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Post by luke on Dec 8, 2005 13:58:29 GMT -5
Still need to hear some things, and I'm sure I'll change some stuff even before then, but here goes:
Top 10 in '05
10. System of a Down- Hypnotize 9. Madonna- Confessions 8. The Darkness- One Way Ticket 7. Local H- Alive in '05 6. Bloc Party- Silent Alarm 5. New Pornographers- Twin Cinema 4. Novilerro- Aim for the Holes in Their Lives 3. Broken Social Scene- s/t 2. Franz Ferdinand- You Could Have it so Much Better 1. System of a Down- Mezmerize
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Post by rockysigman on Dec 9, 2005 10:43:57 GMT -5
Madonna over the White Stripes...you're such a pussy, luke.
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 9, 2005 10:50:35 GMT -5
Hey luke, dude I realize you're makin a statement about how much you prefer hypnotize over mezmerize, but dude, pair em up cuz they really are one album . . . and then you get 1 more to put in there!
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Post by luke on Dec 9, 2005 12:45:43 GMT -5
Madonna over the White Stripes...you're such a pussy, luke. Yeah, I know...but seriously, that White Stripes wouldn't make a top twenty, most likely. I'd probably still put the Wolf Parade album over that one, and I turned on that thing in a big way not too long ago. Thorn, I realize that they're meant to be one album, and I (who actually bought both albums) have them connected and set up like the double disc they're meant to be. But in the end, I find them as two different albums. I had too much connection with Mezmerizeto suddenly place this second half in with it. I saw SoaD live after Mezmerize came out; I played the shit out of Mezmerize all summer long; I spent hours in the backyard working out like a big homo to look good for my wedding to Mezmerize; I smoked bowl after bowl of hash with my friends sharing amazement for the genius of Mezmerize; and so on, to Mezmerize. It has a firm spot to me, IMO, as the "defining album of the summer." Then Hypnotize comes out, and honestly, I don't like the song selection as much. None of the songs connect as much with me emotionally. Malakian sings entirely too much. His voice should only be used for Fred Durst-ian parody ("My cock is bigger than yours), for "crazy ill" effect ("SUGAH!!!") or for helping Serj get in touch with his inner Mike Patton (Radio/Video). I still love the album, and it still beat out some hard-hitting contenders for that ten spot...but I really don't like it as much, and don't want it to drag Hypnotize down in my rankings.
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Post by luke on Dec 9, 2005 12:53:40 GMT -5
And thorn...I was gonna download that new Korn album and see if it could bring back any of the love I had about ten years ago, but now I've decided to just download one track. Which one should it be?
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 9, 2005 14:59:05 GMT -5
I'm thinking HYPOCRITES. However: If you can't hear Jon whispersinging " your messiah was never mine" at the very beginning of it (after the sickass minimalist bassline intro), then you don't have it LOUD ENOUGH. Are we clear? Check. Go for it
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 9, 2005 15:00:00 GMT -5
and dude - - U got the titles of the SOAD album seriously mixed up. . . but I think I untangled it w/the help of chronological reference points.
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 9, 2005 15:00:58 GMT -5
Just crank that shit skyhigh and if you're into that, the next one you should dl is
LIAR
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 9, 2005 15:02:38 GMT -5
Its seriously a deep bongwater album (as all korn albums are), but this one takes it an extra dimension further. I never suspected in the least that they'd release their best effort yet after Head's departure. But that's what I'm goin with after spinnin that shit multiple times
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Post by luke on Dec 9, 2005 15:12:35 GMT -5
Thorn, you're right. Shit, I don't know how I did that, after repeating it so many goddamn times.
Well, I'm gonna edit that post and download that song...
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Post by luke on Dec 12, 2005 9:19:16 GMT -5
Hoo boy...looking back at my list, it totally fucking sucks, and really doesn't represent my listening habits for the year. Maybe about the top 5 are okay, but that's it.
And if this damn Strokes album would drop just a week earlier, it'd definitely change that top 5.
*edit: Thorn, that's the best Korn song I've heard in some time. Not just positive yet if it's enough to get me past my view of Korn as a bit dated and juvenile, but I plan on giving it a few more spins. There HAD to be a reason why I used to like this band, and it can't just be because I was an aggressive, angsty little kid...can it?
Well, that and the fact that Follow the Leader, with the Ice Cube bit and all, was a bit groundbreaking at the time, and was a way for me to get my friends to actually play some rock, and not just the rap that was the soundtrack of my high school years.
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Post by dolly on Dec 12, 2005 9:42:05 GMT -5
System of a Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize Wolf Parade - Apologies Apologies to the Queen Mary Sigur Ros - Takk The National - Alligator The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema Iron & Wine & Calexico - In the Reins The Frames - Burn the Maps Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth Lou Barlow - Emoh Spoon - Gimmee Fiction Editors - The Back Room Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs Andrew & the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Need to get them in some kind of order, trim, and remember the glaring ommissions now.
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 12, 2005 14:23:32 GMT -5
*edit: Thorn, that's the best Korn song I've heard in some time. Not just positive yet if it's enough to get me past my view of Korn as a bit dated and juvenile, but I plan on giving it a few more spins. There HAD to be a reason why I used to like this band, and it can't just be because I was an aggressive, angsty little kid...can it? Well, that and the fact that Follow the Leader, with the Ice Cube bit and all, was a bit groundbreaking at the time, and was a way for me to get my friends to actually play some rock, and not just the rap that was the soundtrack of my high school years. korn have grown up. And no, you couldn't've liked korn just cuz you were an aggressive, angsty lil kid. . .they go way deeper than that. #1 is their honesty. mayhaps you related to that. That honesty has never changed, it only gets clearer, and more focused. Their latest is no exception, if anything, the honesty is sharpened to perfection. The lyrics have really evolved, in particular on this album. They've made a grand leap into more serious concerns than the introverted reflection of personal anguish/growing pains the previous albums indulge in, each to their own degree. On SYOTOS, we now get Jon turning his sharp eye to other things, and his observations are spot on and cutting. Easily their most ambitious (musically) album - (and that is saying something as both iSsuEs & Untouchables were not w/out their own ambitious scopes) -- but this one extends the empire of their style into various other genres of music, most notably industrial, while skirting wide from the rap -sojourns discernible in some of their previous work. The album is Beast, there's no gettin around it.
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Post by melon1 on Dec 12, 2005 15:26:02 GMT -5
Thorny, I want you to answer this question:
How frickin' hard is it to drive to the frickin' post office?
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Post by rockysigman on Dec 12, 2005 15:27:16 GMT -5
Thorny, I want you to answer this question: How frickin' hard is it to drive to the frickin' post office? Good lord, has he still not sent those tapes? Forget the post office. You can buy postage online and just have them pick it up straight from your home.
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