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Post by GlimmerTwin on Dec 20, 2008 17:44:37 GMT -5
1. Just Us Kids/James McMurtry
2. Brighter Than Creations Dark/Drive-By Truckers
3. Real Animal/Alejandro Escovedo
4. Furr/Blitzen Trapper
5. Sex & Gasoline/Rodney Crowell
6. Attack & Release /The Black Keys
7. Acid Tongue/Jenny Lewis
8. Trouble in Mind/Hayes Carll
9. Stay Positive/The Hold Steady
10. The Stand-Ins/Okkervil River
11. Mudcrutch/Mudcrutch
12. Real Emotional Trash/Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
13. Midnight in Mississippi/Blue Mountain
14. Brown Submarine/The Boston Spaceships
15. Lost and Found/The Dexateens
16. Mission Control/The Whigs
17. Consolers of the Lonely/The Raconteurs
18. Dig Lazarus Dig/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
19. Little Honey/Lucina Williams
20. Robert Pollard Is Off to Business/Robert Pollard
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Post by penetrationpark on Dec 20, 2008 22:14:06 GMT -5
Top 20:
1. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
3. Portishead - Third
4. Arms - Kids Aflame
5. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
8. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lay Down in the Light
9. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
10. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
11. Times New Vikings - Rip It Off
12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
13. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
14. Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
15. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
16. Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak
17. Beck - Modern Guilt
18. Black Mountain - In the Future
19. The Whigs - Mission Control
20. Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
Bottom 3 (from worst to uhhh... best?):
1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Why? - Alopecia
3. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
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Post by penetrationpark on Dec 20, 2008 22:17:09 GMT -5
Here's the thing with No Age (at least for me). I loved Weirdo Rippers a lot, but Nouns is far too clean and focused to really grove with the band No Age is. |
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Post by lilhan on Dec 21, 2008 10:24:43 GMT -5
1. Just Us Kids/James McMurtry 2. Brighter Than Creations Dark/Drive-By Truckers 3. Real Animal/Alejandro Escovedo 4. Furr/Blitzen Trapper 5. Sex & Gasoline/Rodney Crowell 6. Attack & Release /The Black Keys 7. Acid Tongue/Jenny Lewis 8. Trouble in Mind/Hayes Carll 9. Stay Positive/The Hold Steady 10. The Stand-Ins/Okkervil River 11. Mudcrutch/Mudcrutch 12. Real Emotional Trash/Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 13. Midnight in Mississippi/Blue Mountain 14. Brown Submarine/The Boston Spaceships 15. Lost and Found/The Dexateens 16. Mission Control/The Whigs 17. Consolers of the Lonely/The Raconteurs 18. Dig Lazarus Dig/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 19. Little Honey/Lucina Williams 20. Robert Pollard Is Off to Business/Robert Pollard okay, so i haven't heard half of these but i have added them to the "to buy" list and i will be checking them all out. great list GT. hats off. |
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Post by Gotti on Jan 3, 2009 10:46:09 GMT -5
1. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI Ambleside
3. British Sea Power - Do you like Rock Music ?
4. Dead Leaf Echo - Pale Fire
5. Malcolm Middleton - Sleight of Heart
6. Magnetic Fields - Distortion
7. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
8. Decoration - See you after the War
9. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
10. James - Hey Ma
honourable mentions
Kontakte - Soundtracks to lost road movies
Sarandon - Kill Twee Pop
Aliens - Luna
Manhattan Love Suicides - Burnt out Landscapes
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine
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Post by shuffleitall on Jan 3, 2009 15:07:37 GMT -5
My top 30:
30. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
29. Muse - H.A.A.R.P.
28. Big Linda - I Loved You
27. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
26. The Urges - Psych Ward
25. Sun Kil Moon - April
24. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
23. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
22. Black Mountain - In The Future
21. Izzy Stradlin - Concrete
20. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
19. Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop And Roll!!!
18. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
17. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
16. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
15. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
14. Calexico - Carried To Dust
13. Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend
12. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
10. Gentleman Jesse & His Men - Gentleman Jesse & His Men
09. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
08. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
07. The Black And Whites - The Black And Whites
06. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark
05. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
04. Paul Westerberg - 49:00
03. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
02. The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
01. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
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Post by john k on Jan 3, 2009 15:19:56 GMT -5
the urges rock
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Post by turnstiles on Jan 5, 2009 12:14:54 GMT -5
1. Conor Oberst - ST
2. THS - Stay Posi
3.Weezer - Red
4. Mag Fields - Distortion (seeing them live twice this year was also amazing)
5. Mountain Goats - Herectic Pride ( I wish he would start using a tascam four track again, being me back my lofi!)
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Post by gushingblood on Jan 5, 2009 13:58:29 GMT -5
1. Conor Oberst - ST 2. THS - Stay Posi 3. Weezer - Red4. Mag Fields - Distortion (seeing them live twice this year was also amazing) 5. Mountain Goats - Herectic Pride ( I wish he would start using a tascam four track again, being me back my lofi!) I know everyone's entitled to their own opinion. But I am very curious to why you selected Red album. I find that it lyrics are wafer think and pointless, the songs boring, and the only songs worth a listen are The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived and Pork & Beans. I was expecting an album as good as Pinkerton and Blue, but I think it is even worse than Make Believe. |
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Post by motörben on Jan 5, 2009 17:12:47 GMT -5
You're right, everyone is entitled to their opinion. That's why nobody here's called you out on being a Killers fan.
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Post by gushingblood on Jan 5, 2009 17:32:47 GMT -5
You're right, everyone is entitled to their opinion. That's why nobody here's called you out on being a Killers fan. I like the Killers because they write great hooks and melodies. They just write tunes which are fun to sing-a-long to. I'm just wondering why Turnstiles like Red Album, because he is the only person with it in his End of Year List and I thought it was the most dissapointing album of the year. (I'm a hugh Blue & Pinkerton fan) |
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Post by parock on Jan 5, 2009 17:48:18 GMT -5
How does anyone think Weezer will ever release anything that is on par with The Blue Album or Pinkerton? It'll never happen. They're gonna keep writing rubbish like "Beverly Hills" and so on.
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Post by 212margarita on Jan 5, 2009 17:53:29 GMT -5
I really am going to need to amend my best of list. I listened to so much stuff on my trip that i had been meaning to listen to.
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Post by gushingblood on Jan 5, 2009 18:15:39 GMT -5
How does anyone think Weezer will ever release anything that is on par with The Blue Album or Pinkerton? It'll never happen. They're gonna keep writing rubbish like "Beverly Hills" and so on. I was just praying for anything, just an improvement on the horrible Make Believe would have done me, I was secretly wishing that Rivers would turn into his old control-freak self. Why did he let other band members write songs? That was daft, Weezer were best when Rivers was the band. |
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Post by 212margarita on Jan 5, 2009 18:27:46 GMT -5
How does anyone think Weezer will ever release anything that is on par with The Blue Album or Pinkerton? It'll never happen. They're gonna keep writing rubbish like "Beverly Hills" and so on. I was just praying for anything, just an improvement on the horrible Make Believe would have done me, I was secretly wishing that Rivers would turn into his old control-freak self. Why did he let other band members write songs? That was daft, Weezer were best when Rivers was the band. I think the Matt Sharp/ Rivers combo was the key really. Everything post pinkerton has just lacked that spirit. I liken it to Greg Graffin and Brett G from Bad Religion. The records without Brett just werent as good. |
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Post by gushingblood on Jan 5, 2009 19:14:23 GMT -5
That said, one thing Weezer never stopped doing was making kick-ass videos.
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Post by nicollet on Jan 7, 2009 22:10:17 GMT -5
so few mentions of The Baseball Project! if you don't already know this one you gotta check it out... i'd think it'd be right up a lot of your alleys... (my that sounds awkward in the plural)
i made a couple year-end lists, only ranked 10 of the best albums but it was hard enough doing that, i don't want to choose any more! they're all honorable mentions beyond these...
1. Vampire Weekend - S/T
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
3. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
4. She & Him - Volume One
5. The Baseball Project - Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
6. The Kooks - Konk
7. The Airborne Toxic Event - S/T
8. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
9. Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine
10. The Felice Brothers - S/T
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Post by john k on Jan 8, 2009 8:44:02 GMT -5
so few mentions of The Baseball Project! if you don't already know this one you gotta check it out... i'd think it'd be right up a lot of your alleys... (my that sounds awkward in the plural) i made a couple year-end lists, only ranked 10 of the best albums but it was hard enough doing that, i don't want to choose any more! they're all honorable mentions beyond these... 1. Vampire Weekend - S/T 2. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs3. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive4. She & Him - Volume One5. The Baseball Project - Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails6. The Kooks - Konk7. The Airborne Toxic Event - S/T 8. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal9. Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine10. The Felice Brothers - S/T number 9 on my list |
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Post by beeftronique on Jan 19, 2009 17:11:45 GMT -5
The Bronx - The Bronx (III)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
i hated the majority of the rest.
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