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Post by ganews on Jul 18, 2021 22:43:29 GMT -5
In August, you may nominate up to two albums from a local band. By which I basically mean, a band or artist based in the urban center nearest to you. Try to get as close to where you are currently living as possible. So in my case, I expect I can find two bands in DC without going as far as Baltimore. I'll put up a poll in about a week.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jul 19, 2021 10:09:26 GMT -5
Look, I realize this is potentially breaking the rules but I'm in Chicago and Wilco is far too goddamn obvious so I'm going with my home state of Virginia. By closest metro areas to where I'm from:
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 or the Last Remains of the Dodo
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
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Post by ganews on Jul 19, 2021 10:18:02 GMT -5
MrsLangdonAlger that is indeed breaking the rules. I'm pretty sure some bands besides Wilco are from Chicago.
I'm closest to DC. Go-go music is the best-know contribution from the city, and while I've heard plenty of funk I haven't listened to anything specifically from the subgenre. So my first pick is Black Heat, "Black Heat".
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jul 19, 2021 10:22:49 GMT -5
Ugh. Fine.
Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
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Post by ganews on Jul 19, 2021 10:24:42 GMT -5
Second from DC, Bad Brains, "I Against I"
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 19, 2021 13:46:19 GMT -5
Not only debuts from local bands, but self-titled debuts from local bands.
The Animals - The Animals (1964)
Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978)
Fuck Sting.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jul 19, 2021 13:46:28 GMT -5
The Handsome Family - Through the Trees (1998)
Married alt-country duo best known for the theme to True Detective
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jul 19, 2021 14:41:17 GMT -5
My two Baltimore-based artists/bands are Cass Elliot's Bubblegum, Lemonade &... Something for Mama (also known as Make Your Own Kind of Music/It’s Getting Better) and The Cars' debut album (The Cars). Ric Ocasek was from here so it totally counts.
Fun fact: my dad was good friends with Cass Elliot's cousin in the 80s. According to his friend, she was a lovely person.
(Note that I did not pick Frank Zappa. He was a very interesting man, but I would rather eat glass than voluntarily listen to one of his albums the entire way through.)
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Post by repulsionist on Jul 19, 2021 15:12:48 GMT -5
The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers (2020)
Split Enz - Mental Notes (1975)
Let's TWEEE, everybody!
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 19, 2021 15:29:28 GMT -5
There's a number of rappers from my actual hometown of Hollis, NY, including Run DMC, LL Cool J, Ja Rule, DJ Hurricane, and Young MC, but apparently fuck you. The first band on the list, according to one of the members, used to smoke weed in the alley next to my house, and how much more local do you want, but ugh, fine.
Screaming Females went to Rutgers University, which is kind of near me, at least near enough that I went to library school there and commuted, so I nominate their album Castle Talk.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jul 19, 2021 15:41:00 GMT -5
There's a number of rappers from my actual hometown of Hollis, NY, including Run DMC, LL Cool J, Ja Rule, DJ Hurricane, and Young MC, but apparently fuck you. The first band on the list, according to one of the members, used to smoke weed in the alley next to my house, and how much more local do you want, but ugh, fine. Cuts both ways. If ganews was allowing hometown heroes, I might have subjected y'all to Ozark Mountain Daredevils, they of " Jackie Blue". |
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Post by repulsionist on Jul 19, 2021 16:15:47 GMT -5
I wanna takeover the other NYC-child's ( HipsterDBag) local band nominations, if he doesn't mind. Peech Boys - Life is Something Special (1983) Konk - Yo! (1983) |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 20, 2021 0:48:40 GMT -5
Random music albums from Seoul. A lot of K-Pop bands are extremely manufactured with members coming from all over the place (like mainland China and Thailand and Canada and shit) so I tried to stick with people who were actually born in Seoul and did the bulk of their musical stuff in the city rather than people who were born and started elsewhere but then started working for a company that just happened to be based in Seoul because that's where every big company is.
Seo Taiji (서태지) - 7th Issue
Jaurim (자우림) - All You Need is Love
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Post by monodrone on Jul 20, 2021 5:59:03 GMT -5
Annie Lennox is the only major recording artist I'm aware of from Aberdeen and I do not care for her work so I'm going to nominate some of my friends instead.
Seas, Starry - Triangle Teeth. Second album from the shoegaze/krautrock/psych outfit. A great bunch of lads. All the best.
Carson Wells - Tread A Northern Path. One of the leading lights of the Eccossemo movement (emo/post-hardcore bands but from Scotland) of the early 2010s and the first Aberdeen based band I went to see when I started getting involved with The Scene. A great bunch of lads. All the best.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 20, 2021 7:50:25 GMT -5
I wanted to pick someone from my actual hometown (which I still live just outside of), but that would require subjecting myself and everyone else to listening to Glenn Frey, and I just can't in good conscience do that to anyone.
Two Detroit-ish nominations:
1. Marshall Crenshaw (Marshall Crenshaw): I've been wanting to nominate this for a while. Classic power pop from one of my dad's high school friends whose early shows he used to crash to sing with.
2. Pawn Shoppe Heart (The Von Bondies) : They were almost a thing for a couple minutes, remember? In honor of their COVID-cancelled still up in the air UK-only reunion tour, I nominate what would have been their breakthrough album. Local enough that I occasionally see their singer around town walking his dog (a very large husky).
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Post by HipsterDBag on Jul 20, 2021 9:36:41 GMT -5
I'm going to go hyper-local on this one and not go with NYC, but rather with this tiny little town on Long Island I've moved to. I'll give myself a 5 mile radius from my house. So that leaves me with...
Wheatus - Wheatus
Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Jul 20, 2021 12:36:53 GMT -5
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 20, 2021 15:09:07 GMT -5
Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Jul 21, 2021 5:07:11 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 21, 2021 5:42:56 GMT -5
For our American readers, while Sting grew up in the same council area as me (North Tyneside), Mark Knopfler, though he grew up in Newcastle, actually lived closer to our impoverished flat. Though both of them were long gone before I became aware of them.
As for The Animals, my grandad knew Eric Burdon's dad, and once took them to a concert in his van when theirs broke down - once and only once. The whole anecdote was so he could get to the punchline that 'they were like a pack of animals in the back'. Can't even count the number of times I heard it. Or told it myself, to be fair. This is probably not the first time I've mentioned it here.
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Post by ganews on Jul 27, 2021 10:01:30 GMT -5
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