"most bafflingly overrated" award, a clear winner for me...Glasvegas
even Geir's fellow countrymen at the Dagbladet newspaper are guiltyhttp://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/3172289350/show/929975
Best international album:1. Glasvegas - Glasvegas2. TV On the Radio - Dear Science3. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws4. Dungen - 45. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend6. No Age - Nouns7. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III8. Q-Tip - The Renaissance9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes10. The Bronx - The Bronx III11. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt12. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams13. Portishead - Third14. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels15. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior16. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.17. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive18. Chatham County Line - IV19. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt I20. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion21. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound22. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Death23. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs24. Ry Cooder - I, Flathead25. Opeth - Watershed26. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali27. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh28. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It29. AC/DC - Black Ice30. Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
by magazines yeah, by friends it's VW
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Glasvegas are bloody awful
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Scotland's worst band of the decade: Glasvegas are bloody awful - but The View are even worse
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i think they could be a serviceable band if they ditched that fucking singer. cannot stand him
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
naw, theyre all shit
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
bought ths nme. first time in a year. will read in the bath later. nearly everything i love this year is being ignored: m83, school of the seven bells, ne-yo, friendly fires (gets a token mention here), gang gang dance, air france's ep. are all music journalists deaf? and that's not to mention the tens of songs i think are amongst the best i've ever heard.
― or something, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
are all music journalists deaf?
Don't know this bunch, any good?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
School Of Seven Bells is in there at 42 but the name and title is round the wrong way
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ha ha ha, I didn't even notice that! that's the best mixup since the album "His Name Is Alive" by the band "Livonia".
That's not a real LOTP .wav - they'd be much much much more sawtoothed than that.
― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
carrotcake.wav
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Late Of The Pier should win this contest.
― zeus, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow I haven't listened to any of these.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I can remember worse NME end of the year list by the way...
― zeus, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
when coldplay won it?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
For example, yes. Or 2006, 2007...
― zeus, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
lets compare http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nmeindex.html
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
christ, 2006 was bloody awful.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
it's always been awful, it always will be awful. it's the fucking nme, what do you expect?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Well some on here say they remember when it was really good.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
they're going senile. it was never good.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
one vote for fucked up - chemistry of common life
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
a lot of senile posters on ILM then Lex
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Heh heh, thanks for the new screen name...
Is it The Lex who doesn't acknowledge the presence of any culture before 1997? Or am I mixing him up with someone else?
― carrotcake.wav (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
That could be loads on ILM!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
friendly fires is the only album here i particularly care about
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
That Bloc Party album must be terrible to get the token no.49 slot
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
^^it is
i voted for vampire weekend
― you brought me home to this funky house (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
school of seven bells > portishead > laura marling > santogold > hercules and love affair > hot chip > scarlett johansson
these are the only albums on the list which aren't totally worthless. it's good going, considering.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
No Earth, Torche, Growing , Harvey Milk or Grails no credibility.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't suppose (m)any will vote for it but that Spiritualized album was very good and way better than I expected.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I suppose the same can be said of the verve album
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 December 2008 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally got round to listening to the poxy Foals album, sounds like they've nicked all their songs off Q And Not U and slung in a bit of Pigbag for good measure. Enjoyed some of it, always been a sucker for trebly guitars and skittering drums, but I got a bit naffed off with the singer.
― NickB, Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:14 (fifteen years ago) link
didnt care much for them
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 December 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing Spz live put me off every wanting to listen to another note of their records ever again!
― carrotcake.wav (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Admit it, you went to that gig determined not to like it!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Not true! I went to that gig as excited as could be, I wore my silver spacejacket and everything, went and got a good spot in front of one of the pillars so I could see... and, as D observed "that was the quickest I've ever seen you go from bouncey to retching in my life!" I was excited by reports that it was the best live show they'd done in years! Those reports were wrong!
But anyway, this is not the thread for this.
― carrotcake.wav (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Well it's still a good album.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
WHICH GINGER IS HOTTER?!?!?!
Hercules & LA win this by a mile too.
― BLAP BLAP (Roberto Spiralli) (sic), Thursday, 11 December 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
And best tranny. So I voted them.
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 11 December 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
should joe satriani have a credit there with coldplay?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 December 2008 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Well johnny Marr did join Modest Mouse..
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 December 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
My views:Shite: 43Not Shite: 7
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 December 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Coldplay --> Best album of 2008
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
For the record, Coldplay was one of my 7.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 December 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir's 2008 listhttp://rateyourmusic.com/list/GeirH/my_top_albums_of_2008____so_far/
― djmartian, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Bit of a slump round about #40 and I haven't heard most of the Norwegian ones but by Geir's standards that's not too bad a list!
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 December 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I still love that Marit Larsen album, it would be in my list definitely. Also Geir likes Sebastien Tellier! Awesome.
― Matt DC, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Portishead.
― Neil S, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I make it ten non-shite albums. In order:
25 Portishead Third2 TV on the Radio Dear Science17 Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid7 Santogold Santogold42 Alpinisms School of Seven Bells44 Li, Lykke Youth Novels1 MGMT Oracular Spectacular16 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke34 Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed23 Johansson, Scarlett Anywhere I Lay My Head
― DavidM, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link