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Post by rockysigman on Nov 17, 2005 18:05:31 GMT -5
Best Of 2005: First Ten 1. Anthony and the Johnsons-I Am A Bird Now 2. M83-Before the Dawn Heals Us 3. LCD Soundsystem-LCD Soundsystem 4. Opeth-Ghost Reveries 5. MIA-Arular 6. Iron and Wine/Calexico 7. Broken Social Scene-Broken Social Scene 8. Wolf Parade-Apologies to the Queen Mary 9. The Boy Least Likely To-The Best Party Ever 10. Art Brut-Bang Bang Rock and Roll Fuck that mix I sent you. I should have just burned you the entire Thunderbirds Are Now! album. |
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Post by paul on Nov 17, 2005 18:46:30 GMT -5
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Late Registration - Kanye West
Prairie Wind - Neil Young
Broken Social Scene
The Campfire Headphase - Boards Of Canada
The Mouse And The Mask - DangerDoom
Akron/Family & Angels Of Light
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Nov 17, 2005 22:13:22 GMT -5
Now way, man that mix you sent me was spot on. It's got some amazing songs on there and the X song is one of my favorite X songs of all time.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Nov 17, 2005 22:19:51 GMT -5
Next 10
1. Thunderbirds are Now!-Justamustache
2. Kanye West-Late Registration
3. Danger Doom-The Mouse and The Mask
4. Wilderness-Wilderness
5. Lightning Bolt-Hypermagic Mountain
6. Sunn 0)))-Black One
7. Ocean-Here Where Nothing Grows
8. Isolee-Wearemonster
9. Khanate-Capture and Release
10. Animal Collective-Feels
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 18, 2005 6:34:26 GMT -5
Oooooooo.... tricky.... well, my ten best are looking like these at present...
1. Main Street - Epicure
2. The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats
3. Fractions - Decoder Ring
4. Mesmerize - System of Down (hopefully part two of these recording sessions will make this an unbeatable combo of albums this year!)
5. Oceans Apart - The Go Betweens
6. Some Cities - Doves
7. Suspended Animation - Fantomas
8. Plans - Death Cab for Cutie
9. Worlds Apart - And You Will Knows By The Trail of Dead
10. Lior - Autumn Flow
That's how it's looking thus far this year, although there's a couple of months worth of time for that to change!
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Post by maarts on Nov 18, 2005 7:20:26 GMT -5
Don't worry Scottsy- I heard Hypnotize today and it slots easily next to Mezmerise!
My bunch for the year:
Sigur Ros- Takk
Songs From Green Pheasant- Songs From Green Pheasant
Porcupine Tree- Deadwing
M83- Before The Dawn Heals Us
Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy
Echo and the Bunnymen- Siberia
Brian Eno- Another Day On Earth
Fripp & Eno- The Equatorial Stars
Architecture In Helsinki- In Case We Die
The National- Alligator
Bark Psychosis- Codename: Dustsucker
Dalek- Absence
The Mess Hall- Notes From A Ceiling
Nine Inch Nails- With Teeth
The Go-Betweens- Oceans Apart
British Sea Power- Open Up
Ry Cooder- Chavez Ravine
Mercury Rev- The Secret Migration
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate- In The Heart Of The Moon
Bruce Springsteen- Devils & Dust
Dream Theater- Octavarium
Stars- Set Yourself On Fire
Opeth- Ghost Reveries
Original Soundtrack (Harold Budd/Robin Guthrie)- Mysterious Skin
Susumu Yokota- Symbol
Amusement Parks On Fire- S/T
Cog- The New Normal
Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt
John Cale- BlackAcetate
Richard Thompson- Front Parlour Ballads
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 18, 2005 7:24:49 GMT -5
Shit! I forgot to mention Takk! Of course! Blah! I forget so easily!
I'm really looking forward to hearing Hypnotize! Not sure if I am going to buy it out of my own money now or wait until my sister is able to buy it for me for Christmas.... into deep savings mode now, but still might have enough to afford it this sunday when JB put it out on the shelf!
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 18, 2005 7:25:14 GMT -5
And BTW... great to see you back on here! :-)
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Nov 18, 2005 7:57:10 GMT -5
Two more new releases to add to my list, hot off the coals:
System of a Down - Hynnotize (how good would a single, 70 minute album have been though?)
Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun - after an unpromising start this turns into classic Nephilim.
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Post by pattentank24 on Nov 18, 2005 11:09:06 GMT -5
Shit! I forgot to mention Takk! Of course! Blah! I forget so easily! I'm really looking forward to hearing Hypnotize! Not sure if I am going to buy it out of my own money now or wait until my sister is able to buy it for me for Christmas.... into deep savings mode now, but still might have enough to afford it this sunday when JB put it out on the shelf! HYPNOTIZE can be heard at MTV.COM click on the Leak under music I'm listening to it right now |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Nov 18, 2005 12:36:30 GMT -5
There's nothing to worry about. Exceptional album. The full version of "Soldier Side" is every bit as good as you could possibly imagine from the intro version.
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 18, 2005 17:16:21 GMT -5
Thats a good thing!!! I do think that maybe they could have consolidated Mesmerize and Hypnotize into one long album... but nevertheless it sound slike both albums will stand up fine in the long run, with very little filler on either.... I certainly enjoyed Mesmerize alot and i still do!!! It still stands as one of my favourites of the year...
As for which one goes in my list of top albums for the year... I am not sure! Do I choose the better of the two, or do I just regard them as basically the same album and say number whatever on my list was Mesmerize / Hypnotize by System of a Down... the mind boggles!
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Nov 19, 2005 3:37:37 GMT -5
My own feeling is that they should be regarded as separate albums. After all, they total about 79 minutes, so we could have had one album here, no problem, but SOAD chose to try and make twice as much cash. So instead of having the album of the year, they've got 2 contenders falling just short with a tiny bit of filler in there.
It's Kid A syndrome, but this time I'm buying one and burning one.
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Post by JACkory on Nov 19, 2005 15:02:45 GMT -5
I'm not really qualified to compile a list because I listened to so little new music this year. I'm sure it would have included these, though, if I had... ~~~Sigur Ros Takk ~~~Autechre Untilted~~~Sun Kil Moon Tiny Cities~~~Bruce Springsteen Devils & DustWhich are pretty much the only albums I bought this year... I haven't heard the entire album, only about 3 songs on XM, but if the rest of the album is as steller as the tracks I heard, M83's Before the Dawn Heals Us would have been high on my list (had I made one, that is  ). |
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 21, 2005 7:28:23 GMT -5
This is going to be a tough fucking year for me, man. I don't know why, but I have been rocked this year, but few releases have really moved me, though. It may be January before I get that list out. I actually feel a bit similar to Skvor in this regard... no doubts about it, there has been some good stuff, but it's been really hard to feel blown away by anything at all really... kinda sad, but alot of my buying and listening has centred on stuff from previous years and filling out back catalogue... Alot of the bigger releases of this year just haven't turned my dial... Wasn't big on the stuff everyone's raving about... And is it just me or is the whole "retro" rock thing just sounding really, really tired now?! Perhaps its five minutes is coming to it's end... who knows! Do we hear anything truly new this year? I mean really, really new, ground breaking... Or did that all end a few years ago?! I've enjoyed a HUGE amount of stuff, but I am thinking 2005 won't be the huge year of musical breakthroughs that the previous three years have been. Good, but not mind blowing or a new phase in my listening journey, methinks. But alot of really enjoyable releases along the way, I can't be all that negative, because I've had alot of fun! |
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