25 "N" List Acts

Needlepoint

Hi,

Edited by moshkito - September 06 2024 at 17:29

National Health
Neu!
New Goblin
Nucleus
Gary Numan

Nico
North Sea Radio Orchestra
National Health

Outside this list:
Nice Beaver
Nine Stones Close (Leaves is stellar)


Edited by someone_else - September 07 2024 at 03:24

National Health is my favourite out of these. Still an honourable mention must go out to Natural Snow Buildings which I've discovered only recently but who are a delight.

Gary Numan 

National Health have most votes up to now so I'll snub them, but honestly I love them. Instead votes go to North Sea Radio Orchestra (who saw that coming? ), The Necks (one of the few I have seen live in 2024), Needlepoint. I also like Joanna Newsom and News from Babel and Neu! when I'm in the mood; the best stuff by Nine Inch Nails is absolutely voteworthy, but they did too much that leaves me cold.

Edited by Lewian - September 13 2024 at 18:03

Now I feel like going with Janko Nilovic (Rythmes contemporains is a brilliant album that was recommended to me considerable years ago here), North Sea Radio Orchestra (such a joy), Joanna Newsom (wonderful), and I am going to put my neck out by giving a fourth vote to The Necks (I adore Hanging Gardens).

And for a song to share from the lovely Joanna Newsom:

Logan wrote: verslibre wrote: National Health Neu! New Goblin Nucleus Gary Numan I was not familiar with New Goblin. Nude Gobblin' is, however, another matter.

On that note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobbler%27s_Knob

^ That's not a name I recall. Mind sharing a choice track so I can listen? I am up for some new-to-me music.

verslibre wrote: Logan wrote: verslibre wrote: National Health Neu! New Goblin Nucleus Gary Numan I was not familiar with New Goblin. Nude Gobblin' is, however, another matter. On that note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobbler%27s_Knob

^ LOL, coughing up a lung now. Especially I was in a fairly serious mood before. Thanks.

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On a different note as I had prepared this over the past hour, here is my longer O list:


.O.rang* (see note)
Agnes Obel
Richard O'Brien
October Equus
Of Wondrous Legends (O.W.L.)
Offering
Thee Oh Sees** (see note)
Oiapok
Oingo Boingo
Oiseaux - Tempete
Oktober
Mike Oldfield
Sally Oldfield*** (see note)
Olive Mess
Angel Olsen
Omega
Oneohtrix Point Never
OOIOO
The Open Window
Opeth
Opus Avantra
Opus-5
Orange Peel
Orchestra Njervudarov
Øresund Space Collective
Organisation
Le Orme
Os Mundi**** (see note)
otay:onii
The Orb
Las Orejas Y La Lengua
Osanna
Ose
Osibisa
Ougenweide
Out of Focus
Ozric Tentacles

* .O.rang (aka 'O' rang should maybe be included under special characters)
** I would place Thee Oh Sees under T, as "Thee" means "You", not "The", but this is where PA places it.
*** I actually have not listened to much Sally Oldfield but wanted to include her anyway for others in this list.
**** Os Mundi is Latin for The World. PA puts it under O, I would put it under M.

Anyway, I will be paring that down to my very faves, and I do favour that which still gets plays and/or is newer to me commonly. As always, people can list their own favourites, and one might expect and share that they would have thought I would include something, but of course I commonly don't appreciate people complaining (no name), acting like what they know is better (appreciation is subjective), or acting like I should have included something. I am happy to hear about what people like in my poll and don't like in my poll, and to hear about others favourites. I am even willing to argue to an extent the merits of the music, but I don't like to put down musicians/bands. I like "appreciation" the most and sharing our individual passions as I am a passionate lover of music and other arts. There's nothing wrong with me preferring some kinds of music over others, knowing the music I know best, and having my particular favourites, and the same goes for others. This goes without saying, but I said it anyway as sometimes there is this air of expectation, blame and ridicule for not including other ones. Taste is so personal and such a part of each one's identity here, and to me respecting that is quite sacrosanct.

Sometimes I do forget favourites of mine too. I did not want this series to have the space to welcome more than what I know and like and I can't fit all I like into 25 spaces as I have explored a lot of albums and I love a great many acts. There's no shortage of good music, and good-for-me and good-for-you music. and there's no shortage in discovering new to oneself music that one might love.

Edited by Logan - September 07 2024 at 11:49