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Re: Best albums of the year

Nizlopi's album is great, not for everyone but I love it.

Though I guess this topic is for 2005.:applause:
 
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Re: Best albums of the year

gerd said:
First great album of the new year: Ballad of the Broken Seas by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan.
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I've been meaning to try this one out.

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Furcoat is the first album of this year that I like. Worth checking out.

What I've heard of Richard Ashcroft's new album is also good. He might be a bit miserable for some but there are some good songs on this one.

I tweaked the thread title to a more general one.
 
I'm considering buying the Richard Ashcroft album...i like him a lot...
I like the classic Verve album (Bitter Sweet Symphony???).
 
ok, here's some recommendations, most of them I've mentioned before:

In no particular order:

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker, Gold
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia, Strangers Almanac
Pearl Jam - Live at Benaroya Hall, Live at State College
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed, Exile on Main Street
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, Tunnel of Love
Mercury Rev- All is Dream, Deserters Songs
Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations, Beautiful Freak
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Decemberists - Picaresque
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Session volume 7, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Band- Music from Big Pink
Belle and Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica, The Lonesome Crowded West
Calexico - A Feast of Wire
Iron and Wine & Calexico - In The Reins
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, Fevers and Mirrors
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
dEUS - The Ideal Crash, Pocket Revolution
Josh Ritter- Hello Starling
Guided by Voices- The best of...
Powderfinger - Odyssey #5
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, Alligator
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - The Bends
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

That's it for now.
 
Great list Joost.
About Wilco (one of my favourite bands). At the end of last year they had a fantastic live album: Kicking Television.
One of these days i'll make my own list.
 
joostebrood i looked at your list and noticed you never included any material by Dominique van Hulst...are you out of your mind! What type of Dutch man are you? lol

By the way my sisters got her Do album...and all her other albums.

Has she broken into any other countires, ain't heard anything about her in England.
 
gerd said:
I'm considering buying the Richard Ashcroft album...i like him a lot...
I like the classic Verve album (Bitter Sweet Symphony???).
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Urban Hymns. That is a good 'un.
 
Its been an impressive year for music but if i list something that came out before this year it still counts.
well Bright eyes
sigur ros-fucking amazing album takk
we are scientists
dungen-anouther good scandanavian band
magnet-amazing and scandanavian
neutral milk hotel
death cab for cutie
syd matters
autolux
viva vace
mew
the good life
the national
epic 45
the album leaf-very good
the unicorns
bombshell rocks
three more shallows
notwist
Yo Lo tengo
Gorkys zygotic mynci
Mercury Rev
postal service-same bloke as in death cab for cutie
shearwater
arab strap
50 foot wave
ampop
dropkick murphys
flogging molly
semi finalists
etc etc blah blah. i suggest everyone own atleast one album from the bands above.
 
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gerd said:
I'm considering buying the Richard Ashcroft album...i like him a lot...
I like the classic Verve album (Bitter Sweet Symphony???).
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Ashcroft's album is VERY good.

I'd also recommend Starsailor's new album "On the Outside". Brilliant stuff, their best to date IMO.
 
I recently got Eric Clapton's 2005 album, Back Home, but must say I am disappointed. I didnt expect to hear modern beats or sounds in his songs, as I really expected something like his "Me and Mr Johnson" album from 2004. But instead goot something that felt so modern that I stopped listening to it.
 
Okay, not all new albums, but I've rediscovered a few great albums

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Animal Collective - Feels
Beta Band - Three EP's
Bonnie Prince Billy - Superwolf
British Sea Power - The Decline of...
Calexico - Feast of Wire, also the collaborative album with Iron & Wine
Cat Power - You Are Free
Clem Snide - Ghost of Fashion
Deerhoof - Reveille
Dispatch - Bang Bang
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
The Handsome Family - Twilight
Hem - Rabbit Songs
Jens Lekman - Oh You're so silent Jens
The Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the new loud
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
The National - Alligator
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Smog - A River Aint Too Much to Love (Criminally unknown)
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut My Hair When We're Gone
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love


Just a couple of artists I've been listening to recently
 
For me it's all about The Moon and Antartica - Modest Mouse.

That band is so fucking good, with a style that's their own. Another beautiful album is All is Dream - Mercury Rev. Great band, great fucking band.
 
Great list there danwin...

A couple of names who are less known, not recent albums:

Joseph Arthur
Joe Henry
The Roots (the only hip hop artists i really like)
Zita Swoon (Belgian group, spin-off from dEUS)
The Notwist (German band that mixes guitar musis with electronica - very good).
Stephan Eicher: (Swiss artist who once had a cult hit with his first band Grauzone: Eisbaer and who afterwards became some sort of singer-songwriter, he sings in French, Swiss German, English and Italian, one of my all time favourites).
The No Smoking Orchestra (the band of film director Emir Kusturica, balkan punk).
Les Negresses Vertes (french band)
Rowwen Hezzen (Joost will know them , Dutch Tex-Mex Band who sing in Limburgs, a Dutch-Belgian-German dialect, do they still exist Joost...)
Those two last groups remind me of the great Pogues...
Sam Philips (a female singer songwriter, the wife of famous producer T Bone Burnett).
The Walkabouts (the best band ever from Seattle, who don't play Grunge music).
Spinvis (great i'm sure Joost hates him).
Flip Kowlier (one of my current favourites).
Zap Mama (Congolese Belgian world music)
Olla Vogola (Belgian folk-world music-jazz big band)
Hedningarna (Swedish group that makes a mix of folk and techno, IMHO one of the all-time best bands...i've seen concerts of them...the best live band i ever saw).

Some people will say that i'm trying to look alternative, i'm not...what i want to point out is the fact that there is a lot of great music outside the Anglo-Saxon world. Some of the above mentioned artists have more talent in their thumb than the latest over-hyped British or American band (last week the Arctic Monkeys, who is it this week??? Oh, and i have nothing against the Arctic Monkeys).

For the record i also like The Beatles, the Rolling Stones (well until roughly Black and Blue), Neil Young, Bob Dylan, U2, Coldplay, Gorillaz...but these bands are so obvious it's not worth mentioning them.

I know that there are some very hardcore music fans on this forum who want to try new things...that's why i give names of obscure bands, not because i want to show off...honestly i don't.
 
Music isn't about showing off in my opinion. It's just cool to search for new stuff, there's a lot of great bands out there. Danwin has been very important in this one for me. Thank you Dan, kankerlijer.

Gerd, Rowwen Heze does still exist. Acually they have their 25 year anniversary this year. They're going to give a concert because of that. Parents of a friend of mine are going. I love their song "Met de Neus Omhoeg"

I only know 1 Spinvis song, they're really starting to get popular over here, but I don't know enough about them. I know they performed in my favorite record store in Dordrecht (that's where I live).

Gerd, I was at Vrienden van Amstel Live (I hate to admit it, I came along with a few friends, really!). There were several Dutch bands, singers, rappers doing their songs together. Most of it sounded like shit, except for a few bands. But after about an hour Racoon was playing. They're a Dutch band, very popular right now, not something I like though. But they did their hit song Everyday I love you More and all of a sudden this young boy comes on stage (remember YOUNG BOY) doing the last past of the song. Then Racoon left the stage and with Vrienden van Amstel it's common that the singer that joins the last song from the previous band, then plays a song of his/her own. So this was also the case here and the music started playing and guess what? Nt An Addict - K's Choice. That little boy turned out to be Sara Bettens from K's Choice!! She does have an amazing voice I must say, but what the fuck??!!! What happened to her Gerd?
 
An album i'll reccomend you is Liquid Swords by GZA, this is a classic album...maybe one of the best solo albums from the Wu-Tang Clan.

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Joost, K's Choice have temporary split.
K's Choice are basically sister and brother Sarah and Gert Bettens.
Sarah has had some kind of personal "crisis/perturbances" (don't know exactly how to call it, basically she discovered that she is lesbian and it turned her live upside down).
So for the time being they have solo projects.
Brother Gert has a CD with his own band: "Woodface" (after the great Crowded House album). Crowded House is their role model and they are supposed to be poppy, but i don't like them.
Sarah's solo album(s??) are even less good...you are right, she has a great voice, but i don't like her music...
The event in Dordrecht you described sounds fun...give me a message if their's another one...i would lik to visit it once, and who knows maybe we could have a drink together Joost (although these days i rarely go out, i have to go out a lot for my work in the evening, and i prefer to stay home, that's what wife and kids do to you...)
 
Sounds cool Gerd. It's an independent record store, prices are lower, better assortiment of music. It's a place I like to go every now and then to buy some new stuff. I'll let you know when there's another performance. I know the owner a little, he's a really cool dude.

I was in Antwerpen a few weeks ago, they have some really cool music stores! I remember one that's just outside the center (near the docks) with lots of unknown live recordings and some really rare shit. I bought a REM bootleg there a year ago, can't remember the name of the store though. It would be really appreciated if you can help me out, because the last time I was there I couldn't find it.
 
I don't know much records stores in Antwerp Joost, i buy my CD's in Brussels (although i live near Antwerp)...sorry but i can't help you...next time i go to Antwerp i will search for it...
 
joostebrood said:
ok, here's some recommendations, most of them I've mentioned before:

In no particular order:

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker, Gold
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia, Strangers Almanac
Pearl Jam - Live at Benaroya Hall, Live at State College
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed, Exile on Main Street
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, Tunnel of Love
Mercury Rev- All is Dream, Deserters Songs
Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations, Beautiful Freak
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Decemberists - Picaresque
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Session volume 7, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Band- Music from Big Pink
Belle and Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica, The Lonesome Crowded West
Calexico - A Feast of Wire
Iron and Wine & Calexico - In The Reins
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, Fevers and Mirrors
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
dEUS - The Ideal Crash, Pocket Revolution
Josh Ritter- Hello Starling
Guided by Voices- The best of...
Powderfinger - Odyssey #5
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, Alligator
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - The Bends
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

That's it for now.
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Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway, great album joost,
im have the new one twin cities, good stuff
 
csaunders said:
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway, great album joost,
im have the new one twin cities, good stuff
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Aren't you into Ween? Can you recommend an album for me I've heard good things...
 
The new Strokes one hasn't really grabbed me. Arctic Monkeys one is a bit meh really too.

Finally got to hear the Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan album, very good I have to say. Neko Case also has a new one nearly out, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, quite reverby but very lovely.

I'm already looking forward to April, mind, as the Flaming Lips have a new album out then and I'm sure they'll make me happy.
 
The Flaming Lips I can only handle in small doses, some singer's voices really grate over any period of extended listening and their frontman has one of them for me.

Others would be Mercury Rev and Bright Eyes.
 
Fugazi - 13 songs
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced?
Les Savy Fav - Inches
Les Savy Fav - The and The Cobra
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
DangerMouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
At The Drive-In - In Casino/Out
Dead Prez - Lets Get Free
Bear Vs Shark - Terrorhawk
Bear Vs Shark - Right Now You're In The Best of Hands. And If Something Isn't Quite Right, Your Doctor Will Know In A Hurry
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
 
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ClassicD said:
The Flaming Lips I can only handle in small doses, some singer's voices really grate over any period of extended listening and their frontman has one of them for me.

Others would be Mercury Rev and Bright Eyes.
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I know what you mean here, I have this with Bono after about 30 seconds of a song.
 
Great live DVD & CD in one package: The Go Betweens (Live at Tivloi's or something)
DVD features two concerts (one electric and one accoustic)
CD: Electric concerts.

Go-Betweens are one of those bands that are as good as the Beatles but for some reason are only appreciated by fellow musicians...
 
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