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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Omar on December 27, 2011, 11:05:17 PM
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The only list that matters!
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Apache Dropout - s/t + Shot Down/Sister Burnout 7" (Family Vineyard/Trouble In Mind)
Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain (Vice)
Boris - Heavy Rocks + some of Attention Please and New Album (Sargent House)
Boston Spaceships - Let It Beard + Robert Pollard - Let It Beard Boombox Demos (GBVI)
Cheveu - 1000 Mille (Kill Shaman)
Craig Wedren - WAND (Nerveland)
Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand (Century Media)
Cruddy - Negative World (12XU)
Cute Lepers - Adventure Time (1-2-3-4 Go!)
Danielson - Best of Gloucester County (Sounds Familyre)
Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots (ATO)
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams + He Gets Me High EP (Sub Pop)
Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now! (Thrill Jockey)
F'd Up - David Comes To Life + David's Town - 11 Original Hits From Byrdesdale Spa, UK! (Matador)
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast)
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are The Champions (Infinity Cat)
Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid (File Under: Music)
Krallice - Diotima (Profound Lore)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For Nem Halos (Matador)
Lady Gaga - Born This Way + "The Lady Is A Tramp" w/ Tony Bennett (Interscope/Columbia)
Lemuria - Pebble (Bridge Nine)
Lifeguards - Waving at the Astronauts (Serious Business/Ernest Jenning)
Liturgy - Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
Low - C'mon (Sub Pop)
Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot)
Marissa Nadler - s/t (Box of Cedar)
Mars Classroom - The New Theory of Everything (Happy Jack)
Mastodon - The Hunter (Reprise)
Mikal Cronin - s/t + Tide/You Gotta Have Someone 7" (Trouble In Mind/Goner)
Mike Watt - hyphenated-man (clenchedwrench)
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But Youse Will (Sub Pop)
Mouserocket - Cicada Sounds (Shoulder Tap Records)
Night Beats - s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Office of Future Plans - s/t (Dischord)
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
Puerto Rico Flowers - 7 (Fan Death)
Robert Pollard - Lord of the Birdcage + Space City Kicks (GBVI)
Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)
Rwake - Rest (Relapse)
Sebastian Bach - Kicking & Screaming (Frontiers)
Sloan - The Double Cross (Yep Roc)
Smart Cops - Per proteggere e servire (La Tempesta Dischi/Sorry State)
Street Eaters - Rusty Eyes and Hydrocarbons (Bakery Outlet/Plan-It-X Records)
Stuyvesant - Fret Sounds (Dromedary Records)
Thao & Mirah - s/t (Kill Rock Stars)
The Cynics - Spinning Wheel Motel (Get Hip Recordings!)
The Ettes - Wicked Will (Krian Music Group/Fond Object)
The Fall - Ersatz G.B. (Cherry Red)
The Feelies - Here Before (Bar/None)
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
The Wrong Words - s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania + Carrion Crawler/The Dream + Total Control split (In The Red/Castle Face)
Tombs - Path of Totality (Relapse)
Thomas Keene - Behind the Parade (Second Motion)
Total Control - Henge Beat + Thee Oh Sees split (Iron Lung/Castle Face)
Ume - Phantoms (Modern Outsider Records)
Wax Museums - Eye Times (Trouble In Mind)
White Mystery - Blood & Venom (White Mystery)
Whitesnake - Forevermore (Frontiers)
Wild Flag - s/t (Merge)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
Wussy - Strawberry (Shake It)
Wye Oak - Civilian (Merge)
ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Graveyard - Ungrateful are the Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7N4WrZI_SM#)
Bonus Picks
Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy (Slumberland)
Lou Reed with Metallica – Lulu (Warner Bros.)
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Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.
Neither made your list, Omar.
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A lot of my favorites from this year are listed but he Total Control and Mikel Cronin albums are fantastic and I haven't seen them get much love anywhere else.
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Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.
Neither made your list, Omar.
Kurt did!
If the Reigning Sound release you're referring to is Abdication...For Your Love, I didn't include it because it's an EP. I only included LPs and then noted a single or EP if an LP-releasing band also released merit-worthy material in another format, e.g., Dum Dum Girls.
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A lot of my favorites from this year are listed but he Total Control and Mikel Cronin albums are fantastic and I haven't seen them get much love anywhere else.
I was surprised to see Total Control make Rob Sheffield's list in Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/the-10-best-albums-of-2011-20111221 (http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/the-10-best-albums-of-2011-20111221)
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Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.
Hey, Fredericks, I thought you were a Waits man.
Yeah, the only 2011 releases I bought, I think, were Waits, PJ and F Tup--but they all made my top 10!
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1. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
2. Destroyer – Kaputt
3. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
4. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
5. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
6. The Barreracudas – Nocturnal Emissions
7. Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
8. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest
9. Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams
10. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream
This year crushed last year, IMO
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OK, I just checked and other 2011 releases I bought (not including reissues) were:
Wire, Red Barked Trees
David Kilgour, Left By Soft
Dirty Beaches, Badlands
Jonsi & Alex, Riceboy Sleeps
Wooden Shjips, West
David Lynch, Crazy Clown Time
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lulu
They all made my Top 20 for new 2011 releases, bringing my Top 20 up to a total of 11. A banner year!
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Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.
Neither made your list, Omar.
Kurt did!
If the Reigning Sound release you're referring to is Abdication...For Your Love, I didn't include it because it's an EP. I only included LPs and then noted a single or EP if an LP-releasing band also released merit-worthy material in another format, e.g., Dum Dum Girls.
Right you are Omar.
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Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.
Hey, Fredericks, I thought you were a Waits man.
Yeah, the only 2011 releases I bought, I think, were Waits, PJ and F Tup--but they all made my top 10!
I like Tom Waits quite a bit, Nudie. However, I don't run out and buy every new thing. I wait and cherry-pick.
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One of my favorites was The Weeknd - House of Balloons
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Lou Reed & Metallica, Lulu
I forgot to include this! I got quite a kick out of it. I'll add it.
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Wow, I only got 6 right.
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Wow, I only got 6 right.
5 more than me!
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Wow, I only got 6 right.
5 more than me!
Rwake?
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Nice to see Stuyvesant on the list.
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Wow, I only got 6 right.
5 more than me!
Rwake?
Of course.
(Kurt.)
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Nice to see Stuyvesant on the list.
Fun album. "Clyde" is one of my fave tracks of the year. "We rocked out to 'Bulls on Parade'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Note to those who may not know this: B. Musikoff plays the bass in this group!
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Not to nitpick, Omar, but the Apache Dropout LP came out on Family Vineyard. Trouble in Mind put out their 7" though.
My picks....
Total Control/Thee Oh Sees split
Sharp Balloons 7"
Red Fang - Murder the Mountains
Apache Dropout - S/T
Mikal Cronin - S/T
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread & Ty Rex (Goners record store day thingee)
Wax Museums - Eye Times
This May Be My Last Time Singing - Gospel Comp from Tompkins Square
True Sons of Thunder - Spoonful of Seedy Dudes
Human Eye - They Came From the Sky
Video - Leather, Leather
OBN III's - The One and Only
Sex Church - Growing Over
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Not to nitpick, Omar, but the Apache Dropout LP came out on Family Vineyard. Trouble in Mind put out their 7" though.
Corrections are always welcome. Fixed!
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I'm somehow comforted by my near-complete musical irrelevance. I liked All Eternals Deck a lot, everything else I haven't heard.
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Eternal Tapestry - Beyond the 4th Door
Eternal Tapestry - Ancient Echoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvlwEl_K1w#)
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Eternal Tapestry - Beyond the 4th Door
Eternal Tapestry - Ancient Echoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvlwEl_K1w#)
Holy Moses, that's a nice piece of music.
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My faves:
1. Real Estate -- DAYS
2. Roger Bryan & the Orphans -- 37
3. The War on Drugs -- SLAVE AMBIENT
4. Glossary -- LONG LIVE ALL OF US
5. Adam Faucett -- MORE LIKE A TEMPLE
6. Kurt Vile -- SMOKE RING FOR MY HALO
7. Centro-matic -- CANDIDATE WALTZ
8. Ganglians -- STILL LIVING
9. Fleet Foxes -- HELPLESSNESS BLUES
10. Vulture Whale -- LONG TIME LISTENER FIRST TIME CALLER
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The guys over at HITS101.7 never play ANY of this stuff.
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Sometimes I suspect you guys are just making up these titles.
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I also bought Todd Snider "Storyteller" a 2011 release and the Wholetones.
Wait the Wholetones is an ep.
Good though.
I was at this show: The QUARRY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0mZpcpVjg4#ws)
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Eternal Tapestry - Beyond the 4th Door
Eternal Tapestry - Ancient Echoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvlwEl_K1w#)
Holy Moses, that's a nice piece of music.
Fredericks: please return to the air in 2012. You've been missed.
love,
ktb
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Eternal Tapestry - Beyond the 4th Door
Eternal Tapestry - Ancient Echoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvlwEl_K1w#)
Great song. And yet if I caught myself telling someone aloud I was listening to "Ancient Echoes, by Eternal Tapestry" I would expect to be taunted a lot.
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Not familiar with Eternal Tapestry, but I will be checking it out soon.
Some of my favorites:
1. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
2. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life/David's Town
3. Wooden Shjips - West
4. Wild Flag - s/t
5. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
6. Ettes - Wicked Will
7. Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
8. Dirtbombs - Party Store
9. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
10. Times New Viking - Dancer Equired
11. Wolves In the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
12. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Sect(s) & 777 - The Desanctification
Some comedy albums I enjoyed:
1. Eddie Pepitone - A Great Stillness
2. Marc Maron - This Has To Be Funny
3. Tig Notaro - Good One
4. Jen Kirkman - Hail To the Freaks
5. Sklar Brothers - Hendersons and Daughters
Some EPs that I enjoyed:
1. Brought Low - Coextinction #9
2. Young - Sweet b/w Swollen 7"
3. Howlin' Rain - The Good Life 12"
Favorite non-2011 LP that I discovered this year is the self-titled LP by The Liminanas.
Edit: Updated to include a couple of favorites I forgot the first time around.
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Hey, I like the idea of specifically separating out the LPs and EPs. Anyway, I might as well join in on the year-end listage fun.
LPs
1. Fucked Up • David Comes to Life LP
2. Steve Hauschildt • Tragedy and Geometry LP
3. Bad Sports • Kings of the Weekend LP
4. Dávila 666 • Tan Bajo LP
5. Mark McGwire • Get Lost LP
6. Kurt Vile • Smoke Ring For My Halo LP
7. Wild Flag • s/t LP
8. Shannon and the Clams • Sleep Talk LP
9. The Wrong Words • s/t LP
10. Thee Oh Sees • Castlemania LP
11. Ume • Phantoms LP
12. The Ettes • Wicked Will LP
13. The Sea and Cake • Moonlight Butterfly LP
EPs
1. Thee Oh Sees • Carrion Crawler EP/The Dream EP
2. Young Governor • Firing Squad 7"
3. Pujol • Nasty, Brutish, and Short 10"
4. Personal and the Pizzas • Diet, Crime & Deliquency 7"
5. Young Governor • Where It’s Quiet 10"
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Hey, I like the idea of specifically separating out the LPs and EPs. Anyway, I might as well join in on the year-end listage fun.
EPs
5. Young Governor • Where It’s Quiet 10"
I just heard this for the first time. What a delight!
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Made one major ommision from my list.......
Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
I love old, deep southern soul but I've never really dug on the Daptone stuff. This LP was an exception. I'm not sure there's a record that came out this year that sounded as good as this the first time I listened to it. It was the closest thing to seeing the good Rev. John Wilkins at Gonerfest.
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The only list that matters!
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Office of Future Plans - s/t (Dischord)
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This is the only list that matters! Finally got this. This album is very good and available at a fair price from Dischord.
Ex-Jawbox frontman! The band has a f*cking Cello! And it works.
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The only list that matters!
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Apache Dropout - s/t + Shot Down/Sister Burnout 7" (Family Vineyard/Trouble In Mind)
Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain (Vice)
Boris - Heavy Rocks + some of Attention Please and New Album (Sargent House)
Boston Spaceships - Let It Beard + Robert Pollard - Let It Beard Boombox Demos (GBVI)
Cheveu - 1000 Mille (Kill Shaman)
Craig Wedren - WAND (Nerveland)
Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand (Century Media)
Cruddy - Negative World (12XU)
Cute Lepers - Adventure Time (1-2-3-4 Go!)
Danielson - Best of Gloucester County (Sounds Familyre)
Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots (ATO)
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams + He Gets Me High EP (Sub Pop)
Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now! (Thrill Jockey)
F'd Up - David Comes To Life + David's Town - 11 Original Hits From Byrdesdale Spa, UK! (Matador)
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast)
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are The Champions (Infinity Cat)
Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid (File Under: Music)
Krallice - Diotima (Profound Lore)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For Nem Halos (Matador)
Lady Gaga - Born This Way + "The Lady Is A Tramp" w/ Tony Bennett (Interscope/Columbia)
Lemuria - Pebble (Bridge Nine)
Lifeguards - Waving at the Astronauts (Serious Business/Ernest Jenning)
Liturgy - Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
Low - C'mon (Sub Pop)
Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot)
Marissa Nadler - s/t (Box of Cedar)
Mars Classroom - The New Theory of Everything (Happy Jack)
Mastodon - The Hunter (Reprise)
Mikal Cronin - s/t + Tide/You Gotta Have Someone 7" (Trouble In Mind/Goner)
Mike Watt - hyphenated-man (clenchedwrench)
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But Youse Will (Sub Pop)
Mouserocket - Cicada Sounds (Shoulder Tap Records)
Night Beats - s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Office of Future Plans - s/t (Dischord)
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
Puerto Rico Flowers - 7 (Fan Death)
Robert Pollard - Lord of the Birdcage + Space City Kicks (GBVI)
Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)
Rwake - Rest (Relapse)
Sebastian Bach - Kicking & Screaming (Frontiers)
Sloan - The Double Cross (Yep Roc)
Smart Cops - Per proteggere e servire (La Tempesta Dischi/Sorry State)
Street Eaters - Rusty Eyes and Hydrocarbons (Bakery Outlet/Plan-It-X Records)
Stuyvesant - Fret Sounds (Dromedary Records)
Thao & Mirah - s/t (Kill Rock Stars)
The Cynics - Spinning Wheel Motel (Get Hip Recordings!)
The Ettes - Wicked Will (Krian Music Group/Fond Object)
The Fall - Ersatz G.B. (Cherry Red)
The Feelies - Here Before (Bar/None)
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
The Wrong Words - s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania + Carrion Crawler/The Dream + Total Control split (In The Red/Castle Face)
Tombs - Path of Totality (Relapse)
Thomas Keene - Behind the Parade (Second Motion)
Total Control - Henge Beat + Thee Oh Sees split (Iron Lung/Castle Face)
Ume - Phantoms (Modern Outsider Records)
Wax Museums - Eye Times (Trouble In Mind)
White Mystery - Blood & Venom (White Mystery)
Whitesnake - Forevermore (Frontiers)
Wild Flag - s/t (Merge)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
Wussy - Strawberry (Shake It)
Wye Oak - Civilian (Merge)
ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Graveyard - Ungrateful are the Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7N4WrZI_SM#)
Bonus Picks
Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy (Slumberland)
Lou Reed with Metallica – Lulu (Warner Bros.)
Excuse me..(cough, cough)...Omar...I was, uh, wondering, if you know...would be so kind to...
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Notice how people are NOT clamoring for my list. Even though I am Customer Extraordinaire at the record store that I used to shoehorn in Ted Leo, Aimee Mann, and Patton Oswald references on the Best Show DVD. But I will post it anyway. http://discexchange.tuneportals.com/Genre/694311 (http://discexchange.tuneportals.com/Genre/694311)
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Dfk, your list looks good. I am going to check out a couple of bands I don't know. Question-- Lambchop's "Mr M" fell short for you?
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I actually liked what I heard, but I only heard it once, and it didn't seem significantly different than earlier stuff? Like, I love Isa Woman, and Nixon's got some great stuff. I would certainly give it another try.
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The only list that matters!
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Excuse me..(cough, cough)...Omar...I was, uh, wondering, if you know...would be so kind to...
I did it!
http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,9166.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,9166.0.html)