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07-03-09, 01:50 AM
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Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
I thought that since it is now July, it would be nice to see what everybody's Top 25 (or so) lists of the year so far look like.
Here's mine: 1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 4. St. Vincent - Actor 5. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns 6. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions 7. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains 8. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle 9. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm 10. Dan Deacon - Bromst 11. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer 12. The Horrors - Primary Colours 13. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 14. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 15. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! 17. Handsome Furs - Face Control 18. Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery 19. Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent 20. Isis - Wavering Radiant 21. Ganglians - Monster Head Room 22. Passion Pit - Manners 23. Japandroids - Post-Nothing 24. Various artists - Dark Was the Night 25. Mos Def - The Ecstatic My most anticipated: The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead Bowerbirds - Upper Air Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth Wye Oak - The Knot Volcano Choir (Bon Iver) - Unmap A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away Wild Beasts - Two Dancers Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure Mew - No More Stories... The Postmarks - Memoirs at the End of the World HEALTH - Get Color Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 The Dodos - Time to Die Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1 The Roots - How I Got Over Last edited by Aegean2007; 07-03-09 at 03:08 PM. |
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07-03-09, 02:25 AM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
Looking back, here's the 20 most notable releases that I picked up. In no particular order, as many of them are still being digested.
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali Neko Case - Middle Cyclone The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones Bat for Lashes - Two Suns Leonard Cohen - Live in London Bob Dylan - Together Through Life Vienna Teng - Inland Territory Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin St Vincent - Actor Jill Sobule - California Years Sonic Youth - The Eternal Fanfarlo - Reservoir Nightwish - Dark Passion Play Dinosaur Jr. - Farm Regina Spektor - Far Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failer PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
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07-03-09, 11:04 AM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
There are rarely 25 albums in a year that I love, let alone half the year. That being said, here's what I've been loving so far...
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade Mastodon - Crack the Skye Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions DevilDriver - Pray for Villains Zombi - Spirit Animal Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
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07-03-09, 02:29 PM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
Don't feel like doing 25, but as of now the 10 best releases of the year are. . .
#1. St. Vincent - Actor #2. The Thermals - Now We Can See #3. Akron//Family - Set 'Em Wild Set 'Em Free #4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca #5. Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane #6. William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark #7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! #8. Sin Fang Bous - Clangour #9. Iron & Wine - Around the Well #10. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
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07-03-09, 07:46 PM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
Somehow I missed that Isis had a new album out. Looks like the reviews of it are pretty great across the board. Guess I have to check it out ASAP.
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07-03-09, 09:55 PM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
Haven't heard enough that's impressed me to do more than a top five:
Crippled Black Phoenix, Resurrectionists/Night Raider Major Lazer, Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do Mono, Hymn to the Immortal Wind St. Kilda, [self-titled EP] SunnO))), Monoliths & Dimensions There are a few others I really like at the moment, but are too new to rank.
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07-03-09, 10:02 PM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
I'll do my 10 as well....way too much to type!
1.) Placebo - Battle for the Sun 2.) Blacklist - Midnight of the Century 3.) Freeland - Cope 4.) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 5.) Metric - Fantasies 6.) The King Blues - Save the World, Get the Girl 7.) The Anomalies - Free Soup Social 8.) White Lies - To Lose my Life 9.) IAMX - Kingdom of Welcome Addiction 10.) The Birthday Massacre - Show and Tell Honorable Mention everybody who likes The Streets should check out: Trip - Shortcuts Good, but not great (mild disappointments): 1.) The Sounds - Crossing the Rubicon 2.) Street Sweeper Social Club - s/t 3.) The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die 4.) Filthy Dukes - Nonsense in the Dark 5.) The Crystal Method - Divided by Night 6.) VNV Nation - Of Faith, Power and Glory Just Plain Sucked: Marilyn Manson - High End of the Low Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe damn, got carried away again! |
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07-03-09, 11:25 PM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
How about my top 3?
1. Wilco (the album) 2. God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl 3. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love |
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07-04-09, 02:29 AM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
I find it very hard to believe that there are already 25 worthwhile albums this year. How about a top one?
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane Will check out some of Sessa's and Tscott's selections, though.
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07-04-09, 05:00 AM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
1. The Gossip - Music For Men
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! 3. White Denim - Fits 4. Sonic Youth - The Eternal |
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07-04-09, 09:55 AM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
Halfway through the year, and so far, I've been fairly disappointed with this year's offerings. Some artist and albums I thought for sure would likely make my yearly Top 20, just might not this time around. While there have been a lot of good albums, there hasn't seemed to be a lot of great ones. But, these are the ones that look like they will, in no particular order....
Metric - Fantasies Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! ...if you like either one of these first two albums, and haven't heard the other, than you should check it out. They are kind of like companion pieces to me. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust Silversun Pickups - Swoon Franz Ferdinand - Tonight Superdrag - Industry Giants Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Cheap Trick - The Latest Dinosaur Jr. - Farm ...ones I'm still on the fence about... VAST - Me And You Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller Pete Yorn - Back & Fourth The Damnwells - One Last Century Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You Mastodon - Crack the Skye ...and one I still need to digest.... Wilco - (the album)
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07-04-09, 10:47 AM
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Re: Now That the Year Is Half Over... Your Top 25?
All I got (so far) . . .
Wilco (The Album) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest Neko Case - Middle Cyclone Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller Cheap Trick - The Latest Gomez - A New Tide Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted |
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