how the time has passed
― ilx robot (jergins), Monday, 30 March 2009 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i like mountainsand lots of singles but not many full-lengths
― ilx robot (jergins), Monday, 30 March 2009 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
what are Jeremy Jay; Nodzzz?
― otmcat (The Reverend), Monday, 30 March 2009 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
circlesquare, 'songs about dancing and drugs'
― prince of PLURsia (haitch), Monday, 30 March 2009 03:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Mordy - Yes! We do have some surprising crossover. That Lily Allen, minus a few standouts, soured on me over time.
J0rdan - glad to see more Handsome Furs love, that album is really great.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 March 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone else heard this Bachelorette album (on Drag City, out in May)? Need to listen a little more, but it might be kind of amazing ... Otherwise, new records this year ummmm, Neko Case ... Robyn Hitchcock ... errrr. Condo Fucks.
― tylerw, Monday, 30 March 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
jeremy jay albums sound like original wes anderson soundtracks to me, except this one has some songs with disco synths
nodzzz album is 10 song 16 min pop-punk
― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 March 2009 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll give a shout-out to that Mountains album. So good.New Brethren of the Free Spirit is really good. haven't listened to any of the other new stuff on Important this year though, which kinda bums me out. Zola Jesus just put out a great mini-LP out on Troubleman, if you like the Sacred Bones type stuff, I'd recommend that as well.
― jonathan - stl, Monday, 30 March 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't heard that new Jeremy Jay album, but I plan on listening to it tomorrow! I hope it is good.
― jonathan - stl, Monday, 30 March 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you month of March for the following:DOOM - Born Like ThisMorrissey - Years of RefusalBill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
― BusDriverStu (Bus Driver Stu), Monday, 30 March 2009 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
jordan and i share our top three, which i'm not too surprised by since we've discussed the shit out of them already
1. the-dream - love vs money2. yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!3. ryan leslie - ryan leslie4. antony and the johnsons - the crying light5. neko case - middle cyclone6. lily allen - it's not me, it's you7. PPP - abundance8. animal cololective - merriweather post pavilion9. keri hilson - ...in a perfect worldt10. ida maria - fortress round my heartt10. the juan mclean - the future will come
when ciara's new one finally gets an agreed-upon tracklist it'll be somewhere top 5
― knive k (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 March 2009 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
like that condo fucks record a lot too, "this is where i belong" might be better than the original
― knive k (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 March 2009 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, kevin, sometime not so long after you appeared I got into a convo w/ someone here where I said something to the effect of, "kevin's cool, but one jordan s. is enough"
― otmcat (The Reverend), Monday, 30 March 2009 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link
aw
― knive k (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 March 2009 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
unexpectedly strong start to 2009.. Handsome Furs, Phoenix, Silversun Pickups, Doom (no longer MF), Junior Boys (most of it), Animal Collective, there's a new good superdrag song I keep hearing.. I like a lot of the songs on Dark Was The Night also, especially that Sigur Ros side project thing.. enjoying a few of the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs..
Some good mainstream music would be nice.
― billstevejim, Monday, 30 March 2009 07:01 (fifteen years ago) link
plenty of it imo
― knive k (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 March 2009 07:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I need to add II by Lindstrom & Prins Thomas to my list post-haste, because o_O.
― otmcat (The Reverend), Monday, 30 March 2009 07:04 (fifteen years ago) link
SFA, Grizzly Bear, PJ Harvey. The Mountains album is nice but pretty inconsequential. Animal Collective album is horrific.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 30 March 2009 07:09 (fifteen years ago) link
2009 is kinda weak so far.
fuck's sake, must we deal with this every year
― lex pretend, Monday, 30 March 2009 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
1. the-dream, love vs money2. taylor swift, fearless3. yeah yeah yeahs, it's blitz4. ce'cile, worth it5. omar-s, fabric 456. the juan maclean, the future will come7. durrty goodz, ultrasound8. agf/delay, symptoms9. lindstrøm & prins thomas, ii10. federation presents tnt, 3 the hard way
(taylor swift and ce'cile only had uk releases this year)
― lex pretend, Monday, 30 March 2009 08:20 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i finally head fearless this past week and am basically in love with it
― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 March 2009 08:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Rebotini - Music ComponentsCirclesquare - Music .. Spektre - Live @ GladeScaramanga Six - Songs of PreyLily Allen - Its not .. Ben Klock - One
really looking forward to : The Black Dog and Flykkiller
― mark e, Monday, 30 March 2009 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
is that the hyphy Federation?
― otmcat (The Reverend), Monday, 30 March 2009 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I know it's only the end of March now, but that's a lot of Lily Allen LP love so far. Think it will hold over til next January?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 March 2009 08:54 (fifteen years ago) link
It barely held on till March for me, so I doubt it.
― Mordy, Monday, 30 March 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The RTFO Bandwagon record sounds promising.
― ambient bangers (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 30 March 2009 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
As usual still catching up with last year and the couple of decades before that :) , but I have heard and enjoyed:
Telepathe, Dance MotherAnimal Collective, Merriweather Post PavilionT.I.T.S, Second Base
― ears are wounds, Monday, 30 March 2009 10:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Neko CaseThe BossThe Pains
are all very good.
― the pinefox, Monday, 30 March 2009 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
which probably makes this my best pop year in ages.
― the pinefox, Monday, 30 March 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Lots of good things just around the pipeline. Laurent Garnier's got a humdinger and there's a new band called My Toys Like Me who don't sound quite like anything else I've ever heard.
― the next grozart, Monday, 30 March 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
as far as commercial mixes go, hard to imagine anyone will top henrik schwarz, ame and dixon's 'the grandfather paradox' this year. surprised to see no mention of it yet here
― all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Monday, 30 March 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm listening now to Woods - Songs Of Shame and it's super-great,way better than anything theyve done before.about Fanfarlo - arent they pure imitators of Arcade Fire etc...?
― Zeno, Monday, 30 March 2009 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
are they? don't hear it myself
― Bad, Bad Memories of a Good Time (electricsound), Monday, 30 March 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Besides the ones already listed, the new Soundtrack Of Our Lives is great and one of their best ever.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 March 2009 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i was listeing to them only once, so i might be wrong about arcade fire, but i do remember thinkingbout the lack of originality..xpost
― Zeno, Monday, 30 March 2009 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
SFA and Zu. Nick is OTM about that Animal Collective record.
Album mentioned on this thread I'd be most interested in hearing: The Antlers - Hospice
― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Monday, 30 March 2009 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The album come out last year but my favourite single of 2k9 is Dream Big by Jazmine Sullivan so far.
― there's a big metaphor going on in which pussy is medicine (a hoy hoy), Monday, 30 March 2009 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, so Woods - Songs of Shame (Beach Boys Meets Fairport Convention for a 60's psych party or something)http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s2175979.jpg
thank you for this record.
― Zeno, Monday, 30 March 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Animal Collective, Gnaw, Cobalt, SFA, Staff Benda Bilili, Wounded Knee, Fennesz, Omar S, probably Junior Boys, probably Meanderthals
― Climate Of Basshunter (DJ Mencap), Monday, 30 March 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah if you think this has been a weak year ur trippin imo, look harder
wanna grab that lindstrom
― knive k (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 March 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
20 albums
Jono El Grande – Neo Dada (Rune Grammofon)Faust – C’est Com…Com…Complique (Bureau)Ian Gillan – One Eye To Morocco (Eagle Rock)Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond (Fabric)K’Naan – Troubador (A&M)Kid Sister – Dream Date (Downtown)Diagonal – Diagonal (Rise Above)Megan Munroe – One More Broken String (Diamond)Jessica Lurie Ensemble – Shop Of Wild Dreams (Zipa!Music)Pat Green – What I’m For (BNA)Rufus Huff – Rufus Huff (Zoho Roots)Sarah Borges And the Broken Singles – The Stars Are Out (Sugar Hill)Dirty Little Rabbits – Simon (The End)Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy – Spirit Moves (Greenleaf)Sinner – Crash And Burn (Candlelight USA)Lady Sovereign – Jigsaw (EMI/Midget)Rodney Atkins -- It’s America (Curb)The Flatlanders – Hills And Valleys (New West)Eric Church – Carolina (Capitol)Steadlür – Everything Is Nothing (Roadrunner)
10 reissues
Benny – Amigo Charly Brown: Die Hits Von Gestern Und Auch Heut (Alaska)(Various Artists) – The Chiswick Story, Part 1 (Ace)Richard Thompson -- Walking On A Wire Discs One and Two (Shout! Factory)(Various Artists) – Fly Girls!: B-Boys Beware: Revenge Of The Super Female Rappers! (Soul Jazz)The Scene Is Now – Tonight We Ride (Lexicon Devil)Sigh – Imaginary Soundscape (The End)Zero Boys – Vicious Circle (Secretly Canadian)(Various Artists) – Winter Dance Party: 50th Anniversary Special: The Day The Music Died (El Toro)Death – …For The Whole World To See (Drag City)Thin Lizzy – Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia 1977 (VH1 Classic)
10 singles
Jamey Johnson – “High Cost Of Living”John Rich – “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”Shystie feat. DJ Deekline – “New Style”Sarah Buxton – “Space”Love and Theft – “Runaway”Caitlin & Will – “Even Now”Floyd Taylor --- “Southern Soul Party”Betty Padgett – “Sugar Daddy”Raekwon -- "Heat Rocks"Trace Adkins – “I Can’t Outrun You”
― xhuxk, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Loney Dear - Dear John
― Ludo, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
xhuxk, is the new richard thompson collection good? I've got two other Richard Thompson box sets, for god's sake. is it worth it/different?
― tylerw, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, if you already have two boxes, I can't tell you. I don't have any, and I think the first two discs are a pretty definitive summation -- Probably what I'll put on, from now on, when I want to hear the guy. Discs three and four, on the other hand, I found barely listenable. Fortunately, the advance I was sent wasn't the whole box, but two separate 2-disc sets.
― xhuxk, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
(Disc 2 seems to carry you more or less through to the mid '80s fwiw, after which I've always had trouble remotely caring about him -- though I did like Sweet Revenge more than I expected a couple years ago. Will probably try to spend more time with discs 3 and 4, but am not expecting much.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 30 March 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
(I mean Sweet Warrior, duh.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 30 March 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
cool, thanks, i'll investigate further ... don't think i need another multi-disc Thompson set, though. Unless there's like some definitive version of "Calvary Cross" that's never been released.
― tylerw, Monday, 30 March 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Syntheme, Stinking Lizaveta, Teeth Of The Sea and These Are Powers can go on my list too
― Climate Of Basshunter (DJ Mencap), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Some mo' suchlike the likes o'which ain't been mentioned yet:
The One Ensemble Orchestra, Other Thunders (Daniel Padden & a company o'six)PhoneCall, Behind The Music EPGutbucket, A Modest ProposalKristjan Randalu, Desde ManhattanDakota Suite, The End of TryingHoppy Kamiyama, The three cornered world
― t**t, Monday, 30 March 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Dakota Suite, The End of Trying
^^ YES. The just released remix album of that one, 'The Night Just Keeps Coming In', is also gorgeous (remixes by Loscil, Machinefabriek, Peter Broderick, Hauschka, Deaf Center, Arve Henriksen, Gregg Haines, Tape, The Boats, Jacacsek, the list goes on and on...)
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 30 March 2009 22:19 (fifteen 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