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[slipjig3]

mac_arthur_park asks: Tell me five albums I shouldn't continue to live without.

I'm on it:

1) World of Monsters, The Drovers I've been throwing this one at anyone who doesn't duck fast enough for the past...gads, has it really been fifteen years? The Drovers were the best live band I have ever seen, bar none; more miraculously, they managed to carry over that energy to disc format. Best of all, they're now offering it for free right over here. Go listen. No, I mean right now. We'll wait.

2) Recovery, Runrig Early 80's stadium anthem rock in Scots Gaelic. Yeah, exactly. For eons, it was only available in the UK, and not even very widely so there. Thank God for the Intarwebs!

3) Unhalfbricking,, Fairport Convention Greatest Album Ever Recorded. Full stop.

4) The Old Kit Bag, Richard Thompson Well, really, anything by Richard Thompson will do, but this album's the one that allowed him to break free of his overproduction addiction, and the stripped-down sounds does him a world of wonder. (One minor gripe: His guitar solos are mildly less incendiary here than usual. Hell with it: buy the whole back catalog.)

5) To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey The finest bad-day, car-moshing-and-screaming-along CD I've encountered. I think I'll be cranking this up around 4 a.m.


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Comments

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

Adam, I am sad. I've not heard any music by any of those five artists. And most of them I haven't even heard of.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I can still make you a mix....

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

You have been saying that since Thanksgiving, and I don't see a mix anywhere near my CD player.

:P

[mirrored-echo.livejournal.com]

You are quite welcome! :)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*beams*

[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's gardenfey. The amethysta was taken when I joined LJ, and she's some girl from Italy. But she can't stop me from being Amethysta in the SCA, Ha!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Gack! I'm an idiot. Thank you so much, hon! *hugses*

[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

Idiot, no. Lack of information, yes.

You're welcome.

[excursively.livejournal.com]

PJ Harvey... yum. That's an amazing album.

What was that track that came on in the diner last eve? Comment was something like "the only place I hear them is in our car..." I repeated it a few times in hope of remembering it, but alas...

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

The band was the Be Good Tanyas; the track was their cover of "The House of New Orleans," off their amazing album Chinatown. We can get you a copy if you like.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry, make that "House of the Rising Sun."