3.1m
31 - Krzysztof Penderecki - St. Luke Passion - sonofsamiam - 6,509 - ( 11 ) - 10.7k
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33 - Madlib - Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note - schaefer.tk - 6,438 - ( 8 ) - 3.8m
34 - The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave - nicolas - 6,433 - ( 9 ) - 7.7m
35 - Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott ? Words and Sounds Vol 1 - bonnielaurel - 6,431 - ( 13 ) - 814.5k
36 - Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway - Zombeels - 6,410 - ( 10 ) - 2.2m
37 - KRS-One - KRS-One - schaefer.tk - 6,369 - ( 13 ) - 671.6k
38 - Herbert Grönemeyer - Bleibt Alles Ander - rumpdoll - 6,340 - ( 10 ) - 236.7k
39 - Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself - Spiritualized - 6,336 - ( 11 ) - 1.5m
40 - Tocotronic - K.O.O.K - rumpdoll - 6,328 - ( 9 ) - 931.9k
41 - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone - DocBrown - 6,300 - ( 9 ) - 4k
42 - Bee Gees - Main Course - bonnielaurel - 6,288 - ( 12 ) - 298.1k
43 - Gazelle Twin - Unflesh - bonnielaurel - 6,278 - ( 9 ) - 391.7k
44 - Rush - Fly By Night - Brad - 6,242 - ( 13 ) - 2m
45 - The Living End - State of Emergency - M24 - 6,207 - ( 7 ) - 3.6k
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Babe Rainbow - 7/10

I don't know how others will react, but I certainly didn't hate it. I'd say this is probably on par with the group's earlier output, which is to say it's pretty decent. Jangle pop and indie pop and two genres that I almost always enjoy, and that was the case here. Songs like "You Don't Understand" and "The Girl With the Loneliest Eyes" in particular were strong tracks.
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74. The House of Love - Babe Rainbow: 6.5

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The House of Love - Babe Rainbow: 7
I don't hate it either. The House of Love perhaps don't have my favorite sound in the world, but these are some good tunes. I especially like Feel. That said, I notice that mostly I just like jangle pop and rarely, truly love it. This is no exception.
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The House of Love - Babe Rainbow 7.2 (my #19 for 1992)

My highlights: Cruel, Feel, Yer Eyes, Burn down the World
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74. The House of Love - Babe Rainbow: 7/10
Favourite track: Feel
Least favourite track: Fade Away
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58. Graveyard - Graveyard (2007) - 7
Really solid and enjoyable album, lots of fun to be had in this graveyard. Lacks some polish and character to make it stand out.
59. Tinariwen - Tassili (2011) - 8
Fantastic start, lots of good tracks here, I especially like Tenere Taqqim Tossam. But I did find that as the album goes on the songs start to get more sparse and slow and I lose a bit of interest.
60. Roscoe Mitchell - L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples (1978) - 3
Part of the reason I had a break until now rating albums was this one, I got completely stuck on it. Had some time today to sit down with it. Sadly still don't like it much but I can say I listened through now.
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74. The House of Love - Babe Rainbow (1992) 8/10
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William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II - 6.5/10
A fascinating experiment. The decaying process is a wonder to listen to, but for all its worth, this is just a looped musical phrase over 40 mins.

The House of Love - 9/10
After two stunning albums, the House of Love lost the popular vote against the rise of grunge rock and that is a great shame, especially when Babe Rainbow is full of jangle pop/rock gems. The closer Yer Eyes is simply stunning.
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Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 75. Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel

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And we go back to Bonnielaurel who, after your host, is the one with the mostest...eligible albums (389)

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75. Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel
Nominated by Bonnielaurel (#289)
Genre : Smooth Soul, Pop Soul, Psychedelic Soul (#21 in the RYM Smooth Soul chart)

Descriptors : female vocals, summer, sensual, calm, playful, warm, love, soft, romantic, sentimental
Length : 9 tracks - 37:21

AM ranking : #unranked
Artist Ranking : #1914
RYM ranking : #179 for 1974 and #6133 overall (920 ratings @ 3.68/ 5.0)
Metascore : N/A
75k unique listeners and 500.5k scrobbles on last.fm

Choice cuts : Lovin' You / Reasons / Every Time He Comes Around



Biography from Last.fm

Minnie Riperton (Nov 8, 1947 - Jul 12, 1979) was an American singer who is best remembered for her 1974 hit ballad, Lovin' You.

The tragic 1979 death of 31-year-old Riperton silenced one of soul music's most unique and unforgettable voices - blessed with an angelic five-octave vocal range, she scored her greatest commercial success with the chart-topping pop ballad, "Lovin' You". Riperton was born in Chicago on November 8, 1947. As a young girl, she studied music, drama, and dance at the city's Lincoln Center and later contemplated a career in opera. Her pop career began in 1963 when she joined the local girl group called The Gems (not to be confused with the 60s New York-based girl group Gems, led by Louise Bethune), who were also known at times as The Starlets (1963-1966), signing to the famed Chess label to release a handful of singles as well as lend backing vocals to acts including Fontella Bass, The Dells, and Etta James. After graduating from high school, Riperton went to work at Chess as a receptionist. A year before The Gems' dissolution in 1967, she also signed with the label as a solo act, releasing a single, Lonely Girl, under the alias Andrea Davis (a pseudonym she used in honor of Billy Davis, her mentor at Chess who wrote the song for her).

In 1967, Riperton was installed as the lead vocalist of the psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection, which debuted that year with a self-titled LP on Cadet Concepts. The singles "Amen" and "Lady Jane" found a home on underground FM radio, but the group failed to make much of an impression on mainstream outlets. While still a Connection member, Riperton mounted a solo career. Teaming up with producer/arranger Charles Stepney and her husband/composer Richard Rudolph, she issued her brilliant 1970 debut, Come to My Garden, but again commercial success eluded her. After Rotary Connection dissolved in the wake of 1971's Hey Love, she and Rudolph took a two-year sabbatical in Florida before relocating to Los Angeles, where she sang on Stevie Wonder's Fulfillingness' First Finale and toured as a member of his backing unit Wonderlove.

Wonder agreed to co-produce Riperton's 1974 album Perfect Angel, which included the international blockbuster "Lovin' You". The record made her a household name, although subsequent LPs like 1975's Adventures in Paradise and 1977's Stay in Love failed to repeat its success. By this time, however, commercial woes were the least of Riperton's concerns - diagnosed with breast cancer, she underwent a mastectomy in 1976, later becoming a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society and earning a Society Courage Award from then-President Jimmy Carter. Riperton continued performing despite her declining condition, with 1979's Minnie, the final record completed during her lifetime - but died in Los Angeles on July 12 of that year. Unreleased vocal tracks with new instrumental backing constituted 1980's posthumous collection, Love Lives Forever.

A fan's review

5.0 stars

This deserves a plethora of Wows! Wow! Only one person has rated this fine LP on this site? Wow! Have people forgotten how original Minnie was? Wow! Where's the justice!?

Let me say, this is one of those must-haves, should-haves, should-be-taught-in-music-class albums. This is an album for the ages. What a spirit, a sonic wonder, a beautiful gift Minnie was. I get chills thinking about the first time I heard her. This was like something brand-new, unique, and unquestionably original. The sound, while Stevie-enhanced and enriched, is so very pure, almost bare (in some instances)-- it's like hearing the rays of the sun, the glow from the moon, the light on the ocean, everything in nature comes alive in this voice.

This music can, at once, calm and quicken the muscle in your chest.

It would not be fair to pick any one song, each has its own special place in my memory and heart. This LP was a treat, a God-given gift to lovers of music, and so was Minnie. I will never stop missing her. Thank goodness for her recordings.
If you like this, also listen to :
Ice on Ice - Jerry Butler (1969)
You Are My Starship - Norman Connors(1976)
The Delfonics - The Delfonics (1970)



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Perfect Angel - 7/10

The trio of the title tracks, "Every Time He Comes Around," and "Lovin' You" is awesome, but those are really the only tracks on the album that really connected for me. The other six tracks are mostly fine, but this album probably needed one or two more great tracks for me to rate it higher than 7.
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75. Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel: 6

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Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel: 8
Definitely one of the best albums to come along here in recent memory. The title is hardly a lie: these are some of the most angelic sounding soul songs I've yet heard. Lovin' You is the classic and it is a beauty, but opening Reasons is on a whole other level. Minnie Riperton's vocal range is on a whole other level, not because of the volume you find with people like Aretha Franklin, but because of the levels of lightness she can carry. She's a bit of a hidden treasure that I'm loving the more I hear from her.

P.S.: There is actually a review by BonnieLaurel on RYM, Spiritualized.
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Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel: this has gone up in my estimations for now, so bumped this from 3 to 3 1/2 stars on RYM and 6.9 here (risen to my #17 for 1974)

My highlights: Lovin' You, Reasons, Every Time He Comes around

This month's highlights ranked:
Lovin' You
Reasons
Cruel
Feel
Yer Eyes
Burn down the World
All I got inside is vacancy!
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75. Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel: 6/10
Favourite track:  Lovin' You
Least favourite track: The Edge of a Dream
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75. Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel (1974) 9/10

Well, my fourth #9 on the game after "Selda," "Moffou" and "Heyday." Produced by a Stevie Wonder during his golden age period, the album features truly amazing vocal performances by Minnie Riperton.
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Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 76. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra

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A little week-long hiatus never hurts and we end up with a SonofSamIam album. No. Wait, this is actually from Plastic Ram and the famous Sun Ra makes his appearance in this game.

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76. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra
Nominated by PlasticRam(#289)
Genre : Free Jazz, Experimental Big Band, Modern Creative (#92 in the RYM Free Jazz chart)

Descriptors : avant-garde, space, instrumental, mysterious, improvisation, chaotic, surreal, psychedelic, dissonant, atmospheric
Length : 7 tracks - 34:04

AM ranking : #1097
Artist Ranking : #434
RYM ranking : #135 for 1965 and #9280 overall (1408 ratings @ 3.60/ 5.0)
Metascore : N/A
2396 unique listeners and 23.2k scrobbles on last.fm

Choice cuts : Heliocentric / Outer Nothingness / Other Worlds



Biography from Last.fm

Sun Ra (1914– 1993) was an innovative jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesiser player, who came to be known as much for his Cosmic Afro-futurist Philosophy as for his phenomenal musical compositions and performances.

He claimed that he was of the "Angel Race", not from Earth but from Saturn. Some of his most notable influences were African and African-American theatre, theosophy, and masonic Afro-futurism. His interest in these art forms and principles led to the development of a complicated but consistent set of cosmic philosophies and lyrical poetry, which preached spiritual awareness and peace.

Born on 22nd May 1914 as Herman Poole Blount, in Birmingham, Alabama, he was nicknamed "Sonny" from his youth. Later, after his release from a detention camp for protesting against World War II, he took on the name and persona of Sun Ra (after the ancient Egyptian sun god).

Sun Ra could play many modern and classical works from memory and had worked in country and western bands before moving to Chicago. His personal music collection contained over 10,000 discs, and he was constantly reviewing and studying. Many of his improvisational and compositional innovations were extensions of ideas from twentieth-century European composers. He is responsible for having brought these ideas into jazz decades before many commercial artists popularised the same methods.

From 1955 until his death on 30th May 1993, Sun Ra led a big-band ensemble with a constant core of John Gilmore (the only sax player John Coltrane thought "worth listening to") and Marshall Allen (master of alto saxophone pyrotechnics), wrapped by an ever-changing lineup of sidemen who are big names in modern jazz today. The Arkestra, so named as to be an "ark between two worlds", never repeated a performance and rarely repeated an arrangement. Additionally, they appeared under a variety of names, including "The Solar Myth Arkestra", and the "Blue Universe Arkestra".

There is some disagreement as to Sun Ra's date of birth. He stated that he had "arrived on Earth" on a number of dates. He was fond of showing his doubters his United States passport, which clearly gave the place of birth as the planet Saturn. 22nd May 1914 appeared on his passport, but other sources place his birth anywhere from 1910 to 1918; most sources support a birth year of 1914 or 1915.

A fan's review

4.5 stars

What was it that Schoenberg said about his student John Cage? Something about him not being a composer of note, but an inventor of genius? I wonder if we can say something similar about Sun Ra. When I think of the great figures of 1960s jazz I think of Mingus, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Miles Davis and Sun Ra, but while I can think of wonderful music by the first six on that list, great tracks and great 1960s albums, Sun Ra is more of an atmosphere of 1960s radical jazz than an accomplishment. Yes, there are many wonderful things scattered across the albums, but there isn’t a particularly consistent body of work. Heliocentric Worlds is one of his more famous 1960s albums and perhaps the best I’ve heard. Recorded for ESP, I presume it was laid down in the normal ESP way, everything one take, no messing around between takes so it was all wrapped up in little more than an hour. It is therefore surprising that this isn’t an album based around solos, but an ensemble work – admittedly the Arkestra was never famous for its disciplined rigour, part of its energy coming from the threat of an ill disciplined collapse into chaos, but they must have gone into the studio well rehearsed and clearly organized. One track is Sun Ra on keyboard, but I’ve never found him that interesting as a solo musician. Other Worlds is one of those 1960s free jazz blasts, everyone seemingly doing their own thing in a cacophony of noise: I used to be more sympathetic to that sort of thing, finding it an interesting noise, trying to distinguish the individual sounds, trying to find a non-existing form, but now I’m not so certain: after the first 200 examples I began to find them monotonous: a noise is a noise. And the last number underwhelms. But that leaves four tracks that are very good. The titles point to solar systems and Sun Ra’s mythic imagination, but it all sounds like a menagerie to me. In Heliocentric there are piccolos and flutes trilling like panicked birds, then the bass clarinet and bass trombone sound like sea monsters calling from the depths. And while Other Worlds is an exuberance of disorder, these other numbers are built on a tension between order and disorder, the noise pulling into chaos, the form holding it together. The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra is a very uneven album, but at its best it is a remarkable and thrilling work.
If you like this, also listen to :
Head Start - Bob Thiele Emergency(1969)
Journey to Air - Terumasa Hino(1970)
Everywhere - Roswell Rudd (1966)



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1 - The Church - Heyday - CupOfDreams - 7,963 - ( 8 ) - 211.7k
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76. Sun Ra | The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra: 7/10
Highlights: "Outer Nothingness", "Other Worlds"

I prefer other albums by him, like The Magic City, Lanquidity or God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be.
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The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra - 7/10

Another highly ranked album that I've heard before. Like Schüttelbirne, there are other Sun Ra albums that I prefer, but there are some great individual tracks here, like "Other Worlds" and "Dancing in the Sun."
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76. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra: 6

Thanks!
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6

I heard this back when the ASU music library had around 20,000 LPs. I listened to jazz stuff I might not have ever listened to otherwise.
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Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra: 8
This album sounds very heliocentric to me. Wait, how does heliocentrism sound? My mind gets mixed up with this album and that's a good thing. A curious but appealing balance between space sounds, jazz and things that just sound random yet atmospheric.
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76. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (1965) 7/10
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76. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra: 5.5/10
Favourite track: Outer Nothingness
Least favourite track: Other Worlds
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Hello
Sorry for the delays in my posts recently, work is taking over my life and I should put a stop to it!
I will update all of this tonight.

In the meantime :
Minnie Riperton 6/10
Of course I've known Mrs Riperton since Les Fleurs, whose sample was used by... Four Tet I think ?
Vocally, she is amazing. She keeps hitting that high C note, which is quite an achievement, although I think she abuses it.

Sun Ra 2/10
Famous for its rackety uncontrolled and free jazz. This doesn't fail the craziness of the method. I'm still looking for a melody somewhere though
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DocBrown's nominations make a second appearance in this game and hopefully we'll hear from him as well !

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77. Jane Siberry - The Walking (1987)
Nominated by DocBrown(#121)
Genre : Art Pop, Progressive Pop Ambient Pop, Singer-Songwriter, New Wave (#118 in the RYM Art Pop chart)

Descriptors : complex, abstract, poetic, breakup, romantic, ethereal, lush, female vocals, surreal, uplifting, playful, progressive
Length : 8 tracks - 57:48

AM ranking : #unranked
Artist Ranking : #unranked
RYM ranking : #71 for 1987 and #5551 overall (863 ratings @ 3.68/ 5.0)
Metascore : N/A
2895 unique listeners and 35.6k scrobbles on last.fm

Choice cuts : The White Tent The Raft / Red High Heels / The Walking (And Constantly)



Biography from Last.fm

Jane Siberry (born in Toronto on 12 October 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known for her early 1980s new wave hits such as 'Mimi on the Beach', 'I Muse Aloud' and 'One More Colour'. Internationally, she is known for her 1993 album 'When I Was a Boy'. Between 2006 and 2009, she released material under the name Issa.

While at university, Siberry began performing in folk clubs in Guelph, Ontario, linking up first with singer Wendy Davis and then with bass guitarist John Switzer in a group called Java Jive. Following the split of Java Jive in 1979, her first self-titled album was released in 1981.

For her 1984 second album "No Borders Here" , Siberry mostly abandoned the folk approach in favour of electronic art-pop. Siberry's first hit was the No Borders Here track "Mimi on the Beach". Siberry's third album, The Speckless Sky (1985), continued her art-pop approach. It was another commercial and critical success, going gold in Canada by selling over 100,000 units and establishing Siberry as a Canadian pop star. The album provided another hit single, "One More Colour".

For her fourth album (her first for Reprise), Siberry created "The Walking". Released in 1988, it contained a set of intricately structured songs, many of which were lengthy and shifted between narrative viewpoints and characters.

Siberry's sixth album, When I Was a Boy, was completed in 1993. Siberry's next release, "Maria" (released in 1995) featured a more jazz-inspired direction with live acoustic instrumentation.

With her 1995 album Maria being a commercial failure, Siberry founded her own independent label, Sheeba Records. She has released all of her subsequent material on that label. While her public profile became lower after she became an independent artist, she retained a devoted cult following.

Early in 2006, Siberry closed her Sheeba office, then sold and gave away nearly all of her possessions – including her home and instruments. On June 3, 2006, somewhere in northwestern Europe, Siberry changed her name to Issa. She revealed her new name to the public on June 24, 2006.

In 2016, she released the album "Ulysses' Purse" as Jane Siberry

A fan's review

5.0 stars

I'm glad that this album (and Siberry in general) has its dedicated proponents, but I do yearn for the day when it really gets what it's due. A development from The Speckless Sky, which is overlooked and deserves a second shot, The Walking is an epic of an album. Its lengthy tracks unwind into these understandable incoherencies which can provoke intense emotion in the way Van Morrison's stream of consciousness sputterings do on Astral Weeks. Siberry will kill you with the line "Lena's a white table" as if you know what it actually means - but it doesn't matter*. Songs on this album often feature multiple voices and perspectives, creating not just a bizarre form of objective introspection but also a fragile narrative fabric. You never quite know who's speaking. Often logistical confusion, and yet emotional understanding.
Music's ultimate magic lies in its ability to portray the incomprehensible feelings of life. A single note can make your life flash before your eyes and provoke serious revelations, can conjure memories you thought you had lost; this, paired with Siberry's modernist verse and her personal sense of imagery, makes The Walking not just a completely perfect album but one of the best of all time.

*Maybe to clarify this, I think within the context of the song it makes some sense, but it's an objectively ludicrous sentence and it's knowing in that way. It quite obviously ludicrous and there's no attempt to get around that.

update: Sometimes, I really do think this is the best album I've ever heard. I hope other people hear it too.
If you like this, also listen to :
電離層からの眼差し (Denrisō Kara no Manazashi) - Guernica(1989)
Moving - The Raincoats (1984)
Nunsexmonkrock - Nina Hagen (1982)


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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 77. Jane Siberry - The Walking

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Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One 6.9 (my #19 for 1965)

My highlights: Other Worlds, Dancing in the Sun

This month's highlights ranked:
Lovin' You
Reasons
Every Time He Comes around
Other Worlds
Dancing in the Sun
All I got inside is vacancy!
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 77. Jane Siberry - The Walking

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77. Jane Siberry - The Walking (1987) 7/10
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The Walking - 7/10

It's a nice album, and takes an interesting approach to art/progressive pop. But the song quality is all over the map. There are some gems like "The White Tent the Raft" and "The Bird in the Gravel," but there's plenty of middling stuff as well.
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I'm sorry to be such an infrequent visitor to the site; rest assured, I still lurk on a regular basis. This site used to be a refuge for me, but my approach to discovering new music has changed over the past decade... and lately I haven't been discovering much of anything. I can only think of two new artists to catch my fancy last year.

Which brings me to a very old discovery... in fact I'm old enough to have seen Jane Siberry when she was busking at tiny folk venues in SW Ontario back in the late 70s.

Her career trajectory was... difficult, but in the 80s, Siberry was perhaps the most interesting artist in the early days of MuchMusic (the far superior Canadian version of MTV). Beginning with "No Borders Here" (1984), an album I brought to MAA several years ago, and continuing through "When I Was a Boy", (1993/2001) she produced four hit singles, so something more than a one-hit wonder. This album, "The Walking ", did not have a hit. It is perhaps the least radio friendly album ever produced by a pop "star".

Her previous two albums were strange and poetic in the mold of Kate Bush, perhaps. "The Walking" abandons any pretext at writing a hit, being more in the vein of Laurie Anderson at her most cryptic. I have the Canadian vinyl release of this record, her first for Reprise but released domestically on her previous label, Duke Street. The printed lyrics for The White Tent, the Raft are a visual representation of the song itself, multiple layered voices, almost schizophrenic in their interweaving.

I agree with ListyGuy that the centre third of "The Walking" is inconsistent. Reprise insisted on a shortened version of Ingrid and the Footmen as radio friendly cut, and Lena is a Table is as nonsensical as its title. But the second cut Red High Heels is achingly beautiful.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had ranked this album so highly two years ago. My copy of that list is gone; I decided that my album list of 2020 would be the last list not featuring "bread, milk, eggs" I ever would create (heresy, cry AMF as one!) and I deleted my RYM account in favor of the far more clinical Discogs. But on relistening to "The Walking ", I certainly can see what strange appeal Siberry makes to my tastes and my psyche. I hope a few of my fellow AMFers will take the opportunity to listen and comment. 9/10

A clarification... Siberry's fourth single to chart was a 2001 release, in Canada, of a track from her 1993 album, remixed as a duet with k.d. lang
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77. Jane Siberry - The Walking (1987): 6

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77. Jane Siberry - The Walking: 6/10
Favourite track: The Walking (And Constantly)
Least favourite track: Goodbye
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Jane Siberry - The Walking 4.6 (my #34 for 1987)
My highlight: Lena Is a White Table
All I got inside is vacancy!
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Jane Siberry - The Walking 6.5/10
What a nice discovery this album is.
It didn't start very well with weird time signatures on the first song, it being a bit too far out for me.
The album gets far more digestible as it goes - Ingrid & the Footman being closer to Pop aspect of Art Pop than any other song in this album.
Beautiful voice, a mix between Kate Bush and Elizabeth Fraser.

Thanks for this DocBrown and good to hear from you, as well as the background for this little record !
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Jane Siberry - The Walking: 9
Yes, this is very Kate Bush. I know that by now it is considered a criminal act to compare yet another female musician with Kate Bush, but here it is so inevitable that I happy go to jail for making the comparison. It followed on the heels of Hounds of Love to!
This is not a bad thing though. Jane Siberry makes for a wonderful Kate Bush acolyte, as all of these songs are as beautiful as they are adventurous. Except perhaps Ingrid (and the Footman) which curiously sounds like ABBA. At least it is a good ABBA. Wonderful discovery!
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 78. Compulsion - The Future is Medium

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Another nomination from your host (looks like I'm catching up finally with the law of averages !)
An unknown Irish band, alternative rock from the 90s - archetypical Spiritualized music ! I think one of their songs appeared in the song version of this game.

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78. Compulsion - The Future is Medium (1996)
Nominated by Spiritualized (#115)
Genre : Alternative Rock, Grunge Punk Rock, Noise Rock, Noise Pop (#unranked in the RYM Alternative Rock chart)

Descriptors : melancholic, melodic, passionate, male vocals, energetic
Length : 16 tracks - 45:42

AM ranking : #unranked
Artist Ranking : #unranked
RYM ranking : #unranked for 1996 and #unranked overall (45 ratings @ 3.39/ 5.0)
Metascore : N/A
1263 unique listeners and 14.6k scrobbles on last.fm

Choice cuts : All We Heard Was a Dull Thud/ Juvenile Scene Detective / Question Time for the Proles



Biography from Allmusic

Compulsion grew out of a Dublin neo-punk band called Thee Amazing Colossal Men. Singer Josephmary, guitarist Garrett Lee, and bassist Sid Rainey had a deal with Virgin that resulted in their winning a lawsuit against the label, after which they regrouped as Compulsion in London with Dutch drummer Jan-Willem Alkema. The group went on welfare while honing its songwriting skills, releasing three EPs and a minor hit single, "Mall Monarchy." Their sound combines punk volume and aggression with pop melodies on releases like 1994's Comforter and 1996's Future Is Medium.

A fan's review

4.5 stars

Like many RYMers, I sometimes find emblematic albums which have been ignored, underrated, unreviewed, and shocked to find them so. The Future Is Medium is one of those records you wished everyone knew, but you face rebuttal every time you try to get someone to listen to it.

Punk Revival, Post-Grunge, you name it - you label it, Compulsion boils down to one thing: they f***ing rock. The guitars are crunching beyond recognition, vocals are as melodious as they are aggressive. The lyrical content can be confusing ("All we heard was a dull thud"), or simply visionary - "Down The Edifice" seems to narrate the thoughts of someone jumping from a skyscraper.

The album weakens at the three-quarters mark, with slower, mellower songs - still good, but not what Compulsion excels at. The exception and almost the highlight of this album is a one-minute snippet of what could be called Ambient metal ("Spotlight Into Space").

Without doubt, Compulsion was one of a flurry of underrated bands, which should have seen higher recognition, but to the misery or the happiness of their followers, never seemed to achieve it. Nevermind, revel in The Future Is Medium.
If you like this, also listen to :
Untimed - Sharp Nine (1995)
It's a Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse (2001)
Snail - Snail (1993)


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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 78. Compulsion - The Future is Medium

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spiritualized wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 7:48 pm Another nomination from your host (looks like I'm catching up finally with the law of averages !)
An unknown Irish band, alternative rock from the 90s - archetypical Spiritualized music ! I think one of their songs appeared in the song version of this game.
Indeed, It's Great appeared on November 27th 2020. I thought I recognized the cover art.
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 78. Compulsion - The Future is Medium

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The Future is Medium - 7/10

A nice (and efficient) grunge album, featuring an average song length under 3 minutes. There's a good amount of grunge out there that I do prefer to what's found here, but there are some standout tracks on this album as well. Plus, it's pretty consistently ok.
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 78. Compulsion - The Future is Medium

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78. Compulsion - The Future Is Medium (1996) 6/10
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Re: Biggest Fan - The Album Edition - 78. Compulsion - The Future is Medium

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Compulsion - The Future is Medium: 8
A very good rock album that seems to fall into a lot of trends of the nineties, while never fully subscribing to any of them. It just likes to rock out and it does so very well. Even has a few moments of cleverness within.
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