Endtroducing.... American release 10 years ago yesterday.

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:30 pm

I happened upon this interesting fact while browsing AMG over the weekend. I wasn't really into electronic music ten years ago but I heard Endtroducing... was going to be a masterpiece. I bought it on the day of its release and the impact it has had on me is pretty damn profound. This cd reminds me of driving around my hometown in my 1988 Pontiac Firebird with Midnight in a Perfect World blaring. Definitely in my top 3 of all time and perhaps number one.

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:32 pm

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Definitely in my top 3 of all time and perhaps number one.

wow..really? do you listen to much music? don't get me wrong - i like the album, but WOW number one album of all time....sheesh...

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:35 pm

Please tell me your number one so that I can ridicule it.

Sketch · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:38 pm

Timis Wrote:

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Definitely in my top 3 of all time and perhaps number one.

wow..really? do you listen to much music? don't get me wrong - i like the album, but WOW number one album of all time....sheesh...

It's my number two, and I listen to a bit.

Was #25 in the collective Listmania poll we did back in the CMJ days.

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:41 pm

Sketch Wrote:

Timis Wrote:

Quote:

Definitely in my top 3 of all time and perhaps number one.

wow..really? do you listen to much music? don't get me wrong - i like the album, but WOW number one album of all time....sheesh...

It's my number two, and I listen to a bit.

Was #25 in the collective Listmania poll we did back in the CMJ days.

Thank you. My god I thought I had entered into bizarro world. I was seriously thinking about searching for the Listmania thread so that I could find Timis' number one and tear it apart. It's probably something good though.

Sketch · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:45 pm

Yeah, better to be nice and just discuss merits. CMJ Listmania thread

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:48 pm

mine is unfuckwitable......

beatles - revolver

you tear that to shreds and watch out...

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:48 pm

btw i didnt mean to come across so harsh...i am just shocked to see it in a top 5 is all...

i do like this album...so i agree with you there

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

It's in my top 5 about half of the time.

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:00 pm

The "Do you listen to much music?" baffles me a bit.

And yes Revolver is unfuckwithable. If it came down to it, I would probably put something by the Beatles at number one.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Revolver isn't even my favorite Beatles album.

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:13 pm

Toki Wartooth Wrote:

Revolver isn't even my favorite Beatles album.

Yeah. I don't understand how it's become the default number one Beatles album. It's getting to be how I feel ashamed if I tell someone that I think the White Album or Sgt Pepper is better.

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:14 pm

Ripple Red Wrote:

The "Do you listen to much music?" baffles me a bit.

And yes Revolver is unfuckwithable. If it came down to it, I would probably put something by the Beatles at number one.

i was being a sarcastic ass.....sorry......

sorry toki that revolver isnt one of your fav beatles record.....

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:16 pm

white and pepper are great albums....but for me there are songs on those albums that i really dont like at all.....

revolver - all the way through

paper · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:16 pm

I doubt he'll ever top that one..shadow, that is.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Timis Wrote:

revolver - all the way through

even yellow submarine?

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:26 pm

Toki Wartooth Wrote:

Timis Wrote:

revolver - all the way through

even yellow submarine?

as a little kid - i use to LOVE that song...so it doesnt bother me...i am probably in the way minority on this one though.

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da drives me up the wall....

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:27 pm

but i think we both agree....

at LEAST one beatles album should be in a top 5 of all-time

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Timis Wrote:

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da drives me up the wall....

oh my god it makes me see red. Not our lovely red, but the stabby crash your car into people red.

and yes, I think everyone peobably should have a Beatles album in their top 5.

and probably a Beatles song that they can't fucking stand. Yellow submraine I don't mind as much, I think it's just I think of it more as a kids song than something that should appear on the same album as something like "Tomorrow Never Knows". But then I'm a Ween fan so I should probably just shut up now.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:21 pm

who are the beattles?

Damen · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:36 pm

I remember hearing "Midnight...." on KCRW a lot before the album came out, Jason Bentley was a big fan. He had Josh on right around the time it came out & that pretty much sold me on the album. I knew Electronic music pretty well but was just getting into the whole Trip Hop/ Downtempo stuff via Ninja Tune & the stuff outta Bristol. Then there was that cover story in Urb that Brian Cross (B+) came out of retirement as a writer to do.

Sometime later a friend kept telling me this girl we went to highschool with was dating a Hip Hop DJ from No Cal, but he couldn't remember his name. Finally like the 4th time he brought it up I asked if it was Shadow & he goes, "Yeah Shadow that's it. Is he any good?" They're now married with twins.

I can't really say this album changed the way I looked at music since I spent the previous 10 years into Hip Hop & got into Electronic music in '92 but it was certainly perfect timing. I just saw Orbital, The Orb, Underworld, Chemical Brothers & Meat Beat Manifesto 5 months earlier & I didn't realise it at the time but beyond MBM every other act had already released thier best album. So Shadow, the rest of Mo' Wax label along with Ninja Tune really helped fill a void that I didn't realize was forming. Getting into that stuff also really fueled my interest in old Funk, Soul & Jazz to go along with my Dub fetish that The Orb had left me with.

The thing I love about Endtroducing... is how "Midnight...." or "Number Song" hit most people right off the bat. But there was so much beneath the surface of so many of the other songs & it make take you a long time to find some of it. I remember coming home from a nite out with the girl I was dating in 2001 & putting the album on with my headphones & freaking out at how good "What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4" sounded esp that vocoder or whatever that weird voice is going on there.

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:34 pm

my number one

south pacific · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:47 pm

This is such a great, landmark album. To me it defines turntablism.

Apreesh.

<---- bought the deluxe version not too long ago.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

i thought the deluxe edition was for the tenth anniversary.

I don't know if I'd call it turntablism, though the term "trip-hop" still makes me shudder. Turntablism always strikes me as people like the Skratch Piklz and Beat Junkies. Shadow just strikes me as so much more atmospheric than that.

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:59 pm

AllMusic has the release date as Nov 19, 1996.

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sq ... ngtq9znu47

Endtroducing.... American release 10 years ago yesterday.

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