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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Omar on December 14, 2015, 03:38:17 PM
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Coming soon. Brace/helmet yourself for THE ONLY LIST THAT MATTERS!
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Coming soon. Brace/helmet yourself for THE ONLY LIST THAT MATTERS!
Did Courtney Barnett make the cut? How about the Social Experiment?
Can hardly stand the suspense.
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i can't reveal any selections at this time. Interesting tidbit on that Courtney Barnett album: Power pop legend Tommy Keene hates it!
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i can't reveal any selections at this time. Interesting tidbit on that Courtney Barnett album: Power pop legend Tommy Keene hates it!
I had no idea. Probably too gritty for Mr. Keene.
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i can't reveal any selections at this time. Interesting tidbit on that Courtney Barnett album: Power pop legend Tommy Keene hates it!
I had know idea. Probably too gritty for Mr. Keene.
From Magnet:
Courtney Barnett “Pedestrian At Best” from Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
I’m always wary of people who seem to come out of nowhere and get this huge hype. Sometimes it’s warranted, and sometimes it’s not. I loathe irony in rock ‘n’ roll unless it’s truly funny—this isn’t. And blatantly singing o ff-key to appear indi fferent or more punk rock is incredibly annoying.
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Ouch!
Now, I'll have to listen to her record again. Hope Tommy (via Omar) didn't ruin it for me.
I was beginning to think of her as a female Elvis Costello.
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Ouch!
Now, I'll have to listen to her record again. Hope Tommy (via Omar) didn't ruin it for me.
I was beginning to think of her as a female Elvis Costello.
No need to reassess because of Keene.
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C'mon, Omar, hurry up. I only have 59 bands to go on Luc Sante's playlist (http://www.thislongcentury.com/?page_id=7403 (http://www.thislongcentury.com/?page_id=7403)) but I'm looking up the bands on Spotify and listening to their discographies, as I do with yours.
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C'mon, Omar, hurry up. I only have 59 bands to go on Luc Sante's playlist (http://www.thislongcentury.com/?page_id=7403 (http://www.thislongcentury.com/?page_id=7403)) but I'm looking up the bands on Spotify and listening to their discographies, as I do with yours.
Thanks for your dedication and your support of Dr. Carson, our next President.
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Can I post my list before Omar, or is that bad form?
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Can I post my list before Omar, or is that bad form?
You can post it!
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I made a digital mixtape comp of some of my favorites here: https://8tracks.com/csw14/best-of-2015
I thought 2015 was a year of lots of "good/really good" records and a handful of great records. So much so that I can't really put together any kind of full ranking because it would be way too arbitrary.
My criteria for best is the records I returned to listening to, day after day, week after week, rather than a few listens here or there. By that criteria, two albums really rose to the top of the pile for me. I designate those as my #1 & 2 favorite albums of 2015. (Coincidentally, both on Trouble In Mind outta Chicago)
1) Negative Scanner - Negative Scanner - Trouble In Mind
Nothing kicked more ass, had better guitars, bass or drums or outright fury than the Scanners did. Play loud. Get Stoked.
2) Primitive Parts - Parts Primitive - Trouble In Mind
Ever since I left the UK, the bands there continue to get better and better. I never expected to hear a record that is equal parts Blur and Wire in 2015 but tHese guys pulled it off!
Other Favorites (unranked)
Peach Kelli Pop - PKP III - Burger
Mike Krol - Turkey - Merge
Barreracudas - Can Do Easy - Oops Baby
The Mantles - - All Odds End - Slumberland
Shannon & The Clams - Gone By The Dawn - Hardly Art
Swami John Reis & The Blind Shake - Modern Surf Classics - Swami
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last - CastleFace
Radioactivity - Silent Kill - Dirtnap
Pow Wows - Broken Curses - Get Hip
Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia - Polyvinyl
Warm Soda - Symbolic Dream - CastleFace
Ultimate Paintining - Green Lanes - Trouble In Mind
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again - Polyvinyl
Pounded By The Surf - No Waves - White Drugs/Cave Punk
Theo Verney - Brain Disease - Mount Olympus
The Rubs - The Rubs Are Trash - TALL PAT
Fuzz - II - In The Red
And there's probably some stuff I forgot to include too.....
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It's time.
The Top 125+ Albums of 2015
(alphabetical order)
Adventures - Supersonic Home (Run For Cover Records)
All Dogs - Kicking Every Day (Salinas Records)
All Hell - The Red Sect (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
Antlered Auntlord - Ostensibly Formerly Stunted (And On Fire) (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
APE! - Hunting With The Lord (Reptilian Records)
Baby Shakes - Starry Eyes (Lil' Chewy Records)
Baroness - Purple (Abraxan Hymns)
The Barreracudas - Can Do Easy (Oops Baby Records)
Big Quiet - s/t (self-released)
The Blind Shake - Fly Right (Slovenly Recordings)
Bully - Feels Like (Startime International/Columbia)
Butcher - Holding Back The Night (Butcher Records)
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Style (Matador)
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home (Hardly Art)
Cherubs - 2 YNFYNYTY (Brutal Panda Records)
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker Music)
Cold Beat - Into the Air (Crime On The Moon)
Coliseum - Anxiety's Kiss (Deathwish Inc.)
Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up (Hardly Art)
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think - And Sometimes I Just Sit (Marathon Artists/Mom + Pop)
Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden (Dark Descent Records)
Cult Leader - Lightless Walk (Deathwish Inc.)
Deafheaven - New Bermuda (Anti-)
Deaf Wish - Pain (Sub Pop)
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier (4AD)
Destroyer - Poison Season (Merge Records)
Dick Diver - Melbourne - Florida (Trouble In Mind)
Don Howland - Life Is A Nightmare (12XU)
Downtown Boys - Full Communism (Don Giovanni Records)
Drug Church - Hit Your Head (No Sleep Records)
Elder - Lore (Armageddon Shop)
Eleventh Dream Day - Works For Tomorrow (Thrill Jockey)
Erase Errata - Lost Weekend (Under The Sun)
Failure - The Heart is a Monster (Failure Records)
Faith No More - Sol Invictus (Reclamation!/Ipecac)
False - Untitled (2015) (Gilead Media)
Fuzz - II (In The Red)
Ghetto Ghouls - Collisions (Monofonus Press)
Ghost - Meliora (Loma Vista)
Grimes - Art Angels (4AD)
Gun Outfit - Dream All Over (Paradise of Bachelors)
Helta Skelta - Beyond The Black Stump (Deranged Records/Helta Skelta Records)
The Hex Dispensers - III (Alien Snatch! Records)
Horrendous - Anareta (Dark Descent Records)
Hurry Up - s/t (Army Of Back Luck)
Immortal Bird - Empress/Abscess (Manatee Rampage Recordings)
The Intelligence - Vintage Future (In The Red)
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (BMG)
ISS - s/t (Loki)
Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs (Drag City)
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter (Slumberland Records)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Freedom Tower-No Wave Dance Party 2015 (Shove Records/Mom + Pop)
Kelley Stoltz - In Triangle Time (Castle Face Records)
KEN Mode - Success (Season of Mist)
Khemmis - Absolution (20 Buck Spin)
Killing Joke - Pylon (Spinefarm Records)
The King Khan & BBQ Show - Bad News Boys (In The Red)
Kinski - 7 (Or [8]) (Kill Rock Stars)
Kitchen's Floor - Battle of Brisbane (bruit direct disques (LP)/self-released (digital)/forthcoming in U.S. from HoZac (apparently))
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances (Gilead Media)
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire (Season of Mist/Retro Futurist)
La Luz - Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
Life Stinks - You'll Never Make It (S-S Records)
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey)
Locrian - Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
Low - Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
Lucifer - Lucifer I (Rise Above Records)
Magic Circle - Journey Blind (20 Buck Spin)
Mikal Cronin - MCIII (Merge Records)
Mike Krol - Turkey (Merge Records)
The Minneapolis Uranium Club - The Minneapolis Uranium Club Performs Human Exploration (self-released)
The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ (Merge Records)
Mutoid Man - Bleeder (Sargent House)
Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat (Century Media)
Negative Scanner – s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Nervosas - s/t (Dirtnap)
Niche - Heading East (Retro Futurist)
Noisem - Blossoming Decay (A389 Recordings)
Northern Liberties - Errant Ray (self-released)
OBN III's - Worth A Lot Of Money (12XU)
Obnox x 3 - Boogalou Reed (12XU) / Know America (Ever/Never) / Wiglet (Ever/Never)
Palehound - Dry Food (Exploding in Sound Records)
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal (Birdrune Recordings)
Peach Kelli Pop – III (Burger Records)
Pierre & Bastien - Que du Bonheur (Polly Maggoo Records)
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
Pyramids - A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore Records)
Radical Dads - Universal Coolers (Old Flame Records)
Radioactivity - Silent Kill (Dirtnap)
Rats in the Louvre - s/t (Water Under The Bridge)
Richard Papiercuts - "IF" (Ever/Never) ["Peanut Butter Is Back" (http://evernever-records.bandcamp.com/track/peanut-butter-is-back) + "Now I've Found You" (http://evernever-records.bandcamp.com/track/now-ive-found-you) -- two gems from this one]
Ricked Wicky x 3 - I Sell The Circus / King Heavy Metal / Swimmer To A Liquid Armchair (GBV Inc.)
Robert Pollard - Faulty Superheroes (GBV Inc.)
Royal Headache - High (What's Your Rupture?)
The Rubs - The Rubs Are Trash (Tall Pat Records/Dumpster Tapes)
Ruby the Hatchet - Valley of the Snake (Tee Pee Records)
Salad Boys - Metalmania (Trouble In Mind)
Sannhet - Revisionist (Flenser Records)
Screaming Females Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni Records)
Slayer - Repentless (Nuclear Blast)
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
Snooty Garbagemen - s/t (12XU)
Soupjam Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty Records)
Spray Paint x 2 - Punters on a Barge (Homeless) / Dopers (Monofonus Press)
Sweet Cobra - Earth (Magic Bullet Records)
Sweet Talk - Double Perfect (12XU)
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face Records)
Thee Tsunamis - Saturday Night Sweetheart (Magnetic South)
Torche - Restarter (Relapse)
Toupee - Leg Toucher (Moniker Records)
Tropical Trash - UFO Rot (Load Records)
TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms (Deranged Records)
Twerps – Range Anxiety (Merge Records)
Uniform - Perfect World (12XU)
Vapid - Lake of Tears (self-released)
Veruca Salt- Ghost Notes (El Camino Media)
Vhol - Deeper The Sky (Profound Lore Records)
Viet Cong - s/t (Jagjaguwar)
WAND x 2 - Golem (In The Red) / 1000 Days (Drag City)
Waxahatchee - Ivy Trip (Merge Records)
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (Relapse)
With The Dead - s/t (Rise Above Records)
Xetas - The Redeemer (12XU)
Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland Records)
The Zoltars - s/t (Happenin Records)
Edit: I'm not going to boot any of the above, but I did forget to include Jerry Gaskill - Love & Scars (Rat Pak Records); solo album from King's X drummer, which manages to sound pretty King's X-y despite no Pinnick or Tabor. A particularly triumphant release considering Mr. Gaskill's two heart attacks in recent years; he also lost his home/all possessions to Hurricane Sandy.
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I made a digital mixtape comp of some of my favorites here: https://8tracks.com/csw14/best-of-2015
I thought 2015 was a year of lots of "good/really good" records and a handful of great records. So much so that I can't really put together any kind of full ranking because it would be way too arbitrary.
My criteria for best is the records I returned to listening to, day after day, week after week, rather than a few listens here or there. By that criteria, two albums really rose to the top of the pile for me. I designate those as my #1 & 2 favorite albums of 2015. (Coincidentally, both on Trouble In Mind outta Chicago)
1) Negative Scanner - Negative Scanner - Trouble In Mind
Nothing kicked more ass, had better guitars, bass or drums or outright fury than the Scanners did. Play loud. Get Stoked.
2) Primitive Parts - Parts Primitive - Trouble In Mind
Ever since I left the UK, the bands there continue to get better and better. I never expected to hear a record that is equal parts Blur and Wire in 2015 but tHese guys pulled it off!
Other Favorites (unranked)
Peach Kelli Pop - PKP III - Burger
Mike Krol - Turkey - Merge
Barreracudas - Can Do Easy - Oops Baby
The Mantles - - All Odds End - Slumberland
Shannon & The Clams - Gone By The Dawn - Hardly Art
Swami John Reis & The Blind Shake - Modern Surf Classics - Swami
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last - CastleFace
Radioactivity - Silent Kill - Dirtnap
Pow Wows - Broken Curses - Get Hip
Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia - Polyvinyl
Warm Soda - Symbolic Dream - CastleFace
Ultimate Paintining - Green Lanes - Trouble In Mind
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again - Polyvinyl
Pounded By The Surf - No Waves - White Drugs/Cave Punk
Theo Verney - Brain Disease - Mount Olympus
The Rubs - The Rubs Are Trash - TALL PAT
Fuzz - II - In The Red
And there's probably some stuff I forgot to include too.....
Great list; definitely some stuff I need to check out for the first time and/or revisit. Just sampled a very enjoyable Theo Verney track.
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Awesome list, we played with Elder recently and they were great.
Ian from Kowloon is a big Best Show fan
I don't get how Deafheaven are so huge now, I think they're alright. I forgot about Peach Kelli Pop, I'll chekc out their new one.
Still gotta get the new Cherubs too. they were old favorites
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Great list; definitely some stuff I need to check out for the first time and/or revisit. Just sampled a very enjoyable Theo Verney track.
Thanks Omar! I appreciate that. Your list is also great and will take me an age to follow up on.
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+1 on that Magic Circle record.
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Just listened to Evan Funk Davies' Album of the Year: John Krautner's Fun with Gum, Vol. 1. It's a good one!
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Just listened to Evan Funk Davies' Album of the Year: John Krautner's Fun with Gum, Vol. 1. It's a good one!
EFD's year-end roundups are always worth exploring. I was not familiar with Krautner, but I checked it out and it is indeed quite good. I was also not aware of the Worriers -- another good one from the Don Giovanni label.
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Awesome list, we played with Elder recently and they were great.
Ian from Kowloon is a big Best Show fan
I don't get how Deafheaven are so huge now, I think they're alright. I forgot about Peach Kelli Pop, I'll chekc out their new one.
Still gotta get the new Cherubs too. they were old favorites
Thanks; always nice to see olds like Cherubs, Killing Joke, Maiden, etc. still delivering the goods.
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man, you guys would hate my list so much ;P
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In no order:
1. Goatsnake - Black Age Blues
2. Don Howland - Life Is A Nightmare
3. Dorthia Cottrell - s/t
4. Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
5. Monster Magnet - Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux)
6. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
7. Clutch - Psychic Warfare
8. SunnO))) - Kannon
9. V/A - Ork Records: New York, New York
10. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin' Down
11. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
12. Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You
13. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
14. Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
15. Fuzz - II
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I didn't buy a lot of new releases in 2015, but the best live shows I saw in 2015 were (in no particular order)
OOIOO
Bang
Magma
UFOmammut
Annihilation Time (reunion)
Drunk Injuns/Mutants/Avengers/Alice Bag/Lewd/VKTMS/Cheetah Chrome
Roky Erickson
Motorhead
Queen Crescent
Elder
the Theme Weavers (with Scharpling & Wurster)
Flipper (with David Yow)
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I didn't buy a lot of new releases in 2015, but the best live shows I saw in 2015 were (in no particular order)
OOIOO
Bang
Magma
UFOmammut
Annihilation Time (reunion)
Drunk Injuns/Mutants/Avengers/Alice Bag/Lewd/VKTMS/Cheetah Chrome
Roky Erickson
Motorhead
Queen Crescent
Elder
the Theme Weavers (with Scharpling & Wurster)
Flipper (with David Yow)
wasn't UFOmammut great live?!
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I didn't buy a lot of new releases in 2015, but the best live shows I saw in 2015 were (in no particular order)
OOIOO
Bang
Magma
UFOmammut
Annihilation Time (reunion)
Drunk Injuns/Mutants/Avengers/Alice Bag/Lewd/VKTMS/Cheetah Chrome
Roky Erickson
Motorhead
Queen Crescent
Elder
the Theme Weavers (with Scharpling & Wurster)
Flipper (with David Yow)
I was sad to miss Bang! But my wife went, she said there wasn't many people there and I was surprised because Bang! is one of the great lost bands. If Sir Lord Baltimore wasn't dead and they toured, would the response be the same?
Thanks for mentioning Los Theme Weavers in your top list - those shows were some of the most fun I've ever played and what a thrill to work with Tom & Jon after all these years of fandom.
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we got to open for Bang and UFOmammut (not the same show). Both bands ruled live and both bands were awesome people. the bang show had people, but it was the day after Halloween and around a few other shows, so I didn't expect it to be packed. Thye played to a large group of people when i saw them in santa ana though. And they're playing at Roadburn fest this year- they seem really stoked!
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This is such a great list, thanks for doing this! Especially dig all of the heavy/metal stuff that I don't get exposed to nearly as frequently. Now where can I follow you to get recommendations throughout the year so I can avoid having 60 albums to listen to in January...
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This is such a great list, thanks for doing this! Especially dig all of the heavy/metal stuff that I don't get exposed to nearly as frequently. Now where can I follow you to get recommendations throughout the year so I can avoid having 60 albums to listen to in January...
Thanks. I have not previously used any other outlet to document an ongoing Best Of through the year. I will consider doing a quarterly roundup this year as a prelude to the final list.
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This is such a great list, thanks for doing this! Especially dig all of the heavy/metal stuff that I don't get exposed to nearly as frequently. Now where can I follow you to get recommendations throughout the year so I can avoid having 60 albums to listen to in January...
Thanks. I have not previously used any other outlet to document an ongoing Best Of through the year. I will consider doing a quarterly roundup this year as a prelude to the final list.
The list is 125 records long and still somehow omits Kurt Vile?