25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

**Janszoon** · 02-15-2013, 08:15 PM

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Just finished listening to the Land of the Loops album - fantastic stuff and I'm actually annoyed at myself for never trying them out sooner! Thanks for the recommendation!

Nice! I'm kind of excited by how many people seem to have been introduced to his stuff from my little review. He's definitely an underrated guy.

TboneFrank · 02-15-2013, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

No, from what I've read it was a 19th century water tower. Why would it be obvious that it was early 20th century?

Yes. I believe I said that in the review. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Like I mentioned in the review, it was recorded in 1990, so I guess that would make it 78 years after the sinking.

The full album is about an hour long.

Glad you liked it!

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No, from what I've read it was a 19th century water tower. Why would it be obvious that it was early 20th century?

Yes. I believe I said that in the review. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Like I mentioned in the review, it was recorded in 1990, so I guess that would make it 78 years after the sinking.

The full album is about an hour long.

Glad you liked it!

DOH!...it should have been clear from my first reading. I guess I got a lazy eye reading it while I was trying to concentrate on the music. Dumb idea.

Already listened to it again in a dark room without any distractions. I'd assume the rest of the album is as moody blue as the posted track to keep to the theme. Trying to determine if this falls into jazz-classical or ambient music. I guess ambient music came out of jazz forms that bands like Weather Report and Return To Forever were experimenting with in the early 70's. Not really keen of the evolution of music like this but it is the most interesting recommendation I've heard on this site so far and really suits the thread theme. Kudos

TboneFrank · 02-15-2013, 10:42 PM

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Released in 1996 by Boston-area loop dude Alan Sutherland, this little gem of an album has never really received the recognition it deserves in my personal opinion.

Came in on the last thread and was introduced to that awesome Titanic track and had to check out this thread from the beginning. And lo and behold there was Janszoon again.

Now I know what this thread is about and looks like I'm gonna spend some time checking out this labor of love project you did Janszoon. Thanks for the great effort to expose some of us out here that don't readily get access to this stuff.

Really fun and pleasurable song. Makes you want to hear more. Love the kids sampling on this track especially. We don't get enough of childrens voices in popular music. The only time I got anything similar to that cute kids sound on a rock album was The Clash's production of Career Opportunities on Sandinista. I never get tired of it. It's actually better than sampling kids voices because they were an actual kids choir. I could have listened to a whole album of them doing Clash covers.

Doubt if I would have Sandinista on my list of 25 albums you had to hear before that meteor hits us but if I had 25 songs I'd put that one on it.

For those who never got the 'pulling-at-your-heart-strings' pleasure of hearing it:

**Janszoon** · 02-15-2013, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TboneFrank

Came in on the last thread and was introduced to that awesome Titanic track and had to check out this thread from the beginning. And lo and behold there was Janszoon again.

Now I know what this thread is about and looks like I'm gonna spend some time checking out this labor of love project you did Janszoon. Thanks for the great effort to expose some of us out here that don't readily get access to this stuff.

Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback.

I have two other journals if you're interested: http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...sible-man.html and http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ime-place.html

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Really fun and pleasurable song. Makes you want to hear more. Love the kids sampling on this track especially. We don't get enough of childrens voices in popular music. The only time I got anything similar to that cute kids sound on a rock album was The Clash's production of Career Opportunities on Sandinista. I never get tired of it. It's actually better than sampling kids voices because they were an actual kids choir. I could have listened to a whole album of them doing Clash covers.

Doubt if I would have Sandinista on my list of 25 albums you had to hear before that meteor hits us but if I had 25 songs I'd put that one on it.

For those who never got the 'pulling-at-your-heart-strings' pleasure of hearing it:

Thank you so much for posting this because you just made me realize I don't have Sandinista! I thought I did for some reason. Definitely need to rectify that.

TboneFrank · 02-17-2013, 03:33 PM

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This truly is an amazing album that makes me want to throw down and party every time I hear it. And—most amazingly for such a raw, wild and wooly kind of an album—it really rewards multiple listens.

Reminds me of my ol' days as a punk rocker in San Francisco and San Luis Obispo in the 80's. I threw in my bloody towel on punk rock after the police riot at the Dead Kennedy's show in '86 in San Luis Obispo. It was the final wake up call for me to move on with my life while I was still in one piece.

The only punk rock I still care to listen to these days is The Clash, The Jam, The Ramones, Sex Pistols and Green Day with other songs I pick and chose periodically off Youtube for nostalgia's sake. I'm 50 and I'm not ashamed to still be listening to this s**t while most around me tell me to turn it down...just like in the old days.

TboneFrank · 02-17-2013, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

20. Boris Kovač & LaDaABa Orchest—Ballads at the End of Time (2003)

On the reverse side of the coin from Love of Life is this album by Serbian composer and bandleader Boris Kovač. Returning home after years spent living abroad in various parts of Europe during the civil war, he formed La Danza Apocalyptica Balcanica (LaDaABa) Orchest and wrote this album "to exorcise the madness of war". If ever there was an album you'd expect to be weighty and depressing it's this one, but surprisingly it really isn't. There are some shadowy valleys here but mostly it's warmth and sunlight.

The style of music is pretty unique, yet somehow also as pleasantly familiar as an old winter coat. It's fairly jazzy, with a very noticeable presence of tango and a whiff of classical, but hovering over everything is a sensibility that I would describe as distinctly Balkan. It has that great minor-key yet upbeat thing going on that makes a lot of music I've heard from this region seem so very bittersweet. And though this is essentially instrumental music, when voices do occasionally make themselves known, they merge so seamlessly with the other instruments that the whole thing feels like one big organic mass.

As I've mentioned in my previous reviews, different people will react to the end of the world differently. Some with anger or despair, many with aggressive denial. What this album seems to be saying though, is maybe there's another way to look at things: Maybe you can face reality as it is—acknowledging the horror and tragedy—but also, at the same time, recognizing that this universe is still a place of wonder and of beauty.

This song reminds me of the Godfather soundtrack. The best of the first 6 tracks of the countdown so far for me. Like #25 it makes me want to listen to the rest of the album. I traveled through Serbia when it was still part of Yugoslavia back in '76. All I remember at that age (13) was freshly butchered animals being roasted, freshly baked bread being broken at every table, homemade wine coming from every cellar and someone always seeming to show up playing a button box.

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I'm glad I didn't sound like too much of a ignoramus talking about a place I've never been to.

You can tell a lot about a place from it's music. The environment I feel when I listen to this track is what I felt when I traveled through much of rural Yugoslavia (now Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia). Whether the music still reflects a rural Serbia that still exits today I don't know...I just remember what it was like 40 years ago.

TboneFrank · 02-20-2013, 12:41 AM

Looks like I'm the only one going through this thread at the moment. I decided not to post so many times so I just went through the next 10 on the list and combined all my thoughts when I had some. I'm really enjoying your well thought out thread Janszoon. Something I wish I had time to do. Wish I could listen to all the albums right here because most of them really connect with music I've enjoyed my whole life.

18: Harry Nilsson / The Point - I've always heard of Nilsson but never had a chance to listen to him. I was familiar with this song tho. Wasn't it used as a jingle in a Plymouth Arrow commercial?

Sounds like an album I could enjoy on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

17: Sons of Otis / Spacejumbofudge. - This band reminds me of Laibach, a Slovenian industrial/neo-classical band from the 80’s that my cousin from Yugoslavia got me into back then. I never thought of listening to them again until I listened to these tracks but I’d have to hook up my tape deck which is too much of a hassle. Seeing how easy it was to find some Sons of Otis online I’ll have to see if I can find stuff from a more obscure band like Laibach.

16: Lodger / Hi-FI… - Catchy tracks from a catchy album I’d assume. I couldn’t take my eyes off the funny stick figure animations accompanying the songs. I ended up spending all afternoon linking to Youtube animation shorts at the end of the videos..

14: Latin Playboys / s/t - I'm not into latin flavored music other than bossa nova and early Santana and War, but I did recognize the name David Hidalgo from somewhere so I listened. When you mentioned Los Lobos it dawned on me that he played the accordion on every track of Bob Dylan's Together Through Life giving that album a unique sound. The guy is a very versatile musician. He also plays accordion, guitar, mandolin and violin on Dylan's weird Christmas In The Heart album and his current Tempest album. And this band according to wikipedia is all over the genre map...Latin rock, Chicano rock, Blues rock, Experimental rock, Tex-Mex, Neo-Psychedelia. Whoa!. This album is definitely one I'll need to check out.

13: Alabama 3 / Exile on Coldharbour Lane - I love the way the album title and cover is a play on the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. Always thought Woke Up This Morning was one of the best songs ever chosen for a tv show. It has that awesome Leonard Cohen coolness about it. The two tracks I heard here are the only other songs I've heard from this band and they lived up to “that Sopranos’ song”. Covering John Prine also gives them a lot of cred in my book. Another album to put on my wish list to check out.

11: Electric Wizard / Witchcult Today - The track link was blocked so I did a Youtube search and actually listened all the way through an 11 minute live Witchcult Today. Not bad. I was into metal in the late 70's and 80's and while being on this site I seem to be re-discovering it through well-crafted threads like yours.

I look forward to the next and last 9 albums on your descent to armageddon.

**Janszoon** · 02-20-2013, 06:44 PM

Thanks Frank! I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying the list so much!

CLOSER · 03-06-2013, 11:25 PM

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25. Land of the Loops—Bundle of Joy (1996)

I've been looking for more appropriate songs to listen to on the lazy rainy days. This is it!!

Engine · 06-22-2013, 02:55 PM

02-20-2013, 12:41 AM	#187 (permalink)
TboneFrank Groupie Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: sacramento Posts: 50	Looks like I'm the only one going through this thread at the moment. I decided not to post so many times so I just went through the next 10 on the list and combined all my thoughts when I had some. I'm really enjoying your well thought out thread Janszoon. Something I wish I had time to do. Wish I could listen to all the albums right here because most of them really connect with music I've enjoyed my whole life. 18: Harry Nilsson / The Point - I've always heard of Nilsson but never had a chance to listen to him. I was familiar with this song tho. Wasn't it used as a jingle in a Plymouth Arrow commercial? Sounds like an album I could enjoy on a lazy Sunday afternoon. 17: Sons of Otis / Spacejumbofudge. - This band reminds me of Laibach, a Slovenian industrial/neo-classical band from the 80’s that my cousin from Yugoslavia got me into back then. I never thought of listening to them again until I listened to these tracks but I’d have to hook up my tape deck which is too much of a hassle. Seeing how easy it was to find some Sons of Otis online I’ll have to see if I can find stuff from a more obscure band like Laibach. 16: Lodger / Hi-FI… - Catchy tracks from a catchy album I’d assume. I couldn’t take my eyes off the funny stick figure animations accompanying the songs. I ended up spending all afternoon linking to Youtube animation shorts at the end of the videos.. 14: Latin Playboys / s/t - I'm not into latin flavored music other than bossa nova and early Santana and War, but I did recognize the name David Hidalgo from somewhere so I listened. When you mentioned Los Lobos it dawned on me that he played the accordion on every track of Bob Dylan's Together Through Life giving that album a unique sound. The guy is a very versatile musician. He also plays accordion, guitar, mandolin and violin on Dylan's weird Christmas In The Heart album and his current Tempest album. And this band according to wikipedia is all over the genre map...Latin rock, Chicano rock, Blues rock, Experimental rock, Tex-Mex, Neo-Psychedelia. Whoa!. This album is definitely one I'll need to check out. 13: Alabama 3 / Exile on Coldharbour Lane - I love the way the album title and cover is a play on the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. Always thought Woke Up This Morning was one of the best songs ever chosen for a tv show. It has that awesome Leonard Cohen coolness about it. The two tracks I heard here are the only other songs I've heard from this band and they lived up to “that Sopranos’ song”. Covering John Prine also gives them a lot of cred in my book. Another album to put on my wish list to check out. 11: Electric Wizard / Witchcult Today - The track link was blocked so I did a Youtube search and actually listened all the way through an 11 minute live Witchcult Today. Not bad. I was into metal in the late 70's and 80's and while being on this site I seem to be re-discovering it through well-crafted threads like yours. I look forward to the next and last 9 albums on your descent to armageddon. Last edited by TboneFrank; 02-20-2013 at 12:06 PM.

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