FOT Forum
FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on May 24, 2008, 01:13:43 AM
-
I've been slacking on my new music intake. What are everyone's favorite albums this year? I've been liking the Tim Fite album and the Old 97's album.
-
I don't know if this officially makes me an oldster, but I really like Nick Cave's 'Dig Lazarus Dig'. The new Times New Viking record is still on heavy rotation on my ipod as well.
-
I like Atlas Sound. Reminds me of classic 4AD stuff.
-
That African Scream Contest comp that came out in March is all sorts of awesome.
-
Laura Marling and Los Campesinos!
At heart, I'm a white teenager from an uncool part of Britain.
-
Earth 'The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull'
In a sense, the title is fitting. It's like Ennio Morricone wiggling into my brain and laying down a soundtrack.
-
Beach House-"Devotion" would also go on my list.
-
Everything released this year has been moody and depressing. I've been disappointed. I like Vampire Weekend, Santogold, and some of the Malkmus album. Magnetic Fields is ok as well. But, I'd be very bummed if anything other than Vampire Weekend are my favorites at the end of the year. Where's the summer albums? Is everyone that depressed? Boring.
-
Everything released this year has been moody and depressing. I've been disappointed. I like Vampire Weekend, Santogold, and some of the Malkmus album. Magnetic Fields is ok as well. But, I'd be very bummed if anything other than Vampire Weekend are my favorites at the end of the year. Where's the summer albums? Is everyone that depressed? Boring.
It's only May.
I like Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! and the Earth album a lot, too. The Cheap Time album is probably my favorite so far this year. Clinic's newest. Heretic Pride by the Mountain Goats. The new one by The Fall is a major return to form from their last one (which I thought was the worst studio album they've ever done :P). Season of Sweets by Modey Lemon. The Dirtbombs; even though it doesn't really rank with their best, it's still tops.
-
'The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull'
Someone's been eating golden syrup (or reading the bible, I suppose).
-
I think we can all agree that the Duminie DePorres/Theo Parrish album Et tu Brute has been one of the highlights of the year so far.
-
I hardly ever hear things that are less than a year old, so I am interpreting this as "Albums that I heard for the first time this year", in which case I am going to go with Richard and Linda Thompson's Pour Down Like Silver, Low's Drums and Guns, and the first disc by The Magic Numbers.
-
Richard and Linda Thompson's Pour Down Like Silver
Dave nothing wrong with that choice my man, I was going to say Winterland 73 but I know only Mike has it.
my pick reissue of Vs. by Mission Of Burma also I like the new Six Organs of Admittance album
-
I don't know if any of these will have legs, but I'm currently enjoying:
Ladyhawk - Shots
Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones
Shame Club - Come On
I'm sure the new RPG, which comes out in a couple of months, will be great.
-
Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend
This is pretty awesome.
I'm sure the new RPG, which comes out in a couple of months, will be great.
(http://images.slashdot.org/articles/07/08/gencon1.jpg)
?
-
RPG (the band) is short for Rocket-Propelled Grenade, not Role Playing Game. They're a rock & roll band from Richmond, VA and I think they're awesome.
-
Two that I like a lot are:
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Lemuria - Get Better (Lemonheads/Juliana Hatfield-like indie rock on Asian Man Records)
-
So far I've liked albums by Awesome Color, Blood on the Wall, the Carbonas, CoCoComa, Cheap Time and Times New Viking. The Barbaras put out a single I really like and the Jay Reatard singles have been awesome too.
-
I forgot one. Am I the only one who likes Madonna's new album?
-
The Barbaras 7" is an instant classic and, assuming their LP comes out this year, it will probably be my year's favorite.
-
I totally agree, Dig, Lazarus, Dig and Times New Viking have made me very happy. (Check out the new vido on Nick's website for More News from Nowhere. http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/morenewsfromnowhere/index.html )
I also liked the new Fuck Buttons album.
-
I like the new Portishead, Death Cab for Cutie, and Andrew Bird albums.
-
I haven't been in the mood for the portishead album yet. i've turned it off thrice now. (did I use that correctly?)
-
I haven't been in the mood for the portishead album yet. i've turned it off thrice now. (did I use that correctly?)
It's awesome, but even less happy than the first two.
-
I haven't been in the mood for the portishead album yet. i've turned it off thrice now. (did I use that correctly?)
I thought it flat out sucked. I was shocked, because Portishead put out two amazing albums beforehand. But then again, that was TEN years ago. I couldn't get into it.
-
That African Scream Contest comp that came out in March is all sorts of awesome.
I've been meaning to pick this up since March!
Also, I really like the new Portishead. It had to grow on me, but when it did, IT DID.
-
I'm waiting until I'm in the mood for portishead so that I can give it a fair shot.
-
I will now reveal myself as less cool than all of you (or at least more slavishly devoted to Tom and Jillian B):
The Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
That Crystal Stilts album
Tyvek - Fast Metabolism
The Big Dipper anthology
Everything else I'm playing a lot of, I got from you guys.
-
I will now reveal myself as less cool than all of you (or at least more slavishly devoted to Tom and Jillian B):
The Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
That Crystal Stilts album
Tyvek - Fast Metabolism
The Big Dipper anthology
Everything else I'm playing a lot of, I got from you guys.
you did see that I admitted to like Old 97's, right?
-
I'm- a say
No Age, Nouns
Kelley Stoltz, Circular Sounds
The Gutter Twins, Saturnalia
I also bought the new Portishead, but have yet to listen to it in earnest.
-
And I don't know who Old 97's are, so I win! (The loser contest.)
-
I also bought the new Portishead, but have yet to listen to it in earnest.
Yeah, that's where I'm at too.
-
I'm with Beth, the new Portishead isn't good. But, I never have really liked Dummy either.
I liked The Heavy Circles and Clinic new ones too but once again I didn't love them. Everything except for Vampire Weekend, Santogold and Magnetic Fields I listened to once and I doubt I'll listen to them much again. Usually by this time I've found at least 10 albums I love. Hardly anything sounds fresh and almost everything sounds mopey.
-
The Dodos - Visiter
Bun B. - II Trill
The Weird Weeds - I Miss This
The Shivers - Beaks To The Moon
{{{Sunset}}} - Bright Blue Dream
Portishead - Third
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
Crystal Castles - S/T
The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale EP
Autechre - Quaristice
I'm mostly really looking forward to the new Spiritualized album.
-
Autechre - Quaristice
Haven't really gotten into this one yet. But I will.
-
man man - "rabbit habits"
carlos guitarlos - "straight from the heart." released in '03, but it's one of my favorites i bought this year (so far.)
-
crimestick is so right! The new autechre is great- less "anal" than their past series of albums.
-
I avoided Santogold for a long time because of all the annoying bloggy hype, and when I finally caved and checked it out the annoying bloggy backlash was already beginning, but I am FULLY on board with that being one of the best records of the year so far - I friggin' LOVE it. Gilly - you should check out her earlier band, Stiffed. Their records were produced by Darryl Jennifer (Bad Brains) and they're more along the late-era Ruts upbeat punk w/dub production side of things - really good!
I had the same thing happen with Robyn.
(Don't judge! I'm a sucker for that classic house beat with a good hook on top of it...)
[youtube]3vfLvZCdT9g[/youtube]
-
Thanks TL, I'll check that out. I wish Robyn would put out another album instead of releasing the same one a million times.
-
ten, sans order:
Islands - Arm's Way
So Cow - I'm Siding With My Captors
Why? - Alopecia
Jape - Ritual
David Turpin - The Sweet Used-to-be
El Guincho - Alegranza
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
-
I had the same thing happen with Robyn.
(Don't judge! I'm a sucker for that classic house beat with a good hook on top of it...)
[youtube]3vfLvZCdT9g[/youtube]
I'm not a big fan, but I can't deny that song. It's a powerhouse.
I met Robyn a couple of weeks ago. She is really, really short.
-
ten, sans order:
Islands - Arm's Way
So Cow - I'm Siding With My Captors
Why? - Alopecia
Jape - Ritual
David Turpin - The Sweet Used-to-be
El Guincho - Alegranza
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Alopecia and Alegranza are both 2007, but they're two of my favorite recent releases.
-
Alopecia and Alegranza are both 2007
Let's lock horns about this one!
-
I got two so far:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5192Y8yZQQL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61flgdOs-DL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
-
I had the same thing happen with Robyn.
(Don't judge! I'm a sucker for that classic house beat with a good hook on top of it...)
[youtube]3vfLvZCdT9g[/youtube]
I'm not a big fan, but I can't deny that song. It's a powerhouse.
I met Robyn a couple of weeks ago. She is really, really short.
The first 40 seconds of that are like Kate Bush's Seconds of Pleasure, a very slow trifle, set to a pounding beat. Very Bushy.
-
I count Vampire Weekend as 2007 because their demos leaked back then. I couldn't stop listening to that fucking album last year and I still put it on quite a bit.
-
Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth
For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
-
Cave has the edge with me so far. Dengue Fever is solid. I LOVE For Against and I've only spun Shade Side twice, but I couldn't believe how mopey and hookless it seemed compared to their last few.
I'm also digging:
Magnetic Fields - Distortion (I hadn't been a fan since 69 Love Songs)
Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis - Indian Giver
Firewater - The Golden Hour
Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
V/A - Radio Myanmar
Haven't heard the new Bun B, but I still play Underground Kingz at least once a week. On the reissue front, anything Numero Group touches is still amazing.
-
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/2528893545_8568d4f3c0_o.jpg)
http://www.unsoundrecords.com/nc/artists/releases/release_items/open_relationship/
-
Ladyhawk-Shots
Black Mountain-In The Future
Dead Meadow-Old Growth
the new clinic and Olde Tyme Relijun sound good from the little I've heard
-
(http://991.com/newGallery/The-Night-Marchers-See-You-In-Magic-432610.jpg)
-
Just got "Celebration" by Thomas Function and love it. Especially the track "A long walk".
-
I've been filling in a lot of gaps in my collection of older music but in my last few binge buys I've picked up the Dirtbombs We Have You Surrounded, which I'm sure WFMU listeners are familiar with by now— it's crazy good though. The Boris album Smile is pretty solid, though I haven't dedicated a lot of time to it yet. The new Clinic album is hot, I actually bought it on CD and then bought it on vinyl (The vinyl includes a link to dowload MP3s which is a nifty feature I wish all record labels would offer). The new Portishead is the biggest surprise for me this year. I'm not even a huge Portishead fan but I've played it daily since I picked it up a week ago. I will admit to randomly being brought to tears by Deep Water while I was doing the dishes the other day. Beth Gibbons voice just got me.
*Edit: I forgot the Monotonix Body Language EP— fun stuff.*
I'm undecided on:
Islands Arm's Way
Destroyer Trouble in Dreams
Albums from 2007 not to be neglected:
Mannequin Men Fresh Rot
Bottomless Pit Hammer of the Gods —with thanks to Omar who put it on his best o' 2007 list.
-
The Night Marchers - See You In Magic
Related:
(http://blog.lousrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rftc_rip.jpg)
Great stuff aside from the absurd jazz fills on "Sturdy Wrists"
-
Woods - Family Creeps on Time Lag
-
I'm undecided on:
Islands Arm's Way
Took me maybe 2 listens to fall in love. Listening to it this morning, the apt describer "a symphonic Pavement" came into my head, and that might explain why I think it's so amazing... 2 of my favourite musical things in one!
-
I'm undecided on:
Islands Arm's Way
Took me maybe 2 listens to fall in love. Listening to it this morning, the apt describer "a symphonic Pavement" came into my head, and that might explain why I think it's so amazing... 2 of my favourite musical things in one!
Yeah, I need to give it a fair shake. It's a lot more epic and a lot less non-chalant so it took me off guard a bit.
-
Just got "Celebration" by Thomas Function and love it. Especially the track "A long walk".
I was just going to mention this. "A Long Walk" is actually my favorite song on the record as well. Best record of the year thus far, in my opinion. Could attain a DC Snipers-like run until the end of the year. I highly urge all of you to check them out: http://www.myspace.com/thomasfunction (http://www.myspace.com/thomasfunction)
(In case I'm overselling this please note I'm not in the band or related to them or something. I just think they're awesome.)
Also worth a listen: Meth Teeth Bus Rides 7" EP and the Cheveu self-tltled LP. The Jay Reatard singles have been so far, so good. Any one know when and if the Angry Angles album is coming out?
I haven't heard the Barbaras 7" but I'm intrigued by this "instant classic" status. I'll have to check it out.
Looking forward to: the new Oxford Collapse album, the first Prisonshake album in 15(!) years, the Bottomless Pit EP, the new Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves.
-
Just got "Celebration" by Thomas Function and love it. Especially the track "A long walk".
I was just going to mention this. "A Long Walk" is actually my favorite song on the record as well. Best record of the year thus far, in my opinion. Could attain a DC Snipers-like run until the end of the year. I highly urge all of you to check them out: http://www.myspace.com/thomasfunction (http://www.myspace.com/thomasfunction)
(In case I'm overselling this please note I'm not in the band or related to them or something. I just think they're awesome.)
Also worth a listen: Meth Teeth Bus Rides 7" EP and the Cheveu self-tltled LP. The Jay Reatard singles have been so far, so good. Any one know when and if the Angry Angles album is coming out?
I haven't heard the Barbaras 7" but I'm intrigued by this "instant classic" status. I'll have to check it out.
Looking forward to: the new Oxford Collapse album, the first Prisonshake album in 15(!) years, the Bottomless Pit EP, the new Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves.
the barbaras are one of my favorite local bands. get the 7" while you still can! i listen to this album almost every morning.
(http://theguide.latimes.com/blogs/soundboard/files/2008/04/barbaras-goner-cover-4x4.jpg)
(http://theguide.latimes.com/blogs/soundboard/files/2008/03/okmonikslp.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iptKYS8iL._SS500_.jpg)
(http://shopbase.finetunes.net/shopserver/BinaryCacheServlet?albumid=1207244833308&datatype=fc200)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-bD2Q3AnL._SS500_.jpg)
(http://sevententwelve.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/plexi3.jpg)
-
I count Vampire Weekend as 2007 because their demos leaked back then.
Now that's just insane.
-
the barbaras are one of my favorite local bands. get the 7" while you still can! i listen to this album almost every morning.
(http://theguide.latimes.com/blogs/soundboard/files/2008/04/barbaras-goner-cover-4x4.jpg)
URL anyone? Googling "Barbaras isn't very helpful.
-
the barbaras are one of my favorite local bands. get the 7" while you still can! i listen to this album almost every morning.
(http://theguide.latimes.com/blogs/soundboard/files/2008/04/barbaras-goner-cover-4x4.jpg)
URL anyone? Googling "Barbaras isn't very helpful.
i got mine direct from goner: www.goner-records.com
direct link to buy: http://www.goner-records.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3326
-
http://www.myspace.com/thebarbaras (http://www.myspace.com/thebarbaras) - myspace
-
Just got "Celebration" by Thomas Function and love it. Especially the track "A long walk".
This is great!
-
http://www.myspace.com/thebarbaras (http://www.myspace.com/thebarbaras) - myspace
Everyone check out Breathing Underwater!
-
man man - "rabbit habits"
This is great too!
-
I agree with everything iAmBaronVonTito said.
-
Try googling
"The Barbaras"
-
Thomas Function- Celebration is so good and challenges Vampire Weekend for album of the year so far. Thanks for recommending it Pinky!
-
im confused how vampire weekend is album of the year. unless we're talking literally OF the year. after 2008, i dont see this album (or this band?) aging well.
its all relative, i suppose.
-
I've been really into The Vinez Family lately.
http://www.vinezfamily.com/ (http://www.vinezfamily.com/)
-
The new Portishead is their best album yet.
Would never expect that from a band after a ten year hiatus, but there ya go.
---
Now it's up to My Bloody Valentine to pony up and follow suit.
-
Anyone got anything illuminating to say about the new Spiritualized? Any compelling reasons to buy another one, if I've already got their first three albums? Or just more of the same?
-
The new Portishead is their best album yet.
Would never expect that from a band after a ten year hiatus, but there ya go.
I haven't heard the self-titled, but yeah, this album is incredible. "We Carry On" is up there with "American Boy" for song of the year.
Other than that, I think my most listened to are the Times New Viking and Erykah Badu.
-
Ladytron- Velociforo
There are a few bad tracks but the highlights are the best tracks the band has ever done.
-
Is anyone else surprised that the Clinic album isn't being dubbed as a lost Monkees project? The lead singer sounds like Mickey Dolenz and those songs belong on Pisces or Head....
-
Just got "Celebration" by Thomas Function and love it. Especially the track "A long walk".
I was just going to mention this. "A Long Walk" is actually my favorite song on the record as well. Best record of the year thus far, in my opinion. Could attain a DC Snipers-like run until the end of the year. I highly urge all of you to check them out: http://www.myspace.com/thomasfunction (http://www.myspace.com/thomasfunction)
(In case I'm overselling this please note I'm not in the band or related to them or something. I just think they're awesome.)
Also worth a listen: Meth Teeth Bus Rides 7" EP and the Cheveu self-tltled LP. The Jay Reatard singles have been so far, so good. Any one know when and if the Angry Angles album is coming out?
I haven't heard the Barbaras 7" but I'm intrigued by this "instant classic" status. I'll have to check it out.
Looking forward to: the new Oxford Collapse album, the first Prisonshake album in 15(!) years, the Bottomless Pit EP, the new Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves.
From their MySpace (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=283975872&blogID=331057851):
"Jay lost all the tracks we recorded before I moved to NY. Who knows now. Boo dudes."
Stinks.
-
I'd also like to recommend THE VIVIAN GIRLS (http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc) from Brooklyn/New Brunswick, NJ.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/kickballkaty/lp.jpg)
Sounds like THE SHAGGS and THE URINALS. They just signed to In the Red and are re-releasing their first album there, but you can buy their first 7" until then. Amazing stuff, really.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/kickballkaty/7.jpg)
-
I'd also like to recommend THE VIVIAN GIRLS (http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc) from Brooklyn/New Brunswick, NJ.
YES! (http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/video/the-vivian-girls/i-can-t-stay/)
I'm so bummed I missed out on the first printing of that LP.
-
I'd also like to recommend THE VIVIAN GIRLS (http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc) from Brooklyn/New Brunswick, NJ.
YES! (http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/video/the-vivian-girls/i-can-t-stay/)
I'm so bummed I missed out on the first printing of that LP.
Me too*.
*However, Katie (Drummer/Bassist) told me that the Matador Online Store will have copies of the first press for distribution soon (?!?!).
-
I agree with the previously mentioned:
Nick Cave- Dig Lazarus Dig (and I'm not always down with him)
Portishead (just so damn miserable and evil sounding...at the same time)
Also:
the new Black Francis EP is pretty damn good
M83- Saturdays=Youth
Elbow- The Seldom Seen Kid
THe Raveonettes- Lust Lust Lust
Atlas Sound
British Sea Power
and I'm always a sucker for whatever Mark Kozelek is up to so I like the new Sun Kil Moon too.
-
Is anyone else surprised that the Clinic album isn't being dubbed as a lost Monkees project? The lead singer sounds like Mickey Dolenz and those songs belong on Pisces or Head....
I don't know who the primary vocalist is (is it Ade or Brian? I know nothing) but I love their vocal tone because it sounds like an angry father singing through his teeth— pointing his authoritative finger all the while.
-
Also:
the new Black Francis EP is pretty damn good
Good call. I also liked Chuck's last LP, Bluefinger. He's still bringing it, unlike Ms. Deal. Golden Fiddle had the best and most accurate review of the new Breeders record:
http://goldenfiddle.tumblr.com/post/35942831/so-hows-that-new-album
-
I've been really into The Vinez Family lately.
http://www.vinezfamily.com/ (http://www.vinezfamily.com/)
Do you have any tracks by them? I didn't see anything on the site and I couldn't find them on MySpace. What is their sound like?
-
I don't know who the primary vocalist is (is it Ade or Brian? I know nothing) but I love their vocal tone because it sounds like an angry father singing through his teeth— pointing his authoritative finger all the while.
Ade Blackburn, I believe. I interviewed him once over the telephone. FACT.
-
Ade Blackburn, I believe. I interviewed him once over the telephone. FACT.
Did he give the entire interview with his teeth clenched like that?
I am feeling the new Kelley Stoltz, Clinic, Dengue Fever, and Breeders records. All the new Jay Reateard singles have been top notch AS USUAL. Probably album of the year so far for me has been the Titus Andronicus debut, The Airing of Grievances - wild stuff.
I've also been grooving on a local band from DC called These United States that finally just put out their debut, the admittedly-pretentiously-titled A Picture of the Three Of Us At the Gate to the Garden of Eden. (myspace.com/theseunited)
They used to tear it up live on a regular basis back when I lived down there.
-
Is anyone else surprised that the Clinic album isn't being dubbed as a lost Monkees project? The lead singer sounds like Mickey Dolenz and those songs belong on Pisces or Head....
I'd never made the Mickey Dolenz connection before, but I think you're on to something.
-
He's never sounded like it before, but I made the connection right away on this one. One song sounds like Love Is Only Sleeping but I don't know the name of it. I think that's where I made the connection and then listened to it again and really started to hear it.
-
anyone else listening to evil urges?
-
I thought I'd like it even though I've never been that into MMJ after I saw them perform Amazed on SNL. It sounds dull on the album.
-
I thought I'd like it even though I've never been that into MMJ after I saw them perform Amazed on SNL. It sounds dull on the album.
im a mmj fan but i can admit that the ammount of great songs per album are decreasing. but they are trying new things which is cool. highly suspicious is silly tho.b
-
the Vivian Girls are playing on Sat. night June 14 & June 28 at Harket Motel 1142 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY
-
i know it came out last year but band of horses' cease to begin made its way back i nto my car stereo this week. love that album.
any fans of bonnie prince billy's latest, 'lay down in the light'? i find it quite great and very good-spirited and jolly compared to the letting go. tom played a lot of drag city a few years ago and i dont think hes very found of oldham. but i must say that is a very trustworthy, and my favorite, lable.
-
Do re-releases count? I'm really enjoying this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4120eyW0isL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
-
The new Shearwater album is beautiful.
-
anyone else listening to evil urges?
I am. It's sequenced a bit oddly as the four "weird" songs are all in the front while the middle and end sound like more "regular" MMJ. Though it doesn't have any HUGE singles like "One Big Holiday", Im still enjoying this one from front to back.
-
A friend bought that french Synth Wave album, and he keeps playing it around me. Of what I've heard, I'm really digging it. I may pick up a copy for myself.
-
NEW WEEZER....SO GOOD!
Definitely my SUMMER 2008 album!
-
NEW WEEZER....SO GOOD!
Definitely my SUMMER 2008 album!
i'm sorry, my sarcasm meter is off... you must be the first person i've read lavish it with such praise.
-
the new Dr. Dog CD is amazing.
-
NEW WEEZER....SO GOOD!
Definitely my SUMMER 2008 album!
i'm sorry, my sarcasm meter is off... you must be the first person i've read lavish it with such praise.
I wanted to see if anyone would buy that and apparently I caught you in a vulnerable moment with your sarcasm meter being off and all.
-
i must admit, my sarcasm gauge was on E
-
any fans of bonnie prince billy's latest, 'lay down in the light'? i find it quite great and very good-spirited and jolly compared to the letting go. tom played a lot of drag city a few years ago and i dont think hes very found of oldham. but i must say that is a very trustworthy, and my favorite, lable.
I don't know how well it's generally regarded but I really liked The Letting Go. "Strange Form of Life" in particular is one of my favorite songs of his. I've listened to Lie Down... several times now and with a couple of exceptions the songs haven't formed much of an impression, even though I like what I hear overall. I suspect it's a grower. Tom doesn't strike me as an Oldham fan but has pronounced him "funny" on the show.
-
NEW WEEZER....SO GOOD!
Definitely my SUMMER 2008 album!
According to Jim DeRogatis, you should buy 2 or 3 copies of this album. He even goes so far to say that Heartsongs is worth 20 good songs. Just reading some of the lyrics makes me cringe "Gordon Lightfoot sang a song about a boat that sank in a lake / At the break of the mornin' a Cat name Stevens found a faith he could believe in/Eddie Rabbitt sang about how much he loved a rainy night / ABBA, Devo, Benatar were there the day John Lennon died ... These are my heart songs / They never feel wrong."
-
NEW WEEZER....SO GOOD!
Definitely my SUMMER 2008 album!
According to Jim DeRogatis, you should buy 2 or 3 copies of this album. He even goes so far to say that Heartsongs is worth 20 good songs. Just reading some of the lyrics makes me cringe "Gordon Lightfoot sang a song about a boat that sank in a lake / At the break of the mornin' a Cat name Stevens found a faith he could believe in/Eddie Rabbitt sang about how much he loved a rainy night / ABBA, Devo, Benatar were there the day John Lennon died ... These are my heart songs / They never feel wrong."
Heartsongs feels ALL wrong
-
I was wondering why that Weezer album hasn't taken the same beating on the Soundopinions message board as it seems to take everywhere else. Now I understand.
-
Heartsongs has the lyrics of Summer Girls by LFO.
The only good tracks off the album are Pork and Beans (the chorus at least) and The Spider which is a bonus track. I wonder who the genius was that decided The Spider wasn't good enough for the album...
-
I'm really, really, really liking these lately -
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles http://www.myspace.com/flyinglotus
Quiet Village - Silent Movie www.myspace.com/quietvillage
Mr. Chop - Sounds From The Cave http://www.myspace.com/mrchopchop
All three are perfect.
-
my favorite albums so far this year are also a lot of old stuff being brought back into play:
Violent Femmes- s/t
Todd Barry/Maria Bamford- entire catalog(s)
The Black Keys- Magic Potion
Kings of leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak
Death Cab for Cutie- Photo Album
The Replacements- Let It Be (admittedly sparked by reissue)
The Get Up Kids- Something To Write Home About
Mates of State- Team Boo
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over The Sea
what about the "old" stuff...?
-
I was wondering why that Weezer album hasn't taken the same beating on the Soundopinions message board as it seems to take everywhere else. Now I understand.
http://www.weezer.com/news/default.aspx/nid/13815
And now they're letting fans join the band in a "private jam session".
-
yeah its a reissue but its been out of print forever and I can get rid of the bootleg version I've got.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517e98loPwL._SS500_.jpg)
-
yeah its a reissue but its been out of print forever and I can get rid of the bootleg version I've got.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517e98loPwL._SS500_.jpg)
Wow - That, my friend, is an AWESOME cover.
-
Seriously. It's two times THE THING than Kurt Russel ever was.
-
There's no separation between his beard and his chest hair!
-
I like POB but I don't love it. His vocals are cringe worthy at times which is surprising since he's a Beach Boy.
-
Seriously. It's two times THE THING than Kurt Russel ever was.
(http://www.patkewleyisgreat.com/DennisWilsonvsMacready.jpg)
Stan Winston RIP, yo.
-
My album of the year so far is by Laura Marling (http://www.myspace.com/lauramarling).
You New York types can see her tonight at the Mercury Lounge, if only to make me tremendously jealous.
-
I like POB but I don't love it. His vocals are cringe worthy at times which is surprising since he's a Beach Boy.
Well at least he went for that fateful swim before the real dreck of the Beach Boys output came out.
-
Quick aside: Thanks to the FOT community for this thread. It has been incredibly helpful for me. My mom got me a gift certificate for iTunes, and I have referred back to your posts regularly. iTunes limits what I can get, but some of your selections are there. I have already purchased Santogold, Black Francis "Bluefinger", and Robyn.
"Bluefinger" is freaking amazing. I have not checked out Black Francis since Trompe Le Monde. I was shocked to see that he has not declined at all. If anything, he is even stronger. "Threshold Apprehension" and "You Can't Break Your Heart And Have It" have been burning off my eyebrows for a week now.
THANK YOU, FOT!
-
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/2591289752_49fae8e420.jpg?v=0)
Wait, is this Big Steve's debut. Does Teddy Rockstar know?
-
Anybody get the new King Khan and the Shrines Jesus!
-
got it. and good.
-
Bumped up since it's been a few months.
I love the Fleet Foxes album, Hold Steady's ok but has one of the greatest tracks of this year in One For the Cutters, love the new Ladytron, and the Beck album is hit and miss. Another album that I haven't listened to in full yet but have liked what I've heard is The Submarines- Honeysuckle Weeks.
-
I've been listening a lot to Soul Jazz-signed Italian/Serbian producer Secondo's first album A Matter of Scale recently. It's very good. If you like stuff like Akufen you should give it a spin. Still too early to tell how it will hold up at the end of the year though.
-
Worth the Weight by RPG. So good I can't stand it. I played it twice in a row end-to-end last night, which I NEVER do. It helps that it's only about 28 minutes long, but still.
-
I really like the debut record by Wild Beasts. It's called Limbo, Panto. It mixes up bits of vaudeville, afrobeat and pop around its white guitar anchor, with take-it-or-leave-it falsetto and anachronistic British references. Most importantly, it has great songs on it. I really liked the records by Cloudland Canyon, Devon Sproule, Portico Quartet, Deerhunter, Stereolab, Belong and Ponytail.
-
I don't think I can say anything has really blown me away so far this year, but these are pretty damn good
Black Francis - Svn Fingers
Elvis Costello - Momfuku
Flight Of the Conchords - S/T
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
The new Cure singles are also sounding pretty good....
The B-sides to the White Stripes Conuest 7"s.
Oh and thanks for turning me on to this!
I'd also like to recommend THE VIVIAN GIRLS (http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc) from Brooklyn/New Brunswick, NJ.
-
pas/cal - i was raised on matthew, mark, luke, and laura
thee oh sees - the master's bedroom is worth spending a night in
vivian girls - s/t
gentleman jesse - s/t
eddy current suppression ring - primary colours
the lodger - life is sweet
flight of the conchords - s/t
lemuria - get better
-
I don't think I can say anything has really blown me away so far this year, but these are pretty damn good
Black Francis - Svn Fingers
Elvis Costello - Momfuku
Flight Of the Conchords - S/T
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
The new Cure singles are also sounding pretty good....
The B-sides to the White Stripes Conuest 7"s.
Oh and thanks for turning me on to this!
I'd also like to recommend THE VIVIAN GIRLS (http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc) from Brooklyn/New Brunswick, NJ.
the black keys, attack and release is a great album.
-
Off the top of my head, I've enjoyed:
Mark Ronson Presents The Man in the Mirror by Rhymefest (came out at end of 2007)
The Mixtape About Nothing by Wale
The Bake Sale by the Cool Kids
New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) by Erykah Badu
Volume One by She and Him
Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
Fate by Dr. Dog
Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
-
Anybody get the new King Khan and the Shrines Jesus!
I picked this up because of the hype surrounding it, and I wasn't knocked out. A couple of songs were fantastic, but everything save for two songs at the end are hitting the same note. My mind wandered everywhere while I was listening to it. Hell, he should take a note from the last two Pietasters* albums. They may have been overproduced post-ska, but they had a good enough grip on the Detroit Soul medium to have a little modulation between their songs.
Is it just the one guy writing the songs with a bunch of session guys, or is King Kahn a group effort?
*did I just bring them up?
-
the song about takin' his lady to dinner, which Tom played on the debate night, is mantastic.
-
That is a great song. I also liked the one about wanting to be a woman.
Not saying I didn't like it... they just to introduce a little more spice into the pot.
C
-
I feel like such a shovel.com tool, but I do think that both the new Lindström album, and the new Flying Lotus album, are among the best this year so far. (They are both billed "Best New Music" over at shovel.) The Flying Lotus in particular is fantastic.
-
That is a great song. I also liked the one about wanting to be a woman.
Not saying I didn't like it... they just to introduce a little more spice into the pot.
C
I kind of felt like that on first listen, but the more I listen to each of the songs the more I love love love each song individually. It's probably my favourite album of this year so far. I would like to be their tambourine player.
Also, Samir, I don't know whether I love or hate that you used the word "mantastic," which probably means that I love it.
-
speaking of women, I like that Women album. and the Cheap Time album is climbing the list.
-
Maybe King Kahn will stand up in the Age of iTunes Shuffle.
-
speaking of women, I like that Women album. and the Cheap Time album is climbing the list.
Cheap Time is very high on my list, absolutely love it. In the Red and Siltbreeze will probably be represented well, good year for both.
-
I hadn't heard of Cheap Time until I saw them open for Jay Reatard a few weeks ago. I thought they were lousy- the guy played the entire set sitting in a chair. (Is that what he always does?) They did manage to instill a couple of tunes in my head though- enough for me to get the CD. Now I'm addicted to it.
-
I hadn't heard of Cheap Time until I saw them open for Jay Reatard a few weeks ago. I thought they were lousy- the guy played the entire set sitting in a chair. (Is that what he always does?) They did manage to instill a couple of tunes in my head though- enough for me to get the CD. Now I'm addicted to it.
yeah, exactly. When I saw them the guy wasn't sitting down, but I thought they kinda stunk. But the CD is awesome and so catchy. They just need to get it together for the live performances.
-
I don't know. How can anyone be so narrow minded to have a favorite?
-
I hadn't heard of Cheap Time until I saw them open for Jay Reatard a few weeks ago. I thought they were lousy- the guy played the entire set sitting in a chair. (Is that what he always does?) They did manage to instill a couple of tunes in my head though- enough for me to get the CD. Now I'm addicted to it.
yeah, exactly. When I saw them the guy wasn't sitting down, but I thought they kinda stunk. But the CD is awesome and so catchy. They just need to get it together for the live performances.
What are you guys talking about? They had plenty of energy when I saw them, and not a chair in site (in fact, I can't even imagine those songs being played sitting down).
-
I hadn't heard of Cheap Time until I saw them open for Jay Reatard a few weeks ago. I thought they were lousy- the guy played the entire set sitting in a chair. (Is that what he always does?) They did manage to instill a couple of tunes in my head though- enough for me to get the CD. Now I'm addicted to it.
yeah, exactly. When I saw them the guy wasn't sitting down, but I thought they kinda stunk. But the CD is awesome and so catchy. They just need to get it together for the live performances.
What are you guys talking about? They had plenty of energy when I saw them, and not a chair in site (in fact, I can't even imagine those songs being played sitting down).
They did have energy but I just guess I wasn't feelin' it. I don't know. I like them a lot now though!
-
That voice is very Kate Bush, yeah.
I had the same thing happen with Robyn.
(Don't judge! I'm a sucker for that classic house beat with a good hook on top of it...)
[youtube]3vfLvZCdT9g[/youtube]
I'm not a big fan, but I can't deny that song. It's a powerhouse.
I met Robyn a couple of weeks ago. She is really, really short.
The first 40 seconds of that are like Kate Bush's Seconds of Pleasure, a very slow trifle, set to a pounding beat. Very Bushy.
-
I liked the new Richard Swift, Walkmen, David Vandervelde
-
two more for my best of:
stereolab - chemical chords
fucked up - the chemistry of common life
-
Eat Skull - Sick to Death
-
Eat Skull - Sick to Death
Yeah, Eat Skull rules.
I'm really looking forward to the upcoming Animal Collective LP. That band gets better with every release.
-
I liked the new Richard Swift, Walkmen, David Vandervelde
I agree with you on the Walkmen, that album is a real grower.
-
I liked the new Richard Swift, Walkmen, David Vandervelde
I agree with you on the Walkmen, that album is a real grower.
I wasn't too into that band until at one point I was writing a paper and put Bows and Arrows on repeat. Now I like them quite a bit. I wonder how many other bands there are that just need like 5 listens to stick?
-
I liked the new Richard Swift, Walkmen, David Vandervelde
I agree with you on the Walkmen, that album is a real grower.
I wasn't too into that band until at one point I was writing a paper and put Bows and Arrows on repeat. Now I like them quite a bit. I wonder how many other bands there are that just need like 5 listens to stick?
The National is very much that way for me.
-
im listening to "Lost in Boston" right this very second; it's a Walkmen track that had me hooked instantly.
other favorites:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's- Animal
Radiohead- In Rainbows (after seeing them in SB, it's been reignited)
Why?- Alopecia
albums i wanted to be my favorite, but alas:
Death Cab
Cat Power
Chris Walla
-
Yeah, I like Cat Power but that album was just boring (the first covers album is solid).
-
I would uld say that most albums need 5 listens to tell if you really like them.
-
Ilya Monosov- "Seven Lucky Plays, Or How to Fix Songs for A Broken Heart".
I finally got a copy of this after having only one track for months. It's a really beautiful record.
-
I would uld say that most albums need 5 listens to tell if you really like them.
I would uld say that too, but I guess what I'm talking about is albums that didn't really even have much of a hint that I would like them at all. I agree about the National, everything about them strikes me as really boring but after a few listens I tend to get it.
On the other hand is when certain bands have a really fresh or new sound and I fall into the trap. Then two months later you realize it's garbage.
-
Oh, and I don't think anyone's mention Bon Iver's album "For Emma, Forever Ago". Really pretty stuff.
-
On the other hand is when certain bands have a really fresh or new sound and I fall into the trap. Then two months later you realize it's garbage.
argh. i hate it when that happens.
-
Dig, Lazurus, Dig!
-
Dig, Lazurus, Dig!
What about King's X - XV?!
-
Dig, Lazurus, Dig!
I'm with you Dave. I'm still going back to that album. I have tickets for next month and I'm going blind with anticipation.
-
Dig, Lazurus, Dig!
I'm with you Dave. I'm still going back to that album. I have tickets for next month and I'm going blind with anticipation.
Seriously, he's been at the top of my to-see list for years.
-
my tops so far
Portishead - 3rd (far and away their best record, and i was fully prepared to hate it)
Cold Sun - Dark Shadows (an amazing dark desert psych record that almost never saw the light of day... One acetate made at the time of recording and a tiny repress on Rockadelic in the mid '90's made this a very expensive proposition, thank god World in Sound is bringing it back to CD and LP, from the master tapes and with bonus tracks! The BEST Texas psych record EVER! DON'T SLEEP!)
JW Farquhar - The Formal Female (on Shadoks records, bizarre private press oddity from '72 with fuzz, drum machines, and long conceptual suites on marrage and the materialism of women)
Amanaz - Africa (also on Shadoks, a mellow guitar psych masterpiece from '70s Zambia)
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles and '06-07' singles collection
Social Junk - Concussion Summer (Not Not Fun records, bizarro scummy tapelooping and instrument trashing fury)
-
!!!the Barbaras!!! thanks.
Seconded:
Women - s/t
Vivian Girls - s/t
Gentleman Jesse - s/t
Shearwater - Rook
Firsted:
Zomes - s/t
Au - Verbs
Thee Oh Sees - Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion
Nice Face - Thing In My Head 7". -can download free from myspace
And reissues:
VA - Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels (Numero)
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar (Soundway)
Orchestre Régional De Kayes - The Best Of The First Biennale Of Arts And Culture For The Young (Mississippi)
http://www.last.fm/user/av_assistant
-
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar (Soundway)
indeedy that's a really good one.
-
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar (Soundway)
indeedy that's a really good one.
Ditto.
-
I have to also give it up to the first Gutz LP. I may be related to one of the members, but the I can remove my bias and say the record is seriously great.
-
Gentleman Jesse - s/t
Shearwater - Rook
Shearwater would be another one of those bands that I have to listen to the album a few times before it clicks.
That Gentleman Jesse album has got some of the catchiest songs I've heard in a long while.
-
I liked the new Richard Swift, Walkmen, David Vandervelde
I agree with you on the Walkmen, that album is a real grower.
I was hooked from the opening bass note, probably their best album in years.
-
Dig! Lazarus, Dig! is indeed a big pleaser. I liked it a lot.
Jury's still out on my favorites for the year. My ipod tells me I've listened to Velocifero the most.
-
Thee Oh Sees - Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion
Yess!!! I get to see them live in a couple of weeks!
-
Slim Cessna's Auto Club's Cipher. It's the only album of 2008 that I've heard in it entirety.
It's not quiet as good as The Bloudy Tenant Truth Peace, but it's still real good
-
Thee Oh Sees - Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion
Yess!!! I get to see them live in a couple of weeks!
I put them on a few months ago over here in the UK and they were that good I drove miles to see them the next night. Top notch.
-
I was surprised that I liked the latest Harvey Milk disc as much as I did; I threw out an appreciation for most heavy metal years ago.
-
I was surprised that I liked the latest Harvey Milk disc as much as I did; I threw out an appreciation for most heavy metal years ago.
Check out Torche's Meanderthal.
-
I think the new Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is pretty great.
Perfect for a car ride.
-
I've missed 2008 so far as new music goes.
My favorite album that I've been listening to this year is quite old: Jorge Ben's 'Ben' from 1972.
I like Vampire Weekend OK, but it didn't change my worldview....
-
I can't stop listening to Deerhunter's Microcastle. Save for a late-year masterpiece by another artist, it will be my AOTY.
-
I was surprised that I liked the latest Harvey Milk disc as much as I did; I threw out an appreciation for most heavy metal years ago.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5i9v8jaOJ4[/youtube]
-
I was surprised that I liked the latest Harvey Milk disc as much as I did; I threw out an appreciation for most heavy metal years ago.
Check out Torche's Meanderthal.
Word. Meanderthal is next level.
-
Someone probably already said this, but Sloan's Parallel Play is really good too.
-
What it be this year?
-
I'd have to do some serious soul-searching and will probably recant this, but the new Pissed Jeans album & Idle Times "Million Miles Away" 7" are way ahead of anything else.
-
from the power pop category, The Pets - "Misdirection"
-ajax
-
I'd have to do some serious soul-searching and will probably recant this, but the new Pissed Jeans album & Idle Times "Million Miles Away" 7" are way ahead of anything else.
Yeah I haven't gotten around to listening to many of the fall releases but that Pissed Jeans album is really great.
The new Flaming Lips was a big surprise. I didn't like the last one at all so I wasn't expecting much but I'm really liking Embryonic after a few listens.
-
Chain and The Gang - "Down With Liberty... Up With Chains!"
and not just because it's the only album that came out this year that I've heard.
-
Thee Oh Sees - Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion
Yess!!! I get to see them live in a couple of weeks!
LUCKY!!!
I just caught them (with TV Ghost and Wizzard Sleeve) and it was top-notch; maybe one of the best things I have ever seen. New album is nice stuff!
-
I'd have to do some serious soul-searching and will probably recant this, but the new Pissed Jeans album & Idle Times "Million Miles Away" 7" are way ahead of anything else.
Yeah I haven't gotten around to listening to many of the fall releases but that Pissed Jeans album is really great.
The new Flaming Lips was a big surprise. I didn't like the last one at all so I wasn't expecting much but I'm really liking Embryonic after a few listens.
Yes. Pistoled Jeans do rule. I agree on the Flaming Lips count as well. It's probably my favorite of theirs since The Soft Bulletin.
There was a top 2009 thread floating around somewhere. I kind of wanted to resurrect it to A) see what I posted six months ago and B) correct whatever I posted six months ago.
-
Just got The Black Hollies' Softly Towards The Light, and it is awesome. "Gloomy Monday Morning" has been getting heavy airplay on WFMU.
-
Just got The Black Hollies' Softly Towards The Light, and it is awesome. "Gloomy Monday Morning" has been getting heavy airplay on WFMU.
As much as I like this one, I don't think it's as good as Casting Shadows.
-
I think that, as a whole, CS is probably a stronger album, but so far I'm loving the standout tracks on STTL even more than the standout tracks on CS.
-
What are you guys talking about? They had plenty of energy when I saw them, and not a chair in site (in fact, I can't even imagine those songs being played sitting down).
I saw them live in '04 and they started their set acoustic. And kept going acoustic for about the first third of their set. I'm all for a band I like doing what they want but do people really want to see Cheap Trick go acoustic? It wasn't very good. Then when they finally went electric they had a light show that went directly into my eyes. I love Cheap Trick and have a bunch of their albums but we just didn't connect that night.
Wayne Kramer, the opening act and one of my musical heroes, was far, far better.
-
What are you guys talking about? They had plenty of energy when I saw them, and not a chair in site (in fact, I can't even imagine those songs being played sitting down).
I saw them live in '04 and they started their set acoustic. And kept going acoustic for about the first third of their set. I'm all for a band I like doing what they want but do people really want to see Cheap Trick go acoustic? It wasn't very good. Then when they finally went electric they had a light show that went directly into my eyes. I love Cheap Trick and have a bunch of their albums but we just didn't connect that night.
Wayne Kramer, the opening act and one of my musical heroes, was far, far better.
Hmm. We were talking about Cheap Time (who didn't even exist yet in '04).
-
Thee Oh Sees - Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion
Yess!!! I get to see them live in a couple of weeks!
LUCKY!!!
I just caught them (with TV Ghost and Wizzard Sleeve) and it was top-notch; maybe one of the best things I have ever seen. New album is nice stuff!
I'm gonna go ahead and say Thee Oh Sees "Help" is one of my tippy tops, which also came out this year....actually upon checking Hounds came out in '08.
Thee Oh Sees RULED budget rock in SF last month. Some sweet vid by yours truly resteth here:
http://joelhuggins.com/2009/11/thee-oh-sees-rule-budget-rock/
-
I guess I'm officially old because I can't think of more than a couple of new records I bought this year.
-
(http://imgur.com/RqdvH.jpg) (http://imgur.com/MvyIb.jpg)
-
I haven't heard much in terms of full albums this year, but I think Polvo's comeback album In Prism completely obliterates all their old stuff - not that I was even really a fan before! So, so good.
-
I haven't heard much in terms of full albums this year, but I think Polvo's comeback album In Prism completely obliterates all their old stuff - not that I was even really a fan before! So, so good.
That record's pretty good. It's not something that blew me away right away, but it's got some sneaky songs. I like it. Live, however, they did not get it done at all.
My favorite record this year has been Tre Orsi's LP. I think you can find it on their website. This is, hand's down, the best album I've heard all year.
Magnolia Electric Co's "Josephine" is pretty great.
"Rate O" came out this year, I think.
Jesus, that's a confounding one.
Ike
-
Really like Bat for Lashes' Two Suns --- and the new Pissed Jeans is awesome as well.
-
Started listening to the JEFF the Brotherhood album "Heavy Days" after hearing Ted Leo talk them up earlier this year. I like it a lot.
-
Started listening to the JEFF the Brotherhood album "Heavy Days" after hearing Ted Leo talk them up earlier this year. I like it a lot.
i might have seen them live if the bouncers were actually letting people in during their set at the Ted Leo show here in lipstick city. :-[
-
I haven't heard much in terms of full albums this year, but I think Polvo's comeback album In Prism completely obliterates all their old stuff - not that I was even really a fan before! So, so good.
Thanks for reminding me about this one. I was a big fan of their old stuff, particularly 'Today's Active Lifestyles'.
It was on my radar that this had come out, but I neglected to actually get it. I will check it out.
-
So far my favorite is St Vincent, but I think I have only heard 3
-
(http://joeyraia.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/felt3_art.jpg)
(http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/brother-ali-us.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WbwHlJPP91U/SvonYcQZS0I/AAAAAAAApPw/YpILR4RufzQ/s320/RECESSIONPROOF.jpg)
-
Because I have free time, I'm doing a write up/photo essay type thing for my top 10. I'll post it here when I'm done. I'd like to get some feedback.
-
I'm greatly enjoying:
Generationals - Con Law, (bouncy gritty enthusiastic 60's soul influenced pop)
Micachu - Jewellery, (damaged back alley hip hop with dishwasher clattering and banging)
It Hugs Back - Inside Your Guitar, (if you wished the new YLT sounded more like Heart, here's yr record)
I Was A King - S/T, (Teenage Fanclub meets The Wedding Present, as derivative as it sounds)
Hatcham Social - You Dig The Tunnel I'll Hide The Soil, (C-86 resuccitation from dirty sidewalks)
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone, (walking the bridge between her earlier records and Kirsty MacColl)
Lhasa De Sela - Lhasa, (she has a weary voice like 1,000 cigarettes and whiskey drinks)
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers, (one cutting falsetto and several huffing men singing backup)
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels, (no more crickets or shack-based recordings, but I've moved beyond the past)
Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe (still quite capable of throwing potent punches)
-
I really like the Passion Pit record. Can't for the life of me think of an out-and-out favorite though.
Update: I thought of it. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul. Brilliant.
-
(http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/lets%20wrestle%20album.jpg)
(http://weeklytapedeck.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/japandroids.jpg)
not from this year but this guy is from the future anyway so....
(http://amrgambl.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/jay_electronica_-_what_the_fck_is_a_jay_electronica_front.jpg)
-
(http://www.culturebully.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sister-suvi-now-i-am-champion.jpg)
Now I Am Champion by Sister Suvi.
-
Swell Season will fill your house like good food smells.
-
(http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/B/black_paraf.jpg)
(http://www.animalswithinanimals.com/stallio/uploaded_images/radiohead_in_rainbows2-783878.jpg)
-
I was about to post the cover of the new Boston Spaceships on here but it has boobs on it and this isn't a toilet forum. I also am enjoying the new Built to Spill.
-
I agree with Reeleyes -- LOVE the new Boston Spaceships. (And when did Pollard's Coast to Coast album come out? That's really good too.)
-
I agree with Reeleyes -- LOVE the new Boston Spaceships. (And when did Pollard's Coast to Coast album come out? That's really good too.)
Doesn't Pollard put out a minimum of two albums a month?
-
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w-u62XGbbZo/SpI-GAsLpMI/AAAAAAAABbE/ELP9RBaEx2g/s400/tv_ghost_-_cold_fish.jpg)
TV Ghost, Cold Fish
http://www.myspace.com/televisionghost
(http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2009/06/jamesblackshaw_glassbead.jpg)
James Blackshaw, The Glass Bead Game
http://www.myspace.com/jamesblackshaw
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IBWYbAkwvbk/SljR8g8_WWI/AAAAAAAAGwY/ljkcmV_9_70/s400/Oneida+-+Rated+O+%282009%29.jpg)
Oneida, Rated O
http://www.myspace.com/oneidarocks
Liked a lot of 7"s this year by Jay Reatard, Low Red Center, Pink Reason and Drunkdriver.
Honourable mentions for Wild Beasts, Converge, Crystal Antlers, Future of the Left, White Rainbow, the Ghana Special comp on Soundways, Tortoise, Extra Golden, J Dilla, Flaming Lips, Gregg Kowalsky, Thee Oh Sees, Wooden Shjips and Bear In Heaven.
-
I agree with Reeleyes -- LOVE the new Boston Spaceships. (And when did Pollard's Coast to Coast album come out? That's really good too.)
2007. I'm not a fan of that one. Bob's offerings in 2009 have been:
The Crawling Distance and Elephant Jokes, under his own name.
The Planets Are Blasted and Zero to 99, with the Boston Spaceships.
Gringo, with Circus Devils.
Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks, with Cosmos.
The Planets Are Blasted and Elephant Jokes are the best of this year's batch, in my opinion.
Gibby, I haven't heard the James Blackshaw, but I love the TV Ghost and Oneida records. I'll have to check it out.
-
As a heads-up, Blackshaw is like a John Fahey for now, only on 12-string. Check this out from the above record.
[youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AF7P4MXP-I[/youtube]
Need to catch up on Boston Spaceships.
-
I agree with Reeleyes -- LOVE the new Boston Spaceships. (And when did Pollard's Coast to Coast album come out? That's really good too.)
Doesn't Pollard put out a minimum of two albums a month?
Yah, he's like the Joyce Carol Oates of the music world.
-
I agree with Reeleyes -- LOVE the new Boston Spaceships. (And when did Pollard's Coast to Coast album come out? That's really good too.)
2007. I'm not a fan of that one. Bob's offerings in 2009 have been:
The Crawling Distance and Elephant Jokes, under his own name.
The Planets Are Blasted and Zero to 99, with the Boston Spaceships.
Gringo, with Circus Devils.
Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks, with Cosmos.
The Planets Are Blasted and Elephant Jokes are the best of this year's batch, in my opinion.
Gibby, I haven't heard the James Blackshaw, but I love the TV Ghost and Oneida records. I'll have to check it out.
Yeah, Elephant Jokes is real good. How's Crawling Distance? I love Off to Business and was excited to see him make another album of 3+ minute songs, but heard mixed things...
Other albums I really love from this year (and possibly last, cause I'm behind):
Telekinesis!
The Fireman - Electric Arguments
Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend
Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland
Superdrag - Industry Giants
-
I agree with Reeleyes -- LOVE the new Boston Spaceships. (And when did Pollard's Coast to Coast album come out? That's really good too.)
2007. I'm not a fan of that one. Bob's offerings in 2009 have been:
The Crawling Distance and Elephant Jokes, under his own name.
The Planets Are Blasted and Zero to 99, with the Boston Spaceships.
Gringo, with Circus Devils.
Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks, with Cosmos.
The Planets Are Blasted and Elephant Jokes are the best of this year's batch, in my opinion.
Gibby, I haven't heard the James Blackshaw, but I love the TV Ghost and Oneida records. I'll have to check it out.
THE PLANETS ARE BLASTED is Pollard's best since FROM A COMPOUND EYE, for my money.
-
(http://morningaftershow.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/album-art-girls-album.jpg)
-
(http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss153/penguino67/Album%20Covers/emperorsWeb.jpg?t=1259266866)
"Karate"-The Emperors (on Funkadelphia)
(http://www.chicagoreader.com/imager/numero_group_unlocks_the_vaults_of_felton_williams/b/original/975396/cda2/4427.jpg)
"Local Customs: Downriver Revival"-V/A (on Numero)
-
Has anyone mentioned the new King Khan & BBQ album "Invisible Girl" in any of the previous 15 pages? Because I think that is a pretty good album.
Incidentally, nec13: I just saw the movie that your signature quote is taken from recently. Crazy, crazy ending.
-
I agree with Reeleyes -- LOVE the new Boston Spaceships. (And when did Pollard's Coast to Coast album come out? That's really good too.)
2007. I'm not a fan of that one. Bob's offerings in 2009 have been:
The Crawling Distance and Elephant Jokes, under his own name.
The Planets Are Blasted and Zero to 99, with the Boston Spaceships.
Gringo, with Circus Devils.
Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks, with Cosmos.
The Planets Are Blasted and Elephant Jokes are the best of this year's batch, in my opinion.
Gibby, I haven't heard the James Blackshaw, but I love the TV Ghost and Oneida records. I'll have to check it out.
Yeah, Elephant Jokes is real good. How's Crawling Distance? I love Off to Business and was excited to see him make another album of 3+ minute songs, but heard mixed things...
Other albums I really love from this year (and possibly last, cause I'm behind):
Telekinesis!
The Fireman - Electric Arguments
Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend
Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland
Superdrag - Industry Giants
Ehh... wasn't really into Crawling Distance. Post-GBV Pollard has been spotty for me.... but Zero To 99 is solid!
Those other albums you listed rock as well. Haven't heard the Crenshaw though.
Other albums I have been listening to lately -
Carbon/Silicon - The Carbon Bubble
The Duckworth Lewis Method - s/t
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live Anthology
Sloan - Hit & Run EP
-
the spiderbags record is pretty dece.
-
the spiderbags record is pretty dece.
Been dying to get that. I'm wearing out the grooves on their "Hey Delinquents" single.
-
the spiderbags record is pretty dece.
Been dying to get that. I'm wearing out the grooves on their "Hey Delinquents" single.
That is a glorious song.
-
the spiderbags record is pretty dece.
dece. Hug you are a strange one.
-
the spiderbags record is pretty dece.
dece. Hug you are a strange one.
If that record is half as dece as I'm expecting it to be, it's gonna be croosh.
-
The at-long-last (bootleg?) release of Dan Melchior's "O Clouds Unfold" (recorded years ago) is pretty stellar. Snatch one up now if you haven't already!
-
I've been loving the most recent Thao Nguyen album. Saw them a few weeks ago and it was the best show I'd seen in years.
-
the spiderbags record is pretty dece.
dece. Hug you are a strange one.
color me exposed.
-
Top 30 Albums of 2009
Baroness – The Blue Album [Relapse]
Boston Spaceships – The Planets Are Blasted [GBV, Inc.]
Boston Spaceships – Zero to 99 [GBV, Inc.]
Converge – Axe to Fall [Epitaph]
DC Snipers – DC Snipers [Daggerman]
Japandroids – Post-Nothing [Polyvinyl]
Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall [Matador]
JEFF the Brotherhood – Heavy Days [Infinity Cat]
Kiss - Sonic Boom [Kiss/Universal]
Kylesa – Static Tensions [Prosthetic]
Mastodon – Crack the Skye [Warner Bros.]
Necco Case – Middle Cyclone [ANTI-]
Part Chimp – Thriller [Rock Action]
Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) [Ruth St. Records]
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [V2]
Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans [Sub Pop]
Polvo – In Prism [Merge]
Regina Spektor – Far [Sire]
Slayer – World Painted Blood [American]
Sonic Youth - The Eternal [Matador]
Spider Bags – Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World [Birdman]
Tegan and Sara – Sainthood [Sire]
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down – Know Better Learn Faster [Kill Rock Stars]
The Black Hollies – Softly Towards the Light [Ernest Jenning Co.]
The Hex Dispensers – Winchester Mystery House [Douchemaster]
The Intelligence – Fake Surfers [In the Red]
The Smith Westerns – The Smith Westerns [Hozac]
Visqueen – Message to Garcia [Local 638 Records]
Wussy – Wussy [Shake It]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz [Interscope]
Special Recognition for Achievement in Musics: Tom/Dog: A Tribute to Ram
-
This is it for me right now, not counting reissues:
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
the xx – the xx
Desire – II
Reigning Sound – Love and Curses
Leyland Kirby – Sadly, the Future is No Longer What it Was
The Mantles – The Mantles PLUS: Personal & The Pizzas – complete discography
Best 2008 album I discovered in 2009:
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
-
Boston Spaceships – The Planets Are Blasted [GBV, Inc.]
Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall [Matador]
Spider Bags – Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World [Birdman]
The Black Hollies – Softly Towards the Light [Ernest Jenning Co.]
Wussy – Wussy [Shake It]
These were all either on (Spider Bags, Jay Reatard) or just missed a top ten list I had to put together. Also: Mountain (Heartless Bastards), Information Inspiration vol. 3 (Mulatu Astatke/Heliocentrics), Further Complications (Jarvis Cocker), Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears) and Change Remains (Starlight Mints), which took me a while to come around on but I ended up enjoying.
In addition to putting out the great "Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World", I think the Spider Bags cover of "Long Haired Lady" from TOM will end up being the song I listen to most from this year. Inexplicably, 2009 featured two excellent covers of "Long Haired Lady" - the Amnion cover on that "Ram on LA" tribute album was also amazing. Always loved the original on Ram and still pleasantly surprised to get two killer covers of it back-to-back in the same year.
-
Also: Mountain (Heartless Bastards)
I forgot this was a 2009 release. Solid recording.
-
I guess I'm officially an old man since I don't even think I'd be able to put together a top 5 of the year. It's not like I didn't buy new stuff this year, it's just that very little of it stuck with me. I looked at the AV Club's "Best of the Year" list and I hadn't heard of most of it.
-
1. Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
2. Annie- Don't Stop
3. Decemberists- Hazards of Love
4. Regina Spektor- Far
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz
5. Girls- Album
6. Japandroids- Post Nothing
7. Florence and the Machine- Lungs
8. Brother Ali- Truth is Here
9. Black Moth Super Rainbow- Eating Us
10. Grand Duchy- Petits Fours
11. Mission of Burma- Sound the Speed the Light
12. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs- Under the Covers Vol II
13. Sally Shapiro- My Guilty Pleasure
14. St. Vincent- Actor
15. Boston Spaceships- Planets are Blasted
16. Doug Paisley- ST
17. Wu Tang- Chamber Music
18. Wooden Shjips- Dos
19. Yo La Tengo- Popular Songs
20. Jason Lytle- Yours Truly the Commuter
-
I guess I'm officially an old man since I don't even think I'd be able to put together a top 5 of the year. It's not like I didn't buy new stuff this year, it's just that very little of it stuck with me. I looked at the AV Club's "Best of the Year" list and I hadn't heard of most of it.
Just listen to your Ratt and Monster Magnet records and call it even.
-
Also: Mountain (Heartless Bastards)
I forgot this was a 2009 release. Solid recording.
Featured on last night's "Friday Night Lights."
-
I guess I'm officially an old man since I don't even think I'd be able to put together a top 5 of the year. It's not like I didn't buy new stuff this year, it's just that very little of it stuck with me. I looked at the AV Club's "Best of the Year" list and I hadn't heard of most of it.
I'm sort of with you. I mean, ask me again in mid-2010 and I'll probably be able to come up with 10-15 albums - right now I can maybe come up with 5. Mulatu Astatke, Bibio...
-
albums in no order
jeff the brotherhood- heavy days
pissed jeans - king of jeans
smith westerns- smith westerns
yo la tengo - popular songs
Mantles - Mantles
bare wires -artificial clouds
white wires- girly girly girly
V/A- DOG: best show on wfmu tribute to paul mccartney's ram
spits - IV
jacuzzi boys - no seasons
the yolks - the yolks
fresh & Onlys - grey eyed girls
dino jr - farm
bonnie prince billy - beware!
so cow - so cow
kurt vile - constant hit maker
Harlem - Free Drugs ;)
7" and EP
all the personal and the pizzas
fever b - the lonely sailor sessions
rantouls - "little Green Hat"
spits - pain EP
White Wires - "Pretty Girl"
the GG King singles
Lover! - No Dreams Please
nobunny - give it to me
-
I guess I'm officially an old man since I don't even think I'd be able to put together a top 5 of the year. It's not like I didn't buy new stuff this year, it's just that very little of it stuck with me. I looked at the AV Club's "Best of the Year" list and I hadn't heard of most of it.
Same deal here. I have become unstuck in time, if I'm listening to something that's new to me, I don't care what year it's from, or necessarily pay a lot of attention to what came out exactly this year. All that said, I really liked Yo La Tengo's Popular Songs.
-
2. Annie- Don't Stop
Forgot she had a new album. How does it compare to Annimal?
-
2. Annie- Don't Stop
Forgot she had a new album. How does it compare to Annimal?
I think it's more consistent. Songs Remind Me of You is my favorite song of the year, but it's not quite as good as My Heartbeat.
-
The Nerves reissues were pretty excellent. The La Roux Album was also super catchy.
-
I "work" for an online site so I'm not allowed to really announce my favorite records of the year but Blacklisted's No One Deserves to be Here More Than Me will probably be it.
-
The Monsters of Folk album has gained the most playing time from me. Also Bonnie Prince Billy's Beware and Bill Callahan's Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle.
-
I guess I'm officially an old man since I don't even think I'd be able to put together a top 5 of the year. It's not like I didn't buy new stuff this year, it's just that very little of it stuck with me. I looked at the AV Club's "Best of the Year" list and I hadn't heard of most of it.
Same deal here. I have become unstuck in time, if I'm listening to something that's new to me, I don't care what year it's from, or necessarily pay a lot of attention to what came out exactly this year. All that said, I really liked Yo La Tengo's Popular Songs.
I think this is why I'm so out of touch: Most of my music listening from the past years has been older stuff and "new" discoveries (things I either missed or didn't get the first time around, like My Bloody Valentine, just as an example). As I learn more about older stuff, I start to recognize the influences in newer bands really quickly and thus don't get as excited about every new thing that references the same old stuff. This isn't to say that I've given up on new music, I just don't need to hear it right when it comes out, especially if I'm going to be able to say "Oh, they're just chanelling XXX" 15 seconds into hearing said band for the first time. If something new is genuinely good and within my taste range, I'll probably get around to it eventually, but it'll probably take 2-5 years before that happens. Barring any bolt-from-the-blue blasts of greatness, my days of needing to hear the newest/latest the week (or even the year) of its release are pretty much over. I've spent lots of time this year listening to stuff from the past few years, but generally it's been 2006-8 releases. I'll get to 2009 sometime in the next decade.
-
I guess I'm officially an old man since I don't even think I'd be able to put together a top 5 of the year. It's not like I didn't buy new stuff this year, it's just that very little of it stuck with me. I looked at the AV Club's "Best of the Year" list and I hadn't heard of most of it.
Same deal here. I have become unstuck in time, if I'm listening to something that's new to me, I don't care what year it's from, or necessarily pay a lot of attention to what came out exactly this year. All that said, I really liked Yo La Tengo's Popular Songs.
I think this is why I'm so out of touch: Most of my music listening from the past years has been older stuff and "new" discoveries (things I either missed or didn't get the first time around, like My Bloody Valentine, just as an example). As I learn more about older stuff, I start to recognize the influences in newer bands really quickly and thus don't get as excited about every new thing that references the same old stuff. This isn't to say that I've given up on new music, I just don't need to hear it right when it comes out, especially if I'm going to be able to say "Oh, they're just chanelling XXX" 15 seconds into hearing said band for the first time. If something new is genuinely good and within my taste range, I'll probably get around to it eventually, but it'll probably take 2-5 years before that happens. Barring any bolt-from-the-blue blasts of greatness, my days of needing to hear the newest/latest the week (or even the year) of its release are pretty much over. I've spent lots of time this year listening to stuff from the past few years, but generally it's been 2006-8 releases. I'll get to 2009 sometime in the next decade.
this Old Man has way too much amazing old stuff to discover before checking out the hip new sounds. Hell, I've only started to scratch the surface of Black Sabbath's discography.
I did finally get around to hearing that Yeah Yeah Yeahs song "Maps" that folks were yapping about. nothing special.
the new Fuck Buttons seems pretty good after a few listens. I guess that's new.
-
Well, the project I was doing is temporarily on hold, so I'm not doing anything fancy for now (expect spam on the board when I do).
Here's a short list of thought I stuff ruled:
Real Estate - Real Estate
The King Khan and BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
Abe Vigoda - Reviver
No Age - Losing Feeling
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
Non Rock Music I liked:
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Two
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Noveller - Red Rainbows
Compilations/Reissues
that Well Hung comp
the Underwater Peoples sampler
Here is also a list of stuff that I thought ruled from 2008 that I feel like an idiot for sleeping on until this year:
Titus Andronicus- The Airing of Greviences
Cheap Time - Cheap Time
The Beets - Spit on the Face of People Who Don't Want to be Cool
There's also a list of stuff I have to relisten to, though so some of the above may change.
-
I can't get enough of the Box Elders cd either. I've listened to it so many times that logic dictates I should hate it by now. But logic fails me.
-
As an LA native who has seen No Age more times than I would have ever wanted, I have to say that they are terrible. It's possible they are decent on record but man they are a chore to watch (at least the local shows are).
No offense, methanol.
-
As an LA native who has seen No Age more times than I would have ever wanted, I have to say that they are terrible. It's possible they are decent on record but man they are a chore to watch (at least the local shows are).
No offense, methanol.
That's the thing, I've listened to the comp of their early stuff as well as Nouns and didn't really care for either. Thought they were kind of "meh". I thought this one worked. I also gave them credit for putting out something good when a bunch of artists I'm actually a fan of kind of disappointed me.
-
I liked the Dan Deacon too, now that somebody's mentioned it. 'Suprise Stefani' and all that.
Again, I wasn't sure if it was a 2008 or 2009 release.
-
EDIT: well, both albums I liked were from 2008 :D
I mainly played older music this year ...
too much amazing old stuff to discover
Fuck Buttons seems pretty good
-
This is my favorite reissue/collection that was issued this year. Crucial stuff from a great under-the-radar Boston rock band.
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/fb261a18757855e9c6c012a5fa7873a5/2538202.jpg)
I did a little digging and the distribution seems somewhat limited -- you can get it from Newbury Comics, but I looked on their website and nothing came up -- but hopefully Rick Harte (Ace of Hearts Records, who did this as well as the originals, not to mention some of the earliest Burma stuff) will get it out there. Still easier to find in Boston than a pair of flip flops...
-
This is my favorite reissue/collection that was issued this year. Crucial stuff from a great under-the-radar Boston rock band.
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/fb261a18757855e9c6c012a5fa7873a5/2538202.jpg)
Still easier to find in Boston than a pair of flip flops...
Tim K from Somerville - you get a Tommy Point!
-
Not sure why the forum seems to be hiding this image, but it's the album cover for the Neats reissue.
At any rate, I did some more digging, and it turns out (as I suspected would happen) that you can now also get it via the fine folks at Matador records. Let's see if this link works...
http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=423 (http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=423)
-
Listening now to The Glass Bead Game, the James Blackshaw album Gibby recommended. I'd heard stuff of his before that I liked but this is something else. Really gorgeous.
-
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yKZgaWIJL._SS400_.jpg)
I received this as a Christmas gift. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's as good as, if not better, than Nigeria Special.
-
the James Blackshaw album Gibby recommended. I'd heard stuff of his before that I liked but this is something else. Really gorgeous.
Agreed, really outstanding stuff...any other recommendations from James Blackshaw catalogue?
-
the James Blackshaw album Gibby recommended. I'd heard stuff of his before that I liked but this is something else. Really gorgeous.
Agreed, really outstanding stuff...any other recommendations from James Blackshaw catalogue?
This album is quite a departure from his previous work, which was primarily 12-string acoustic. Cloud of Unknowing from a few years back is very good, but you can't really go wrong with any of his other albums, especially if you like that sort of thing.
-
Not sure why the forum seems to be hiding this image, but it's the album cover for the Neats reissue.
At any rate, I did some more digging, and it turns out (as I suspected would happen) that you can now also get it via the fine folks at Matador records. Let's see if this link works...
http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=423 (http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=423)
Tim, you probably know this by now, but The Neats are doing a First Night New Years Show at The Orpheum with Buffalo Tom.
Thanks for the heads-up on the reissue: one of my friends has been raving about The Neats, but she didn't know if anything was still easily available. They have a pretty small internet footprint!
-
the James Blackshaw album Gibby recommended. I'd heard stuff of his before that I liked but this is something else. Really gorgeous.
Agreed, really outstanding stuff...any other recommendations from James Blackshaw catalogue?
This album is quite a departure from his previous work, which was primarily 12-string acoustic. Cloud of Unknowing from a few years back is very good, but you can't really go wrong with any of his other albums, especially if you like that sort of thing.
Yeah, O True Believers is the other one I have. It's impressive, but this new one really grabbed me
-
Here's my top 50 for the year
1) Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavilion
2) Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
3) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
4) Iron and Wine - Around the Well
5) Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar
6) Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
7) Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
8) Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
9) Dizzee Rascal - Tongue n Cheek
10) Wilco - Wilco the Album
11) Me'Shell N'Degeocello - Devil's Halo
12) PJ Harvey - A Man, a Woman Walked By
13) The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
14) J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid
15) Basement Jaxx - Scars
16) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
17) Flaming Lips - Embryonic
18) Nirvana - Live at Reading
19) Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
20) Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
21) The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
22) Dolly Parton - Dolly
23) Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
24) Steve Earle - Townes
25) Oneida - Rated O
26) M Ward - Hold Time
27) Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
28) Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
29) Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
30) Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
31) Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
32) Akron/Family - Set em Wild Set em Free
33) Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
34) Magnolia Electric Company - Josephine
35) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
36) Brother Ali - Us
37) The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
38) Ghostface Killah - Ghostdini: Wizrd of Poetry
39) Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
40) Miranda Lambert - Revolution
41) Leonard Cohen - Live in London
42) Mission of Burma - The Sound the Speed the Light
43) The Thermals - Now We Can See
44) The Field - Yesterday and Today
45) Rosanne Cash - The List
46) The Handsome Family - Honey Moon
47) Arctic Monkees - Humbug
48) Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
49) British Sea Power - Man of Aran (Soundtrack)
50) Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
I tend to go with the tried and true, finding it harder and harder as I age to give much slack to brand new artists.
-
Wow, I'd completely missed that Me'Shell had an album out this year - thanks for letting me know, Dave!
-
Here's my top 50 for the year
1) Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavilion
2) Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
3) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
4) Iron and Wine - Around the Well
5) Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar
6) Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
7) Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
8) Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
9) Dizzee Rascal - Tongue n Cheek
10) Wilco - Wilco the Album
11) Me'Shell N'Degeocello - Devil's Halo
12) PJ Harvey - A Man, a Woman Walked By
13) The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
14) J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid
15) Basement Jaxx - Scars
16) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
17) Flaming Lips - Embryonic
18) Nirvana - Live at Reading
19) Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
20) Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
21) The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
22) Dolly Parton - Dolly
23) Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
24) Steve Earle - Townes
25) Oneida - Rated O
26) M Ward - Hold Time
27) Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
28) Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
29) Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
30) Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
31) Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
32) Akron/Family - Set em Wild Set em Free
33) Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
34) Magnolia Electric Company - Josephine
35) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
36) Brother Ali - Us
37) The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
38) Ghostface Killah - Ghostdini: Wizrd of Poetry
39) Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
40) Miranda Lambert - Revolution
41) Leonard Cohen - Live in London
42) Mission of Burma - The Sound the Speed the Light
43) The Thermals - Now We Can See
44) The Field - Yesterday and Today
45) Rosanne Cash - The List
46) The Handsome Family - Honey Moon
47) Arctic Monkees - Humbug
48) Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
49) British Sea Power - Man of Aran (Soundtrack)
50) Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
I tend to go with the tried and true, finding it harder and harder as I age to give much slack to brand new artists.
No Monsters of Folk?
-
It is what it is
-
I listened to these records more than any others this year:
Shudder To Think: Pony Express Record (I've had this for a few years, but for some reason it was my go-to record in '09)
The Thermals: Now We Can See
Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
The Feelies: Only Life (picked up after grabbing the reissued 1st 2 records this year, which are also great-especially The Good Earth)
Future Of The Left: Curses
Sonic Youth: The Eternal
The Twilight Sad: Forget The Night Ahead
Japandroids: Post-Nothing
Records I like but haven't spent as much time with:
Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy
Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs
Thao Nguyen: Know Better Learn Faster
-
23) Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
:'(
-
I've heard nothing but good things about the music of Vic Chesnutt. Unfortunately, I haven't heard any of it.
If I wanted to start listening to his work, where would be a good place to start?
-
I've heard nothing but good things about the music of Vic Chesnutt. Unfortunately, I haven't heard any of it.
If I wanted to start listening to his work, where would be a good place to start?
I only really started listening to him within the last couple years, and haven't really delved much into his back catalogue, but 2007's North Star Deserter and this year's At The Cut are wonderful. "You Are Never Alone" (NSD) and "Flirted With You All My Life" (ATC) are among my favorite songs of the decade.
-
I've heard nothing but good things about the music of Vic Chesnutt. Unfortunately, I haven't heard any of it.
If I wanted to start listening to his work, where would be a good place to start?
It's hard to go wrong, but I always loved The Salesman and Bernadette.
For a taste of his work as a solo performer, you could start with this short concert from the office of NPR's All Songs considered, although it's not terribly representative of his recorded work, which generally features elaborate (but still usually quiet) instrumental arrangements
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91190732 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91190732)
-
(http://www.agitreader.com/img/futures/homeblitz.jpg)
-
Not sure why the forum seems to be hiding this image, but it's the album cover for the Neats reissue.
At any rate, I did some more digging, and it turns out (as I suspected would happen) that you can now also get it via the fine folks at Matador records. Let's see if this link works...
http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=423 (http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=423)
Tim, you probably know this by now, but The Neats are doing a First Night New Years Show at The Orpheum with Buffalo Tom.
Thanks for the heads-up on the reissue: one of my friends has been raving about The Neats, but she didn't know if anything was still easily available. They have a pretty small internet footprint!
Yeah, I’m bummed that I won’t be able to make it. Gotta work. Lyres are on that Orpheum bill, too. Should be awesome; all reports on The Neats’ warm-up show last night at Church (formerly The Linwood) have been glowing. Hope they keep at it, but one never knows.
Speaking of old reunited bands, Jim - we’ve got the Feelies booked for March 19 at the Middle East, FYI.
-
Not sure which topic to post this under, so here's as good as anywhere.
Terrified Fan of Tom AFK made me promise to post a link to his new music blog. As I will need him to take care of me in my decrepit final years, I have agreed. He's a 17-year-old with better than average taste in music.
http://andyfromknoxville.blogspot.com/ (http://andyfromknoxville.blogspot.com/)
Thank you very kindly.
-
Speaking of old reunited bands, Jim - we’ve got the Feelies booked for March 19 at the Middle East, FYI.
Sick!
Fucked Up and Kurt Vile are playing there in February I think-not sure if you like those guys.
-
Baroness – The Blue Album [Relapse]
Just listened to this. It wins as best "normal" metal album of the year. Converge was pretty good, too.
The heavy metal scene is the best thing about Savannah. The rest of the city is really boring.
-
(http://www.agitreader.com/img/futures/homeblitz.jpg)
pretty much.
2. thomas function
3. the spits
-
who's ready for my next post! 2009 stuff, no order, would need a separate list for mellower stuff.
the hunches - exit dreams
the mantles - s/t
the spits - s/t iv
thee oh sees - help
smith westerns - s/t
jacuzzi boys - no seasons
tv ghost - cold fish
mama rosin - brule lentement
hunx & his punx - gay singles
mayyors deads 12"
lenguas largas - i feel 7"
twinsistermoon - bride of the spirits 7"
intelligence - reading & writing about partying 7"
davila 666 - pingorocha y la diva rockera 7"
as to starting w/ vic i think at the cut and north star deserter are his best, actually. rip.
-
2. thomas function
Those dudes are the jam. I liked their first LP better than the new one, but it's still real good stuff.
-
who's ready for my next post! 2009 stuff, no order, would need a separate list for mellower stuff.
the hunches - exit dreams
I had this on my list, but bumped it because I thought it was a 2008 release. Regardless of its actual release year, it is good!
Also, I had to email the ITR proprietor four times before he actually shipped my order. Get it together, Larry!
-
Did you guys like Jay Reatard's 2009 album? I thought it was a dud except for the first track.
VOCALS TOO HIGH IN THE MIX! WHERE IS THE GUITAR? IS THE DRUMMER PLAYING ON A PRACTICE SET?
D+ EFFORT, GENTS.
I really liked Yo La Tengo, though.
-
It didn't grab me the way Blood Visions did and I don't find myself going back to it much, but I liked it.
-
The version of the first track (It Ain't Gonna Save Me) that was used for the video was different and way better than the version that ended up on the album. I don't know what he was thinking, but if the whole album was given a similar mix, the album would've been much better.
-
(http://www.agitreader.com/img/futures/homeblitz.jpg)
Finally checking this out after getting a tasty taste on DJ Terre T's 2009 wrap-up program. It's a delight.
-
How many albums have been released in the first 6 days of the year?
-
That Home Blitz album is great. Thumbs up, Daniel DiMaggio. Looking forward to seeing them play with Rot Shit, Blues Control, and Drunkdriver on saturday.
-
Looking forward
You were so close to being in trouble with me.
-
How many albums have been released in the first 6 days of the year?
We are still reveling in the remnants of 2009, sir.
-
Looking forward
You were so close to being in trouble with me.
What?
-
How many albums have been released in the first 6 days of the year?
We are still reveling in the remnants of 2009, sir.
Okay, Omar.
Perhaps the name of the thread needs an adjustment.
-
Did you guys like Jay Reatard's 2009 album? I thought it was a dud except for the first track.
VOCALS TOO HIGH IN THE MIX! WHERE IS THE GUITAR? IS THE DRUMMER PLAYING ON A PRACTICE SET?
D+ EFFORT, GENTS.
I really liked Yo La Tengo, though.
I didn't like it much, no. "Man of Steel" is a perfect example of what you're talking about - totally hollow and wimpy. It's just gent, though - he played everything (except the cello), as he has on pretty much all of his solo stuff - the blame is all his.
-
the hunches - exit dreams
I had this on my list, but bumped it because I thought it was a 2008 release. Regardless of its actual release year, it is good!
yeah i guess it was right on the nubbin of '09. and yeah - ordering directly from labels vs distro always seems to add an order of magnitude of waiting
-
There's another one:
ichor, jaws of life, nubbin.
-
[youtube]5rPyQFmGmb4[/youtube]Saskatoon Nov 21st, 2009
-
1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut
3. Fire On Fire - The Orchard
4. Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits
5. Spider Bags - Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World
6. Cryptacize - Mythomania
7. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
8. CoCoComa - Things Are Not All Right
9. Reigning Sound - Love and Curses
10. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
11. Baroness - Blue Record
12. Jeff The Brotherhood - Heavy Days
13. Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
14. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
15. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
16. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
17. Converge - Axe To Fall
18. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another
19. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
20. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
-
Jbissell, is that Baroness the metal band? One of my co-workers likes them.
-
Jbissell, is that Baroness the metal band? One of my co-workers likes them.
Yes.
-
Jbissell, is that Baroness the metal band? One of my co-workers likes them.
Yes.
If you like Baroness I'm surprised Crack the Skye didn't make your list.
-
Any one get into the new Kurt Vile record that Matador put out? Just got it, it's good!
Also liking Vivian Girls Everything Goes Wrong.
Someone mentioned Drunkdriver, I'm seeing them next Friday. Love those guys.
-
Also any thoughts on Bonnie Prince Billie Beware?
I can't tell if it's awesome or ridiculous. The first line of the first song cracks me up every time.
Overall feeling about it is that's is awesome, although maybe someone should have suggested he reel it in.
Show topic: "reel it in guys"
-
Beware! is great. It really clicked for me after seeing a lot of those songs performed live last summer at Santo's Party House. One of the best show's. Oldham's band that night was killer.
Also, Drunkdriver is fucking insane live. I haven't really heard their recorded material, though.
-
I agree Beware is great, I need to listen to it a few more times for it to sink in better. But as great as it is, it's just so BUSY. I guess it bugs me because I feel like that album could be like end all be all good, but there's some production stuff going on that's just distracting.
Yeah I saw Drunkdriver on Halloween and maybe once or twice before that. Live show is rad. I think the show next Friday will be good, it's an Union Pool. Not my favorite venue but...
I only have their Porn Pregnant record, I like it.
-
(http://www.agitreader.com/img/futures/homeblitz.jpg)
Finally checking this out after getting a tasty taste on DJ Terre T's 2009 wrap-up program. It's a delight.
Picked up the vinyl when they played Nashville, much better mastering than the CD. Amazing album.