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Post by NdY on Feb 9, 2005 0:05:20 GMT -5
I'll try to formulate some type of cheap overview of what I've listened to so far from 2005. Most of these I've listened to less than a handful of times (some as few as only once) and can/will change very easily and drastically. They're in descending order of juicy goodness...
A[/b]
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Books - Lost and Safe
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Prefuse 73 - Surrounded by Silence
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
Hood - Outside Closer
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British Sea Power - Open Season
M.I.A. - Arular
The Bravery - The Bravery
Beck - Guero
Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game
Doves - Some Cities
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
B[/b]
New Order - Waiting for the Siren's Call
LCD Soundsystem - s/t
Kaiser Chiefs - Emergency
The Game - The Documentary
The Fiery Furnaces - EP
B-[/b]
Daft Punk - Human After All
m83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button
Sitting in my "to listen to" folder which means I may or may not ever get to them[/b]
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Moby - Hotel
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Bright Eyes - Digital Urn in the Morning
Iron and Wine - Woman King EP
Boom Bip - Blue Eyed in the Red Room
Dalek - Absence
Idlewild - Warnings Promises
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Post by Galactus on Feb 9, 2005 10:45:05 GMT -5
The Kings Of Leon really needs to be much higher on that list.
The Mars Volta is going to be the most overrated album of the year. It sounds like a tighter more focused version of the first album but there's not much new about it.
The Idlewild is very good...like the Mars Volta it's not really anything new from them.
I have zero interest in the new Moby.
The Beck leak is good but not as good as Sea Change.
I really need to listen to the Doves.
Bright Eyes is better then I expected...I have Lifted but I don't listen to it. I usually think they're pretty boring and might think the same of this album after a couple more listens.
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Post by NdY on Feb 9, 2005 11:37:33 GMT -5
Yeah, you loves the Kings of Leon. I listened to about half of it and lost interest. Same thing goes with the Idlewild album. I'll give 'em both another go this weekend. I just listened to snippets of the Mars Volta album to make sure it was legit. I was never a huge fan of Deloused... (good, not great) so my expectations aren't that high.
I'm gonna give the Roots Manuva tracks a go tonight. Sweeeet.
The Daft Punk and M83 discs may end up higher on my list -- only one go through each for me so far. The Daft Punk sounded more promising to me, the M83 didn't particularly pique my interest, though knowing my love for their last album I'll try my damndest to like it.
The New Order is pretty boring. Kind of a big let down after the very solid Get Ready. None of the tracks really jumped out at me -- a bad sign for a dance album.
I can't decide if I'm dissing the Bravery or not -- the problem is that their album is essentially their two previously released EPs plus a couple extra tracks, most of which I've already played to death. It seems like a 2004 release to me.
Beck could end up higher or lower. We'll see.
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 9, 2005 14:37:40 GMT -5
I'm convinced I'll enjoy both the Bloc Party Album and the Bravery
The M83(no tour date in Atlanta yet) is really growing on me though in retrospect it's nowhere near the greatness of Dead Cities I've determined
I don't expect much different from Idlewild nor Mars Volta, I'll still like it though
Everyone I know is ripping the New Order release
I'll have the LCD Soundsystem and Mars Volta by Friday Night
I think 2005 might be the strongest line-up of early release so far in this decade
I really like evrything I 've heard so far this year
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 12, 2005 7:45:20 GMT -5
The Top 10 Songs In Atlanta This Week
10. Keane -"We Might As Well Be Strangers(DJ Shadow Remix)
9. Bloc Party- "Little Thoughts"
8. Trail of the Dead- "The Rest Will Follow"
7.The Killers- "Mr. Brightside"(Thin White Duke Remix)
6.Bright Eyes- "Landlocked Blues"
5.Chemical Brothers- "Surface To Air"(Anybody else think the Guitars are sampled from "Barely Legal"- The Strokes)
4.The Arcade Fire- "No Car Go"
3.Beck- "E Pro"
2. M83- "Teen Angst"
1. The Postal Service- "Bestill My Heart"
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 12, 2005 9:02:38 GMT -5
Top 10 Albums in Atlanta This Week10  Lcd Soundsystem-s/t- (debut) (just got yesterday) 9.  Arcade Fire-Funeral/EP(7) last week (5 weeks, 1 week @ #1) 8.  The Dears- No Cities Left(6) last week (5 weeks, 2 weeks @ #1) 7.  Death From Above- You"re a Woman, I'm A Machine(9) last week (5 weeks) 6.  Fiery Furnaces- EP- (debut) (it's as long as most albums 40 mins) 5. ![]() Bright Eyes- Digital Ash In A Digital Urn(4) last week (3 weeks) 4.  Trail of The Dead- Worlds Apart(3) last week (3 weeks) 3.  Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake It's Morning(2) last week (3 weeks) 2.  The Chemical Brothers- Push The Button(5) last week (2 weeks) 1.  M83- Before The Dawn Heals Us(1) last week ( 3 weeks 2nd week @ #1) The Headphone Hall of Fame Pick This Week  The Pixies- Trompe Le MondeDid anyone see them on Austin City Limits(PBS) this week?
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 16, 2005 15:16:25 GMT -5
Ok so the only albums in my rotation right now are LCD Soundsystem The Mars Volta-Frances The Mute(it's nice to have but the promo version has just a sleeve of the album cover and no song list) Since I'm not ready to review either here's an interesting take on LCD Soundsystem(WARNING MORE PRETENTIOUS THAN MOST CAN STAND) There are 5 general rules when dealing with "indie critics and dance or "danceable" music
1. You would almost never actually dance to what critics call "danceable"
Unless it were you know revamped with an actual dance beat,remixed,and ultimately made into something different so it can be club friendly.
Or unless "danceable" means going to an artists concert and doing the "inching dance"
by which you nervously scoot to the left then the right,all the while looking about and making sure your grooving enjoyment passed unoticed by all the hpsters around
who are doing the inching dance just like you,making for genral awkwardness
2. Paul Oakenfold is Satan, or at least the music world's Saddam Hussein
3.Regular,Repeated Beats are Boring (you know music played in the clubs) and let's not get started on4/4 time
4.The more artsy semi-dance forays are always the best tracks,BECAUSE you reaaly can't dance to them,This is why we love Daft Punk's Homework,but hate Discovery
5.Fun sucks,If fun didn't suck we would do our dancing at parties and clubs(as opposed to us wishing it in our rock music) but our Coverse All-Stars prevent us form doing thatWOW That's such crap journalsm I can't even begin to discuss due to I'm laughing so hard at the Fun sucks comment Because you know I'm just too damn cool to dance at clubs or parties as I realize I'm wearing my black Converse High Tops  I've been to many dancepunk shows (Rapture,Radio4,The Faint) and have never see this so called "inching dance" or maybe I just have cool friends and we don't care what the other hipsters think of us |
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Post by NdY on Feb 16, 2005 15:50:22 GMT -5
haha, i just read that cokemachineglow review of LCD.
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 18, 2005 14:47:33 GMT -5
The Best Review I have read so far this year
The Mars Volta-Frances The Mute
93% / 65%
It's been more than a couple of years since At The Drive-In called it quits and with the release of this sophomore album,it's offical
Omar and Cedric aren't playing some casual game of Marco Polo in the YMCA pool of sonic experimentation.
They're doing rowdy cannonballs and calculated backstrokes,while most of us can't even bring ourselves to grab a pair of Floaties.
Reviewers are going to tell you how this melds punk,funk,prog, and jazz to rejunivate or reinvent contemporay music.
Casual listeners are going to tell you it's over-zealous-pretentious feedback riddled crap.
Radio has already cozyed up to "THE WIDOW"- which is the most cohesive and compelling song the MV has written yet,WELL UNTIL the 3 min of indecipherable droning at the end of the song(which the radio version left off.
DON'T EXPECT the album to be full of singles like "The Widow"
YOU simply CANNOT and MUST NOT Listen to this record EXPECTING to be spoon-fed catchy hooks,hummable melodies or straightfoward lyrics.
If Your Looking for That,You'll be completely dissapointed,Dumbfounded and possably a bit ANNOYED with this one
And Really that's fine,Take Your Confusion and go dance to Franz Ferdinand
Now for those of you who can appreciate the far-out ingenuity of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew this dense and inticate record WILL DELIVER
Like Davis MV 's musical self-indulgence isn't just about being different for the sake of being original.
YES they are different and YES there are few musicans TODAY making records that are this out of the box.
Mostly the experimentation is about serving up a bold,unbrideled challenge to the simple prossaic way MOST OF US PROCESS AND UNDERSTAND MUSIC
Frances The Mute DOES NOT CONTAIN 12 4 minute tracks,Instead a few long tracks are broken into extravgent movements and minimalist interludes that make it impossable to skip around.
A Beautiful accoustic guitar opens the record but soon combusts into hectic metal riffs and cacophonous drums that speed up and acquiesce in response to remarkably imaginative guitar freakouts and Pristine vocal cries.
Weaving lyrically between Spanish and English and musically from fast paced disonace(THINK TOMAHAWK) to melodious LATIN Jazz Rhythms(THINK COMAPNY SEGUNDO)
Frances The Mute documents the MV as a PASSONATE and EXPLOSIVE band that has grown capable of TAKING THE MUSIC IN A HUNDRED DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
For some of you this will be an abject Failure
For Others It'll be a type of GENUIS
ergo the two ratings above
Whether YOU give them the CHANCE TO BLOW YOUR MIND IS UP TO YOU.
-Steve Leckart(Filter)
That sums up my thoughts about Frances the Mute just about exactly as I would have posted
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 18, 2005 17:39:00 GMT -5
...mmmmmm....Tomahawk...
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Post by ScottsyII on Feb 18, 2005 18:13:48 GMT -5
Seems like I am going to be spoiled for choice this year... Idlewild, Doves, New Order, Beck, Moby, System of a Down... alot of good bands coming out with new gear this year... looking forward to getting some income.... pay day hits me this Thursday! Hurrah!!!
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 19, 2005 10:27:28 GMT -5
Yeah Everything is coming out all at once my interests FEB 21 Tori Amos- Beekeeper Kings of Leon- Ahha Shake Heartbreak Muse-Orgin of Symmetry (USA release,no more lack of artwork or paying $40 for the import) MARCH 1 Mars Volta- Frances The Mute(got my half ass promo version now) Doves- Some Cities(got this too) March 8 Kasabian The Kills- No wow Stars-Set Yourself on Fire Ash-Meltdown(USA release) 50 Cent-  the bootlegs I have heard are extremely weak March 14 The Bravery March 22 Bloc Party- Silent Alarm (YEEEESSS) Nick Cave-B-sides Moby-Hotel Morrissey-Live at Earl's Court Prefuse 73-Surrounded by Silence Queens of the Stone Age- Lullabies To Paralyze Most important NEW BILLY IDOL- Devil's Playground March 29 Beck-Guano New Order-Waiting for the Siren's call APRIL The Books Fischerspooner Hot Hot Heat Garbage Ryan Adams Caribou-(Manitoba) 13+God Bruce Springsteen The National MAY NIN The Raveonettes Spoon Oasis Mercury Rev Stephen Malkmus Four Tet So unless you can download all this Your probably gonna get behind on your bills or need a another job to afford all these  |
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 19, 2005 10:34:35 GMT -5
The Top 10 Songs in Atlanta This Week
10.Hot Hot Heat- "Godnight,Goodnight"
9. Queens of the Stone Age- "Little Sister"
8. The Chemical Brothers- "Close Your Eyes"
7. Beck- "E-pro"
6. LCD Soundsystem- "Tribulations"
5. Chromeo- "Needy Girl"
4. The Postal Service- "Be Still My Heart"
3. Doves- "Black and White Town"
2. New Order- "Krafty"
1. Secret Machines- "Girl From The North Country"(one of the best Dylan covers I have heard)
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Post by pattentank24 on Feb 19, 2005 10:52:29 GMT -5
The Top 10 albums in Atlanta This Week 10.  Doves-Some Cities-got yesterday (-) debut 9. The Dears- No Cities Left(8) last week (6 weeks, 2 weeks @ #1) 8. Fiery Furnaces- EP (6) last week (2 weeks) 7. Trail of the Dead- Worlds Apart(4) last week (4 weeks) 6.  Bright Eyes- Digital Ash In A Digital Urn(5) last week (4 weeks) 5. The Chemical Brothers- Push The Button(2) last week (3 weeks) 4. M83- Before The Dawn Heals Us(1) last week (4 weeks, 2 weeks @ #1) 3. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake It's Morning(3) last week (4 weeks) 2.  The Mars Volta- Frances The Mute(-) (debut) 1.  LCD Soundsystem- s/t(10) last week (2 weeks) My listening Breakdown this week Morning- Bright Eyes Car- LCD Soundsystem Home- Mars Volta Bed- The Dears The Headphone Hall of Fame Pick of the Week  Creeper Lagoon- Take Back The Universe and Give Me YesterdayI think it's the most forgotten great album of this decade it's near perfect in exploring all indie styles with little pre-tense |
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Post by NdY on Feb 19, 2005 17:49:15 GMT -5
I love that Creeper Lagoon album. Think I'll go dig it up...
I've decided that the LCD album kinda sucks. I just don't really feel it for the most part -- aside for a couple tracks here and there it's pretty forgettable. Kind of disappointing really. Except for the last track and it's Eno loving, and of course the bonus singles disc (which doesn't count).
Isn't that Stars album like 4 or 5 months old now?
I like the Doves.
The new Books album is fantastic.
50 Cent is terrible.
That's all I got right now.
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the bootlegs I have heard are extremely weak