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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => music, art and culture => Topic started by: SA Chris on December 10, 2009, 11:56:22 am
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NME - http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/48412 (http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/48412)
Times online - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6922991.ece (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6922991.ece)
Go on bare your soul - what's your top 10? or 20? (any more is taking the piss)
I am still deciding.
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Whats an "album"? :P
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Oh ha ha ha. It's format that non-geeks and children who download singles listen to music in.
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/ (http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/) in case you need help.
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Just five from me and in no particular order:
Continental - Robin Guthrie. I'm an unadulterated fan of Guthrie's work and this is the best of a pretty good bunch he's brought out in the last 4 or 5 years. In another year or two I may place his current album Carousel above this one.
The Flying Club Cup - Beirut. The second album from an idiosyncratic young folk/world music influenced multi-intrumentalist from New Mexico builds on the promise of his debut.
Goodbye - Ulrich Schnauss. Beautiful soundscapes from one of the best at the more ambient end of the music spectrum.
High - The Blue Nile. Maybe not quite up with their first two albums back in the 80s but a major recovery from the disappontment of 1996's Peace at Last.
Mirrorball - John Foxx & Robin Guthrie. Thirty years ago I was a fan of the original Ultravox then for many years I've been a fan of the Cocteau Twins so i wasn't surprised to find I liked this one!
Generally, I have found this to be a bland decade lacking in originality or real creativity as far as "popular" music is concerned. I do realise that this is at least partly due to ageing and the resulting ossification of the brain!
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Burial - Untrue
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Alright, I'll bite :-\
In no particular order.....
1. Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
2. White Stripes - Elephant
3. RHCP - By The Way
4. Various - Chemical Generation
5. Manu le Malin - Biomechanik 3
6. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
7. Public Domain - Hard Hop Superstars
8. Lenny Dee - IF56 Industrialization
9. Sky - Squared
10. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
I know, I know :-[
A horrible mish-mash of populist crap and obscure sh!t that makes you bleed from assorted orifices.
Choons, aint they 'kin :great:
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Off the top of my head.........
Either Funeral or Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. Both are amazing. Probably the best live band I've seen in that time too.
Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team.
Music in Mouth by Bell X1.
Chase This Light by Jimmy Eat World.
A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by Flaming Lips.
I'll think of more.
Most overrated load of dogshit, anything by Franz Ferdinand or The White Stripes. :)
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After some deliberation and perusing lists, here is my somewhat pedestrian selection
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Royksopp - Melody AM
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Killers - Hot Fuss
Doves - Some Cities
Gomez - How we Operate
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
British Sea Power - the Decline of BSP
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Hard Fi - Stars of CCTV
UNKLE - Never Never Land
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Caribou - Andorra
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
LCD Sound System - Sounds of Silver
Groove Armada - Goodbye Country
Charlatans - Wonderland
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Can't believe The Times have Kid A at #1 and yet there is no mention of the far superior Shirehorses album Our Kid Eh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Kid_Eh).
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A lot more entertaining than Chris Moyle's "hilarious" parody album (I suspect, having not listened to it).
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I presume so as "Tony" is probably the best parody song ever made.
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I tend to like albums with drums in. Quite partial to ones with bass as well. Can't think of any of the top of my head though.
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I tend to like albums with drums in. Quite partial to ones with bass as well. Can't think of any of the top of my head though.
(http://www.powerplaydirect.com/Covers/Pop/654193.jpg)
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wasn't endtroducing mid 90s?
any list needs the Bon Iver album in it.
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I thought that, but Amazon says there was a version released in 2001, might have been a re-issue though.
If you want Bon Iver in a list you know what to do.....
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your all missing: neon neon - stainless style
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I thought that, but Amazon says there was a version released in 2001, might have been a re-issue though.
If you want Bon Iver in a list you know what to do.....
PM r-man?
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your all missing: neon neon - stainless style
Jim, it's all based on opinion. See my above response to cofe.
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Slackers I hate you.
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My top ten
in no particular order
Portishead - 3
Unkle - war stories
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World
Deftones - White Pony
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Placebo - Meds
System of a Down - Toxicity
Cult of Luna - Salvation
The Distillers - Coral Fang
Grandaddy - Sumday
and yes I know there are 12
I can't cut it any more
Also I wasn't sure if Maiden's Rock in Rio would count being a live album and all
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hmmm none of the 12 in my top ten make the times top 100 -wonder what that says about me... :-\
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My top ten
in no particular order
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World
You can have Bleed American as it's from 2001 but Jimmy Eat World was 1994. :)
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your all missing: neon neon - stainless style
Jim, it's all based on opinion. See my above response to cofe.
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My top ten
in no particular order
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World
You can have Bleed American as it's from 2001 but Jimmy Eat World was 1994. :)
I was meaning the 2000 album; the version I've got is called Jimmy Eat World - was retitled after 9/11... ;D
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Ah I get you. It is a great album.
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a bland decade lacking in originality or real creativity as far as "popular" music is concerned.
Maybe, but the revival/ rehash of the folk and 80's electro genres has been great, particularly when the two have overlapped.
Damien Rice - O
Hot Chip - The Warning
Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres
Chris Thile - How to grow a woman from the ground
Explosions in the sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Godspeed you black emperor! - Lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!
The Postal Service - Give Up
Richard Hawley - Lowedges
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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco - A Ghost is Born (am trying to resist also including Kicking Television, Sky Blue Shy and Wilco (the album)
Either/both of the Dinosaur Jr comebacks - probably Farm on balance
Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
Would also include Bon Iver, Burial and may be Grizzly Bear. Not sure of the balance.
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a bland decade lacking in originality or real creativity as far as "popular" music is concerned.
Maybe, but the revival/ rehash of the folk and 80's electro genres has been great, particularly when the two have overlapped.
Damien Rice - O
Hot Chip - The Warning
Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres
Chris Thile - How to grow a woman from the ground
Explosions in the sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Godspeed you black emperor! - Lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!
The Postal Service - Give Up
Richard Hawley - Lowedges
I'd second many of those, particularly chris thile
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Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
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Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Roots - Phrenology
Strokes - Is This It
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Streets – Original Pirate Material
The Coral - The Coral
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Foals - Antidotes
Thinking about this has really made me realise how much music i used to buy, and no longer do....and just how long ago 1999 was!! :-[
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some of the most impessive albums of the 0-s (subjective selection on different levels of sonic perception):
ornette coleman - sound grammar
steel pole bath tub - unlistenable
lightning bolt - hypermagicmountain
wevie stonder - the bucket
... anything else just vanished into background noise...;-)
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I've been reading this thread over the last few days thinking about my list and was getting nowhere so as I'm housebound I took a pen and paper around the CD racks, vinyl and my iTunes library and made a list.
In no particular order, here's my albums of the noughties:
Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease down the road & Master and Everyone
Moodymann - Forevernevermore
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
Wilco - A ghost is born
Susumu Yokota - The boy and the tree
Electralane - Axes
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Upfront Narratives
Tortoise - Standards
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Four Tet - Rounds
Jesu - Jesu
James Yorkston and the Athletes - Moving up country
Adem - Adem
The Sea and Cake - Everybody
DJ Food - Kaleidescope
Burial - Untrue
Six Organs Of Admittance - The manifestation
The Early Years - The early years
Moloko - Statues
Fridge - Happiness
West Coast - Studio
Theo Parrish - Parallel Dimensions
The Libertines - The libertines
Stephen R Smith - Kohl
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Special mentions for re-issues:
Bill Fay - Time of the last persecution
Fairport Convention - Liege and Liefe
Neu! - Neu!, Neu!2, Neu!75
The Watersons - Mighty river of song
Poptastic album of the decade:
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
I'm sure I've missed some :-\ Looking back, it was a better decade for music than I thought.
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A few good recommendations there chaps - I am almost certainly missing a fair few "classics" from my collection as I am at work but inspired in part by those listed by others and working from memory here is my first Top
Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen...
Royksopp - Melody AM
Four Tet - Rounds
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae to Heaven (Was this really released in 2003?)
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat
Tortoise - Standards
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds of the Stars of the Lid
Fisk Industries - Isle of Wight EP
Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue
Stray Ghost - Stray Ghost
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Spiritulized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space (just re-released so I can get away with it)
Portishead - Three
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erm...
just checked release dates so have to add a 13th to my top ten :-[
100 broken windows - Idlewild
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Like Hearts Swelling (2003) - Polmo Polpo
Emotionalism (2007) - Avett Brothers
Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough (2005) - The Black Keys
Empty The Bones of You (2003) - Chris Clark
Tin Type EP (2003) - Elliot Brood
The Midnight Organ Fight (2008) - Frightened Rabbit
Boys and Girls in America (2006) - The Hold Steady
Strike (2005) - Job Karma
The National (2001), Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (2003), Cherry Tree EP (2004), Alligator (2005), Boxer (2007), White Session (2007) - The National
Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down (2008) - Noah and the Whale
Greetings From Wawa (2000) - Old Crow Medicine Show
Checkmate Savage (2009) - Phantom Band
A River 'ain't Too Much To Love (2005), 'Neath the Puke Tree EP (2000) - (Smog)
Also, a second vote for 'Whatever You Love, You Are' by Dirty Three - phenomenal stuff.
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Would probably have voted Ocean Songs but its too early.
More contenders:
Gillian Welch - Time (the revelator)
Teitur - The Singer
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Liver at Canterbury House (OK, recorded in the 60s but only recently released for first time and unmissable for Out of My Mind and Clancy Can't Sing alone)
British Sea Power - Man of Aran
Bonnie Prince Billy - Is it the Sea?
Lots of suggestions to follow up from others' list.
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Boys and Girls in America (2006) - The Hold Steady
YES! his and the Godspeed album are probably the two I've seen on other lists that would be on mine
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a bland decade lacking in originality or real creativity as far as "popular" music is concerned.
Maybe, but the revival/ rehash of the folk and 80's electro genres has been great, particularly when the two have overlapped.
Damien Rice - O
Hot Chip - The Warning
Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres
Chris Thile - How to grow a woman from the ground
Explosions in the sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Godspeed you black emperor! - Lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!
The Postal Service - Give Up
Richard Hawley - Lowedges
What a great sentence, followed by a moment of madness. Damien Rice? I assume you're sleeping on a plastic sheet? Classic indie landfill.
Apart from that some good choices.
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There's loads of things I've never heard cropping up on lists that I'll be listening to before the year is out.
Nice work everyone. :)
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Like Hearts Swelling (2003) - Polmo Polpo
Add that one to my list as well - one of the best releases on Constellation.
Stubbs - anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor is a joy to own - would struggle to pick one album out of the their releases to recommend though my personal favourite has to be F# A# (Infinity) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinity-Godspeed-You-Black-Emperor/dp/B000007T2Z/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1260777900&sr=8-3) just for Dead Flag Blues which features a spoken word voice over by Lee Marvin!! :o
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There's loads of things I've never heard cropping up on lists that I'll be listening to before the year is out.
Nice work everyone. :)
:agree:
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Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Bop - Clear your Mind
Consequence - Live for Never
Isis - Panopticon
Tool - Lateralus
D Bridge - The Gemini Principle
Architects - Hollow Crown
Quantic - The Fifth Exotic
Fanu - Homefree
Current Value - 2012 The day of Silence
I could think of more, but that's my ten... I'll probably think of more important ones later but for the moment I've forgotten!
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There's loads of things I've never heard cropping up on lists that I'll be listening to before the year is out.
Nice work everyone. :)
:agree:
Definitely, took a punt on the Polmo Polpo this morning and was richly rewarded.
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Like Hearts Swelling (2003) - Polmo Polpo
Add that one to my list as well - one of the best releases on Constellation.
Stubbs - anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor is a joy to own - would struggle to pick one album out of the their releases to recommend though my personal favourite has to be F# A# (Infinity) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinity-Godspeed-You-Black-Emperor/dp/B000007T2Z/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1260777900&sr=8-3) just for Dead Flag Blues which features a spoken word voice over by Lee Marvin!! :o
Good call on dead Flag Blues - very memorable.
here's my list which i struggled to edit down to anywhere near 10:
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker or Gold
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Lambchop – Nixon
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Richmond Fontaine – Post to Wire
Nick Cave – No More Shall We Part
Drive by Truckers – The Dirty South
Grandaddy – Sophtware Slump
Jim O’Rourke – Insignificance
At the Drive in – Relationship of Command
Bonnie Prince Billy – Ease on Down the Road
LCD Sound System – Sound of Silver
Chris Wood - Trespasser
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
My Computer - Vulnerabilia
PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around The World
And a couple of recent releases which I love, but haven’t lived with long enough to know if they qualify:
TV on the Radio – Dear Science
Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
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Lambchop - Is a woman
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Calexico - Hot Rail
Well that's another three to add to what I think is now 18 nominations from myself...
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I almost put Feast of Wire by Calexico - a great band!
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I almost put Feast of Wire by Calexico - a great band!
You are not wrong there - has to be Hot Rail for me though as it has their sound distilled to perfection and it has the added bonus of one of the best album covers that I can think of.
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Somebody mentioned Toxicity by System of a Down - I dug this out again from the cupboard last night and was blown away by how powerful and intense it is. A definite contender!
Lots of stuff that I've yet to check out or return to from the lists you've all given (e.g. I haven't listened to Jimmy Eat World for years) - there's no such thing as too much music!
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a few off the top of my head...
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner (this blew my mind at the time... shame about his more recent stuff)
Vincent Gallo - When
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Venetian Snares - Find Candace
J Dilla - Donuts
There have been some great compilations and re-issues too, something which seems to have been an increasing trend this decade, especially in folk/blues and world music. I've discovered a lot of music this way in the past few years, although it does make you feel like a bit of a consumer!
London is the Place for Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London
American Primitive 1 + 2
Anything by Smithsonian Folkways
Guinee - African Pearls Vol.2
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
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I thought that, but Amazon says there was a version released in 2001, might have been a re-issue though.
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http://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Shadow (http://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Shadow)
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Ok, so I've got it in my list as a reissue.
If it really matters to you though, I will take it out.
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Ok, so I've got it in my list as a reissue.
If it really matters to you though, I will take it out.
Don't make offers like that Chris - I will have to remove the reissue of Spiritulized's Ladies and Gentlemen... from my selection if it gets taken up on. ;)
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Ok, so I've got it in my list as a reissue.
If it really matters to you though, I will take it out.
Don't make offers like that Chris - I will have to remove the reissue of Spiritulized's Ladies and Gentlemen... from my selection if it gets taken up on. ;)
I got one of the originals of these that came packaged up like a tablet, the CD was even in a plastic "popper" packet. Only got the single CD version though, but would have loved to get the 12 CD version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen_We_Are_Floating_in_Space#Special_editions).
Must dig out some Spiritualized, cheers for the reminder.
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I got one of the originals of these that came packaged up like a tablet, the CD was even in a plastic "popper" packet. Only got the single CD version though, but would have loved to get the 12 CD version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen_We_Are_Floating_in_Space#Special_editions).
Must dig out some Spiritualized, cheers for the reminder.
So have I and the reissue (with extras) has been packaged the same way apparently.
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I got one of the originals of these that came packaged up like a tablet, the CD was even in a plastic "popper" packet. Only got the single CD version though, but would have loved to get the 12 CD version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen_We_Are_Floating_in_Space#Special_editions).
Must dig out some Spiritualized, cheers for the reminder.
So have I and the reissue (with extras) has been packaged the same way apparently.
Yeah, just checked and they've also re-issued the 12 x 3" CD's, but only 1000 and I can't be arsed getting the extra tracks (do I really need an acappella version of Ladies and Gentlemen, no).
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I got one of the originals of these that came packaged up like a tablet, the CD was even in a plastic "popper" packet. Only got the single CD version though, but would have loved to get the 12 CD version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen_We_Are_Floating_in_Space#Special_editions).
Must dig out some Spiritualized, cheers for the reminder.
So have I and the reissue (with extras) has been packaged the same way apparently.
Yeah, just checked and they've also re-issued the 12 x 3" CD's, but only 1000 and I can't be arsed getting the extra tracks (do I really need an acappella version of Ladies and Gentlemen, no).
Falling Down, FD's mate Dave, Johnny Brown and myself had the great pleasure of watching Spiritualized (plus gospel choir and string and horn sections) perform Ladies and Gentleman on Monday night. Very good it was too.
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In no particular order:
Who Killed The Zutons? - The Zutons (Great!)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41286D7A8GL._SS400_.jpg)
The Decline of British Sea Power - British Sea Power (plenty of personality)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412N830NW4L._SS400_.jpg)
Man of Aran - British Sea Power (Let it wash over you and think of deep, briny waters and towering cliffs rising out of them)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415NVM7iBJL._SS500_.jpg)
The Prodigal Son - Martin Simpson (Excellently assembled. All the big songs in it are beautiful)
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Permission to Land - The Darkness (Power chords, tight cat suits, flamboyance and staggering gigs. What's not to love?)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419E1F85ATL._SS500_.jpg)
Roll With You - Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves (The Satisfier!)
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The Libertines - The Libertines (Cooooool)
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A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park (Didn't think I would enjoy it but I was nicely surprised)
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Just Enough Education to Perform - The Stereophonics (First band I saw live. It didn't disappoint)
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The Bramble Briar - Martin Simpson (More delectable fretwork)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51v2WUjmmKL._SS400_.jpg)
Of these the second, fourth, sixth and eighth are my favourites and the ones you should go and spend your money on then report back to me telling me what you thought.
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That Maximo Park album is great but Just Enough Education.... is an interesting choice as I reckon it's the worst album The Stereophonics have done (and I think they're ok).
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Agree. Not their best, but probably their best this decade.
And the obsession with the Darkness is unhealthy.
Otherwise good stuff.
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Ernie Payne - Coercion Street
Sigur Ros - Takk
Are two that spring to mind that haven't been mentioned thus far.
Agree re: JEEP not being a highlight for the Stereophonics let alone the decade and putting the Darkness in a top ten of the decade is dangerously close to a puntering offence.
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monkees:
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burbage:
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Ctrl-C Ctrl-V:
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grey-Z:
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I also really this:
The Last Time I Took Acid I Went Insane - Jeffrey Lewis
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Agree. Not their best, but probably their best this decade.
This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language._Sex._Violence._Other%3F) is a much better album than JEEP. I should point out that the reason I'm an expert is that the Mrs is a fan (but even she admits that Mr Writer is a shockingly bad tune).
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I prefer Just Enough.... to LSVO. Neither's a patch on Word Gets Around though and doesn't deserve to be mentioned as AotD.
Agree with Dave that artic monkeys is in. Libertines also a great album.
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Here's a few that I keep returning to;
Battles - Mirrored
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Fall - Fall Heads Roll
Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines
Add n to (x) - Louder Than Nature
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Delgados - Hate
Goldie Lookin Chain - Greatest Hits
Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
Primal Scream - xtrmntr
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
Melt Banana - Cell-scape
Janes Addiction - Strays
St Germain - Tourist
Joy Zipper - The Heartlight Set
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
David Holmes - Presents the Free Association
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
P J Harvey - Stories from the City Stories from the Sea
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow :whistle:
Far exceeded my quota of ten but once you get going on these lists...
Pitchfork have a top 200 albums of the decade!
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7706-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-200-151/ (http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7706-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-200-151/)
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A few personal fav's:
TooL - Lateralus
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
SOAD - Toxicity
Muse - Absolution
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
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Here's a few that I keep returning to;
Battles - Mirrored
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Fall - Fall Heads Roll
Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines
Add n to (x) - Louder Than Nature
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Delgados - Hate
Goldie Lookin Chain - Greatest Hits
Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
Primal Scream - xtrmntr
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
Melt Banana - Cell-scape
Janes Addiction - Strays
St Germain - Tourist
Joy Zipper - The Heartlight Set
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
David Holmes - Presents the Free Association
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
P J Harvey - Stories from the City Stories from the Sea
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow :whistle:
Far exceeded my quota of ten but once you get going on these lists...
Pitchfork have a top 200 albums of the decade!
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7706-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-200-151/ (http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7706-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-200-151/)
Good call on Battles - I'd forgotten about that (how could i given how brilliant it was)
The Plant/Krauss album was excellent too
and there are about 4 or 5 tracks on Fever to Tell that I think are fantastic, but didn't really get the whole thing...
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Music stopped in 1977 the rest is just noise.
Although I did like BRMC cock rock x with Jesus and Mary Chain.
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quite niche but great to me should have been on my initial list
Song to Ruin - Million Dead
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Music stopped in 1977 the rest is just noise.
noise as a form of music started in 1977 and has been enjoyed ever since.
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Music stopped in 1977 the rest is just noise.
noise as a form of music started in 1977 and has been enjoyed ever since.
Strictly speak, 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzbow), but close enough.
So far I think there is exactly zero overlap between the albums on this thread and my choices :)
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Off topic I know but if you're going to get picky with Chris..
>So far I think there is exactly zero overlap between the albums on this thread and my choices :)
That's 'cos you've got really quite narrow taste in music :kiss1: and why you think noise started with Merzbow ;)
Cough (http://www.melafoundation.org/), Cough (http://www.rhyschatham.net/), Cough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music),
:)
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HAH :P
I was just teasing, and lending support to his rebuttal of Schloper...
I have pretty broad taste in music BUT it's mostly in the relatively extreme spectra and doesn't really stray into normal stuff. I should really do a top ten too.
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Cough (http://www.melafoundation.org/), Cough (http://www.rhyschatham.net/), Cough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music),
:)
Cough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNt6a5xFOnE#)
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Ace... :)
Now let's leave the noise otherwise I fear it'll drown out the marvellous suggestions thus far (although Kevin Drumm's Sheer Hellish Miasma should perhaps be on here?)
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Kevin Drumm is excellent.
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I haven't taken the time to ponder this one with due care and attention yet - and the past several months have seen my ears burn to the sound of whatever funk I could get out of the headphones.
However, I found this one rolling about in the automobile earlier today and it definitely makes it into my top ten:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/RosszCsillag.jpg)
Venetian Snares - 'Rossz csillag alatt született'
I've been trying to come up with something review like to say about this - essentially it's rather brooding orchestral samples - twisted around jungle breakbeats and formed into something quite astounding. Almost beyond description, so I'd suggest giving it a solid rinse.
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Rinsed. it is good that.
Anyway, my recommendation:
(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/9766-eingya.jpg)
Helios - Eingya
After hearing a remix by Stray (http://soundcloud.com/straydnb/helios-first-dream-called-ocean-stray-remix) of one fo the tunes on this album, I decided to buy it. It has a beautiful cover- a good start. Pop it in the CD player, sit back and let the audial tide wash over your toes dipping in the sea of atmospheric, ambient, pure and natural, earthy sounding electronica. I recommend this. Get it, got it? Good.
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Pearl Jam - Backspacer
We agree on something,
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Had trouble just thinking of ten original albums from the decade that I like, spent most of the time on older stuff.
Anyway in no particular order, some of these I probably wouldn't rant about but still;
Discovery -Daft Punk
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Whatever.. - Arctic Monkeys
The Blueprint - Jay-Z
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
Give Up - The Postal Service
Drukqs - Aphex Twin
Madvillany - Doom
Mr Beast - Mogwai
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Helios - Eingya
Get it, got it? Good.
All of their covers are similar IIRC - not sure if I have got that particular one but I certainly have at least one album and probably two by them at home - must dig it out and listen to it again.
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Not sure how I managed to miss a concept album about John DeLorean but me and Raf have been listening to the Neon Neon album on Spotify this morning and it's very good. In fact Spotify is the best thing ever for checking out stuff off this thread that had passed me by.
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It's all about taste isn't it? This gets my vote (September 99)
http://www.ninwiki.com/The_Fragile_%28halo%29 (http://www.ninwiki.com/The_Fragile_%28halo%29)
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Helios - Eingya
Get it, got it? Good.
not sure if I have got that particular one but I certainly have at least one album and probably two by them at home - must dig it out and listen to it again.
Nice to meet you the other day! This is on the record label i was talking about- see my ffffunky fresh beats post for more details!
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I have a few suggestions,
Dukes of Nothing by Dukes of Nothing, a crystallised version of Motorhead, took them 17 minutes to achieve what Lemmy took thirty years to do.
Rancid-Rancid
Struggle to think of anything else, I think I'm lost in a 90's stoner-sludgecore world, without the beer and weed :lol:
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Nice to meet you the other day!
Likewise - went back to the cliff again yesterday and tried a few more things - no wind and a bit of moisture in the air so less than perfect though definitely warmer!
This is on the record label i was talking about- see my ffffunky fresh beats post for more details!
I tend to be rather vague when it comes to record labels a lot of the time and just as much in general usually - it's part of my inimitable charm allegedly... ;)
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The Anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon. We can now close this thread.
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4 cd's I've bought recently:
both flight of the conchords albums
neon neon - stainless style
Miike Snow
neon neon let down by a bad album track or 2 but what do you expect with a concept album
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The Anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon. We can now close this thread.
Is there anything new to this version apart from the surround sound re-master? Is the normal audio the same as previous releases?
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The Anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon. We can now close this thread.
Try Dub Side of the Moon Tom ....It'll bring out the Rasta in ya man .....
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The Anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon.
It is suggestions like this that make me rethink my post arguing for re-releases to be up for inclusion.
We can now close this thread.
Why - it is much easier to just have the one thread where we can heap opprobrium by the bucketful on your music tastes. ;)
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Broken Social Scene - You forgot it in people....forgive the name and give it a try!
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The Anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon. We can now close this thread.
..... and bore people to tears with tedious political mass debates instead.
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A late entry because I only just heard it, My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves.
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I can't believe no one has mentioned the Vengaboys. Pure class
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sxXIqUIexRM/R9xVTDXMOYI/AAAAAAAAASw/1Lls4i5mQcU/s400/Vengaboys+-+The+Party+Album.jpg)
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Bollocks. Will now have the Vengabus in my head all day. Cheers dick.
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I just remembered that this.........
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Wilderness_Is_Paradise_Now.jpg)
.....was really good. Shame they subsequently split up.
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The Venga bus is coming and everyone is jumping
New York to San Francisco.......................... ;D
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Sheffield boys!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_Well_Well_(Milburn_album) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_Well_Well_(Milburn_album))
Brilliant and under-rated............