best rock album of the 21st century (so far)?
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Thanks! Though makes me feel old?shedshrine wrote:Merry happy joyjoy day in advance Kslight. Which Dirty Little Rabbit is your biz partner?
And Variable, no offense taken!
I was just acknowledging I probably wouldn't have much more to offer this thread, so..
The big guy on the skins I've known forever, I work on a lot of his projects.. You've probably heard of his main gig before?
Yah, he's actually a drummer first. Though of course, its not what made him famous.variableD wrote:Ah. Just assumed guitar. Didn't know he played drums. But yeah, I'd expect any band with JW in it would be heavily blues-based, whether he's playing guitar, drums or flugelhorn.kslight wrote:He's on drums.
Love his kit, and I think he's a pretty good player too..
Me, I gotta kinda thing for Alison Mosshart - The Kills are pretty good, too, and she does a star turn on the last Gang of Four, whose last two albums are excellent.
Jack White's record with Loretta Lynn is worth looking up, also.
As far as something innovative, some of the Black Dub record (Trixie Whitley, Brian Blade, Daryl Johnson and leader, Daniel Lanois) is quite original.
I work with a jazzer outta London, UK who constantly tells me, "Rock is dead". I mean, we record together and he tells me that, but he kinda means it.
As far as, "earth-shattering, foundational masterpieces? Something that redefines rock as we know it"? I got nothin'. Mebbe Chris Cornell's Scream?
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Jack White's record with Loretta Lynn is worth looking up, also.
As far as something innovative, some of the Black Dub record (Trixie Whitley, Brian Blade, Daryl Johnson and leader, Daniel Lanois) is quite original.
I work with a jazzer outta London, UK who constantly tells me, "Rock is dead". I mean, we record together and he tells me that, but he kinda means it.
As far as, "earth-shattering, foundational masterpieces? Something that redefines rock as we know it"? I got nothin'. Mebbe Chris Cornell's Scream?
shedshrine: I'm buyin'!
I've been listening to a ton of music lately that's new to me... only a handful have been from this century, but so far the one I like best that was made since 2000 is Blut Aus Nord's "The Work that Transforms God" (2003). I don't know if it's foundational or a masterpiece, but it's really good. I'm not a metal head either, though I do like some metal.
This is a good one! I like "Mort" better, but that period of his music ("Odinist", too) is phenomenal all around.variableD wrote:I've been listening to a ton of music lately that's new to me... only a handful have been from this century, but so far the one I like best that was made since 2000 is Blut Aus Nord's "The Work that Transforms God" (2003). I don't know if it's foundational or a masterpiece, but it's really good. I'm not a metal head either, though I do like some metal.
My pick for best of the century thus far would be Corrupted's Garten der Unbewusstheit, but I think it's more a personal choice than one based on their influence or originality.
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Don't take "redefine" quite so literally. I mean records that changed the landscape, that set a new standard or a new direction.
The cliche examples from the old century are Sgt. Pepper's and Dark Side of the Moon. Others (arguably) might be King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), Black Sabbath (1970), Nirvana's Nevermind (1991), Jimi's Are You Experienced (1967), Van Halen (1978), Slint's Spiderland (1991).
The kind of thing that made a lot of musicians say, "oh shit... I can't keep doing what I've been doing... it sounds RIDICULOUS now". Or conversely, "Holy shit, this is awesome! I want to do something like that".
The cliche examples from the old century are Sgt. Pepper's and Dark Side of the Moon. Others (arguably) might be King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), Black Sabbath (1970), Nirvana's Nevermind (1991), Jimi's Are You Experienced (1967), Van Halen (1978), Slint's Spiderland (1991).
The kind of thing that made a lot of musicians say, "oh shit... I can't keep doing what I've been doing... it sounds RIDICULOUS now". Or conversely, "Holy shit, this is awesome! I want to do something like that".
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