i haven't been back since i moved. so that's like...almost 8 years? my whole life was there. it wasn't much of a life, but it was there.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
there was some other piece exactly like that this year that was actually kind of otm iirc?
― mercy mercy me, that beanfield milagro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
if i were 20 that whole thing would be otm. which is why i still find it kinda funny. cuz a part of me will always be 20. the dumb part.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't really miss Wawa or The Welcomat. (Is there even still a Welcomat?)
Anyway, I can see how a piece like that might be potentially funny, if it had punchlines. Thing is, I did not realize Hold Steady (hey, there's a band conspicuously missing from all the year-end lists, right? deservedly, but still) were considered a frat-house band. Is that really what their audience is now? When did that happen? Or did that guy just make that up? I assumed their audience was still mostly considered "rock critics."
Pretty sure Xgau said the Roots album is his favorite of the year, fwiw. And he's not even from Philly!
― xhuxk, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i think welcomat got changed to the weekly.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't really miss philly that much. i did consider it my home though. i moved there when i was 19 and when i left i was in my 30s and married with a kid. i mostly just remember working a lot and drinking too much. and i left before i could hang out with any philly ilx people. but most of them left too!
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
greenfield will be my final resting place. i love it here so much. and you can all come and visit me. my door is always open. except when i'm closed. well, most of you can come visit me...
http://halecustomsigns.com/images/158_large.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
oh but anyway i always forget that interpol are still around. who listens to them? are they big in japan?
M.I.A. gone M.I.A.?
― Saytin Saytin Saytin (Ioannis), Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i just tried to listen to new interpol on youtube. didn't last long. what happened to that guy's voice?
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, grapevine sez xhuxk's voting Kanye no. one p&j-wise.
― Saytin Saytin Saytin (Ioannis), Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
As long as this thread is derailed, I'm still not sure where you are scott. Where is Greenfield? There seems to be more than one.
― bourgeoistech bourgeoisthèque (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
greenfield is in massachusetts. western mass. near northampton and amherst. and near vermont. and near new hampshire.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually have chuck's top five albums for the pazz & jop this year. i know he's gonna kill me, but they are so good and nobody has really talked about them here. i hope he doesn't get too mad:
1. Johnny Truck & The Motormouths – Hardly Workin’ (Countryfried Records)2. Louella Hudsucker – Kountry Kweenz & Stone-washed Jeanz (Doowrong Records)3. Pud Wilkinson & The Homewreckers – Same Shit, Different day (CD Baby)4. Los Perros Sucios – Lio Partido Loco (Idiota Hijo Records)5. The Shipyard Scene: Forgotten Pub Rock Relics From The Vuosaari Harbor Region Of East Helsinki 1972-1974 (Stone Drag Reissue)
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, WikiLeaks wrecks everything!
Thing you gotta understand about Kanye, though, is it's a concept album. By which I mean it directly references both "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Iron Man", two songs that at least one person older than me told me he actually used to confuse back in 1971. How did Kanye know??
Seriously though my real Pazz & Jop #1 was listed on that list-of-everybody's-#1s link from Awl, and I will be really sad if I turn out to be the only voter who gives it 30 points (unless I only give it 25, I'm starting to waver a little.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
The Shipyard Scene: Forgotten Pub Rock Relics From The Vuosaari Harbor Region Of East Helsinki 1972-1974 (Stone Drag Reissue)
But okay, I totally want this one now.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
wuz gonna say - no Seeger, no thang.
― You're Twistin' My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Man! (Ioannis), Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
and I will be really sad if I turn out to be the only voter who gives it 30 points
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 11 December 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm voting for it. thanks for reminding me.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Why would you expect P&J voters to vote for bob seger as #1 album in 2010?
Good taste, maybe? (Okay, maybe too much to ask.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 11 December 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
haha it is the P&J!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 11 December 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I suppose it would make a change from indie landfill or the big mainstream pop/rock. Everyone vote bob seger as #1 in a protest vote!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 11 December 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
If Chris Bohn's opening on-air remarks on Resonant FM the other night are anything to go by, then The Wire's Rewind 2010 #1 is ACTRESS - Splazsh! Big ups all around IMHO...
― Don't Make Me A Burrito (Craig D.), Saturday, 11 December 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a fun list - our own Phil (Unperson)'s best 40 and worst 10 metal:
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blog.aspx
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 12 December 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda want to hear that ov hell album now.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 December 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
and hating on van canto is too easy. they are...something. i mean, they DO have some sort of vision. there are records that are spectacularly bad. but they're a spectacle as music group.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 December 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the best list though! superior album covers too. i want to hear a bunch on there. phil might be crazy, but he's got some good picks on there for a pantera fan.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 December 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
That Ov Hell album isn't really awful, just plain boring. Its like black metal by numbers.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 12 December 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Classic Rock EOY 2010 - top 50 albums
50. Buckcherry - All Night Long49. Spirits Of The Dead - s/t48. Brijitte West & the Desperate Hopefuls - s/t47. JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys - Fidelity!46. Grinderman - Grinderman 245. Elton John & Leonard Russel - The Union44. Deftones - Diamond Eyes43. Eric Clapton - s/t42. Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teadybear41. Ronnie Wood - I Feel Like Playing40. Imelda May - Mayhem39. Steven Dale Petit - The Crave38. Voodoo Six - Fluke?37. Halford - Halford IV : Made of Metal36. Tinyfish - The Big Red Spark35. Siant Jude - Diary of a Soul Fiend34. Night Horse - Perdition Hymns33. Down - Diary of a Mad Band32. Joe Bonamassa - Black Rock31. Steeple - Wolf People30. Black Label Society - Order of the Black29. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever28. Foxy Shazam - s/t27. Paul Weller - Wake up the Nation26. Heart - Red Velvet Car25. Scorpions - Sting in the Tale24. FM - Metropolis23. Mastermind - Monster Magnet22. Audrey Horne - s/t21. Unruly Child - World's Collide20. Ratt - Infestation19. Anathema - We're Here...18. Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man17. Airbourne - No Guts, No Glory16. Neil Young - Le Noise15. Accept - Blood of the Nations14. Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do13. Altar Bridge - ABIII12. Cathedral - The Guessing Game11. Ozzy Osborne - Scream10. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent9. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang8. Jim Jones Revue - Burning your House Down7. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier6. The Black Keys - Brothers5. The Union - s/t4. Robert Plant - Band of Joy3. Black Country Communion - Black Country2. Them Crooked Vultures - s/t1. Slash - s/t
― Mitchell Stirling, Sunday, 12 December 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Slash? freakin' Slash? is this 1993 or what?
― You're Twistin' My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Man! (Ioannis), Sunday, 12 December 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
^has never read Classic Rock magazine
― Princess BigSam (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 12 December 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
nice to see a list with the Chrissie Hynde record on it, it's got some killer tunes. also appreciate learning that Meat oaf released an album called "Hang Cool Teddy Bear" this year apparently.
― some dude, Sunday, 12 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lmfao @ "Meat oaf"
― da puppier (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 12 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
haha Meat oaf (xpost)
― some dude, Sunday, 12 December 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ha! great unintentional -- but accurate -- description.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 12 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
haw, no i haven't. and apparently it's where the ROCK '70s/'80s went to die--sure seems to be gettin' mighty ripe around about there, too.
― You're Twistin' My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Man! (Ioannis), Sunday, 12 December 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
lol the one album in there I have been loudly stanning for since late summer ('Steeple' by Wolf People) they get the band and title backwards :(
― Princess BigSam (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 12 December 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
These are both good (in fact, Ratt's album has shown up on a couple other lists I've seen, incuding Phil's metal one):
26. Heart - Red Velvet Car20. Ratt - Infestation
But the FM who made Metropolis (#24) unfortunately turn out to not to be the same keyboard-heavy Canadian guitarless AOR/pomp power-trio who put out City Of Fear in 1980, but rather some British people.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this is actually my fave album by FM, but its kinda hard to find.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AJcpmbP_Sow/RhzwJFxegzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RFf_SXUTsDA/s320/FM2.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
the old FM.
Good old Classic Rock. You always know where you are with a Classic Rock list.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
1970?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
8. Jim Jones Revue - Burning your House Down
Good to see this turn up somewhere, it's a blast and massively underrated, if a bit hammy in places.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not quite up there with Classic Rock's list from 2008:
10. Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles9. Journey - Revelation8. Big Linda - I Loved You7. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad6. Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge5. Airbourne - Runnin' Wild4. Black Stone Cherry - Folklore & Superstition3. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy2. Metallica - Death Magnetic1. AC/DC - Black Ice
^^^ Does exactly what is says on the tin.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Whitesnake!!!!
― seandalai, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Honestly willing to believe that Classic Rock list is better than most of the lists we've seen on this thread.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
As long as you need ever hear any of the albums?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
One of my favorite's of the year is on that Classic Rock list. In fact, the album I'm voting #1 in the metal poll is on it.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i like that the classic rock list doesnt feel the need to incorporate albums outside its milieu just because theyre critically acclaimed. no kanye, no arcade fire, no bullshit
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol that Hold Steady fits perfectly in that list. Wonder why the Walkmen and the National arent jockeying for posish too
― da puppier (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link