This doesn't have to be new music, just music that you have just recently discovered the appeal of.
i have two: Yes, and Neil Young. i have owned albums by both of these artists for some time but i never really understood the appeal until just recently. Winamp, choosing songs at random, caught me in the mood to appreciate them both. Fragile is an album i can see making my top 10 of all time. After the gold rush is also a brilliant album. i'll be sure to purchase more neil young in the near future.
For me, it's LCD Soundsystem and Jay-Z, both through their 2007 albums.
With LCDS, I had encountered 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House', which passed me by a bit, and 'Losing My Edge', which I liked, and then 'North American Scum' earlier in the year. But after reading ALL the great reviews I thought I'd better give Sound Of Silver a go, and wow, it is top 5 of the year for sure. And I have subsequently started getting into their debut aswell. As for Jay-Z, well I've never been much into hip-hop, but I'd like to try and get more into it, so I got 'American Gangster' and found I really liked it.
For me, october was a rap-discovery month, with Eminem and Outkast.
In November I focus on 2007 albums : I have discovered a folk singer from California called Alela Diane, and Pop Levi a British singer who's a sort of mix between Prince, Beck and Bob Dylan with very groovy songs.
The last few months, with finding this website, finding metacritic, etc, have led to a crazy amount of new discoveries. Don't laugh now: The National, Ryan Adams, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Ray Charles, to name a few. My music collection has been pretty much been expanding exponentially.
I'm with you on Depeche Mode. I've been listening to them a lot lately.
Also I have recently discovered through a post on this forum and also a friend that 60's music sounds 100 times better in mono and have been hunting for mono releases for all my music from that era. Really hard to do. But, I've found about 15 or so albums in high quality MP3 format through various friends so that's a good start since I haven't even started searching for vinyl. That's next.
Thanks to the public library I am catching up on a bunch of music I might have put aside exploring if I was into my old habits of buying older classics when they were on sale.
Biggest contenders for old discoveries that will likely be on a revised all-time top 100 are Beach Boys Surf's Up and the Zombies Odyssey and Oracle.
Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Going On is a difficult listen but still is intriguing.
Brightblack Morning Light and Be Your Own Pet are new discoveries of new music. Don't listen to both albums back to back though, your head might explode because of how different they sound.
Thanks to schleuse's bracketology I 'discovered' the following oldie albums:
- Sounds Of Silence from Simon And Garfunkel: knew the album opener and other albums from the duo, but did not own this album ... yet. Good album.
- 3 albums from the Mamas & The Papas to keep (California) dreamin'. These albums are OK.
Some other older artists, that I discovered just over the last few years, should have known much longer and have made some pretty good stuff, are: Ray Charles, Nick Drake, Neu!, My Bloody Valentine and Blonde Redhead.
I just listened to Loose Booty and wow... I guess "Shadrach" by the Beastie Boys is just going to be replaced from my top 100 songs by this one, since everything I adored in Shadrach comes from it.
Moonbeam, if you're just getting into Can through Monster Movie and Ege Bamyase then I recommend you try to get hold of Delay 1968 next-an absolutely wonderful collection of early material.Also check out Can Sountracks, a somewhat patchier effort but worth it for the transcendent Mother Sky-probably the greatest track ever recorded by Can, or anyone else for that matter.I never really got into Future Days as much for some reason-can't quite fathom its reputation as the band's best, despite its obvious influence on ambient music
