{cross off when added to spotify library.} {always use their best album to start with unless outstanding circumstances.}

  • mount eerie//wind's poem (they were so quiet i couldnt even hear them lmao reminds me of that portlandia episode)
  • eric's trip//love tara (kind of yr basic early 90s underground alt rock shit, i like it tho)
  • galaxie 500//on fire ('twas sweet)
  • team dresch//personal best (also gay)
  • the butchies//are we not femme? (gay) ( good ! )
  • the gentle waves//the green fields of foreverland (i mean....im sorry isobel campbell's voice just annoys me....)
  • talulah gosh//backwash (yr basic twee shit. surprisingly poppy)
  • teenage fanclub//bandwagonesque (good....like a mix of the later gbv w/ pavement)
  • perfume genius (yeah he's chill! reminds me a lot of xiu xiu and other minimalists)
  • butthole surfers//locust abortion technician (not as dissonant as i expected!)
  • public enemy//it takes a nation of millions to hold us back(good.....i do like vintage rap! i need to listen to more or n.w.a next)
  • fugazi//13 songs OR repeater (repeater is good. ur basic hardcore shit, but not isolating weirdly? like usually im put off but not now...im adapting)
  • defiance, ohio//midwestern minutes (they're like, front bottoms brand of pop punk)
  • VKTMS//ST (long album! but good solid hardgirlrock, similar to garage rock almost)
  • lush//split (nice, good girl rock. i need 2 give another listen tbh i don't think i fully Got It)
  • lizzy mercier descloux//mambo nassau (sounds like nina hagen? okay! also like weirdly appropriative i feel...)
  • the au pairs//playing with a different sex (very punk rock! but also good amount of critism of sexism! nice work)
  • girls at our best!//pleasure (very punk....same vein as au pairs. i like them the voice is softer.)
  • velocity girl//copacetic (very 90s jangle)
  • liliput//ST (reminds me of 'urine', so like loud and discordinant. probs cause i listened to their live album lol)
  • the afro sisters//indigo, sassafras, & mollasses (vaginal davis...like a intersex black punk feminist)
  • two nice girls//2 nice girls (lesbians <3)
  • the pastels//sitting pretty
  • akiko yano//japanese girl
  • C86, which is an NME mixtape from the 1980s
  • the petticoats//http://stefpetticoat.de/sound.html
  • disband//https://disbandny.wordpress.com/library/audio/
  • black tamborine//complete recordings (eh? could give em another listen i guess...)
  • the anemic boyfriends//singles (fun! definitely rock based and in the same vein as a lot of other post punk girls)
  • save ferris//it means everything (fun mid-90s ska pop! )
  • the modern lovers//ST (chill... definitely a step above all the post/pre punk guy albums lol.)
  • jean ritchie//american tales & folk songs (real kentuncky folk hours who up)
  • margo guryan//take a picture (poppy and i dont get why she's a 'pioneer' quite yet? i do enjoy sun tho and some of her other songs...)
  • suburban lawns//ST
  • buell kazee//ST (he narrates all the songs? but its good! real folk in that its traditional)
  • odetta//odetta sings ballads and blues (did her luve at carnegie hall instead but goddmn.....powerful stuff. i honestly wasnt too into ballads and blues? new tip: everytime an artist is too much listen to their live albums, theyre better)
  • jane siberry//the walking (calm nice 80s floaty artpop)
  • danielle dax//pop eyes (i like it! fun hyped art pop! im starting to think this genre was the equivilant of 80s chillwave....)
  • the waitresses//wasn't tomorrow wonderful? (omg.... this is surprisingly fire! 'no guilt' is bomb! they're like a happier poppier algebra suicide!! :-0)
  • marie-josée neuville//La collégienne de la chanson (50s french folk like....how?) (a little underwhelming, but a good french interpretation of 50s music!)
  • sister rosetta tharpe//gospel train (real bluesy.... idk im glad i went with her live stuff)
  • the lijadu sisters//mother africa (nigerian afro-funk!) (they're fun! but i feel like theyre a very small segement of nigerian music....but i like)
  • grace jones//warm leatherette & nightclubbing (i actually loved her earlier disco stuff better but yes...)
  • Tchaikovsky (them russian beats....i enjoyed. ofc i love the overture/main theme or watever....)
  • Grieg: peer gynt suites 1&2 (hall of the mountain king... nice)
  • björk//homogenic & vespertine (bjork is so fun!! fuck anyone who says otherwise)
  • the garden//life and times of a paperclip
  • bonnie dobson//ST (honestly too poppy. too cheesy. i only liked two songs lol)
  • alix dobkin//living with lavander jane (lesbo folk!!!) (how incredibly posi!!! also a diverse mix of folk type songs. i love it.)
  • frankie goes to hollywood//welcome to the pleasuredome (really poppy... but creative pop!)
  • linda perhacs//parallelograms (calm pysch folk. wish i had gotten into her earlier bc she seems so wonderful and fits in with my crazy girls....)
  • anne briggs//the time has come (wonderful wonderful folk. how could u not adore)
  • coil//horse rotorvator
  • current 93//thunder perfect mind
  • chyrstal belle scrodd
  • john fahey//volume 6: days have gone by (cool experimental folk! i enjoyed very much.)
  • smog//wild love
  • alexandra//st
  • kali bahlu//st (IVE NEVER HEARD SOMEONE SPEAK LIKE THIS HOLY SHIT I LOVE....HIPPIE BULLSHIT BUT THE BEST KIND)
  • the carpenters//st (kinda slow and sad but altogether alright)
  • chicken shack//imagination lady
  • susan christie//paint a lady
  • comus//first utterance
  • richard & mimi fariña//celebrations for a grey day
  • liz getz//st
  • gale garnett//my kinds of folk songs
  • mellow candle//swaddling songs
  • carmen maki
  • catherine ribiero + 2 bis//st
  • meredith monk//dolmen music
  • trees//on the shore
  • white noise//an electric storm
  • ruth white//flowers of evil
  • megumi satsu
  • bongwater//double bummer
  • annie anxiety//soul possession

listen more

  • nico
  • patti smith
  • daniel johnston
  • the dead milkmen
  • sonic youth
  • grouper
  • gbv
  • peaches
  • the raincoats
  • shannon and the clams
  • paul simon
  • violent femmes
  • public enemy

download

  • barbara dane//when i was a young girl (real feminist folk.....i love it. i love her)
  • hank williams//the immortal hank williams (did a large compliation of his and altho popular he is true classic country and i love)
  • peggy seeger//different therefore equal & songs of courting and complaint (did the first and i love her...real feminist but yknow)
  • buffy sainte-marie//it's my way! (this is perfectly politized folk)
  • elizabeth cotten (she's true folk)
  • nina simone//pastel blues (i luv her and want to consume more...)
  • half japanese// 1/2 gentlemen/not beasts (there is nothing coherent abt this at all. raw? good musical cleanser. everything else sounds cleaner now.)
  • neo boys (found a record of them at blue bones!!) (this is the kinda weird girl sh*t i need in my life)
  • lydia lunch//queen of siam
  • molly drake//ST
  • j. j. fad//supersonic
  • elliot smith//elliot smith (yes ! i liked him. reminded me more of a folky microphones)
  • nina hagen//nunsexmonkrock
  • outcast//the love below
  • the brat//attitudes (chicano punk--cant listen anywhere else truly!)
  • the grownups//milk carton
  • lcd soundsystem//this is it
  • guided by voices//propeller OR human amusements at hourly rates
  • the front bottoms//rose
  • a$ap rocky//long live a.$.a.p
  • of montreal//aldhils arboretum
  • kimya dawson//remember that i love u
feb 9 2015 ∞
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