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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on December 05, 2007, 07:58:04 PM
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Every year I put together a case of my favorite CD's from that year as a gift for my little sister. Below is my list. Anything else I should check out? (In other words: what are your albums of the year?)
Akron Family- Love is Simple
Apples in Stereo- New Magnetic Wonder
Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
The Besnard Lakes- The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
Black Lips- Good Bad Not Evil
Blitzen Trapper- Wild Mountain Nation
Brother Ali- The Undisputed Truth
Durrty Goodz- Axiom
Les Savy Fav- Let's Stay Friends
Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Okkervil River- The Stage Names (+ demo's)
Ted Leo + Pharmacists- Living With the Living
Travis Linville- See You Around
Vampire Weekend- Blue CD-R
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I'll probably also add:
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Dr. Dog- We all belong
Money Mark- Brand New by Tomorrow
Menomena- Friend and Foe
Dinosaur Jr- Beyond
Ghostface and Wu
Deer Tick- War Elephant
and maybe The Antlers.
My favorite this year is Apples in Stereo hands down. That thing is a masterpiece in my mind.
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The Ike Reilly Assassination "We Belong To The Staggering Evening"
Spencer P. Jones "Fugitive Songs"
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Sloan -- Never Hear the End of It
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Statehood - Lies and Rhetoric (http://www.avclub.com/content/music/statehood)
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Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Reich
Middian - Age Eternal
Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love
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Also, tack on:
Grinderman - S/T
Justice - That Cross Album
Battles - Mirrored
Caribou - Andorra
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Arbor Day - Braver Than Today
Tomahawk - Anonymous
Also, I have to say it: Neon Bible.
These records are merely additions to the many great ones Andy and others put that would top my list as well.
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Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Record of the year, anyone?
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I don't know if I've said this on here before, but to me Neon Bible sounds like a lo-fi Sam's Town. And yet, I like Sam's Town and hate Neon Bible.
(Now I remember that I have said it before in the apologists thread)
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I don't know if I've said this on here before, but to me Neon Bible sounds like a lo-fi Sam's Town. And yet, I like Sam's Town and hate Neon Bible.
(Now I remember that I have said it before in the apologists thread)
Yeah, Andy, I remember that. I don't know how an opinion can be factually wrong, but I think you've pulled it off.
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next week, after my exams are out of the way, i'm going to start doing best of the year stuff on ye olde blog (http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com).
i especially enjoyed jamie t, malcolm middleton, the national and lucky soul, though.
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I keep meaning to get around to The National. Samir, a point of reference for their sound? I have no idea what I'm getting into.
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I keep meaning to get around to The National. Samir, a point of reference for their sound? I have no idea what I'm getting into.
I can't think of a way to describe music that doesn't make it sound horrible. Their singer's voice is really deep and baritone, and the latest album, particularly, is more gentle and has a late-night smoke-filled bar that compliments the voice better than they have before (not that their previous stuff wasn't ace). To get some idea, check out this live set (http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/2007/11/mp3s-national-played-boston-bar.htm).
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sorry, that isn't very descriptive, is it?
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I liked Tegan and Sara's The Con and National's The Boxer a lot.
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sorry, that isn't very descriptive, is it?
That actually sounds like it could be not terrible.
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I'd recommend starting with The National's Alligator and then moving to Boxer.
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Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective.
Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem.
Rushup Edge & Confederation Trough by the Tuss. (electronic music)
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my thoughts. (http://www.geocities.com/chestersblanketfort/bestof2007.html)
cliff notes:
1. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
2. Rotator: Choose Your Poison, Mine Is Hardcore!!!
3. His Name Is Alive: Xmmer
4. MIA: Kala
5. Dan Deacon: Spiderman Of The Rings
6. OCDJ: Hooray!
7. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
8. Burial: Untrue
9. Wolves In The Throne Room: Southern Lord
10. Justice: Cross
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Why isn't there a cross icon on my keyboard?
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I'd recommend starting with The National's Alligator and then moving to Boxer.
That album begins and ends with my favourite songs by them - but for me, pound-for-pound, Boxer has it.
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Why isn't there a cross icon on my keyboard?
wha† are you †alking about?
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Why isn't there a cross icon on my keyboard?
wha† are you †alking about?
Jerk.
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I can't get any love up in here for Grinderman?
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I can't get any love up in here for Grinderman?
See the first entry in Forrest's list.
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Sorry if I'm repeating any and/or if some of these aren't from 2007 (a couple are reissues or new compilations of old material):
The Great Plains - Length of Growth, 1981-89
St. Vincent - Marry Me
M.I.A. - Kala
That Wu-Tang mixtape from Loud.com
TL/Rx - Living With the Living
Tegan & Sara - The Con
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
The Sea & Cake - Everybody
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Flaming Fire - When the High Bell Rings
The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Oneida - Seeds of Contemplation
In Rainbows, of course
Jay Dee aka J Dilla - Ruff Draft
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(http://img.radio.cz/pictures/romove/gramo.jpg)
NEW STUFF
Animal Collective STRAWBERRY JAM
The Tuss RUSHUP EDGE
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists LIVING WITH THE LIVING
Radiohead IN RAINBOWS
Jay-Z AMERICAN GANGSTER
Panda Bear PERSON PITCH
Glass Candy B/E/A/T/B/O/X
Robert Pollard COAST TO COAST CARPET OF LOVE
Black Lips GOOD BAD NOT EVIL
Electric Wizard WITCHCULT TODAY
Burial UNTRUE
MIA KALA
Liars LIARS
Diplo RADIO ONE ESSENTIAL MIX
The White Stripes ICKY THUMP
Porter Wagoner WAGONMASTER
Justice †
No Age WEIRDO RIPPERS
DJ Jazzy Jeff RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT
Dinosaur JR BEYOND
Ghostface Killah THE BIG DOE REHAB
Kevin Ayers THE UNFAIRGROUND
Terror Visions WORLD OF SHIT
UGK UNDERGROUND KINGZ
V/A AFTER DARK
Daft Punk ALIVE 2007
REISSUES
The Pink Floyd THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Faust FAUST IV
The Modern Lovers THE MODERN LOVERS
VA WATTSTAX
Young Marble Giants COLLOSAL YOUTH AND COLLECTED WORKS
Laurie Anderson BIG SCIENCE
Sonic Youth DAYDREAM NATION: DELUXE EDITION
Sly & the Family Stone THE COLLECTION
Joy Division UNKNOWN PLEASURES/CLOSER/STILL
COMEDY
Scharpling & Wurster ART OF THE SLAP
Patton Oswalt WEREWOLVES WITH LOLLIPOPS
Paul F Tompkins IMPERSONAL
Oh and probably other stuff
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Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Record of the year, anyone?
Yes!
I've been saying that since February
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you all forgot to mention The Intelligence - Deuteronomy
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The only new things I got this year were
MIA Kala
Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil
Neil Young Live At Massey Hall (Hey it could sorta count)
Paul F. Tompkins Impersonal.
that Marnie Stern album.
I'm completely out of touch.
Hey I don't know.
I spent a lot of money re-buying stuff like Mag! Earwhig and R.E.M.'s Dead Letter Office on iTunes. I bought some CD of old Maritime Folk Songs. Big 3-0 this year. Don't care about new things anymore.
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I can't get any love up in here for Grinderman?
You want some Grinderman love? I'll give you some Grinderman love.
"Love Bomb" was one of my favorite songs all year.
I was more invested in scouring the past for unknown music (unknown to me, anyway - how'd I miss out on the first Modern Lovers record? For shame, me!), so a lot of the new releases this year passed me by.
Radiohead's In Rainbows has to be a highlight for me, as it's the first Radiohead record that I've enjoyed the whole way through.
I also really liked Andrew Bird's Armchair Apocrypha, even if all the songs were a little same-y. The Tough & Lovely's Teardrops was solid.
From what I've heard of Jay Reatard, I think I'd like Blood Visions a whole lot, haven't gotten around to picking it up yet, though.
A lot of good comps and reissues this year, though - Jazzman Records' Florida Funk and Numero Group's Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul being my two favorites comp-wise, even though that wacko Latinamericarpet is really growing on me.
As for reissues, I like that Fire Engines Hungry Beat record, as well as the soundtracks to El Topo and The Holy Mountain included in the Jodorowsky DVD set.
And of course, The Art of the Slap has to be in my top three - and that doesn't even mean it's number three! Impersonal was a killer comedy record. Werewolves and Lollipops - sterling. 2007 = the comedy album makes a comeback.
I like the old stuff I found out about this year as much as any new stuff - The Modern Lovers, Thank Christ For the Bomb, I Am the Cosmos, Reigning Sound, The Mice, Tetes Lourdes, Searchin' For Shakes, Von Lmo, Any Trouble - and a lot of it is thanks to you guys, Tom and the Best Show, which I also "discovered" this year. 2007 was great for me, and a lot of it was due to the Best Show and all of you here at the message board, so thanks everybody!
Onward and upward, to 2008 - they'll get theirs and we'll get ours!
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This is a good thread, because it will help me start getting my best of 2007 list for my own radio show together. So far, in no particular order of importance:
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Drug Rug - s/t
The Bags - Mount Rockmore
The Curses - All Hail The Curses
T.L. + The Rockstarmacists - I'm Living With The Living And You'll Die Without It
George Lewis Jr. - Hold Me ep
Wild Zero - II ep
The Outlets - Rock 1980
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Holy Fuck - s/t
The Sprained Ankles - You Love The Sprained Ankles ep
Watts - One Below The All Time Low
Dennis Brennan - Engagement
Turbonegro - Retox
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
A.K.A.C.O.D. - Happiness
Coliseum - No Salvation
Jesu - Conqueror
More coming...
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I can't get any love up in here for Grinderman?
See the first entry in Forrest's list.
I sheepishly withdraw my question, while simultaneously applauding Forrest's excellent taste in music. Now, unfortunately, by association certain FOT will draw the conclusion that Forrest's taste in music sucks. But you know what? You gotta be what you are! You can't be cowed into trying to be something that you're not.....THAT WAY LIE MONSTERS.
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I will join in the list love later this afternoon, but I warn you in advance, there's going to be jazz, and blues, and God knows what other unfavored music I got into.
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T.L. + The Rockstarmacists - I'm Living With The Living And You'll Die Without It
Now, why didn't I think of that??
She's controversial (though I honestly think that reflects more on the audience's blandness than her "craziness"), but my favorite album of the year was Kristeen Young's "Orphans."
Also have been freaking out on this Irish guy, Ciaran Murphy, who put out a record this year called "Survival of the Weakest."
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Here's a few I liked this year:
Bettye LaVette: Scene of the Crime
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: 100 Days, 100 Nights
The New Pornographers: Challengers
Imperial Teen: The Hair The TV The Baby & The Band
Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
The National: Boxer
Joe Henry: Civilians
Robert Plant and Alison Krause:Raising Sand
Thurston Moore: Trees Outside the Academy
Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
Miles Daves: Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival
This is a preliminary list. I still have a bunch of stuff to listen to.
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Wasn't excited about much this year, except for this first one:
Ted E. Rockstar - LWTL
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water
Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Machinefabriek - Weleer
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
V/A - After Dark
Still a bunch of stuff I haven't heard...
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Elliott Smith - New Moon
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
I wish I could say In Rainbows made my list, but I can't. It's the first time I've been disappointed by a Radiohead Album in at least 10 years... It just felt flat to me. Like they just pieced it together.
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I wish I could say In Rainbows made my list, but I can't. It's the first time I've been disappointed by a Radiohead Album in at least 10 years... It just felt flat to me. Like they just pieced it together.
No, no, no Ballmer - not flat, just not fully consistent (I had the same problems with HTTT). Bodysnatchers, 15 Step, Jigsaw and All I Need are Radiohead at the top of their game.
In my very own humble opinion, of course.
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I haven't been super excited about much this year - Róisín Murphy, 4 Hero, Feist, Studio, Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Field, Theo Parrish probably make the cut (haven't listened enough to Daft Punk, Wu and Ghostface yet).
2007 has been a good year for 12"s and singles though. All those Kris Menace remixes, José James, Kerri Chandler, Avalanches...
But album-wise, I guess comedy is where it's at in 2007 - PFT, Patton, S&W, Kirkman, CDR... lots of good stuff.
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I will join in the list love later this afternoon, but I warn you in advance, there's going to be jazz, and blues, and God knows what other unfavored music I got into.
I got your back, dawg.
Probably.
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Lots of good stuff on these lists-
One of my favorite albums of '07 is 23 by Blonde Redhead.
I just noticed this is my 23rd post... whutta coinkydink. How "Carrey-esque".
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The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Bishop Allen & The Broken String
So Cow - These Truly Are End Times
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Thinguma*Jigsaw - (awakeinwhitechapel)
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
Tap Tap - Lanzafame
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
White Rabbits - Fort Nightly
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Handsome Furs - Plague Park
Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak
The Kissaway Trail - The Kissaway Trail
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Living With The Living
The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Radiohead - In Rainbows
They Shoot Horses Don't They - Pick Up Sticks
Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop And Eyes Will Blink
The National - Boxer
The Go! Team - Proof of Youth
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
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Andy I thought for sure you would be listing: Mighty Horse by Sleeves
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I will join in the list love later this afternoon, but I warn you in advance, there's going to be jazz, and blues, and God knows what other unfavored music I got into.
I got your back, dawg.
Probably.
"Later today" has unavoidably drifted into "sometime on Friday." Find it in your heart to forgive me.
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I forgot that Dr. Dog and Blonde Redhead came out this year. Add those to my faves.
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A couple more to add to my list (I'm not sure on some of these release dates - some may be 2006 and I'm too lazy to check right now):
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
The Brought Low - Right on Time
Shame Club - Come On
Teeth of the Hydra - Greenland
Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass 12"
Baroness - Red Album
Rwake - Voices of Omens
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Five Horse Johnson - The Mystery Spot
Comets on Fire - Avatar
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2007 has been a good year for 12"s and singles though. Avalanches...
wait, whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?
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Colleen-Les ondes silencieuses
Dan Deacon-Spiderman of the Rings
Panda Bear-Person Pitch (everyone loves that one)
James Blackshaw-The Cloud of the Unknowing
Dirty Projectors-Rise Above
Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
It's weird, I feel like every other year I was able to name a ton more albums than this. either I'm tired, bitter, or getting harder to please. or all three.
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2007 has been a good year for 12"s and singles though. Avalanches...
wait, whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?
They tease-released one single through their website called Ray of Zdarlight earlier this year - but alas, no new album yet. Get the track here (http://www.sendspace.com/file/is2fs9).
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T.L. + The Rockstarmacists - I'm Living With The Living And You'll Die Without It
Now, why didn't I think of that??
Maybe because you were too busy making a great fucking album... (seriously, TL, you helped provide a substantial part of the soundtrack that made my 2007 bearable)
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Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Record of the year, anyone?
Prolly.
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Count me out of the Panda Bear/Animal Collective love fest.
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Count me out of the Panda Bear/Animal Collective love fest.
I don't like anything animal collective has done since "Sung Tongs" but I feel like Panda Bear has really kept the things I liked about animal collective going.
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Count me out of the Panda Bear/Animal Collective love fest.
There's no reason to lump the two records together. I didn't really dig the new Animal Collective record, but I thought the Panda Bear record was stellar. Alas, it is with a heavy heart that I will strike your name from the love fest page, Gilly.
Maybe next year?!
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We'll see. I might have a "thing" next year...
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I liked the Love of Diagrams EP I got when they opened for Ted Leo in Miami (http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,478.0.html).
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Finally, here's my list.
First off, I only know Animal Collective through the NPR concert they did in September or October
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14564305
I listened to it three time, trying to learn to like it, since people who I respect love them, but it never worked. Where's a better place to start? (I have one on order, something about Strawberries.)
Secondly, I am listing CDs here that were new to me in 2007, but if I was going to list my favorite 2007 releases, with a couple of exceptions, I would have to wait until 2011.
Pop/Rock/Whatever we're calling it
Bob Dylan - Modern Times (sorry Tom)
Ben Folds - Rockin the Suburbs (sorry Tom)
Keane - Under the Iron Sea (just assume that "sorry Tom" is a given from here on)
Ray Lamontagne - Til the Sun Turns Black
Scott Walker - The Drift (an awful lot like picking at a scab, but I couldn't stop)
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Zero 7 - The Garden
Willie Nelson - The Complete Atlantic Sessions
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
Marshall Crenshaw - The Definitive Pop Collection
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll
Built To Spill - You in Reverse
Eric Sanko/Skeleton Key Sampler from a New Zealander I barely know who calls himself Anzac
Hot Chip - Coming On Strong
Frank Zappa - Trance/Fusion
Erin McKeown - Sing You Sinners
Chris Thile - Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
Roger Manning - The Land of Pure Imagination
Television - Marquee Moon
Aimee Mann - Bachelor Number 2
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Cat Power - The Greatest
Comets of Fire - The Avatar
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
The Magic Numbers
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (me and Andy from Knoxville are both obsessed with "The Knights of Cydonia")
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Do Something Inappropriate To You
Crowded House - Time On Earth
Jazz/Blues
Weather Report - Forecast (Box Set)
Buddy Guy - Can't Quit the Blues
John Lee Hooker - Hooker (Box Set)
Miles Davis - King of Blue
Andy Milne - Dreams and False Alarms
Terence Blanchard - A Tale of God's Will
I have admitted to Stan that I am a big prog-rock geek, but I think I have heard it all, so that stuff's limited in my goodpile for this year.
Finally, anybody that made it this far, there's a terrific Steve Albini interview on this week's Sound of Young America. You are only allowed to listen to it when you turn in your recap of this week's TBSOWFMUWTS to Omar, but it's worth your hour; he's really funny, and he's got a philosophy of music that goes hand in hand with most FOT sensibilities. But ONLY after you've completed your FOT duties, young ones!
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Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (me and Andy from Knoxville are both obsessed with "The Knights of Cydonia")
Buddy Guy - Can't Quit the Blues
1. Dave, have you seen the video for Knights of Cydonia? It's wonderful and ridiculous.
2. Didn't Buddy Guy die, in the "blues igloo"?
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I had never seen it, but we just watched. We're still laughing.
If there's a sequel. I hope he has to go into the jungle to flush our some no-gooders, with his smooth karate moves, his robot, and mostly his beautiful lady and her magic disc.
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Finally, here's my list.
First off, I only know Animal Collective through the NPR concert they did in September or October
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14564305
I listened to it three time, trying to learn to like it, since people who I respect love them, but it never worked. Where's a better place to start? (I have one on order, something about Strawberries.)
Dave from Knoxville:
Strawberry Jam is Animal Collective's latest album and it is a good and fine place to start. However, if it is at all possible, get their 2005 album Feels as well. It's like a musical interpretation of a Henry Darger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger) painting.
Also, I think your list is great. I love The Drift a lot.
- No Underbites
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Marshall Crenshaw - The Definitive Pop Collection
Is he still foggin'?
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Dave, you remind me of a great quote from Luc Sante:
Music is new when it's new to you. As a teenager I resorted to borrowing records from the library; these days (when there's about 5000 times as much stuff available as there was then) I rely on a kind of dowsing method. And the reissue thing helps immensely, of course, because when you excise the nostalgia angle it becomes a true time-warp, in which records are released in the present and go on to alter the past. For example, as far as I'm concerned the first three albums by Os Mutantes came out around 2002, and that's that. In fact, those records could only have been conceived in the wake of post-punk, the lounge-music bubble, and the development of sampling. Borges would have understood this: Kafka is the predecessor of Hawthorne.
By that standard, some of my favorite new albums of 2007 include releases from Big Star, ABBA (thanks, Tom!), The Coup, Bad Brains, Creedence (thanks, Tom!), The Fall, The Clean, Dolly Parton, The Jam, The Sea and Cake, The Minutemen, Os Mutantes (thanks, Luc!), The Jesus Lizard (thanks, guy from Chunklet or Fluxblog or whoever that was), The Staple Singers, Superchunk, The Yardbirds, Bob Dylan, The Sonics (thanks, WFMU!), and Danger Doom.
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Dave, you remind me of a great quote from Luc Sante:
Music is new when it's new to you. As a teenager I resorted to borrowing records from the library; these days (when there's about 5000 times as much stuff available as there was then) I rely on a kind of dowsing method. And the reissue thing helps immensely, of course, because when you excise the nostalgia angle it becomes a true time-warp, in which records are released in the present and go on to alter the past. For example, as far as I'm concerned the first three albums by Os Mutantes came out around 2002, and that's that. In fact, those records could only have been conceived in the wake of post-punk, the lounge-music bubble, and the development of sampling. Borges would have understood this: Kafka is the predecessor of Hawthorne.
By that standard, some of my favorite new albums of 2007 include releases from Big Star, ABBA (thanks, Tom!), The Coup, Bad Brains, Creedence (thanks, Tom!), The Fall, The Clean, Dolly Parton, The Jam, The Sea and Cake, The Minutemen, Os Mutantes (thanks, Luc!), The Jesus Lizard (thanks, guy from Chunklet or Fluxblog or whoever that was), The Staple Singers, Superchunk, The Yardbirds, Bob Dylan, The Sonics (thanks, WFMU!), and Danger Doom.
Jason, if you like the Sonics then you might be interested in a similar band called the Monks, if you haven't heard of them already. Their record Black Monk Time has that same early garage/punk feel, but with a banjo. That record also has a song called "Cuckoo", which features the immortal couplet, "Someone stole my cuckoo/Yeah, I wanna know who-who".
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Thanks, Rover. I'll check them out.
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Jason, if you like the Sonics then you might be interested in a similar band called the Monks, if you haven't heard of them already. Their record Black Monk Time has that same early garage/punk feel, but with a banjo. That record also has a song called "Cuckoo", which features the immortal couplet, "Someone stole my cuckoo/Yeah, I wanna know who-who".
The Monks are awesome.
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The Monks are awesome.
Gotta include this clip too:
[youtube]FYsyC2PFVBs[/youtube]
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Horizontal guitar!!! Pre Keith Row?
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I had never heard of the Monks before. They're wonderful.
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Well if it's older artists that I only discovered this year, here's three:
Reno's Men--check out Glen Jones' archives for interviews and in-studio performances as well as CDNow for "Steroe Slide"
Starky--I'm torn on this band. They have one album, "Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre" that rocks from end to end. It was produced by Rob Younger. Their other efforts pale in comparison.
Sour Jazz--Every album this band has done sounds like the fourth Arista Iggy album...seriously, it is a dead ringer for "New Values"...drop dead Iggy vocals married to drop dead Ivan Kral guitars. Oh yeah, there's a killer trombone thrown into the mix.
And for new re-releases, this came out about a month ago:
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff38/SavageBeatRecords/Hitmen_ST_150.jpg)
Australia's Hitmen...Radio Birdman alums, soon-to-become Hoodoo Gurus. 2 CD set contains the original debut plus first two singles, plus scads of demos and live cuts, with ferocious Blue Oyster Cult, Stooges, MC5, Roky Erickson, Magazine, etc. covers.
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I had never heard of the Monks before. They're wonderful.
"Monk Time" was used in a commercial about 8 years ago, I think. It was their "Pink Moon" moment.
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I had never heard of the Monks before. They're wonderful.
"Monk Time" was used in a commercial about 8 years ago, I think. It was their "Pink Moon" moment.
"I Hate You" can also be heard in the background of the "Mark it zero!" scene in The Big Lebowski.
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Thanks for posting those Monks clips, guys! I had no idea that stuff existed. The "Oh How to Do Now" clip in particular was pretty killer.
Hey, maybe Tom should play some Monks music, since he, y'know, works on Monk, and all that. So...okay. (Long pause) I'm going to go over to the corner now.
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Monk would hate the Monks.
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Where's a better place to start? (I have one on order, something about Strawberries.)
This one should be of great assistance.
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If any of you would like to check it, I've begun posting some "end of year" style thoughts on my site, Are You Gene Hackman? (http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com)
Have a read if you've got a minute, I'm going to try and add a lot to that over the next few days.
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Magnolia Electric Co. Sojourner box set, especially Nashville Moon
Eternals Heavy international
Dungen Tio bitar
The Budos Band 2
Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil
Low Drums and Guns
Michael Hurley Ancestral Swamp
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Living with the Living
Oakley Hall I'll follow You
Bang!Bang! The Dirt that Makes you Drown
Modest Mouse We were dead...
Ladyhawk Fight for Anarchy E.P.
Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey E.P.
Mary Weiss Dangerous Games
Shellac Excellent Italian Grayhound
I haven't got around to hearing the new ones by some enduring favorites, like Sharon Jones or new Pornographers
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If any of you would like to check it, I've begun posting some "end of year" style thoughts on my site, Are You Gene Hackman? (http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com)
Have a read if you've got a minute, I'm going to try and add a lot to that over the next few days.
ooooh! samir, you have a music blog! music blogs are my obsession, i have like 30 bookmarked. the best way to get new or interesting music in my opinion. sweet!
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If any of you would like to check it, I've begun posting some "end of year" style thoughts on my site, Are You Gene Hackman? (http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com)
Have a read if you've got a minute, I'm going to try and add a lot to that over the next few days.
ooooh! samir, you have a music blog! music blogs are my obsession, i have like 30 bookmarked. the best way to get new or interesting music in my opinion. sweet!
Post your bookmarks.
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exactly
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Magnolia Electric Co. Sojourner box set, especially Nashville Moon
One of my faves from this year also.
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Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Drug Rug - s/t
The Bags - Mount Rockmore
The Curses - All Hail The Curses
T.L. + The Rockstarmacists - I'm Living With The Living And You'll Die Without It
George Lewis Jr. - Hold Me ep
Wild Zero - II ep
The Outlets - Rock 1980
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Holy Fuck - s/t
The Sprained Ankles - You Love The Sprained Ankles ep
Watts - One Below The All Time Low
Dennis Brennan - Engagement
Turbonegro - Retox
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
A.K.A.C.O.D. - Happiness
Coliseum - No Salvation
Jesu - Conqueror
More coming...
Also:
The Red Dons - Death To Idealism
The Time Flys - Rebels Of Babylon
Enon - Grass Geysers... Carbon Clouds
The Resonars - Nonetheless Blue
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Late entry!
Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.
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Late entry!
Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.
I didn't like the crowd noise over it, but I suppose it would just sound like a studio release if it weren't there.
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Late entry!
Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.
I didn't like the crowd noise over it, but I suppose it would just sound like a studio release if it weren't there.
I know some people think they're just playing a CD at the top of that pyramid, but I choose to think that playing their music live is unfathomably complicated.
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Late entry!
Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.
I didn't like the crowd noise over it, but I suppose it would just sound like a studio release if it weren't there.
I know some people think they're just playing a CD at the top of that pyramid, but I choose to think that playing their music live is unfathomably complicated.
Yeah, I'm not doubting that. I'm just saying that it wouldn't sound live on CD without the crowd noise like a rock and roll show would. But, the noise annoys.
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How much are you asking for the rights to the title The Noise Annoys? I'm not sure what I would use it for, but I think there are endless possibilities.
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You'd have to talk to the Buzzcocks.
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How much are you asking for the rights to the title The Noise Annoys? I'm not sure what I would use it for, but I think there are endless possibilities.
You'd have to talk to the Buzzcocks.
I like "The Noise Annoys," but my favorite Buzzcocks song is "(He's) The Orgasm Addict (of England)"
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Clearly, I don't really know the Buzzcocks beyond "Ever Fallen In Love." It saddens me to learn that Gilly is a plagiarist.
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If any of you would like to check it, I've begun posting some "end of year" style thoughts on my site, Are You Gene Hackman? (http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com)
Have a read if you've got a minute, I'm going to try and add a lot to that over the next few days.
ooooh! samir, you have a music blog! music blogs are my obsession, i have like 30 bookmarked. the best way to get new or interesting music in my opinion. sweet!
Post your bookmarks.
okay. my boyfriend borrowed my laptop with all the bookmarks to go on a mini tour, but here are the ones I can remember off the top of me head, because I check them daily:
chocoreve: http://chocoreve.blogspot.com/ (http://chocoreve.blogspot.com/)...lots of garage from round the world
spiked candy:http://spikedcandy.blog-city.com/ (http://spikedcandy.blog-city.com/)...yeye!!!! (my favorite music genre, she also blogs about a bit of modern day girly pop)
empty free: http://www.emptyfree.com/ (http://www.emptyfree.com/)...a little bit of everything
blowup doll: http://blow-up-doll.blogspot.com/ (http://blow-up-doll.blogspot.com/) girly girly pop, lots of yeye.
drugburn: http://drugburn.blogspot.com/ (http://drugburn.blogspot.com/) french garage and pop music (eek, I see a pattern emerging here, sorry I'm not more diverse with these things.
powerpop: http://powerpop.blogspot.com/ (http://powerpop.blogspot.com/) glam rock, power pop, and everything in between
and of course....
wfmu's beware of the blog: http://blog.wfmu.org/ (http://blog.wfmu.org/)
that's all i can remember for now...i'll post more when i get my computer back (next week!)
also, I've yet to find a good hip hop blog, and would love some recommendations if anyone knows of one.
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Cocaine, Blunts and Hip-Hop Tapes used to be a good one. I don't know if it's still around though.
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Looks like it is, Gilly!
Much obliged.
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This is a good one...
http://www.bubblegum-machine.com/
I only like music blogs if they provide stuff that would be really hard to find on my own. This one does the job. Bubblegum classics from the past 40 years.
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I finished my top 25 today, it's not all that interesting but here it is.
1. Wu-Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams
2. Tegan and Sara: The Con
3. Talib Kweli: Ear Drum
4. The National: Boxer
5. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: Living With the Living
6. MIA: Kala
7. Battles: Mirrored
8. Radiohead: In Rainbows
9. Chromeo: Fancy Footwork
10. Nina Nastasia/Jim White: You Follow Me
11. Blonde Redhead: 23
12. Dr. Dog: We All Belong
13. Britney Spears: Blackout
14. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
15. Against Me: New Wave
16. St. Vincent: Marry Me
17. Justice: Cross
18. Ghostface: Big Doe Rehab
19. Caribou: Andorra
20. Burial: Untrue
21. Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad
22. Black Francis: Bluefinger
23. Kanye West: Graduation
24. White Stripes: Icky Thump
25. Super Furry Animals: Hey Venus
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Does anyone in here follow jazz and classical music? If so, what should I check out from this year?
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That Dr. Dog disc was very, very strong.
I do not get M.I.A.
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Does anyone in here follow jazz and classical music? If so, what should I check out from this year?
Gilly, by classical music do you mean modern orchestral music, 'cause I could give you some suggestions (not released this year, necessarily), or are you looking for classics, ie. Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin?
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Modern stuff please!
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well, after a hard day at work, I like to go home, crack open a Bud and jam a little Xenakis. Kraanerg is a real hoot. Hahaha, I'm kidding. This stuff is usually considered "challenging" music although I must say, I've been listening to things by Xenakis for years and it just seems like really normal music to me. He is my go-to-guy if I want to totally immerse myself in a pleasurable listening experience.
Another personal favorite is Penderecki, check out Theronody to the Victims of Hiroshims. Tristan Murail is an artist I've been interested in. He's considered a spectralist, whatever that is - don't ask me to explain it. Ones that you may have heard of include Stockhausen, Momente and John Cage (people, I can see you rolling your eyes, stop it) Concerto For Prepared Piano and Orchestra.
A good starting point with all this is probably Varese Ionisation. He's kind of a gateway guy, and influenced a lot of stuff that came after him. Other starting points could be the Serialists, like Stockhausen started out as a Serialist but he's not really in line with Varese and Cage who was a student of Shoenberg but more into the Henry Cowell thing. It gets kind of tangled when you're talking about gateways. Everything crosses over. Well, hope that was helpful.
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Granted, there are exceptions to every rule, but if anything stood out to me about my listening preferences this year, it was an apprecation for bands who gave a shit about vocals and didn't just consider them as an afterthought. By the way, these lists don't include "Widow City," "Sky Blue Sky," or "Strawberry Jam," which I still haven't picked up.
Top 20 Albums of 2007
1) Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
2) The New Pornographers – Challengers
3) Cass McCombs – Dropping the Writ
4) Gonzales – Solo Piano
5) Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6) Panda Bear – Person Pitch/Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
7) Brad Laner – Neighbor Singing
8) The Clientele – God Save the Clientele
9) The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
10) Grinderman – Grinderman
11) White Williams – Smoke
12) Citay – Little Kingdom
13) Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
14) Sloan – Never Hear the End of It
15) M.I.A. – Kala
16) Bill Callahan – Woke on a Whaleheart
17) The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
18) The Rosebuds – Night of the Furies
19) Dungen – Tio Bitar
20) Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Good Listens
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
Celebration – The Modern Tribe
Dr. Dog – We All Belong
Field Music – Tones of Town
Les Breastfeeders – Les Matins de Grand Soirs
Michio Kurihara – Sunset Notes
No Age – Weirdo Rippers
Pissed Jeans – Hope for Men
The Ponys – Turn the Lights Out
Santa Maria – Santa Maria
Sissy Wish – Beauties Never Die
Soft Circle – Full Bloom
St. Vincent – Marry Me
White Stripes – Icky Thump
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4) Gonzales – Solo Piano
Just got this off emusic after hearing one of the tracks on the radio and am REALLY loving it. He also did a great remix for Jamie Lidell a year or two ago that should be given on CD to every newborn baby the world over.
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I have a sporadically updated album stealing blogspot as well:
http://zambonisoundtracks.blogspot.com
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4) Gonzales – Solo Piano
Just got this off emusic after hearing one of the tracks on the radio and am REALLY loving it. He also did a great remix for Jamie Lidell a year or two ago that should be given on CD to every newborn baby the world over.
Yeah, his remix of "Multiply" was actually what got me interested in the first place (and really should serve as a blueprint for remixing).
Have you heard any of his pre-Solo Piano stuff? I haven't but have surmised that it's totally different. He sounds kind of like a provocateur.
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I can't believe it took so long for someone to list Of Montreal. It's so catchy.
I'll do seven for 2007:
1. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
2. Ted Leo - LWTL
3. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
4. Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
5. Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whale Heart
6. Justice †
7. Battles - Mirrored
Best thing I missed from last year:
Dandi Wind - Concrete Igloo
Biggest Dissappointment:
Trans Am - Sex Change
(Sorry guys).
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Have you heard any of his pre-Solo Piano stuff? I haven't but have surmised that it's totally different. He sounds kind of like a provocateur.
"I got an extra testicle / But you're skeptical about spectacle / These days bad taste is so delectable"
His song 'Take Me to Broadway' was a staple in my DJ sets in my previous life.
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I can't believe it took so long for someone to list Of Montreal. It's so catchy.
i've talked about this one on the air (after which, tom made me apologize to matthew fluxblog, who has said that this is probably his favorite album of the decade). i've been into this band longer than anyone i know (except my old friend i never talk to anymore, who turned me onto them) and i've had to defend them countless times to people who thought they sounded stupid and wouldn't believe me that kevin barnes was a genius. well, now they're famous and critically acclaimed, and i think the last 2 OM albums are mind-numbingly boring and annoying. not to mention DEPRESSING. have you heard that "icons abstract thee" ep"? my god, it made me want to slit my wrists...
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i've talked about this one on the air (after which, tom made me apologize to matthew fluxblog, who has said that this is probably his favorite album of the decade). i've been into this band longer than anyone i know (except my old friend i never talk to anymore, who turned me onto them) and i've had to defend them countless times to people who thought they sounded stupid and wouldn't believe me that kevin barnes was a genius. well, now they're famous and critically acclaimed, and i think the last 2 OM albums are mind-numbingly boring and annoying. not to mention DEPRESSING.
Whoops! Sorry. I accidentally liked that album a lot.
Seriously though, I know what you mean. It hurts when your bands don't come through or fall flat or however you want to say it.
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1. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
2. Son Volt - The Search
3. Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
4. The Good, The Bad, and The Queen
5. The New Pornographers - Challengers
6. The Mekons - Natural
7. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
8. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
9. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
10. Against Me - New Wave
11. Ween - La Cucaracha
Honorable Mentions
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Grinderman
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Thrills - Teenager
Menomena - Friend or Foe
Reissues/Old Stuff
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Echo and The Bunnymen - Crystal Days
Roky Erickson - I Have Always Been Here Before
Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland
Gram Parsons - Anthology
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Was the Good, the Bad, and the Queen really from this year?! Seems like ages ago.
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I think it came out on the same day as The Shins and Of Montreal. I remember being amazed how three contenders for album of the year came out on the same day. None of those albums are even in my top 25. I don't know if that means it was a great year for music or that I was drinking a little too much one Tuesday last January. A little bit of both I think.
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That's why album of the year lists should come with a asterisk*.
*They generally only include records from February through mid-November.
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1. Scharpling & Wurster - The Art of the Slap
The next 29 (not necessarily in any order):
The King of Rock - Living with the Living + Mo' Living EP + Whirlyball on 8/8/07
The National - Boxer
Witchcraft - The Alchemist
Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass EP / In The Dark 7", I Know A
Place 7" / Miscellaneous stuff posted on his Myspace/weblog
Shocking Pinks - s/t
Major Stars - Mirror/Messenger
Georgie James - Places
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Jesu - Conqueror
Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love / Standard Gargoyle
Decisions / Ruptured Calf Society 7"
Baroness - Red Album
Birds of Avalon - Bazaar Bazaar
Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
M.I.A. - Kala
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Ugly Beats - Take A Stand With The Ugly Beats
Imperial Teen - The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Githead - Art Pop
Tegan and Sara - The Con
The Cynics - Here We Are
Miss Alex White & The Red Orchestra - Space & Time
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
The Golden Boys - Whiskey Flower
The Tough & Lovely - Teardrops
The Mary Timony Band - The Shapes We Make
I have yet to fully explore several notable "hip-hop" releases, such as the Dennis Coles record, Mr. Wu's 8 Diagrams For Gutting Pigs, Loop Fresca, etc.
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That Wu-Tang mixtape from Loud.com
agreed!
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well, after a hard day at work, I like to go home, crack open a Bud and jam a little Xenakis. Kraanerg is a real hoot. Hahaha, I'm kidding. This stuff is usually considered "challenging" music although I must say, I've been listening to things by Xenakis for years and it just seems like really normal music to me. He is my go-to-guy if I want to totally immerse myself in a pleasurable listening experience.
Another personal favorite is Penderecki, check out Theronody to the Victims of Hiroshims. Tristan Murail is an artist I've been interested in. He's considered a spectralist, whatever that is - don't ask me to explain it. Ones that you may have heard of include Stockhausen, Momente and John Cage (people, I can see you rolling your eyes, stop it) Concerto For Prepared Piano and Orchestra.
A good starting point with all this is probably Varese Ionisation. He's kind of a gateway guy, and influenced a lot of stuff that came after him. Other starting points could be the Serialists, like Stockhausen started out as a Serialist but he's not really in line with Varese and Cage who was a student of Shoenberg but more into the Henry Cowell thing. It gets kind of tangled when you're talking about gateways. Everything crosses over. Well, hope that was helpful.
I kept checking back to see if you'd posted and I just realized now that you did awhile ago. I'm going on Rhapsody right now to see if any of that is available. Thank you!
Edit: That's not really what I was looking for. I'm looking for stuff a little more classical but original kind of like Max Richter's The Blue Notebooks that came out a couple years ago.
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The Gene Simmons solo album is my album of the year... 1978.
Seriously, it is.
The Paul Stanley one's not that bad. Ace Frehley's is a rocker.
Do not listen to the Peter Criss one. It was the inspiration for much of the "The Cougar from Pout" call.
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OK, Chuck Klosterman....
For all I know you might actually be Chuck Klosterman. Good book!
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I kept checking back to see if you'd posted and I just realized now that you did awhile ago. I'm going on Rhapsody right now to see if any of that is available. Thank you!
Edit: That's not really what I was looking for. I'm looking for stuff a little more classical but original kind of like Max Richter's The Blue Notebooks that came out a couple years ago.
I kept checking back to see if you'd posted and I just realized now that you did awhile ago. I'm going on Rhapsody right now to see if any of that is available. Thank you!
Edit: That's not really what I was looking for. I'm looking for stuff a little more classical but original kind of like Max Richter's The Blue Notebooks that came out a couple years ago.
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Ha, ha, so John from Minneapolis is you, Gilly. I read your post in a sleepy state late last night and went to bed wondering who John from Minneapolis was.
I guess I was thrown off by your use of the terms "classical", which, to my understanding, refers to music from hundreds of years ago, and "mouldy" "modern", which, I believe, is generally the 20th century up to the 1960's.
I listened to some Max Richter you referred to, and it sounds a little, uh, cinematic to me. Ha, ha. It seems to be some sort of post modern, new age music that plays at classical. It's pretty, though, and looks like it's Pitchfork approved.
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I've been listening to tape music from the 50's and 60's by artists such as Pierre Schaeffer, Bernard Parmegiani, Luc Ferrari, etc. and this translates to Fergie's album, Dutchess for me. I loved the use of ancient musique concrete techniques on this album. It really kicks A-S-S. Album of the year, people?
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I can't believe it took so long for someone to list Of Montreal. It's so catchy.
i've talked about this one on the air (after which, tom made me apologize to matthew fluxblog, who has said that this is probably his favorite album of the decade). i've been into this band longer than anyone i know (except my old friend i never talk to anymore, who turned me onto them) and i've had to defend them countless times to people who thought they sounded stupid and wouldn't believe me that kevin barnes was a genius. well, now they're famous and critically acclaimed, and i think the last 2 OM albums are mind-numbingly boring and annoying. not to mention DEPRESSING. have you heard that "icons abstract thee" ep"? my god, it made me want to slit my wrists...
I kinda think Of Montreal has always been depressing, except now instead of naming fake places and singing about looking for the Marshmellow Coast they're all up and singing about Sinking the Seine. Actually the only thing that really ever got me through those early Of Montreal albums was the sense of great foreboding that anchored all the twee. Otherwise is was just fluff and butter--for instance, none of those other Kindercore bands ever did it for me. Plus how about that old cover of "I Felt Like Smashing My Face Through A Plate Glass Window"?
I think Hissing Fauna might be one of my favorite post-breakup albums ever. So many post-breakup albums are just cry, cry, cry; I loved all the anger on this one, all the wanting to punch folks and break stuff and then get mad about how all you want to do is be in love again.
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I'm aware I'm more than a little late in entering this discussion but here's my 2007 playlist:
Tvyek "Air Conditioner"
Love of Diagrams "Pace or the Patience"
The Laureates "Witching Boots"
Spoon "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"
Bottomless Pit "Dead Man's Blues"
New Pornographers "Myriad Harbor"
The Ponys "1209 Seminary"
Black Lips "O Katrina"
The Intelligence "The Outer Echelon"
Times New Viking "Devo and Wine"
Residual Echoes "Fresh Eyes"
Shellac "Be Prepared"
Blonde Redhead "Spring and By Summer Fall"
LCD Soundsystem "Someone Great"
M.I.A. "Paper Planes"
Wooden Shjips "We Ask You to Ride"
White Hills "Spirit of Exile"
The Magik Markers "Taste"
Lamps "Now that I'm Dead"
Jay Reatard "I Know a Place"
Pissed Jeans "I Still Got You (Ice Cream)"
Dinosaur Jr "Back to Your Heart"
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "C.I.A."
The Marked Men "It's Not a Crime"
There's a lot more on my blog (http://theunblinkingear.blogspot.com/ (http://theunblinkingear.blogspot.com/)) if anyone is interested.
Happy December Wishes!!
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sonny simmons
cecil taylor
kid bailey
charley patton
tommy johnson
wait...
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The Monks are awesome.
Gotta include this clip too:
[youtube]FYsyC2PFVBs[/youtube]
Dave Day Havlicek of the Monks passed away today:
http://www.the-monks.com/
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Felice Brothers- Tonight at the Arizona
Akron/Family - Love is Simple
Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
Bill Callahan – Woke on a Whaleheart
Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
Devendra Banhart- Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Once – OST
Grinderman – Grinderman
Ryan Adams- Easy Tiger
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup