February is Music Writer Exercise Month #MWE • Page 59

Really excited for you to hear these five, but as usual I am unfamiliar with most of your list!

 

I believe Copeland is on there because of a tweet of yours if I'm not mistaken. Comparing it to Mario 64.

Every year when I do this I go back through my photos for stuff I screenshotted tweets or quotes about because they sounded cool.

Like when the guitarist for Dr. Feelgood died, the way Stephen Thomas Erlewine tweeted about that record caught my eye, so I saved it and now it's there.

When Ian Tyson died, someone tweeted an excerpt of Warren Zevon saying Northern Journey was the single most influential album on him as a musician, etc.

 

Ha! Yeah that was one of my favorite listens from last year. There was a light snow on the ground, it felt ethereal and calm. Highly recommend reading the Pitchfork Sunday Review on it after your first listen... good context for the music.

I keep a running note on my phone of potential records as I go through the year. Will throw that Ian & Sylvia album on there.

 

Recently tracked down a vinyl copy of Voyageur. What a beautiful album that is.

 

Might as well just stick with this thread. I have a super chaotic month coming up so I’m really hoping I can follow through with listening to everything.

 

Always game for this! List that I've pulled together quickly, going through various other lists - will absolutely take recommendations / suggestions for alternate albums if anybody has any thoughts on the list!

Edit: Not that it matters - but I've changed my list to add in some records I'm more interested in.

1. Patti Labelle - Winner In You
2. Youssou N'Dour - Set
3. Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel
4. Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba - An Evening with Belafonte / Makeba
5. Teddy Pendergrass - TP
6. George Jones - I Am What I Am
7. Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Celia & Johnny
8. Patsy Cline - Showcase
9. Grinderman - Grinderman
10. Barrington Levy - Englishman
11. Burna Boy - African Giant
12. Terri Lyne Carrington - New Standards Vol 1
13. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
14. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
15. Machine Head - The Blackening
16. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
17. Orchestra Baobab – Pirates Choice
18. The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3
    
19. BB King - Live at the Regal
20. Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
21. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong with Love
22. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
23. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
24. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
25. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
26. Roberta Flack - First Take
    
27. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
    
28. Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

 

@George highly recommend New Standards Vol 1. I haven’t listened yet obviously since it’s on my list but it’s an effort spearheaded by Terri Lyne Carrington to make jazz standards more inclusive. One of the more exciting things on my list for sure

 

Loved doing this last year, but of course it starts the week I’m super busy and am not sure if I can commit to it lol will probably try to do it anyway because I love overwhelming myself

 

So many great ones here. I’d usually recommend something other than Belafonte/Makeba but you got a good crash course on him so that record is cool.

I feel like you’ll dig The Koln Concert

I dig that Cruz/Pacheco album. I have not heard a subpar album from Fania yet. Even if that wouldn’t be my single favorite, it’s excellent

 

Off we go! I've got Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball today.

 

Here we go!

 

Shit I don't have my full list together. Doing the debut Songs: Ohia album today

 

Goregous album. Lanois just aced it.

 

Trying to convey as much information as possible in one tweet is actually kind of a fun challenge.

 

It's so lovely. Between Lanois and Larry Mullen, @Matt Chylak was not wrong about the album having some big U2 vibes.

 

She's just such a gifted singer and interpreter that I want to hear her in every setting possible. Trio with two other legends? Yup. Duetting with Gram Parsons? Yep. Slathered in reverb and atmosphere? Yep.

 

I also just wish more country artists made albums that sounded like this. Gimme the lush Daniel Lanois-produced Kacey Musgraves album.

 

Dude, I didn't know what my life was lacking until I read this post. Now an existential sadness has arisen.

 

1. Songs Ohia - Songs: Ohia (Black Tape)
2. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
3. Fishmans - Long Season
4. Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts Piano Solo: LIve in Japan
5. VA - Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990
6. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
7. Bolt Thrower - War Master
8. Casiopea - Mint Jams
9. Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
10. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
11. Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
12. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
13. Fuel - Monuments to Excess
14. Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
15. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
16. Ice Choir - Afar
17. Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem / Gambuh I
18. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
19. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
20. Nico - Desertshore
21. Oval - 94 Diskont
22. Peter Murphy - Deep
23. Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect
24. The Roches - The Roches
25. Rodan - Rusty
26. Roxy Music - Avalon
27. Steely Dan - Gaucho
28. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

 

Haha, I apologize. In general, I wish artists in that space were a little more adventurous with their choices of collaborators. Rather than everyone working with Dave Cobb or Jay Joyce on every album. One of the things I appreciate about Dawes is they've really chosen an interesting array of producers across their catalog, and it's led to some really cool contrasts between their albums. The Blake Mills album sounds completely different from the David Rawlings album, which sounds completely different from the Dave Cobb album.

 

Oh MAN. To hear these two again for the first time.

 

@OhTheWater Have fun with Gaucho, Steely Dan doesn’t miss

 

Perfect record to kick off the month. This put me in such a good mood. So effortlessly bright and a real joy to listen to

 

Maybe I'll do this (as a music writer)

 

Not that you asked and also not to sound like a total broken record but since I know you’re into jazz, check out New Standards Vol 1