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Author:  Bagels [ Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:43 am ]
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Fuck songs and fuck Rolling Stone and NME and Spin and whoever, let's see YOUR list

and yes i know there are still 20 days left in 2015, i'm waving the white flag for anymore new stuff
Author:  sjboyd0137 [ Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:54 am ]
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Blur - The Magic Whip
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
The Pale Emperor - Marilyn Manson
Local H - Hey, Killer
Death Cab for Cutie - Kintsugi
Zac Brown Band - Jekyll + Hyde
Guster - Evermotion
Ryan Adams - 1989
Wilco - Star Wars
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Author:  T-Bone [ Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:02 am ]
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I haven't purchased or listened to less music than I did this year since 2010 or so. Not exactly sure why that was but in any case here are the
top 5 albums that I enjoyed the most this year.

1. Father John Misty -- I Love You HoneyBear -- Great album throughout. I know in the end Grammy's don't mean much but surprised he didn't get a nod anywhere for his effort here

2. My Morning Jacket -- The Waterfall -- Not their strongest effort but even a slightly better than average album from them comes across nicely

3. Houndmouth -- Little Neon Limelight -- Really like these guys sound although they haven't been a big breakout band yet. Solid effort here with their sophomore album

4. Sufjan Stevens -- Carrie & Lowell -- Stevens rarely disappoints and although he is not everyone's cup of tea he comes through strong with music about his mother and stepfather

5. Tobias Jesso, Jr. -- Goon -- Really like this kids style. Excellent songwriter and musician.

Outside of current music that dropped I bought the Bob Dylan 6 disc set The Cutting Edge:1965-1966. It is a treasure trove of unreleased rarities from one of Dylan's most productive
periods in the studio. False starts, singing songs in different keys, tempos and lyrics are all part of the fun to listening to classics cooked and prepared in different ways, not to mention
some of the talk between Dylan and the musicians and producers between takes.
Author:  Rod [ Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:10 am ]
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I'm very sad that the James McMurtry and Bottle Rockets records didn't crack T-Bone's top five.
Author:  DannyB [ Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:39 pm ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I'm very sad that the James McMurtry and Bottle Rockets records didn't crack T-Bone's top five.


So as a young college journalist in Ames Iowa, I had the live music beat one semester. The resident acoustic singer-songwriter in Ames at the time was this Todd Snideresque guy named Larry Myer (http://www.larrymyer.net/). I was in the bathroom telling Larry that he was better than the headliner one Friday After Class, and he was all yeah thanks. Turns out the headliner was pissing in the shitter at the time: one James McMurtry. The diminutive, bearded McMurtry called me a cocksucker. Bernstein is Zo Spellman next to McMurtry.
Author:  Hussra [ Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:43 pm ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I'm very sad that the James McMurtry and Bottle Rockets records didn't crack T-Bone's top five.


I've seen McMurtry and his band many, many times over the last couple decades, from Brooklyn to Texas to Chicago and points in between. Always a fun show. even with only 6 people in the audience.

His newest album is not his best stuff. McMurtry's worst record since Walk Between the Raindrops.
Author:  Rod [ Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:47 pm ]
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Hussra wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I'm very sad that the James McMurtry and Bottle Rockets records didn't crack T-Bone's top five.


I've seen McMurtry and his band many, many times over the last couple decades, from Brooklyn to Texas to Chicago and points in between. Always a fun show. even with only 6 people in the audience.

His newest album is not his best stuff. McMurtry's worst record since Walk Between the Raindrops.


There's a few good ones on there. "Copper Canteen" is pretty great.
Author:  Hussra [ Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:58 pm ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Hussra wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I'm very sad that the James McMurtry and Bottle Rockets records didn't crack T-Bone's top five.


I've seen McMurtry and his band many, many times over the last couple decades, from Brooklyn to Texas to Chicago and points in between. Always a fun show. even with only 6 people in the audience.

His newest album is not his best stuff. McMurtry's worst record since Walk Between the Raindrops.


There's a few good ones on there. "Copper Canteen" is pretty great.


i like the one about the chick "She can change her own fuse, she can fix her own car
She can back down a drunk and run him out of the bar"

i guess it's a more personal, small story record. vs the bigger themed/sound political tunes that were on the last few studio efforts.

"Where'd you hide the body' is prolly regarded as McMurtry's best album--i think he finally got away from using Mellencamp's backing band in studio (first couple records) and so no longer sounded like Mellencamp with a MFA in creative writing.

Most accessible might be Saint Mary of the Woods?

I think I listen to Childish Things and Just Us Kids the most these days. When in a McMurtry mood.

At the time Where'd You Hide the Body was released, USC film school students made individual videos for each track. They used to be on youtube, but I don't see em there right off.

This is not one of the USC film students efforts, but it's a fun song off of that album:

https://youtu.be/rreFt1ZevnY
Author:  BigW72 [ Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:48 pm ]
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sjboyd0137 wrote:
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls


It's taken a few listens, but this is a quality release. I like to compare and group their stuff based on 2000 and beyond when Bruce returned.

1. A Matter Of Life and Death
2. Brave New World
3. Dance Of Death
4. The Book Of Souls
5. The Final Frontier
Author:  Tall Midget [ Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:38 pm ]
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Bagels wrote:
Fuck songs


Fuck songs?

Fuck YOU!
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:46 pm ]
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Refused - Freedom
Chon - Grow
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Blur - The Magic Whip
Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova
Author:  lipidquadcab [ Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:50 pm ]
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DannyB wrote:
So as a young college journalist in Ames Iowa, I had the live music beat one semester.

What years were you there? I had a cup of coffee at the Daily for a few weeks.
Author:  DannyB [ Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:46 pm ]
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Graduated in 94, so this would have been 92 or so. You? When I was there it was like 12.5 cents/column inch if I remember right. Just enough for a fishbowl full of turqoise liquor at Lucullans once a month
Author:  Bagels [ Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:10 am ]
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Tall Midget wrote:
Bagels wrote:
Fuck songs


Fuck songs?

Fuck YOU!


yeah idk, it's hard for me to judge individual songs like that. like take your Tobias Jesso Jr. Yeah i think "Without You" is a great song, but i'm not sure i like it significantly more than any other songs on the album, enough to single it out. I guess i could see it being relevant if I liked just 1 or 2 songs on an album for some reason

anyways i guess im done , no order but if i had to pick a 1-2 or 1-1a it would be Kendrick and Dungen
but it was a great year for sure

Kenn Starr- Square One
Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp A Butterfly
Panda Bear- Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Viet Cong- Viet Cong
Tobias Jesso Jr.- Goon
Earl Sweatshirt- I Don’t Give a Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Ryley Walker- Primrose Green
Helio Sequence- Helio Sequence
Jim O’ Rourke- Simple Songs
Penguin Prison- Lost in New York
Jamie xx- In Colour
Vince Staples- Summertime ‘06
Beach House- Depression Cherry
Blur- The Magic Whip
Royal Headache- High
Dr. Dre- Compton
Dungen- Allas Sak
Mac Demarco- Another One
Ratatat- Magnifique
Helen- The Original Faces
Leon Bridges- Coming Home
Youth Lagoon- Savage Hills Ballroom
U.S. Girls- Half Free
Jay Rock- 90059
Meg Baird- Don’t Weigh Down the Night
Beach House- Thank Your Lucky Stars
Jessica Pratt- On Your Own Love Again
Circuit Des Yeux- In Plain Speech
MED, Blu & Madlib- Bad Neighbor
Bilal- In Another Life
Bobby Caldwell & Jack Splash- Cool Uncle
Charlatans- Modern Nature
Noveller- Fantastic Planet
Fuzz- II
Mercury Rev- The Light in You
Finale- Odds & Ends
Low- Ones & Sixes
Martin Courtney- Many Moons
Author:  Douchebag [ Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:33 am ]
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In no order, but here is some stuff I dug in 2015:

David Gahan & Soul Savers - Angels & Ghosts:
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Madisen Ward & The Mama Bear - Skeleton Crew:
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The Dead Weather - Dodge & Burn
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The Arcs - Yours Dreamily
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Local H - Hey Killer
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Best Coast - California Nights
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Tame Impala - Currents
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Author:  Erotic Lawyer [ Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:44 pm ]
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I dig the new Tame Impala. I love Kendricks album. The Manson album was really solid. Didn't mind Compton. Thought wilco was boring as hell

Now I am a huge Faith No More fan I just can't find much memorable on this album though. Is that only me?
Author:  Erotic Lawyer [ Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:46 pm ]
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wdelaney72 wrote:
sjboyd0137 wrote:
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls


It's taken a few listens, but this is a quality release. I like to compare and group their stuff based on 2000 and beyond when Bruce returned.

1. A Matter Of Life and Death
2. Brave New World
3. Dance Of Death
4. The Book Of Souls
5. The Final Frontier



I like it. I think as much as any listed except the final frontier which is great sleeping music.
Author:  Furious Styles [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 1:38 pm ]
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Things I’ve heard/liked:

Built to Spill
Wire
Mikal Cronin
Will Butler
Moon Duo
Father John Misty
Charlatans
Sufjan Stevens
Belle & Sebastian
Courtney Barnett
Jim O’Rourke
Desaparecidos
JD McPherson
Tame Impala
Laura Marling
The Waterboys
Sleater-Kinney
Blur
Gaz Coombes
Waxahatchee
Helio Sequence
Kurt Vile
Jamie xx


Yet to hear:

Sleaford Mods
Paul Weller
MMJ
Beach House
Pond
Toro y Moi
San Cisco
Mac Demarco
Ellie Goulding
Best Coast
Author:  America [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 6:14 pm ]
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1. Father John Misty
2. Titus Andronicus (didn't like at first, have learned to love)

Rest of it probably sucked. When's the new Wrens album coming out?
Author:  IMU [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:12 pm ]
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In no particular order.

Father John Misty
Kurt Vile
Tame Impala
The Weeknd
Dance Gavin Dance
Slaves

There are more 'good' albums but I don't think they compare to those six. For me.
Author:  Curious Hair [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:39 pm ]
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America wrote:
Rest of it probably sucked. When's the new Wrens album coming out?

It's been coming out for like two fucking years. It's getting annoying. I want to find out if they can top "This Boy Is Exhausted"!
Author:  America [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:55 pm ]
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Or Everyone Choose Sides, or Hopeless, or Happy, or any of their songs really. I know this is their shtick, making everyone wait, but this is out of control.
Author:  Curious Hair [ Sun Jan 03, 2016 5:15 am ]
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"Hopeless," "Ex-Girl Collection," and "She Sends Kisses" are my other favorites; never liked Secaucus nearly as much as The Meadowlands.

I think I once shoehorned a Wrens reference into a Blackhawks thread for a game against the Devils. Maybe one person caught it.
Author:  rogers park bryan [ Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:57 pm ]
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Bagels wrote:
Earl Sweatshirt- I Don’t Give a Shit, I Don’t Go Outside

I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt


I like that you typed that shit from memory though. Keepin it real
Author:  America [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 12:44 am ]
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Secaucus really is great. Dance the Midwest, Built in Girls, Hats off to Marriage, Baby... some great songs. As good as Meadowlands, probably not. They retained their sense of humor from Secaucus then dropped that layer of hopelessness on top for Meadowlands and it went to a new level. But I'd be lying if I said I always liked Meadowlands more than Secaucus.

I was like 15 when the Meadowlands came out, and:
"Cause I'm caught
I can't type
I can't temp
I'm way past college
No ways out
No back doors
Not anymore"

... didn't resonate at all at that age.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:13 pm ]
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I really think many of you would like Chon - Grow.

Chon - Story
Author:  shirtless driver [ Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:34 pm ]
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Both Beach House records, Tame Impala, Cloakroom, and the triumphant returns of FAILURE and Swervedriver.
Author:  GoldenJet [ Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:19 pm ]
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http://www.popmatters.com/review/195165 ... n-on-fire/
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