albums of the year

[samir]

If any of you would like to check it, I've begun posting some "end of year" style thoughts on my site, Are You Gene Hackman?

Have a read if you've got a minute, I'm going to try and add a lot to that over the next few days.

[Ignore Function]

Magnolia Electric Co. Sojourner box set, especially Nashville Moon
Eternals  Heavy international
Dungen  Tio bitar
The Budos Band 2
Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil
Low  Drums and Guns
Michael Hurley   Ancestral Swamp
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists  Living with the Living
Oakley Hall I'll follow You
Bang!Bang!  The Dirt that Makes you Drown
Modest Mouse  We were dead...
Ladyhawk  Fight for Anarchy E.P.
Deerhunter  Fluorescent Grey E.P.
Mary Weiss  Dangerous Games
Shellac   Excellent Italian Grayhound
I haven't got around to hearing the new ones by some enduring favorites, like Sharon Jones or new Pornographers

[Beth]

If any of you would like to check it, I've begun posting some "end of year" style thoughts on my site, Are You Gene Hackman?

Have a read if you've got a minute, I'm going to try and add a lot to that over the next few days.

ooooh! samir, you have a music blog! music blogs are my obsession, i have like 30 bookmarked. the best way to get new or interesting music in my opinion. sweet!

[A.M. Thomas]

If any of you would like to check it, I've begun posting some "end of year" style thoughts on my site, Are You Gene Hackman?

Have a read if you've got a minute, I'm going to try and add a lot to that over the next few days.

ooooh! samir, you have a music blog! music blogs are my obsession, i have like 30 bookmarked. the best way to get new or interesting music in my opinion. sweet!

Post your bookmarks.

[Andy]

exactly

[bruce]

Magnolia Electric Co. Sojourner box set, especially Nashville Moon

One of my faves from this year also.

[Tim K in DC]

Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Drug Rug - s/t
The Bags - Mount Rockmore
The Curses - All Hail The Curses
T.L. + The Rockstarmacists - I'm Living With The Living And You'll Die Without It
George Lewis Jr. - Hold Me ep
Wild Zero - II ep
The Outlets - Rock 1980
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Holy Fuck - s/t
The Sprained Ankles - You Love The Sprained Ankles ep
Watts - One Below The All Time Low
Dennis Brennan - Engagement
Turbonegro - Retox
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
A.K.A.C.O.D. - Happiness
Coliseum - No Salvation
Jesu - Conqueror

More coming...

Also:

The Red Dons - Death To Idealism
The Time Flys - Rebels Of Babylon
Enon - Grass Geysers... Carbon Clouds
The Resonars - Nonetheless Blue
 

[Forrest]

Late entry!

Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.

[Gilly]

Late entry!

Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.

I didn't like the crowd noise over it, but I suppose it would just sound like a studio release if it weren't there.

[Forrest]

Late entry!

Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.

I didn't like the crowd noise over it, but I suppose it would just sound like a studio release if it weren't there.

I know some people think they're just playing a CD at the top of that pyramid, but I choose to think that playing their music live is unfathomably complicated.

[Gilly]

Late entry!

Daft Punk's Alive 2007 is absolutely off the chain. Like Frampton and Portishead before them, they have put out a live record that eclipses their studio output. For real.

I didn't like the crowd noise over it, but I suppose it would just sound like a studio release if it weren't there.

I know some people think they're just playing a CD at the top of that pyramid, but I choose to think that playing their music live is unfathomably complicated.

Yeah, I'm not doubting that. I'm just saying that it wouldn't sound live on CD without the crowd noise like a rock and roll show would. But, the noise annoys.

[Forrest]

How much are you asking for the rights to the title The Noise Annoys? I'm not sure what I would use it for, but I think there are endless possibilities.

[Gilly]

You'd have to talk to the Buzzcocks.

[Chris L]

How much are you asking for the rights to the title The Noise Annoys? I'm not sure what I would use it for, but I think there are endless possibilities.

You'd have to talk to the Buzzcocks.

I like "The Noise Annoys," but my favorite Buzzcocks song is "(He's) The Orgasm Addict (of England)"

[Forrest]

Clearly, I don't really know the Buzzcocks beyond "Ever Fallen In Love." It saddens me to learn that Gilly is a plagiarist.