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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shaggy 2 Grote on December 18, 2008, 12:30:22 PM
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I hope this one doesn't flame out, but here goes:
What are your top ten (or fifteen, or twenty) albums of 2008 that were released whenever? I'll start:
1) The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
2) The Black Keys - Attack & Release
3) Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
4) Guided by Voices - Mag Earwhig
5) Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
6) The Nuggets Comp. (cheating, I know, but it's up there)
7) Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
8 ) Miles Davis - Jazz on the Screen (w/ Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers; I'm not entirely sure what this is, I got it at a flea market and it's awesome)
9) v/a - Love, Peace, & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music
10) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With The Living (two years running, not even close to sick of it yet!)
11) The Monkees - The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees
12) Bad Brains - Rock for Light
13) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
14) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
15) The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd.
16) Santogold - s/t
17) Blondie - Parallel Lines
18) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
19) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
20) New Bomb Turks - Destroy, Oh Boy!!!
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1. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
4. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
5. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
6. Kyuss - Sky Valley
7. Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
8. Monster Magnet - Spine of God
9. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
10. ZZ Top - Tejas
11. New Bomb Turks - Destroy Oh Boy
12. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
13. AC/DC - Powerage
14. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
15. The Saints - Eternally Yours
16. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
17. The Gories - Houserockin'
18. The Hellacopters - By the Grace of God
19. Thin Lizzy - Fighting
20. The Brought Low - Right on Time
I'm sure I'm leaving out 20+ albums that I absolutely can't live without, but this is as of right now.
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8. Monster Magnet - Spine of God
I'd like to imagine you got into this because of me.
I'm still working through all the great stuff FOTs sent me at a few albums per week. I don't remember who gave me what. Off the top of my head I think Grote gave me the Swell Maps LP which is awesome (I'd only heard them on comps before) and MOS introduced me to a whole world of rock I'd never heard of from made-up places like Sweden. And if you sent me that Trader Horne album, MOS, I will see you at the Renaissance Faire.
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Hmm. interesting. Gonna need some time to figure this one out...
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numbered, but in no particular order ...
1) Cheater Slicks, "Forgive Thee"
2) Gaunt, "I Can See Your Mom From Here"
3) Television Personalities, "And Don't The Kids Just Love It"
4) Stooges, "Funhouse"
5) Oblivians, "Soul Food"
6) Velvet Underground, "White Light/White Heat"
7) Minutemen, "The Punch Line"
8) Neil Young + Crazy Horse, "Rust Never Sleeps"
9) Fastbacks, "Very Powerful Motor"
10) The Fall, "Grotesque"
11) Angry Samoans, "Back From Samoa"
12) Redd Kross, "Born Innocent"
listened to 'em all ZILLIONS of times. will probably do so again that many more ...
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In no particular order, the albums I listened to the most this year:
1. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
2. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions/Singles 06-07/Singles 08
3. Big Dipper - Supercluster
4. Mission of Burma - Vs. (reissue)
5. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
6. The Replacements - Let It Be (reissue)
7. The Shivers - Beaks to the Moon
8. Andy Daly - Nine Sweaters
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Abattoir Blues Tour
10. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded/Ultraglide in Black
11. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
12. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
13. Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend
14. Ike & Tina Turner - Workin' Together
15. Fire on Fire - EP
16. Björk - Vespertine Live
17. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale
18. King Khan & the Shrines - The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines
19. Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
20. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
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1. The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
2. Wussy - Funeral Dress
3. The 1900s - Cold & Kind
4. Dump - A Plea For Tenderness
5. Wussy - Left For Dead
6. Ass Ponys - The Known Universe
7. Tindersticks - Curtains
8. Rose Melberg - Cast Away the Clouds
9. The Softies - It's Love
10. Ximena Sarinana - Mediocre
Something like that.
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EDIT: misunderstood the question
Kevin Ayers, Joy of a Toy
Wild Beasts, Limbo Panto
Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything
The Fall, Complete Peel Sessions
Fennesz, Endless Summer
Astoveboat, New Bedford
Blue Pine, Blue Pine
Budgie, Never Turn Your Back On Your Friends
William Basinski, The River
The Icarus Line, Mono
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this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.
hint: formerly Greg Oblivian
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Yeah, it's an oddly difficult question to articulate. Maybe I'm just dense.
I've heard good things about that Gang Gang Dance record, and liked the track DJ/rupture played a couple of weeks ago -- I'll check it out.
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this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.
hint: formerly Greg Oblivian
I thought this would be my favorite album of this year. What's the dang hold-up?
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this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.
hint: Ted Leo
yes.
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this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.
hint: formerly Greg Oblivian
I thought this would be my favorite album of this year. What's the dang hold-up?
true story.
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personally, i like the arcade fire: http://www.miroir-noir.com/
...and enjoyed both albums more than once this year.
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Yeah, it's an oddly difficult question to articulate. Maybe I'm just dense.
I've heard good things about that Gang Gang Dance record, and liked the track DJ/rupture played a couple of weeks ago -- I'll check it out.
It's going to be in the top half of my top 10.
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*Waits patiently for for Trembling Eagle's list.*
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13. AC/DC - Powerage
I revisited this album this year as well! It's like, their darkest album.
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13. AC/DC - Powerage
I revisited this album this year as well! It's like, their darkest album.
One of my favorite AC/DC stories concerns Mark Kozelek covering What's Next to the Moon (from the Powerage LP) at a live show and a folk-nazi type in the audience, unfamiliar with the song's origin, swearing up and down that it was a Leonard Cohen cover. When informed that it was actually a Bon Scott lyric, I think he felt like a bit of a chump. Slobs win again!
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8. Monster Magnet - Spine of God
I'd like to imagine you got into this because of me.
Did you include this on your disc? I can't remember - I need to get your discs out again. Anyway, I originally bought this album in the mid-90s, so I sadly can't give you credit for introducing me to it.
MOS introduced me to a whole world of rock I'd never heard of from made-up places like Sweden. And if you sent me that Trader Horne album, MOS, I will see you at the Renaissance Faire.
I honestly can't remember what I included on my disc, but I'm glad to have helped (if indeed that was a compliment). Trader Horne was not me, though.
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If ever there was a soundtrack for the broke, dejected lovelorn slob, Powerage would probably be it. This album probably most keenly draws the line between the sort of band AC/DC was with Bon and what they became with Brian (rich, famous, aloof rather than earnest).
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If ever there was a soundtrack for the broke, dejected lovelorn slob, Powerage would probably be it. This album probably most keenly draws the line between the sort of band AC/DC was with Bon and what they became with Brian (rich, famous, aloof rather than earnest).
on any level, no matter what, i will continue to stand by the ideal that AC/DC was, and will always be, more profound (used relatively) when fronted by Bon Scott.
i agree with your statement 110%, angstrom.
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exactly. ac/dc with bon produced "ride on," a top-notch tough-guy ballad for the ages. i'm unable to imagine brian johnson-era ac/dc putting out a song like that; i can't even imagine that guy singing it. (does he? i last saw ac/dc 13-14 years ago and have no memory.)
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While I listen to new stuff, I tend to cling to my comfort acts. I think I posted my top 25 for the year somewhere else, so I will post these, as of summer 2007, my favorites ever.
1 Beatles Rubber Soul
2 Beatles Revolver
3 Bob Dylan Blood On the Tracks
4 Beatles Sgt Peppers
5 Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
6 Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
7 Kate Bush The Dreaming
8 Fleetwood Mac Tusk
9 Jules Shear The Great Puzzle
10 King Crimson Red
11 Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight
12 Radiohead OK Computer
13 World Party Goodbye Jumbo
14 Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory
15 Neil Young Zuma
16 Ben Folds Rockin the Suburbs
17 Todd Rundgren Something/Anything
18 Aimee Mann (mostly) Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia
19 Matthew Sweet Girlfriend
20 Kate Bush Aerial
21 Jellyfish Bellybutton
22 Camper Van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
23 Neil Young Freedom
24 XTC Skylarking
25 Richard Thompson Rumor and Sigh
I am not exactly cutting any edges here, and I was always too laid back to be much a punk guy. I could go deeper if anyone cares. WAY deeper.
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If ever there was a soundtrack for the broke, dejected lovelorn slob, Powerage would probably be it. This album probably most keenly draws the line between the sort of band AC/DC was with Bon and what they became with Brian (rich, famous, aloof rather than earnest).
How quickly would an attorney contact you if you called your band A/CD/C? Or just A Seedy Sea?
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How quickly would an attorney contact you if you called your band A/CD/C? Or just A Seedy Sea?
Pure speculation, but I'm guessing it'd have a lot to do with if you also knocked off their logo - typeface. And if you actually released records.
But I honestly don't see AC/DC being quite as moody as say, REO Speedwagon vs. REO Speedealer. They have about a zillion "tribute" bands already, so they can't be too uptight about it.
REO Speedwagon on the other hand, lighten up already, jeez. Buy a sense of humor.
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There's a band called Hayseed Dixie.
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... and they are exactly as bad as one might expect them to be.
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lots of harry nilsson this year.
lots of death cab for cutie (photo album/transatlanticism).
plenty of the kinks/the zombies/the animals.
more than enough memphis garage/frat bands from the 60's/70's.
and my fair share of anything posted on this board.
i listened to more "old" music this year than any year ever. thusly, i love my gift from DFK.
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my top 10 according to last.fm:
Reigning Sound – Time Bomb High School
Portastatic – Bright Ideas
The Dirtbombs – If You Don't Already Have a Look
Superchunk – No Pocky for Kitty
Ghostface – Fishscale
Superchunk – Foolish
Oblivians – Popular Favorites
Wings – Wild Life
David Kilgour – Here Come The Cars
David Kilgour – A Feather in the Engine
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I like the data-driven answer, Moonshake. You're the Oakland A's of list-making!
TOP TEN OF ALL TIME? DAMN!
1. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
3. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man [DON'T JUDGE!]
5. Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
6. The Beatles - Abbey Road
7. Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
8. Fugazi - Thirteen Songs
9. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
10. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
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Shit. Totally misread the premise. In 2008, I have been listening to these into the ground:
Girl Talk - "Animal Behavior"
Guided By Voices - "Alien Lanes"
Prodigy - "The Dirtchamber Sessions"
Mountain Goats - "Heretic Pride"
Company: 2006 Cast Recording
The Thermals - "The Body, The Blood, The Machine"
MadLib - "Beat Konducta Vols. 3 & 4: In India"
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as of 2009, the "Black Lips / Carbonas / Gentleman Jesse / Predator 7" + dvd" (Rob's House) Live in 2008, with pro-shot dvd
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as of 2009, the "Black Lips / Carbonas / Gentleman Jesse / Predator 7" + dvd" (Rob's House) Live in 2008, with pro-shot dvd
Great stuff! I managed to score one of the 200 pressed on white vinyl. I hope to sell it for $4,589 in 2032 after adding red/orange/green/silver/black swirls as an ode to Mayor Ziegler.
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1. R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant (I could add Fables, Document, Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
2. Sparks - Kimono My House
3. Redman - Whut? Thee Album
4.The Five Royales - s/t
5. Black Milk - Popular Demand
6. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
7. The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
8. Al Green - Call Me
9. Mirah and Spectratone International - Share This Place
10. T. Rex - Slider
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I was listening to L.A.M.F. yesterday.
If you like that pick up his "So Alone" solo album. If you do you can hear him sing at the beginning on London Boys "You best believe I'm from New Port Richey."
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I didn't have favorite albums (save the Bottomless Pit album and ep) but I found lots to like about the music I came across last year.
Here is a link to a blog with a couple of downloadable files of all my favorite tunes from last year. Of course Turlet made the cut.
Hope you like it!
Happy New Year Happy Mix (http://forestroxx.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year-happy-mix.html)
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10 best albums I got this year, in no order:
Mule- If I Don't Six
Li'l Wayne & Juelz Santana- Face Off
Qui- Love's Miracle
Belle & Sebastian- Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
Six Finger Satellite- Weapon EP
Re-Up Gang- We Got It for Cheap Vol. 3
Coachwhips- Bangers vs. Fuckers
Cows- Peacetika
Deadly Snakes- Ode to Joy
Grifters- One Sock Missing
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I didn't have favorite albums (save the Bottomless Pit album and ep) but I found lots to like about the music I came across last year.
Happy New Year Happy Mix (http://forestroxx.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year-happy-mix.html)
YES YES YES! The "Congress" ep this year was perfect.
Others this year:
The New Year
Dianogah "Qunnnl"
Thalia Zedek "Liars and Prayers"
Ladyhawk "Shots"--this might be my favorite record of the year.
Neil Young "Time Fades Away"--I listened to it 4 times in a row one day. Now it's on a loop in my head.
A couple songs off the new Centro-matic record are really, really good.
Soccer Team "Volunteered" Civility and Professionalism
Not a crappy year at all.
Ike
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Here is what I listened to the most in '08
Blitzen Trapper : Furr
Brightblack Morning Light : Motion to Rejoin
Clinic : Do it
Chad Van Gaalen : Soft Airplane
Deerhunter : Microcastle
Dexy's Midnight Runners : Searching for the New Soul Rebels
Madlib : Beat Konducta Vol.5 Dil Cosby Suite
Pavement : Brighten the Corners Reissue
Queen : Sheer Heart Attack
Sparks : Kimono My House
Word up Gees.