1. grizzly bear
2. final fantasy
3. knife
i=are there going to be better releases than these this year?
discuss
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YES
by
Mastodon
Liars
MV + EE w/ Bummer Road
AND
Beirut
Copy
Todd
AND
Witch
Mudhoney
Subtle
and
ellen allien & apparat
radio dept.
charalambides
This game's easy
I think we won too.
Go us!
conterversial list
1. mogwai
2. pipettes
3. secondsmile
why's that controversial?
'cos
The Pipettes are shit, innit.
As are Mogwai
*booooo!*
Mogwai aren't shit
but you'd have a hard time persuading me that Mr Beast deserved to top any end-of-year lists
I'd rather listen
to The Pipettes album than the Mastodon one but it's all opinions.
Really?
But I came here for RESULTS!
Incidentally, is the Ellen Allien album
*that* good?
I still haven't heard it.
yes, I think so.
although
one track is a bit rubbish.
Which one?
'Leave me Alone'
It has some dull vocals on it but the track after it, 'Do Not Break', is so good you almost forget about it.
fuck that
my list still wins. you have ears of shit obviously.
ears of shit
is better than no ears at all. You only chose them because you like the front cover.
i like your mum better...
...but seriously, grizzly bears cover is a bit dark and shit, but its the best album of the century. this is a true statement
Well,
my top-3 isn't the three I posted but it wouldn't include Grizzly Bear's album, very good though it is.
I think it has a nice cover.
really?
i spose it is quite nice. don't get me started on the fant cover though
I
don't mind The Pipettes' singles, but the album just gets a bit TOO kitsch and cute for my liking.
well......
MV/EE w/ the Bummer Road
Charalambides
The Knife NO WAIT Joanna Newsom NO WAIT Destroyer NO WAIT etc....
I refuse to enter this debate
until the last two weeks in December.
So far...
Pink by Boris
Scale by Herbert
Posssssiblyyy Hello Everything by Squarepusher, but it's early days on that one.
In my opinion, obviously.
my list of teh year so far
Howling Bells
The Young Knives
Guillemots
Close contenders
Plan B
Snow Patrol
i hate these threads.
HATE THEM.
mostly because i can't remember what albums have been put out this year
sort your fucking memory out then
simple innit
Sika Redem
Is still ahead of Mastodon for me (oooh, interesting)...not because of any other factors, but because it's so fucking astonishing it makes me want to cry. It's amazing.
I've heard most of Young Machetes- on the stream from their myspace, you understand- and that'll be in my top three as well, probably, it's all I hoped for so far.
That and Mastodon will probably make up my top three. Or Converge, or Isis, but that's coming out probably too late in the year for me to appreciate it (come on, you know Isis).
Mmmmm. Isis.
When it comes to putting together a top 30 of the year, Isis will be somewhere near the top. Or where the Is are in the alphabet. I'm very excited for the new album. I dunno about not being able to appreciate it straight off, though; Isis aren't *that* taxing. They're lovely, really!
.
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
You're all wrong
Polysics
CSS
Blood Brothers
Top 3
1 - Beirut
2 - Grizzly Bear
C - Loney Dear
All fantastic releases I hope you'll agree.
I'd have to say
1. Muse
2. Howling Bells
3. Guillemots
...
1 3
2 three
3 III
erm
Guillemots
Sparklehorse
Muse
...
Gregor Samsa
Leichtmetall
Carla Bozulich
Christ!
Oh Lord, that Bozulich album made me ache. I bought it at the same time as the new John Zorn/Mike Patton collab, and it made Zorn and Patton sound positively melodic.
it's supposed
to make you ache...
Maybe...
but that's not why I listen to music.
It's a beautiful dark and painful album.
Certainly not for everyone !
good picks
have you heard lullabye arkestra lyle? on constellation, got it through same time as bozulich
no !
Links ?
...
1. The Walkmen
2. Liars
3. Islands
Liars
AAAAGGGHHHH
i haven't decided on my others. espers, charalambidies, germlin, knife, all in with a shout.
oooh
Deathset fo shizz
?
fiery furnaces
um...
my brain cannot remember any other albums this year
pretty girls make graves
germlin
right now i'm enjoying
cursive
mastodon
guillemots
At the moment
Guillemots
TV on the Radio
Mogwai
Though still weighing up stuff like The Flaming Lips and Yo La Tengi close by. On a random note two great non-regular albums from this year are The Delgados Peel Sessions one and the R.E.M. Best Of for 1982-1987.
And if I can bend the rules to the point of no return I'll mention The Wrens - OK granted it's a 2nd reissue of an album that came out in 2003 I admit but this is the first time I could get hold of it and it was bloody great
Yo La Tengo
I mean - damn typos >_<
TV on the Radio
Mastodon
Spank Rock
.
1. the mountain goats
2. xiu xiu
3. of montreal
i chose
Lullabye Arkestra
TV on the radio
Hidden Cameras
subject to change
The Drips
Spank Rock
Winnebago Deal
wow
wow I think i have the exact same three. I like you cumulous nimbus. although I might put Knife at 2, and FF at 3
yellow house is definitely number one. surprised to not see it on more people's lists actually
>>>
Pippettes
Nicky Wire
Tapes n' Tapes or was that last year?
good taste alrighty
yellow house is indeed top notch
it's
it's weird how it seems people in the UK aren't really grabbing onto it
.
volcano!
beirut
blood brothers
Me. Your Mam. My bed.
Seriously though.
Mastodon, Sika Redem, Immune. I don't know in which order...
Lots of good albums this year.
It started off pretty slow, though.
EMM:
Xiu Xiu
CFTPA and
I can't decide between Final fantasy, the Knife or CSS :(
weeeelll...
just have a top five then. ;)
BUT THAT'S THE NAME OF THE THREAD.
Like, dude.
Emm, I will go with Final Fantasy.
I can't actually
think of three albums from this year that I'd feel comfortable putting in a list like this. Ho hum.
Bizzarely
I could do a TOP 100 but not a top 3
That makes
no sense
What are you trying to say man?!
Mmmmmmmmm...
brightblack morning light
joanna newsom-ys
sonic youth- rather ripped
1. My Latest Novel
2. Pretty Girls Make Graves
3. Fionn Regan
(So far)
for me
Mastodon
Winnebago Deal
Cursive
Come on
nobody has mentioned the hold steady - clearly the best album this year! followed by:
2.love is all - 9 times the same song
3.the long winters - putting the days to bed
But the long blondes might have something to say about this list once it's out
Actually
Swap the long winters for hot chip!
with that change
i am in total agreement :)
disagree with almost all of you
1. Bob Dylan
2. Ed Harcourt
3. The Divine Comedy
I couldn't do....
...a top 3.
This has been a great year.
In alphabetical order, I would say that my top 3 could possibly contain three of these bands though.....
A Hawk and a hacksaw, Bat for lashes, Beirut, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Colleen, Holy Shit, Joanna Newsom, Lucky Dragons, Man Man, Mates of State, Metallic Falcons, Parenthetical Girls, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, The Blow, The Essex Green, The Hidden Cameras, Tunng, White Magix, Xiu Xiu.
erm..
Guillemots, Isis, Trencher
Closely followed by Get Cape, Wear Cape. Fly, Sikth, Squarepusher, Cursive, Mogwai, Final Fantasy and some others.
probably
1. Muse
2. Snowden
3. Howling Bells.
1. Pipettes
2. Pipettes
3. Pipettes