Estelle Clifford: Iconic albums that are twenty years old

Today Estelle Clifford is hitting rewind and taking it back to 2005, looking at some of the iconic albums released before music streaming services really took off.

Among the albums nearly old enough to drink in the United States are Bloc Party's 'Silent Alarm', Black Eyed Peas'  'Monkey Business', and Paramore's 'All We Know is Falling' - but that's not the end of her list.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's block Party. They're playing at the christ Each Town
Hall tomorrow night, playing at Auckland Spark Arena on Tuesday.
It is twenty years since they released their debut album,
Silent Alarm. That song is called Banquet A Stell Clifford
our music reviewers here this morning, and we're doing things
a bit differently Astell. We're celebrating two thousand and five,

(00:50):
turning back the hands of time.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, all the albums that are turning twenty this year,
block Party. Do you know they cracked it when they
gave one of their singles to friends Ferdinand lead Men.
He shared it with a BBC one radio DJ who
played it like just put straight off. Oh my gosh,
she's doing so much trouble if you did that now,
And then everyone was like, well they are amazing, and
it sort of just took off from there.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Isn't that funny? It feels like the last kind of time,
the last period of time on which you could be
discovered that way, don't you think?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I know? Right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Absolutely, And it started pushing things online like that's when
people started doing some of the online releases. But yeah,
such a cool way to sort of get noticed, and
so why not Twenty years sounds like a really long time,
but when I say two thousand and five, it doesn't
seem that long.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Weird anyway, I feel the same way.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oasis currently on the reunion tour, mostly doing songs from
What's the Story, But they did have a massive album
twenty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
With the important to Be There, You Go There? Yeah,
so this is that's the song that Don't Believe the
Truth is the album?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, that's the one.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was funny too because some of the reviews they
got back then was like people were comparing them to
the Beatles and the Kinks with songs like that. So
a massive tour for those guys as they relive there
are ninety two thousands moments.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
So that was twenty years ago. The Black Eyed Peeple
Monkey Business twenty years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh so I smashed that album. I could not stop
playing it. It was kind of controversial because some people
didn't really like Fergie becoming.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Partner gone mainstream.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, yeah, and look, it probably did get them a
little more mainstream with some of the radio.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Hairs they were everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
One of those ones where people are like, I don't
want to ever listen to it again. Actually, when you
go back to it, you're like, hello, my humps, hilarious,
so great with my heart. Yeah, and you guys are
going to we're going to play some of that in
a little bit. First of all, let's go back to Gorillas.
So this was a band doing that real art pop
trip hop. But the song on that album that I

(03:09):
love Demon Days is Deare got a little bit of
that for you just to remember.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
So good.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
As soon as you hear that, you know you. And
it was just something so different because it wasn't even
about it was about imagery that was cartoon and something
so different. They decided with that album not to tour
it but instead to do residency shows. So they set
up in Manchester for five nights and then in New
York for five nights, and they played the album in
its entirety, and they also had lots of the featured

(03:46):
artists came and performed with them, like De La Soul
and Nina Terry that mind blowing like so cool. So
we were doing that kind of music, but we were
also doing paramore kind of music. In two thousand and five.
So their album That's Just We All We Know is falling.
Hailey Williams had actually signed to Atlantic Records. They wanted

(04:07):
her to be a solo pop artist. She's like, I'm
not the next Madonna, and so then she forms the
band and they take it away and become paramore into
incredible stuff. So yeah, yeah, amazing. There another huge one
which I'm like, really this was twenty years ago, Pushed
the Button Sugar Babe. Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
That feels like twenty years to me.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Maybe actually the sound of a day, Yeah, that song
and ugly like they were. Yeah, yeah, so absolutely everywhere.
So yeah, twenty years from Taller in more ways is
the album that comes from. We're probably already a lot
of people will be replaying Fit Freddy Drop after DJ
Mood just recently passed away, but based on a true

(04:57):
story is also twenty years old this year.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Do you know what I was saying, I was saying
the week that move pasted, I was saying, I remember
buying the album, I remember waiting for the day when
it was released. I remember buying the physical album. I
remember it being in my bag and this like feeling
of being like Oh man, I just need to get
home so I can play this album. I need to
get home so I can play this album. I don't
think i've I've ever experienced anticipation for an album like that,

(05:21):
and it was so successful, right BBC World Widelessness voted
an Album of the Year in two thousand and five
it and it won.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
New Zealand Music Award for Best Album. And it's one
of those ones you can still play now and love
so much watching them do that. They were in Walkers
on the Wellington Waterfront and they rode into the harbor.
Oh yeah, and that's where they made the music video
for Hope.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
So yeah, yeah, no, and especially you got to.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
See them so often, Like that's what I remember about
that album coming out, that they were so accessible at
the same time.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
So yeah, as well as as well as all that
extra mentions Kaisa, Chiefs, Coldplay, Headaches and Y Judas, Preset,
Angel of Retribution, Stereophonics, Love, Sex, Violence, Other and Your
Honor there was I mean, that was an absolute monster.
Panic at the Disco, the Stroke, Nickelback, Pussycat Dolls, Robbie Williams, Madonna.
It was an amazing year. How do you rate two

(06:12):
thousand and five, I.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Love two thousand and five. I still love so many
of those albums. You need to revisit them. So let's
just do ten out of ten and start spinning some
of those and you get stuff to the live jags
when they come block party like you say Tomorrow night
and christ Oh.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
So good, Hey, thank you so much to Stella. Stale
Clifford as our music reviewer. With us this morning seven
to twelve on news Talks eDV.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
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