Music Thread

[bmags]

Finally got around to it and I love 808's & Heartbreak.

 

I agree, it's some interesting production much more minimal, I think that was a really apt insight. I hate the cheezy production that goes with R&B and pop, and Kanye continues to bring interesting influences into these genres.

 

Honestly that 3 minutes in don't say you will with just the beep and the drums going back and forth I think is awesome. I think that's the key to Kanye and why I don't understand the hate unless its the dumb argument about how he's arrogant, because people I guess are going to be friends with their favorite musicians. But he was a musician who rapped, instead of a rapper.

[BigSqwert]

The first couple of tracks on Kanye's album almost sound like Massive Attack production-wise. I know he's a big fan of Portishead. Maybe he's a fan of 90s triphop/downtempo in general?

[bmags]

I could see that.

[BigSqwert]

I could see that.

 

I could imagine Horace Andy singing in that 2nd track.

[bmags]

I'm trying to listen to the new killers album. I'll tell you one thing that's always bothered me about them, I've always felt they were trying to be british, and along with being adored by the british press, it is a knock on them imo. I think they write some good pop songs and I admire their attempts at progression, but as a whole I can't stand behind them with much support.

[ThunderBolt]

I'm trying to listen to the new killers album. I'll tell you one thing that's always bothered me about them, I've always felt they were trying to be british, and along with being adored by the british press, it is a knock on them imo. I think they write some good pop songs and I admire their attempts at progression, but as a whole I can't stand behind them with much support.

I don’t like the weird (somewhat stilted) vocal looping they do, it’s just really manufactured. Also, about bands trying to be British, Does anyone find it difficult believing that the guys from The Shins are really from New Mexico?

Edited December 1, 2008 by Thunderbolt

[bmags]

eh, they came up kind of the portland scene so that didn't really seem out of place with portland scene.

[DukeNukeEm]

Best Albums of 2008

 

1. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances

2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

3. Portishead - Third

4. Arms - Kids Aflame

5. M83 - Saturdays = Youth

6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

7. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

8. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light

9. Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak

10. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing

11. Times New Viking - Rip It Off

12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig

13. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...

14. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead

15. f***ed Up - The Chemistry of Common Life

16. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

17. Beck - Modern Guilt

18. Black Mountain - In the Future

19. The Whigs - Mission Control

20. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

 

Updated lists from past years:

 

2007:

 

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

2. Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings

3. Radiohead - In Rainbows

4. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

5. No Age - Weirdo Rippers

6. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

7. Stars Like Fleas - The Ken Burns Effect

8. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

9. Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away

10. Life Without Buildings - Live at the Annandale Hotel

11. Feist - The Reminder

12. Handsome Furs - Plague Park

13. The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

14. The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above

15. Voxtrot - Voxtrot

16. King Khan & the Shrines - What Is?!

17. Emily Haines - Knives Dont Have Your Back

18. Caribou - Andorra

19. The World Inferno Friendship Society - Addicted to Bad Ideas

20. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

 

2006

 

1. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine

2. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

3. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

4. The Wrens - The Meadowlands

5. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

6. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time

7. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

8. Feist - Open Season

9. Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives / Raised by Wolves

10. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years

11. Clark - Body Riddle

12. Thom Yorke - The Eraser

13. Battles - EP B / C EP

14. Beirut - Gulag Orkstar

15. Bob Dylan - Modern Times

16. Koop- Koop Island

17. Surburban Kids With Biblical Names - #3

18. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go

19. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

20. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Brawlers & Bastards

 

2005

 

1. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

2. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

4. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago

5. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise!

6. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene

7. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

8. Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers

9. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

10. The National - Alligator

11. Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman to Open Old Wounds

12. Jamie Lidell - Multiply

13. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

14. Bonne "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf

15. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll

16. Spoon - Gimme Fiction

17. The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever

18. Broadcast - Tender Buttons

19. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister: Live at the Barbican

20. Sigur Ros - takk

 

2004

 

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral

2. The Hold Steady - The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me

3. Brian Wilson - SMiLE

4. The Streets - A Grand Dont Come For Free

5. Feist - Let It Die

6. Kanye West - College Dropout

7. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

8. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry

9. The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows

10. Panda Bear - Young Prayer

11. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her

12. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

13. The Futureheads - The Futureheads

14. Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine

15. Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

16. David Byrne - Grown Backwards

17. VHS or BETA - Night On Fire

18. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

19. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Streets

20. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Sings Greatest Palace Music

 

I like making lists. They're fun.

[shipps]

Good call on the Helio Sequence,I have been telling people about them for a while now......but I guess that is what everyone says about bands they like,they always think they discovered them first.

[shipps]

I don’t like the weird (somewhat stilted) vocal looping they do, it’s just really manufactured. Also, about bands trying to be British, Does anyone find it difficult believing that the guys from The Shins are really from New Mexico?

 

I love the Shins,best concert I ever went to.

[bmags]

Elbow sucks.

 

edit: Nouns.

Edited December 4, 2008 by bmags

[Cali]

Jesus, I dont know if I've even bought 20 NEW albums in 2008 haha

 

I'll get back to you.

 

Side Note: I dig THE HELL out of Day & Age. It took multiple spins to kinda "get" what they were going for, but now I realize how fun this album is supposed to be. The more I listen the more I realize they have made 3 totally different albums that are enjoyable on different fronts....

[Cali]

Alright so I had about 15 new ones for 2008, but not all of them register as worthy of a top list, so here's what I liked....

 

I don't really have an order, maybe i'll wait till the end of the year to put them in order:

 

The Killers - Day & Age

 

Manchester Orchestra - Let My Pride Be What's Left Behind (EP)

 

Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

 

Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony

 

Vampire Weekend- S/T

 

Joshua Radin - Simple Times

 

Conor Oberst - S/T

 

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

 

Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.

 

[3E8]

Cali you should check out Underoath's album, I think we have similar tastes, it's one of my faves from '08

[LosMediasBlancas]

Duke, that last Portishead album is easily the most dissapointed I've ever been in a record. Maybe it was the long anticipation, maybe it's because their previous two are classics.

[Rex Kickass]

Duke, that last Portishead album is easily the most dissapointed I've ever been in a record. Maybe it was the long anticipation, maybe it's because their previous two are classics.

 

Really? I thought it was a great distillation of what made the first two albums great. Just a stark, loud sadness. I got my first taste of what they were up to, with the Serge Gainsbourg mashup that they did on a Gainsbourg tribute album last year and easily thought it to be among the best things I'd heard that year.

[ThunderBolt]

Didn’t get many new albums this year, but I’ll give it a shot

Best Albums 2008

6) Viva La Vida- Coldplay

5) Narrow Stairs- Death Cab For Cute

4) Way to Normal- Ben Folds

3) Way to Normal Fake Album- Ben Folds

2) Perfect Symmetry- Keane

1) Always a Bridesmaid- The Decemberists

Haven’t listened to enough to rate: new Old 97’s, Plover

 

[Rex Kickass]

Albums I love for 2008 -

Q-Tip - The Renaissance

Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun

dEUS - Vantage Point

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

Portishead - Third

Nada Surf - Lucky

Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

The Breeders - Mountain Battles

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalust

 

Disappointments -

Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak

Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty

CSS - Donkey

Zita Swoon - Big Blueville

Peter Bjorn and John - Seaside Rock

Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kyyle23]

Albums I love for 2008 -

Q-Tip - The Renaissance

Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun

dEUS - Vantage Point

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

Portishead - Third

Nada Surf - Lucky

Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

The Breeders - Mountain Battles

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalust

 

Disappointments -

Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak

Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty

CSS - Donkey

Zita Swoon - Big Blueville

Peter Bjorn and John - Seaside Rock

Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy

 

 

Is this a disappointment because of lofty expectations(which to me means you thought it would be really good, and it ended up being just OK by the bands standards), or because it was just a bad record?

[Rex Kickass]

Is this a disappointment because of lofty expectations(which to me means you thought it would be really good, and it ended up being just OK by the bands standards), or because it was just a bad record?

 

It took 15 years to make the record. Overproduced? I can understand. But this just feels dated and bad. GnR needs Slash to make its traditional bloat work.

[Kyyle23]

It took 15 years to make the record. Overproduced? I can understand. But this just feels dated and bad. GnR needs Slash to make its traditional bloat work.

 

I listened to one song on youtube, and I was unimpressed to say the least. I can wait until a friend has the album before I take it all in

[bmags]

I think MGMT was the year before but I could be wrong.

[The Critic]

Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalust

 

I am SO f***ing suing them for stealing that title from me!

They must be following me around - I say that all the time!!!!

[bmags]

I've never tried to pronounce a sigor ros album besides Takk, but I liked their english song and gobbledigook on that album.

[Rex Kickass]

I think MGMT was the year before but I could be wrong.

 

First single came out in 2007, but the album dropped in January IIRC.