@LadyGulag @MagicAlexDJS the year of my birth... my list would also include drive like jehu's S/T, teenage fanclub's "bandwagonesque", tribe's "the low end theory", ecstasy of st. theresa's "pigment" E.P., jesus lizard's "goat". honorable mention to mr. bungle's first, although i don't listen to it much now, at age 13 it made me completely rethink what music could be.
indeed. I'm glad you think so too @MagicAlexDJS i have been struggling to get my Top 10 List together, I'm pretty much there, but albums that wouldn't have got a look in on stronger years have passed easily this year.
unless some great ones come out in the next couple months-- mine would likely be, in no particular order: lee fields - faithful man, country club - new grass country club, butter the children - S/T, tragedy - darker days ahead, revenge - scum.collapse.eradication, dirty projector - swing lo magellan, max kagan - will there ever be a rainbow?, no one and the somebodies - numbers, schoolboy q - habits and contradictions, death grips - no love deep web.
i agree that it was not the best year for albums, seeing as a good portion of that list is music made by my friends, but i did think it was a pretty decent year for individual songs/singles
@MagicAlexDJS Me too. @gofuckaduck I haven't heard a lot of those. Which singles/songs have you liked? "Forget" is one of my faves of the year but I'm not feeling La Havas' full album. I like Field Music a lot (thanks, Prof. Nobhead) and listened to Oh Sees' "Goodnight Baby" a bunch over the summer. White Fence, Ty Segall, all those guys are predictably good (good year to be a California zealot). My fave thing I discovered this year is a decades-old oratorio.
I've already gone on and on about it round here but here's the oratorio: http://open.spotify.com/artist/2jgiJ2YaKlFEOVvDd7FzVB.
I know the composer and blow my own mind with this fact on the regular. (I've not known him that long or I would have actually heard this piece before, d'oh. So, so lazy.)
@Rin i love "voices of light"! great piece to a equally great film. in terms of singles/individual songs there was a bunch of hip hop, kendrick lamar's "the recipe", earl sweatshirt's "chum", action bronson's "bird on a wire", frank ocean's "thinkin bout you", but also stuff like my current jam, grizzly bear's "yet again", the men's "open your heart", etc... oh and this bit of silliness (http://reddwarf.bandcamp.com/track/dick-joke)
@gofuckaduck I am such a clown for never having heard it before. I got to see a full performance recently, film and everything, and it was wonderful. Mr. Einhorn is a great guy too. We bonded over Beefheart at a party and then I realized he was, you know, Richard Einhorn Richard Einhorn.
@gofuckaduck Oh yeah I've heard and liked some of this! I've been largely bedridden since, I dunno, forever and I can barely remember what even came out this year.
@Rin that must've been amazing. as this site has helped to show me, no one is a clown for never having heard a piece of music, since there's infinite amounts of good stuff to be found out there--
Loveless remains my most favourite ever album. I've heard it hundreds of times and each time i listen to it i hear something i haven't heard before. How does someone make music like this? Genius.
@gofuckaduck This is true, and I get a lot of joy out of discovering old things through new e-pals. I always assume everyone else already knows everything though. @jaxxon Yes!
@Rin speaking of favorite albums of the year as well as great composers, i completely forgot about jonny greenwood's score to "the master", definitely worth a listen
@jaxxon I hate even ranking this album, it is so (for lack of a better word) *beyond* for me. and judging from how long it's taken Kevin Shields to follow up on it, I'd say he wonders how someone makes music like this as much as we do.
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d0minic
1991 was a massive year for (what has become) classic albums: Blue Lines, Nevermind, Laughing Stock, Screamadelica and this of course.
MagicAlexDJS
@LadyGulag I'd add Slint's Spiderland to that stellar list too.
JBoxer
@LadyGulag @MagicAlexDJS the year of my birth... my list would also include drive like jehu's S/T, teenage fanclub's "bandwagonesque", tribe's "the low end theory", ecstasy of st. theresa's "pigment" E.P., jesus lizard's "goat". honorable mention to mr. bungle's first, although i don't listen to it much now, at age 13 it made me completely rethink what music could be.
d0minic
yes not hard to put together a #Top10albums list from that year @MagicAlexDJS @gofuckaduck how about this year though?
MagicAlexDJS
@LadyGulag i have just been contemplating how this is quite likely the worst year for new music ever.
d0minic
indeed. I'm glad you think so too @MagicAlexDJS i have been struggling to get my Top 10 List together, I'm pretty much there, but albums that wouldn't have got a look in on stronger years have passed easily this year.
JBoxer
unless some great ones come out in the next couple months-- mine would likely be, in no particular order: lee fields - faithful man, country club - new grass country club, butter the children - S/T, tragedy - darker days ahead, revenge - scum.collapse.eradication, dirty projector - swing lo magellan, max kagan - will there ever be a rainbow?, no one and the somebodies - numbers, schoolboy q - habits and contradictions, death grips - no love deep web.
JBoxer
i agree that it was not the best year for albums, seeing as a good portion of that list is music made by my friends, but i did think it was a pretty decent year for individual songs/singles
Rin
@MagicAlexDJS Me too. @gofuckaduck I haven't heard a lot of those. Which singles/songs have you liked? "Forget" is one of my faves of the year but I'm not feeling La Havas' full album. I like Field Music a lot (thanks, Prof. Nobhead) and listened to Oh Sees' "Goodnight Baby" a bunch over the summer. White Fence, Ty Segall, all those guys are predictably good (good year to be a California zealot). My fave thing I discovered this year is a decades-old oratorio.
Rin
I've already gone on and on about it round here but here's the oratorio: http://open.spotify.com/artist/2jgiJ2YaKlFEOVvDd7FzVB. I know the composer and blow my own mind with this fact on the regular. (I've not known him that long or I would have actually heard this piece before, d'oh. So, so lazy.)
JBoxer
@Rin i love "voices of light"! great piece to a equally great film. in terms of singles/individual songs there was a bunch of hip hop, kendrick lamar's "the recipe", earl sweatshirt's "chum", action bronson's "bird on a wire", frank ocean's "thinkin bout you", but also stuff like my current jam, grizzly bear's "yet again", the men's "open your heart", etc... oh and this bit of silliness (http://reddwarf.bandcamp.com/track/dick-joke)
Rin
@gofuckaduck I am such a clown for never having heard it before. I got to see a full performance recently, film and everything, and it was wonderful. Mr. Einhorn is a great guy too. We bonded over Beefheart at a party and then I realized he was, you know, Richard Einhorn Richard Einhorn.
Rin
@gofuckaduck Oh yeah I've heard and liked some of this! I've been largely bedridden since, I dunno, forever and I can barely remember what even came out this year.
JBoxer
@Rin that must've been amazing. as this site has helped to show me, no one is a clown for never having heard a piece of music, since there's infinite amounts of good stuff to be found out there--
jaxxon
Loveless remains my most favourite ever album. I've heard it hundreds of times and each time i listen to it i hear something i haven't heard before. How does someone make music like this? Genius.
Rin
@gofuckaduck This is true, and I get a lot of joy out of discovering old things through new e-pals. I always assume everyone else already knows everything though. @jaxxon Yes!
JBoxer
@Rin speaking of favorite albums of the year as well as great composers, i completely forgot about jonny greenwood's score to "the master", definitely worth a listen
robbfritz
@jaxxon I hate even ranking this album, it is so (for lack of a better word) *beyond* for me. and judging from how long it's taken Kevin Shields to follow up on it, I'd say he wonders how someone makes music like this as much as we do.
Matan
This Jam is cheating!
purlpower
First 'LP' I ever bought.