5- Your 2000-2004 track faves: One track per album

2000-2004

This is the 5th such year range topic. The idea is to only list just one track off an individual album from the years 2000 through 2004, but you can represent as many albums and therefore as many tracks as you wish.

Here is my list. I decided to show year, genres, and country, but you don't need to. Any level of participation would be much appreciated.

- Air "Radian" (10 000 Hz Legend, 2001, Downtempo, France)
- The Angels of Light "Evangeline" (How I Loved You, 2001, Folk Rock, US)
- Aphex Twin "Meltphace 6" (drukqs, 2001, IDM, Ireland)
- Björk "It's Not Up to You" (Vespertine, 2001, Electronic Art Pop, Iceland)
- Boards of Canada "The Beach at Redpoint" (Geogaddi, 2002, IDM, Scotland)
- Bohren & der Club of Gore "Black City Skyline" (Sunset Mission, 2000, Dark Jazz, Germany)
- Bohren & der Club of Gore "Skeletal Remains" (Black Earth, 2002, Dark Jazz, Germany)
- Broadcast "Papercuts' (The Noise Made by People, 2000, Neo-Psych, England)
- Broadcast "Winter Now" (Haha Sound, 2003, Indietronica, Neo-Psych, England)
- Dungen "Om du Vore en Vakthund" (Ta det lugnt, 2004, Psych, Sweden)
- Electrelane "Oh Sombra!" (The Power Out, 2004, Indie, England)
- Explosions in the Sky "Your Hand in Mine" (The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, 2003, Post-Rock, US)
- The Flaming Lips "Are You a Hypnotist?" (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002, Neo-Psych, US)
- Flotation Toy Warning "Even Fantastica" (Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck, 2004, Neo-Psych, England)
- Ghost "Dominoes (Celebration For The Gray Days)" (Hypnotic Underworld, 2004, Psych Rock, Japan)
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man "Spider Monkey" (Out of Season, 2002, Folk, England)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Storm" (Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!, 2000, Post-Rock, Canada)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls" (Yanqui, U.X.O., 2002, Canada)
- Kayo Dot "The Manifold Curiosity" (Choirs of the Eye, 2003, Experimental, US)
- Kōenji Hyakkei "Nivraym" (Nivraym, 2001, Zeuhl, Brutal, Japan)
- Magma "K.A II" (K.A, 2004, Zeuhl, France)
- Melt-Banana "Shield for Your Eyes, a Beast in the Well on Your Hand" (Cell-Scape, 2003, Noise Rock, Japan)
- Mogwai "Killing All the Flies" (Happy Songs for Happy People, 2003, Post Rock, Scotland)
- Juana Molina - "El perro" (Segundo, 2000, Folktronica, Argentina)
- Pram "Bewitched" (The Museum of Imaginary Animals, 2001, Art Pop, Neo-Psych, England)
- Pram "Penny Arcade" (Dark Island, 2003, Art Pop, Neo-Psych, England)
- Rachel's "Water From the Same Source" (Systems / Layers, 2003, Chamber Music, US)
- Radiohead "Everything In Its Right Place" (Kid A, 2000, Art Rock, England)
- Radiohead "Pyramid Song" (Amnesiac, 2001, Art Rock, England)
- The Residents "Make Me Moo" (Demons Dance Alone, 2002, Art Pop, US)
- Secret Chiefs 3 "Blaze of the Grail" (Book M, 2001, Exp. Rock, US)
- Secret Chiefs 3 "UR - Book T: Exodus" (Book of Horizons, 2004, Exp. Rock, US)
- Sheena Ringo "Shuukyou/ Religion" (Kalk samen kuri no hana, 2003, Art Pop/Rock, Japan)
- Shibusashirazu "Images" (Shibuboshi, 2004, Experimental Big Band Jazz Fusion, Japan)
- Sigur Rós "Untitled #8 (Popplagið)" ( ( ), 2002, Post-Rock, Iceland)
- Stereolab "Suggestion Diabolique" (Sound-Dust, 2001, Art Pop, England)
- Stereolab "The Man With 100 Cells" (Margerine Eclipse, 2004, Art Pop, England)
- Robert Wyatt "Forest" (Cuckooland, 2003, Canterbury Scene, England)

I made a playlist of my choices. I left off Guapo's Five Suns because what was on youtube did not work well on its own.



And here are the past topics:

Here are the past topics that this grew from (hope people's mentions get some viewing and it would be nice if more add their lists):

4: Your 2005-2009 track faves (one track per album) (CLICK)
Topic: #3: Your 2010-2015 tracks faves (one per album) (CLICK)
2016-2019: Album tracks, one track per album (CLICK)
One per act: 2020s tracks under ten minutes, or... (CLICK)

Love to see some other people's lists, no matter how short or long.

Edited by Logan - October 17 2023 at 18:36

Guapo - 5 Suns - Part II

Thanks Will, Ian and Richard. Re Ian's list. I almost put that Guapo and Ahvak track in my list and still have much more The Necks exploration to do.

As for this period, yeah, there was a big wave of Prog coming in then, I would think in no small part spurned on by the coming proliferation of online music sites and services.

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I quite quickly changed my Björk pick to "Unison" by the way.

I haven't taken part in this series up to now, as the "track faves" theme seems just too big and then "you can list as many as you want" isn't specific enough to get me to play.

However I just listen to Tarwater's almost unknown but very strong 2001 album Not The Wheel and thought I'd like to mention it on PA somehow, so I'll make a 2000-2004 list.

In order to help me selecting, I will devote this list to Hamburg's wonderful Radio FSK Sunday Service by Sandra and Patrick, who played every Sunday three hours of all kinds of bands that would play in Hamburg in the following week or had new albums out or... Among other things, the show taught me (back in 1997) that post rock is a thing.

The list will only have albums by artists I met in the Sunday Service for the first time. That's really a lot, so...
Thanks Sandra and Patrick for all the music! The show unfortunately ended in 2015.

Tarwater - Tommy Tomorrow (just spinning; Not the Wheel)
Deichkind - Smog City (Bitte ziehen sie durch)
Broadcast - Papercuts (The Noise Made By People)
Tortoise - Eros (Standards)
Contriva - on the porch (tell me when)
Red Snapper - They're Hanging Me Tonight (Our Aim is to Satisfy)
Barbara Morgenstern - Fjorden (Fjorden)
Karate - The Angels Just Have to Show (Unsolved)
Pinback - Prog (!) (Blue Screen Life) [I met Sandra and Patrick in person at a Pinback concert and we exchanged some warm words]
Pram - The Owl Service (The Museum of Imaginary Animals)
The Dismemberment Plan - Time Bomb (Change)
Tied & Tickled Trio - Sevastopol Version (Electric Avenue Tapes)
Labradford - Twenty (fixed::context)
Hood - They Removed All Trace That Anything Had Ever Happened Here (Cold House)
Enon - Natural Disasters (High Society)
Tied & Tickled Trio - Revolution (Observing Systems)
Mice Parade - Focus on the Roller Coaster (Obrigado Saudade)
From Monument to Masses - From the Mountains to the Prairies (The Impossible Leap in Hundred Simple Steps)
Jullander - Der Herr vom Filmressort arbeitet jetzt an der Popcornmaschine (Interiors)
Him - Slow Slow Slow (Many in High PLaces Are Not Well)
Radian - Nahfeld (Rec.Extern)
Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts und Niemand (Nichts Muss)
The Berg Sans Nipple - A Free... (Form of...)
Radian - Rapid Eye Movement (Juxtaposition)
Tortoise - Salt the Skies (It's All Around You)
Ilse Lau - Oheim (De Tinnen Mannen)
Jerome Miniere - Complainte d'un produit de l'imagination (Chez Herri Kopter)
Kreidler - Fandorin (Eve Future Recall)


Edited by Lewian - November 10 2023 at 13:24

^ & ^^ I commonly prefer latitude in topics. I can come up with own rules to narrow my focus if I want to, so can others, and I often do that in topics if I feel I need to narrow my parameters. People can be creative, but some are less comfortable with such freedoms and desire more set structure than I do.

Other than the "no more than one track per album for the set years" criterion, I wanted myself and other to feel free to list what they want to. I find narrower criteria tends to be more beneficial when it's a contest, in something like the Interactive Polls when we are expected to listen to each other's choices and hope for comments etc. It made sense for me with those to let my interests (and time, mood, and desire to be thorough at a given time are major factors) dictate the length of the list rather than choose some arbitrary number to stick to. Follow your bliss, though.

For me it has been mostly a joy revisiting music, discovering some more music along the way, choosing the tracks and returning to that music. My appreciation has increased for a variety of music. It did get to be something of a slog, especially with the long 1975-1979 list, as that took me considerable hours and with COVID making me woozy. And in some 80s I feel like I over-represented certain artists, although part of the joy for me is delving deeper into discographies. A big part of my joy is in preparing my playlists -- I sometimes love that instead of full albums. Each list has got me excited over something, and it can be like hearing music in a new context. This 2000 to 2004 list is one of my most trodden and so not quite as exciting as some others to me (I tend to most love that which is fresher to me) but I was excited to revisit Secret Chiefs 3.

For the 1995 to 1999 list, which is a favourite era of mine for a few years, I love Fishman's Long Season but I had never listened properly to Fishman's Uchu Nippon Setagaya, and I found "Daydream" so enticing. A fave of mine on that playlist is Mr. Bungle "Pink Cigarette". I adore it. In the 2010s, doing this got me to explore Beach House more, and that bands, especially the Bloom album me through a lot of strenuous work over the last few weeks. And listening again to St. Vincent has been a joy -- covered in the 2005-2009 list with the song "Black Rainbow".

Doing this kind of thing really gets me excited about music and appreciating music all the more, and i hope it will be that way for some others who prepare and consider their lists.

By the way, a nice thing about short lists is that it makes it easier to check out and comment on each other's choices, and I do like that kind of interactivity, a communal listening room type experience. I had planned early on for the series that we choose one or two tracks to highlight from each list and then maybe eat the end I could use those for an interactive poll.

I have two more polls to go, 1970-1974 and then 1965 to 1969, and then I might end up choosing just five tracks from each of these periods (either on my list or not).

Lewian, the Hamburg Radio FSK Sunday Service list looks up my alley (I got Tortoise and Broadcast in mine). A lot of what excites me now led from discovering a radio program from the 90s a few years ago (put up as a podcast). I have mentioned it various times, but it was a very dark, can be disturbing, and quite surreal radio comedy sketch show mixed with a lot of boozy-woozy music done by Chris Morris called Blue Jam. In that he played music like Portishead, Stereolab, Bjork etc. It had a big influence on my music directions.

Edited by Logan - November 15 2023 at 12:19