Man I could not agree more with that statement. Such an amazing album.

I was looking for a good jazz organist and ended up downloading this album, by Larry Young.

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Pretty amazing. What really captured my interest wasn't Larry Young (although he definitely does know how to work that organ) but the trumpet player, Woody Shaw. I've heard of him before downloading this album, but this was the first time that I really listened to him play and improvise. Pretty amazing stuff, he has a sound unlike any other player I've heard. He really jumps all over the staff and can pull it off incredibly well, something that is not only technically challenging but pretty unusual for a trumpet player.

I also like a lot of Shaw's own compositions on the record, particularly Zoltan, the opening track.

One of my favorites, and highly recommended. I can definitely help you out with more suggestions if your still pursuing jazz B3 players.
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Cool, I'll definitely look into that. I'm downloading a Jimmy Smith album at the moment. A friend told me that he can be kind of hit or miss though, I guess I'll find out.

That's exactly how I feel about him. It's almost sacrilege to say he's overrated, but he doesn't always grab me. I might be stuffing your PM box soon.

Alright, well don't let me down, haha. It seems like you have very like-able tastes.

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If Elvis Costello recorded a weak song pre-Punch The Clock, I have yet to hear it.

I've been hankering for some ATDI-quality post-hardcore... yippee

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Despite lapsing into mediocrity the last few years, the chem bros still hold up pretty well and made some quality tunes unlike say Fatboy Slim who definitely does sound dated (Apart from Song For Lindy).

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Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
I seem to have neglected this lot over the past year, but i decided to stick on this album and immerse in all it's goody goodness. I forgot how brilliantly powerful 'Ny Batteri' and 'Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása' are, really beautiful and incredible songs. It's probably my favourite Sigur Rós album, just a bit better than ( ).

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didn't do that much for me the first few listens. a few months later, I love it.

DJ Vadim - U.S.S.R.: The Art of Listening (2002)

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An old favorite - a fantastic hip-hop album, with great abstract/funky/dubby/reggae beats and turntablism provided by DJ Vadim, and great MCs on every track. Not to mention some interesting and fun vocal samples here and there. My 4.5 star rating may be a little generous, but it's at least deserving of 4. It may mean a little something more to me as it introduced me to a few of the MCs on here, and was perhaps one of the first abstract hip-hop albums I ever picked up when I started getting into instrumental hip-hop.

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NANANANANA

Only regret is that these aren't individual songs.

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it is very subtle and beautiful. mainly piano driven but with strings and very sparse but effective drumming as well. the piano is delicate as is her voice, almost too delicate.. she has found, in my opinion, the right balance between melancholy and optimism in her song writing. it's her debut album so i'm looking forward to see how she develops in the future

^^ i like that a lot. thanks for posting!

She looks like what Sarah Jessica Parker would look like if she wasn't ugly.

^

Haha...I can totally see it.

I just got this album upon seeing it in here and I'm 4 songs in...I'm sold. Great stuff.

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Anomie Belle - Sleeping Patterns (2008)

This album is really saving my life right now with the amount of essays I have to write this weekend for finals next week. So smooth and relaxing, definitely one of the best trip-hop albums released in the last decade.

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Kanye's early stuff was kinda juvenile and he's an okay rapper at best. I liked it but it didn't really seem like he was emotionally invested in it.
His newest album was alright too, "Moster" is an amazing song and really intense.

His best album is 808s and Heartbreak though. Its so tight, its so filled with emotion and beauty. Its got blippy bloopy synths and artificial sounding vocal effects but the emotion in his voice is 100% human and real.
The only track that isn't awesome is "Welcome to Heartbreak" and its still not bad. It just drags on too long.

I'm glad you like it (: riverside and brother sparrow are my favourite - in my opinion the quality decreases a little, but it might just because i haven't listened to those songs as much as the ones in the beginning of the album.

i can sort of see the resemblance.. she is quite beautiful!

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The Music Tapes- For Clouds and Tornados

Oh man, I am seeing the elephant six guys (including Scott Spillane and Julian Koster and maybe, only maybe, jeff mangum) in brooklyn in march for two nights. Been continuing my obsession with all things elephant six with my favorite album by the music tapes :]

From ping pong percussion to the singing saw to the strings, banjos, accordions, to julian koster's thin and haunting vocals, this album is straight experimentation but with a beauty and dissonance and desperation in it. this album has most of the music tapes best songs including "Majesty," "Freeing Song for Reindeer," "Manifest Destiny," and "The Minister of Longitude." Nothing ever like it, nothing that will ever come close to it :tramp:

I agree that album is awesome and I'm extremely jealous you get to see all those awesome Elephant 6 musicians in March, I live near Brooklyn and would love to see that, if I wasn't in school 6 hours away...

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This has always been one of my favorite albums, even though electronica is not what I normally listen to. Most of the songs are very catchy, at least for me, and kind of... well, in absence of a better word, I will say, mysterious :D

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Fredrik - Na Na Ni (2009)

My brother intoduced me to this band a while ago and Im so glad he did since this is some really great experimental folk pop from Sweden.

I really like that album cover. Great use of color!

^ You should check the album out. It's really great and quite catchy. Their newest one is also great but not quite as catchy but more experimental and ambientish.

I dig Na Na Ni. I heard Black Fur on a comp Canwll Corfe made and I fell in love.

Empire! Empire! (I was a Lonely Estate) - What it Takes to Move Forward (2009)

I was looking at some Mineral video on youtube and I saw someone recomending some bands and he had like a list of five bands that he thought are worth a listen. I listened few songs from all of those bands and sadly this was the only band that I liked from those bands..

I looked under every stone in search for this album and I gave up. Then I went into Spotify and I was amazed to find this album there. I listened to the album straight through (with additional commercials of course) and I fell in love!

I would post the album cover and a song from the album but apparently I have no human rights :D But if you do check this band out listen to How to Make Love Stay or An Idea is a Greater Monument than a Cathedral

wowowowow.
You're an idiot and here's why:
If by 'his early stuff' you mean The College Dropout, then you must have only listened to the first track We Don't Care, and assumed the rest of the album followed suit. I guess you didn't get to here the ultra-raw Never Let Me Down


Way to jump on the bandwagon to make your 'edgy' opinion sound more credible. The whole album is 'really intense'. Just like Graduation. It doesn't really make sense to like one and not the other. Plus, Monster is the only song on the album where he comes off as only an 'okay' rapper. That track is saved by the guests.

I dig 808s, but it doesn't even compare to his albums other than Late Registration which is admittedly not great. Even the songs where he's joking around he sounds super-passionate. And the there are many tracks on MBDTF that are much more 'beautiful' than 808s (All of The Lights for example).

Bottom Line: 808s isn't nearly as good as his other releases, and saying so is just for the sake of being controversial.

SJP Looks like a boiled horse.

Your opinions suck and mine are still better.
STFU autistic dutch guy. She's delightful and you would too if you had huge fake teeth.

Come on now, are you really going to objectify your own opinion then write off everyone who differs from it as trying to be 'edgy'?

Not everyone, just her. I think it would be interesting to see someone legitimately defend that opinion.

So SJP looks like a boiled horse ànd has huge fake teeth? :D

I didn't make it up though:

Jeremy Clarkson did. And He's always right.

Jeremy Clarkson ain't no Brad Pitt.
And he's wearing brown shoes with a black jacket.

Haha, I don't care ;).
The only thing I turn on my TV for is top gear, actually :D.
Literally

:rofl:

Got to love top gear :)

Top Gear kicks ass

Well that's one helluva posting to start with ;D.
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