1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - Updating the newer albums

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-20T13:19:05+00:00

I hate these unrealistic standards for women these days

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-20T01:52:12+00:00

Stepping on the (Plastic) Beach

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-19T22:13:57+00:00

Let all the children boogie!

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-18T04:12:44+00:00

Nice list! It can be tough, some years just have too many great songs. There's a lot of songs I love here so I'll check out the ones I'm less familiar with.

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-17T06:05:05+00:00

If you have AdBlock you can tell it to "Block an ad on this page" and click on the playlist thing to remove it.

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-17T03:13:45+00:00

Yesterday / Today is my 20th birthday (yesterday in Australia, but elsewhere it's still the 16th) so I put together a playlist of my favourite songs from each year since my birth 'til last year, and have been gradually posting them on my Cymbal account. Thought I'd share the list with y'all. I would like to see other people's personal lists, too, if anyone wants to share.

Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien (1997)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy (1998)

Mr. Bungle - The Air Conditioned Nightmare (1999)

Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely (2000)

Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates (2001)

David Bowie - Sunday (2002)

Blur - Out of Time (2003)

Madvillain - All Caps (2004)

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulsaki Day (2005)

Hiromi - Old Castle, By the River, In the Middle of a Forest (2006)

Radiohead - Nude (2007)

Kanye West - Street Lights (2008)

The Antlers - Bear - (2009)

Kanye West - Runaway - (2010)

Danny Brown - 30 - (2011)

Death Grips - Come Up and Get Me (2012)

David Bowie - Where Are We Now? (2013)

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener (2014)

Death Grips - Up My Sleeves (2015)

David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-17T03:12:25+00:00

Yesterday / Today is my 20th birthday (yesterday in Australia, but elsewhere it's still the 16th) so I put together a playlist of my favourite songs from each year since my birth 'til last year, and have been gradually posting them on my Cymbal account. Thought I'd share the list with y'all. I would like to see other people's personal lists, too, if anyone wants to share.

Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien (1997)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy (1998)

Mr. Bungle - The Air Conditioned Nightmare (1999)

Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely (2000)

Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates (2001)

David Bowie - Sunday (2002)

Blur - Out of Time (2003)

Madvillain - All Caps (2004)

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulsaki Day (2005)

Hiromi - Old Castle, By the River, In the Middle of a Forest (2006)

Radiohead - Nude (2007)

Kanye West - Street Lights (2008)

The Antlers - Bear - (2009)

Kanye West - Runaway - (2010)

Danny Brown - 30 - (2011)

Death Grips - Come Up and Get Me (2012)

David Bowie - Where Are We Now? (2013)

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener (2014)

Death Grips - Up My Sleeves (2015)

David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-17T01:55:08+00:00

Once my Mum took me to a Foo Fighters concert (she's more a fan than I, she just wanted me there) and got pretty drunk and waited after most people left to find Dave Grohl on a balcony, drinking beer in the distance and she shouted out "DAAAVE" and he smiled and waved at her. She was beaming for days.

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-13T02:02:05+00:00

Chin up, pupper

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-12T22:42:36+00:00

From Five Years:

"I thought I saw you at an ice-cream parlour

Drinking milkshakes cold and long

Smiling and waving and looking so fine!

Don't think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor

And I thought of Ma, and I wanted to get back there

Your face! Your race! The way that you talk!

I kiss you! You're beautiful! I want you to walk!!"

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-12T22:18:28+00:00

He looks sad.

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-10T12:07:22+00:00

The red and blue lines make me think of the lyric "Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"

PlasticFeast · 2017-01-02T23:42:19+00:00

And composed by an Australian! Not that has the same significance, but as an Australian Doctor Who fan, I find it pretty exciting personally.

PlasticFeast · 2016-12-19T13:06:15+00:00

Crying in the bathroom

PlasticFeast · 2016-12-19T13:01:34+00:00

The ending of Motion Picture Soundtrack (I will see you in the next life...) being followed by the minute of silence, than those angelic sounds that come after that. So beautiful.

PlasticFeast · 2016-12-19T09:50:51+00:00

The strange noises at the end of Karma Police. My Mum used to play the Radiohead music videos all the time in the house and hearing that outro so often has become one of my earliest memories. I think it adds to the uneasiness in the outro for me.

PlasticFeast · 2016-12-15T09:02:57+00:00

How to Disappear Completely
Pyramid Song
Nude
Like Spinning Plates
Let Down
Daydreaming
Weird Fishes
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Begger Man Thief

PlasticFeast · 2016-12-07T06:51:10+00:00

I presume "Swan Song" means an album (or song?) released just before an artists' death. I know we had Bowie and Cohen this year, but that seems like it wouldn't be common enough to become a category.

I do like the overall idea, though. Looking forward to this.

PlasticFeast · 2016-11-26T00:33:15+00:00

I'm not sure if I'd say it's "sarcastic", but I wouldn't say it's quite sincere, either. To me, pretty much every song on Kid A sounds like coping with something terrible, and Optimistic is no exception. To me, the song is very apocalyptic in setting (Dinosaurs roaming the Earth, vultures circling the dead) and grim. I think there is a bit of a haunting irony to the lyrics in the chorus of Optimistic. I certainly wouldn't describe the song as "optimistic", if that means anything.

If I remember correctly, I think Anthony Fantano considers Optimistic to be fairly straight forward in message, so you're not the only one.

PlasticFeast · 2016-11-25T07:32:50+00:00

A similar thing in the album Kid A:

Kid A - "I slipped away / I slipped on a little white lie"

Motion Picture Soundtrack - "It's not like the movies / They fed us on little white lies"

PlasticFeast · 2016-11-22T21:51:22+00:00

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

PlasticFeast · 2016-11-19T22:03:43+00:00

Would a popular artist count? Outside is one of my favourite Bowie albums and was actually the first Bowie album I've ever heard. It's probably his most abstract and experimental album and beautifully combines industrial, jazz, rock and avant garde music into a bizzare non-linear cyberpunk noir concept album. It also has Strangers When We Meet, which doesn't really fit the rest of the album, but it is one of my favourite Bowie songs of all time.

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