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Post by tuneschick on Dec 14, 2004 12:24:16 GMT -5
Haven't heard a note from the new Elliott Smith, but I'm always skeptical of albums released after an artist's death without a proper stamp of approval so to speak. In this vein, am I the only one amazed that Tupac is still releasing albums? I honestly don't feel properly informed to make a 'best of 2004' list - I just really can't think of that many albums I bought this year that came OUT this year. It's unbelievable to me that out of the 50 albums Riley just listed, I own one. ONE. I mean, there's been a few - Elvis Costello, Social Distortion, Green Day, Loretta Lynn, controller.controller, Kate Maki, Juliana Hatfield, Libertines, Descendants... but you can't make a list when you're barely have enough stuff to put on it, let alone enough stuff to pick and choose from! ... and I like the new stuff I've heard from A Girl Called Eddy, Statues, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Secret Machines, High Dials, The Gurus and The Contrast... but I haven't heard any of those albums in their entirety either. So looks like I'll be sitting this one out... sigh.  But |
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 14, 2004 12:55:58 GMT -5
I am sure the posthumous Elliott Smith will win the stamp of approval from angels and devils everywhere.
It is bound to be more than a soliloquy from beyond the grave.
It is bound to become a timeless classic.
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Post by Ampage on Dec 14, 2004 13:19:35 GMT -5
Worst Record of 2004 is Courtney Love’s disc. SHUTUP!!! You can maybe claim that cd was (for you) a big or the biggest disappointment. But there is absolutely no way you can claim it’s the worse cd of the year, I mean come on Eileen. |
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Post by Ampage on Dec 14, 2004 13:25:02 GMT -5
Mock me if you will, but here goes pop whore Ampage’s best of list:
CD’s –
Auf Der Mar – Melissa Auf Der Mar
Gwen Stefani – Love, Angel, Music, Baby
Courtney Love – Americas Sweetheart
Like A Bolt of Lightning – Juliette and the Licks
Switchfoot – Beautiful Letdown
Jars of Clay – Who We Are Instead
I don’t buy much as you can see, I listen to the same cd for so dang long, I don’t need to.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Dec 14, 2004 13:33:56 GMT -5
No......not the worst, but pretty close...sorry. I loved early Hole, but her new stuff stinks like her unwiped hiney.
Top Overplayed Songs of 2004
1. Take Me Out-Franz Ferdinand......while I love this band dearly the music media has made me feel about this song in a year what it took me 10 years to feel with "Dark Side Of The Moon". Please never play this again.
2. Float On-Modest Mouse......everyone knows I love these guys but come on. This song wasn't that good. The B Side "I've Got It Almost" on the single was waaay better. (sidenote......please tell that director of both videos that really are not that cool. I'm sick of seeing his lame ass cut up shit on MTV2. It's worse than when Kerslake made every band's videos look the same on 120 minutes. )
3. House of Jealous Lovers-The Rapture......horrible song, horrible band, someone should tell the DFA to drop these guys like a washed up rocker dropping the fries into the frier.
4. Toxic-Britney Spears.....we get it. The Nepturnes are cool. I even like this song, but come on man, there is nothing Toxic about short squatty trailer trash from the creeks of Louisiana.
5. Interpol-Slow Hands...........okay someone tell kids from NYC to stop using Octave bass lines in the vein of every A Certain Ratio record they have ever heard or any other Disco record from the 70s.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Dec 14, 2004 13:36:37 GMT -5
Oh yeah I also forgot to write about how much I don't like the new Gwen Stefani. I don't care if New Order is on the record, she still sucks.
Man, I am really caustic today. Okay.....now something that I do think is really good:
Wolf Eyes
Kylie Minogue
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Post by Ampage on Dec 14, 2004 13:50:20 GMT -5
Bashing Gwen and loving on Kylie in the same post? Fer shame!  |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Dec 14, 2004 13:57:32 GMT -5
I never said I wasn't without my own condtradictions and I also never said that I wasn't totally weird. ;D
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Post by Ampage on Dec 14, 2004 14:08:50 GMT -5
We are all a bit off if you ask me.
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Post by riley on Dec 14, 2004 14:26:14 GMT -5
Not me. I'm on. All the time.
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Post by bowiglou on Dec 14, 2004 16:28:53 GMT -5
what do you all think of the Libertines (2004)?......I'm almost finished with my first complete listen, and it has some rather intiguing sonics, though some of the lyrics are rudimentary sex/drugs/rock and roll theme......
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Post by Dr. Drum on Dec 14, 2004 16:30:21 GMT -5
SHUTUP!!! You can maybe claim that cd was (for you) a big or the biggest disappointment. But there is absolutely no way you can claim it’s the worse cd of the year, I mean come on Eileen. Sorry, man, I liked Hole, too, up to and including Celebrity Skin but that record was a train wreck and an enervated, soulless one at that. Worst. Record. Of. The. Year. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 14, 2004 17:23:09 GMT -5
Worse than Dexys Midnight Runners?
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Post by ScottsyII on Dec 14, 2004 17:25:32 GMT -5
I really tried to like it, I worked hard on it... but I couldn't bring myself to like that Auf Der Maur record... I wanted to love it, but her austere vocal style, the general one dimensional feel of the songwriting, and that lame "when she was good was very very good but when she was bad she was horrid" voice over bit between the first two tracks just lost it for me... eeeks. That makes it m y biggest disappointment for the year.
Real A Lie is still a good song and there's a couple of others, but it just didn't live up to expectations the way i would have liked it to.
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Post by rockysigman on Dec 14, 2004 19:10:35 GMT -5
I think you people just need to listen to A Ghost is Born a little more. I was disappointed at first too, but it really managed to grow on me.
Obviously the droning on "Less Than You Think" is unnecessary, but it's otherwise quite a spectacular song. "Spiders" is the only other one that really rubbed me completely wrong at first (mainly because I do much prefer the very, very different version of it they were doing live for the two years leading up to the album), but it's really an excellent collection of songs. I'm not sure how anyone can't love "Hummingbird", and the guitar work on "At Least That's What You Said" and "Hell is Chrome" get me every time.
At this point, I really love every song on the album with the exception of "Company On My Back" (which strangely seems to be a favorite among lots of fans of the album) and "I'm a Wheel", if only because I would have rather they'd put "Kicking Television" in its place rather than delegating it to the import version.
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