February is Music Writer Exercise Month #MWE • Page 42

Some of my favorites from doing this last year if anyone needs some more rec's

- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
- The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
- Talking Heads - Remain In Light

 

maybe i will add this to mine

 

do The Blueprint!

 

Ok, let's go.

 

CHROMA!!!!

 

Kind of can't believe I haven't heard that one.

 

Same. It’s the album I bought the night my first girlfriend and I broke up, haha.

 

Ooof! A legendary role for any album to play.

 

I’ll be very interested in your thoughts. Some of my most favorite pop rock ever. Will is so great.

 

Oh my god. Some of my favs on here. Very curious what you’ll think of weakerthans, rilo kiley, and braid

 

I wouldn't have guessed!

I've heard bits and pieces of all three of those bands, enough to know they are probably all safe bets on me enjoying these albums. Looking forward to hearing them.

 

I am very pumped about many of these selections. Haha

 

A good number are recs from you, in some form or another!

 

I've heard 23/28 and literally all of them I'm enthusiastic to see what you think. I also like Rilo Kiley a lot but haven't heard that particular album yet.

 

"Honestly" is just an absolutely perfect pop song.

 

i've heard half of the choices

what went into choosing that waterboys record? i'd say fisherman's blues is thee waterboys album

 

I think I'm done tinkering:

1. Eddie Palmieri - Justicia
2. Andy Pratt - Andy Pratt
3. Roberta Flack - First Take
4. The Bar-Kays - Coldblooded
5. Madi Diaz - History of a Feeling
6. Winterhawk - Electric Warriors
7. Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire
8. Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow
9. Shaun Cassidy - Shaun Cassidy
10. M.I.A. - Kala
11. Chloe Moriondo - Blood Bunny
12. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
13. The Blue Ridge Rangers - The Blue Ridge Rangers
14. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
15. New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
16. The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
17. The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin - The Inner Mounting Flame
18. Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
19. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
20. Frank Sinatra - Watertown
21. Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
22. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
23. The Yellowjackets - Mirage a Trois
24. A.R. Rahman - Dil Se...
25. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
26. Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps - Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
27. Laura Nyro and Labelle - Gonna Take a Miracle
28. Arthur Russell - World of Echo

 

the grays! hell yeah!!

have heard 9 of those

 

That was a @Matt Chylak rec in this very thread!

I think I’ve only heard the ones I recommended to you!

 

Wow, very excited to read your thoughts on Left & Leaving

 

What’s the best Can album?

 

ege bamyasi, it’s so good!

 

Let's do this quickly. Tried to line up a bit with the years in music threads (have probably managed to miscalculate somehow), plus random recs here, and the Definitive Albums made by Women thread. No need to overthink it, and I'm sure mid-way through the month I won't be able to remember why certain albums ended up here!

1. Silver Jews - American Water
2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
4. Winterhawk - Electric Warriors
   
5. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
6. Moby - Play
7. The Waterboys - This is the Sea
8. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
9. New Century Classics - Natural Process
10. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
11. Deftones - White Pony
12. Cat Power - Moon Pix
13. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones in the Road
14. Shovels & Rope - Little Seeds
    
15. Joanna Newsom - Ys
    
16. Opeth - Blackwater Park
17. Frou Frou - Details
    
18. System of a Down - Toxicity
    
19. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
20. Big Thief - Two Hands
21. Haim - Days Are Gone
    
22. Lil Kim - Hardcore
    
23. Beck - Sea Change
24. Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
    
25. Caroline Polachek - Pang
    
26. David Bowie - Heathen
27. Aaliyah - Aaliyah
    
28. Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top

 

i think you’ll like american water and, if you don’t, just don’t tell me lol

also heathen in a pretty interesting bowie album. probably my favorite “late” period career bowie until the final two kind of coda albums to his career

 

Sea Change! There's a happy album.

Also super curious to hear what you think of Play, as I always am when people come to that album years and years removed from its release. It was so rapturously received by critics at the time, but it's kind of viewed as a relic now.