has there been a stand out album this year? is one coming?
i only say so cos there were loads of brilliant albums last year (radiohead/arctic monkeys/cribs/justice/klaxons + more) and this year it doesnt seem so.
i also notice that the fratellis new song is absolute dirge, while (and i'm no fratellis fan) the singles off the last album were at least catchy. same goes for more mainstream "indie" bands. bit like what the stereophonics did back then (also NOT a fan).
please feel free to call me a dick and cuss my selections and nominate better albums but i just get that sinking feeling.
all the best
x
p.s. i havent got the mystery jets album yet - will this change my mind?
yes it will
then you will have to hang your head in shame and possibly commit suicide like all the cool emo kids r doing
yes
it should
this year is better than last year already
e.g.s please
radiohead/arctic monkeys/cribs/justice/klaxons
none of these were brilliant albums. They aren't even the best albums by the particular bands (don't know anything about justice, mind).
My favourite album of last year was Flight Of The Bass Delegate by The Jai Alai Savant, which at best is a solid 8/10. This year has already had two pushing 9.5/10 - Times New Viking and Vampire Weekend - both two of the best albums to be released since the turn of the century. There are loads of albums I haven't got round to listening to yet that I'm sure I'll love too.
This is of course opinion blah di blah.
oh
and jamie t
and,
the v weekend album has 3 great tracks on it, but the album as a whole is a it bit boring
and foalsiz album hasnt really been as big as we all expected
a lot has been said about vampire weekend
but its all wrong unless you agree that it is a classic album.
The only slightly dodgy one is track 5, the baROQUE one. The rest are all brilliant.
but lets not start this again
the baroque one is in the best 3
I'm totes with you on this one
it has some great tracks but it's not sustained throughout.
what are the weak tracks in your opinion?
i thought this at first, that the first three were great, then it sagged a bit then tracks 7 and 8 were good then it went off a bit again. But with repeated listens its got better and better.
shall we stop now?
ok
if the post below this one at the time is anything to go by in terms of the continuation of the conv
then yes.
okay,
don't get me wrong, the good tracks are terrific and there's no bad tracks per se. As for tracks that aren't that good, I'd say 'Bryn' is probably my least favourite.
I agree
with the above opinion
Classic?
Vampire Weekend?
Whut?
No Age? The Ruby Suns?
And I haven't heard Twenty-One yet either.
What was wrong with 1997?
.
be here now
the day the music died
Because
a shit band released a shitter than usual album, All Music Died?
correct on all counts
I wish it was 1997 again then i could
...go out and buy The Period Pain's 'Spice Girls (Who Do You Think You Are)' and Helen Love's 'Does Your Heart Go Boom' all over again and they'll sound new.
Does Your Heart Go Boom!
I loved that song! It was stuck in my head - but just the chorus, mind - for what seemed like 3 years.
And now I want to listen to Atari Teenage riot too...
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
This year has seen some superb new albums from...
Nick Cave
Gutter Twins
Tindersticks
The Fall
Portishead
Boris
The Breeders
Cat Power
Earth
The Magnetic Fields
The Mountain Goats
Meshuggah
Nine Inch Nails
This Will Destroy you
and FTW:
A Silver Mt Zion
and elbow, too
obviously
and Weezer it would seem.
The Mystery Jets album
is pretty good but I doubt it'll bowl you over like some of the albums you like from last year.
There have been some very good albums released this year though but not with the wide appeal of the albums you mentioned.
thats the point i was trying to get at.
why didnt you write this for me?
Maybe the hype has died down from the NME big indie bands
The new No Age album is fantastic
But 1997 was an amazing year for releases
With two genuinely 'classic' albums in Ok Computer and Homogenic
2008 is only just over a quarter of the way through though
nearly half
and noone releases anything over the summer
and after october !
Johnny Foreigner
in June/July, no?
there is loadsa good music around
that well an trule beat '(radiohead/arctic monkeys/cribs/justice/klaxons + more)' this year already.
No Age
The Mae-Shi
Atlas Sounds
Why?
Youthmovies
M83
Tourche
I Was A Cub Scout
Mystery Jets
Etc...
not to mention the unreleased gems of:
JoFo
Death Cab
Flying Lotus
Minilouge
Ellen Alien
Dananananaykroyd
Etc...
what have you been listening to that has left you so disheartened?
Some albums released in 1997
Daft Punk, "Homework"
Pavement, "Brighten the Corners"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "The Boatman's Call"
Radiohead, "OK Computer"
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, f#a#(infinity)
... or so a two-minute glance at Wikipedia tells me. If we get five records that good this year I will be an extremely happy bunny.
^ This.
Also, don't forget Portishead's Dummy 9(blame medulla for that one, the big ghey Glaswegain).
try to listen
to the Sleeping Years, Gregor Samsa, Songdog and Last Harbour who have released beautiful albums this year.
Wouldn't say there has been a stand out this year either
some good ones (Nick Cave, Breeders, Twilight sad - well only got that this year ) but nothing really outstanding. Can't think of anything I'm particularly looking forward to this year either. Probably just getting old.
^5
Is there a Spiritualized album out this year?
That might be exciting.
haha
oh you crack me up bamos.
good ting:
Frightened Rabbit
No Age
Kayo Dot
Gregor Samsa
Auburn Lull
Youthmovies
Boris
Silver Mt Zion
M83
etc
Don't you mean it's like 1998 all over again?
1997 saw us get OK Computer and Blur Blur.
I think Mezzanine was released that year also, wasn't it? Admittedly we also had Be Here Now and Urban Hymns but that's not the point.
In 1998 we got 'This Is Hardcore' and that was about it.
Mezzzanine
Thought that was 98?
re:
"has there been a stand out album this year?"
PORTISHEAD - THIRD
Your argument does not really make it that similar to 1997
I think OJ is innocent!
I think Katrina & The Waves will win eurovision!
I want Tony Blair as prime minister!
there thats much more like 1997 than going around saying the Klaxons had an ok album last year (which they didn't in 1997)
the 3rd best album of the 90s was released in '97
the band in question might release the best record of '08 as well, but i'm not overly optimistic
I agree with 1998
97 was superb, with stunning albums by Yo La Tengo, Sleater Kinney, Thingy, Bowery Electric, Dismemberment Plan, OP8 to name but a few.
i think...
if you're feeling sinister was '97 too? if it was, then that'd be the album of the year (decade?) for me. although i think 2008 is better overall: third, quaristice and 21 off the top of my head. and i feel like i've got quite a bit to catch up on in new releases this year still.
i also think...
i've combined the above few posts, this thread and the '1997' thread in my head...
oh, god...
this is the 1997 thread.
abandon.
re. 1997
http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/1997a.htm
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