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Post by strawman on Nov 21, 2005 13:16:52 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. yeah, I know what you're saying here.....most, and I stress most, (as I haven't heard all), of the CDs getting big reputations around here and in various zines are frankly mediocre....yeah some are even borderline crap. BUT this year has been one of the best for me....damn I've heard some fucking fantastic CDs this year...stuff that really sounds like nothing else out there..yeah something fresh an new.... anyhow CDs that'll make the list for sure are Flying Out Of The Washing Machine....The Sproutts Cuts...Toy Love (yeah I'm such a sell out to include this as all the songs were first out in 78 to 80, but damn its jus sooooo good) Pipeline Under The Ocean...Pluto Suicide Train...Ghost Club Mathematical Warfare....The Shocking Pinks Fuck The Golden Youth...The Mint Chicks biggest disappointment would have to be Trouble In Paradise....Elemeno P OK thats not the biggest disappointment.....it disappoints me more that these CDs will most likely only appear on my list...and crap like Bloc Party, FF (I could go on) etc... will appear everywhere.....yeah shit happens...often... |
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Post by luke on Nov 21, 2005 14:34:21 GMT -5
If you really loved The Sproutts that much, you'd burn me a copy.
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Post by rockysigman on Nov 21, 2005 16:25:44 GMT -5
Maybe he just doesn't love you that much.
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Post by Rit on Nov 21, 2005 20:45:42 GMT -5
g*damn, i love Franz Ferdinand.
and Wolf Parade
and Cyne.
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Post by luke on Nov 22, 2005 17:20:50 GMT -5
Maybe he just doesn't love you that much. Great point. But it was worth a try. I seriously can't find that fucking album anywhere, and I want it bad. Listening to New Pornographers right now. "The Body Says No" really reminds me why I love Franz Ferdinand so much. When I first heard that song, I was blown away by how much action could be packed into a single track. Well, I get that same feeling back with every sing Franz song I hear. |
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Post by Rit on Nov 22, 2005 17:33:07 GMT -5
"Take Me Out" was like a lightning bolt out of nowhere. Exciting and dancey and great.
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Post by Rit on Nov 22, 2005 17:35:01 GMT -5
the "Shopping for Blood" b-side was amazing too. It kind of misled me about them initially. I thought they would turn out to be more of a Goth type band. As it turns out, they never revisited that song again. It was one of the first things i'd heard by Franz.
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Post by Adam on Nov 22, 2005 23:32:00 GMT -5
Slightly updated:
Mesmerize/Hypnotize - System of A Down
Frances The Mute - The Mars Volta
Ghost Reveries - Opeth
Takk - Sigur Ros
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
Howl - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
12 Songs - Neil Diamond
With Teeth- Nine Inch Nails
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Post by strawman on Nov 23, 2005 4:29:29 GMT -5
If you really loved The Sproutts that much, you'd burn me a copy. I really, really, love the Sproutts...so no, I won't burn you a copy...the poor buggers will be lucky to sell 1500 CDs, so I'll steer you to where you can get a copy and keep them out of the gutter( it's worth buying it for the cover pic alone)...and just maybe they'll get a second album out to delight me.... anyhow if you desperately want a copy...don't buy the next big "hype" you hear about on here or in the music press...steal theirs and go to www.smokecds.com (search The Sproutts) or www.powertoolrecords.co.nz/sproutts.htm (a bit cheaper and heaps of reviews) and for about US$15 plus postage, put a smile on the face of the sproutts.....lets face it, this is the band that has to bludge off friends for accomodation when they tour...they NEED money... so there you go...thats where you can get a copy...I'll burn you mix CDs, rich bands CDs...but not my favorite bands who are really struggling when they should be really wealthy.......dumb I know, but fuck it, I'm fucking anal about that... Great point. But it was worth a try. I seriously can't find that fucking album anywhere, and I want it bad.please, please buy it (www.smokecds.com) but.... .....if you are really wanting a copy for zilch...maybe glenn will see you right.....I know he has the CD.... the smokecds review... Hailing from Wellington – musically by way of Dunedin – is a four-piece jangle-pop micro-orchestra: the Sproutts. Their new album 'Flying Out of the Washing Machine' presents 18 brief melodic gems that reflect on universal themes – the elusive attractiveness of bicycle-riding girls, life in an igloo and the despair of the bargain-hunter just too late to stake her claim over a second-hand picnic accessory. The disc is full to brimming with the kinds of melodies and vocal harmonies that were abundant in pop music’s golden days of the 1960s, and sounds as if it were recorded by elves using a museum’s-worth of second-hand musical equipment.
Their instrumental line-up may be slightly unconventional, but what the Sproutts lack in bass guitars, turn-tables and other such trendy ephemera, they make up for in organs, backwards guitars and electric violins. Yes, electric violins, but don’t utter the name ‘Vanessa Mae’ in their presence... where she is all candy-floss – appealingly fluffy, yet sickly in anything but tiny doses – the music of the Sproutts is more akin to cheap bladder wine – inexpensive to produce, deceptively easy to consume, and packing the unexpected kick of a spastic mule.
The Sproutts? Their name is a tribute to Tobin Sprout, the eponymous former guitarist of US lo-fi rockers Guided By Voices. Their songs too owe something to the ‘less is more’ doctrine followed by those disheveled pop icons, but without ever descending to quite the same appalling depths in recording quality. The Sproutts tend to err on the side of a chorus too few rather than letting a song outstay its welcome, but pack each short number with more than the maximum melody quota achieved by your average band. later
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Post by strawman on Nov 23, 2005 4:36:53 GMT -5
"Take Me Out" was like a lightning bolt out of nowhere. Exciting and dancey and great.
not to me....sorry it has always made my skin crawl.....manufactured pop....yeah...fuck off...(not you rit...I mean FF)....no I mean FF and all the others as well....
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 23, 2005 5:29:54 GMT -5
I don't wish to re - ignite the whole Franz Ferdinand Debate, but for me personally that band and a great deal f their contemporaries just aren't interesting, or even that fun. It sounds hollow, doesn't move me or just leaves feeling like I just heard a song that washed completely over me...
Sorry to those that love their Franz Ferdinand, but evebn after all this time, I just can't hear anything in their music. I don't understand why the critical community cream their pants over them all the time.
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 23, 2005 5:42:01 GMT -5
And I might be going out on a limb here, and maybe I am mellowing alot and my taste is changing, but fuck it, I've really enjoyed alot of universally panned albums this year...
Stuff like...
Promises / Warnings - Idlewild
Plans - Death Cab for Cutie
Worlds Apart - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Now it seems these are bands that once had a massive indie following at some stage or another, but, probably because they decided to look for a wider audience, alot of people have trampled on their names in disgust...
Is it just me or is this the stupidest notion in rock music??!! I've honestly become jaded with the whole "indie" attitude that a band changing sound or looking for a wider audience is some heinous bastard who is trying to fuck up the musical listening lives of its former fans. Fuck that.
None of the above three albums sound to me like a horrible grab for cash, and if it were the case, I doubt it would have been highly successful or calculated.
So, anyone is welcome to call me a sellout bastard who likes sellout bastard bands, because frankly, I've stopped thinking in that language altogether. I am starting to feel like I know shitty music when I hear it and I know bullshit about bands when I hear it too.
And for my ears the new Death Cab or Idlewild has a whole lot more to offer than anything Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes or whoever has all the "cred" for this five minutes has at the moment.
[/end rant]
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Post by ScottsyII on Nov 23, 2005 5:49:02 GMT -5
Oh, BTW, that was seriously not directed at anyone here, but more at what I keep reading in all the print / internet media reviewing albums I've loved this year... I know you should pay that much attention to it, but damnit, I find myself so disagreeable with Pitchfork and the likes thereof these days...
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Post by luke on Nov 23, 2005 23:46:22 GMT -5
Thanks, Straw. I can do $16.95 after shipping. I was just worried about obscene import prices. I'll give the money to a band, but I've always had a problem with paying thirty bucks and the post office taking half of it. Import prices are never worth it, IMO.
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Post by kmc on Nov 24, 2005 15:03:53 GMT -5
Pitchfork is hit or miss, Scottsy. I figure I agree with them about half the time, give or take a few percentage points. Still, if Franz Ferdinand is taken at face value, they are a decent fun band. They aren't gonna change the world or anything, but what they do they do well. Solid B effort from them this year.
My faves this year, in no order, and including live albums:
Wilco - Kicking TV
Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Books - Prefuse 73 Reads the Books
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Sigur Ros - Takk
Spanish For 100 - Metric
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
My Morning Jacket - Z
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap Volume 2
Common - Be
The Kills - No Wow
Kanye West - Late Registration
DangerDoom - The Mask and the Mouse
Wolf Parade - Apologies To Queen Mary
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Isolee - We Are Monster
Christian Vogel - Station 55
Matias Aguayo, Are You Really Lost?
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
Kate Bush - Aerial
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Why - Elephant Eyelash
I probably forgot some stuff. I would add in "The Earlies - These Were The Earlies" since it just got a US release this year, but it came out last year in the UK.
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