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Just listened to the new U2. Unspectacular. Sounded like all the other U2 stuff. It wasn't bad but
wasn't album of the year in my opinion. The War On Drugs album was way beter than that for
example. I don't know, I should just give up. I admit I am not a big fan of "popular" music.
I don't think I have a better ear than the masses but I will say that the steaming masses usually
run towards a lot of hot garbage with a catchy beat and hook but not an ounce of substance.

I think Rolling Stone is kind of in bed with U2 and probably Apple.


It was a decent album.[/quote]

SomeGuy gave it 7/10. Probably batter than HTDAAB and maybe better than NLOTH.

Therr are a few songs that will live on. But some trash as well.


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The top ten albums released in 2014 I listened to and liked the best:
In no particular order...

Jack White - Lazaretto
Phantogram - Voices
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The War On Drugs - Lost in The Dream
The Afghan Whigs - do to the beast
Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
U2 - Songs Of Innocence
Beck - Morning Phase
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Wheat - Wishing Good Things For The World


I've read nothing but good things about the new Smashing Pumpkins, but I've only heard 3 songs....

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The top ten albums released in 2014 I listened to and liked the best:
In no particular order...

Jack White - Lazaretto
Phantogram - Voices
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The War On Drugs - Lost in The Dream
The Afghan Whigs - do to the beast
Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
U2 - Songs Of Innocence
Beck - Morning Phase
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Wheat - Wishing Good Things For The World


I've read nothing but good things about the new Smashing Pumpkins, but I've only heard 3 songs....



I am glad I am old and heard none. :lol:

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"Lazaretto" was one of the most annoying songs of the summer. BORE RAH-IN! BORE RAH-IN!

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No particular order, and probably not my whole list, but

Jack White
St Vincent
Jenny Lewis
Courtney Barnett
Real Estate
Ex Hex

And something from December because 2014 isn't over yet

edit: War on Drugs album is pretty good too. Add that to my list.

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shirtless driver wrote:
The top ten albums released in 2014 I listened to the most and liked the best:
In no particular order...

Jack White - Lazaretto
Phantogram - Voices
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The War On Drugs - Lost in The Dream
The Afghan Whigs - do to the beast
Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
U2 - Songs Of Innocence
Beck - Morning Phase
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Wheat - Wishing Good Things For The World


I've read nothing but good things about the new Smashing Pumpkins, but I've only heard 3 songs....



I am glad I am old and heard none. :lol:

That's surprising, you seem like such a hip, with-it kinda guy.
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shirtless driver wrote:
The top ten albums released in 2014 I listened to the most and liked the best:
In no particular order...

Jack White - Lazaretto
Phantogram - Voices
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The War On Drugs - Lost in The Dream
The Afghan Whigs - do to the beast
Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
U2 - Songs Of Innocence
Beck - Morning Phase
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Wheat - Wishing Good Things For The World


I've read nothing but good things about the new Smashing Pumpkins, but I've only heard 3 songs....



I am glad I am old and heard none. :lol:

That's surprising, you seem like such a hip, with-it kinda guy.
:?


I grab a song here or there but I quit on CD's probably with Pearl Jam's Vitalogy. After that I just listem to what I want. Even the single from Foster the People.

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 Post subject: Re: Best of 2014
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pittmike wrote:
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pittmike wrote:
shirtless driver wrote:
The top ten albums released in 2014 I listened to the most and liked the best:
In no particular order...

Jack White - Lazaretto
Phantogram - Voices
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The War On Drugs - Lost in The Dream
The Afghan Whigs - do to the beast
Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
U2 - Songs Of Innocence
Beck - Morning Phase
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Wheat - Wishing Good Things For The World


I've read nothing but good things about the new Smashing Pumpkins, but I've only heard 3 songs....



I am glad I am old and heard none. :lol:

That's surprising, you seem like such a hip, with-it kinda guy.
:?


I grab a song here or there but I quit on CD's probably with Pearl Jam's Vitalogy. After that I just listem to what I want. Even the single from Foster the People.


Yeah, Coming Of Age is one of my favorite singles of the year.
You're never too old for music.

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Well if this is the thread for spilling album choices from 2014 here are mine since I don't
see anything dropping the rest of 2014 that will likely fit in here. My personal top 5 were:

1 Beck - Morning Phase
2 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
3 Ray LaMontagne - Supernova
4 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
5 Field Report - Marigolden

Also enjoyed St Vincent, Vance Joy and Ed Sheeran's "x"

I didn't include it but The Complete Basement Tapes from the Bob Dylan library was really great.
I am still digesting the 6 disc set. The accompanying books, liner notes and packaging were just
perfect and the recordings came out sounding pretty darn good for pulling them off 45 year old
home recorded reel to reel tapes. The people putting together the Dylan Bootleg collection stuff
have really outdone themselves the past few releases. Word is they are digging into the outtakes
and throwaways from the Blood On The Tracks sessions next :shock:

January 23, 2014
The deluxe edition of Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration won't hit stores until March 4th, but Dylan's team is already thinking about their next archival release. "We don't know exactly what the next Bootleg Series is going to be," says a source close to the Dylan camp. "There's a couple of things on our minds, but the natural next one is Blood on the Tracks."

Dylan recorded Blood on the Tracks at New York's A&R Studios with producer Phil Ramone before heading to Sound 80 studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota to re-cut much of the material with a different band. The final album is a mixture of New York and Minneapolis sessions. Some of the tracks that didn't make the LP have been bootlegged, but much remains in the vault.

"During the first couple of days in New York, Bob played the songs solo on acoustic guitar," says the source. "They're very different than anything that's been heard before and they're very special."

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i'm waiting until December 31 to post my list so DB doesn't get mad at me


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i'm waiting until December 31 to post my list so DB doesn't get mad at me

:lol: :lol:

The week between Xmas and New Years will do.

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Schoolboy Q- Oxy Moron
Big Krit- Cadillactica
Freddie Gibbs and Madlibs- Pinata
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couple late contenders !

Phryme
J Cole
re-evaluating the Blu album, decided i like it now


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Just listened to the new U2. Unspectacular. Sounded like all the other U2 stuff. It wasn't bad but
wasn't album of the year in my opinion. The War On Drugs album was way beter than that for
example. I don't know, I should just give up. I admit I am not a big fan of "popular" music.
I don't think I have a better ear than the masses but I will say that the steaming masses usually
run towards a lot of hot garbage with a catchy beat and hook but not an ounce of substance.

I think Rolling Stone is kind of in bed with U2 and probably Apple.


It was a decent album.


SomeGuy gave it 7/10. Probably batter than HTDAAB and maybe better than NLOTH.

Therr are a few songs that will live on. But some trash as well.[/quote]

I admit I am a U2 superfan, and there are some clunkers in their oeuvre, but I can seriously
say that, in my opinion, they have no terrible songs. Beatles, Stones, Who, Zep, I could make a mixtape
2 cd-rs worth to make a worst of.

Songs Of innocence is automatically better than HTDAAB, because it doesn't include Fast Cars or Original Of The Species.
Those 2 songs are better than alot, but those 2 I would consider clunkers.
I might be the only person on Earth that LOVES "Crumbs From Your Table".

Songs of Innocence is better than NLOTH, because of "Stand Up Comedy".
Good arrangement (if you wanna be Maroon 5), shite lyrics, they never played it live. Good reason not to.

sONGS of innocence has no clunkers.
The fucking haters bitching about the iTunes thing never listened to it or were ever going to.
Everyone keeps recycling the same stale jokes about U2, and it's not original or funny. It's lazy.
Favorite band ever.

Hipsters gon' hep-cat.

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Add this to my list. Just beautiful. Listening again tonight.

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Gave another spin to this earlier tonight too. Good album, strongly considering going to see them in January.

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Add this to my list. Just beautiful. Listening again tonight.

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I've seen her name alot, and 20 seconds into an itunes sample, I'm fucking kicking myself
for only listening to her for the 1st time as I type this.

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Add this to my list. Just beautiful. Listening again tonight.

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I've seen her name alot, and 20 seconds into an itunes sample, I'm fucking kicking myself
for only listening to her for the 1st time as I type this.

Buy it. So good. Simple, brooding.

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Just listened to all the samples on itunes, I need this on vinyl.

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Add this to my list. Just beautiful. Listening again tonight.

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I've seen her name alot, and 20 seconds into an itunes sample, I'm fucking kicking myself
for only listening to her for the 1st time as I type this.

Buy it. So good. Simple, brooding.


What is it? I can't read the writing on the album.

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What is it? I can't read the writing on the album.


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What is it? I can't read the writing on the album.


Sharon Von Etten


Thanks I'll give it a spin

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Pitchfork Top 50:

http://m.pitchfork.com/features/staff-l ... s-of-2014/

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I feel really un-hip after reading that list. Only heard of a handful of those.

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I feel really un-hip after reading that list. Only heard of a handful of those.

Maybe when you grow up you will reach Spanky's level of hippiness.

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I feel really un-hip after reading that list. Only heard of a handful of those.

Maybe when you grow up you will reach Spanky's level of hippiness.

Not "hippiness"
That's a different thing

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I feel really un-hip after reading that list. Only heard of a handful of those.

Maybe when you grow up you will reach Spanky's level of hippiness.

Not "hippiness"
That's a different thing

I know, I consider you both.

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I see a lot of Perfume Genius mentions on the best of '14 lists.
I know I'm probably not in his target demo, but I think his music
and his videos are creepy as fuck.
Not a fan, (because of the music, not him as a person).
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I see a lot of Perfume Genius mentions on the best of '14 lists.
I know I'm probably not in his target demo, but I think his music
and his videos are creepy as fuck.
Not a fan, (because of the music, not him as a person).
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I'm with you. I don't "get" Perfume Genius.

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Boy, I forgot how excruciating it is when p4k gives a mainstream artist their imprimatur. The fawning, my god, the fawning:

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Even in its self-contradictions, 1989 is generous: is there anything more riveting than a Type A person’s "fuck it" phase? Of course the grand acts of big city rebellion on Taylor Swift’s fifth album are hilariously PG: "Oh yeah? You think I’m demure? Well how ‘bout I cut up this shirt?" The entire premise—that 1989 is Swift’s "first official, documented pop album"—rests on a similarly crafty fallacy, that her catalog hasn’t been shaped by whip-smart pop instincts all along. It’s that patented humblebrag pantomime again: "Little ol’ me? A pop star?"

It’s so perfect, though—that Swift’s big-deal stylistic pivot is, in fact, utterly un-transgressive. In reality, 1989 isn’t such a departure from the glossier moments of Red: conversational but crisp, informed but not steered by Max Martin, yuppie in spite of a preoccupation with social hierarchy. Still, if Swift insists she is now a pop star, let it be known that she does "pop star" better than any of her peers, with the knowing passive-aggression of a student who’d rather quietly carry a group project than tell her classmates they’re doing it all wrong. This strategic coyness can be Swift’s most maddening quality, but on 1989, she owns it unlike ever before, popping the Chandon with a big ol’ wink for all the Crazy Bitches to clink to the douchebags’ toasts. She’s harnessed the power of her all-consuming self-awareness, investing in the meme economy with quivering poker-face, her returns matched only by Drake’s: if they hate, then let ‘em hate, and watch the "basic bitch" think pieces pile up. Is there any doubt she knew full well, on "Blank Space", how uncannily "long list of ex-lovers" sounded like "lonely Starbucks lovers"?

Those who accuse Swift of ironing out her narratives on 1989 aren’t wrong: those efficiently personal details once stitched into her songwriting have been democratized. But it’s unrealistic to frame this as selling out. (Taylor Swift does not sell out. She sells more.) Maybe, instead, it’s the realization that obsessive mythologizing of past and future is way less fun than having tons of sex and carting your cat around New York City. To be clear: "Global Welcome Ambassador" Swift’s New York is not the city where you buy loosies from the corner bodega, and it is certainly not the city where police murdered Eric Garner in cold blood for allegedly selling them. Swift’s New York involves some tricky camera angles: a close-up of the festive Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, the surrounding protest signs conveniently just out of frame. It would be silly to consider her penthouse view as anything other than what it is: a commercial. But, whoopsy daisy! Wouldn’t you know it? She’s better than everybody at those, too. —Meaghan Garvey


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