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― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 October 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
I will be disappointed if at least a few of these weren't made up. Like, have a sense of humour guys and make some of this shit up already!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
because i'll never hear a quarter of these and it makes me feel inadequate
No need to feel inadequate, LJ, I've heard half of them and, for the most part, you're not missing much... tho you do like your prog.
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
"Fuck this list of things that I love that probably has awesome recommendations for me, because, er, someone cool said something like that recently, I don't know, I just skimread it and missed the point completely".
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
62 -- maybe 10-15 of which I could not call to mind what they sound like although I know I have listened to them.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
think i'm just projecting my own self-hatred here. sorry
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
a) there are TOO MANY recommendations here, though - my brain str8up shuts down
b) what about stuff it's missed
idk the point isn't exhaustiveness but it FEELS like it's trying to be exhaustive, which is where my feelings of panic and dismay set in
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Also it's just a list. Describe them, talk about them, suggest a song. It's the 1979 equivalent of a Youtube dump, except you have to go and buy the albums so it's even worse
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I sort of agree about this (prefer lists that have only one item on them...but paradoxically really long lists just become a blur and kind of disappear again, it loses its implicit enclosed completism feeling
what about it? thats actually a good thing no, opening doors rather than closing them. if it didnt miss things then it would be MORE museumified, heres 'everything you need' - leaving things off is better, the door doesnt shut, you can go out and look at the trees and forget all about the gallery
― saer, Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
leaving things is essential but this list is so big, it feels aesthetically like it is trying to cover everything. this is how my brain instinctively interprets it. in favour of hearing arguments for the list tho
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:33 (15 minutes ago)
exhaustiveness does seem to have been the point, 'this is everything', it is indiscriminate in the best sense
the impossibility of any one person knowing and liking every one of these artists militates against the tickbox checklist tendency
this is why its better to just list all 291 things you like that you can think of than it is to topiarize 50 of your very most favourite and very most personally meaningful and most numinously and eternally profound things
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
well yeah I have renounced my 50 albums list, it was a stupid notion. you have a point. I'm just too daunted
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
try just this one then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BndZT2-zHwQ
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
when I'm home, will do :)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
the 'irony' is that i dont remember ever having downloaded anything by nurse with woundim sure ive heard them somewhennot really my scene bruv
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
arg pro-list: it is a giant joke on that world and culture, especially if some of it is made-up.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
if any of this shit was made up that would not be funny
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
I really don't think any of it is fake, sorry J
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
I'd find it hilarious. Anyway, Stapleton himself hasn't heard all of this..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
xp = bah.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
iirc some of these entries are only there b/c one particular song or album was inspiring to SS, not the whole catalog
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, Stapleton himself hasn't heard all of this..
How do you know that? Anyway it wasn't just him that made up the list.
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
makes more sense to think of it as an album cover rather than an abstract list. it's not an attempt to capture something exhaustively, it's armouring the record with these mysterious pointers to a wider context
― ogmor, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Of course I don't know that for a fact - but yes it was NWW that made the list up, so making an assumption no one person would've heard it all by the time it was compiled. xp
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
"categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided"
― example (crüt), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
xxp sorry if I'm misreading but this wasn't the album cover anyway just included iirc
― nxd, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was a record sized insert or inner sleeve from the design, if it'd been in a booklet or something it wouldn't have the same feel
― ogmor, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
yes, it was an insert
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
Apparently I'm at 223, but I listen to a lot of bad '70s jazz-prog. Most sane people could easily go their entire life without needing to hear Modry Efekt or Thrice Mice.
― rushomancy, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
^^ two that I have not heard
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
related thread:
please help me parse this fuckin NWW list
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
i mean, this is some of the most important music of the 1970's. mostly 1970's. if you start at the top and work your way down you will be a brighter and better person by the end of your trip.
― scott seward, Friday, February 18, 2011 8:17 AM
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
thinking about starting my own trangressive tribute act, nonce with wind
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
sound would be kind of like gary glitter on ex-lax
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
plz don't go telling me that william bennett has got there first
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
I think that back in the days before downloading/album blogs/Spotify I had probably only heard a handful of these acts. I didn't know what a NWW list was back then either. It would have been cruel to know such a thing.
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
lol
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
exackly, its fkn sadistic
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
I've never even seen this list
― please delete outrageous tanuki crappyposter (wins), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I must've seen this list before. If not, then I'm still in the dark as to how I stumbled upon that Anal Magic album.
― Portly Backgammon (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
I don't think it's inherently cruel or sadistic -- I think that says more about your approach(es)
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
oh no, I think the list is great. But if I had come across it in 1999 I would have spent a fortune tracking down oop albums that would be widely available by 2005 or so.
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Napster started in 1999!
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
I remember spending hours waiting to download Moving Gelatine Plates or whatever from dudes in Europe on dialup.
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
I spent years in the mid-90s looking for a bunch of obscure-at-the-time records I'd made a list of from the 2nd edition of the Trouser Press Guide with no illusions or need to be a completist
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Heard: 56Seen live: 6Stayed at their house: 1Actually a really big fan of: approx 15
― everything, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah, possibly that's why there are 5 cop cars across from my house right now
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
oh no, I think the list is great. But if I had come across it in 1999
Probably came across it in 2000 or so and I love a lot of the music but I wasn't that into tracking everything down. Also as I said I really think there is a sense of black humour to the thing. What would people in 1980 have felt? At least we had a search engine etc. and some mailing lists to ask about. I used to be a member of an old S3 list and the guys there were knowledgeable as hell.
Not that this list is that diff when looking through a record guide or reading a book on music and coming up with a list of tens of records to investigate. sarah otm.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
dude i spent like three years on napster trying to find the (then) long-out-of-print "faust so far" and all i ever found was a crappy xing-encoded mp3 of "it's a rainy day sunshine girl" with diginoise everywhere. finding sphinx tush on napster? forget it!
― rushomancy, Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
how did u know it was xing encoded
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link