Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street - Jon Hassell (2009) A modern masterpiece on par with Miles Davis' In a Silent Way.
all Mike's Yeats stuff: "The Stolen Child" off Fisherman's Blues, with various demos and work-in-progress stuff in the 6 CD box set "Down By the Sally Gardens" by Tomás Mac Eoin with music by the Waterboys on the bonus disc of the deluxe Room to Roam "Love And Death" on Dream Harder, and a live-on-radio two-man take (keyboard and guitar) on Sunflowers "The Seven Woods" on Cloud Of Sound (gorgeous ethereal new-age type soundscapes behind the poem, though unfortunately mastered so badly that it clips like hell throughout) "The Traveling Man And The Tree", a fantastic "mysterious" stomper, and "Down By The Sally Gardens" (a simpler version featuring Mike singing, though the same melody) on the 7" single for "Politics", which also has an edited version "Love Song" is exclusive to Amazon and nicks its melody from Springsteen's "Factory", but that's from my all-time favorite album so I'm fine with it. "The Four Ages of Man" is exclusive to iTunes and is my favorite of all the 2011 Yeats tracks. This is the third or fourth time he's recycled the "Glastonbury Song" riff and it still sounds as fresh as ever. These two are lossy downloads only. He also did "The Four Ages of Man" in a medley with "Spirit" on the semi-bootleg Live Adventures album but it has no real melody. And if you really want to stretch, you can even point to "Old England" which takes "You're asking what makes me sigh now, what it is makes me shudder so?" from "Mad As the Mist and Snow". I've read someone (possibly even you) say that Yeats could have and should have been a double album to include all that. I agree. A lot of the stuff that didn't make the cut is fantastic. But then, as per this thread, the album itself is really a masterpiece too. Only "Lake Isle" feels like filler to me, and honestly only for the production. Other than that and the awful mastering, this is a treasure. I think I'm gonna spin it now... thanks!
A very good album is one thing. An excellent album is another thing. A great album...ditto. A truly great album? They don't come around that often. At all. Neither does a once in a lifetime...once in a hundred years...group of musicians and their support team of engineers and great producer:
Haven't heard it quite all the way through yet, but man am I quite impressed with the sound of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Gumboot Soup.
Nope, because it's quite quirky and interestingly produced. Not loud at all. Check it out for yourself if you haven't.
Seriously not trolling, but I wouldn’t consider many of these albums listed as great, let alone the last truly great album. Certainly not Kid A. But you know what they say about opinions...
