let's go over what's been good so far this year ITT

[ryan patrick]

i haven't had as much time to keep up with music this semester with my class schedule.

and a lot of what i do download lately has seemed pretty tame.

though the best albums i've heard so far this year are def. better than the best albums i heard last year, so that's good.

so let's go over what's been good so i can keep up if there's anything major i've missed.

obv. the best:

Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
!!! - Myth Takes

what else.

good ones:

Audion - Mouth to Mouth remixes. decent
V/A - Death is Nothing to Fear v.1 --- great Audion track, two decent backers
Almolvacy - Ho Ho Kus --- pretty good, sounds like that Slits bootleg on Y records from 1980
Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian ---actually i don't like it much but it's ok
Kawabata Makoto - Hosanna Mantra ---- pretty good
Keiran Hebden and Steve Reid - Tongues --- has its moments
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future ---- i'm going to give this a pass as decent
Otomo Yoshihide - Prisoner soundtrack --- good stuff
Ville Moskiitto - Retkikertomuksia
Skeletons and the King of All Cities - Lucas --- mostly good
The Ponys - Turn the Lights Out --- still not as good as their first album but has its charms
Twinsistermoon - When Stars Glide Through Solid --- kind of so-so but some good tracks
Merzbow - Bloody Sea --- good one
Merzbow - F.I.D. -another good one
Merzbow - Minazo Volume One --- oh that merzbow
Merzbow - Minazo Volume Two --- so cute!
Gowns - Red State --- some good tracks, some boring ones
Birchville Cat Motel w/ Anla Courtis - Three Sparkling Echoes --- of course this is good
Shining - Grindstone --- kind of dorky but ok

lame stuff:

holy fuck e.p.
the bark haze - total joke era
amon tobin - foley room
avey tare and kria brekken ---- what a terrible fucking idea
white mice - blassstphlegmeice --- schtick is old and this is just dull
deerhoof - friend opportunity --- two good songs don't make up for the rest
distance - my demons ---- dubstep isn't interesting guys
gui boratto - chromophobia ---i give this one a light thumbs down
battles - mirrored ---- what a waste
matta lama - matta lama ---- wank
pantha du prince - this bliss --- ungodly boring
of montreal ---- not my thing
sapat - mortise and tenon --- nah
clap your hands say yeah ---- where are the good songs
arcade fire ---- dullllllll
the brain band ---- i probably would have loved this in '04-05
tujiko noriko - solo ---- she's really lost the touch, or just gotten old, i'm not sure
united light - let the fuzz ---- wank
the one ensemble - wayward the fourth --- irritating
badgerlore --- not that good
modest mouse --- haha no
rhys chatham - a crimson grail --- seems kind of ponitless at this point in the game
vocokesh ---- or i could listen to actual krautrock


well at least going through all of this reminded me of some good things i forgot. if i'm missing some major good things let me know.

[Mo]

del.

im gonna post my 2007 folder again
then decide later what i like or not
im gonna just listen to it all, why not

!!! - Myth Takes*
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible*
Behold...The Arctopus - Frenzy*
Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart
Bobby Conn - King for a Day
Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow*
Braken - We Know About the Need*
Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance*
Chinese Stars - Listen to Your Left Brain
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder*
CocoRosie - I didnt put the title on the dfolder i forget it*
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity*
Deerhunter - Cryptograms*
El-P - I'll Sleep When Youre Dead
Feist - The Reminder*
Fursaxa - Alone in the Dark Wood8
Gallhammer - The Dawn Of
Ghost - In Stormy Nights*
Glenn Jones - Against Which The Sea Continually Beats
Holy Molar - Cavity Search*
Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up*
Kawabata Makoto - Hosanna Mantra*
Kuupuu - Unilintu*
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers*
Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water*
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken arm*
MV & EE - Mars Delta*
PG Six - Slightly Sorry
Panda Bear - Person Pitch*
Prurient - Prurient*
PsyOpus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
Racoon - Behold Secret Kingdom
Rio en Medio - The Bride of Dynamite*
Ted Leo - Living With the Living*
Vanishing Voice - Stone Tablet*
White Mice - Blassstphlegmeice*
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky*

hmm
the * means ive actually listened to it already

i guess panda bears the best ive heard so far

[ryan patrick]

oh yeah that Deerhunter is not bad. Marnie Stern is also pretty good. didn't like the Charles Giffoni record. Ghost seemed so-so. the Kuupuu is apparently just more re-release of old tracks but it's all right. didn't like the PG Six.

if any of the rest are good let me know

[I'm Hardcore]

that Ghost record is wicked

[fluxequalsrad]

Myth Takes blew

[Ihaman]

ugh, LCD Soundsystem is awful.


The Sea and Cake, Feist, Apostle of Hustle and Amon Tobin have been my favorites so far.

[Alobar]

your "hey Look at what i've been listening to" lists bore me. if anybody cares its only because they are too witless to find what they like by themselves.

[Ihaman]

Your hey look at what i've been listening to post bores me.

[Alobar]

i wasn't trying to impress anyone, i was only stating i wasn't impressed by his list. i don't care what he's listened to. this is pretension to the max, and you all feed into it.

"dub isn't interesting guys" - thanks for the insight. i'd be lost without you ryan patrick.

[smashingjj]

battles - mirrored is #1 of the year so far
behold secret kingdom probably #2

[Ihaman]

That National Anthem of Nowhere album is SOOOOOOOO GOOOODDDDDD

[celluloid_love]

um

[ryan patrick]

Originally Posted by Alobar

i wasn't trying to impress anyone, i was only stating i wasn't impressed by his list. i don't care what he's listened to. this is pretension to the max, and you all feed into it.

"dub isn't interesting guys" - thanks for the insight. i'd be lost without you ryan patrick.

this post isn't about impressing anyone, it's taking stock of what i have so far and looking for suggestions of what i'm missing out on, in fact i'm not sure what's pretentious about it at all, but i think it's pretty funny that you're so ready to be offended. kudos.

[Alobar]

any suggestions of major good stuff that you've missed yet?

[I'm Hardcore]

Originally Posted by Alobar

i wasn't trying to impress anyone, i was only stating i wasn't impressed by his list. i don't care what he's listened to. this is pretension to the max, and you all feed into it.

"dub isn't interesting guys" - thanks for the insight. i'd be lost without you ryan patrick.

this guy again. wow, fuck off


if you dont care, dont read the fucking thread. Some people here actually use their like-minded music tastes for some benefit.

[celluloid_love]

1. Eluvium - Copia
2. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
3. Avey Tare and Kria Brekken - Pullhair Rubeye
4. Black Lips - Los Valientes Del Mondo Nuevo
5. Battles - Mirrored
6. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
7. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
8. Air - Pocket Symphony
9. Dungen - Tio Bitar
10. Deerhunter - Cryptograms

so far

[sickbadthing]

Hey Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is pretty trippy.

There's like a heartbeat in it and shit.

[D.]

hey, rp, what do you think of the aidan baker record, "green and cold"?

or what do you think of him in general?

[ryan patrick]

Originally Posted by Alobar

any suggestions of major good stuff that you've missed yet?

no, but there's a couple people who haven't posted who could be helpful

[D.]

Originally Posted by ryan patrick

clap your hands say yeah ---- where are the good songs

well, track 2 for starters.

[Alobar]

demon's claws - satan's little pet pig
mary weiss - dangerous game
pterodactyl - pterodactyl
death unit - infinite death

and the bark haze total joke era is alright, have you heard the lp they put out?

[eyeboogers]

Charlotte Hatherley "The Deep Blue"

[grinandtakeit]

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[mirrar]

i liked lcd, modest mouse, neon bible, !!!, deerhoof, frog eyes, menomena - friend and foe and bracken - we know about the need

[ravenguy2000]

Top 20 -

Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
Feist - The Reminder
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Richard Swift - Dressed Up For the Letdown
Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band
The Bird and the Bee - The Bird and the Bee
Various Artists - A Date With John Waters
The View - Hats Off to the Buskers
Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8
The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear
Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
Nouvelle Vague - Late Night Tales: Nouvelle Vague
The Makes Nice - Candy Wrapper and Twelve Other Songs
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
The One AM Radio - This Too Will Pass
Mice Parade - Mice Parade
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss

youd probably like laura veirs ravenguy 200

i just listened to Battles - Atlas

i am not going to listen to the album

[ravenguy2000]

Originally Posted by Graveflower

youd probably like laura veirs ravenguy 200

Yeah i haven't gotten around to that one yet, I don't remember being crazy about the one from 2005 but I didn't really give it much of a chance.

[ravenguy2000]

- sweet it's still up on bolachisgratis