Vinyl Me Please Essentials

While we're on the subject of overlooked folk / psych-folk, I would recommend anyone interested in this stuff look at Turid from Sweden. She was part of 1971 Silence Records roster, which was a massive year for Swedish Progg music, largely a stylistically diverse leftist political movement separate from the "prog" genre, but some albums intersect with "prog"). Sort of Joni Mitchell inspired (I think she even has a Joni cover) but ends up being more dreamy and pastoral. Easily as good as the hyped up forgotten artists like Vashti Bunyan and Sibylle Baier. Her first album is on streaming services along with a bizzarely re-sequenced frankenstein of albums 1 + 2. Some songs below.







 
tonythegamer said:
The album we've landed on is Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. We think this due to it obviously fitting the clues storf gave us.

1969, solo act, only album released on label of initial release

Also due to Light in The Attic reissuing all his previous works at this very moment on their store.

Also due to a recent article released about his story with the phrasing it as being "ESSENTIAL reading," with the word essential being capitalized being incredibly suspect
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I'm not familiar so I will check it out. When I signed up again for 3 months I was hoping that I would hit one of the other 2000s albums that Storf had hinted at but I guess not so much. I'll be pretty interested to see what 90s alternatives album is.

BTW, I'm digging this SK album more than I thought and really like the packaging so I'm not completely regretting signing back up.
 
zombie.modernist said:
he's clearly drawing from like Croce
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This is exactly right. That’s the point of reference I kept coming back to. Like a less good version of Jim Croce with weirder lyrical content. Not bad. Not super exciting. It’s something I would spin early on a Sunday or late on Saturday as I am winding down. Release wise it reminds be of the Ted Lucas album (which I quite enjoyed). A weird “Essentials” pick for sure.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Ok so I listened to the new SK....

..I like it. For what it is. But it does NOT sound like SK except in a few passing moments, and the drumming was basically a non-factor with everything taking a backseat to Annie's production style. No wonder Janet bounced.
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Corin's wails are missing too. The two things that make this band aren't there. Packaging is solid though, so there's that.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Ok so I listened to the new SK....

..I like it. For what it is. But it does NOT sound like SK except in a few passing moments, and the drumming was basically a non-factor with everything taking a backseat to Annie's production style. No wonder Janet bounced.
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This is probably why I like it so much ;)
 
Sanders said:
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OCTOBER ESSENTIALS IS 90'S ALT ROCK!!! YESSSSS!!!

There's so many amazing choices this could be! I can't wait, whatever it is, it'll be great! There's tons of great 90s rock albums that have never been on vinyl!
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Yes but this is Storf categorizing the genre so the ROTM could literally be anything from Taylor Swift to Kenny G
 
Rahawk2 said:
Kanye West is much too big to be a RHH track it NEEDS to go in Essentials with such HUGE names like uh Jim Sullivan .
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Haha yeah, that's def the issue they seem to fluctuate in curation strategies. Is this track just for artists with high demand, or is it for music discovery things they deem are "essential" to own? I predict this will be another month where the side tracks will suck up all the attention and swaps.

Edit: Also even mentioning Kanye for them seems very pie-in-the-sky. If UMG cared about making $$ off these I think they would just make them themselves.
 
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