k3vin i recommend the ty segall/black time split for the punkier end of things, and also the mantles album for the charming, classic songwriting end of things.
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Nearing the end of the year I'm realizing that I still really like that Hatcham Social album a whole lot, and that it's not going to make any best-of-the-year polls because it's completely impossible to remember the band's name! Just found it by slogging through every single artist I've played on Rhapsody.
― dlp9001, Monday, 30 November 2009 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
really? i find their name quite memorable, i think it's a very appealing name.. but yeah i fear it will be ignored. i love FP but they don't have a great track record of breaking bands
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
mayyors - deads ep = another top-of-the-list favorite that i forgot to include earlier. so great for jumping around and pretending that you are the kind of person who might break things while doing it.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Monday, 30 November 2009 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, very fond of God Help The Girl (mentioned above). Had completely avoided it because I've been so sick of B&S lately, and then forgot about it, so I heard it with surprisingly fresh ears when I downloaded it after reading this thread. My only regret is that it's by all the people who it sounds like (Divine Comedy et al) rather than a bunch of unknowns...and that's a stupid thing to regret.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
So is The-Dream's Love Vs. Money the consensus number one around here? It has my vote.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I predict (envelope to forehead) Fever Ray will win the year-end poll, The-Dream #2, with Primary Colours, Two Suns, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Embryonic, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, It's Blitz! close behind.
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
animal collective will win, dream may be top 5
― brutt fartve (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
killah priest - elizabeth. monochrome, monotone sounds rrrrrright. runteldat
― Lowell N. Behold (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Just checking out the Horrors album right now. Not sure how I missed that one, must be my general bias against British bands after being let down so, so, so many times by manufactured NME hype. The album sounds great, though—very Chameleons-esque, which is always welcome. I had no idea the album had such a broad following though.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently a shitload of people like bitte orca, too:
Bitte Orca vs. Veckatimest
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Definitely my pick for album of the year: Un Nuevo Día. Very fresh salsa from a new band led by Puerto Ricans out of Philadelphia. The vocals are probably the heart of the matter here: they are generally very inventive, and many of the tracks have multiple layers of different types of vocals, including rapped vocals (with a guest appearance by Voltio on one track). The instrumentation is also atypical of mainstream salsa with its emphasis on cuatro and acoustic guitar. There is not a bad track on this album. This is a new band, but percussion is handled primarily by veteran Luisito Quintero.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 3 December 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Also the new Tokyo Jihen single is shaping up to be good, especially the B side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqUbRo5quUM
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
(I think the next Tokyo Jihen album should definitely be better than the solo Shiina Ringo album that came out this past summer, which has already not held up real well for me.)
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
(And that's not the B-side. I can't find a copy at the moment. The B-side is more of a quasi-chaotic art rock sort of thing.)
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
here are my 20 favorite releases by artists that haven't been mentioned on this thread yet:
Jarvis Cocker - Further ComplicationsPlayboy Tre - Liquor Store MascotBirds and Arrows - StarmakerSay Anything - Say Anything8Ball - Memphis All-Stars: Cars, Clubs & Strip Clubs The Deleted Scenes - Birdseed ShirtThe Alchemist - Chemical WarfareThey Might Be Giants - Here Comes ScienceThe Entrance Band - The Entrance BandBrendan Benson - My Old, Familiar FriendYoung Jeezy - Trappin' Ain't DeadSuperchunk - Leaves In The Gutter EPThe Mean - Meet Us HereThe Disciplines - Smoking KillsDaniel Francis Doyle - We Bet Our Money On YouRhymefest & Scram Jones - The ManualAlex Cline - ContinuousThe Bird And The Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The FutureOOIOO - Armonico HewaCamp Lo - Stone And Rob Caught On Tape
― ess-tee-oh-pee (some dude), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
jarvis is in my top 25 and i really dig alchemist and that superchunk ep too. playboy tre is a very good rapper who i find to be kind of annoying personally
― brutt fartve (k3vin k.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah he's kind of tasteful but corny, some good stuff but every time i listen to it i bump it down a couple spots
― the 6 SBillion dollar man (some dude), Thursday, 3 December 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked blue collar but haven't listened to it since it came out-how's that new rhymefest?
― brooklyn we go ham (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the 8ball and alchemist records made my album list
― ice cr?m hand job (deej), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Helado Negro's "Awe Owe" was a surprising favorite album of the year for me. Hypnotic surreal electronic folk with Spanish language vocals. The only review of this I've seen has been in The Wire.
― Dan S, Thursday, 3 December 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd add Sunn0))) and -- maaaaaybe -- Isis to my picks.
― t**t, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I have like 40 more records to review for twitter. Here's a lost of stuff that's been recommended to me by friends and various critic/mag/blog year end lists... Can you guys tell me if any of this is worth my time?
Obscura - CosmogenesisVulture Whale, Vulture WhaleEmmy the Great, First LoveShilpa Ray, A Fish Hook an Open EyePeaches"I Feel Cream"; Lissy Trullie "Self-Taught Learner"; Band of Skulls "Baby Darling Doll Face Honey"; Del Marquis “Runaround”Kate Miller-Heidke “Curioser”Erin McCarley “Love, Save The Empty”The Arch Cupcake “Box of Bees” The Leisure Society - The Sleeper and ProductLocal Natives - Gorilla ManorSharon Van Etten - Because I Was In LoveThe Rural Alberta Advantage - HometownsBloody Mary, Black Pearl (Contexterrior)The Glimmers Present Disko Drunkards (Glimmer Twins)Italoboyz, Bla Bla Bla (Mothership)10-20, 10-20 (Highpoint Lowlife)The Sandwitches - ambient sadcakeSusan BoyleBritish Sea Power - Man Of AranSoap & Skin - Lovetune For VacuumDinky - AnemikDr. Dunks - How We Do In NYCBrock Van Wey - White Clouds Drift On And OnLouderbach - AutumnPrins Thomas - Live at Robert JohnsonMartyn - Great LengthsMaster Musicians of Bukkake -– Totem OneBlack Sun - Twilight of the GodsDÿse - Lieder Sind Brüder Der RevolutionDokaka – Human InterfaceVom –– Primitive ArtsSteve Earle - TownesSarah Jarosz - Song Up In Her HeadIron And Wine - somethingMt. St. Helens - VietnamThe Legends - Over And OverBrandi Carlile - Give Up The GhostJoe Bonamassa - Ballad Of Joe HenreyWillie Nelson - Lost HighwayJack Rose & the Black Twigs - s/t
― can you eat baconator? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
don't know most of those but you definitely must tweet susan boyle
― some dude, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
a friend of mine has been saying really great things about rural alberta advantage lately. i haven't checked them out yet but he's generally got good taste wrt things in that vein.
― taoiseachizown (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Vulture Whale record is a fun record.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't make it through all of 'how to make ambient sadcake' but the first song is lots of fun.
― taoiseachizown (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
these are all ace, to varying degrees (and grouped together in your list, handily):
Master Musicians of Bukkake -– Totem OneBlack Sun - Twilight of the GodsDÿse - Lieder Sind Brüder Der RevolutionDokaka – Human InterfaceVom – Primitive Arts
― m the g, Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
well, i got those 5 from YOUR year end list actually, m to the g, since you like a lot of the same avant-metal stuff--but haven't had time to explore which are cool art-fuck stuff i'd like and which are boring noodley prog crap I'd hate.
― can you eat baconator? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I checked out Umlaut on your recommendation and was like *barf*, so i'm erring on the side of caution
― can you eat baconator? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 December 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that explains it.
well, those are all very different from umlaut - and from each other, for that matter. the dokaka is the weakest of the bunch, tbh, but is fun nonetheless.
― m the g, Saturday, 12 December 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
ay have you done the meshell ndegeocello? one of my top albums
― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Saturday, 12 December 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I have not, rev!
Two records I can't seem to steal from the ANYWHERE on the internet because their labels are obv good at crushing leaks:
Bob Dylan Christmas and BlakRoc
― can you eat baconator? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 December 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Kate Miller-Heidke “Curioser”
i recommend you snap this one over your knee
― matt preston school of industry (electricsound), Saturday, 12 December 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
if u listen to blackroc before big krit im gonna ... i dont know. troll u or something.
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
blackcroc
http://www.shoes.com/ProductImages/Shoes_iAEC1021410.jpg
― can you eat baconator? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
apropos
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
"Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum"
This is a wonderful record.
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 13 December 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
somedude otm about OOIOO
i'm gonna do a top 100 on BSCReview.com for 2009 but I think everyone needs to hear Ike Reilly's "Hard Luck Stories," it's download-only but damn, I love that guy. great due with shooter jennings called "the war on the terror and the drugs".
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Sunday, 13 December 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
No love for David Bazan here?
― I was in a drop-D metal band we called Requiem (staggerlee), Sunday, 13 December 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
at first listen the ooioo didn't grab me like the last few did, but maybe i should listen more.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 December 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
it's no Gold & Green but it does quite nicely, I think, especially on the short-song-heavy 2nd side.
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
oops Green & Gold, that is.
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/the-top-40/
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 14 December 2009 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=227653904406
Just my personal year's end list on Facebook, not too exciting really.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 3 January 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit that's really extensive. i wrote this in a fb note at 5 am when i got home friday morning.
albums 2009Share Yesterday at 5:37am | Edit Note | Delete
i wasted a lot of time listening to music this year, these are some albums that made it worth my while. i didn't take the ordering too seriously: #1 is the absolute best and #2 is second best, but after that it's really just give or take. also there's still a lot of stuff i haven't gotten around to listening to yet that i'm sure i'll love deeply, like the new boredoms, and sunn o))) too.
1) the-dream - love vs money 2) think about life - family 3) lil boosie - superbad: the return of boosie bad azz 4) destroyer - bay of pigs 5) ty segall/black time - split 6) nadja - the bungled and the botched 7) dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout 8) electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1 9) ultrathin - endless summer ii 10) dirty projectors - bitte orca 11) drunkdriver & mattin - list of profound insecurities 12) gucci mane - the state vs radric davis 13) the luyas - tiny head/spherical matress 7"
honorable mentions:
crazy cousinz - this is uk funky vol. 1davila 666 - s/tthe get em mamis - terawesome... See Moremayyors - deads 12"
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 3 January 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i listened to super roots 10 last night, actually. it's not good.
last week I caught some of Here We Go Magic's set at End of the Road and they were really good so I grabbed their 2009 album and I really like it a lot and this thread is one that comes up when you search for their horrible, awful, why would you call yourself that name, so here we are
they are awesome anyway pity about the name!
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 17 September 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
lol indie
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 17 September 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link