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The actual five best albums of the year
48 votes
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by John_Brainlove
lol
hi zapsta
Hi dukebox!
that fleet foxes album is pretty lame
^ this
the tracks from it I've heard are so lame they'd decimate any album.
Nah.
It's great.
Yes, it is great.
But there's some provisos
one is that you actually need to like that sort of stuff to start with
another is that it takes a bit of listening but ultimately rewards the effort in spades
whatever 'in spades' means.
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http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/930/55066204.JPG
when did reign in blood come out?
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Alopecia - Why?
Ghosts I-V - NiN
Rip It Off - Times New Viking
Detrimentalist - Venetian Snares
Exciting ARM - Subtle
if by "actual" you mean "obscure"
fleet foxes
went top 25 in the uk album charts...
stop spoiling my incredily dubious arguement
Well, you know.
Most popular music has been chosen by people with an ear for the inoffensive and an instinct for lowest-common-denominator appeal and a mandate to find stuff that's populist as much as popular.
Hence the existence of any concept of underground / leftfield / alternative. Where the action is at.
did you
take the red pill?
No, but I'm on the pill.
In case I meet you, baby.
boring
was Ian Ball - Who Goes There?
this year? Was Real Emotional Trash this year?
If so those two, plus Euros Childs - Miracle Inn of course!
How many of them have you heard, slug?
begging your pardon
guv'nor?
I said:
"How many of them have you heard, slug?"
does "them"
refer to what I posted or what you posted. If yours, none of them sucka! If mine, all of them. What exactly makes me a slug again?
I wasn't talking to you.
You've noticed the threading system, right?
I have just now
thanks for pointing that out, I'm sure it will improve the quality of life just a little. Fission Mailed.
That's okay.
You're not a slug. You are a nice polite young flower.
it's the little things in life
like finding out you're not being referred to as a slug :)
Awww, flower.
SLUG :-[ !?!
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers - GOOD. I don't listen to much xiu xiu anymore though.
Cats In Paris - Court Case 2000 - OK. I'm seeing them live next month. Maybe i'll think of it moar after...?
Fleet Foxes - Nice. Just...nice. Nothing else. For me, anyway.
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those... - Hmmmmmmmm. Gave it a few listens. Never got into it.
Au - Verbs - NOT HEARD!
<3
boring
ermmm, nope.
you're the one that listed the boring / safe albums in your list :]
I didn't formulate the list based on DANGER.
Just on what's good, slug.
ok.
what is it with everyone's obsession
of making 'Best of the year so far' lists?
but since we are...
Los Campesinos!
Why?
Johnny Foreigner
Subtle
Youthmovies
are mine.
You read the site, right?
i can understand it at the end of the year
it just seems a bit unnecessary to do it already!
It's the SO FAR thing.
The thing is
I really can't see the point of doing this until I've actually heard a lot more music. Even end of year lists are a bit pointless. Once I've known a record for a year or more THEN I'll be able to make an objective opinion on it but until then it's all about who can out-cool everyone else with their spectacularly obscure list of album titles. No?
No.
If you want to look at someone's list of their favourite new albums and say "what disgusting hipster exhibitionism" then that's your thing. But you could be accused of being a mite ungenerous.
There's a record called 'verbs' out this year?
No way. Does it sound good played next to 'Nouns'.
Any artists up for recording albums called 'adjectives' or 'adverbs'?
Check out
Conjuctives by The Parentheses
also..
a place to bury strangers
came out last year
damn
i got it this year,:(
I haven't listened to enough albums yet.
*Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Till It Was Light
*Youthmovies - Good Nature
*maybeshewill - Not For The Want Of Trying
????????
These New Puritans
make it into my list every time.
Hmm...
Fleet Foxes
Portishead- Third
NiN- Ghosts
Elbow- Seldom Seen Kid
Errors- Whatever that stupid album name is
Yeah not bad
Portishead is rubbish.
For me...
erm
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Foals - Antidotes
Erm and I'm stuck, hopefully Roots Manuva will be in that list soon and the same applies for Massive Attack.
I think it's great
Hence why it's on my list.
I think it's rubbish.
Hence why I called it rubbish.
sigh..
Hammock
Frightened Rabbit
Bon Iver
Mono In VCF
British Sea Power
Bon Iver! I forgot that one.
That's a good one.
I don't think it's the mind-blowing classic some people do, but it's a Good Solid Record.
aye
cant get into this Xiu Xiu record at all though.
They are an awkward band, for sure.
Have you been into their stuff previously? It was a strange long road to 'getting' them never mind 'liking' them... and now I'm fairly convinced they're one of the most sophisticated bands working today...
I like
Xiu Xiu but i don't think the new album is very good.
I think it is.
Here's why:
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/01/29/xiu-xiu-women-as-lovers/
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its very hard to listen to, not a fan
I'm afraid they are these:
half man half biscuit - csi:ambleside
tindersticks - the hungry saw
moss - sub templum
various - up jumped the devil (american devil songs 1920s - 1950s)
various - end of the road 2008 preview (free with this months plan B magazine)
I hate these
Why? - Alopecia
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Subtle - exitingARM
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
feel bad for leaving out Opeth, Protest The Hero, Deerhunter, etc.
And if reissues counted then The Glow pt 2 would be right at the top.
I'd say...
...Atlas Sound, No Age, Lil Wayne, Vampire Weekend and Burial Hex so far.
Vampire Weekend are the worst band I've heard for Ages.
Why?
Flaccid, smug tripe.
I got actually angry watching them play live. Left half way through. It was so... soulless. Like four people playing separately with no feeling of what the whole might be.
Maybe it was just a bad gig.
That said, I listened to their MySPace.
Gash.
I'm not sure it's worth responding to this.
And by that I don't mean that you're wrong. I've given up thinking that people can be wrong about music. Or right for that matter.
I thought these lists
were for "David Cameron's PR people"?
perhaps
but sometimes it's fun to waste some time on meaningless lists. You should try it!
Here we go
1. CSI: Ambleside - Half Man Half Biscuit
2. Imperial Wax Solvent - The Fall
3. This is Noth the World - The Futureheads
er...that's it
I love lists!
Its just something that Brownlove put here http://drownedinsound.com/articles/3534455
Duh
I was dissing the DiS list when I said that, not lists in general, goon.
Well with the exception of Xiu Xiu
its an equally toss list. Fleet Foxes? Jesus wept.
Fleet Foxes is good.
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/?s=fleet+foxes&x=0&y=0&=Go
Sorry to quote myself herw
but it's what I think, and I won't get it down as well again:
"These songs are tales of the simple life, fresh and honest and played with care and humility, and often sung in a thick harmonic voice chord by four of the five members. There’s a sense that these songs are everything they should be - everything in it’s right place in lyric, melody and arrangement - an unpretentious kind of perfection."
is this thread
just an elaborate JAG for this website you write for?
Don't be silly.
People are asking me to back up my selection, and it happens I like them so much I've reviewed most of them.
ok
it just seems like you haven't posted here for ages, then you show up and start posting links to another website. i don't know.
did you see martbowski came back the other day?
Your sherlock skills have misfired here, young detective.
I haven't been following the boards really. I just had a bored moment, and wanted to post a list as the DiS one was a bit shit.
are you really 30?
No.
Are you really human?
I can't be sure.
because
I thought you might be a flower or a slug.
We are all made of stars.
haha
that made me laugh. Flippant humour is great.
"You may now call me brother, brother."
"Yes, brother, I know."
And have you even heard Au or Cats In Paris?
Christ you're a patronising cunt
Yes, I have 'even' heard Au and Cats In Paris (and hey, get this, I've 'even' seen the latter play live), I am just of the opinion that they are perfectly competent but ultimately not particularly good. In fact, I think they're twee emo crap dressed up in Artrocker clothing. I do not enjoy their music.
teehee
"Wagon" got mad.
I need two lists I'm afraid
List of bands that I love and have loved for ages and I will always vote for their albums because I love them:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'Dig! Lazarus! Dig!
The Mountain Goats - 'Heretic Pride'
Portishead - 'Third'
Tindersticks - 'Hungry Saw'
The Fall - 'Imperial Wax Solvent'
List of records that (for me) came out of nowhere and smacked me round the face:
Boris - 'Smile' (where had these lot been hiding? I now have their back catalogue :))
No Age - 'Nouns'
Bon Iver - 'For Emma'
Why? - 'Apolecia'
Hammock - 'Maybe they will'
hammock?
what are they like? i've not heard of them ever.
suprisingly descriptive band name actually
sounds a bit like chilling out in a hammock.
Imagine if you took a chilled out sigur-ros instrumental, made it sound a bit more 'summery', took away the percussion and stretched it out for a whole album.
sounds great
i like/love the other records you mentioned in the latter list so will be looking out for them. thanks!
Downloading.
It's on eMusic! yay.
been quite an emusic love-in on here lately.
cheap legal downloads FTW.
The other hammock album on there is bloody good too incidentally.
eMusic is amazing.
Guilt-free downloading, affordable, no DRM... what's not to love?
Also, you can get the recent Brainlove back catalogue on there which of course I'm sure people of fine taste already know.
You really hope to see
people of fine taste on DiS ?
Well, you're here honey.
*giggle*