My Top 5 tracks of '09
5) The Mars Volta - Cotopaxi
That riff.
4) Mastodon - The Last Baron
Those riffs.
3) mewtihoutYou - The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate
Quality storytelling. Amazing orchestration.
2) Tubelord - Somewhere Out There a Dog is on Fire
Highlight of a fustratingly patchy album.
1) cats and cats and cats - The Boy with the Beak
Awesome key change. Boy, these guys have an ear for melody.
Very close to putting Radiohead - These are My Twisted Words in here. Hypnotic track.
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Something like...
1. The Leisure Society - A Short Weekend Begins With Longing
2. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others
3. Bat For Lashes - Moon and Moon
4. Telekinesis - Great Lakes
5. Blue Roses - I am Leaving
probably
1. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Somehow manages to be elegant and soaring like a flying pirate ship, fueled by some good whisky, obviously. With no Shins or National albums on the horizon, their record is quite likely to be my lp of the year*.
2. Paramore - Playing God
The perfect song to wake up to, ideally on repeat, as it begs for more and more listens. Still sounds like Jimmy Eat World doing Kelly Clarkson in the most glorious of ways.
3. Sufjan Stevens - You Are The Blood
Ridiculously overblown but incredible. Has all the elements of Animal Collective 'My Girls' and Grizzly Bear's 'Two Weeks' but it's like they've been cranked to a hundred and eleven.
4. The Maccabees - No Kind Words
Since the first time I've heard this its done something to me that leaves me feeling totally undone. Those fuck-off military drums, the space the lyrics are given... all of it, just marvelous.
5. Lady Gaga - Poker Face (Acoustic)
I'm as shocked as you that is is one of my songs of the year. It's incredible and the acoustic/piano version of it is sublime, giving all those mirrored lyrical inflections in the chorus a chance to sway around whilst her voice takes charge in this weirdly charming way. Probably not as good a pop song as anything Beyonce or Gwen Stefani have released this decade but it's a pretty close call.
* = although having said that LCD, Friendly Fires, Cut Copy, Deftones and M83 may all have exceptional newies in 2010. This year is going to be amazing!
oh and for my full 50 as a playlist
look here http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4138750-spotifriday--dis-editors-top-40-songs-of-2009
I think I prefer
William Powers as a Maccabees track. I think the lyrics are even better than No Kind Words!
Woohoo
Glad you liked the track that much Stiive. Have you got the free song yet from here (JAG city!): www.musicglue.com/catsandcatsandcats
But surely the best track on the Tubelord album is the last one, it's probably my track of the year. Followed by:
2 - Mew - Sometimes life isn't easy
3 - The joy formidable - Cradle
4 - Lime headed dog - Lorenzo (if that was this year)
5 - Marvins Revolt - Likewise
i'm going to go
1. Yeasayer - Tightrope
2. Phoenix - Girlfriend
3. Mount Kimbie - Maybes
4. Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
5. Maccabees - Love You Better
obviously loads of others but this is a nice mix
Jay Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind
Maccabees - No Kind Words
Animal Collective - My Girls
Arrows Of Love - Burn This Town
Bike For Three - All There Is To Say About Love
with honourary mentions for
The Antlers - Sylvia
Cold Cave - Heavenly Metals
and pretty much the whole of the Monsters of Folk album
Off the top of my head...
1. Atlas Sound - Quick Canal
2. Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
3. Tune-Yards - FIYA
4. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
5. Cryptacize - What You Can't See Is
mine
1. mastodon - the last baron
2. mew - beach
3. miike snow - faker
4. why? - january twenty something
5. animal collective - bluish
Something like:
Blue Roses - I Wish I...
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone
Sunn O))) - Alice
Tiny Vipers - Outside
Honourable mention to Esben And The Witch - pick any track you like off their EP
top 5 trax
phoenix-'1901'
the temper trap-'sweet disposition'
dj fresh-'fantasia'
joy orbison-'hyph mngo'
dorian concept-'trilingual dance sexperience'
it changes most days
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer [Hyperdub]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlPCEuNUxYw
Its not just a year of love for this one, its been on dubplate for so long... maybe a year before it came out. And everytime I heard it on radio/mixes it was kinda special. Its a really bitter sweat garage meets freaky 8-bit computer malfunctions that sounds like a love song beamed thru space. Lookout for their album coming nect year it will no doubt be a bit good.
Instra:mental ft. dBridge - Watching You [Nonplus+]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AnyCPvYg9s
I've never really been into d'n'b, but Instra:mental and dBridge are doing things really diffrently. It's like they're bringing back old school b-boy electro but with a futuristic soulful element. Watching you is a really minimal meloncholic vocal number... again a love song beamed in from space. Watch out for their Fabirc mix early next year its going to be special.
Untold - Stop What You're Doing (James Blake Remix) [Hemlock]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClKhjCzLxc4
Two amazing producers... well James is more than that he can sing and alsorts! The original is something else, a beatless wiley eski style psychedelic grime track that shakes dancefloors to its core as much as it confuses it. But Mr Blake added his mad soulful vibe to it by adding more melody and lots of harmonise that added to it somehow without making it that much diffrent. I dunno the dude is just brilliant, its like what all R&B will sound like in the year 3010, check his solo stuff too...
Mala - Eyez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSwqaV6BCFo
I wouldn't be doing dubstep right if I didn't include a track that isn't out yet in the list... Mala is a legend and this track has been killing it on radio and in clubs for most of the year and I have no idea if it will come out or not, but I can't get it out of my head. Its a really eerie alian transmition that channels the DMZ dubstep sound perfectly but adds this extra future soul dimention not unlike a london version of the detroit techno masters. I sing this round the house... wahhh wahhh wahwah wahwah wawah wahhhhhh
Guido ft. Aarya - Beautiful Complication [Punch Drunk]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vL487qSmOo
Again with the bitter sweat future soul, I just can't help it. Again this is a track thats been around since about 2008 maybe longer and its always moved me. So when it came out this year I was so happy. Timberland wishes he could be as good as this guy from Bristol. Heavy bass that sounds like purple heaven, orchestral florashes and a full vocal performance from Aarya thats just so good.
youtube doesn't do these tracks justice, but I didn't know how else to show you guys without taking you all to a club...
Instra:mental ft. dBridge - Watching You [Nonplus+]
Thanks for putting me on this mate, its really good
no probs
its a bit good, I can't stop playing it.
They're ones to keep an eye on: Instra:mental & dBridge they keep dropping amazing stuff. They're label Nonplus+ has a few releases now and each one is a bit special, Watching You is the one though... They have some podcast mixes as well full of fresh music from them and friends as well as loads of their influences, which could be whatever really... old electro, soul, funk, disco, d'n'b god knows what.
http://www.club-autonomic.com/
Plus a show on Rinse FM sometimes... you'll have to check http://www.rinse.fm/ for that though its a bit sporadic.
James Blake remix?
As in: http://www.tennisserver.com/lines/images/lines_05_08_09/Blake.jpg
?
haha
he wishes
http://thequietus.com/articles/02845-sonic-router-006-a-dubstep-column-for-october
oh yeah he wouldn't give us a picture... don't blame him!
...so that could be him!
or he could be the bus driver that told off Rosa Parks
but I think he might be dead.
If ever dubstep was gonna get on Jools Holland though, I reckon James Blake would be the man to put it there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2H-smyJy0 !
(if that's not christmas number one next year, i'll eat my tennis racket)
haha
yeah James Blake is a real talent, Mary Anne Hobbs has already said he'll be suporting Radiohead in no time he's that good. His solo stuff is insane, the Hemlock 12" is so good. Plus that stuff thats coming on BRAiNMATH soon with Airhead... It's looking very good indeed. I heard he's on with making an album as well, so we'll have to see what kinda thing he odes with that. Maybe very soulful and vocal like that link, who knows... he's just as insane with his 'dubstep' haha
oh yeah...
He's the live vocal element of Mount Kimbie too... they might kick up more of a storm this year too, they're shit hot. There are to many people around to just make a top 5 tracks... I mean Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison aint making my top five, let alone Joker, Zomby, Cooly G, Martin Kemp, Shortstuff, Brackles, Ramadanman, Geiom... a million others.
thank for this - loving james blake
Ok. One last list...
1)Brent Randall - Strange Love (Don't Be Lazy)
2)Louise Le May - Coal-Marble-Stone
3)Euros Childs - Like This Then Try This
4)Mari Persen - Sweetheart
5)The Clientele - I Wonder Who We Are
And here's mine...
5. Ellie Goulding - Under The Sheets
4. The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
3. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
2. The Sound Of Arrows - Into The Clouds
1. Erik Hassle - Hurtful
Although these five are just a short few, so I actually did a whole list of my favourite 40 songs of 2009 )) You can find it in my blog: http://randomtypes.blogspot.com
mine would be...
AB Machines - Sleigh Bells. Its just massive, aggressive and makes me want dance like I am 18 again,which is lovely.
Foreground - Grizzly Bear. Beautiful, only criticism is that it could go on for another 2 minutes with choir in a last euphoric chorus
We are Water - Health. Incredibly dancey angry track, the guitar riff reminds of a rave or techno hook and it has this constant bass rumble throughout carrying it along. Immense.
Two Dancers - Wild Beasts. Lyrically dextrous musically lush, from an album that made me actually use the word groove in a positive way.
Mount kimbie - Maybes. Really intriguing and innovative music, looking forward to these guys touring and releasing more stuff next year.
Lots of others also particularly honourable mention for No Kind Words by the maccabees as it is fantastic only undermined by the rest of the album lacking the maturity, darkness and introspection of the lead single.
.
Sunn 0))) - Alice, pure beauty.
Trouble Books - Endless Pool, this track just is my ideal bliss track.
I'm awful at picking out tracks from albums.
But my next would be a Six Organs track, a Pissed Jeans track and a talons' track.
Putting them in an order is asking a bit too much of me, but here's 5 tracks I absolutely adored this year, possibly in equal measures:
Bat For Lashes - Daniel
The Clientele - Never Anyone But You
The Veils - Larkspur
The Leisure Society - The Last of the Melting Snow
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
And a few that just missed out...
Camera Obscura - French Navy
Mew - Introducing Palace Players
Beach House - Norway
The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
Jonsi & Alex - Boy 1904
chickenhawk NASA vs ESA
cobalt pregnant insect
hudson mohawke polkadot blues
let's wrestle my schedule
let's wrestle diana's hair
The Oracle Speaks And Gives Spotify Playlists
Sufjan Stevens - You Are The Blood (dark of the night)
Fever Ray - If I had a Heart (Fuck Buttons remix)
Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul
Patrick Watson - Fireweed
Whispertown 2000 - Erase The Lines
Spotify Playlist For These 5:
http://open.spotify.com/user/abandondrugs/playlist/2lk8kutZxWivAQbhwPYzOo
Spotify Playlist For My Top 100:
http://open.spotify.com/user/abandondrugs/playlist/6hmZ3egmBwMy6NsqyYirYq
1. white shoes - conor oberst
2. idiot heart - sunset rubdown
3. masques - o paon
4. the bull and the ram - former ghosts
5. I couldn't love you - cursive
1. Lightning Bolt- Colossus
2. Antipop Consortium- Lay Me Down
3. Sunn 0)))- Alice
4. Sonic Youth- Malibu Gas Station
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no particular order here, they're all great (with bonus hypem links):
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp [http://bit.ly/7viTJZ]
Sunset Rubdown - You Go on Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II) [http://bit.ly/8XPpFJ]
Atlas Sound - Shelia [http://bit.ly/8Zc6q2]
talons' - Sommer [http://bit.ly/5M1OT9]
Abe Vigoda - Wild Heart [http://bit.ly/7EzFqz]
E
Arch M – 21st Union
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Killers
Shoes & Socks Off – Vice Magazine Has A Lot to Answer For
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
Atlas Sound (feat Stereolab) – Quick Canal
I thought I couldn't get beyond 4
and now I'm struggling to get it down from 6.
The Jacka - Won't Be Right
Fresh Espresso - Diamond Pistols
Julianna Barwick - Cloudbank
Molina & Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground
Nothing People - When I Drink
You can all try to guess the 6th.
shine blockas
is a brilliant track. the samples are immense. jdilla-esque.
no order
HEALTH- Die Slow
Japandroids- Young Hearts Spark Fire
Pictureplane- Goth Star
Cymbals Eat Guitars- ...And the Hazy Sea
Sunn 0)))- Alice
Down I Go - Dionysus
Chickenhawk - I Hate This, Do You Like It?
3OH!3 + Katy Perry - Starstrukk
BATS - Shadow-Fucking
The Bronx - Cell Mates
Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine
Deep Sht - Hector
Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Atlas Sound - Quick Canal
Burial & Four Tet - Moth
I WOULD SAY
1. Land of Kush - Against The Day - apocalyptic Middle Eastern gallop from Sam Shalibi + orchestra, kind of sounds like the world ending in the desert
2. 50 Foot Wave - Power+Light - basically a mini album, but it is one track SO THERE. The bit where the cellos come in sort of redefines all thoughts about Kristin Hersh
3. Tartufi - Engineering - sounds like a folk ballad left over by some gentle unfathomable alien civilisation.
4. George Pringle - Physical Education (Part 1) - I know she's a bit of a divisive figure, but when this takes of into this really heady loo-fi rewrite of I Feel Love then it becomes very awesome.
5. Some sort of short and snappy garage rock gem - it's been quite a good year for them, probably Losing My Accent by Nodzzz or Nothing to Hide by Yo La Tengo.
And I made a play for them, which I was supposed to have done for DiS, but didn't do in time, but is here (many of the tracks therein are not on the demon Spotify so, y'know...)
http://mrlukowski.blogspot.com/2009/12/lo-player-on-which-you-can-listen-to-my_4141.html
I don't think you can beat Wet Hair by Japandroids for a garage rock gem
It's so sweaty and anthemic. 'mazing.
Is that the one which sounds like Feeder?
Alright now
Shine - Antipop Consortium
It's a rap song about a Russian mafia hit on an artist. I can't really sell it more than that. Oh, the beat is incredible, sounds like John Carpenter having a freakout.
O God Protect Me - Ben Frost
This is a really atmospheric and deeply disturbing piece of music. It's basically minimalist doom or something. Actually terrifying: that hospital machine sound and that single dull thudding beat. I have to stop what I'm doing and wait until it finishes before I can get anything done.
House of Flying Daggers - Raekwon
I don't think there's been an opening track this good since...ever. Amazing J-Dilla beat is outshone by some incredible verses. Rhyming "mobster boss" with "angel hair with the lobster sauce" is so inspired it poleaxed me completely the first time I heard it; had to rewind to check I'd heard the right words.
Polvo - Beggar's Pole
Fuck the naysayers. This blows my mind every time. Must've played it at least 50 times by now, and every time it still gets me. That riff is up there with something like "Immigrant Song". The breakdown is massive as well.
9x Outta 10 - DJ Quik & Kurupt
... when it stops, it's gonna start again. Just stupendously addictive. Stuttering beat that's better than 'Tipsy', swaggering verbal acrobatics, and the cut up soul samples make me sit up every time.
Some that missed the cut: Pissed Jeans' Dream Smotherer, Wooden Shjips' Motorbike, Fuck Buttons' Space Mountain, Mos Def & Talib Kweli's History.
ahem * Beggar's Bowl
Beggar's Pole, sounds filthily freudian.
3 of yours are in
my top echelon as well. All the hip hop tracks if you were wondering.
woo this will waste a minute
Kevin Boyer - Something's Gonna Come Up
Blues Control - Tangier
Ducktails - Solar Panel
Bong - Set the controls for the heart of the sun
King Khan & The Shrines - Welfare Bread (re-released in 2009 so totally counts)
Mine...
1. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home (Live on Letterman) - The joyously infectious live version convinced me to take a chance on their album, and while it may be a touch too long, there are some real gems. Arcade Fire meets Tommy James and the Shondells. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9jY8yAxgs
2. Editors - Walk the Fleet Road - Lovely capper to a surprisingly dark and atmospheric album.
3. Johnny Foreigner - More Heart, Less Tongue - On a record full of noisy/catchy anthems, this is probably my fave, the most emotionally affecting.
4. The Twilight Sad - I Became a Prostitute - The guitar sounds like a monster trying to break out of a cage. Thundering chorus too.
5. Cold Cave - Youth and Lust - I probably got more electronic stuff this year than ever before, and this is the best tune of the lot.
Toughie
Kingstonlogic - Terry Lynn
You Will Miss Me When I Burn - Soulsavers
Deli - Delorean
Who Can Say? - The Horrors
Golden Phone - Micachu
Gee whizz....I could really go on
B. Ollocks
Missed my fav....'Jiggery Pokery' by The Duckworth Lewis Method....is there a better line in 09 than 'if it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past me.'? Eat your wife out, Gatt.
i know it said 5 but heres 100
100 Micachu - Vulture - Jewelry
99 The Invisible - Passion - The Invisible
98 Animal Collective - My Girls - Merriweather Post Pavilion
97 Mumford and Sons - the Cave - Sigh no more
96 Fuck Buttons - Space Mountain - Tarot Sport
95 Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours
94 Volcano Choir - Still - Unmap
93 Delorean - Seasun - Ayrton Senna EP
92 Wooden Birds - Sugar - Magnolia
91 Memory Tapes - Bicycle - Seek Magic
90 Telekinesis - Rust - Telekinesis
89 Atlas sound - An Orchid - Logos
88 Vitalic - Poison Lips - Flashmob
87 Neon Indian - Mind, Trips - Psychic Chasms
86 Tvarvagen - September - Sanger Fran TvarVagen
85 Sufjan Stevens - Movement IV: Traffic Shock - The BQE
84 Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin - Beacons of Ancestorship
83 Decemberists - The Rake's Song - The Hazards of Love
82 Wild Beasts - All the Kings Men - Two Dancers
81 Japandroids - Wet Hair - Post-Nothing
80 Cass Mccombs - The Executioners Song - Catacombs
79 Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks - Veckatimest
78 Mono - Ashes in the Wind - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
77 Local Natives - Airplanes - Gorilla Manor
76 Tyondai Braxton - The Duck and the Butcher - Central Market
75 Bear in Heaven - You Do You - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
74 Bon Iver - Blood Bank - Blood Bank EP
73 Burial / Four Tet - Wolf Cub - Wolf Cub & Moth
72 Real Estate - Snow Days - Real Estate
71 Olafur Arnalds - Raein - Found Sounds
70 Let's Wrestle - Tanks - In the Court of the Wrestling Lets
69 Nic Nell - Glow - Glow single
68 Maps - I Dream of Crystal - Turning the Mind
67 DM Stith - Braid of Voices - Heavy Ghost
66 The Field - Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime - Yesterday and Today
65 XX - Crystalized - XX
64 Jason Lytle - Yours Truly the Commuter - Yours Truly the Commuter
63 Mum - Sing Along - Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know
62 Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw - Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
61 Wave Machines - Wave If Your Really There - Wave if Your Really here
60 Patrick Watson - Where the Wild Things Are - Wooden Arms
59 Copy Haho - Pulling Push Ups - Bred for Skills & Magic EP
58 Sin Fang Bous - The Jubilee Choruses - Clangour
57 Mew - New Terrain - No More Stories are Told Today...
56 Dan Deacon - Snookered - Bromst
55 Do Make Say Think - Do - Other Truths
54 Message to Bears - Snowdonia - Departures
53 Tune-yards - Lions - Bird-Brains
52 Modest Mouse - The Whale Song - No Ones First and You're Next
51 Junior Boys - Parallel Lines - Begone Dull Care
50 Clues - Haarp - Clues
49 Here We Go Magic - Fangela - Here We Go Magic
48 Telefon Tel Aviv - Your Mouth - Immolate Yourself
47 Soap & Skin - Spiracle - Lovetune For Vacuum
46 The Big Pink - Dominos - A Brief History of Love
45 Beak> - I Know - Beak>
44 Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light - Hush
43 Built to Spill - Good Ol' Boredom - There's No Enemy
42 Andrew Bird - Masterswarm - Noble Beast
41 Telepathe - So Fine - Dance Mother
40 Lovely Feathers - Lowiza - Fantasy of the Lot
39 Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource - Bitte Orca
38 King Creosote - No One Had it Better - Flick the Vs
37 Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh! - DragonSlayer
36 John Vanderslice - Fetal Horses - Romanian Names
35 Dead Mans Bones - Pa Pa Power - Dead Mans Bones
34 Busdriver - Me-Time - Jhelli Beam
33 David Bazan - Hard to be - Curse Your Branches
32 Yacht - I'm in Love with a Ripper - See Mystery Lights
31 Electones - A Box of Rain - You'll be Null, I'll be Void
30 Chad van Gaalen - Stuffed Animals - Soft Airplane EP
29 Spokes - We Like To Dance and Steal Things - People Like People Like You
28 Mount Kimbie - Maybes - Maybes EP
27 Slaraffenland - Long Gone - We're on Your Side
26 Beirut - My Night with the Prostitute from Marseille - RealPeople Holland
25 The Do - Queen Dot Kong - A Mouthful
24 Fever Ray - Dry And Dusty - Fever Ray
23 Why? - This Blackest Purse - Eskimo Snow
22 Passion Pit - Make Light - Manners
21 Ohbijou - Wildfires - Beacons
20 Clark - Growls Garden - Totems Flare
19 Glass Ghost - Like a Diamond - Idol Omen
18 Monsters of Folk - Dear God (sincerely M.O.F) - monsters of folk
17 Phantom Band - The Howling - Checkmate Savage
16 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Killers - Vs children / Streets of Phillidelphia - Advance Base Battery Life
15 Serengheti & Polyphonic - Playing In Subway Stations - Terradactyl
14 Yeasayer - Tightrope - dark was the night compilation
13 Balmorhea - Settler - All is Wild, All is Silent
12 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Some Trees (Merrit Moon) - Why There are Mountains
11 Fanfarlo - drowning men - Reservoir
10 Soulsavers - You'll Miss Me When i Burn - Broken
9 The Rhombus - Hiding Place - Ladder EP
8 The Antlers - Kettering - Hospice
7 Moderat - Seamonkey - Moderat
6 Phoenix - Lizstomania - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5 Rain machine - New Last Name - Rain Machine
4 Bibio - Haikuesque (When She Laughs) - Ambivalence Avenue
3 Think about Life - Sweet Sixteen - Family
2 Bike for Three! - Lazarus Phenomenon - more heart than brains
1 Wildbirds and Peacedrums - There is No Light - The Snake
I like lots of things which you list here
Just so you know...
†
Sin Fang Bous – Melt Down The Knives
Wavves – So Bored
The Raveonettes - Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)
Japanandroids – Wet Hair
Monsters Of Folk - Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)
in no particular order
The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Health - Die Slow
Gentle Friendly - Ride Symbols
The Field - Leave It
wha gha
1. Euros Childs - Like this then try this
2. Major Lazer - Pon de floor
3= Soap&Skin - Spiracle
3= Grizzly Bear - While you wait for the others
5. Black Dice - Glazin
the five songs I played too much last year
Everything Everything - My Keys, Your Boyfriend
Memory Tapes - Bicycle
Animal Collective - Brother Sport
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl's a Computer
Gold Panda - Quitter's Raga
my five songs:
in no order as thinking up 5 is hard enough
Major Lazer - Pon de Floor
Animal Collective - My Girls
The xx - Crystallised
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
jj - ecstacy
Ellie Goulding - Under the Sheets (Jackwob remix)
honorable mentions:
miike snow - silvia
everything everything - my keys, your boyfriend
memory tapes - bicycle
two door cinema club - something good can work
drake - best i ever had
1. Washed Out-Feel It All Around.
2. Animal Collective-What Would I Want? Sky
3. Dj Quik and Kurupt-9x Outta 10
4. The-Dream-Rockin That Shit
5. Darkstar-Aidys Girl's A Computer
mine!!!
1 The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
2 Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
3 Emmy the Great - Canopies and Drapes
4 Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
5 Camera Obscura - French Navy
mine
NOT IN ORDER
1.animal collective - bluish
2.arctic monkeys - my propeller
3.kasabian - fast fuse
4.doves - kingdom of rust
5.yeah yeah yeahs - heads will roll
hmmm.
Fair Oh's - Almost Island
Grass Widow - To Where
Women - Black Rice
Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard
Dananananaykroyd - Some Dresses
.
1. Best Coast - When I'm With You
2. Sleigh Bells - A/B Machines
3. Evangelista - You are a Jaguar
4. Cold Cave - Life Magazine
5. Dan Deacon - Snookered
:D
It was a tough decision, they're all pretty ace tbh. They weren't actually 'released' I guess, but whatever. Too ace to miss off.
basically a thread of those "bits" : D
1) The Twilight Sad - "Interrupted"
Really hard to pick a favourite song off their new album but the vocals in the verses and the awesome guitar melody after the "You and I know" bit clinch it.
2) The Horrors - I Only Think Of You
The guitars?!?! Amazingly produced on the whole record but this song has the most awesomely wishy washy sound of them all. The vocals are lovely too...very bleak
3) Mogwai - Thank You space Expert
Utterly beautiful. One of my favourite songs by them in many a year. So glad they've been playing live as well
4) Lightning Bolt - Transmissionary
The most intense song they've ever written? Probably
5) Dinosuar Jr. - Ocean In The Way
Gut wrenching melodies all the way through and J sounds sadder than he has in ages. Really, really affecting song
Not easy this is it?...
1. Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings
2. Camera Obscura - French Navy
3. Burial/Four Tet - Wolf Cub/Moth
4. The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
5. The Drums - Let's Go Surfing (finest bit of whistling on vinyl since Roger Whittaker...)
tooooop5
7)Summer Time Clothes- Animal Collective
iwantttowalkkkaroundwithyouu
6)Crystallised - The XX
Coolest song of 09
5)The Last Baron - Mastodon
At about 5:44 when the guitar goes from a crushing C chord at the top end of the guitar to a crushing C chord at the low end of the guitar then to a face-melting C# chord it is absolutely glorious.
4)The Giants Causeway/Far Pavillions - Trail of Dead
Incredible pompous intro track = incredible amazing track
3)Watch This - Danananaykroyd
HIYYYAAAAAAAAA
2)Shadow Committee - Grammatics
Best chord of the year.
1) Legal Teens - Oceansize
Beautiful.
I'll say
1. This Is A Bust – Ghostcat
2. Total Fear – Death Cigarettes
3. Maldito – Jessy Bulbo
4. Explorers Of The Heart – Music Go Music
5. Call That Girl – Whatfor
I suspect that the Jessy Bulbo is a bit of a cheat, but it was new to me and is fantastic. Ghostcat could give the Ting Tings are run for their money for catchy pop songs. Death Cigs are now Cold In Berlin.
Manic Street Preachers - Peeled Apples
Dananananaykroyd - Watch This
Sonic Youth - Massage The History
Fiery Furnaces -Charmaine Champagne
Future Of The Left - I Am Civil Service
bosh
1. Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words
2. Camera Obscura - French Navy
3. Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies
4. N.A.S.A. Feat. Tom Waits & Cool Keith - Spacious Thoughts
5. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices
That Radiohead track
was so, so, very close to making the cut. Quality track.
No order.. cause I can not decide
Almighty Defenders.. Bow down and Die.
Danger mouse & Sparklehorse (featuring Wayne Coyne)... Revenge
The Low Anthem.. Charlie Darwin
Love Language... Lalita
Olafur Arnalds... Ljosio
1. The Antlers - Kettering
2. Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
3. Dirty Projectors/David Byrne - Knotty Pine
4. Jaz Z/Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
5. Animal Collective - Brother Sport
1. Juan Maclean - One day
2. Moderat - Rusty Nails
3. The Chap - Well done you
4. Future of the left - Throwing bricks at trains
5. Annie - The Breakfast Song
Possibly.
so hard
1 Camera Obscura - Honey in the Sun
2 Animal Collective - My Girls
3 Mos Def - Auditorium
4 Sunset Rubdown – Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
5 Maria Taylor - Cartoons and Forever Plans
Agghhh, um...
1. The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea
2. Los Campesinos! - The Sea is a Good Place To Think of the Future
3. Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
4. Yo La Tengo - All Your Secrets
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
:)
1. Vivian Girls - When I'm gone
2. Times New Viking - No time, No hope
3. Yo La Tengo - Nothing to hide
4. Kurt Vile - Freak Train
5. White Rainbow - Major Spillage
1/ The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
2/ Tempa T - Next Hype
3/ Animal Collective - In The Flowers (or My Girls or Brothersport, but In The Flowers takes it)
4/ Egypt - In The Morning (Let Your Love Come In)
5/ Fuck Buttons - Olympians
Pulled Apart By Horses - I've got Guestlist to Rory O'Haras Suicide
Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
Pulled Apart By Horses - The Crapsons
Converge - Axe to Fall
The XX - Crystalised
I'm gonna say:
Sunset Rubdown - Black Swan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOQD1F7gAq8
Foreign Beggars - Contact (feat. Noisia) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb55ep-DrSo
Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8iWC9lg7js
Myka 9 - To the Sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhWnzMbooak
Fresh Espresso - Vader Rap
Mos Def - Auditorium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT-hYXqTN38
In all honesty, I could have just pulled five off the Solillaquists of Sound album (my #1 of the year), but it would've seemed unfair to the ones I left out...
Oh, that's 6.
And I've just realised as well that this is only at the top cos it's a sticky, and nobody's actually posting in it anymore. Sigh.
i've probably forgotten lots of great stuff here, but:
1. Califone - Alice Marble Gray
2. Dananananaykroyd - Watch This!
3. HEALTH - Die Slow
4. James Blackshaw - Cross
5. Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine
You just need to check..
Custom Blue's album All Will Be Well...
Also, the Mark Pritchard 10" ? was incredible
Espers 3
Yo La Tengo
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 'Beware'
meh
5. Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine
4. Bat For Lashes - Daniel
3. Jay Z / Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
2. Bottin - No Static
1. House of House - Rushing To Paradise (Walkin' These Streets)
...
5. sea within a sea - horrors
4. no kind words - maccabees
3. ignorance - paramore
2. the few that remain - set your goals
1. daisy - brand new
i think this..
5-Here we Go Magic - Tunnelvision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2gtxN5cwjA
infectiously rhythmic
4-Wild Beasts - This Is Our Lot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5-fU9fYCIo
my favourtie from the album. best use of ride bell iv ever heard
3-Ryan Davis - Zodiac (Somfay Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZSeO3trxQ4
fucking awesome, deep and dark, the wash of ambience hugs you like a warm blanket.. mmmm. jimi you should like this.
2-Stars - A Thread Cut With A Carving knife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_aAAeDOxh4
probably my favourite stars track. still getting into them. this is awesome, its what TMSR should be aiming for
1-Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8c3CUNKQ2Q
just amazing. in the context of the record and on its own. a bit of a masterpiece if you ask me.
ooh yeah
gossip- love long distance
amazingly well constructed song
soulja boy- kiss me thru the phone
great structure here too, love how insistent it is
super furry animals- helium hearts
didn't get much of a mention with all the album coverage, but it always makes me grin.
darkstar- aidy's girl is a computer
steppy get low business.
mark pritchard/ om'mas- wind it up
love how the drops drop like feathers.
Scottish Unsigned
1. Trapped in Kansas - Antlers (www.myspace.com/wearetrappedinkansas)
2. Bronto Skylift - Lioness
3. LightGuides - Would you go
4. Midnight Lion - All greatness Stands Firm
5. Make Sparks - Rewind
my top
Gossip - Heavy cross
Kings of leon - Use somebody
No mercy - When I die
OneRepublic - All The Right Moves
30 seconds to mars - This is war...just love this song :)
http://www.boomlyrics.com/songs/30_seconds_to_mars/albums/this_is_war.html