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Check out Nicole Dollanganger. "Coma Baby" and "Hair Locket". Raw and haunting.
This works for a single authored list like this, which I like more than lumping a bunch of stuff together (ahem...). I still think Pitchfork.com is stupid for using it with 100's of authors. And...Brazil!!! I love it, but wow! I can't remember how great Possession was, only how crazy it got as it progressed. I still don't understand the greatness behind NBK or Blow-Up, but I have Mallrats and Dazed and Confused up as high. It's nice to see Color of paradise high too. End slightly random transmission of thoughts.
:) Haha, yeah i guess i am in the mood...and since i am, he is an ultimate hypocrite: he hated and lampooned "the man" bringing people down and he was the ultimate "man" in his music business; a ruthless businessman who left numerous people out to dry, usually for ego sake. But, but, but, but, Beefheart was a sadistic maniac, Dylan was nothing more than a songwriter/performer (Elvis, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie), Lou Reed was a maniacal vortex of hypocrisy, uhmmm, everyone is a hypocrite in some way. I am probably a HUGE one, or maybe that is vanity, maybe i am just an average hypocrite.... None of that should take away from what they did, even if they didn't do nearly what people think they did, Beefheart's albums were as much the Magic Band as the Captain's (John French, Bill Harkleroad, etc.).
Scaruffi: no, he is all over the map on that, though very consistent with being all over the map.
Zappa: I still LOVE, all those tracks i mentioned above, plus, "Hungry freaks", "Help, I'm a rock", "Dog breath", "King kong", "Willie", "Yellow snow", "Black Napkins"...and the other bands who i said were robotic. They are the other end of the spectrum. And, listening to his 70s stuff, i cannot figure out why he is not talked about for being a better guitarist; not THE greatest, but top 30ish maybe.
Zappa 2: he came in the discussion on my whim, sorry. I just finished the new documentary about his early record labels. Have come across as colder and colder to me over the last 6 months or so.
It may be, i really don't know, or i am selectively forgetting. He is just a kid playing with the knobs, as is everyone else, but doesn't transcend that but merely exacerbates it. He was always more of a robot (a plastic people) rather than the human; a pseudo-intellectual, which is brilliant on "Brown shoes don't make it", "Wowie zowie", "Concentration moon", and "What's the ugliest part of your body".
Actually, he becomes a human when he shut up and played his guitar on "Willie the pimp", the track that keeps him a great guitarist.
"No emotional connection" -- I was going to ask another friend (a Scaruffi nut) who is a Zappa nut about the emotional content of Zappa's work. I watched the new DVD From Bizarre to Straight and relistened to his 60s stuff (still gotta get through the highlights of 70s and 80s) and I downgraded everything of his. Even Absolutely Free dropped off the list of "must have/masterpiece" albums (Brown Shoes is still as good as anything anyone else has ever done), but only Uncle Meat is left and that is because of the consistent potency of intellectualism; it still lacks the emotional content of Flipper or Hendrix.
So...do you have a tremendous emotional connection to Zappa's work?
I only find it intellectually stimulating. I still like/love other albums that do not have the overt emotionality of Flipper (which spills over and gets all messy) like The Ex, Henry Cow (?maybe), (Zappa: Uncle Meat), Tobin, etc. but they register so high on the intellectual scale (for now) that they overcome their deficiency.
O, wtf, no Lemon of pink, Tobin, Toby Driver/Kayo Dot, Xiu Xiu, JOANNA!!!?
Wow, you found an album that i haven't heard: New slaves. What do you think of the latter half of Blueberry Boat (tracks 8-13)?
What do you think of Shackleton? Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs? I could do without the random noise bursts of political etc. announcements. That is electronic music that i can get behind. Not a fan of dubstep (Burial, Blake), though the few obvious dubsteop tracks on Shackleton's compilation Fabric 55 were pretty good.
If you like the high school/college coming of age comedy, then it is a masterpiece. It is really great for an American teenager, which is when I saw it and it has stuck with me like only A Day at the Races has. Enjoy!
Well, here is 10, though my top 30ish is as solid as my top 10 and they are are fairly interchangeable on the right day.
1. Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
2. Alfred Hitchcock: North By Northwest (1959)
3. Richard Linklater: Dazed And Confused (1993)
4. Orson Welles: Touch Of Evil (1958)
5. Ingmar Bergman: Persona (1966)
6. Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. Woody Allen: Annie Hall (1977)
8. The Marx Brothers: A Day at the Races (1935)
9. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
10. Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru [To Live] (1952)
Borges's On Exactitude of Science (and Carroll) reminds me of the film's expansion paradox. Any others?
That sucks. Based on how Mollom is described we should earn respect/privileges...oh well.
wow, captcha triggers need to change. I plead ignorance, is there any way to get rid of it for the particular users?
Only for Varese because I know the specific release, the others I forgot to put on there when I originally listed them and now I don't know them. If I know of a particular performance, I do list it (there are a few in my music log--though I forgot the one for Liszt's S139). Also, I rarely listen to multiple performances of a work, so I wouldn't have a preference. I assumed SupremeTaste would know by listing so many works without a primary release by the artist.
I don't get depressed from it either. I thought it was a overwhelmingly depressing film and didn't see any profound joy/happiness/optimism etc. in it.