I'll start. I'm hoping more of the interesting elements and ideas from early 80s post-punk will be mined and executed well... especially in the electronic realm. I'm hoping Warp Records (if it has any sense) or similar will focus on now defunct bands like Disco Inferno and Supercollider (the duo from Los Angeles), reissue their catalog, and explore the more subtle, simple, and somber territory, as opposed to quirky muzak.
Also, I hope the Blood Brothers break. Having Antioch Arrowness rubbing the edge of mainstream rock will certainly shake things up.
On a smaller level, I hope synthcore bands take more models like the Cripples, instead of persisting with using synths as a hip bells-n-whistles add-on to otherwise average rock.
(Ultimately, the best answer is that I hope something (or MANY things) we hardly expected will come along and make us all smile -- moreso than the past few years.)
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
I hope that the Strokes and White Stripes deliver acceptable but not groundbreaking albums while yet more manufactured major-label bands continue to adopt their sound, thereby insuring that the whole genre starts to give way to something else.
I hope that those same bands start doing different drugs than coke (and hopefully not smack but, well, if need be) because music produced by cokeheads is always, always, ALWAYS shit.
I hope that Britney's NASCAR movie is worse than Glitter, because I hate women pop stars.
And I agree about the interesting elements of post-punk being explored... a bit more Fetish Records and a bit less Gang of Four/ACR (who I love, but, well any more would get kind of boring).
― Aaron W, Monday, 2 December 2002 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
I hope the Dan the Automator/Mike Patton "Peeping Tom" album finally gets released.
I hope the return-of-Phish is as good as mid-90s Phish, which made the late-90s Phish sound like dweebs who just happened to really know their scales.
I hope Andrew WK changes his clothes.
I hope Zack de la Rocha puts out his friggin' solo album before it becomes another 'Chinese Democracy'.
I hope my band's gig at the SXSW festival next March works out well. I don't think I've ever been so excited about anything.
I hope all the world "leaders" that contribute to setting global society and ecology and economy back wake up to the long-term effects of their actions, and that they do so before they are prompted by a cataclysmic event.
I hope I will find a female counterpart who is open and honest and caring and...well...er...ACTUALLY EXISTS.
I hope Fred Durst either dies or shuts his mouth FOREVER, or at least bothers to learn two words other than "fuck" and "shit".
I hope the Neptunes/NERD work with an artist who is actually WORTHY.
I hope Bob Dylan smiles.
I hope I don't sound like a total tool.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
i hope to see ACTUAL female rock stars, and not dollybird singers dressed up as such.
― kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Adam A. (Keiko), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)
i'd like to see mike patton in a boy group.
― dyson (dyson), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Clarke B., Monday, 2 December 2002 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)
I am particularly looking forward to albums from these 30 artists:
1. Bark Psychosis2. Killing Joke3. Beyond Dawn4. Broadway Project5. Solefald6. Ulver7. Meat Katie 8. New Order9. Ulrich Schnauss10. Photek11. Narcissus 12. Voivod13. Cave In14. Dave Clarke15. Zan Lyons16. Cult of Luna17. Futureshock 18. Impossible Beings19. Laika 20. Massive Attack21. The Gathering22. Circulation23. Carl Craig 24. The Rapture 25. Strapping Young Lad 26. LCD Soundsystem27. Klute28. Patrick Wolf 29. Spooky30. Kate Bush
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)
I've already heard Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love 2003" it's a bit rub.
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)
Why?
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)
Also Garm from Ulver is featuring on The Gathering's new album - apparently they going back to a darker and heavier direction - I also hope they recapture the production of: How to Measure a Planet.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)
I also hope somebody puts out a slow song Isabel and I both really really like in time for us to use it as our wedding tune.
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Mogwai to the rescue Tom !
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)
I hope electro(clash) will go out of fashion at its current creative peak. The only way is down from here on, and the sight won't be pretty. Cocaine rehab clinics in NYC, Berlin and The Hague should be alerted.
I hope that metal will wake from its post-1996 hibernation. Perhaps sludge/ambient will be the new catalyst for the genre. Although I'm looking forward to the new releases from a couple of veterans (Countess, Darkthrone, Arckanum, Cryptopsy, Esoteric), any renaissance will need new bands.
I hope that Murder fucking Inc and all related cronies will go belly-up in a major way and that ODB will get out on parole. And that Nelly's acne will be cured so that he doesn't have to wear plasters on his face anymore.
I hope that the gabber revival will go mainstream again, and that the current not-as-high-profile-as they-used-to-be, steady-going but healthy house and trance scenes maintain their position, and that the overheated techno scene will cool down a bit.
As US R&B/hiphop producers generally tend to lag the productional techniques of the electronic dance music scenes by about five years, we might see some electro sounds emerging next year, inna Afrika Bambaata retro-stylee perhaps. Should be interesting.
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)
Even Station to Station??
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 2 December 2002 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 December 2002 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)
• Jaguar & all accompanying rmxs are released as a Rhino box set
• The Shakedowns eclipse DC's Ian fetish and assume their rightful place as garage champions alongside the Mooney Suzuki
• It becomes socially acceptable to admit I like BRMC, esp. the singles
• The Bangs fire their drummer and hire me, joining the ranks of Le Tigre & Chicks On Speed as Grrl bands w/ techno hoopla
• Alternatively, Helltime & I find a good place to rehearse and Wolfgang gets some spare time and we rock the fuck out. Finding a photogenic frontwoman, we spearhead the post-ironic synth blam movement to the forefront of several glossy magazines.
• I make it up to NYC for CMJ. Who's got a spare press badge?
― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 2 December 2002 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Why does this rather innocuous statement make me so angry??
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 2 December 2002 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― mike (ro)bott, Monday, 2 December 2002 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)
I'd like to hear what they'd do with someone from a completely different genre/community. Like, pair them with Iggy Pop (himself desperately in need of creative kick-start) or someone.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)
You know, this is a fine idea.
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)
oh sorry, thought we were talkin about 2006
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― bahtology, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Can someone elaborate on this fresh hell?
i hope the digits in the year turn out to add up to something else
They will. The answer is "5".
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)
• jess convinces Al Qaeda it's all a big waste of time
• s trife gets really into PLUR and glowsticks
• mark s teams up with Peter Jackson to remix the LOTR trilogy
• sundar is hired by Comedy Central as the Daily Show's Pop Music Correspondent
• Siegbran gets the top A&R job at one of the Big Five
• DJ Martian starts a discount online record shop and/or high-speed filesharing service
• Helltime Producto, nickalicious, & Ally star in a new film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer based on Diesel Sweeties. Leonardo DiCaprio is Indie Rock Pete
• Tom discovers a secret formula which puts an end to random googling and makes introduction threads obsolete
― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― original bgm, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)
None of which look particularly on the cards at the moment.
― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)
Daft Punk play live in Dublin, I mean why won't they just fucking tour. I'd pay anything but the best part is I probably wouldn't have to.
Vitalic also must make an album and then play in Dublin.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jay K (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)
Pitman puts out album on CD.
The Groundbreaker gets reissued and is number one all summer long.
And Black Box Recorder go top 20 again.
That will be very nice, thank you sir.
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Callum (Callum), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)
A definitive Leonard Cohen Box Set.
Robert Pollard hires an editor.
Billy Corgan gets arrested for public indescency whilst masturbating to Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?"
Johnny Marr's new Healers album goes multi-platinum.
O'Rourke works with Eno. (Have they??)
David Baker re-joins Mercury Rev.
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― dwh (dwh), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)
VHS or Beta gets the recognition they deserve.
Ian Svenonius recalls all copies of Weird War and claims that it was a joke in poor taste.
Modest Mouse plays in Detroit without a big festival to hold them back.
I find a job.
I also find some people who like to make mixes AND listen to music I haven't already heard all too often.
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)
Compared to her cover of "Paint It Black", I'd rather watch my mother beaten to death in front of me.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― David Allen, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)
The Twilight Singers' second album is released and the band is tapped to open for Zwan on a U.S. tour.Matt B. rejoins Q and Not U.Black Eyes puts out a full-length.The Dismemberment Plan puts out an EP or album of stuff like "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich." (They previously promised to do this, but now it looks unlikely.)
― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)
whatta surprise
― bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)
And there are even a few exiled Mancs like myself in the London office. Surrounded by Liverpool supporters. With cockney accents.
― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― _gibby_, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Tom Middleton and Jacques Lu Cont team up for a joint production job?
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 2 January 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)
6th. 6th. Above Liverpool, only one point off fifth with superior goal difference, and - perhaps oddest of all - joint best defence in the Premiership. If I'm not dreaming, I'm very, very sleepy at least.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Fishbone finally releases their album (that was supposed to come out last fall). "Frayed Fuckin' Nerve-Endings" somehow sneaks it's way onto radio rotation.
The Neptunes produce a Wesley Willis album.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― the pinefox, Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― the pinefox, Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
I wish Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guillonet would take an interest in dance music & act on that interest
I wish Stones Throw would kidnap Li'l Flip, give him a Clockwork Orange style brainwashing involving lots of Godard movies, and then let him loose in a studio
― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)
And all the infrequently employed critics on this board assume the collective helms of all the lousy music magazines in the world, run cover stories on the new MC Pitman LP, and get real paid.
― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 3 January 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― zemko (bob), Friday, 3 January 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann, Friday, 3 January 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 3 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― dyson (dyson), Friday, 3 January 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)
"New on AMG: Click on ANY track name throughout the site to download audio free!"
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)