MetaFilter posts tagged with albums

The Sun Ra Quilt of Joy

Joe Beese — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:04:50 -0800

That would make a good band name.

flatluigi — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:17:26 -0800

Wikipedia Names Your Band. (flickr pool) _{For reference:

1. Your band's name is the first random article from Wikipedia
2. Your album's title is the last few words of the last random quotation from QuotationsPage.
3. Your album's cover is the third image on Flickr's Explore the Last Seven Days.
4. Photoshop and mix to your taste.}

Long live the the Village Green - and the Mellotron

joseph conrad is fully awesome — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:55:25 -0800

The Mellotron features prominently on the 1968 album, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, more commonly referred to as The Village Green Preservation Society. The weird, eerie quality of this electronic keyboard, which uses pre-recorded tapes of individual sounds such as strings and woodwind instruments, worked well with singer/songwriter Ray Davies' nostalgic, backwards looking sensibility. For Kinks Mellotron goodness, try Sitting By The Riverside, Phenomenal Cat, All Of My Friends Were There, Animal Farm, Starstruck, and Days, the last of which was originally intended for Village Green but dropped from the final playlist. Bonus Mellotron, not on Village Green: Autumn Almanac, which "relies heavily on the MkII trombones and mixed brass". Nicky Hopkins and Ray Davies played the Mellotron on Village Green. Upon its release, reviews were favorable but the public ignored it, in no small part because it was so at odds with the cultural and rock/pop climate at the time. Village Green is now considered a godlike album and a cult favorite, prompting Ray Davies to state in the 2004 re-issue liner notes, "It's the most successful failure of all time." Previously

First Albums

davebush — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:37:15 -0800

Everybody has one -- that album that first made you a music-lover for life. It could be the first album you ever heard or bought with your own money. It could be one you didn't hear until later in life. But everybody has one, and we want to know about yours.

Palin family christmas card

ericbop — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:06:56 -0800

Now I know how to Criticize Lin Piao and Discredit Him Completely, next time won't you join with me? Lots of other great covers on this site, but this one takes the (happy kids marching with rifles) cake. (via)

Ooh Yeah I'm A Wild One

awfurby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:20:20 -0800

50 years ago Johnny O'Keefe released "Wild One" and Australia had its first homegrown rock'n'roll star. To commemorate the 50th year of Australian rock'n'roll The Age newspaper has asked various Australian music industry figures to pick the top 50 Australian albums (scroll down for the Top 50 - or check the (more inside)). The Top 24 with some YouTube links to songs from the albums: 1 "10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1" Midnight Oil (1981) Power and the Passion Only the Strong 2 "Radios Appear" Radio Birdman (1977) Aloha Steve and Dano 3 "Living in the 70s" Skyhooks (1974) Horror Movie 4 "Hi-Fi Way" You Am I (1995) Cathy's Clown Purple Sneakers 5 "Stoneage Romeos" Hoodoo Gurus (1984) Leilani Tojo 6 "Gossip" Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls (1986) Darling It Hurts 7 "(I'm) Stranded" the Saints (1977) I'm Stranded 8 "Kick" INXS (1987) Devil Inside 9 "Diesel and Dust Midnight Oil" (1987) Beds are Burning 10 "Back in Black" AC/DC (1980) Back in Black 11 "Magic Box" Loved Ones (1967) The Loved One Ever Lovin' Man 12 "Easy" The Easybeats (1965) Friday On My Mind She's So Fine 13 "Born Sandy Devotional" The Triffids (1986) Wide Open Road 14 "Crowded House" Crowded House (1986) Don't Dream It's Over 15 "Human Frailty" Hunters and Collectors (1986) Say Goodbye 16 "High Voltage" AC/DC (1976) It's A Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock n' Roll) 17 "Sunnyboys" Sunnyboys (1981) Alone With You 18 "Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies will Float By" The Drones (2005) www.thedrones.com.au - can't find any videos from this album on YouTube, except for some live vids with bad sound quality, so go to the official site for some better vids. 19 "16 Lovers Lane" Go-Betweens (1988) Was There Anything I Could Do? 20 "Prehistoric Sounds" The Saints (1988) 21 "Circus Animals" Cold Chisel (1980) Forever Now 22 "Hourly, Daily" You Am I (1996) Good Mornin' Soldiers Soldiers (live) Good Mornin' (live) 23 "East" Cold Chisel (1980) Cheap Wine 24 "Doughboy Hollow" Died Pretty (1991) DC Sweetheart And the rest (with vids on a couple of choice picks): 25 "Goodbye Tiger" Richard Clapton (1977) 26 "Daddy Who" Daddy Cool (1971) 27 "Prayers on Fire" The Birthday Party (1981) 28 "Charcoal Lane" Archie Roach (1992) 29 "Rose Tattoo" Rose Tattoo (1978) 30 "Less is More" Even (1996) 31 "Let There Be Rock" AC/DC (1977) Let There Be Rock (Hard Ons & Henry Rollins) 32 "Since I Left You" The Avalanches (2001) Frontier Psychiatrist 33 "Flowers" Icehouse (1980) 34 "Toward the Blues" Chain (1971) 35 "Anthology" The Easybeats (2000) 36 "The Good Son" Nick Cave (1990) 37 "Highway to Hell" AC/DC (1979) 38 "The Low Road" Beasts of Bourbon (1991) Chase the Dragon 39 "The Swing" INXS (1984) 40 "Lovetown" Stephen Cummings (1988) 41 "Face to Face" The Angels (1978) 42 "Post" Paul Kelly (1985) 43 "Woodface" Crowded house (1991) 44 "Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express" Go-Betweens (1986) 45 "Tu Plang" Regurgitator (1996) 46 "Eternal Nightcap" The Whitlams (1997) 47 "Diorama" Silverchair (2002) 48 "Starfish" The Church (1988) 49 "A Toast to Panama Red" Masters' Apprentices (1972) 50 "Get Born" Jet (2003)

Concentration for music fans

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:23:20 -0800

Lets play the Album Cover Game! [Flash]

1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die

rongorongo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:25:17 -0800

1,000 Albums to hear before you die compiled from The Guardian's assorted music reviewers (assisted by readers who then told them which ones they missed). You won't want to be planning to expire any time too soon with these to get through.

Photo albums of German soldiers

chunking express — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:30:17 -0800

Photo albums of German soldiers. Fully scanned photos from the personal albums of German soldiers from the Second World War and the years preceding it. Apparently these albums were confiscated by Russian soldiers.

Human Album Covers

KevinSkomsvold — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:57:46 -0800

Half-human album covers. Also known as "sleevefaces."

The Best Music of 2007 According to

Soup — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:13:53 -0800

The best music of 2007 according to Stereogum, Pitchfork, All Music, NME, PopMatters, The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, TIME, MTV, the Guardian, eMusic, Amazon, Spin Magazine, Q, Largehearted Boy, and more. Among the most frequently listed are Radiohead, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Of Montreal, Feist, and The National.

But is it jazz?

klangklangston — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:32:14 -0800

Jazz '71-'89 Dave Douglas posed the challenge: “Is there a writer who can take on the project of an unbiased overview of music since the end of the Vietnam War?” The Bad Plus answered (though not unbiased). The Guardian and NY Times weighed in. Suck it, haters. And ultimately, Behearer used a wiki to answer the call.

Music is a-changin'

caddis — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:47:39 -0800

50 Albums that changed music. Fifty years old this month, the album chart has tracked the history of pop. But only a select few records have actually altered the course of music.

A New Low In Getting High

klangklangston — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:32:09 -0800

Every Brian Jonestown Massacre album for free. Druggy, poppy, woozy, Rolling-Stonesy music. Want more free music? Butthole Surfers- Double Live Jad Fair- Sunshiney Sunshine Complete Dolly Mixture discography Animal- Sawn Creator and Deaf Ox and John Vanderslice. (some via)

Where's Dokken?

Kattullus — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:29:18 -0800

A Collection of 'All Time' Best Albums Charts from the US, UK, Netherlands & Belgium. Guess which chart has 3 dEUS albums in the top 20?

The Mother of All Lists

Man-Thing — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:58:45 -0800

WXPN listeners have picked the 885 best albums of all time. In a follow-up to last year's list of the 885 best songs of all time (commented on here), Philadelphia's WXPN has polled its listeners to come up with the top 885 albums and is playing three tracks from each. The countdown is continuing as I type this. I have no doubt the entire Metafilter community will agree on the selections. Here's my prediction for #1.

Caffeine, Nicotine, and Benzedrine (and wish me luck)

mwhybark — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:14:30 -0800

Head Back to Mono in 32k at the rineke.net records archive, where a rather consistent curator has digitized a goody chunk of his record collection. It's posted in more-or-less every iteration imaginable. Observe the linked scans (1 mb page, careful!) of the covers (also in multiple resolutions up to full-size). Note the records themselves, in sleeve or out, depending. Most especially, savor the clean, low-res mono mp3s that cry out to be played through the dashboard speakers of a 1967 Dodge Dart.

Bonus Big Beat Bonanza: The site's author is also behind the similarly detailed archive of shows by ex-WFMU dj The Hound, from 1987 through 1995, heavy on the rare regional sides beloved of certain of my pals down New Orleans way.

Last, but not least, rineke.net hosts the adventures of a platoon of Tux clones, sealing my geek admiration for the overseer of the site. There's more, of course. My propeller beanie's off to you, sir, and long may you wave, or particle, as is your choice and preference.

(Permission was sought and granted to post this, as I feard for the site's bandwidth. Have at it, Mefites!

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

LinusMines — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:50:51 -0800

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s (dis|cuss|discuss).

Outside the Inbox

KathyK — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:08:28 -0800

Outside the Inbox is a compilation of songs inspired by and titled after the subject lines of spam. Brad of Brad Sucks asked artists to choose a subject line from an actual piece of spam and then write a song with it as its title. The result is a fun 14-song concept album filled with some of the great music being made by home recordists on the Internet today!

the Knockoff Project

jimmy — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 04:36:11 -0800

The Knockoff Project. Album cover homages and rip-offs.

(Don't) Steal This Album! It's now cheaper.

msacheson — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:22:16 -0800

Music label Universal to lower CD prices. Is this move a bit like raising a white flag? (via Curlio)

Clutter:

aladfar — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:52:46 -0800

Clutter: A wondrous little application, Clutter grabs album info from a currently playing MP3 track, sends it off to Amazon, and comes back with an image of the CD cover. Once done, these images can be moved about the desktop at will; a double click plays the record in its entirety. And it's free. God bless the independent developer! [OS X and iTunes compatible only, unfortunately.]

It's an

Stan Chin — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:17:22 -0800

"With VinylVideo™, you can now transform your old record player and your TV set into a brand-new home movie medium - quickly, conveniently, and without complicated instruction manuals. With the revolutionary VinylVideo™ Picture Disks, for which numerous top-name artists have already produced exclusive works, you can now design your own TV viewing program featuring picture quality that is truly extraordinary." Hey hey that sounds useful! Maybe their next big idea is replacing DVDs with Viewmaster reels. Check out the real audio informercial if you have the chacne.

Village Voice's 2002 Pazz & Jop Poll

boost ventilator — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:53:30 -0800

Pazz & Jop 2002 - The Village Voice has tabulated the top albums and singles from 695 critics (and 10,2002 LPs). Some of the ballot-fillers even got a little personal. The usual essays are included. If your fav CD didn't make the cut, perhaps it made it onto the dean's list.

Top 50 albums of 2002

mathowie — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:38 -0800

And so it begins: while I've already seen half a dozen "best ___ of 2002" lists, the year end list I look forward to, Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums list is out for 2002. It's just the right mix between "so mainstream there are no surprises" and "so indie even your second cousin's girlfriend's brother in that band hasn't heard of them" though perhaps they're leaning towards the latter this year, seeing how I've only heard about a quarter of all the albums listed.