the full Top 50:
50. Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche49. Funk D'Void - Volume Freak48. Dead Or American - Ends47. We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls46. De Rosa - Mend45. James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In44. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career43. Found - This Mess We Keep Reshaping42. Christ. - Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle41. Laeto - Zwoa40. Sons & Daughters - Love The Cup39. The Delgados - Hate38. James Yorkston - The Year Of The Leopard37. Y'All Is Fantasy Island - Rescue Weekend36. Foil - Never Got Hip35. Half Cousin - The Function Room34. Withered Hand - Good News33. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II32. Butcher Boy - React Or Die31. Half Cousin - Iodine30. Macrocosmica - Art of the Black Earth29. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City28. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage27. The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead26. Mogwai - Rock Action25. Arab Strap - The Last Romance24. Aerogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go23. Idlewild - The Remote Part22. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle21. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastophe Waitress20. Malcolm Middleton - Into The Woods19. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand18. Uncle John & Whitelock - There Is Nothing Else17. King Creosote - Rocket DIY16. Meursault - Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues15. De Rosa - Prevention14. Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People13. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country12. Arab Strap - The Red Thread11. Aerogramme - Sleep And Release10. Mogwai - Mr Beast9. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase8. The Delgados - The Great Eastern7. Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug & Pint6. King Creosote - KC Rules OK5. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi4. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight3. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR2. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters1. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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― SBanned of Brothers (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, the top twenty is rather predictable (as a decade-long list is inclined to be, if you've followed the music scene over the decade), but the rest of the list is much more interesting. There's a lot of bands and albums there I don't know, some artists I've never even heard of. Any ILMers want to add recommendations from the bottom half?
Also, I find it interesting that there's...I think seven albums from 2009 in there, and still no space for Dananananaykroyd or Hudson Mohawke! Usually these kind of lists discriminate against the most recent albums, because it takes time for a mass of opinion to settle on a record. Five from each year would be proportionate but most decade-lists I've seen are only including one or two from this year. Seven from this year seems a touch OTT, but it has been a brilliant year for Scottish music IMO.
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Idlolwild
― SBanned of Brothers (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
aye. I know.
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Lapsus Linguae! I'd forgotten all about them. Fucking adored them. Laeto! I'd forgotten all about them too. Never quite got the love for them that my then-flatmate espoused.
I dunno. I've seen substantially worse lists than that in my life :)
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
needs more hussy's, and 'any other city' should be #1
― an error has occurred (electricsound), Saturday, 5 December 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
inconceivable tht AOC wd be anything other than no.1 tbh
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Saturday, 5 December 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
tho looking at tht list... wtf happened to scottish bands :(:(:(
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Saturday, 5 December 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
1. Is Funk D'Void Scottish? I never knew. Heard something great in a record shop that was apparently him (them?) but either I never tracked down the right one or it didn't sound as good at home.2. Oh hey, Laeto! I had an album of theirs - not that one - and liked it. Wonder where it is. No idea they'd done another one.3. Any Other City was robbed, obv
― brett favre vs bernard fevre, fite (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
travis! (only joking)
I'm not. Broke out The Man Who and The Invisible Band last night. Both brimming with gorgeous melodies, inventive arrangements, wistful vocals &c.
― anagram, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really get into the third travis album.. but 'coming around' deserved a better fate than being a forgotten single-only track falling between those two albums. it's probably the best thing they did.
― an error has occurred (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
plus it has a great cover of "the weight" on the flip.
― anagram, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Keep hearing this thread title to the tune of Spanish Bombs.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't figure out what Noodle Vague finds so funny
― I'm losing my Vitamin C (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Idlewild winning
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
hilarious
― I'm losing my Vitamin C (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
He's a jolly fellow
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
He was probably laughing because Idlewild beat a band a member of his family is in.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Tell you what: the Stark Palace LP (which is basically songs from their last three EPs, but fuck it) should be on that list too. Absolutely fucking superb. Should be a review floating about on Sunday.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Any love here for Dawson, Nyah Fearties or Shlebie?
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
if numbers 1 and 50 could be swapped in that list then it'd be a damn sight more otm
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I started a Nyah Fearties thread years ago that is really too brief. Nyah FeartiesAnd there's a couple of other threads with stuff about Dawson. The "Bogshed - Kings of Swing" thread and another thread that's something like "Growing Up in Scotland".
― everything, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ's definitive Mogwai ranking: Happy Songs >>> Rock Action >>>> Young Team >> Government Commissions > CODY > The Hawk Is Howling > EP +6 >>>>>>>> Mr Beast
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Government Commissions gets ahead of CODY because its version of Like Herod is probably the most righteous (if not quite best) thing Mogwai have done
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Young Team > Ten Rapid > Govt Commissions > EP+6 > Cody > Happy Songs > Rock Action > Mr Beast
Dunno where to put Zidane as I've barely listened to it.
― blue_eyes chrono_trigger dirty engineer glasses (onimo), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, missed Hawk is Howling, put that near the bottom somewhere.
Young Team > Ten Rapid > My Father, My King > Govt Commissions > EP+6 > Cody > Rock Action > Hawk is Howling >>>>>>>>>> Happy Songs > Mr Beast
though not an album, 'MFMK' surely has to be in there on the basis of its awesomeness. 'cody' would have been higher, but its version of 'xmas/christmas steps' is a poor cousin to the one on 'EP+6'/'no education'. there's very little space between 'cody', 'rock action' and 'hawk', but then a big drop-off to 'happy songs'/'beast'.
never heard zidane.
you sen this, mogwai people?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DD5sy_EnvE
― m the g, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't seen it and can't at work but I'll take a look later, cheers.
― blue_eyes chrono_trigger dirty engineer glasses (onimo), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I still don't think Mogwai have produced an album that even touches how good they actually are as a band, or comes close to encapsulating their potential. I love everything they've released, but I don't feel any of it is particularly solid supporting evidence for my frothing-mouthed enthusiasm about them.
I like that Burning trailer a lot. High hopes for that.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I still don't think Mogwai have produced an album that even touches how good they actually are as a band
This is completely OTM and I realise it more the older I get. Their two most concise albums really did capture SOMETHING, though. They forced themselves to be more concentrated, and they played around with electronics in a joyful, non-mundane manner.
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
young team still the best tho
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Young Team is excellent and primal and influential but it's also messy and unfocused in a way that doesn't suit their precise build-and-bust dynamic. They're a band that needs regimentation; being all over the place isn't where they're comfortable. (It's actually their biggest limitation, and the reason I don't love them as much as I used to.) There's just this sense that they threw everything together without organising the album; they're an albums band, and that album could have used a bit of fat-trimming. I'd get rid of half the tracks! The shorter half, obviously. Doesn't need that padding.
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yes!herodtracyrusi2isatan
^^^bang
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i know this isn't an album per se, but imho it was mogwai's finest moment if you treat it as one:
http://www.discogs.com/Mogwai-EP-6/master/205749
― ~~dark energy~~ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i probably rated ep+6 a bit low but again that's because it's a sprawling, unfocused document of individual moments rather than an album piece...plenty of great stuff on it, albeit not as great as the greatest young team stuff
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
it also has 'stereodee' which is great in theory, and great in practice for about 5 minutes, but then it becomes a bit of a chore. i guess the speed-garage bit at the end is your reward
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i know this isn't an album per se, but imho it was mogwai's finest moment if you treat it as one
I can never see those three EPs as anything other than three very separate, very different recordings: documents of a snapshot of my life. I remember going out to buy 4-Satin in Edinburgh, calling in to see a friend on the way home from Avalanche on Lady Lawson Street, getting unexpectedly bongoed on his surprisingly high-quality weed, and finally getting home to listen to it some 10 hours later, and thinking it was THE SINGLE GREATEST RECORDED ARTEFACT IN HISTORY, etc. My flatmate wasn't overly impressed with the volume I was playing it at, nor with the way I couldn't stop giggling at her when she shouted at me. Happy days.
The Christmas Steps EP is the authentic soundtrack to me moving to Glasgow: just a total fucking rush. The Stanley Kubrick EP is the authentic soundtrack to me moving into a damp hovel with mushrooms growing out the walls and thinking: "Thank god for music."
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
can i just say that my slimmed-down young team works beautifully as a double-side single LP
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not sure I agree all that much with that list, but I think it was voted for by readers?
Happy that "Any Other City" is in there, if a bit too low, and very pleasantly surprised the Laeto's 'Zwoa' is in there. A fine record, very different to their debut 'Make Us Mild'. There's been a third record ('LP3') in the works for a few years now, what I've heard is great but I'm not sure it will ever get finished.
Oh, Foil's 'Never Got Hip' brought a smile to my face there, mostly for "Reviver Gene".
― MichaelJLambert, Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
So, er ... all this chat about Any Other City being "robbed" and everything ... this is all a big joke or something, yeh? Only I listened to it today, for the first time ever, and fuck me if it won't be the last. The C86isms are OK -- sometimes surprisingly decent -- but nothing to write home about; seriously, though, those vocals! I know I'm prone to sweeping exaggeration but that might be one of the most fucking horrible noises I've ever heard in my life :o
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 24 December 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
only one of these records is actually any good
― I am banman (cozwn), Thursday, 24 December 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
you are both talking complete crap
― happy christmas your ass (electricsound), Friday, 25 December 2009 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
david scott should leave scotland, he never gets any respect. i always thought it was the vocals on 'any other city' that made it anything other than run of the mill.
― keythhtyek, Friday, 25 December 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Why u braek hart? Any Other City is my favorite record of the decade, from Scotland or anywhere else.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 25 December 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I was talking crap; only 2 of those records then
― I am banman (cozwn), Friday, 25 December 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
just a wee joke, let's be cool
― twentysomething fuck (cozwn), Friday, 25 December 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Frightened Rabbit take a bewildering early leadhttp://www.scotsman.com/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=81565
― PaulTMA, Friday, 29 January 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQbFP5fqfM
lol at this video.
― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 23 September 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/06709-remember-remember
pure remember remember street teamed out my nut.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link