Top 5 Sunday Morning Albums
As a tribute to my past slaving away on Sunday mornings assembling the New York Times in the back of the Village Shoppe and a tribute to my friends still slaving away back there I present my top 5 Sunday morning albums.
5. Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
Geogaddi is like a good breakfast blend of coffee, mellow, sweet, warm but robust enough to snap one to attention. Mind numbingly repetitive tasks and the absurdity of day break grind just become part of the music. The rhythmic washes of synthy goodness take over and you forget that for the last 2 hours you’ve been collating news paper.
4. Radiohead – Kid A
Just like Geogaddi, Kid A takes the synthesizer and turns it into a warm and absorbing framework to build Thom Yorke’s pleas for… well I’m not even sure half the time. I think Thom Yorke is perfectly happy having things to complain about, he mourns the cold soulless world as much as he revels in it. It’s a bizarrely contradictory and self fulfilling sort of mindset that all clerks secretly identify with… they may complain, but many harbor a secret love for their lot in life.
3. Manitoba – Up in Flames
Horns, strings, and marching drums all come together to create one of the most ‘organic’ sounding electronic albums in recent memory. Where many DJs and pastiche musical artists live for the worn vinyl clicks that remind you you’re listening to repurposed music Dan Snaith makes it his goal on Up in Flames to do make you forget the dusty grooves and possibly long dead musicians that are playing melodies you’re enjoying.
2. Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beat as One
I Can Hear the Heart Beat as One is the perfect soundtrack for just about everything really… From the opening 1,2 punch of Return To Hot Chicken and Moby Octopad to blissfully idealist My Little Corner of the World, Yo La Tengo create an album to accompany any task and make it more tolerable.
1. Velvet Underground and Nico – S/T
It’s the only thing that can really prepare you to sell lotto to some one who is already drunk at 7am and on his way to church…
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on my day off i'm going to try very hard to make my list for you... i'm too pooped to do it sooner.
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