I heard a little on spotify, it was hilarious for a minute then just dulllllllllll
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
ultimate classic rock webzine are still to play their hand fyi xp
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
u2 ought to put their album back into everyone's itunes all over again, just to remind all the voters they're still out there
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
Robert Plant's album is very good. I like Bryan Ferry's as well but that's basically just another Bryan Ferry album. The Pink Floyd album was never meant to be a comeback.
I got curious about how many uncontested critic/Top 40 unifiers there have been in the past 10 years, ie Top 3 Billboard and Top 3 Pazz & Jop, and it's not as many as I thought: Gold Digger, Since U Been Gone, Umbrella, What You Know, Single Ladies, Empire State of Mind, Fuck You, Rolling in the Deep, Call Me Maybe, Get Lucky and Royals.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
The Judas Priest album was well-received as well.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
Sonic (Sweden)
1. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream2. Lykke Li - I Never Learn3. FKA Twigs - LP14. Caribou - Our Love5. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold6. Kindness - Otherness7. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music8. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!10. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There11. Sun Kil Moon - Benji12. Aphex Twin - Syro13. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 214. Ison & Fille - Länge leve vi15. Hollie Cook - Twice16. Lorentz - Kärlekslåtar17. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata18. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days19. Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes20. Jessie Ware - Tough Love21. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness22. Kevin Gates - By Any Means23. Rosanne Cash - The River & The Thread24. Tinashe - Aquarius25. Doug Paisley - Strong Feelings
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
That War On Drugs album had better sound like chocolate ice cream...
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
More like flat Michelob.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
war on drugs is like a scene in an 80s teen movie where a half-size springsteen-bot goes out of control on the dancefloor and vigorously starts dry humping everyone's legs
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
your 80s was markedly different from mine
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure about the whole War on Drugs album but Red Eyes is one the songs of the year no doubt. I guess a lot of people are desperately craving non-shitty anthemic rock.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I love it and its one of my favourites of the year but it does hit several comfort-food bases at once. Given how little rock music I have time for these days that's probably the main reason.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
the sum total of my knowledge about war on drugs (and sun kil moon) is that absolutely laughably pathetic diss track. rock is dead, i don't care
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
FWIW i really like the Benji album, despite never having knowingly heard anything else by Kozelek
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
the sum total of my knowledge about war on drugs (and sun kil moon) is that absolutely laughably pathetic diss track. rock is dead, i don't care― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 4:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 4:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The diss track was by SKM wasn't it? Unless did WoD do a response song? Anyway, lol at saying 'rock is dead' based on a single phoned-in joke song by an egomaniac with a bee in his bonnet about stage sound issues.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
has FACT mag released any lists yet? those tend to be worthwhile imo.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, November 24, 2014 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they got ahead of everyone and did their best Albums/Tracks of the decade so far a couple of weeks ago
wut won
― Number None, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
ha
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
There was so much parochial bullshit in that Fact list.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
less institutional but certainly veteran artists who "still have it"
they're not Cohen or Judas Priest, but I think the new Old 97s album falls into this category. I loved their output from '96-'01, didn't care for anything after that. but their new one sounds like it could be a lost record from their heyday. i can't even believe how good it is; it's truly shocking. if shuffling Texas roots-rock songs about becoming a creepy old man with a thing for recreational drug use is your thing, then "Most Messed Up" is your thing.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
lol it's so sad that fact followed p4k's lead on that one ;_;
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I'm actually gonna have to listen to at least some of that War on Drugs album now, even though I don't give a shit about it at all.
And why has everyone seemed to have forgotten about Against Me!?
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
The first of Lex's EOTY "I know nothing about this but I know it's awful" posts is like the first window on an advent calendar.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
The War on Drugs album isn't terrible, but half the songs go on extended tangential outros for whatever the fucking reason and it ruins it for me. Chop the tails off those songs and the whole album would be better for it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
i bet i'll prob end up loving bloody War on Drugs now if I listen to it.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
I feel like that about every record on here
― saer, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
war on drugs album is good - but it is also p overrated and most of the criticisms against it thus far (sounds too much like boomer/80s rock, various songs are overlong) are completely understandable.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
The Fact half-decade list was at least interesting
The War on Drugs seems to be a very big deal with all of these publications. I wouldn't have thought it would be likely to top P&J but now I'm beginning to wonder
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
huh War on Drugs doesn't sound anything like I thought it would
I guess ppl in 2014 really missed David Gray?
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
that is theeeee weirdest comparison i've heard so far! the biggest ref point/complaint seems to be like, dire straits & shit of that nature
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah i don't really care what the #1 slot is or if some of the choices are a little challopsy. i just like to have some decent recommendations and i can sort it out myself.
xpost
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
I mostly going off of the dude's voice
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
referring to FACT mag list
decent recommendations = not the same shit that everybody puts in their lists/stuff everyone has already heard
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
DJP sort of nailed it there with the David Gray voice comparison.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
xp Yeah, FACT's contrarianism can be comical but it leads me to new things in a way that a more conventional list wouldn't.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Relistening to this TWoD album again for the first time in a while, I find it's a very timid record. They're scared to go the full Don Henley or the full Dire Straits or the full Daniel Lanois or whatever other styles they're trying to bite and in the end it just sounds like a little bit of each of those things but in a bad way.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Not a *bad way, but an *unsatisfying way.
tbh i have less and less interest each passing year in what albums might be "best"/"better" and i've always been skeptical of critics' attempts to render coherent narratives of the chaos of a year's worth of music. those narratives can be important but the first drafts are not usually very compelling (i.e. we probably need some distance before we can make sense of it all). i'm happy just to kind of dip my toe in the stream and find some things that appeal to me.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
It's probably because they're mixing all that with the ambient/spacerock/droney elements which prevent them going full on AOR, but I've gone into this on their own thread.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
, FACT's contrarianism can be comical but it leads me to new things in a way that a more conventional list wouldn't.
what makes it contrarian or non-conventional? its not really my thing, but it just seems like a list of the records they feature on their site as far as i can tell
― saer, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
what makes it contrarian
"I Miss You" being the Beyonce pick
― Number None, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
that's a great song tho
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
every time I see "Dire Straits" as a referent in the same sentence as War on Drugs I wonder if the writer means "the synthy parts of late eighties Cure + Billy Idol echo"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
no, there's a definite twangy thing going on, but obviously it's at a bit of a lower skill level
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
I tended to hear it as much in the wheedling of dude's 'Why can't I be Dylan' voice.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
^^^otm - dylan vocal bites, where would indie duderock be without them
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
where would indie duderock be without them
where it is now: dead, like all rock music.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
you're so folksy, I'd do anythingape you from the scoops to where the pitch beginsyou're so precious, you're so right as rainyou make me make me revisit the highway again
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
War of Drugs > Bob Dylan
:mic drop:
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link