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#ELLIOTT SMITH EITHER OR IPOD FULL#
This album, his band's third, is full of great songs, the right words put together in surprising order, and often lovely arrangements. He coos these words over his own often lush melodies. He writes everyday poetry of failed love and struggling relationships, of nostalgic recollection and quiet passion, and has an ear for an arresting line, always refusing cliche ("I'm lonely as the Irish sea") but finding the right line to emotion. He writes beautiful pop songs and then arranges them as chiming guitar-rock jewels, full of hooks and thrilling, if never revolutionary, musical detail. Pernice Brothers - Yours Mine & Ours (2003) "Know-How", from this album, featuring a breathtaking moment when the guest vocal from Feist kicks in about halfway through, is a great example of what they do and one of my favourite songs of the decade. I think these songs speak to the lovelorn, self-dramatizing teenager in me. The lyrics are generally mournful, articulate dissections of love and relationships, full of acute detail. But the real key is the songwriting - tuneful, melancholic and full of subtle beauty. Some of it sounds loungey, with touches of bossa nova here and there, and there are obvious alternative influences. Those sometime-whispered lyrics, the close, quiet harmonies, the perfect guitar sound, both melody and rhythm at once in chopped hard chords or finger-picked arpeggios, always acoustic, and the frequently inspired arrangements all combine to make some lovely, sensitively poetic music. Something about that distinctive KoC mood is compulsive, addictive, even. The third, released this year, is of the same high standard. Then came the (even better) second album. I was surprised by how many songs off that first album made the cut. I had to pick and choose because that iPod had a limited capacity and only the finest albums went on complete. But when I came to load up my iMac with songs with which to fill my very first iPod, I listened to a lot of my cds all the way through for the first time in ages. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street (2004)ĭoes anybody I know like Kings of Convenience? I bought their first album when it came out based on reviews, I think, and thought it rather average, with a few really good songs.
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Here are ten records, in no order of preference: Its the albums I have loved, the ones that have stayed with me through this decade, the ones that have meant most and that I still listen to. And they would probably be as horrified by the uniformity of the best album lists I'm talking about as I am.Īnyway, my list is personal. All of my friends who are a few years younger than me have radically different taste to me. But music is always where there is a disconnect.
#ELLIOTT SMITH EITHER OR IPOD TV#
I have friends who I more or less see eye-to-eye with about cinema and fiction, tv and comics. But music seems the most subjective of artforms, to me. And I have almost all of these albums and like them all, I'm not saying they aren't good records. I understand that with cinema, where there is less material released, less stylistic variety, and a critical consensus is often quick to form. Such conformity, so little originality! Every list mentioning the same stuff, over and over - the Strokes, Radiohead, the White Stripes, Outkast, Kanye West, LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Wilco, Daft Punk, the Arctic Monkeys, Jay-Z, the Streets, etc etc blah blah blah. But all the music lists I read over the last few weeks I more or less hated. End of year lists are compulsive, whether you agree with their contents or not. Not just writing them - thats just an excuse to mention as much stuff I love in one post as I can - but reading them.