TrainFan73
Frothy
I love this album. I love Portishead. This one is dark, but it's all dark. This feels like the beginning of making Trip Hop something new, but then they never followed it up. Can't disagree with @jamieanderson1968 though.
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MadLucas
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08/29/23
Portishead - Third
Third - Portishead | Album | AllMusic
Third by Portishead released in 2008. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.www.allmusic.com
For me all three of their studio albums are 5/5.
This album had more of a cinematic feel to what was already a cinematic approach on their second album. It definitely feels more organic and live than their previous two efforts. Also, the lights are lighter and the darks are much darker. I can't imagine anything darker or more ominous than the last two minutes of "Threads," for example: the way her voice wails higher as it fades out, the yelling voice on beat 4 (catch it with headphones if you missed it), the swell of the synth and cellos that sound like an air raid siren... It is the kind of thing that will keep you up if you listen at night.
Just fantastic.
I remember the complaining a while back about how it took 11 years between studio albums and, well, it's been 15 years since this. Sooooooooooo.........
TrainFan73
Frothy
08/30/23
American Music Club - California
Doesn't appear to be on Spotify or Apple. Here is the YOUTUBE link:
www.allmusic.com
American Music Club - California
Doesn't appear to be on Spotify or Apple. Here is the YOUTUBE link:
California - American Music Club | Album | AllMusic
California by American Music Club released in 1988. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
www.allmusic.com
TrainFan73
Frothy
I had a friend in college who had an enormous music collection at that time. Like I maybe had a 100 CDs and the 75 or so records that still live in my collection and 100's of cassettes. This dude had a trunk in his fucking dorm room. Anyhow, he was into American Music Club. I know I've listened to the Everclear album, no idea what else. We also smoked a lot of pot in that dorm room.
avecigrec
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Pretty sure their contribution to No Alternative is the only thing of theirs I've ever heard. Or at least that I can identify and remember as such.
Bohnjaggs
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Wait. I'm lost. What does American Music Club have to do with Everclear?
TrainFan73
Frothy
It’s the name of an album:
American Music Club - Everclear Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic
Discover Everclear by American Music Club released in 1991. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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TrainFan73
Frothy
Dude also listened to Everclear.
Whiteout75
Active Member
08/29/23
Portishead - Third
Third - Portishead | Album | AllMusic
Third by Portishead released in 2008. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
This was really not what I expected. I had only heard Dummy before, and this was more aching to post-rock like GSYBE or Sonic Youth-esque soundscapes than trip hop. Wasn't bad, all in all, but on a bucket list of albums you must hear? Nah.
Score 3,5/5 (Good)
Whiteout75
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08/30/23
American Music Club - California
Doesn't appear to be on Spotify or Apple. Here is the YOUTUBE link:
California - American Music Club | Album | AllMusic
California by American Music Club released in 1988. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
I got into AMC with San Fransisco in 1994 (still a great album IMO), which also turned out to be the last album before they split up. I really like Mark Eitzel as a songwriter and his solo stuff are pretty great as well. I saw them live when they reunited in 2005 and I remember they were really great live too!
I haven't heard this album before though, which is due to the first three albums being really hard to find on cd in the mid-90s so I just never got around to listen to them. I found "Engine" on vinyl last year though, which felt like striking gold at about €10.
Anyhow, this is a bit softer and more americana-tinted than their 90s efforts. I like it fine, but still think Everclear is a better album to have on this list, since that's where they found a more unique sound.
I will try to pick up this on vinyl as well though, as I think it will grow on me.
Score: 4/5
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jamieanderson1968
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Sadcore!!!
AMC and Mark Eitzel were big for me in the 90s and early 2000s. Looking forward to putting on my Blue And Grey Shirt.
AMC and Mark Eitzel were big for me in the 90s and early 2000s. Looking forward to putting on my Blue And Grey Shirt.
dbarila
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08/30/23
American Music Club - California
Doesn't appear to be on Spotify or Apple. Here is the YOUTUBE link:
California - American Music Club | Album | AllMusic
California by American Music Club released in 1988. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
I've actually never heard of this band but I like a lot of the bands they seem to be associated with so I'm looking forward to it. The 2nd song kind of sounds like a raw Counting Crows.
Whiteout75
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Yeah, this album pitches them as forerunners of sorts to the whole alt-country/americana boom in the mid-nineties, and I can totally hear the Counting Crows-similarities too!
dbarila
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08/30/23
American Music Club - California
Doesn't appear to be on Spotify or Apple. Here is the YOUTUBE link:
California - American Music Club | Album | AllMusic
California by American Music Club released in 1988. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Well that was a fun new discovery. Too bad it's not on streaming because I would definitely give it more listens. 4/5.
TrainFan73
Frothy
avecigrec
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08/29/23
Portishead - Third
Third - Portishead | Album | AllMusic
Third by Portishead released in 2008. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
4/5
avecigrec
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8/23/23
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
- Winter in America
Winter in America - Gil Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron & Bria
Winter in America by Gil Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Brian Jackson released in 1974. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more
5/5
avecigrec
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7/21/23
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Count Basie & His Orchestra - The Atomic Mr. Basie
The Atomic Mr. Basie - Count Basie, Count Basi... | AllMusic
The Atomic Mr. Basie by Count Basie, Count Basie & His Orchestra released in 1958. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at All...
3/5
avecigrec
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8/28/23
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The Verve - Urban Hymns
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Urban Hymns by The Verve released in 1997. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
3/5
jamieanderson1968
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Yup still 4/5 for me. Not the record of theirs that I usually reach for (Everclear, Mercury or San Francisco) but still great in my opinion.
The song that should have been huge in the 93 but went absolutely no where
The song that should have been huge in the 93 but went absolutely no where