Americana

>>72411102
>Modest Mouse
>Americana

>>72411148
You literally cannot understand this album outside of it's context as being american. If you haven't seen/driven through the american west, felt how big the country is, seen trailer parks, etc. It's just going to be a guy with a lisp yelling surrealist non sense at you.

>>72411296
I'm pretty sure we've all seen a highway before, anon, fuck off.

>>72411924
>Highways
>Modest Mice
>Mad

Lord Buckley

>>72411924
You've never seen the open nothingness that is the middle of the US, I take it.

Springsteen (1973 - 1988)
Uncle Tupelo
Steve Earle
Early Wilco

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http://nodepression.com/article/no-depression-staffs-favorite-albums-2016

http://americana-uk.com/americana-uk-staff-pick-their-best-of-2016

http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/saving-country-musics-essential-albums-list-for-2016/

http://www.farcethemusic.com/2016/12/farce-musics-top-20-albums-of-2016.html

http://krvmtupelohoney.blogspot.com/2017/01/best-americana-albums-of-2016.html

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-15-best-americana-albums-of-2016/

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/19/505270066/folk-alleys-10-favorite-albums-of-2016

http://theboot.com/top-americana-alt-country-folk-albums-2016/

http://twangville.com/25775/twangvilles-best-album-of-2016-lydia-loveless-real-plus-more/

https://americanarockmix.com/2017/01/09/episode-313-top-40-albums-of-2016-part-1/

https://americanarockmix.com/2017/01/16/episode-314-top-albums-of-2016-part-2/

http://americanamusic.org/news/americanas-top-10-top-100-albums-2016

That should get you started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppttxQoc74Q

doesnt get more american than this

Can we get an Americana essentials chart going?

Some Albums to get us started.

Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Bob Dylan - literally everything

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>>72413041>>72411296

you fat fucks really have to argue about being the "best" at everything don't you? you're even the best at "nothingness" and "highways" fucking lmao, I'll admit you guys are better than most at obesity and fucking over your indigenous people but you can fuck right off if you think your over developed shithole has this one.

>everythings so bleak and desolate where im from, that's why I'm so deep and quite all the time

he thinks while chugging down pic related in a mall surrounded by 1000s of other fat fucks.

>>72414392
I mean, clearly you've never been here and have some axe to grind. Sorry you don't like your country. Not everyone here thinks/acts the way you do. If you want a self-fulfilling prophecy let me point you toward >>/pol/

>>72411296
That's not what Americana means

Some of Butch Walker's stuff, especially Stay Gold?

Uncle Tupelo
Jason Isbell
Drive By Truckers
Centro Magic
Sturgill Simpson
the Steel drivers
The Band
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Gram Parsons
Flying Burrito Brothers
Georgia Satellites
Akron/Family
Any of Jason Molina's projects
Whiskeytown
Chris Stapleton
American Aquarium
Turnpike Troubadour
The Jayhawks
Lucinda Williams
Amanda Shires Isbell
Robert Earl Keen

>>72411102
If you ain't listening to Jason Isbell then you're fucking up.

>>72414392
Senpai if you're ever in West United States, you get into a trance will driving on the highway because it's such a long stretch nothingness. It's not a superiority thing in fact it's kind of terrible because a lot of people die doing it because they stop paying attention.

I think you can "get" the album, even if you don't ever experience that, but I'm not sure a similar experience exists in Europe or anywhere else in the world. I'd be willing to admit I'm wrong if you can prove me wrong, but the trip from the Rocky Mountains to the east coast there's a lot of blank yellow nothing.

>>72415649
Canada has the exact same nothingness out west.. Google trans Canada highway

>>72414723
Yeah I'm realizing it's actually it's own genre, one of that I would have just called alt-country.

I meant americana in a pretty literal sense outside of the genre, as in, music that is related to the history, geography, folklore and cultural heritage of the United States

>>72413154

this album, along with everything else Molina has ever touched

Silver Jews too

rain dogs comes to mind

>>72415736
Maybe you should go make an album about it then.

Townes van Zandt

>>72416675
It wouldn't be different from Americana. My point is you made a ridiculous claim that no one else in the world understand the "great western expanse" when your literal neighbor has nearly the same cultural and geographic make-up. Even fucking Australia can relate to this.

>>72411296
This is actually true

>>72411102
nice bait

try rodney crowell, townes van zandt, guy clarke, gram parsons, or emmylou harris

>>72415933
Kys

>>72417998
You were intellectually dwarfed. Keep thinking that you'll catch up to me with hard work.

>ITT: Yuros mad that they'll never truly get LCW


and you never will, and anyone who says otherwise is a retard. it's like thinking you'll get Lou Reed's work without doing hard drugs, or understanding Nico's solo work without being a woman

It
Won't
Happen

>>72418438
I'm not your dad but I still appreciated the masterpiece that is your mum's puss.

Not strictly Americana, but U2 - The Joshua Tree

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot feels very american to me

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If you think that Jason Isbell is a better songwriter than Patterson Hood then you can get right the fuck out of my face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nmlTTrhVKU

>>72418510
This

Another album you won't get if you're not American is Duster's Stratosphere, but non-Americans will claim they do, and you can certainly enjoy it, regardless

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

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for the love of god people post americana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWSmOTAulM

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>>72418593
These guys are stupidly good live. His voice is outrageous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OperfSW9S9I

>>72418470
>california
>america

try again

>>72418648
>>>/pol/

>>72416962
Have you driven the trans canada highway?

My point wasn't that it was a unique feature to the United States, it's that the album represents, at least partially, the feeling of driving across that great expanse.

>>72418735
Of course I've driven across the trans Canada highway I'm from fucking Canada. By the way your original statement was
>I think you can "get" the album, even if you don't ever experience that, but I'm not sure a similar experience exists in Europe or anywhere else in the world
Which is just blatantly false. Your original point about the album is correct though, but it's not singularly American. That's the only thing I took issue with.

>>72414392
>being the "best" at everything
how is having an expansive stretch of nothing but desert and strip malls being the best at something?

if anything it sounds like you're acting on repressed jealousy anon

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everybody stop bitching and post americana instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFskdl_gTE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIRrXW4LPBo

>>72418820

>you wouldn't get album cuz we have more stretches of roads

>you might have roads but ours are bigger

>we have the biggest roads

>WHAT?! I'm not being competitive

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>>72418862
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWuWmANBfJw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mvXGTc17Bqo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yujpQuYIHUE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRsjl0Duim0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M_xFGle9o4Y
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98Ow_Jav_eo

Here's some good shit

>>72418543
>Another album you won't get if you're not American is Duster's Stratosphere
enlighten me
Stratosphere is one of my favorite albums and this clicked like a puzzle piece but I can't really put it into words

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Might be my favorite band of all time.

>>72418909
lcw reflects the culture of the american midwest. not just the literal landscape.

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>>72418964
thank god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOFpSN8oElI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs6rgjWZXyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuyGAsGyH6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dapRyuOff_w

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>>72419127
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfk_Q-xP348
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UthnD8RuTxg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=96ETQDNSAyM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZW0pA5COc

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Songs from some of the best Alt. Country released this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4g5XnQlbus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYhjGVBFjLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EEahH63Pg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaJeMHHEBts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAkFmky7ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nZRAPGxNQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSiJ_-q9-DQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZkM_jD0TLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yonyTYjr8hA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bKDHlsL5EE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYx0z-4IagY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jbKgBLN78Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTwhtTc9mD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxuUy-Ln--k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo3ah2SDXg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI76lMV9UUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I1rxWaBT2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw4ZqXfAHY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb016FCxfsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HiL4Oq4OY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPY3GmiB15E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkqhu8LwYUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Brg4Pruwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u054DMMjhLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eFtU57vme4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTMKLQoOys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5dJQUHL1QA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8l14oZKuC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek0TCeiczYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md1thmHFZI0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXbPhasFo9Y

A little sharing of one of the best
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyNPB9iCAM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eN3BlPIwg2U
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_eK2mFogk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CP5AluEcsmQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ztibpXAryg4