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Raised Up in the Sky
With the announcement of Meric Long's return to his own name on a musical release today, I think it's time to revisit the EP that preceded my absolute favourite band - The Dodos.
Dodo Bird is unlike anything else. And I mean that wholeheartedly and absolutely. Even music that's incredibly similar seems to lack something in comparison to these five tracks, each of which are truly sacred to me.
This EP is just about a year older than me - so despite having ... read more
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1001 CCX
I can’t think of any other phrase to use here other than one I’ve used countless times before and probably on every other Neil Young record on this list, and that’s that it’s ‘one of those albums’. You know, one of those ones. You know?
So timeless and respected that you can hardly talk about it, let alone bring anything new to the table. It’d be pointless. What I can say though is that, again, it’s ‘one of those’ that ... read more
1001 CCIX
With both its lulling, swooping ambient sections and more vigorous high-tempo sections that put the “rock” in “Krautrock”, NEU! ‘75 is another one of those albums that serves more as a keystone to subsequent music that branched further out from what’s contained in this record.
Without this we wouldn’t have blah, blah, and of course blah. That’s how these things tend to go. So I’m grateful that this exists. And I enjoyed my ... read more
1001 CCVIII
I’m always reluctant about going into a Beatles-adjacent album, especially if it’s this long. There’s just something about that 60s / 70s ‘pop rock’ sound that puts me off. And the only song I’d really heard from this, My Sweet Lord, is one of those songs that everyone seems to like whereas I can only find a hollow template of what should be a great song. Oh George, you went to India! With your mates! Did loads of psychedelics! Haha, awesome, ... read more
1001 CCVII
It’s hard to write about these select few albums that are so incredibly popular and so incredibly fantastic. It’s nigh-on impossible to say anything new about them, so I’ll just riff on what has already been said a million times already about this album and this band.
The main point I made in my In Utero review was my marvelling at just how popular Nirvana was and is, despite their music being quite harsh, quite often. I marvelled at how it’s a great thing ... read more
1001 CCVI
You’ve got to give Queen credit I suppose for being just so incredibly popular. This came mainly from the albums that followed this - Killer Queen is the only supermassive track here - but it’s all here, really. It’s also in perhaps a much more artistic form, given that in ‘74 Queen were in the scheme of things just getting started.
It’d be nice if these first three albums (Queen, Queen II, and this) led into more expansion on certain interesting themes ... read more
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