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Ross (3284 KP) rated #1 Record by Big Star in Music

May 6, 2020 (Updated Apr 12, 2021)  
#1 Record by Big Star
#1 Record by Big Star
1972 | Pop
7
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Rolling Stone's 434th greatest album of all time (474th in the 2020 list)
My second time listening to Big Star (an act I had never heard of a few days ago) was better than the first. The songs here are much better than the "Third" album, most notably "Thirteen", which I had heard before somewhere. The singer's voice reminds me of a Scottish band, El Presidente, being part whine, part singing. Good 70s folk-rock.
  
    Amassakoul by Tinariwen

    Amassakoul by Tinariwen

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    The songs of Tinariwen mourn the passing of the epic golden age of the Saharan tribes, while...

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Frank Black recommended Stand Up by Jethro Tull in Music (curated)

 
Stand Up by Jethro Tull
Stand Up by Jethro Tull
1969 | Rock
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"My mother took me to see Jethro Tull for my 14th birthday. We were living in the Los Angeles area and they were playing a couple of towns over. It was pretty much my first rock concert. I was heavily into Jethro Tull back then and I still am. Stand Up is the record that moves me the most. It's only their second album and they're still kind of scruffy. There's a heavy rock influence but they had that English thing going on, you know, university dudes who were really into folk music. It didn't seem like an affectation to me – it still seems real."

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Bottle It In by Kurt Vile in Music

Jun 5, 2019 (Updated Jun 5, 2019)  
Bottle It In by Kurt Vile
Bottle It In by Kurt Vile
2018 | Indie, Rock
https://chillfiltr.com/blog/2018/9/3/kurt-vile-loading-zones
                            

If you haven't heard of Kurt Vile yet, you are missing out. His sound more or less defines modern lo-fi folk rock, and his live shows are a staple of music festivals around the world: you might hear him (with support from The Violators) at the Take Root Festival this October in Groningen, Netherlands, or Dublin, or Brooklyn, this November. It's a roots band backing this bardic guru of young seekers everywhere.

Some interesting guitar lines through a vocoder, lyrics which feel half sung and half spoken, and a sense that this is the sound of something different, something creative; it's water in this desert of sameness that our pop landscape has become. And there is this feeling that the music here is just a bit raw, very human, and unadorned; it's not exactly alt-folk, it's not exactly anything, it's Kurt Vile.