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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Omar on November 22, 2013, 06:35:37 PM
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The only list that matters!
LPs
1. Mike Krol - Trust Fund (Counter Counter Culture)
2. Monster Magnet – Last Patrol (Napalm Records)
The rest listed alphabetically:
Bettie Serveert – Oh, Mayhem! (Second Motion)
Black Sabbath – 13 (Vertigo/Universal)
Bottomless Pit – Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)
Clutch - Earth Rocker (Weathermaker Music)
Connections – Body Language (Anyway Records)
Fuzz - Fuzz (In The Red)
Ghost (B.C.) – Infestissumam (Loma Vista Recordings)
Joanna Gruesome- Weird Sister (Slumberland)
Jucifer – За Волгой для нас земли нет [aka “The Russian Album"] (Nomadic Fortress Records/Mutants of the Monster)
Kvelertak – Meir (Roadrunner)
Kylesa – Ultraviolet (Seasons of Mist)
Marnie Stern – The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars)
Medicine – To the Happy Few (Captured Tracks)
Mikal Cronin – MCII (Merge)
OBNOX – Corrupt Free Enterprise (12XU)
Pissed Jeans – Honeys (Sub Pop)
Polvo – Siberia (Merge)
Potty Mouth – Hell Bent (Old Flame)
Radioactivity– Radioactivity (Dirtnap)
Russian Circles – Memorial (Sargent House)
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed (Prosthetic)
Superchunk - I Hate Music (Merge)
The Julie Ruin– Run Fast (Dischord/TJR)
The Resonars - Crummy Desert Sound (Burger Records)
The Wrong Words - Everything Is Free (Trouble In Mind)
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
Voivod – Target Earth (Century Media)
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1. Walt Jr. & the Albuquerque Nazis – "Pump Malfunction Bullshit" b/w "Just Die (Die!)"
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You forgot one: The Wrong Words "Everything Is Free". And no I don't play bass in the Wrong Words. Oh wait yes I do!
The only list that matters!
LPs
1. Mike Krol - Trust Fund (Counter Counter Culture)
2. Monster Magnet – Last Patrol (Napalm Records)
The rest listed alphabetically:
Bettie Serveert – Oh, Mayhem! (Second Motion)
Black Sabbath – 13 (Vertigo/Universal)
Bottomless Pit – Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)
Clutch - Earth Rocker (Weathermaker Music)
Connections – Body Language (Self-Released?)
Connections – Private Airplane (Anyway Records)
Fuzz - Fuzz (In The Red)
Ghost (B.C.) – Infestissumam (Loma Vista Recordings)
Joanna Gruesome- Weird Sister (Slumberland)
Jucifer – За Волгой для нас земли нет [aka “The Russian Album"] (Nomadic Fortress Records/Mutants of the Monster)
Kvelertak – Meir (Roadrunner)
Kylesa – Ultraviolet (Seasons of Mist)
Marnie Stern – The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars)
Medicine – To the Happy Few (Captured Tracks)
Mikal Cronin – MCII (Merge)
OBNOX – Corrupt Free Enterprise (12XU)
Pissed Jeans – Honeys (Sub Pop)
Polvo – Siberia (Merge)
Potty Mouth – Hell Bent (Old Flame)
Radioactivity– Radioactivity (Dirtnap)
Russian Circles – Memorial (Sargent House)
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed (Prosthetic)
Superchunk - I Hate Music (Merge)
The Julie Ruin– Run Fast (Dischord/TJR)
The Resonars - Crummy Desert Sound (Burger Records)
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
Voivod – Target Earth (Century Media)
7”
1. Walt Jr. & the Albuquerque Nazis – "Pump Malfunction Bullshit" b/w "Just Die (Die!)"
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You forgot one: The Wrong Words "Everything Is Free". And no I don't play bass in the Wrong Words. Oh wait yes I do!
I actually did forget that one. I enjoy your music group! I purchased this album in the vinyl format from Trouble in Mind! In a bundle with The Resonars Greatest Songs Of ...!
I will revise my list. I believe that Connections' Private Airplane technically came out in December 2012 so it has been disqualified.
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You forgot one: The Wrong Words "Everything Is Free". And no I don't play bass in the Wrong Words. Oh wait yes I do!
I actually did forget that one. I enjoy your music group! I purchased this album in the vinyl format from Trouble in Mind! In a bundle with The Resonars Greatest Songs Of ...!
I will revise my list. I believe that Connections' Private Airplane technically came out in December 2012 so it has been disqualified.
Connections Body Language was also released on Anyway.
There's no way I could put together a list of 30 albums, but these are 2013 albums I enjoyed:
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Kurt Vile - Wakin' On a Pretty Daze
Clutch - Earth Rocker
The Liminanas - Costa Blanca
Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was...Liber III
Wooden Shjips - Back To Land
Reigning Monarchs - Black Sweater Massacre
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Mark Lanegan - Imitations
Five Horse Johnson - The Taking of Blackheart
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
Fuzz - s/t
Russian Circles - Memorial
And three comedy entries:
Dana Gould - I Know It's Wrong
Dave Anthony - Shame Chamber
Joe DeRosa - You Will Die
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Thanks, Omar, I love these lists. And mostlymeat, I didn't know you were in The Wrong Words! You guys are great.
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Omar--thanks too. I always use your annual list to check stuff out. That Mikal Cronin has been my favorite of the year. One quibble about an omission, not be a total homer but what about Yo La Tengo's Ohm?
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Omar--thanks too. I always use your annual list to check stuff out. That Mikal Cronin has been my favorite of the year. One quibble about an omission, not be a total homer but what about Yo La Tengo's Ohm?
I assume you are referring to YLT's Fade, which contains the song "Ohm"? I thought the album was okay and haven't listened to it since the week of its release in mid-January. Probably worth revisiting.
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I want to play. In no particular order, I liked these records this year.
Airbag - The Greatest Show on Earth
Alameda 3 - Póz'ne królestwo
Anathema - Universal
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Avantasia - The Mystery of Time
Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Big Big Train - English Electric (Part Two)
Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap
Caligula's Horse - The Tide, the Thief & River's End
Causa Sui - Euporie Tide
Clutch - Earth Rocker
David Bowie - The Next Day
Earthless - From the Ages
Fright Pig - Out of the Barnyard
Gov't Mule - Shout!
Haken - The Mountain
Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Prefab Sprout - Crimson/Red
Premiata Forneria Marconi - PFM in Classic - Da Mozart a Celebration
Purson - The Circle & the Blue Door
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Richard Thompson - Electric
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The Winery Dogs - The Winery Dogs
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
W.E.T. - Rise Up
Wisdom of Crowds - Wisdom of Crowds
Yo La Tengo - Fade
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No love for Vampire Weekend?
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is that supposed to be funy mike?
ya fukin dick
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Any reason y'all are excluding anything that will be released in December from your lists?
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Any reason y'all are excluding anything that will be released in December from your lists?
Is anything coming in December that might be listworthy? The only one I know of is the new Robert Pollard solo album, Blazing Gentlemen, which comes out on 12/10.
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I can't say for sure but I've been burned by not waiting til after Jan 1st before, notably last year.
I've also not received and/or had chance to listen to records purchased in November yet.
I should say your list is solid Omar. The Mike Krol LP is tops for sure. I feel like a tremendous hipster for being proud I got it back in June.
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Jacuzzi Boys - s/t (Hardly Art)
Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things You Broke EP (What's Your Rupture?)
Big Star - Nothing Can Hurt Me (Omnivore)
Don Muro - It's Time [reissue] (Flannelgraph)
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Is anything coming in December that might be listworthy?
Cheap Time - Exit Smiles (In the Red) and Jeffrey Novak - Lemon Kid (Trouble in Mind) both on 12/10
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Any reason y'all are excluding anything that will be released in December from your lists?
I can't predict the future.
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I have actually given my list more thought, because the local disc store asked to submit for their end of year newsletter. So I spent the whole weekend chasing down stuff I had not heard much of. They will call me Professor Dave, Super Customer. I will try to get them to add D.F.K. to the end like it's some sort of obscure academic credential. Here's what I got.
1) Mikal Cronin - MCII
2) Sigur Ros - Kveiker
3) Jon Hopkins - Immunity
4) Deerhunter - Monomania
5) James Blake - Overgrown
6) Arcade Fire - Reflektor
7) Savages - Silence Yourself
8) Earthless - From the Ages
9) Haim - Days are Gone
10) Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
11) David Bowie - The Next Day
12) Matthew E White - Big Inner
13) Julia Holter - Loud City Song
14) John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
15) The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
16) Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
17) Kurt Vile - Waking on a Pretty Daze
18) Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
19) Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
20) The National - Trouble Will Find Me
21) Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
22) Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
23) Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
24) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
25) Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
So now there are different lists for both of my personalities.
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You guys love your new music.
This year I rediscovered Harvey Danger and downloaded basically everything they ever did, and listened to a whole bunch of Death Cab, and listened to the Gene Simmons solo album a couple of times here at the end. That's it, other that my constantly shuffling iPod.
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22) Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Nice. I forgot this one but it should've been on my list.
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22) Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Nice. I forgot this one but it should've been on my list.
Hmmm ... I like at least half the songs, but I don't see this one growing on me the way the other albums have. Every Josh project always has at least a couple of great songs ... but I feel like his batting average is gradually diminishing. Don't get me wrong, that's better than most people ...
I'm also bothered by this thing he's been doing on the last couple QOTSA albums ... where he trumpets "guest appearances" by people that turn out to be barely audible (nick oliveri supposedly returns to do some backing vocals on this album, Mark Lannegan and Julian Casablancas are supposedly in the mix on "Era Vulgaris" ... Elton John may or may not be adding a few piano plinks to the song "Fairweather Friends")
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I only know them from that one Anthony Bourdain episode.
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Buck Biloxi & the Fucks - everything they put out. Band of the year.
Giorgio Murderer's side of the split w Buck Biloxi rules too.
Total Punk Records - pretty much everything they put out. Label of the Year.
Golden Pelicans - the Earls b/w Chained to the Dumpster and the Sleaze - Techtonik Girlz 12" are personal favorites.
Other favorites in no real order -
Liquor Store - In the Garden
Hank IV - Depravity's Rainbow 7"
Nobunny - Secret Songs
Sneaky Pinks - I'm Punk 7"
Human Eye - 4: Into the Unknown
Peach Kelli Pop - s/t
Mordecai - College Rock
Best Show Magazine Flexi
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Nubs - Job 7" (Reissue)
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Some albums I liked this year:
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Double Dagger - 333
Merchandise - Totale Nite
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
Underachievers - Indigoism
Toro Y Moi - Anything in Return
Superchunk - I Hate Music
The Men - New Moon
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Ty Segall - Sleeper
Mikal Cronin - MCII
The So So Glos - Blowout
Andrew Cedermark - Home Life
Danny Brown - Old
2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. 2: #METIME
Sebadoh - Defend Yourself
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In no particular order:
Chris Forsyth: Solar Motel
The So So Glos: Blowout
The Pastels: Slow Summit
Kelly Stoltz: Double Exposure
The Wrong Words: Everything is Free
Glenn Jones: My Garden State
The Mantles: Long Enough to Leave
Superchunk: I Hate Music
White Fence: Cyclops Reap
Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt
Mikhal Cronin: MCII
Endless Boogie: Long Island
Dump: Silent Treatment
Yo La Tengo: Fade
William Tyler: Impossible Truth
Eleventh Dream Day: New Moodio
Cian Nugent & The Cosmos:Born with the Caul
Kurt Vile: Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Steve Gunn: Time Off
Ducktails: The Flower Lane
Jacco Gardner: Cabinet of Curiousities
Lame Drivers: Flexi Book EP
Gap Dream: Shine Your Light
Bill Orcutt: A History of One
Alex Beeker & The Freaks: How Far Away
Parquet Courts: Tally All the Things You Broke
Boogarins: As Plantas Que Curam
Desert Heat - Cat Mask at Huggie Temple
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Came across a nice mention of the Wrong Words and some random guy's website I occasionally check out for new music.
http://www.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com/ (http://www.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com/)
The Wrong Words - Everything Is Free LP - Green Vinyl (/500)
The Wrong Words - Everything Is Free LP - Green Vinyl (/500) by Tim PopKid
The Wrong Words - Everything Is Free LP - Green Vinyl (/500), a photo by Tim PopKid on Flickr.
Trouble In Mind (2013)
Everything Is Free is the 2nd full length from San Francisco's The Wrong Words. In the past I've heard them called the West Coast Gentlemen Jesse, and while I don't think that comparison is 100% accurate, it is a pretty decent jumping off point if you're looking for a reference.
As with their debut, the new record is full of upbeat, clean guitar with pop hooks and a little bit of vocal fuzz. Their are times where the vocals can borderline on being a bit weird when the singer is aiming for some of the really high notes, but it's not often and the band keeps the songs straightforward and catchy.
Everything Is Free is just as strong as the Wrong Words' debut, so it should please prior fans of the band. It may even prove to be a better starting point for those that are new to the party. This album may be destined to be slightly overshadowed by the never ending stream of amazing records that have come out in 2013, but it's absolutely worth making some time for.
The Wrong Words - And It's Not So Pretty:
troubleinmindrecords.bandcamp.com/track/and-its-not-so-pr...
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Hey thanks for posting! It's funny making records - you work so hard on them and then wonder if anybody's ever gonna hear it. At least Tom gave it a spin and that's all I really care about....it's the highest honor in music, 2013!
Wrong Words are playing SF this Saturday the 14th at the Cafe Du Nord, I'll put you on the list if you want! Send me your full name and what's done is done!
https://www.facebook.com/events/215307425318807/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/215307425318807/)
BEST SHOW FOR LIFE!
Came across a nice mention of the Wrong Words and some random guy's website I occasionally check out for new music.
http://www.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com/ (http://www.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com/)
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So So Glos, Pissed Jeans, Front Bottoms. GET ON BOARD.
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Came across a nice mention of the Wrong Words and some random guy's website I occasionally check out for new music.
http://www.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com/ (http://www.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com/)
I internet-know that guy! He'll be delighted you're reading.
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My top 10 for 2013
1. Nik Turner
2. Windhand
3. Nekrofilth
4. Foxygen
5. Grouper
6. The Well (e.p.)
7. Sebadoh
8. Motorhead
9. Dark Throne
10. Cathedral
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My friend Simon helps me out with my radio show and I have rechristened him Associate Producer Simon. He dropped his Top 10 of 2013 on air last week:
http://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisWhiteheadShow/the-chris-whitehead-show-on-preston-fm-from-december-18th/ (http://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisWhiteheadShow/the-chris-whitehead-show-on-preston-fm-from-december-18th/)
It's a mix of garage rock, and synth-psych stuff.
I'll be dropping my list on New Years Day live on air. I'll post a link at the time if that's cool with y'all?
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My friend Simon helps me out with my radio show and I have rechristened him Associate Producer Simon. He dropped his Top 10 of 2013 on air last week:
http://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisWhiteheadShow/the-chris-whitehead-show-on-preston-fm-from-december-18th/ (http://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisWhiteheadShow/the-chris-whitehead-show-on-preston-fm-from-december-18th/)
It's a mix of garage rock, and synth-psych stuff.
I'll be dropping my list on New Years Day live on air. I'll post a link at the time if that's cool with y'all?
Cool with me.
Coincidentally, the record the guy is holding in the picture on your site is one of few 2013 releases I purchased this year.
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That's AP Simon, he's a real baby faced gent.
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Hey. Sorry to be a terrible, terrible shill but...
As I mentioned, I'm doing my Top 20 of 2013 live on my radio show on Jan 1st. It's a 2 hour special and it is on live. (This is an hour earlier than my normal start time if you've listened before.)
7PM CET / 6PM UK / 1PM Eastern / 12PM Central / 11AM Mountain / 10AM Pacific
You can listen live online at: http://tunein.com/radio/Preston-FM-1032-s102786/ (http://tunein.com/radio/Preston-FM-1032-s102786/)
Or you can use the free TuneIn app on your mobile phone (search for Preston FM)
There's gonna be some stuff already mentioned in your lists and some stuff that isn't.
I'll post the full list up here afterwards but I'd love it if you can join me and if you could help me spread the word. Please?
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My Top 20 Favorite Records of 2013
1) Mike Krol – Trust Fund – Counter Counter Culture
2) Warm Soda – Someone For You – Castle Face
3) King Khan & The Shrines – Idle No More – Merge
4) Fuzz – Fuzz – In The Red
5) Hookworms – Pearl Mystic – Gringo/Weird World
6) The Resonars – Crummy Desert Sound – Burger
7) Obits – Bed & Bugs – Sub Pop
8 ) The Night Marchers – Allez, Allez – Swami
9) Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin – Castle Face
10) The Wrong Words – Everything Is Free – Trouble In Mind
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11) The Mantles – Long Enough To Leave – Slumberland
12) Maston – Shadows – Trouble In Mind
13) Heavy Times – Fix It Alone – HoZac
14) Radioactivity – Radioactivity – Dirtnap
15) Kelley Stoltz – Double Exposure – Third Man
16) The Blind Shake – Key To A False Door – Castle Face
17) Purling Hiss – Water On Mars – Drag City
18) Mikal Cronin – MCII – Merge
19) Shocked Minds – Shocked Minds – HoZac
20) The Living Eyes – The Living Eyes – Anti-Fade
Best Of The Rest:
The Bronx – The Bronx IV;
Jeffrey Novak – Lemon Kid;
NoBunny – Secret Songs;
Jacco Gardner – Cabinet of Curiosities;
Klaus Johann Grobe – S/T E.P.
Parquet Courts – Tally All The Things You Broke E.P.
Caveats (Stuff I Haven’t Gotten Yet)
Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
Audacity – Butter Knife
The Liminanas – Costa Blanca
Hunx & His Punx – Street Punk
Mind Spiders – Inhumanistic
You can hear my radio show where I play tracks from all of the Top 20 here:
http://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisWhiteheadShow/the-chris-whitehead-show-on-preston-fm-from-january-1st-best-of-2013/ (http://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisWhiteheadShow/the-chris-whitehead-show-on-preston-fm-from-january-1st-best-of-2013/)
I really feel that 2013 was one of the best years for new music in a long time. Anything in that top 10 would be a worthy #1 pick.