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« on: 24 Nov 2005, 11:58 »
I'm not quite ready to rank this year's music but I am interested in seeing what people discovered this year that isn't new. I suppose this is mostly because, while my current tastes were certainly developing in 2004, they really blossomed this year. I excluded 2004 and 2005 releases, as well as those purchased as a result of liking a 2004 or 2005 record and then buying earlier records (e.g. Sufjan Stevens' Michigan).

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
3. Beulah - Handsome Western States
4. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
5. The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
6. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
7. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
8. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
9. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
10. The Books - The Lemon of Pink

So what (other than new music) have you all discovered this year?
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« Reply #1 on: 24 Nov 2005, 12:03 »
Music I discovered this year that isn't new:

Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica



Come to think of it, that's it.  I don't usually listen to new things... a habit I'm trying to break.
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« Reply #2 on: 24 Nov 2005, 13:04 »
Much better topic for me this year. One album per artist only, my top 10 discoveries this year are:

1: Sol Invictus - The Death of the West
2: Agalloch - Pale Folkore
3: Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
4: Wyrd - Huldrafolk
5: Current 93 - Cats Drunk on Copper
6: Xasthur/Nortt - Split
7: Stormtroopers of Death - Bigger Than the Devil
8: Blackmore's Night - Shadow Of The Moon
9: Treblinka - Crawling in Vomits
10: Anne Clark - RSVP

I might play with the order possibly, but it looks right.
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« Reply #3 on: 24 Nov 2005, 13:21 »
hmmm

The New Pornographers
Boards of Canada
Viva Voce
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« Reply #4 on: 24 Nov 2005, 13:24 »
Khar... since you're into metal, I have a recommendation for you - in case you don't already know about them.

Outrage.

They're a Japanese metal band that sound like - basically - what Metallica /should/ have sounded like.  Think back to Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, etc... and imagine Metallica splitting in two.  One band becomes...umm... Japanese, and continues to perfect their current craft.  The other loses a basist, puts out one more decent album, then sells out.
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« Reply #5 on: 24 Nov 2005, 15:41 »
Well, I only really started looking into Indie Rock and the like this year, so therefor basically every indie band is a new discovery for me this year, and I won't bother to go into them all.
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« Reply #6 on: 24 Nov 2005, 16:54 »
Apocalyptica-Reflections
(Ended up being a meh record, but it got me a Nuvlear Blast catalog, from where I got...)
Wintersun-Wintersun
(Oooooo, musical depth makes me happy....)
Demonoid-Rider of the Apocalypse
(These guys strike me as being fantastically good as a band.  Everything works well together, and the whole musical scape makes me absurdly happy.  Especially the jazzy bit in track 5.)
Actually, pretty much all my other music was disocvered this year, too.
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« Reply #7 on: 24 Nov 2005, 18:16 »
Uh...all of these. I can't pick.

Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Faust - 71 Minutes
The Slits - Cut
Chrome - Half-Machine Lip Moves
Guided By Voices - Propeller
Guided By Voices - Vampire on Titus
Ash Ra Tempel - First
Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics
Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Neu! - Neu! 2
Sagittarius - Present Tense
C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia
Harmonia - De Luxe
La Dusseldorf - Viva
Scott Walker - Scott 2
Scott Walker - Scott 3
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Scott Walker - Tilt
White Noise - An Electric Storm
The Music Tapes - First Imaginary Symphony For Cloudmaking
The Millennium - Begin
Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Popol Vuh - Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian
The Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Ikue Mori - Hex Kitchen
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Peter Brotzmann - F**k de Boere
Arvo Part - Summa: Part
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
Hrvatski - Swarm and Dither
Naked City - Naked City
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« Reply #8 on: 24 Nov 2005, 18:39 »
I didn't really start to love the Talking Heads until I bought More Songs About Buildings and Food in like... March.
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« Reply #9 on: 24 Nov 2005, 21:14 »
Old music that I've gotten into this year? Wow. There's a lot, even if I go back only to this past summer.
  • Guns N' Roses
  • Talking Heads
  • Breaking Benjamin
  • McLusky (thanks to this forum)
  • Offspring - I've liked 'em for a while, but it wasn't until this year that I actually went out and got some of their music
  • Pink Floyd
  • Everlast
  • Nightwish[/list:u]Probably half of these are just single songs I've acquired that are cause enough for me to look deeper into these artists. New music is fun, but old music can be even better sometimes.
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« Reply #10 on: 24 Nov 2005, 22:35 »
I'd really like to do this, but there was so much! Sufjan Stevens, actually. And so on and so on, and scooby dooby dooby.
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« Reply #11 on: 25 Nov 2005, 04:21 »
Uhm, I've had lots of catching up to do. Some cd's I'll name might be bought in december 2004 but I've bought so much this year that i don't know what's 2004 and what's 2005. The most important ones:

Mc5 - Kick Out The Jams
Dinosaur Jr - You're living all over me
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures and Closer
dEUS- Worst case Scenario
The Vacation - Band from World War 0 (well, that's from 2004 but I saw somebody mentioning Viva Voce (they suck by the way) so I'm excused)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Lou Reed - Transformer and Berlin and Songs for Drella (with John Cale) and some more by him
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 30 Something
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters and Colour and the shape and one by one
Alice In Chains - Dirt

ANd many more
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« Reply #12 on: 25 Nov 2005, 08:28 »
Quote from: Tago Mago

Naked City - Naked City



Good choice. Seriously, Naked City wins the thread.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #13 on: 25 Nov 2005, 15:26 »
I got into a lot of Iron Maiden, Rush and Parliament this year.

It has been a very, very good year.
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« Reply #14 on: 25 Nov 2005, 18:15 »
some odds and ends...a lot of stuff here i really love now.

Do Make Say Think
Bardo Pond
Boredoms (they did release Seadrum/House of Sun this year, but I haven't heard it yet)
Coil
Galaxie 500
Donovan
Fiona Apple (started listening to When The Pawn...floored. haven't listened to her new one)
Edvard Grieg (norweigian romantic-era composer...he's the balls)
Mission of Burma
William Basinski
Brian Eno
Merzbow (listening to his 1998 album '1930')
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« Reply #15 on: 25 Nov 2005, 20:43 »
Lou Reed's Transformer! Hoorah! An album that may be very close to perfect and is essential in my mind. Right on, Willem.
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« Reply #16 on: 25 Nov 2005, 20:55 »
Ted Leo, the Unicorns, and the Talking Heads come to mind.
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« Reply #17 on: 25 Nov 2005, 23:18 »
Blonde on Blonde, Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, the Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, the New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Broken Social Scene, solo Stephen Malkmus, Sufjan Stevens, Fiona Apple, Air, All-Time Quarterback...it's the beauty of having high-speed internet and access to other students' music!
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« Reply #18 on: 25 Nov 2005, 23:56 »
Oh fuck, where do I start.
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« Reply #19 on: 26 Nov 2005, 00:04 »
I pretty much developed my entire taste in music in the last, oh, year and a half, so this does give me a rather wide range of artists to choose from.

NaS - Illmatic.  The last word in gangsta rap.
Coldcut - Let Us Play.  Really stunning experimental hip-hop.  Entirely the Ninja Tune aesthetic, but with the raw and aggressive edge of turntablism accentuated.  And I guarantee that the Hexstatic collaboration, "Timber," will be the best 4:32 you'll listen to this year.
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« Reply #20 on: 26 Nov 2005, 02:36 »
for me this year it has been:

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Greatest Hits (I've had this album for awhile on my comp and finally listened to it.....goddamn i've been missing alot, im definitley pickin up some more albums)

Girltalk - Girltalk  (Basically a mix of every pop song in the last ten years mixed with Aphex Twin type beats, soo basically fuckin awesome)

The Books - The Lemon of Pink (I listen to alot of electronic stuff these days and when i found out Prefuse 73 was workin with them I had to find some, damn good album...very chill)

Eyedea and Abilities - E & A (Just a really fun hiphop group, one man on the mic and the other on the turntables, Dj Abilities scratchin is insane)

Blackbox Recorder - The Worst of Blackbox Recorder (My cousin gave me this album and it totally surprised me, its poppy and sad at the same time)
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« Reply #21 on: 26 Nov 2005, 22:19 »
Arthur Russell
Oval
Ellen Allien
Can
Xiu Xiu
Explosions in the Sky
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The Jesus and Mary Chain

(well, some of these are still recording, but I'm talking about getting into their pre-'04 stuff this year, as the subject says... I would include things like say Spoon but I've caught up with their '05 material by now so that doesn't count as much.)
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« Reply #22 on: 26 Nov 2005, 22:43 »
Quote from: Kai
Good choice. Seriously, Naked City wins the thread.


The letter M one gajillion times.


I'll do the first 5 I can think of:

Symphony X by way of "Live On The Edge Of Forever"
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum by way of "...Of Natural History"
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey by way of "Walking With Giants"
Man Or Astroman (haven't picked up a CD yet)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor by way of scattered downloads and the recentish purchase of "Raise Your Tiny Fists Like Antenae To Heaven"
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« Reply #23 on: 27 Nov 2005, 06:52 »
Bob Dylan, Pixies, solo Roger Waters, Wilco, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...
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« Reply #24 on: 27 Nov 2005, 07:39 »
Agalloch, Mr. Bungle, Glassjaw, Converge and Opeth would be the biggest discoveries this year.
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« Reply #25 on: 27 Nov 2005, 09:56 »
Gawd there's been hundreds.

Lets do a quick band overview (forget albums it'd take too long):

Jawbreaker
Jets To Brazil
Fugazi
Rites Of Spring
Godspeed You! Black Emporer
My Bloody Valentine
The Specials
Reggie and the Full Effect
Sounds Like Violence
Burns Out Bright

A bunch more...but I'm lazy.
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« Reply #26 on: 27 Nov 2005, 11:17 »
Jefferson Airplane
David Bowie
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Blur
Beck
The Chemical Brothers
DJ Shadow
Elastica
Grandaddy
Iron & Wine
Joan Of Arc
Massive Attack
Mogwai

I just started listening to awesome music about two years ago, so I had alot of catching up to do.
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« Reply #27 on: 27 Nov 2005, 14:54 »
As far as listening to music, I feel terribly like I've wasted the year.

All that comes to mind is Bright Size Life by Pat Metheny.
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« Reply #28 on: 12 Dec 2005, 11:38 »
Ooh, I'm excited about people who like lists!  (edit)I'll elaborate on these albums:

Bernard Szajner - Some Deaths Take Forever
-As I said in some other thread, he's like the French Brian Eno and he invented the LASER HARP!

Les Rhythmes Digitales - Darkdancer
-Stuart Price (aka Jacques Le Cont, aka Thin White Duke, aka producer of Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor) does his thing.  I am a huge Zoot Woman fan and I'm surprised to find that this album is known much more widely than his Zoot Woman work.  Features "Music Makes You Lose Control," which is sampled on Missy Elliott's "Control" along with Cybotron's "Clear."  Nik Kershaw does vocals on "Sometimes."

Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
-I love Hall & Oates!  Let's try Daryl Hall with Robert Fripp producing, playing guitar, co-writing songs, and using some kick-ass Frippertronics.

Tahiti 80 - Wallpaper For the Soul
-First Tahiti 80 that I'd heard.  Pretty French pop.

Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context
-Disco artist (as Loose Joints & Dinosaur) and classically-trained cellist makes pretty avant-garde love songs

David Sylvian - Secrets Of the Beehive
-Former Japan singer who has worked with Holger Czukay, Robert Fripp, and Christian Fennesz.

Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
-Pristine krautrock.  Great version of the hymn "Kyrie Eleison."
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« Reply #29 on: 12 Dec 2005, 14:55 »
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As far as listening to music, I feel terribly like I've wasted the year.

All that comes to mind is Bright Size Life by Pat Metheny.



Pat Metheny is pretty bitchin.
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« Reply #30 on: 12 Dec 2005, 15:32 »
Nice list Tago Mago. There are quite a few albums I'd like to check out there myself.

Swervedriver-Mezcal Head
Loop-Live In Italy Bootleg
Negativland-Escape From Noise
Foetus-Thaw
Captain Beefheart-Trout Mask Replica
Skullflower-Exquisite Fucking Boredom
X-More Fun in the New World
Pan Sonic-Kesto
Soft Boys-Underwater Moonlight
The Slits-Cut
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« Reply #31 on: 12 Dec 2005, 15:39 »
Good topic  --- First I'd like to say I love Khar the Hoodie wearing Kittie's posts because I've NEVER EVER heard of any of the bands he posts---

The Stooges
Brian Eno
Can
The Wrens
Fiona Apple's 2003 Extraodinary Machine
Gilles Peterson's Worldwide mixes
Hotel Costes Mix cd's
How great a producer Pete Rock is....
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« Reply #32 on: 12 Dec 2005, 18:19 »
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Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
-Pristine krautrock.  Great version of the hymn "Kyrie Eleison."


Woah, new information! I wasn't aware that "Kyrie" was taken from a hymn. I am, however, madly in love with the Popol Vuh song, so maybe I should track that down.
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« Reply #33 on: 12 Dec 2005, 18:40 »
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Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
-Pristine krautrock.  Great version of the hymn "Kyrie Eleison."


Woah, new information! I wasn't aware that "Kyrie" was taken from a hymn. I am, however, madly in love with the Popol Vuh song, so maybe I should track that down.


Well, it's more precisely a rather loose interpretation of a prayer in song that we used to sing at the church that I was forced to go to when I was young.  I think there are multiple (dissimilar) recorded versions available, but I can't remember any by name that I've heard.
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« Reply #34 on: 12 Dec 2005, 19:12 »
Killswitch Engage - particularly The End Of Heartache, but their older stuff is growing on me

Opeth - Blackwater Park , was a bit dubious at first with the death metal growling but just left it on repeat a bit and really really enjoyed it

John Butler Trio - liked hima bit before but caught a live gig after a friend of mine couldn't go and it was bloody amazing, 2 hour long set of awesomeness, also did a totally acoustic track, sometihng which i hard a t a live venue because of the noise
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« Reply #35 on: 12 Dec 2005, 20:18 »
i got into hot snakes (members of rocket from the crypt and drive like jehu) about a month before they broke up. sob.
cyann and ben - french post rocky band, on gooom (m83 is probably their biggest signing)
non-prophets/sage francis - well, yeah. fucking excellent.
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