In & out of PA faves: starting 2023 & moving down

Since I did an album in and out of PA (so two per year) from 2023 to 1965 (1965 seemed a good year to stop for me), I will start on a second list. I was thinking about waiting for the release of Swans' The Beggar, in June 2023 (heard some of the album already as that has been released, but I don't know how much I will like it or how long to really grow on me) and IU really like this KL album anyway. Maybe the Swans will make my third?

I hope to compile our lists into something elegant at some time - maybe a youtube video with music samples and commentary from your humble narrator and little droog friend, that is me, Logan deGreg, or maybe I'll print them out and make a papier mâché sculpture. It will be artistic anyway, hopefully, however I go about it.

The first listed for year is in PA, the second for that year is not.

2023: Kosmischer Läufer - Volume Five
2023: ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Darling the Dawn (my most recent new-to-me album interest. bandcamp page

2022: The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
2022: Pan Daijing - Tissues

2021: black midi - Cavalcade
2021: Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

2020: Aksak Maboul - Figures
2020: The Necks - Three

2019: Cisnienie - JazzArt Underground
2019: Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology\

2018: Klaus Morlock - The Three Faces of Janice
2018: Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling

Daunting, but I hope people keep their lists coming for whatever years they can. And the list can be as long or as short as you like.

Edited by Logan - May 30 2023 at 21:48

^ Late to say it, but thanks.

I updated my list a bit, partially because I had not heard The Beggar yet and Chelsea Wolfe had not yet been added to PA. The first listed of a year in PA, the second is not (unless I made mistakes or ones have been added of which I am aware).

Feel free to mention as many or few years as you like.

2023: Swans - The Beggar
2023: ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Darling the Dawn
2022: black midi - Hellfire
2022: Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
2021: black midi - Cavalcade
2021: Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
2020: Cisnienie / Lód 9 - Brass Album
2020: The Necks - Three
2019: Cisnienie - JazzArt Underground
2019: Lingia Ignota - Caligula
2018: Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
2018: Julia Holter - Aviary
2017: Aquaserge - Laisse ça être
2017: Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar
2016: Bruno Pernadas - Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them
2015: Alio Die & Lorenzo Montana - Holographic Codex
2015: Gongjoong Doduk - Gongjoong Doduk
2014: Swans - To Be Kind
2014: Matt Berry - Music for Insomniacs
2013: Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
2013: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2012: Swans - The Seer
2012: Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber
2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon
2011: Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices - The Outside Room
2010: Univers Zero - Clivages
2010: Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me Into the Snat
2009: Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
2009: Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
2008: Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo
2008: Portishead - Third
2007: William D. Drake - Briny Hooves
2007: PJ Harvey - White Chalk
2006: OOIOO - Taiga
2006: Natural Snow Buildings -The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
2005: Guapo - Black Oni
2005: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
2004: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
2004: Electrelane - The Power Out
2003: Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
2003: Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
2002: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
2002: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2001: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
2001: Air - 10 000 Hz Legend
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2000: Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
1999: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
1999: Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
1998: Tortoise - TNT
1998: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
1997: Art Zoyd - Häxan
1997: Stereolab - Dots and Loops
1996: Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
1996: Fishmans - Long Season
1995: Pram - Sargasso Sea
1995: Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
1994: Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
1994: Portishead - Dummy
1993: Björk - Debut
1993: Komeda - Pop på Svenska
1992: Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
1992: Spın̈al Tap - Break Like the Wind
1991: Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
1991: Tuxedo Moon - The Ghost Sonata
1990: U Totem - U totem
1990: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
1989: Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea
1989: The Cure - Disintegration
1988: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite AKIRA
1988: Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
1987: Swans - Children of God
1987: The Lounge Lizards - No Pain for Cakes
1986: Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
1986: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral ... My Trial
1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1985: Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars
1984: Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
1984: Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1983: Art Zoyd - Les espaces inquiets
1983: Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
1982: Laurie Anderson - Big Science
1982: Giorgio Moroder - Cat People (OST)
1981: Eskaton - 4 Visions
1981: Phew - Phew
1980: Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
1980: Douji Morita - Un, deux, trois
1979: The Residents - Eskimo
1979: Tubeway Army - Replicas
1978: Bubu - Anabelas
1978: Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
1977: Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1976: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai
1976: Joni Mitchell - Hejira
1975: Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery
1975: Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú
1974: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
1974: Janko Nilovic - Rythmes Contemporains
1973: Can - Future Days
1973: Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life
1972: Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches
1972: Ennio Morricone - Cosa avete fatto a Solange?*
1971: Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust
1971: Egisto Macchi - I futuribili
1970: Magma - Kobaïa
1970: Exuma - Exuma
1969: David Axelrod - Songs of Experience
1969: Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
1968: The United States of America - The United States of America
1968: Nico - The Marble Index
1967: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
1966: The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band
1966: Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
1965: Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
1964: Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
1964: Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz / Gilberto
1963: none in PA that I see
1963: Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

I am making a youtube playlist with track from each album in my list (I tried to avoid the really long tracks). A fun way to revisit music for me, although it does too much cover the well trodden for me as it's easier to choose ones I have discussed before. and possibly expose others to some things they don't know and might like.



Edited by Logan - August 30 2023 at 18:33

^ I don't really like to be corrected, but I do like to know when I'm wrong.

Edited by Logan - August 30 2023 at 17:48

^ Thanks, Mira, there are plenty of excellent albums on your list per my tastes. It is a big task to cover so many years and it is very much appreciated.

I considered and almost went with Henry Cow's Western Culture, National Health's st, and Soft Machine's Third. It can be quite arbitrary when there are many I love, but those all-time standout albums for me.

Romantic Warrior is the big one of which I had a very different impression. maybe I will appreciate it more now as it has been almost two decades since I last listened to it (2005, I think). I love lots of JRF and that is a lauded album that I really disliked. We do share some 60s jazz choices with A Love Supreme, Empyrean Isles, and Black Saint. :)