A thread (ten songs etc.)

[Baz]

Any fans of Built to Spill? Somehow passed me by.Used to be way into You In Reverse but haven’t thought about them in years.

Elliott Smith covering Car was what got me into them. Pretty sure they covered him back recently too.

[Manc]

The Mecury Prize shortlist is bleak.

[Alex]

Any fans of Built to Spill? Somehow passed me by.

Absolutely.

There's Nothing Wrong With Love, Perfect From Now On and Keep It Like a Secret is one of the great album runs of the nineties. The middle of the three in particular being an absolutely class record.

I also think Doug Martsch is one of the more underrated guitar players of his generation. He's fantastic.

[CJay]

Perfect From Now On is a top 5 of all time contender for me. Fond memories of listening to that on grey rainy mornings on the school bus.

[CJay]

Top 10 BTS tracks Alex? In order or not.

Temporarily Blind
Broken Chairs
Twin Falls
Randy Described Eternity (my clear no. 1 - the opening lyrics were just incredible to 12 year-old me)
I Would Hurt a Fly
Velvet Waltz
Out Of Site
Car
Aisle 13 🥰 (one day I’ll come home to find you covered with ants ‘cause you’re so sweet)
In The Morning (love the outro)

[igor_balis]

Any fans of Built to Spill? Somehow passed me by.

Funnily enough they came up recently as I was doing my rounds on rateyourmusic, last.fm etc. They're pretty good. perfect from now on was the record I gave a go, solid 7/10 on first listening.

The other band I've tried to do a deep dive on recently are Wilco and I dunno, not feeling it. Some bangers including the obvious hits like Jesus etc and can't stand it, but the albums really drag. Mermaid avenue is class but it doesn't really count as a wilco/Billy Bragg/Walt Whitman weird collaboration thing. Especially way over yonder in the minor key.

[igor_balis]

https://youtu.be/vwcQAlRn0Gs

[Alex]

Top 10 BTS tracks Alex? In order or not.

Temporarily Blind
Broken Chairs
Twin Falls
Randy Described Eternity (my clear no. 1 - the opening lyrics were just incredible to 12 year-old me)
I Would Hurt a Fly
Velvet Waltz
Out Of Site
Car
Aisle 13 🥰 (one day I’ll come home to find you covered with ants ‘cause you’re so sweet)
In The Morning (love the outro)

Cracking list. I would go something along the lines of:

Randy Described Eternity
I Would Hurt a Fly
Kicked it in the Sun
Car
Broken Chairs
Carry the Zero
Strange
Goin' Against Your Mind
When I'm Blind
Cortez the Killer (From the "Live" album - I'm a sucker for people covering Neil Young, and this is fucking mega, Doug Martsch has all the necessary guitar chops to carry all 20 minutes of it)

It's an ongoing battle between "I Would Hurt a Fly" and "Kicked it in the Sun" for my favourite Built To Spill song. They're both very different in tone but both share one of Built to Spill's big strengths, which is that they switch up with a couple of minutes to go and morph into quite different, but equally great, songs for the outro.

[Alex]

Funnily enough they came up recently as I was doing my rounds on rateyourmusic, last.fm etc. They're pretty good. perfect from now on was the record I gave a go, solid 7/10 on first listening.

The other band I've tried to do a deep dive on recently are Wilco and I dunno, not feeling it. Some bangers including the obvious hits like Jesus etc and can't stand it, but the albums really drag. Mermaid avenue is class but it doesn't really count as a wilco/Billy Bragg/Walt Whitman weird collaboration thing. Especially way over yonder in the minor key.

Mermaid Avenue is a proper strange but very good album. I'm not even sure how something like that comes together, but I'm glad it did. I love it. It's packed full of great songs but "At My Window Sad and Lonely" is my favourite on there, just a very beautiful song.

I like "Ingrid Bergman" too, because I just enjoy the notion that Woody Guthrie once wrote a very thinly veiled song about wanting to fuck Ingrid Bergman, probably thought "that's daft" and chucked it in a drawer and then 30 years after he died Billy Bragg rolls up and records it. :D

I absolutely love Wilco. My little brother is a long time fan and was always on my case to get into them but I'd only ever really glossed over them for a long time, I wasn't too bothered. But it just clicked with me maybe four years or so ago. I do find I have to be in the mood for them though. They're very, I don't know, I don't want to say "mellow" because they are not always that, but sort of quite a laid back listen.

My favourite Wilco album is a toss up between Being There and Summerteeth. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot obviously gets the majority of the plaudits, and that is fantastic too. But those two are the frontrunners for me.

[Manc]

There is No Enemy is right up my street.

[igor_balis]

Mermaid Avenue is a proper strange but very good album. I'm not even sure how something like that comes together, but I'm glad it did. I love it. It's packed full of great songs but "At My Window Sad and Lonely" is my favourite on there, just a very beautiful song.

I like "Ingrid Bergman" too, because I just enjoy the notion that Woody Guthrie once wrote a very thinly veiled song about wanting to fuck Ingrid Bergman, probably thought "that's daft" and chucked it in a drawer and then 30 years after he died Billy Bragg rolls up and records it. :D

I absolutely love Wilco. My little brother is a long time fan and was always on my case to get into them but I'd only ever really glossed over them for a long time, I wasn't too bothered. But it just clicked with me maybe four years or so ago. I do find I have to be in the mood for them though. They're very, I don't know, I don't want to say "mellow" because they are not always that, but sort of quite a laid back listen.

My favourite Wilco album is a toss up between Being There and Summerteeth. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot obviously gets the majority of the plaudits, and that is fantastic too. But those two are the frontrunners for me.

Aye I've given YHF and summerteeth a few goes and I think I prefer the latter. The numbers station conet project stuff does add a couple of marks to the former though.

[CJay]

Cracking list. I would go something along the lines of:

Randy Described Eternity
I Would Hurt a Fly
Kicked it in the Sun
Car
Broken Chairs
Carry the Zero
Strange
Goin' Against Your Mind
When I'm Blind
Cortez the Killer (From the "Live" album - I'm a sucker for people covering Neil Young, and this is fucking mega, Doug Martsch has all the necessary guitar chops to carry all 20 minutes of it)

It's an ongoing battle between "I Would Hurt a Fly" and "Kicked it in the Sun" for my favourite Built To Spill song. They're both very different in tone but both share one of Built to Spill's big strengths, which is that they switch up with a couple of minutes to go and morph into quite different, but equally great, songs for the outro.

Mmm forgot about Cortez The Killer - think I first heard that on the old spoiler ten songs thread on the old board.

Brings a tear to my eye thinking of all the music I discovered thanks to that thread. :wub:

[-james-]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5kZPTpxfjHoHP6hwWRicdk?si=0ea66036873a4081

Rrose - Waterfall
Talking Heads - Air
Haress - I Think, I Think
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss
Doja Cat - Get Into It (Yuh)
Richard Dawson & Circle - Methuselah
Lapsley - Operator (DJ Koze Edit)
FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
Stromae - L'enfer

[Raoul Duke]

Came across this guy recently: Anansy Cissé (https://open.spotify.com/artist/0NvcUViW5mXBgkd3cA0P2C?si=N77iFHNET-ySeFyyKK5N6g) - if you like Songhoy Blues he's in that style

[Jimmy Floyd]

Came across this guy recently: Anansy Cissé (https://open.spotify.com/artist/0NvcUViW5mXBgkd3cA0P2C?si=N77iFHNET-ySeFyyKK5N6g) - if you like Songhoy Blues he's in that style

Class, thanks.

[Ben]

Yeah I listened to him in the car this morning. Decent.

[CJay]

Deer Scout - Woodpecker

A short album of lovely, slightly Big Thief-y folk rock. Big recommend from me.

[-james-]

Pariah - Log Jam
Jesu - Your Path to Divinity
GODFLESH - LAND LORD
Mandy, Indiana - Drag
LUNGE - Off With Their Heads
Elliott Smith - Angeles
Arthur Russell - A Little Lost
Olof Dreijer & MT Sims - Hybrid Fruit
Squid - The Blades
Mary Lattimore - Wawa By the Ocean

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6n9GPWlzFclFGFtPLEcolY?si=RMhYfCz1SWS5VHRnrkNmug

[Jimmy Floyd]

A more prosaic/whiter ten from me:

Belle and Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePAg7nJyurw)
Beach House - Zebra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wfb25WmV4)
Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kIQT7uUiME)
Love - Always See Your Face (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a19QBz7HEWY)
Matching Mole - O Caroline (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVkqLrsr4M)
The Clientele - Losing Haringey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GOVzy6Tzs)
Aldous Harding - Zoo Eyes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgyJ8jWD3M)
Magnetic Fields - Abigail, Belle of Kilronan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GuivlK1nzs)
Frankel - Anonymity is the New Fame (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFnqNFHXe0)
Death Cab for Cutie - I'll Follow You into the Dark (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV_1ESMHaI)

Very much into the first two (new to B&S, somehow). Last one I'm less fond of actually on later listens but whatever. On Elliott Smith, I think a vast amount of what I listen to is heavily influenced by him but I can never quite get into the original.

[Baz]

Not even his “hits”? (Son of Sam, Waltz #2, Between the Bars, Miss Misery, etc?)

I go through phases of preferring Heatmiser (his rock band) especially the raw stuff, although Plainclothes Man will forever be the GOAT.