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Mar 08, 2004 12:00 a.m. - KINGBLIND: Music, Art & Entertainment
The Kingblind Top 100 Essential Records of all time (Week 3 of 10)
Ok, Here are the rules... Kingblind get their writers and friends to pick 10 records that are essential to their collection. (Kingblind will post in blocks of 10 until 100 is reached)
1. If someone else has one of the records in their selection you CANNOT pick it. Find another gem for the list.. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED!
2. Here is what is NOT allowed in the Top 100 (We are assuming that our fine readers are smart enough to have these records in their collection already.)
NO Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones, Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Who, Stooges, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Sonic Youth, Dylan, Nirvana.
Obviously the point of this is to turn you fine folks onto some great music that you might not have heard before. Every week (on Monday) we will add a new chunk from a new writer until 100 is reached. ENJOY!!
Please welcome our 3rd week of selections (30 of 100) from Chris Deal (Sydney, Australia)
Sebadoh - Bakesale
This was my introduction to the concept of Lo-Fi indie rock, and ten years later few albums in the genre have come close to topping it. I chanced upon it at an indie-pop club back in ’94 called Underground Radio where all the keen beans who arrived at the start of the night were given free CDs. Having never even heard the name Sebadoh or how even to pronounce it, I took it home and thought it was the roughest, most haphazard, under produced thing I’d ever heard. And after ten years that’s still what I love about it. Lou, Jase, Bob... gold.
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
There was a magical period between the dying days of the eighties and the start of the Hammer pant wearing nineties when hip hop was just starting to emerge from being an underground novelty to a driving force. Brand Nubian, Gang Starr, Organized Konfusion; but at the top of the pile for me were A Tribe Called Quest. They’d cut their teeth on their debut "People’s Instinctive Travels...", but "The Low End Theory" propelled them into the untouchable zone. It’s wall to wall classic hip hop with not even an ounce of fat. Unless you spell fat with a "p" I spose.
Ken Stringfellow - Touched
I kind of missed The Posies in the early 90s Geffen fest, and it wasn’t until 2001 that I fell in love with perhaps their best work "Frosting On The Beater". Though working as a Lennon/McCartney type double act, it was clear that the songwriting skills and vocal mastery of Ken Stringfellow was the real hook for me. His second solo album "Touched" is an amazing collection of both heart warming and hankie drenching songs that only get better the more you listen to them. I buy this for everyone I know and try to meet new people to buy it for.
Pedro The Lion - It’s Hard To Find A Friend
David Bazan is a novelist trapped in the body of a musician. Every song he writes is a skillfully crafted story with great meaning, poetry, and often a very very black sense of humor. Currently working on his fourth studio LP, this his first effort is an under rated masterpiece. It pisses me off that not enough people know about this band. And also that I live in Australia and know he’ll never come out here.
Darren Hanlon - Early Days
For Australians, probably the worst thing that can happen to you is when our media export an eccentric outback caricature like Crocodile Dundee or Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin, and forever more you have to try and shake off the image that we all wear khaki shorts, catch lifts to work on kangaroos, and walk around all day saying G’ day mate. Streuth it’s hot. Crikey mate!? It’s called cultural cringe and we HATE IT. But then someone comes along who still manages to capture the comedic ockerisms of Australian life, the quirks and the values and the subtle mannerisms, yet does it in a way that both takes the piss and upholds it as something to be proud of. This ladies and gentlemen, is the work of Darren Hanlon. "Early Days" is his first EP, a seven song mini-album that makes me weep with joy that someone could create something with perfect melody, brilliant chord progressions, fiercely intelligent lyrics, all under the banner of Oz. Russell Crowe, take your guitar and grunt it 30 odd foot up you know where.
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
I put this on the list as it represents a turning point in music for me and maybe a few others. It’s all about context. Back in 88 or 89 or whenever this came out, I was a humble 13 year old kid largely unimpressed with all my mates who thought U2 and INXS were the be all and end all of music. Enter my slightly left of centre friend with a cassette walkman in his hands and the words "have a fucking listen to this" in his mouth. "Straight Outta Compton crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube, from a gang called Niggers With Attitudes...". Nothing was the same ever again. And damn it, the beats and rhymes still kick ass.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
I don’t give a shit, I like middle of the road FM gold music. I’ll listen to James Taylor or America any day and turn it UP when I stop at the lights. And it don’t get no better than "Rumors". This is a greatest hits collection in one album. When you listen to this you get the sense that God himself was bankrolling this one. Second Hand News, Go Your Own Way, The Chain, Dreams; doesn’t even matter if The Corrs go and bland-erdise it, it only serves to highlight the brilliance of the original. That said, Mick Fleetwood is a shit drummer.
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
Punk Music. Or to be more specific, modern punk music. Let’s not mince words, it’s pretty much all the same shit sung by the same people to the same people. Nothing to say, no words to say it with, but determined to fill in one and a half minutes with "you don’t understand me why don’t you just leave me alone blah blah expletive expletive". But one band who constantly fight the system that’s fighting against the system is Canada’s Propagandhi. They’re vegans, anti-facist, anti-racist, gay-positive; they’re extremely well read and manage to get their message across with the same comedic gusto that Michael Moore does with The Awful Truth. "Less Talk, More Rock" is their second album and is 25 mins 21 seconds of punk perfection. Inspiring in so many ways.
You Am I - Hi Fi Way
This album is widely considered to be one of the best Australian albums of all time. In the summer of 1994, You Am I’s "Hi Fi Way" was on everyone’s stereo down here. If you haven’t heard it, it’s pretty much a straight up rock record with a twist of indie-pop produced by Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, and was predicted to be the big break for You Am I into the States. For some reason it was never really the juggernaut for them that everyone thought, but what remains should be enough to make songwriter Tim Rogers a proud man for the rest of his days.
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
I love it when you meet someone and when you mention that you haven’t heard of X band their jaw drops and they thrust a tape into your hands and say "JUST TAKE THIS NOW!" This was how I came to know Sparklehorse. Even though it’s probably one of the STUPIDEST album names ever (that Fiona Apple one "When the pawn blah blah whatever" takes the checkered flag on that one), it’s out on a class of it’s own when it comes to the beauty and diversity of songwriting. It’s got pop, it’s got country, it’s got ballads, it’s got everything. And your mum will like it too.
Chris Deal lives in the lower north shore of Sydney Australia, in a mud brick lean-to he shares with Yahoo Serious and Russell Crowe. Like most Australians he is on a first name basis with the Prime Minister, who he affectionately calls "Prime Minister", and travels to his job at a publishing company in the pouch of a kangaroo named Skippy. He has done time as guitarist in mildly successful Sydney band Faker, spends far too much time online playing with Poisoned and iTunes, has been published as a writer many times, but has never been more proud than he is right now to be writing for Kingblind.
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