in no particular order, mine are
imogen heap - speak for yourself
battle - back to earth
young knives - voices of animals and men
the most serene republic - underwater
the spinto band - nice and nicely done,
whadda 'bout you lot
If any aren't from 2006 above, my apologies
spinto band? REALLY?
battle? really?
YOUNG KNIVES? REALLY?
Thats a good list
Spinto Band, Young Knives and Battle are all quality.
Lists are all subjective
Mine
Young Knives - Voices of Animals
iLiKETRAiNS - Progress/reform
Liam Frost - Show Me How The spectres dance
Bell x1 - Flock
Howling Bells -
aw i <3 Bell X1
Yep, they are fucking great
Faviurite band of all time for me, if we are going there. Music In mouth = genius
so good :)
yep, really
whadda bout you??
i'm not too sure but...
CSS would be one of them...
iLiKETRAiNS...
i do like
the tunes from iliketrains that i have heard but is the album worth getting??
Its only a mini album
7 tracks - all epic, moody, dramatic
worth every penny I paid
Forgot CSS
and Scott Matthews
And Plan B
WHAT A GREAT YEAR FOR MUSIC
Hurrah!
Plan B is as good at music
as chris_is_cool is at life.
Don't encourage him.
mine:
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Neko Case
Nine Times That Same Song - Love is All
The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
In ORDER:
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
MV & EE w/ The Bummer Road - Mother Of Thousands
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Califone - Roots & Crowns
5th place is currently a tie between Grizzly Bear, Yo La Tengo, Beirut, Akron/Family, volcano!, Wolf Eyes, Melvins and Boris. And probably a few more, I will decide in due course.
Samantha Mumba
mine, in that order :
Gregor Samsa - 55:12
Leichtmetall - wir sind blumen
Carla Bozulich - evangelista
Lauren Hoffman - choreogtaphy
Seafood - paper crown king.
Haven't listen to the new Sophia and the new Mahogany enough to be sure it'll change. The new Desert Hearts may change everything too !
in no order
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
The Answer - Rise
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Get Lonely
by The Mountain Goats
mint
guillemots
volcano!
beirut
jeremy warmsley
arctic monkeys
long blondes
mmm...
ill add Peter Bjorn & John to that list
errr
the ladies
versoma
russian circles
cursive
planes
definitely not on my list
isis
mastodon
mine are:
Young Knives
Css
Jeremy Warmsley
Rufus Wrainwright
Sufijen Stevens
Battle would DEF be in it as it's all Killer no filler, but i'm not sure i can count minis?
When did Rufus release an LP this year?
,
TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The Hidden Cameras - Awoo
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
That's it for now
well...
Union of Knives - Violence and Birdsong
Subtle - For Hero:For Fool
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Sucioperro - Random Acts of Intimacy
Seafood - Paper Crown King
Mr. Beast nearly made that list.
So far...
1. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
2. Luxembourg - Front
3. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
4. Jeremy Warmsley - The Art Of Fiction
5. Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
there
don't seem to be one stand out album yet, that most of us have in there top 5ish. I'll bet if we top tenned it there bet one of em that is in nearly all of em..
yes there does...
by the looks of things it's The Young Knives, Jeremy Warmsley and Seafood as the 3 recurring ones. Although i was well dissappointed with the new seafood. Love as the cry flows though!
tough but
Subtle
Tool
Immune
tv on the radio
scott walker
In no order (yet)
The Blood Arm - Lie Lover Lie
Morningwood
The Grates- Gravity Won't Get You High
Long Blondes -Someone To Drive You Home
Belle And Sebastian - (whatever that was called).
I shall not give this serious consideration until the end of the year.
alpabetical, +1
beirut
blood brothers
final fantasy
grizzly bear
the ladies
volcano!
.
fiery furnaces - bitter tea
hot puppies
germlin
um....
my memory has gone blank, think this'll be better considered in december
-
Jeremy Warmsley - The Art Of Fiction
Mystery Jets - Making Dens
That Fucking Tank - Day Of Death by Bono Adrenaline Shock
tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
volcano! - beautiful seizure
futurehards album
the eraser
Spinto band
were in my list last year. Because I'm THAT cool.
Mine
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Final Fantasy - He poos clouds
Casiotone for the painfully alone - Etiquette
Erase Errata - Nightlife
will probabyl change by the end of 2006
Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Mogwai - Mr Beast
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You...
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
best of 2007
Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer? - of Montreal
without a doubt
hmm
1)MV + EE with the Bummer Road
2)MV + EE with the Bummer Road
3)Charalambides
4)Joanna Newsom
5)Destroyer
clearly there's loads that i've forgotten too
like Wolf Eyes
and 10LEC6
today I will go with...
The Blow - Paper Television
Casiotone for the painfully alone - Etiquette
Holy Shit - Stranded At Two Harbors
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
Metallic Falcons - Desert Doughnuts
Ask me again tomorrow.
the 10LEC6 album
is indeed amazing!
not in order
Jeremy warmsley - art of fiction
Tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
Forward russia - give me a wall
volcano! - beautiful seizure
final fantasy - he poos clouds.
This year's been amazing.
I couldn't tell you an order yet but:
Sika Redem - Entheogen
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Isis - In The Absence...
Immune - 1/f
Profane - The Day We Scorched...
Converge - No Heroes
Engerica - There are no Happy Endings
(I've forgotten loads)
add Deftones
and Iron Maiden.
and Mastodon
...
top 4
todd
harvey milk
reigns
unit ama
for now...
The Drips - The Drips
Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyo
These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Hot Snakes - Thunder Down Under
Renee Heartfelt - The Death of The Ghost
Hmm.
Final Fantasy
Metallic Falcons
Seafood
A Hawk And A Hacksaw
Midlake
.
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Jeremy Warmsley - The Art of Fiction
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Besides that nothing comes to mind. I think subconsciously 2006 began for me in july so theres probably loads of good stuff before that.
...
¡Forward, Russia! - Give Me A Wall
The Blood Brothers - Paper Machetes
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Secondsmile - Walk Into The Light And Reach For The Sky
Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
I would have included Versoma's Life During Wartime but it's only an EP.
And I can't remember when the Head Wound City EP actually came out!
paper machetes?
bLOLd brothers
My bad...
...don't know what I was thinking of there :s
Tracer AMC
nah
mars volta, jeremy warmsley, midlake. everything else released this year was rubbish.
well...
I was thinking about this today actually..
1. Snowden- Anti Anti
2. Howling Bells- Howling Bells
3. Muse- Black Holes and Revelations
4. Damien Rice-9
5. Guillemots- Through The Windowpane
To the person who said The Drips...
...I agree. It is very strange that it's a better album than The Bronx's new one is (but only just).
And did volcano! come out this year? I thought it was last year. Bad memory...
The Drips
are amazing. Great bit of punk rock.
They are good
However live I thought they were very tame compared to The Bronx. Saw them at that "secret gig" in London around new year (forget the venue name)
they're
great live! I saw them back in June, and they were fantastic! Only about 50 people were at the gig mind, but it was brilliant!
gay against you
Blood Brothers
Liars
Islands
Joanna newsom (i haven't heard it yet but i guarantee it'll be one of them by the end of next week)
mine
Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
The Knife - Silent Shout
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Possibly...
1. The Knife (sounds even better now on cold days)
2. Burial
3. Junior Boys
4. Joanna Newsom
5. Grizzly Bear
Guh...
add to that Final Fantasy and Destroyer and Ellen Allien & Apparat and Tim Hecker... and Adrian Orange, maybe...
HMM...
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Islands - Return to the Sea
CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
The Knife - Silent Shout/ CFTPA - Etiquette
Probably in that order. Joanna Newsom may change it all, though.
in no particular order
...and excluding compilations...
thom yorke - the eraser
mystery jets - making dens
jeremy warmsley - the art of fiction
the coral sea - volcano and heart
isobel campbell and mark lanegan - ballad of the broken seas (no one else seems to be picking this?!)
this will probably change
mystery jets - making dens
albert hammond jr - yours to keep
CSS - cansei der ser sexy
Semifinalists - eponymous
The Mules - save your face
hmph
beirut
joanna newsom
viking moses
dat politics
islands
or something like that.
.
Subtle
Say Hi To Your Mom
Silversun Pickups
Seafood
Deftones
Isis & Aereogramme
early contenders for 2007 -
Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
.
iLiKETRAiNS - PROGRESS REFORM
TV on the Radio - Cookie Mountain
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Muse - Black Holes
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Newsom and/or Long Blondes may make a dent on it yet, mind.
.
Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia
Metric - Live it Out
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men.
I have a horrible feeling my list sucks.
It's been a good year for music
In no real particular order...
Thom Yorke-The Eraser
Belle & Sebastian-The Life Pursuit
My Latest Novel-Wolves
Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family-Show Me How The Spectres Dance
Mates of State-Bring it Back
Though, Muse, TV on the Radio, The Spinto Band, Guillemots, The Mountain Goats, and the Mars Volta were all brilliant
i feel bad leaving out some albums now
i hate these lists, i've got about 20 favourite albums from this year at least.
lists make music seem so flippant.
This is what i can think from the top of my head
sonic youth rather ripped
semi finalists...semi finalists
absentee ...Schmotime
broken family band ...Balls
Off the top of my head...
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
3. Jenny Lewis w/ Watson Twins - Rabbit Furcoat
4. The Veils - Nux Vomica
5. Tilly & The Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
Not again!!
volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
The Steve Reid Ensemble - Spirit Walk
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - The Way The Wind Blows
Liars - Drums Not Dead
Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Here goes
The Knife - Silent Shout
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (it only came out in this country this year)
Howling Bells
Union Of Knives - Violence and Birdsong
Sleepy Jackson - Personality
me - in no order
Mogwai - Mr Beast
Howling Bells - s/t
The pipettes - s/t
Hundred Reasons - Kill your own
TV on the Radio - cookie mountain
no oder
get cape.wear cape.fly!
Thom Yorke
Wolfmother (if that counts)
Tilly & the Wall
Hot Club De Paris
.
Sika Redem - Entheogen
Converge - No Heroes
Gallows - Orchestra of Wolves
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
TODD - Comes to Your House
Need to listen to ISIS and Red Sparowes more and then the list may change.
looking at my media player, im too ill to make any judged opinions
an albatross - blessphemy (of the beast peace feastgiver and the bear warp kumite)
Anoice - remmings
Converge - No Heroes
Envy - Insomniac Doze
ISIS - In the Absence of truth
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with copper tongue
Kylesa - Time will fuse its worth
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
yadda yadda
I'd put
Sika Redem
Blood Brothers (they had it in the record stores in Brighton somehow)
Mastodon
SikTh
I haven't heard Isis, but I'd imagine it's great. I'm just not made of money!
.
Return to cookie mountain -
Shugo Tokumaru
Neko Case
Joanna Newsom
Optimist Club
errrr....
1) TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2) Mastodon - Blood Mountain
3) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
4) Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You, And I Will Beat Your Ass
5) Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Maybe. I've only listened to the Yo La Tengo album once, so it could go up or down.
er
Jeremy Warmsley: The Art of Fiction
My Latest Novel: Wolves
Ladyfuzz: Kerfuffle
Regina Spektor: Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers (this was early 2006)
but the best album of the yeeear is
Metronomy: Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe).
I HAVE SPOKEN
I wish
I bought new albums enough to put together a list. My list is mainly of albums that've been out for ages, but I only just bought them.
Tired
Drums Not Dead - Liars
wasn't sure about this one at first, seemed too soft, too airy to have come from the band responsible for 'Brocken Witch', but I saw them live and suddenly it all made sense.
Classics - Ratatat
I'm obv. struggling with top albums this year, but this is included on the basis of 'Tropicana' alone (almost)
Happy New Year - Oneida
return to form? Best Oneida album since Anthem of the Moon? 'Up With People' helped propel my summer.
as for others... mcluskyism was pretty fckn special, does that count? Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped was predictably enjoyable. And 'The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret of Shh Shh Shh' by Leopard Leg might only be two tracks, but it's 40+ minutes and a favourite of mine.
My Top 5-ish
Amplifier- Insider
YCNI:M- Print is Dead (I got it early!)
Sucioperro- Random Acts..
ILiKeTrAiNs
Hope of the States- Left
Honourable mention: Brigade-Lights, Humanzi-Tremors, The Answer- Rise, Feeder- Singles
I wish I could say I like the new Kasabian, but it's just not doing it for me....
Oh, I think these lists are great as I always discover some stellar band I've never heard of :)
my 5
Liars - Drums not Dead
Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you..
betika - Halflove
Knife - Silent Shout
Hot Chip - Warning
Still quite a few that i havent listened to much but could be in contention come end of year including Benoit Pioulard, Decemberists, Akron/Family, Miho Hatori, Califone, ensemble
.
Ys
He Poos Clouds
Silent Shout
Yellow House
return to the sea or wolves or return to cookie mountain
I can't beleive noe one has said
Amusement Parks On Fire - Out Of The Angeles
I also like:
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Converge - No Heroes
Hundred Reasons - Kill Your Own
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Sucioperro - Random Acts of Intimacy
iForward Russia! - Give Me A Wall
The Bronx - The Bronx II
I guess I can include The Fall Of Troy - ST seeing as it was re-issued this year.
*no
:)
i cant do just five;
Dosh ~ The Lost Take
A Lily ~ Wake:Sleep
Woven Hand ~ Mosaic
Life At These Speeds ~ To Your Health
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto ~ Revep
Bonnie Prince Billy ~ The Letting Go
By The End Of Tonight ~ The Gunslinger EP
Eluvium ~ When I Live By The Garden And The Sea
Marsen Jules ~ Les Fleurs
Helios ~ Eingya
Grizzly Bear ~ Yellow House
Xiu Xiu ~ The Airforce
Xiu Xiu ~ Creepshow
Xiu Xiu ~ Tu Mi Piaci
Envy ~ Insomniac Doze
The Mountain Goats ~ Get Lonely
Wolf Eyes ~ Human Animal
Pajo ~ 1968
Saviours ~ Crucifire
Swan Lake ~ Beast Moans
July Skies ~ Where The Days Go
F.S. Blumm - Summer Kling
Squarepusher ~ Hello Everything
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Max Richter ~ Songs From before
Gregor Samsa ~ 55:12
Mono & World's End Girlfriend ~ Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Fading Trails
Jason Molina ~ Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go
Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band ~ Second Attention
Black Heart Procession ~ The Spell
Casiotone... ~ Etiquette
Envy ~ Insomniac Doze
Genghis Tron ~ Dead Mountain Mouth
Junior Boys ~ So This Is Goodbye
Ms. John Soda ~ Notes & The Like
Six Organs Of Admittance ~ The Sun Awakens
A Whisper In The Noise ~ As The Bluebird Sings
Graf Orlock ~ Destination Time Yesterday
The best so far off the top of my head.
..
Monkey Swallows The Universe
Joanna Newsom
Audrey
Hafdis Huld
Electronic Eye
(Ringleader of the Tormentors was good too)
Converge - No Heroes
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
although I have a feeling that the new ISIS and Deftones could knock Thursday and Final Fantasy off that list after a few more listens.
In fact, swap the Thursday for the Blood Brothers
...sorted.
Oh.
I forgot about the Rickard Jäverling record.
Me Me Me
Fuijya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
The Knife - Silent Shout
Metronomy - Pip Paine...
and then probably
CSS - Cansei de ser Sexy
yea!
another metronomy fan
yea!
'black eye/burnt thumb' - song of year
Damn straight
That album is rad. I saw a video for You Could Easily Have Me on 120 Minutes the other day, so that's pretty cool
Didn't actually read this thread before posting, but it's now glorious to find an ally in my Metronomy love
And I'd push Trick Or Treatz forward as a contender against Black Eye/Burnt Thumb
1. Scott Walker
2. Other
Not heard Ys yet, huh?
I forgot about
Archie Bronson Outfir - Derdang Derdang
Me too
As soon as it was over.
Mine:
Larrikin Love - Freedom Spark
Mystery Jets - Making Dens
Muse - Black Holes...
Hot Club de Paris - Drop it til it pops
Graham Coxon - Love travels...
BORIS
PINK
thats my album of the year, and none come close. well bar the boris/sunn o))) split, but still. PINK!!!!!
:p
Pure Reason Revolution
i predict it'll change in an hour but
1. Beach House "S/T"
2. Subtle "For Hero: For Fool"
3. Adam Gnade "Run Hide Retreat Surrender"
4. TV On The Radio "Return To Cookie Mountain"
5. Mekon "Some Thing Came Up"
expecting chnages
but right now:
TV On The Radio
My Latest Novel
Semifinalists
The Organ
Volcano!
with Guillemots, Thom Yorke and Flaming Lips not far away