sounds as fresh as when it came out

[rape_donkeys]

so i'm sitting here listening to generic flipper, like fuck did this shit really come out 20 years ago? please list some records that you feel are prescient, timeless, don't sound exclusively of a particular time, people still aren't ready for, etcliquid liquid - optimoyoung marble giants - colossal youthkrafwerk - radioactivityesg - come away with esgjust ice - back to the old school the slits - cut steve reich - music for 18 musiciansmanuel gottsching - e2e4talk talk - spirit of edenpublic enemy - nation of millionsking tubby meets rockers uptownboredoms - soul dischargetom tom club - close to the bonecontortions - buydie kreuzen s/tpublic image ltd - first issuesonic youth - confusion is sex

 

[Swayze]

90% cosign... but i didn't see any donovan in there(?)

or this one... straight outta THRASHIN'

 

[Pistol_Pete]

Can - Tago Mago, Ege Bamyase, Monster Movie

 

[Dubious]

Can - Tago Mago, Ege Bamyase, Monster Movie

FUTURE DAYS

 

[dCastillo]

music without time:

this heat
can - future days
paul mccartney - RAM

definately a lot more in my head, but I think I'm attributing a lot of them to showing no age because of dry recording/clean engineering rather than stylistically. Dark Side of the Moon? White Album? Then you have music from the 80s that doesn't have all the negative baggage of an 80s sound. Also music recorded by aging artists that has the same integrity as their previous work.

 

[dCastillo]

Can - Tago Mago, Ege Bamyase, Monster Movie

FUTURE DAYS

Jinx.

And I wouldn't say monster movie. That is probably their most dated work. Not that that's a bad thing...

 

[edith head]

cosign on radioactivity and spirit of eden

 

[Dubious]

 

[Swayze]

...i love these threads.

 

[rape_donkeys]

I think I'm attributing a lot of them to showing no age because of dry recording/clean engineering rather than stylistically.

word i think that's a good distinction to make up front... even shit that may be light years ahead of its time can be recorded in a way as to date it. see: velvet underground or the stooges. not a negative thing, just maybe not in application to this particular soulstrut list making endeavor. good call on this heat.

 

[Dubious]

 

[bassie]

generic flipper
liquid liquid - optimo
krafwerk - radioactivity
esg - come away with esg
just ice - back to the old school
the slits - cut
public enemy - nation of millions
king tubby meets rockers uptown
boredoms - soul discharge
tom tom club - close to the bone
die kreuzen s/t
public image ltd - first issue
sonic youth - confusion is sex

that's a great list already.
I would add

Jackie Mittoo - Showcase Volume 3

and

 

[bassie]

 

[Dubious]

I think I'm attributing a lot of them to showing no age because of dry recording/clean engineering rather than stylistically.

word i think that's a good distinction to make up front... even shit that may be light years ahead of its time can be recorded in a way as to date it.
well when i think of alot of these records i wouldn't call them dryly recorded. I think its more to do with them occupying unique sonic worlds unto themselves.

not to mention most of them feature a heavy dosage of idiosyncratic playing and writing

 

[Mr_Lee_PHD]

 

[Aser]

 

[dCastillo]

I think I'm attributing a lot of them to showing no age because of dry recording/clean engineering rather than stylistically.

word i think that's a good distinction to make up front... even shit that may be light years ahead of its time can be recorded in a way as to date it.
well when i think of alot of these records i wouldn't call them dryly recorded. I think its more to do with them occupying unique sonic worlds unto themselves.

not to mention most of them feature a heavy dosage of idiosyncratic playing and writing

my dry recording comment was just one example of how something can be made timeless. of course, if an artist has a unique sonic world all their own, it would be just the same.

 

[mylatency]

 

[On_the_Red_Clay]

 

[faux_rillz]