(Which doesn't mean I'm not interested in anything mentioned here, but I'm close enough to it to want to respond.)
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The range of music being mentioned here isn't really that great.
Seriously. You guys are all listing the same albums and they all suck.
All I really like so far that I can think of at the moment are the Drive By Truckers and Jucifer albums.
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
And Pierced Arrows.
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
don't know those 3 - wonder if they don't suck...
compared to what? don't understand anyone who thought last 2 years had significantly more better stuff than this year
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I've listened to and liked a lot of albums this year, but the only one that I really absolutely love is Kelley Polar's. I don't know if I'm burnt out but even albums by acts I usually love (M83, Mag Fields, Cut Copy etc) aren't holding my attention.
― Roz, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
pierced arrows = great.
juicifer and dbt's = zzzz for me.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
10. breeders - mountain battles 9. born ruffians - red, yellow and blue 8. hercules & love affair - s/t 7. crystal castles - s/t 6. oxford collapse - bits 5. times new viking - rip it off 4. the spectacles - home 3. nick cave and bad seeds - dig, lazarus, dig 2. fake fictions - krakatoa 1. prairie spies - surplus enjoyment
― n/a, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
good call on the shearwater album people. i'm listening to it now and into it
― kamerad, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
lol nick.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
lolnick.
jeremy lolnick would make a good pseudonym.
compared to what?
I see an awful lot of indie rock on these lists though, which just doesn't do it for me (or when it does, I make sure not to label it indie rock). But then, I also have essentially no interest in hip-hop or "dance music," and I could add a few more major genres to that probably, so maybe I am looking for a narrow range of music? It's just that I know there's a bunch of other music out there (there has to be?) that's doing things this stuff isn't.
I don't think 2007 was so great either. I found a lot of 2006 albums to like though.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
that's an honest list, i like our album more than everything else i've heard this year, except the prairie spies
― n/a, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
good call on the shearwater album people. i'm listening to it now and into it.
I'm sort of listening to it now, too. It's at least a little better than I expected, and worth more effort on my part.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I see an awful lot of indie rock on these lists though, which just doesn't do it for me
Same for me, which is why I rarely listen to any music from this decade despite having a burning urge to find new bands to really get into and follow.
I want to find more bands like Pierced Arrows (who are basically just Dead Moon), The Sadies, Drive By Truckers, etc. etc. Basically, ROCK based rock. Not this indie pop/rock bullshit. I personally think the 00s are the worst decade for music by FAR...bar none. Nothing else even comes close.
If anyone has anything to recommend, I'm all for it. I just don't think much of the music I really love gets made anymore, or if it does, it rarely gets out of the garage.
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I can even get into a lot of psychedelic music though, as long as it's based in REAL (again, by my definition) music. Plastic Crimewave Sound and early Comets on Fire would be great examples.
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Will probably make my 2008 top ten (not in this order): Kleerup, Step Up 2 the Streets OST, Mariah, Erykah Badu, Spiritualized, Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, Los Campesinos!
Maybes: Hercules and the Love Affair, Elbow
Still have to listen to: Portishead, The-Dream, Kelley Polar, Lil Mama, Studio, The Raveonettes, the Drive-By Truckers
Still waiting on: Cassie, Ryan Leslie, Cortney Tidwell, Annie, Beyonce, Solange, The Juan Maclean???
Boooooo!!!: Fuck Buttons, Magnetic Fields
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
(and yes, Badu = my favorite)
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
this is the thread for you.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah are the juan maclean putting out an album?
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this decade's music (far more than, say, the 90s), but -- to be fair -- I like (lol) indie. I just think this has been a substandard year, so far. But the second half of the year looks v. promising to me.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"I have finished a new album that will be coming out sometimes in the Spring/Summer of 2008. It is called . Before that, though, a 12" called Happy House is coming out on March 4, 2008"
xpost
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
most of the stuff i like most is by bands that will never record an album so i think my list is at 3. i would not be able to give you a list of my 10 favorite records of the year. too many.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I want... ROCK based rock. Not this indie pop/rock bullshit
There's some on my list (a lot more rocking than the mostly lethargic DBTs album from this year, too.)
Agree that most of these lists seem pathetically indie (and that the selection could be wider), but that's no surprise. And not all of them are pathetically indie.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ this
I was just going to say something about not looking to the most recent DBT album for "rock".
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
oh whoa! i forgot mahjongg. that's def. top ten
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
black mountain - in the future records i liked, more than 10:
bun b - II trill
curren$y - higher than 30,000 ft.
the fall - imperial wax solvent
she & him - vol. 1
george cartwright - a tenacious slew (could be 07? doesn't say)
guilty simpson - ode to the ghetto
lil' wayne - the carter III
mission of burma vinyl reissues
mountain goats - heretic pride
portishead - third
raveonettes - lust lust lust
vampire hands - me and you cherry red
wolf parade - at mount zoomer
various - nigeria disco funk special: the sound of the underground lagos dance floor
rank strangers - tucke des objekts, die
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
and the intelligence - deuteronomy if that is from this year
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and the new erykah badu
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
and bonnie prince billy!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread made me go through my 2008 cd's thinking, 'it hasn't been a good year so far, has it?'. RONG perception. It's been great so far! So much good stuff. My picks (not limited to ten) so far, in an order too difficult to explain:
Inca Ore - Birthday Of Bless You Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story - Inlandish Robert Ashley & Ensemble Mae - Tap Dancing In The Sand ( watch ) Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston (by Julia Breuer, Matthias Engler, Elmar Schrammel) Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes From One To Another Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust This Will Destroy You - s/t David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night Music Dahlia's Tear - Under Seven Skies Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words Peter Broderick - Float Balmorhea - Rivers Arms John Maus - Love Is Real Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head Royal Train - An Underwater Call Portishead - Third
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Only thing I really miss is 2008's definitive black/doom metal release, like Deathspell Omega's last year, Lurker of Chalice (who did re-release their s/t this year, but that doesn't count). Maybe the new North will take care of that?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night Music
OMG NEED!!!
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
YA U NEED! It's four tracks clocking in at 70 minutes, very similar to Lynch's stellar 'The Air Is On Fire' (which was my record of the year 2007).
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
(e-mail baudelairex_at_that geemale thingy, I'll hook you up)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
my top ten, in order:
1. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 2. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 3. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 4. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 5. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 6. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 7. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 8. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 9. Endless Boogie "Focus Level" 10. Endless Boogie "Focus Level"
― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
#1 is hercules and love affair.
then in no order
m83 vampire weekend cut copy aluminum group atlas sound portishead kelley polar kaki king body language 6 (junior boys)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, what I've heard from that Hercules & Love Affair disc is very good.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I just got that Endless Boogie lp, it's aawesomee
― wilter, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Endless Boogie - Focus Level The Hold Steady - Stay Positive Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
― Brooker Buckingham, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Hold Steady, HMHB, Los Campesinos!, eMC, fuck all else
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wait, that The Do album is pretty heat, but I reserve the right to start hating it when it becomes this year's Feist.
166 new answers? Gee this thread really took off overnight, huh? Thanks guys, I'll be reading everything shortly.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Just to add a little more metal to the mix (in no particular order):
Opeth - Watershed Death Angel - Killing Season Testament - Formation of Damnation Torche - Meanderthal Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia Blackstrap - Steal My Horses and Run Moonspell - Night Eternal Eluveitie - Slania Saviours - Into Abaddon
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah i like the scarlet johnannnnnsssonnonon album too.
― akm, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I think if you're talking strictly about ROCK music (esp. ROCK rock and/or garage rock), then the '00s are clearly the worst decade for that. In a lot of other genres, though -- dance, hip-hop, electronic, psych, noise, experimental -- then it's been a pretty good decade. For me at least.
Have you heard the Boris album? The new one, Smile, is very very good, and from the above, it sounds like it'd be your sorta thing -- in a nutshell, it's a psych/rock/metal album. And it rules.
If you like Comets... do you like Six Organs? And have you heard the James Blackshaw album? Also very good, if you're into Ben Chasny's work outside of Comets.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
portishead - third jamie lidell - jim devotchka - a mad and faithful telling nick cave and the bad seeds - dig, lazarus, dig!!! firewater - the golden hour hercules and love affair - s/t why - alopecia four tet - ribbons EP nine inch nails - the slip
i honestly haven't really heard all that much new stuff this year. it's all been in the past like six weeks. i've been in vinyl/old stuff mode for months now. did man man come out this year? i like that one too. apparently i should listen to air france as well. what's the deal with fleet foxes.
oh yeah! and alejandro escovedo. there's some rock-based rock. i saw him on the today show the other day. weird.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I really wanna hear from Dan, Ned and Spencer in this thread. C'mon guys.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
not a good year for records I like, so far at least.
this year I am digging:
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent Times New Viking on Matador Wooden Shjips LP Brothers Unconnected CD V/A - Victrola Favorites Sun City Girls - Live At Sit & Spin United Bible Studies new 3" CD El Guincho - Alegranza
nothing else that I can think of. Portishead is only OK.
if I heard them, I'm sure I would like the Grouper album and the Pierced Arrows album.
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Right, because there's been no music made this decade except for indie rock.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 3 July 2008 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link