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[valley_parade]

Is that counting the Pains of Being Pure At Heart?

[scarred]

I'd say 'oh snap' but I'm actually listening to them right now

[Tom]

STUFF I REALLY DUG THIS YEAR FROM THIS YEAR
The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Avey Tare - Down There
Beach House - Teen Dream
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here
Fang Island - s/t
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Liars - Sisterworld
Japandroids - Younger Us/Art Czars/Heavenward Grand Prix 7"
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This
Women - Public Strain

STUFF I COULDA GIVEN MORE TIME TO
Wolf Parade, Zs, Titus Andronicus, The New Pornographers, The National, Julian Lynch, Magic Lantern, Menomena, Best Coast, BSS, Spoon

STUFF I CAN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYMORE
Erykah Badu, Crystal Castles, Girls in the Eighties, Holy Fuck, Karkwa, Black Mountain, Wavvvvvvvvvvves, Rangers, Seahaven, Sleigh Bells , Quasi, Plants and Animals, Walls , Laura Veirs, oOoOO.

STUFF I REALLY DUG THIS YEAR FROM OTHER YEARS
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead/Round About Midnight, Birth of the Cool
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'/ Another Side of Bob Dylan
Grace Jones - Night Clubbing
Patti Smith - Wave/Radio Ethiopia/Easter
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On/Let's Get it On
R.E.M. - Murmur
Otis Redding

[squawk]

oh yeah, shit i listened to not from this year:
 jj no 2 (hnnnnnng)
said the whale - islands disappear
the xx
skwm all day errday
yo la tengo all day errday
fanfarlo even more
the most serene republic!
midlake - bamnan and slivercork

[David_Dovey]

I try to do one of those "stuff from the past that I dug this year" lists every year but then they get too obscenely long and I give up.

That being said;
2009 STUFF I DUG IN 2010
Kidcrash- Snacks
Native- Wrestling Movies
Coalesce- OXEP
Celeste- Misanthrope(s)
Black Pyramid- Black Pyramid
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes- Up From Below
Police Teeth- Real Size Monster Series

[scarred]

yeah it's always too long but mostly regarding non-2010, i listened to a lot of

the xx
plumtree
the american analog set
starfucker
lcd soundsystem
freelance whales
tears for fears
jamie long
photosynthesis

[valley_parade]

Ooh lemme try this.

Old stuff I dug this year
Marvin Gaye
House Boat (oh hey Mikey Erg/Steinways project)
That one AmAnSet EP I didn't know existed until about two months ago
The Hextalls
That Nick Drake mood I get into every fall
Grabass Charlestons
The Leftovers


(2010: the year I realized that pop-punk in 2009 was pretty good)

[JimmyJazz]

Fuck I forgot the Nobunny and JEFF the Brotherhood albums! Added them to my original post.

Old Stuff I Was Into This Year
Frank Turner
Nirvana
Jay Reatard
The Stooges
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Lots of old Motown and girl-group records
Spacemen 3
The Ramones
Neil Young
Tom Waits
Wilco
The Gories
Jets to Brazil

[JD]

if someone could upload japandroids' 2010 releases in one zip file that would be great.

[Tom]

Consider it done.

[De_El]

Nicki Minaj makes me want to strangle things

You will never ever get me to listen to nicki minaj

Oh, what, really? Nicki Minaj is the most interesting thing to happen to American pop music in years. Also: her videos are ridic.

[JD]

Consider it done.

Thanks

[JD]

Nicki Minaj makes me want to strangle things

You will never ever get me to listen to nicki minaj

Oh, what, really? Nicki Minaj is the most interesting thing to happen to American pop music in years. Also: her videos are ridic.

Like I said, creepy

[scarred]

yeah thanks, i haven't grabbed the b sides for younger us and heavenward grand prix yet.

[JD]

Someone identified the samples in the girl talk album, track by track, in case you were curious

[KvP]

Fuck

[StaedlerMars]

dude. i am going to that. yeah.

[Vuk]

Stuff that I liked this year

Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Orgone - The Joyless Parson
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Castevet - Mounds of Ash
Wormed - Quasineutrality
Alcest - Ecailles des Lunes
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness
This Will Destroy You - Communal Blood and Moving On the Edges of Things
Kayo Dot - Coyote and Stained Glass
Castevet - The Echo and the Light EP
Caravels - Floorboards
Autolux - Transit Transit
The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth
Japandroids - Younger Us
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Minus the Bear - OMNI
The Wonder Years - The Upsides
Seahaven - Ghost
S - I'm Not As Good At it As You
Shad - TSOL
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute
Mind Eraser/Slang - Split
Nomos - Notes from the Acheron
Slices - Cruising
Killing The Dream - Lucky Me
Trap Them - Filth Rations
Nails - Unsilent Death

Stuff I still need to give a chance/a better chance
Black Milk - Album of the Year
Pensees Nocturnes - Grotesque
No Age - Everything In Between
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Burning Love - Songs for Burning Lovers
Les Discrets - Septembre et ses dernieres Pensees
Weekend Nachos - Bleed
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
She & Him - Volume II
Portugal. The Man - American Ghetto
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder

Stuff that I found disappointing
Envy - Recitation
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Black Tusk - Taste the Sin
Skin Like Iron - Descent Into Light
Trash Talk - Eyes & Nines
Rome - Nos Chants Perdus
Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
Integrity - The Blackest Curse
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Ceremony - Rohnert Park

[JD]

The Illest
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Shining - Blackjazz
Shad - TSOL
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Robyn - Body Talk 1, 2 and 3
Homeboy Sandman - The Good Sun
Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Toundra - (II)
The Brokedowns - Species Bender
Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
Karkwa - Les Chemins De Verre
Kvelertak - S/T
The Like - Release Me
Liars - Sisterworld
The Books - The Way Out
Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Stuff that was really fun
White Lung - It's The Evil
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Cloud Control - Bliss Release
Christopher Lee - Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross
Chromeo - Business Casual
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - The Logic Of Chance
Delphic - Acolyte
The Dirty Projectors and Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca
Faded Paper Figures - New Medium
Salem - King Night
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Loma Prieta - Life/Less
Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife
The Magnetic Fields - Realism
Matthew Dear - Black City
Michita - A Full Life
Norah Jones - The Fall
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
The Thermals - Personal Life
Usssy - Oko
The 1900s - Return Of The Century
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Aloe Blacc - Good Things
Atheist - Jupiter
Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs - Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai
Tokyo Police Club - Champ
Under Byen - Alt Er Tabt
Wombs - Unitopians
65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
Vegas! - Midnight Machine
Tweak Bird - S/T
US Christmas - Run Thick In The Night
Tim and Sam's blah blah fuck you I'm not typing their stupid name out - Life Stream
Apples In Stereo - Travelers In Space And Time
Abigail Williams - Hope The Great Betrayal
Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
All the singles Japandroids did
Women - Public Strain
Working For A Nuclear Free City - Jojo Burger Tempest
Bongripper - Satan Worshiping Doom
Brasstronaut - Mt. Chimera
Grids - White Walls
Jonsi - Go
Joie De Vivre - The North End
Nails - Unsilent Death
Marina And The Diamonds - The Family Jewels
Boring
The Pomegranates - One Of Us
Bad Religion - Dissent Of Man
Girl Talk - All Day

Lot of good stuff this year

[pinch]

Daath's new album is worth a listen or two.

[scarred]

wtf i like the new kanye

what is happening

[the_pied_piper]

Well huh, I did not realise I had listened to so many new albums this year. So without further ado:

Woo Yeah! Awesome!
James Blackshaw - All Is Falling
Shit Robot - From The Cradle to the Rave
Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
The Thermals – Personal Life
El Guincho – Pop Negro
Los Campesinos! – Romance Is Boring
Liars – Sisterworld
Steel Train – Steel Train
Space Dimension Controller – Temporary Thrillz
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring
The Extra Lens – Undercard
Juan Maclean – DJ-Kicks
Seabear – We Built A Fire
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This

Good but not quite good enough to make the top category
The Innocence Mission – My Room In The Trees
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Hanggai - He Who Travels Far
We Were Promised Jetpacks - The Last Place You'll Look [EP] (Would have made top category but is basically a rehash of the album)
Andrew Thomas - Between Buildings & Trees
Bonobo - Black Sands

Enjoyable but only in doses
anodyne - Corrosion
Black Prairie – Feast of the Hunter’s Moon
Peasant – Shady Retreat
Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Wildling

Really? Come on, you can do better than this.
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Stars – The Five Ghosts
Thomas Fehlmann – Gute Luft
Mind.In.A.Box – R.E.T.R.O
Crooked Still – Some Strange Country

*Yawn*
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
The National – High Violet
Roll The Dice – Roll The Dice

Hahahahaha, oh god what? Wait, you were serious?
White Pony – K-Town Stomp
Yeasayer – Odd Blood
Röyksopp – Senior


I feel like I should point out that I am a big fan of Röyksopp and that they could not have disappointed me more with this album. One track does not make a good album Röyksopp, pick yourselves up and get back on track soon please.

[Nodaisho]

Daath's new album is worth a listen or two.

For an instant, I thought you said Death, before I realized how impossible that was and what you actually said.

[JD]

Chuck will rise from the grave and start a band called Life. He plans for the debut to be about fluffy kittens and makeouts.

[Nodaisho]

As long as it sounds the same, I'm fine with that.

[David_Dovey]

Oh god I didn't even bother with the new Stars record (this probably has about as much to do with my changing tastes as it does Stars' ever-increasing mediocrity though, I tried listening to Set Yourself On Fire about a month back and ended up changing to something else, like, four tracks in)

[David_Dovey]

Ooh ooh the sidebar on the website with that Pulp story reminded me there is a new Maserati record out GUYS THERE IS A NEW MASERATI RECORD OUT

(it has drum tracks Jerry Fuchs recorded before he passed away)

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Devin Townsend update on Deconstruction.  Not having to do with 2010 exactly, but it doesn't matter because he is Devin Townsend

[valley_parade]

Ooh ooh the sidebar on the website with that Pulp story reminded me there is a new Maserati record out GUYS THERE IS A NEW MASERATI RECORD OUT

(it has drum tracks Jerry Fuchs recorded before he passed away)

HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT THIS?!

[David_Dovey]

I DUNNO COS I DID TOO THERE IS PROBABLY SOMETHING SEVERELY WRONG WITH US

[Gridgm]

my shortlist of good stuff

some times the blues jsut a passing bird - the tallest man on earth
the wild hunt - the tallest man on earth
black masses - electric wizard
plays the popular hits of radiohead on her magical ukele - amanda palmer
marrow of the soul - aggaloch
with emperor Antarctica - boy and bear
i will love you at all - darren hanlon
form - die! die! die!
end times - eels
ghost - seahaven
i speak because i can - laura marling
i believe you liar - washington
all delighted people - sufjan stevans
the way out - the books
personal life - the thermals
immersion - pendulum

[Vuk]

new Magrudergrind EP called Crusher. Fucking awesome. The newest Pulling Teeth song that was on the A389 sampler is on there as well, if you haven't heard it.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/11/a_free_magruder.html

Oh, and for whoever cares, there is a new Pianos Become the Teeth song on their Myspace. I think it's supposed to be on their upcoming split with The Saddest Landscape.

http://www.myspace.com/pianosbecometheteeth

[Mr. Doctor]

So far this is the good stuff I've heard

Alcest - Écailles De Lune
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Immolation - Majesty and Decay
Kent - En Plats I Solen
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Watain - Lawless Darkness

[Radical AC]

SO: according to Pitchfork the new Kanye West album is perfect.  10.0

Now, I really like this album.  Perfect?  I just have a hard time believing that this is objectively the best thing I have ever heard.  Okay, so other albums have been given a perfect score, but this one seems to be getting a lot of them.  More than I've seen from just about any other album.

[kwami42]

I was stunned to see that rating as well.

[David_Dovey]

Hyperbole?

In my Pitchfork?

It's more likely than you think!

[valley_parade]

I DUNNO COS I DID TOO THERE IS PROBABLY SOMETHING SEVERELY WRONG WITH US

DUDE IT'S PRETTY GOOD I DOWNLOADED IT THIS WEEKEND

..WOOOO

[StaedlerMars]

SO: according to Pitchfork the new Kanye West album is perfect.  10.0

Now, I really like this album.  Perfect?  I just have a hard time believing that this is objectively the best thing I have ever heard.  Okay, so other albums have been given a perfect score, but this one seems to be getting a lot of them.  More than I've seen from just about any other album.

I think the reason the album is getting such dazzling reviews across the board is because of the reputation Kanye West has. Some sort of positive backlash maybe?

(Having said that, I do enjoy it quite a bit, and at the  moment would probably rate it over his other albums, and I do like those quite a bit as well.)

[scarred]

i feel like that's the sort of thing where whenever someone criticizes the album everybody's gonna point to that review and yell "SEE?! YOU'RE WRONG!" because, you know, opinions are right and wrong

[Scandanavian War Machine]

It makes sense really.


I give kanye a 10/10 every day just for putting on his pants the right way and tying his shoes. He's constantly exceeding my expectations for what a mentally retarded person can do.

[JD]

SO: according to Pitchfork the new Kanye West album is perfect.  10.0

Now, I really like this album.  Perfect?  I just have a hard time believing that this is objectively the best thing I have ever heard.  Okay, so other albums have been given a perfect score, but this one seems to be getting a lot of them.  More than I've seen from just about any other album.

Huh I guess I'll have to give it a go

[JD]

So far my overriding feeling is to stop listening and put on Big Boi

[JD]

Maybe it will grow on me

[sean]

i never really understoon the whole "hipsters are supposed to dig kanye" thing pitchfork has got going on. anyone care to explain?

[De_El]

I've never cared about a Kanye album before and I kind of like this one.

[kwami42]

i never really understoon the whole "hipsters are supposed to dig kanye" thing pitchfork has got going on. anyone care to explain?

They seem to regard him as the perfect mix of immensely creative and batshit insane.

[McTaggart]

No way it can get a 10.0 when the best track isn't even on the album. It's a really good album though.

[scarred]

I've never cared about a Kanye album before and I kind of like this one.

this is exactly where i'm at.

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Romance Is Boring is still my album of the year, I am such a dang false

[squawk]

Romance is Boring is the best album ever

I mean, if they released the last five tracks as an EP that would STILL be the best record ever