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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: jeph on 28 Nov 2007, 20:51
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Whatever. Here's mine as of now (in alphabetical order because I am too lazy to rank them individually right now):
Apparat- Walls
Aril Brikha- Ex Machina
Baroness- Red Album
Battles- Mirrored
The Besnard Lakes- Are the Dark Horse
Daft Punk- Alive 2007
Dan Deacon- Spiderman of the Rings
Efterklang- Parades
The Field- From Here We Go Sublime
Gabriel Ananda- Bambusbeats
Justice-
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
Matthew Dear- Asa Breed
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Wolves in the Throne Room- Two Hunters
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Every other forum I post on chose today to start this off too, so I think the internet has decided that it is indeed time. Top so far:
Skepta - Greatest Hits
Burial - Untrue
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat
N-Type - Dubstep Allstars Vol.05
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
Unsane - Visqueen
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Honourable mentions:
Battles - Mirrored
Holy Fuck - LP
Trimbal - Soulfood
The End - Elementary
Ed Gein - Judas Goats And Dieseleaters
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English
Durrty Goodz - Axiom
There's a lot I haven't heard yet though, I haven't picked up the new Taint yet and there's a bunch of other things I want to check out too like Pissed Jeans and Clockcleaner.
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Dude I am sorry but after a fair amount of listens I still do not get Battles. I just don't.
Otherwise, great list.
Any chance someone can Sendspace some Gabriel Ananda? I'm finding it difficult tracking his work down.
P.S. List coming soon.
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Oh yeah, that Burial Album IS really good. I suspect when I put out my "official" list in a couple weeks it'll be on there.
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That and Two Hunters are the two records that seem to be popping up everywhere. I thought his debut was good but over-hyped but he's definitely got up to the level of people like Loefah and Skepta with his second. The vocals work so nicely. Oh, and the Justice album has been getting into a lot of people's lists but I haven't gotten around to checking that out yet myself, I really should considering the range of people who've been getting all hot and bothered over it.
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A month or so ago I gave a friend of mine a wedding present which consisted of five of my favourite albums from this year. They were:
- The Shins: Wincing the Night Away (this album grows more and more on me each time I hear it)
- The Go! Team: Proof of Youth (or, "How to do exactly the same thing you did the first time around, but better.")
- Kevin Drew: Spirit If . . . (this seems to me like the post-You Forgot It In People chill-out album)
- Beirut: The Flying Club Cup (when I first heard this I couldn't tell if it was the first album or the new one. When I listen to it now I realise it's better and more gorgeous than the first one in every way)
- Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog (beautiful as ever, but there's a big engine with lots of grunt hiding just under the bonnet of this album. Sam Beam controls it all perfectly)
I'm also currently loving the shit out of the Jesse James soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Also, a couple of local releases that won't have received any attention outside certain parts of Melbourne, but which bear mentioning: Stories for Another Day by Duckdive - gorgeous acoustic folky female-sung stuff that's tougher than it seems, and which deals to a large extent with the experience of being an Australian living in London, and New Music to Fall Asleep To by Justin Ashworth, which is really laid-back experimental ambient partly-electronic stuff.
Oh, and Person Pitch by Panda Bear. Hell yeah, Person Pitch.
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top 10 list aka "god i could probably stand to read something aside from pitchfork"
1. jens lekman - night falls over kortedala
2. fiery furnaces - widow city
3. battles - mirrored
4. of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
5. frog eyes - tears of the valedictorian
6. pig destroyer - phantom limb
7. the national - boxer
8. dan deacon - spiderman of the rings
9. justice - (crosssssss)
10. arcade fire - neon bible
honorable mentions:
okkervil river - the stage names
beirut - flying club cup
architecture in helsinki - places like this
los campesinos - sticking fingers into sockets
pharoahe monch - desire
and THE DETHALBUM
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everyone in this thread is missing future of the left and that is a god damn crime
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My favorites so far,
Okkervil River-The Stage Names
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam
Dan Deacon-Spiderman of the Rings
Sunset Rubdown-Random Spirit Lover
Justice-Cross
Frog Eyes-Tears of the Valedictorian
The Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
Radiohead-In Rainbows
Menomena-Friend and Foe
Saul Williams-The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
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No mention of Andrew Bird? shame on you all!
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i have no concept of when records get released. therefore, the only thing i have to contribute is Iron & Wine's The Shepherds Dog because it's the only one i know for sure came out this year.
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n0t r0bert b0yle,
I enjoy your language conundrums in your profile graphic.
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Albums I like from 2007:
The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
Icky Thump - The White Stripes
Raising Sand - Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
Let's Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav
Tio Bitar - Dungen
One Cell in the Sea - A Fine Frenzy
In Our Bedroom After the War - Stars
and more!
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TOP TEN :-D
1. The Angelic Process- Weighing Souls with Sand
2. Nadja- Touched
3. Jesu- Sun Rise/Sun Down
4. Sigur Ros- Hvarf/Heim (far from their best, but still awesome)
5. Neurosis- Given to the Rising
6. Nadja- Thaumogenesis
7. Earth- Hibernaculum
8. Burial Chamber Trio- Burial Chamber Trio
9. Boris with Michio Kurihara- Rainbow
10. Ulver- Shadows of the Sun
As we can clearly see from my top 10, the vast majority of awesome albums this year were by Drone guys. Basically, Drone >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You.
Also, here is my 'worst 5':
1. Sufjan Stevens- I don't know if he released anything this year, but if he did it would totally go here.
2. Pelican- City of Echoes (THIS REALLY SUCKED)
3. Jesu- Pale Sketches
4. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (this would also go in 'terrible album titles top 5' and most overrated bands top 5)
5. Current 93/Om Split. What should've been the best split in the world turned out to be pretty boring.
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1. The Horseshoe Curve - Trey Anastasio.
2. White Moth - Xavier Rudd
3. Dystopia - Midnight Juggernauts
4. - Justice
5. Is Is - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I spent most of 2007 working through a back catalogue of albums I had to catch up on after a year of unemployment.
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everyone in this thread is missing future of the left and that is a god damn crime
it's on mine but i'm fairly sure i havn't updated this since the start of the month so it'll have som editing done before the end of the year
1. The Pax Cecelia - Blessed Are The Bonds
2. Apples in stereo New Magnetic Wonder
3. High on Fire Death in this Communion
4. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the destroyer
5. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
6. Maserati Inventions for the new Season
7. Future of the Left - Curses
8. The Nation Blue - Protest Songs
9. The National Boxer
10. Nauthisuruz - The End of Nauthisuruz
11. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
12. Jesu Sun Down/Sun Rise EP
13. Beirut the flying club cup
14. Alchemist - Tripsis
15. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
16. Dead letter circus dead letter circus EP
17. Nadja touched
18. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
19. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
20. Turisas The Varangian Way
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Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention Krankenhaus? by British Sea Power. Probably because it's so far above anything else released this year that I couldn't crane my neck enough to see it all the way up there.
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12. Jesu Sun Down/Sun Rise EP
14. Alchemist - Tripsis
15. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
17. Nadja touched
WHY AREN'T THESE ALBUMS HIGHER
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BECAUSE HE'S NOT YOU.
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I was going to start a list but then I realized I've spent most of this year catching up on things I needed to listen to from the past 20 years. meh.
A few great new things I have heard this year:
Blut Aus Nord - Odinist
Watain - Sworn to the Dark
WITTR - Two Hunters
Daft Punk's live set
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Justice - Cross
Burial - Untrue
Gary Higgins - Red Hash*
*yes, this was technically released in '73, but since both the album and the artist are going through a Porter Wagoneresque revival these last couple of months, I think it kind of counts as a 2007 album as well.
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BECAUSE HE'S NOT YOU.
I was going to say "because he doesn't have awesome music taste", but I guess that means the same thing as your statement ^______^
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Whatever. Here's mine as of now (in alphabetical order because I am too lazy to rank them individually right now):
Dan Deacon- Spiderman of the Rings
It seems like everyone's blowing a load over this one, but I don't like it at all. *shrug*
1. EitS
2. Sundowner
3. Radio LXMBRG
4. Digitalism
5. Frank Turner
6. Dropkick Murphys oh noes
7. Sigur Ros (but only Heim)
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I've not established my top ten yet. There might be a feature on my website about it. But my shortlist so far is as follows:
Jamie T - Panic Prevention
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America (it only got properly issued over here in January)
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (almost certainly my album of the year)
Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves (lyrics aside, that is. One of the other AOTY contenders)
Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West
Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots
Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
Gary Numan - The BBC Sessions
Fountains of Wayne - Traffic And Weather
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Grant-Lee Phillips - Strangelet
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everyone in this thread is missing future of the left and that is a god damn crime
It is kind of sad isn't it? Luckily my Top list DOES show extreme love for that wonderful album 'Curses'
Top 15:
15) Deerhoof Friend Opportunity
14) Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement of the Decline
13) Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala
12) Burial - Untrue
11) Beirut The Flying Club Cup
10) Radiohead In Rainbows
9) Bottomless Pit Hammer of the Gods
8) Of Montreal Hissing Fauna are you the Destroyer?
7) M.I.A. - Kala
6) Panda Bear Person Pitch
5) LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
4) Menomena Friend & Foe
3) Les Savy Fav Lets Stay Friends
2) Future of the Left - Curses
1) Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
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Curses is the only album on my list.
Edit: No, that is a lie. Also:
Low - Drums and Guns
Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
I need to listen to more music.
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Uh...
I'm gong to try this from memory, a top 10 so far. It stands to change, as I expect to hear a whole bunch of things before the year is out, including JoA, Make Believe, Will Oldham and a few others I missed/haven't been leaked yet.
1) Bottomless Pit-Hammer of the Gods
While I'm sure that to appreciate it fully, I need to hear the vinyl, the songs are still great, and even at 192kbps, the album sounds incredible. I plan on paying for it before Christmas, I don't have a record player, but still...
2) Nina Nastasia-You Follow Me
Fantastic, I didn't think I'd enjoy this more then Run to Ruin, but I did.
3) Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs-You Can't Buy a Gun When You're Crying
Best album title of the year. And the album is pretty good too.
4)65daysofstatic-Destruction of Small Ideas
Is it just me, or did this come to and nobody really noticed? I've noticed a few people recommending them on here lately, and saw repost of the first two albums in the sendspace thread, but I've never seen any mention of this anywhere. Whenever these guys make an album, it always makes my 'best of' list.
5)Scout Niblett-This Fool Can Die Now
No, really, guys, it's okay. This one is actually good, I promise. Yeah, I know, but, it has other musicians on it this time. If 'Kiss' ain't the song of the year, then...
It's probably 'leave the light on' from Hammer of the Gods.
6)Les Savy Fav-Let's Stay Friends
7)Deerhoof-Friend Oppurtunity
8)Pissed Jeans-Hope For Men
9)Secret Mommy-Plays
10)Handsome Furs-Plague Park
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everyone in this thread is missing future of the left and that is a god damn crime
Yeah, Sorry about that. It was gonna be number 10, but I was actually surprised at how good Plague Park was. I was expecting it to sound really boring and straight forward, rather like most Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade I've heard, but I ended up really liking it, so I put that on there to emphasise exactly how good it must be, even if it'd usuall end at the back end of the top 20.
Actually, I'm only typing this to point how that Curses is pretty good, and that Handsome Furs are surprisingly not crap.
Have fun folks!
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Oh man, there were just too many.
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BECAUSE HE'S NOT YOU.
I was going to say "because he doesn't have awesome music taste", but I guess that means the same thing as your statement ^______^
Can we just ban this guy?
I am working on one.
Radiohead is not on it.
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My list has some pretty notable albums missing, and it's mainly because there's too much good music and just not enough time! There's a lot of stuff that got put out this year that I'd love to take the time to listen and get into, but there's only so many days in a year! So here's the best of what I got to this year.
1. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Best of the year, for me. It had competition at different times, but this one stood up the test of time (I've had a leak since July from around here) and is just an excellent, diverse album. Even the 2 bonus tracks are amazing. Top to bottom, I've listened to this album 5-6 times a week since I first got a hold of it. Some weeks more.
2. The National - Boxer
This one really grew on me, much like Alligator, and at this point I'd almost put it #1. Just a great album, top to bottom. I love "Apartment Story" to death.
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Another grower. This will make a lot of lists around here, and might very well wind up #1 in retrospect a few years down the road. It's another great Radiohead album.
4. Feist - The Reminder
I might be biased after witnessing one of her incredible live performances. She's just immensely talented and if you have a chance to see her in concert, she's really something else. Jazzing up most of her stuff and letting some of the older rock roots forth. "Sea Lion Woman" and "Honey Honey" are the highlights of this one for me.
5. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
I really believe this album is criminally underrated. Just a great piece of pop music if you ask me. Weird and whimsical, expertly crafted. I'm not entirely sure, actually, why I enjoy it so much, but I picked it up over the summer and it has gotten very steady play for a solid 6 months now.
6. Apparat - Walls
I was kind of surprised when I made this that an electronic album would make it this high. I'm mostly an indie rock loser. But this album is something else. Arcadia is one of the tracks of the year, for me.
7. Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor
A really solid effort here. I wish Ariana had sung on a few more of the tracks, because Happy Alone is the best of the album.
8. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
I gotta say, I think I'm one of the few that really didn't care for Black Sheep Boy, but this album really grabbed me. Good stuff. Unless It's Kicks and Plus Ones are my favorites here.
9. Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Pinback is sneaky. I forget about them for months at a time, then they'll come up on my shuffle and I'll remember that I really, really like them. They're my favorite non-memorable band ever, I think. Anyway, this was a fantastic album. Especially Blue Harvest and Good to Sea.
10. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
I feel weird putting this in my top 10 having only listened for about a week. But I really love the hell out of it. I can't imagine what this would have been like live. It's tough to tell where this would end up on my list, but I think it's just as likely it'd move up as down.
Rounding out the Top 20:
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Battles - Mirrored
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
Rogue Wave - Asleep at Heaven's Gate
Caribou - Andorra
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
The Most Serene Republic - Population
Eluvium - Copia
Honorable Mention: Grand Archives - Demo EP
I don't like putting EPs into this discussion of best album, they're different entities. Mat Brooke, formerly of Band of Horses and Carissa's Wierd has put together this quartet and their 4-song demo EP has gotten as much play as any of the albums on my list. It's fucking incredible. Listen to "George Kaminski" if you can. Just incredibly poignant, beautiful music. Their first full length is due out in February, and if it's anything like what they've put out here it's going to be a contender to top this list next year.
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I'm working on one. Tough as shit though, I had a good one about midway through the year and all the stellar releases in the last four months have knocked it completely out of whack.
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In no particular order:
Zoroaster - Dog Magic
Om - Pilgrimage
Burial - Untrue
Boris and Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
Baroness - Red Album
Mammatus - The Coast Explodes
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
These are the albums that came out this year and grabbed me. I'm also warming up to "Two Hunters" and I really like it so far.
If "Red Hash" counts, it's at the top of the list.
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I guess I'll put in my two cents...there really weren't a lot of albums I liked very much this year. I mean, there were a bunch of mediocre releases that I enjoyed, but the only ones with mentioning....
1. Rush - Snakes and Arrows. Thank God at least one classic band is still putting out relevant material (if only the others would follow suit, or just give up)
2. Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between. Epic style blending for the win.
3. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With The Living. Not as good as Shake the Sheets but still incredible.
4. Nothington - All In. Punk album of the year, no question.
5. Noisettes - What's the Time Mr Wolf? Weird, but great.
6. Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer - Schematics. Cute cute cute.
Peace
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In no particular order:
Zoroaster - Dog Magic
Om - Pilgrimage
Burial - Untrue
Boris and Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
Baroness - Red Album
Mammatus - The Coast Explodes
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
These are the albums that came out this year and grabbed me. I'm also warming up to "Two Hunters" and I really like it so far.
If "Red Hash" counts, it's at the top of the list.
No love for High on Fire?
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Guys, Re-issues DO NOT EVER COUNT!
Nor do:
Live albums, bootlegs, retrospectives, or any kind of compilation.
anybody would think you're all new to this.
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:roll:
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What? What is it? Man, do I have something in my teeth?
Stop it
man, stop that, you're making me paranoid
quit it!
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Tommy, you missed the best part of that quote.
Thank God at least one classic band is still putting out relevant material (if only the others would follow suit, or just give up)
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I narrowed it down to ten but I can't rate them above or below each other.
The Paper Scissors - Less Talk, More Paper Scissors
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Bridezilla - Bridezilla EP
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (i got the bonus disc as well)
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
British Sea Power - Krankenhaus? (there a reason why the are asking about a hospital)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (one of the best albums that triple j have featured this year)
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer
The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
The New Pornographers - Challengers
I thought I had whittled it down.
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Of course, I'm not done listening to 2007, but so far my top 10 goes like this:
1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
5. Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
7. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
8. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
9. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
10. Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
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Guys this is a "top albums" thread, not a "be a dick about other people's musical taste" thread.
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1. Rush
Thanks for playing!
What, no love for Geddy, Neil, and Lerxst?
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Okay so beginning to look like something like this.
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
Andrew Jackson Jihad - People who can Eat People
David Vandervelde - Moonstation House Band
Secret Mommy - Plays
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Justice - Cross
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
Battles - Mirrored
Cory Chisel - Little Bird
Eilen Jewell - Letters from SInners and Saints
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement
Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Riech
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Richard Swift - Dressed Up for the Letdown
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
I'll figure the rest out later, put em into an order, and maybe add some YSI's.
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There are so many records I wanted to hear this year and didn't have time. I was making time for it recently but the demise of OiNK set me back, and I think I only heard enough great records this year for a top 5.
1. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
2. The National - Boxer
3. Spoon - Ga x 5
4. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
5. Low - Drums and Guns
I hear tell that the Kills will be putting something out this year and that should be good. Also, the samples I've heard from the Burial, Wolves in the Throne Room, Baroness and Skeletonwitch records are all awesome.
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Hey can someone YSI that national record for me? All I've heard is amazing things about it.
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Cory Chisel - Little Bird
This will not make my list but it is still awesome.
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It might not make my top 10, but it's SUCH A GOOD ALBUM.
Everyone go listen. Now!
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TOP TEN :-D
Also, here is my 'worst 5':
5. Current 93/Om Split. What should've been the best split in the world turned out to be pretty boring.
I would definitely put your crack dealer in my top 10 pushers of 2007.
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Wait a second, no one told me Stars of the Lid was from Austin. Now I have to find their newie and sneak it into my top 10.
Also, does 45:33 (LCD Soundsystem) count as far game for a top record, even though it's just a rerelease with likewise previously released bonus tracks?
Because damn does that album make a man want to dance a hip off.
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Hey can someone YSI that national record for me? All I've heard is amazing things about it.
Yeah, sure. I uploaded it before but the link will be dead by now. Quite happy to re-up such a class album.
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Not going to try and order one yet, and there's still stuff to come that I really want to hear, so there will be new additions, but here are some of my favourites so far.
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
The Besnard Lakes - Are The Dark Horse
Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
Caribou - Andorra
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Efterklang - Parades
Feist - The Reminder
Frog Eyes - Tears of Valedictorian
The Fugitives - In Streetlight Communion
Future Of The Left - Curses
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
Handsome Furs - Plague Park
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Los Campesinios! - EPs
Low - Drums and Guns
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
Om - Pilgrimage
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars - In Our Bedrooms After The War
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
They Shoot Horses Don't They? - Pick Up Sticks
UGK - Underground Kingz
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
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1. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
2. Blackfield - II
3. Porcupine Tree - Nil recurring
4. Oceansize - Frames
5. Born of Osiris - the new reign
6. Jesu - Pale sketches
7. Fovea Hex - Allure
8. Venetian Snares - My Downfall
9. Explosions in the sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
10. Tholus - Constant
11. Sadist - Sadist
12. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
13. The End - Elementary
14. Counter - World Experience - Leaving Lotus
15. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
16. Do Make Say think - You, You're A History In Rust
17. Steven Wilson & Dirk Serries - Continuum 2
18. Aghora - Formless
19. Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
20. Blotted Science - Machinations of Dementia
21. Canvas Solaris - Cortical Tectonics
22. Pelican - City Of Echoes
23. Behold... The Arctopus - Skullgrid
24. Minsk - The Ritual Fires Of Abandonment
25. Direwolf - Beyond the lands of human existence
26. Alchemist - Tripsis
27. Indricothere - s/t
28. Scariot - Momentum Shift
29. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
30. S/T - Stadtlandwurst
31. Beneath the Massacre - Mechanics Of Dysfunction
32. VidnaObmana - Act Four: The Bowing Harmony
33. John Zorn - Six Litanies For Heliogabalus
34. Excrementory Grindfuckers - Bitte Nicht Vor Den Gδsten
35. Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
36. Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
37. Punish - Dawn Of The Martyr
38. Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
39. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
but haven't yet checked out the new dillinger escape plan and the new the ocean
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I haven't read every single thing people have posted because there's a lot, so I may be wrong in noticing the lack of Dr. Dog and Laura Veirs and Marissa Nadler.
quuueeeee?
I'm not organized and patient enough to make a lit on my own, but these three would probably be on it. I may be the only person in the world who thinks that Boxer by The National is just pretty good. Alligator is way better.
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No love for High on Fire?
I saw them play, they were OK. I haven't really sat down and given Death is This Communion a good listen yet. Every time I start flirting with their discography I end up getting turned off by the second or third song for some reason. I don't know what it is, but HoF don't do it for me the way OM or Sleep do.
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Oh yeah, I forgot Plague Park came out this year, too. I dig that record.
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So much and i've still not heard a lot, as usual. The year's not long enough! There should be a period of time where nobody releases music so I can catch up.
(Elliott Smith - New Moon)
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Stars - In Our Bedroom
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Justice - Cross
Handsome Furs - Plague Park
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Feist - The Reminder
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Future of the Left - Curses
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Caribou - Andorra
Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
(I am probably going to be editing this a lot because I'm forgetful and also I sort of like everything)
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My top 10, in no real order:
"In Rainbows" - Radiohead
"Sound of Silver" - LCD Soundsystem
"The Shepherd's Dog" - Iron & Wine
"Neon Bible" - The Arcade Fire
"The Stage Names" - Okkervil River
"Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century" - The World/Inferno Friendship Society
"Icky Thump" - The White Stripes
"Armchair Apocrypha" - Andrew Bird
"Sky Blue Sky" - Wilco
"Challengers" - The New Pornographers
"Wincing The Night Away" almost made it, but I think "Challengers" beats it by a hair.
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Yay Andrew Bird!
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No love for High on Fire?
I saw them play, they were OK. I haven't really sat down and given Death is This Communion a good listen yet. Every time I start flirting with their discography I end up getting turned off by the second or third song for some reason. I don't know what it is, but HoF don't do it for me the way OM or Sleep do.
After listening to Sleep and Om, I just can't dig High on Fire. I will admit that I've only listened to a song or two, but they just don't sound particularly inspired to me.
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The new Ghostface album is excellent.
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Alphabetical list starts here:
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Iron & Wine - The Shepard's Dog
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
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So much and i've still not heard a lot, as usual. The year's not long enough! There should be a period of time where nobody releases music so I can catch up.
(Elliott Smith - New Moon)
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Stars - In Our Bedroom
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Justice - Cross
Handsome Furs - Plague Park
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Feist - The Reminder
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Future of the Left - Curses
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Caribou - Andorra
Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
(I am probably going to be editing this a lot because I'm forgetful and also I sort of like everything)
oh my god.
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Eh?
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1. The Pax Cecelia - Blessed Are The Bonds
This is a really great album by a band that I don't think is even signed.
Very underrated.
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7. Fovea Hex - Allure
I really want to hear this album, but I can't find it anywhere. :(
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7. Fovea Hex - Allure
I really want to hear this album, but I can't find it anywhere. :(
i bought the (very expensive) deluxe-6-cd-box with the 3 eps and 3 remix-cds by the hafler trio at http://www.diestadtmusik.de/ (http://www.diestadtmusik.de/)
the box (and the single eps) seem to be still available at http://www.janetrecords.com/buy_rest.html (http://www.janetrecords.com/buy_rest.html)
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I haven't read every single thing people have posted because there's a lot, so I may be wrong in noticing the lack of Dr. Dog and Laura Veirs and Marissa Nadler.
quuueeeee?
I'm not organized and patient enough to make a lit on my own, but these three would probably be on it. I may be the only person in the world who thinks that Boxer by The National is just pretty good. Alligator is way better.
I enjoyed the Laura Veirs record, but I don't think it was top 10 material.
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BECAUSE HE'S NOT YOU.
I was going to say "because he doesn't have awesome music taste", but I guess that means the same thing as your statement ^______^
Can we just ban this guy?
COS I WAS TOTALLY BEING SERIOUS
Also: Can't believe I forgot new Iron and Wine! Despite my thorough dislike of all things soft, twee and indie I enjoyed that album. Perhaps not top 10 material, but definitely the best soft 'n' folky thing I've heard this year.
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LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Future of the Left - Curses
Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
!!! - Myth Takes
Apparat- Walls
Matthew Dear- Asa Breed
okkervil river - the stage names
Maserati Inventions for the new Season
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
The National Boxer
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
Chromatics - IV
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Low - Drums and Guns
Digitalism - Idealism
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
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M.I.A. - Kala
Iron & Wine - Shepard's Dog
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If...
Maserati - Inventions For The New Season
Justice - Cross
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Feist - The Reminder
Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
This is definitely going to change by the end of the year.
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7. Fovea Hex - Allure
I really want to hear this album, but I can't find it anywhere. :(
i bought the (very expensive) deluxe-6-cd-box with the 3 eps and 3 remix-cds by the hafler trio at (http://www.diestadtmusik.de/)
the box (and the single eps) seem to be still available at (http://www.janetrecords.com/buy_rest.html)
Cool. :) Thank you.
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waaaaait, omg, I FORGOT THE LINK!!!
the cds are available here: http://www.janetrecords.com/buy_rest.html
(http://www.janetrecords.com/buy_rest.html)
...wait....no!
i dint' forget the link
someone removed it!!
why is anyone deleting links here???????
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You used [*img] tags for the links. The links are there, just not showing up, because the board tries to load an image instead of them, but as there is no image, you just get a blank space. Try [*url]. :)
(Confused me for a minute earlier, I had to hit 'quote' on your post to see what was going on.)
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My list goes something like this I guess (in no order)
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim
Broken Social Scene Present Keven Drew - Spirit If...
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Tarentel - Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun
Fridge - The Sun
The Pax Cecilia - Blessed are the Bonds
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Grails - Burning of Impurites
Lazarus - Hawk Medicine
Iron and Wine - The Shepard's Dog
Helios - Ayres
Eluvium - Eluvium/Jesu split
This is not a finished list. Some things probably don't belong on here and I'm surely leaving stuff out. I'm leaving serious thought about a top 10 list until the end of the year.
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Deerhunter - Cryptograms
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
...haven't been mentioned yet. Shoe-gays!
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I can't believe I forgot Chuck Ragan's Feast or Famine, it's easily one of the year's best releases.
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This is going to be fucking impossible, cos I've heard way too many albums to make any kind of coherent ranking, yet I still haven't got maybe 1/2 of the albums I wanted to. YOU THERE, MUSIC INDUSTRY, SLOW DOWN A BIT.
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Nobody has suggested Megadeth, epic fail guys.
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this is probably because Megadeth is not very good
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Here are my favorite albums of 2007 (in no particular order). Some have been mentioned already.
But here goes:
1. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
2. Kevin Drew - Spirit If...
3. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
5. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
6. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
7. The New Pornographers - Challengers
And that's it so far.
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this is probably because Megadeth is not very good
I second that
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2007 was so good for music. So good.
A half-assed list so far.
Black Kids - Black Kids
Future of the Left - Curses
Justice - Cross
Kanye West - Graduation
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Les Savy Fav - Lets Stay Friends
Menomena - Friend or Foe
The National - Boxer
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars - Do You Trust Your Friends? (not sure if this counts)
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
I'll edit as I can remember. There were very few disappointing albums this year, Tegan and Sara being the biggest exception off the top of my head.
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I dunno, I'd say Stars' proper record was a bit of a letdown.
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I didn't listen to a lot of new music this year so, I'll try
(Alphabetical Order)
Arcade Fire -- Neon Bible
Beastie Boys -- The Mix-Up
Beirut -- The Flying Club Cup
Buck 65 -- Situation (Not a great album but still a good one)
Caribou -- Andorra
Gatineau -- Gatineau
Jens Lekman -- Night Falls Over Kortedala
Justice --
LCD Soundsystem -- Sound of Silver
Montag -- Going Places
Of Montreal -- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
The Weakerthans -- Reunion Tour
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I dunno, I'd say Stars' proper record was a bit of a letdown.
I really love it, but definitely it's not on the same level as Set Yourself On Fire.
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Oh, I don't know if I missed this last time...
RE-MIX ALBUMS DO NOT COUNT. GET A 'REAL' ALBUM.
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Deerhunter - Cryptograms
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
...haven't been mentioned yet. Shoe-gays!
The Twilight Sad are disqualified solely on the basis of their awful fucking name
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They also bore me half to death. When they aren't really annoying.
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I haven't been able to listen to enough new music this year, but the albums I've been a big fan of so far are:
Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
The New Pornographers - Challengers
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
For whatever reason I really couldn't get into the latest from Radiohead, Wilco, or Arcade Fire, they just didn't do it for me.
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After much um-ing and ah-ing and consternation I finally decided to just whack the list out in a couple of minutes. I'm sure I'll look at it later and wonder what the fuck I was thinking.
Also, this is without hearing Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Stars, Pelican, Rush, blahdy blah and about a million other things I should've.
Heavy
BTBAM- Colors
Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet
Five Star Prison Cell- Slaves of Virgo
Parkway Drive- Horizons
Machine Head- The Blackening
Template- I Thought I Turned The World, But it Turned On Me
Devin Townsend- Ziltoid the Omniscient
Arcane- Ashes
High On Fire- Death is This Communion
'neath- The Spider's Sleep
Not Heavy
Justice-
Battles- Mirrored
Bloc Party- A Weekend In the City
Funeral For a Friend- Tales Don't Tell Themselves
Midnight Juggernauts- Dystopia
Ulver- Shadows of the Sun
Anberlin- Cities
Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Editors- An End Has a Start
Aesop Rock- None Shall Pass
The booby prize goes to Bad Religion and Nine Inch Nails for making incredibly average albums that I couldn't bring myself to listen to more than once or twice.
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With "Special thanks: Tommydski" written in the liner notes.
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"Special thanks: Tommydski"
"Hang in there, buddy."
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I saw the Twilight Sad supporting Beirut last month. I say "saw", thankfully the Roundhouse is one of the few larger venues in London where it's very easy to escape crappy support bands because you can just go to the outer ring and chat. Which was nice, because they're fucking dire.
Oh, and I was going to make a list but then just realised I can't remember what actually came out this year. Bah.
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Uhh, did Emergency and I come out this year?
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Oh, and I was going to make a list but then just realised I can't remember what actually came out this year. Bah.
I had a similar problem. All set to write a list and came to the realization that I had only listened to about five new albums this year that were any good. I've been trying to catch up ever since.
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I know what my faves of the year are but I'm not ready to order them yet. My top 20 or so, in vague order I happen to think of them:
The National - Boxer
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
M.I.A. - Kala
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Grinderman - Grinderman
Robert Plant/Allison Kraus - Raising Sand
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
!!! - Myth Takes
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Looking through the other lists I can't believe hardly anybody is listing The Boxer. It's the easy favorite to be my #1. Not even the people who like the other stuff I like seem to be listing it.
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I only just got Boxer and listened to it and yeah it's amazing. I still have yet to find Stars of the Lid, which I think is the only other thing I really care to hear still.
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I forgot Miracle Fortress' Five Roses. Wonderful album, comparable to the albums Panda Bear and Caribou released this year, in the 60's inspired pop sort of theme.
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Every time I try to listen to the National I zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wait what just happened
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Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
That was a really surprisingly great album. It's on my top 10.
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Every time I try to listen to the National I zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wait what just happened
I really couldn't have put it better myself. I listened to Alligator and didn't think it was very good at all. I saw them open for the Arcade Fire and thought they were boring. I listened to Boxer (several times...I really did try) and didn't find a single song to be anything more than mediocre. What am I doing wrong here?
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What am I doing wrong here?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and run with 'continuing to listen to a band you evidently don't like.'
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10- Battles-Mirrored
9- Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
8- The Weakerthans- Reunion Tour
7- Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha
6- Okkervil River- The Stage Names
5- Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew- Spirit If...
4. Feist- The Reminder
3. Radiohead- In Rainbows
2. Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
1. The National- Boxer
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Here are twenty good albums released this year.
Wax Mannequin - Orchard And Ire
Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Kanye West - Graduation
Justice -
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
Future Of The Left - Curses
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Grinderman - s/t
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Battles - Mirrored
Coconut Records - Nighttiming
I think this is the list I want to make. Limiting it to twenty bites, though, and I don't think I actually could narrow it down to ten.
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This is very much subject to change, but as of now I'd say:
1. Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
2. Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
4. Radiohead- In Rainbows
5. Aesop Rock- None Shall Pass
6. The National- Boxer
7. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
8. Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
9. Panda Bear- Person Pitch
10. Justice- "Cross"
11. Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
12. Les Savy Fav- Let's Stay Friends
13. The Shins- Wincing the Night Away
14. Feist- The Reminder
15. Deerhoof- Friend Opportunity
16. Jens Lekman- Night Falls Over Kortedala
17. Okkervil River- The Stage Names
18. Mice Parade- Mice Parad
19. The New Pornographers- Challengers
20. Dinosaur Jr.- Beyond
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Nice lists people!
So I haven't listened to enough 2007 music yet to make a list, and I'll probably come back with one sometime in January after I receive (fingers crossed) the CDs I've asked for. But I'm pretty damn sure the list will start like this
1. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
2. Radiohead, In Rainbows
3. Iron and Wine, The Shepherd's Dog
There's a good chance that Neon Bible will be at #4, but I can't say, and I don't know about other people but I was kind of disappointed in both Andrew Bird and Beirut this time around; I hate to say it, but the earlier stuff is just so much better.
PS: Props to whoever put Niggy Tardust up, I love that one.
PPS: Haven't heard disc 2 of In Rainbows yet? Go here: radioheadinrainbows.blogspot.com. Hopefully that will save this post.
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Props to whoever put Niggy Tardust up, I love that one.
.......................wow
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Guess I should've posted that in the Guilty Pleasures thread.
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A dozen in alphabetical order because I suck at making decisions!
Amon Tobin, Foley Room
Bag Raiders, Fun Punch EP
Bang Gang DJs, Light Sound Dance
Bonde do Role, Bonde do Role with Lasers
Daft Punk, Alive 2007
edIT, Certified Air-raid material
Holy Fuck, Holy Fuck EP
Justice,
Kavinsky, 1986 EP
Muscles, Guns Babes Lemonade
New Young Pony Club, Fantastic Playroom
Simian Mobile Disco, Attack Decay Sustain Release
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PPS: Haven't heard disc 2 of In Rainbows yet? Go here: radioheadinrainbows.blogspot.com. Hopefully that will save this post.
Holy crap "Down Is the New Up" is a ridiculously good song. "Last Flowers" is really nice, too.
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For some reason most of 2007's music is a blur but when I bite down and think about it, I can find some favorites (will re-post with final list after Jamaica)
Tiny Masters of Today - Bang Bang Boom Cake
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Kanye West - Graduation
Arrah And The Ferns - Evan Is A Vegan
The Softlightes - Say No! To Being Cool, Say Yes! To Being Happy
Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
Carla Bruni - No Promises
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Candie Payne - I Wish I Could Have Loved You More
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
The Loose Salute - Tuned to Love
Caribou - Andorra
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Jesca Hoop - Kismet
The Loose Salute - Turned To Love
Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm Just Me
Minus Story - My Ion Truss
We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Pretender
Lost In The Trees - Time Taunts Me
All Smiles - Ten Readings Of A Warning
Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away
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I dunno, I'm surprised I haven't seen people list Rilo Kiley's Under The Blacklight. I couldn't put that album down for like a month. I personally also really enjoyed Andrew Bird's new one.
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I haven't yet got a copy of Under the Blacklight and at most 5 people have mentioned Armchair Apocrypha in their lists, i'm one of them.
PPS: Haven't heard disc 2 of In Rainbows yet? Go here: radioheadinrainbows.blogspot.com.
Thankyou, I've been looking for MK1 and MK2.
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Thankyou, I've been looking for MK1 and MK2.
...why?
(Serious question, I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing about them because they seem like filler junk that make the already disjointed disc even more disjointed to me.)
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i hadn't heard them.
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I was severely disappointed with Under the Blacklight. I liked More Adventurous so much and I felt let down after I heard the new one. Some catchy songs, but I didn't think it cut the mustard.
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More Adventurous was hella mad mediocre, I thought, compared to the rest of their work.
Under The Blacklight was good.
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I've only heard More Adventurous and The Execution of All Things. The latter is by far the better, Lewis and co. seem to work/sound better when they have a concept.
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Ordering is very rough...
1. Frank Pahl - Songs of War and Peace
2. Odd Clouds - Cleft Foot Of The Woods
3. Kemialliset Ystδvδt - Untitled
4. Death Ambient - Drunken Forest
5. Paul Metzger - Deliverance
6. Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
7. Demons - Frozen Fog
8. Jandek - Manhattan Tuesday
9. Derek Bailey - Standards
10. Daniel Higgs - Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot
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Manhattan Tuesday is my favorite of them because Jandek plays a Korg (set to an organ pad), and it ends up being somewhat more musical than his guitar playing... and the line-up is a dream if you're into the avant-garde; Loren Mazzacane Connors on guitar and Chris Corsano on drums.
Austin Sunday and Glasgow Monday are also good. All three of them are 2 CDs. Haven't heard any of the others...
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So, I finally thought about this, and in no particular order, here are 10 of my favourites:
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Feist - The Reminder
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Holy Fuck - EP (I've yet to listen to the LP, for some reason)
Battles - Mirrored
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
I'm sure I missed some, and there're a few albums from bands I really like that I either didn't quite enjoy enough to put in the top 10 this year (Radiohead and the New Porn, for instance, failed to really wow me this year), or that I haven't really listened to yet (Holy Fuck's EP, or the new Sunset Rubdown record).
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Alright people, I have a question. Somebody just told me that Justice's Cross is the best album of 2007. Surely, it's a fun enough album, but there have been better albums just in the electronic category out this year. What album can I use in retort to shame him? help me QC forums I need to look cool.
I will formulate a personal best of list for this year, but it probably won't be as pretty as any of yours.
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The Holy Fuck LP blows "+" out of the water.
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Sound of Silver
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Kavinsky's Mini LP (though Wikipedia now lists it as Dead Cruiser. odd)
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Sound of Silver
seconded. Also judging from jeph's constant orgasming, Daft Punk's Alive 2007, though my copy is still in the mail.
As for In Rainbows, the second disc, to me, rivals the first in quality and if Radiohead was (were?) really as cool as people like to think they would've released it the same way disc 1 was released. I do love "Down is the new up" as well as "Bangers and Mash" which is just fun.
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Alright people, I have a question. Somebody just told me that Justice's Cross is the best album of 2007. Surely, it's a fun enough album, but there have been better albums just in the electronic category out this year. What album can I use in retort to shame him? help me QC forums I need to look cool.
I will formulate a personal best of list for this year, but it probably won't be as pretty as any of yours.
The best way to shame him is to go "oh, I keep confusing Justice for Digitalism and Boys Noize and Simian Mobile Disco BECAUSE THEY ALL SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME."
Alternately, you can just remind him of that fucking Uffie track and he will burst into tears.
is indeed a very good album, but I'd rank Gabriel Ananda's Bambusbeats or the Field album over them.
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Man, I totally forgot about Grinderman. A rather superb side-project for Nick Cave, hearing him play guitar on the is a rare pleasure.
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Thanks all. I told off his unibrow-having gay ass, imparted him with some knowledge. He'll think twice next time he feels the desire to voice an opinion.
1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
3. Menomena Friend & Foe
4. Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck LP
5. The Tuss - Rushup Edge (I'm including here the more melodious unreleased tracks from the myspace page. Sue me)
6. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
7. Little Brother - Get Back
8. High on Fire Death in this Communion
9. Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Obviously, pretty heavy on the stuff I've been given through this board. And In Rainbows is a placeholder. It's good and all, but all I need is another something to grab me and it's out.
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1. Efterklang- Parades
I love this album. Everytime I think I can describe it I listen to it again and discover how incorrect my description is
2. Holy Fuck-LP
I saw that someone else said it beat +... SOOO true. Justice has nothing on these guys. NOTHING.
3. Apparat- Walls
I sent out a message to everyone I knew when I found this album. I was probably unable to speak for a couple hours as well.
4. Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I miss Everybody
You know, I can't really tell one Explosions in the Sky album from the other, but they are so damn good.
5. Menomena- Friend and Foe
If their music doesn't sell you on their act, their sense of fun will.
6. Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective put out one of the most challenging records of the year but holy shit is it good.
7. Battles- Mirrored
What can you say about Battles except WOW. I wasn't convinced on this album until I saw their live act. After that I was sold.
8. Radiohead- In Rainbows
They're radiohead. What can I say that the fanboys haven't already?
9. Do Make Say Think- You, You're History in Rust
I haven't listened to this album as much as I feel I should have this year, but it is REALLY freaking good.
10. Beastie Boys- The Mix Up
Yes. The Beastie Boys made my top 10. Not necessarily because this album was WAY better than the other stuff to come out this year, but ecause it BLEW my expectations out of the water. ... maybe it's cuz i just started listening to this album, but it is really good, If you haven't given this one a chance, do yourself a favor and download it immediatly.
(this is not necessarily my list for the best of '07, just the ones I enjoyed the most)
Other Favorite albums of the year:
of Montreal/The Field/ The New Pornographers/Jens Lekman/ Stars/ Architechture in Helsinki/ The National/ Okkervil River/ Prints/ Stars of The Lid/ Blackfield/
Apples in stereo/ Eisley/ Shout Out Louds/ Immaculate machines/ Laura Veirs/ Northern State/ Sigur Ros/ pg.lost/ The Rumble Strips/ A LOT MORE
Song Suggestion:
If you haven't heard the song Clouds by 'The Rumble Strips', I suggest you change that.
Favorite Find of the Year:
They didn't release anything this year, but my favorite find of the year is 'Detektivbyran'...
If you haven't heard them, imagine if a music box could play itself. Now imagine that music orchestrated and you have a good feel for the band. I have not met anyone who hasn't been floored by them.
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The Holy Fuck LP blows "+" out of the water.
Agreed.
This is also true for The Field and Burial
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No one has mentioned the new Manu Chao album. Is this because it's not good, or has just no one heard it?
I liked what he has come out with before.
As for lists: I have no idea what has come out this year or earlier. I could give a list of artists I discovered this year which I liked. That would be quite extensive.
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You know, I can't really tell one Explosions in the Sky album from the other, but they are so damn good.
Not on topic really but you may or may not be happy to hear that, based upon recent interviews with the band, AoaSIME is, for them, the culmination of their work to this point. The next album is apparently going to sound very different (in what way, they are not saying).
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I just discovered a 2007 album that is fabulous and worthy of my personal top 10 list. it's "The Stolen View" by Leech, and it's in the Sendspace thread.
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You know, I can't really tell one Explosions in the Sky album from the other, but they are so damn good.
Not on topic really but you may or may not be happy to hear that, based upon recent interviews with the band, AoaSIME is, for them, the culmination of their work to this point. The next album is apparently going to sound very different (in what way, they are not saying).
I can't wait. I haven't heard anything, but I seriously doubt that they'll do anything that blows.
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They're selling their drums and guitars and all taking up the clarinet.
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Top Whatever of Whenever
Albums
10. Wintersleep Welcome to the Night Sky
9. Liars Liars
8. Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
7. Parts and Labor Mapmaker
6. Sigur Rσs Hvarf/Heim
5. Panda Bear Person Pitch
4. Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
3. Iron & Wine The Shepherds Dog
2. Daft Punk Alive 2007
1. The National Boxer
Tracks
5. Animal Collective For Reverend Green
4. Band of Horses Is There a Ghost
3. The National Slow Show
2. Dan Deacon Wham City
1. LCD Soundsystem All My Friends
Shows
5. Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos (with Canada and Page France) Beat Kitchen, March 19th
4. The Decemberists (with the Grant Park Orchestra) Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, July 18th
3. The Wrens Belmont Art & Music Festival, June 24th
2. The Decemberists Long of It The Vic, October 28th
1. Art Brut / Hold Steady Metro, October 31st
Honourable Mentions
Albums: LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver; Arcade Fire Neon Bible; The Field - From Here We Go Sublime; Maserati Inventions for the New Season; Do Make Say Think You, Youre a History in Rust; Justice - ; Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings
Singles: Band of Horses Is There a Ghost; Underworld Beautiful Burnout; Do Make Say Think A Tender History in Rust; Sigur Rσs Hafsol (even though its not a new song)
Shows: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007
(x-posted from my never-used lj)
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(In no particular order)
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Arcade Fire - The Neon Bible
Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Magic
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Tom Waits - Orphans : Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
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I think I'ma put my official list (with pictures and opinions and such) up on the QC music blog this week.
I'll do a Top 10 Songs post tonight, in fact!
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I somehow managed to forget Dirty Projectors.
As penance I will spend the next week dining exclusively on steel wool.
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They're selling their drums and guitars and all taking up the clarinet.
I heard they sold their guitars and bought turntables.
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3. Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
1. The National – Boxer
I like your style.
Personally this year I've enjoyed (not ranked or limited to any particular number).
- ^ Iron & Wine and The National
- Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
- Radiohead - In Rainbows
- Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg
- QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
- Depreciation Guild - In Her Gentle Jaws
- His Name Is Alive - Xmmer
- The Most Serene Republic - Population
- Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away
- Ted Leo - Living With The Living
- Low - Drums & Guns
- mind.in.a.box - Crossroads
- Painbastard - Borderline
- Ashbury Heights - Three Cheers For The Newly Deads
- Akanoid - Cocktail Pop
- Soman - Mask
- Syrian - Alien Nation
- Assemblage 23 - Meta
- VNV - Judgement
- Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
- Fantazja - Help Yourself
- Rupesh Cartel - Disco and the what not
- Neuropa - The Blitz
- Null Device - Excursions
- Boy Is Fiction - Boy Is Fiction
- People Press Play - People Press Play
- Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
- Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
- Jatun - Jatun
- Caribou - Andorra
- Concise - Revive
- Efterklang - Parades
- Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
- Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement...
- Conelrad - Function Creep
And that's just the really good stuff. 2007 has been good.
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- Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg
Can you upload this in the Sendspace thread? I completely forgot about the whole project and I never thought that it might've already been released. I'm a huge Chris Goss fan so I really want to hear how this turned out.
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HURR I GO :-D
TOP 10 ALBUMS:
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10. The Ergs!- Upstairs/Downstairs
Dirtnap Records
I'm trying to figure out exactly why I like this album so much, and I can't figure it out. All it is is a collection of poppy, catchy punk songs (plus a country number) played by a bunch of bespectacled Hόsker Dό nerds. Actually, that's pretty endearing. I guess I like it because I see a bit of myself in it?
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09. Nothington- All In
B.Y.O. Records
Lead singer Jay Northington's gravelly voice rings out just as loud and thrashy as the guitars on this, their debut album, lending serious muscle to a sound that borrows freely from modern punk heroes like Jawbreaker and Social Distortion. Hell, it's nothing new, but drat if it ain't fun.
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08. Gogol Bordello- Super Taranta!
SideOneDummy Records
While this album's production seems a bit reined in compared to Steve Albini's aid in sonic experimentation on their previous effort, 2005's stellar Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, this is still another brilliant addition to the Bordello's catalog. From the lyrically clever "Supertheory of Supereverything" to the epically triumphant "Forces of Victory", this album is a blast of sheer joy right into your pants.
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07. The Gaslight Anthem- Sink or Swim
XOXO Records
These Jersey boys put the well-worn strains of whiskey-soaked melodic punk through a Springsteen filter, resulting in something that sounds a bit like alt-country stars Lucero, but harder and faster. This band has the potential to be huge.
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06. Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Temporary Residence Limited
It's soaring, epic, evocative, and arresting, all in one. Another wonderfully enjoyable piece of work from these guys.
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05. Chuck Ragan- Los Feliz and Feast or Famine
SideOneDummy Records
I'm combining these two albums into one, because they don't really seem like two separate albums as much as they do two sides of the same coin. Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music explores his acoustic, folky side. The first album, Los Feliz, is a recording of a live show in an intimate setting of Chuck and his wife Jill's own friends and family. The second, Feast or Famine, is a more polished studio record, featuring guest performances from some of Chuck's best musical friends. Both are highly recommended.
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04. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Living With the Living
Touch-and-Go Records
Ted Leo knocks out another quality album, as is his wont. While most of the tracks focus on his finely honed style of exuberant indie rock songs anchored by his humble guitar heroism, Ted does make some room to stretch his legs a bit, dabbling in reggae ("The Unwanted Things"), and Fugazi-inspired post-hardcore ("Bomb. Repeat. Bomb."). This album is certainly a grower, and at the end of the day I think it might be some of his best work yet.
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03. Fake Problems- How Far Our Bodies Go
Sabot Productions
Fake Problems apparently took a few cues from the World/Inferno boys and girls in putting together this collection of twangy folk punk tunes, as this album is chock full of charging brass and devilish fiddles (especially on "Maestro of This Rebellious Symphony", one of the standout tracks). I think this might even rival Against Me!'s Reinventing Axl Rose for the title of "best album in the entire genre".
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02. The World/Inferno Friendship Society- Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century
Chunksaah Records
A concept album about the life and times of actor Peter Lorre, this album grabbed me from the overture (yes, there's an overture, and it is glorious) and didn't let go until the final waltz. The whole thing plays like some sort of bizarro musical. Awesome.
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01. The Weakerthans- Reunion Tour
Epitaph/ANTI- Records
The Weakerthans have been one of my favorite bands for a while now, and this album serves to bring into focus just why. The most effective songs on this album are essentially character sketches exploring themes of loss and loneliness. As told from various points of view, such as that of a businessman who suddenly finds himself valueless ("Relative Surplus Value"); gender-reassignment experiment subject David Reimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer), moments before his suicide ("Hymn of the Medical Oddity"); and a lost cat ("Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure"), these vignettes are at once beautiful and emotionally resonant. Album of the year for me.
RUNNERS-UP!:
Bomb the Music Industry!- Get Warmer (Quote Unquote/Asian Man Records) (It's FREE! (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur013.htm))
Polysics- Karate House (Ki/oon Records/Sony Music Japan)
Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic Records)
The Depreciation Guild- In Her Gentle Jaws (self-released) (It's FREE! (http://www.inhergentlejaws.com/)) (Thanks, amok!)
TOP 5 EPs/SPLITS/7"s:
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01. Bomb the Music Industry!/O Pioneers!!! Split EP (Quote Unquote Records) (It's FREE! (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur015.htm))
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02. The Riot Before- So Long, The Lighthouse EP (Quote Unquote Records) (It's FREE! (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur014.htm))
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03. Anamanaguchi- Power Supply EP (8bitpeoples) (It's FREE! (http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php?artist=Anamanaguchi))
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04. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Mo' Living EP (Touch-and-Go Records)
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05. Shorebirds- Shorebirds 7" (ex-Jawbreaker/ex-Latterman/Olympia, WA)(self-released)
ALBUMS I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DUG IF I HAD HEARD MORE OF THEM:
American Steel- Destroy Their Future (Fat Wreck Chords)
Les Savy Fav- Let's Stay Friends (French Kiss Records)
Sundowner- Four One Five Two (Red Scare Records)
Eastern Youth- Chikyu no Ura kara Kaze ga Fuku (Which translates roughly to something like The Wind Blows From the Reverse Side of the Earth) (VAP, Inc.)
Sage Francis- Human the Death Dance (Epitaph Records)
The Aggrolites- Reggae Hit L.A. (Epitaph/Hellcat Records)
DISAPPOINTMENTS:
Against Me!- New Wave (Sire Records/Warner Bros.) (Most of the songs were just flat-out boring.)
Smoke or Fire- This Sinking Ship (Fat Wreck Chords) (I liked this album, but it wasn't as fist-pumpingly rad as Above the City or Worker's Union.)
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Top....THIRTY!
1. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
2. Sundowner - Four One Five Two
3. Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim
4. Frank Turner - Sleep Is For The Week
5. Radio Lxmbrg - Because Of The Times
6. Digitalism - Idealism
7. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
8. Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion
9. Future Of The Left - Curses
10. Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
11. Cock Sparrer - Here We Stand
12. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
13. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
14. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Living With The Living
15. The Rosebuds - Night of The Furies
16. New Pornographers - Challengers
17. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
18. Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons
19. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
20. Tiger Army - Music From Regions Beyond
21. Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest Of Times
22. Radiohead - In Rainbows
23. imadethismistake - Tomorrow, We Start New
24. Dungen - Tio Bitar
25. Low - Drums & Guns
26. 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
27. Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck EP
28. Minus The Bear - Planet Of Ice
29. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
30. Against Me! - New Wave
Honorable mention: Boris/Merzbow - Rock Dream. I got the album this morning, after I posted my list.
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WARNING: Being that I am fucking pov-struck and also lack a fast internet connection most of the time, I didnt listen to heaps and heaps of whole albums of new music this year. I apologise. Hence, therefore and thusly, I reserve the right to chuck in stuff that wasnt released this year, making it a stupidly personal top albums list. A lot of these are actually 2006 releases that I only got very late last year or early this year and which became a part of my consciousness only this year. One album was released nowhere near this year but HAD to be included, just because. The list is also influenced a bit by who I saw live, and whatever personal crap I was going through and how both those things helped me understand what each album was trying to achieve.
Ahem.
Albums of 2007 that were great
1. The Arcade Fire Neon Bible
2. Radiohead In Rainbows
3. Ghosts Of Television Bi-Gong-Xin and City Of Painless Childbirth (Ill bunch together these two excellent EPs from a local Sydney band)
4. Future Of The Left Curses
5. Bloc Party A Weekend In The City
6. Blueline Medic - 42:19
Albums from 2006 that I only really listened to or loved this year, for various reasons
Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Envy Insomniac Doze
The Drones Gala Mill
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (only just got it, and something about how very very hetero it is shits and/or depresses me, but damned if it isn't really good)
Honourable mention for being the album I discovered and probably listened to the most this year(?)
Cursive - Domestica
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5. Bloc Party A Weekend In The City
I'm sorry but no amount of excuses can make this album good. It was wretched. Absolutely terrible.
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I quite liked Silent Alarm, but I've gotta agree with you, Gene. Disappointment city.
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Can you upload this in the Sendspace thread? I completely forgot about the whole project and I never thought that it might've already been released. I'm a huge Chris Goss fan so I really want to hear how this turned out.
More than happy to. I'll try and do it now; if not I'm pretty tied up all weekend so it might take a few days, but will get on it at some point. Fantastic album.
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i know most people won't care for this but one of my favorite albums of this year just came out...
"Somewhere in the Between"- Strretlight Manifesto
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I quite liked Silent Alarm, but I've gotta agree with you, Gene. Disappointment city.
Oh come on. There were...uh...um...well...one or um...two good songs on Weekend, and that makes up for all of the other crappy songs, right?
Right?
Right?
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i know most people won't care for this but one of my favorite albums of this year just came out...
"Somewhere in the Between"- Strretlight Manifesto
Ah shit, totally forgot this.
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1. Stars - In our bedroom after the war
2.The Shins- Wincing the Night Away
3.Architecture in Helsinki - Places like this
4.Iron & Wine-The Shepherd's Dog
5. Apples in Stereo New Magnetic Wonder
6.Daft Punk- Alive
7.Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With The Living
8. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
9.Wax Mannequin - Orchard And Ire (thanks to you Johhny C)
10.Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga ( i love spoon so much but hate cherry bomb.....)
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Right?
Sadly, wrong.
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Hmm
my choice for best album of the year doesn't even show up on anyone else's lists.
1. El-P Ill Sleep When Youre Dead
2. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
3. Blonde Redhead 23
4. Skinny Puppy Mythmaker
5. Matthew Dear Asa Breed
6. Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
7. Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
8. Dδlek Abandoned Languages
9. Chris Connelly The Episodes
10. M.I.A. Kala
Best reissues of 07: Current 93 Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre and The Inmost Light
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Right?
Sadly, wrong.
Yeah I know, I really did hate that album
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It took me about twenty seconds into the album to realise that it was not for me anymore.
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Oh, come on. "I Still Remember" brought back fond memories of "Little Thoughts" and "Modern Love Song." One of the bonus tracks I got, "Version 2.0," was also good. The album has its bad moments, just not nearly as many as the bad ones.
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Top 30
1. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
2. Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
3. The Fugitives - In Streetlight Communion
4. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Bonnie Prince Billy and Dawn McCarthy - Wai Notes
7. Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
8. Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
9. Frog Eyes - Tears of Valedictorian
10. Feist - The Reminder
11. Caribou - Andorra
12. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
13. Handsome Furs - Plague Park
14. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
15. Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
16. Stars - In Our Bedrooms After The War
17. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
18. Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
19. Om - Pilgrimage
20. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
21. Bonnie Prince Billy - Ask Forgiveness
22. Low - Drums and Guns
23. Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
24. Los Campesinios! - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
25. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
26. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
27. Efterklang - Parades
28. Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
29. LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver
30. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
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Woah, how the hell did I forget "And Their Refinement of the Decline" by Stars of the Lid and "Copia" by Eluvium?? Something must have seriously been off when I was making my list. Those are easily among my favorite albums this year, perhaps even being the top 2. Can't believe I forgot them. Seriously, this is some really amazing music.
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The Good The Bad and The Queen!
A very impressive first album from these guys with an interesting ensemble of musicians...
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That almost made my list, but there were just so many good albums this year...
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the shaky hands - self titled
battles - mirroed
daft punk - alive 2007
LCD soundsystem - sound of silver
apples in stereo - new magnetic wonder
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Oh man. I completely forgot to put Immaculate Machine's Fables on my list. Definitely one of the years best albums. What the New Pornographer's album should have sounded like. Perfect, energetic, well structured power-pop.
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Too many good records this year!
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It's true! And I've been more than impressed with the quality of Canada's output. Well, quality has been there for a while, but this year especially it seemed like there was a whole ton of quantity to back in up, in terms of released albums.
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yeah, canada's been pretty much on top of shit.
anyway, here's some albums i liked this year.
#1 Between The Buried & Me - Colors
#2 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
#2 Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
#2 The Black Keys - Magic Potion
#2 Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
#2 Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
#2 Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
#2 Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
#2 Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
#2 Holy Fuck- EP
#3 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
i actually had to go back through this thread to see what had and hadn't come out this year. i'm no good at knowing things.
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Winehouse's private life has really soured me on that record. I'm conflicted over whether I want to actually buy it.
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You know what's even better than a top records of '07 list?
Boris and The Falcon have new albums coming out next year.
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Baroness-The Red Album
Mammatus-The Coast Explodes
Those are the only ones I'm absolutely positive came out this year, haven't had a chance to listen to Future of The Left or pretty much most of everyone else's top tens.. I'm gonna have to do some digging.
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Winehouse's private life has really soured me on that record. I'm conflicted over whether I want to actually buy it.
i don't make it my business to know about the private lives of strangers. it's a good cd. that's all.
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Winehouse's private life has really soured me on that record. I'm conflicted over whether I want to actually buy it.
i don't make it my business to know about the private lives of strangers. it's a good cd. that's all.
You don't see the crippling irony of 'Rehab' now? I hated it already, let alone without all this shit.
And don't look down on me like I've been sniffing through the tabloids finding an excuse not to buy this record. The songs have grown on me since they've been released which is why I hadn't already bought it, and the news about her has been virtually unavoidable, especially if you work at my office.
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I am having a really hard time picking my #1 album of this year! There are a whole bunch of contenders- LCD Soundsystem, Apparat, the Field, Efterklang...but it's not like the past few years where despite a number of really great albums there was still one that clearly outshone the rest.
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This years music output seems way better then last year's given the relative diversity of these lists
Electrelane-No Shouts No Calls
Shellac-Excellent Italian Greyhound
Future of the Left- Curses
Bottomless Pit- Hammer of the Gods
Nina Nastasia and Jim White- You Follow Me
Les Savy Fav- Lets Stay Friends
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
Deerhoof- Friend Opportunity
No Age- Weirdo Rippers
Shannon Wright- Light in the Light
Deerhunter- Crytograms
Black Lips- Good, Bad, Not Evil
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1. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
2. The National Boxer
3. Miranda Lampbert Crazy Ex Girlfriend
4. M.I.A. Kala
5. Okkervil River The Stage Names
6. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus Raising Sand
7. Patty Griffin Children Running Through
8. A Place To Bury Strangers s/t
9. Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10. Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala
11. Radiohead In Rainbows
12. Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
13. Band of Horses Cease To Begin
14. Grinderman Grinderman
15. Burial Untrue
16. White Stripes Icky Thump
17. Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
18. Amy Winehouse Back To Black
19. Patrick Wolf The Magic Position
20. Tegan and Sara The Con
21. Suzanne Vega Beauty & Crime
22. !!! Myth Takes
23. Justice Cross
24. Arcade Fire Neon Bible
25. Vieux Farka Toure - Vieux Farka Toure
26. Feist - The Reminder
27. Blonde Redhead - 23
28. Battles - Mirrored
29. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
30. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
31. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
32. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
33. The Shocking Pinks - The Shocking Pinks
34. Peter, Bjorn, and John - Writers Block
35. Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
36. Lilly Allen - Alright, Still
37. Jay-Z - American Gangster
38. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
39. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
40. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
41. The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
42. Caribou - Andorra
43. Les Sevy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
44. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
45. New Pornographers - Challengers
46. Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
47. Iron & Wine - The Shephard's Dog
48. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
49. Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
50. The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
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I am having a really hard time picking my #1 album of this year! There are a whole bunch of contenders- LCD Soundsystem, Apparat, the Field, Efterklang...but it's not like the past few years where despite a number of really great albums there was still one that clearly outshone the rest.
I'll save you some trouble... LCD Soundsystem takes the cake ! ! :-D
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Do download only 5 song EPs count? If so then Krankenhaus? by BSP is excellent.
Others I liked (in no particular order) include:
Bishop Allen & the Broken String
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Electric Soft Parade - No Need to Be Downhearted
That is all I can think of for now.
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You guys with your lists of 25 and 30 are pretty ridiculous. There is no challenge there in the slightest.
I'm writing up a big piece of this, but I think my list pretty much looks like this:
10. Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
9. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
8. Nadja - Touched
7. Boris With Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
6. Yellow Swans - At All Ends
5. Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
4. Bottomless Pit - Hammer Of The Gods
3. Om - Pilgrimage
2. Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
1. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
I've listened to Friend Opportunity probably more than any other album this year.
Unfortunately this list isn't entirely complete, since there's a great deal of things I haven't listened to yet! I didn't even know there was a new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album until a couple of minutes ago! lots of things are missing. But it's close enough to the year's end that I'm just going to kind of give up on trying to cram them all in at the last minute.
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1. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
2. Blackfield - II
3. Porcupine Tree - Nil recurring
4. Jesu - Pale sketches
5. Oceansize - Frames
6. Explosions in the sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
7. Aghora - Formless
8. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
9. Method of defiance - Inamorata
10. Scariot - Momentum Shift
11. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
12. Sadist - Sadist
13. Born of Osiris - the new reign
14. Fovea Hex - Allure
15. Blotted Science - Machinations of Dementia
16. Venetian Snares - My Downfall
17. Alchemist - Tripsis
18. Pelican - City Of Echoes
19. Steven Wilson & Dirk Serries - Continuum 2
20. The End - Elementary
21. Do Make Say think - You, You're A History In Rust
22. Baroness - the red album
23. Minsk - The Ritual Fires Of Abandonment
24. Tholus - Constant
25. Counter - World Experience - Leaving Lotus
26. Canvas Solaris - Cortical Tectonics
27. Beneath the Massacre - Mechanics Of Dysfunction
28. Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
29. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
30. Behold... The Arctopus - Skullgrid
31. Direwolf - Beyond the lands of human existence
32. Indricothere - s/t
33. S/T - Stadtlandwurst
34. Excrementory Grindfuckers - Bitte Nicht Vor Den Gδsten
35. Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
36. John Zorn - Six Litanies For Heliogabalus
37. Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
38. VidnaObmana - Act Four: The Bowing Harmony
39. Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
40. Punish - Dawn Of The Martyr
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7. Boris With Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
SOMEONE NEEDS TO UPLOAD THIS ONE. I'm really digging the version of "Rainbow" on the live album with Merzbow.
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alphabetized!
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Art Brut- It's a Bit Complicated
Battles- Mirrored
Dan Deacon- Spiderman of the Rings
Do Make Say Think- You, You're a History in Rust
HORSE the Band- A Natural Death
Justice-
Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?
The Pleasures- In Gaynbows
The Polyphonic Spree- The Fragile Army
Streetlight Manifesto- Somewhere in the Between
They Might Be Giants- The Else
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I didn't even know there was a new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album until a couple of minutes ago!
The new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy things are just an EP and a collection of demos from The Letting Go, not proper albums. Having said that, both are wonderful.
I just picked up the new Joan of Arc (presents), and am looking forward to listening to it. I'm hoping it'll end up decently high on my list, for the very end of the year.
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Everyone who loved Amy Winehouse's record should check out the vastly superior 100 Days, 100 Nights by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings. I was reminded of this record's existence reading some end-of-year recaps, and it's not so much a record attempting a revival of the old Motown soul sound as it is a perfect recapturing of the magic of those old songs and singers.
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So I've finally taken the time to gather enough albums that I enjoyed this year to justify making a list. They go, in no particular order, like this:
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
I've been pretty fixated on the old this year as well.
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I haven't heard a lot of new music for this year because I use up pretty much all of my downloading bandwidth on anime torrents. So I'm just going to put in order the ones I've gotten this year, some of which are not very good.
1. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
This is everything I want out of a great metal album. Insanely technical metal instrumentals combined with moments of serene beauty. Although that might sound like Opeth, this doesn't. The instrumentals are more like Dream Theater (when they could really play back in 1994 or so) but heavier and more intricate. The vocals are a good mix of brutal hardcore and catchy, almost beatlesque stuff.
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
I've heard a couple Radiohead songs in the past, and enjoyed them, but this is the first time I've actually gotten one of their albums. It's simple, great songwriting. Not much else to say.
3. Lahto - Shadows of What We Were
A great release of densely harmonic ambient stuff. This is Tyke's best album thus far. It's free, too.
4. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
I actually think this is their best album since Signify. Still has the relatively new infusion in this band of metal, which one might want to attribute to Steven Wilson working with Opeth in the past (but really, SW has loved metal for a long time before then), but also features some of the return to form of their more trippy, melodic stuff in the past.
5. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
It's not their best album, but it does have some great songs. It's Natural to Be Afraid is possibly my favorite song by the band, and the later songs have a great use of piano mixed into the more typical EitS sound.
6. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Fairly solid, still not as good as their older stuff. Highlights are mainly the opening and closing epic, which feature some of the bands best technical instrumental work in a long time, and Repentance, which is a great mix of beautiful vocal melodies, a great guitar solo, and excellent harmonized stuff at the end.
7. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Not bad. Nothing really outstanding about it, either. It lacks the sprawling epic scale of albums like Divine Wings of Tragedy and V: The New Mythology, and the guitar solos don't really strike me as being very interesting, either. I rated this being only slightly above average.
8. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
I'll probably dislike this album the more I listen to it. It has some really dreadfully bad material on it, like the title track, America, and Disco Queen. On the other hand, there are a few songs I like from it, like Cribcaged and Flame to the Moth.
9. The Flower Kings - The Sum of No Evil
Don't get this. It's pretty bad, the most formulaic and boring prog rock I've heard from this band. Their other albums are much better.
That's all I've gotten this year, actually. These are some other releases that I want eventually (listed in order of priority):
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Caspian - Four Trees
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Port Royal - Afraid to Dance
Blackfield - Blackfield II
The Deer Hunter - Act 2: The Meaning of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Pax Cecilia - Blessed Are the Bonds
The Recieving End of Sirens - The Earth Sings Mi Fa La
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Pelican - City of Echoes
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Oceansize - Frames
Planet X - Quantum
Sonata Arctica - Unia
Morse, Neal - Sola Scriptura
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
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Top....THIRTY!
1. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
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7. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
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29. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
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So, was anyone as disappointed with these albums as I was? Sure, Sky Blue Sky had a nice sound for Wilco, but the other two weren't as amazing as promised. As for Stars, I really don't think they can beat Set Yourself on Fire. I am looking forward to more solo stuff from Amy Millan though. Not bad at all.
Gotta say though, the most disappointing album of 2007 was We Were Dead...etc. What a let down.
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My top 10 looks something like this:
1. Maserati - Inventions for the New Season
2. Justice - Cross
3. Efterklang - Parades
4. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunities
5. M.I.A - Kala
6. Holy Fuck - LP
7. Battles - Mirrored
8. Iron & Wine - Shepherd's Dog
9. Apparat - Walls
10. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls
The order isn't very exact, and some I've only caught on to very recently, so I'm a bit iffy on where they really belong on the list (Holy Fuck, for example). Other good albums, outside the list: The Field - From Here We Go Sublime, Yelle - Pop-up, Arcade Fire - Neon Bible, Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature, Little Dragon - Little Dragon, Von Sόdenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions, Sδkert! - Sδkert!, Radiohead - In Rainbows, Maps - We Can Create, LCD Soundsystems - Sound of Silver.
Edit: Shit, how could I forget Efterklang? List adjusted accordingly...
Edit2: I'm apparently going senile. I'm confusing EitS with GYBE, making my comment to the previous post completely irrelevant... I've removed it, because *I suck*.
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Final top 15 list!
15. V/A - Dig for Fire : Pixies Tribute
14. Clear Tigers - EP
13. Agnes Kain - Keep Walking Or I'll Kill You
12. Caribou - Andorra
11. Vampire Weekend - S/T
10. Jeremy Jay - Airwalker
09. Jay-Z - American Gangster
08. Arrah and the Ferns - Evan Is A Vegan
07. Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
06. Foreign Born - On The Wing
05. Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
04. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
03. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
02. The Softlightes - Say No! To Being Cool, Say Yes! To Being Happy
01. Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
I'm going to upload a few of these in the Mediafire thread...