Matthew on 17/12/2008 at 13:26
Bloody hell, King's X are still going? My cousin will be pleased.
henke on 17/12/2008 at 17:51
I love these threads, always a good starting point for catching up on whatever you've missed the past year. Also, I love making LISTS! :D
Honorable mentions:
Inara George & Van Dyke Parks - An Invitation
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Rench - Gangstagrass
Wale - The Mixtape about nothing
Top 10 albums:
10. Justice - A Cross the UniverseOk so it's just the same songs we heard last year, but live.
09. Buck 65 - Dirtbike 1-3Buck 65 writing and then recording(in his bedroom) 70 songs in three months. The end result: it doesn't all suck! :D
the mixtape: (
http://ugsmag.com/news/buck-65-dirtbike-23-album-download/) download part 2
08. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!07. Hercules and Love Affair - s/t06. Girl Talk - Feed the AnimalsIs it art? Is it even music? I don't know. But it sure is BUMPIN :cool:
Video: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKqkcHvJN9k) Still Here
05. Mindless Self Indulgence - If...They still got it! :D Ok, no they don't. :( But on a few tracks they do! :erg:
str8nime: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFEHvYNz490) Animal
04. Todd Snider - Peace Queer EPPolitical. Funny. Clever. Over too soon.
promovideo: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gh778wdw5E) Mission Accomplished! (Because you gotta have faith)
03. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren ärIt's not often I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't speak Swedish.
Video: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtJxy0zc7nU) Måndagsbarn
02. Why? - AlopeciaYoni Wolf knows that you can't have the beautiful without the ugly.
A video: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23yWqjSC6fM) The Hollows
01. The Bug - London ZooDubstep mixed with Reggae. Not two genres I'm well-aquainted with or expected to like, but this album is just excellent, from start to finish.
Video: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwmUOJR-GwA) Skeng
Top 10 tracks (in no particular order):
Hayes Carll - Beaumont
Willie Nelson - Gravedigger
Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish
The Rapture w/ Timbaland - No Sex for Ben
Sage Francis - Conspiracy to Riot ((
http://www.strangefamousrecords.com/conspiracy/) download)
Ry Cooder - 5000 Country Music Songs
The Bug - Angry
Why? - By Torpedo or Crohn's
CSS - Believe Achieve
Mindless Self Indulgence - Bomb this Track
I don't get it:
Beck - Modern GuiltNot my kinda Beck!
CSS - DonkeyI mean what happened? Did ya balls drop off? Hmm?
TV on the Radio - Dear ScienceEh... well... Family Tree is kinda nice.
fett on 17/12/2008 at 18:48
Quote Posted by Matthew
Bloody hell, King's X are still going? My cousin will be pleased.
Yeah, tell me about it. They just get better and better and still have a really small fanbase, despite the fact that almost every decent rock, metal, or funk band for the last 10 years cites them as a major influence. There's no justice in the world. :(
rachel on 17/12/2008 at 19:10
Quote Posted by demagogue
@raph, the Joni Letters was great, but also released in 2007.
Ok, I stand corrected.
pdenton on 17/12/2008 at 20:53
Didn't listen to much new music in 2008, but from what little I did,
phantom planet - raise the dead
oasis-dig out your soul
the streets-everything is borrowed
Angel Dust on 17/12/2008 at 23:37
Quote Posted by Fingernail
I guarantee nothing on the album or EP is as bad as what happens here: (
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s6HvhZ6hHNs)
I really felt for them, they look pretty shocked when the instruments come in. These things happen, it's just very unfortunate it was on TV.
How embarassing and probably one of the worst shows to do it on too, what with a room full of musicians watching you! Still actually seemed like a cool song and I'm usually quite anti-indie pop, so I'm gonna check some of this stuff out.
Schattentänzer on 18/12/2008 at 02:01
Ick. There's much better stuff in that direction, plus I can't stand people who got big by stealing.
Tonamel on 18/12/2008 at 02:32
In no order:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
They may be a one-color band, but I'll take that for at least one album.
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
I hated the preview clips for this album, but when you hear it all together, it just works.
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
If only for the first two tracks being such a surprise. The rest is more in their usual style, but that's certainly not a bad thing.
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Madness.
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
A lot of this album takes you by surprise, with lots of stopping and starting and jerking around musically. But it never really looses the flow.
AU - Verbs
Folk, with bonus psychedelia. Just how I likes it.
Colourmusic - f, monday, orange, February, Venus, lunatic, 1 or 13
If "Put in a little gas" doesn't put a smile on your face, you're listening to it wrong.
Thao - We Brave Bee Stings And All
Simple feel-good music.
Honorable Mention:
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Shearwater - Rook
ercles on 18/12/2008 at 03:01
Quote Posted by Schattentänzer
Ick. There's much better stuff in that direction, plus I can't stand people who got big by stealing.
I'm yet to hear a band that sounds like this, so I'd be interested if you could point me in their direction. Secondly, you're incredibly naiive if you think that no band you like has ever taken ideas from someone else. In this instance I'm not sure an early demo or a t-shirt really propelled them to being big, not to mention the fact that I really don't think they have made it "big" yet.
Starrfall on 18/12/2008 at 20:11
I'm too cool to buy cds or something I guess but I did get (
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Symmetry/dp/B001HDYK6Y) Perfect Symmetry by Keane and I think it's pretty good! Apparently it's pretty different from their other albums (which I haven't heard and know nothing about). There are videos for tracks 1, 2, and 5 on youtube.
