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Bagels

Post subject: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:20 pm

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Rough Trade's Top Albums of 2014

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1. Temples - Sun Structres
2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
4. Metronomy - Love Letters
5. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
6. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
7. Liars - Mess
8. Millie and Andrea - Drop the Vowels
9. The Delines - Colfax
10. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
11. Total Control - Typical System
12. Caribou - Our Love
13. Goat - Commune
14. WIldest Dreams - Wildest Dreams
15. Alvvays - Alvvays
16. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
17. Honeyblood - Honeyblood
18. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want
19. Ty Segall - Manipulator
20. Jack White - Lazaretto
21. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
22. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
23. Warpaint - Warpaint
24. Tom the Lion - Sleep
25. Fredie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
26. Arca - Xen
27. Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold
28. Ultimate Painting - Ultimate Painting
29. Jungle - Jungle
30. The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader
31. Hookworms - The Hum
32. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
33. Future Islands - Singles
34. The Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetamine Ballads
35. Aphex Twin - Syro
36. Swans - To Be Kind
37. FKA twigs - LP1
38. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
39. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
40. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
41. The Rails - Fair Warning
42. Allah-Las - Worship the Sun
43. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
44. Beck - Morning Phase
45. Real Estate - Atlas
46. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
47. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
48. We Are Shining - Kara
49. Gruff Rhys - American Interior
50. Eno and Hyde - Someday World
51. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos
52. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
53. Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
54. Ratking - So It Goes
55. Allo Darlin' - We Come From the Same Place
56. Childhood - Lacuna
57. Adult Jazz - Gist Is
58. Keaton Henson - Romantic Works
59. Lone - Reality Testing
60. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge
61. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
62. Happyness - Weird Little Birthday
63. Diamond Version - CI
64. Owen Pallett - In Conflict
65. Alex G - DSU
66. Scott Walker and Sunn 0))) - Soused
67. Haley Bonar - Last War
68. Badbadnotgood - III
69. Smoke Fairies - Smoke Fairies
70. Vikesh Kapoor - The Ballad of Willy Robbins
71. Lyla Foy - Mirrors the Sky
72. The Bug - Angels and Devils
73. Withered Hand - New Gods
74. Asgeir - In the Silence
75. Actress - Ghettoville
76. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
77. Fugazi - First Demo
78. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
79. Captain Beefheart - Sun Zoom Spark
80. Lost on the River - The New Basement Tapes
81. Girlpool - Girlpool
82. Ty Segall - Singles 2
83. Bo Ningen and Savages - Words to the Blind
84. Mark Kozelek - Sings Christmas Carols
85. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Give Us a Kiss
86. Dans Dans - III
87. TV on the Radio - Seeds
88. Thompson - Family
89. David J Roch - A Cynic, A Realist, An Undertaker
90. Robert Wyatt - Different Every Time - Ex Machina - Benign Dictatorships
91. Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
92. David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed
93. Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament
94. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cellophane
95. Machinedrum - Vapor City Archives
96. David Bowie - "Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)" single
97. Various Artists - Slowly Exploding 10 Years of Perc Trax
98. Jason McNiff and the Lone Malones - God Knows Why We Dream
99. Shit - Feeding Time
100. Adrian Younge - Black Dynamite OST

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:22 pm

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It's not even December yet.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:33 pm

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i thought it was pretty dumb anyways....its pretty much "here are 100 albums we listened to in 2014 ! "

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:35 pm

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They listed 65% of all albums released this year

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:50 pm

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I listened to 4 on that list.

Spanky -- They have St Vincent at #61. Even I would say that is way too low

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:15 pm

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T-Bone wrote:

I listened to 4 on that list.

Spanky -- They have St Vincent at #61. Even I would say that is way too low

Of course it's too low for my future wife's best album.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:45 pm

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spanky wrote:

T-Bone wrote:

I listened to 4 on that list.

Spanky -- They have St Vincent at #61. Even I would say that is way too low

Of course it's too low for my future wife's best album.

how'd you get current wife to go along with that one :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:51 pm

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are there secret chat boards where people learn about these bands?

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 5:32 pm

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Bagels wrote:

spanky wrote:

T-Bone wrote:

I listened to 4 on that list.

Spanky -- They have St Vincent at #61. Even I would say that is way too low

Of course it's too low for my future wife's best album.

how'd you get current wife to go along with that one :lol:

Who?

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:01 pm

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I have two of those...ranked in the middle. Does this mean I'm no longer cool?

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:10 pm

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Hatchetman wrote:

are there secret chat boards where people learn about these bands?

Between reading Pitchfork and listening to The Current you can get about 90% of them. It's not that hard. WKQX/XRT can probably get you 75%.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:23 pm

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APHEX MOTHERFUCKING TWIN REPRESENTING AT #35!!!!!!!!!!!

honestly i was reading that list thinking "holy shit, i've never heard of even one of these bands" but then i saw aphex twin and well, uh, suffice to say i've heard a little bit about richard david james made in ireland raised in cornwall.

still, it's just kind of weird to see the new LP syro get all of the acclaim that the 5.5-from-pitchfork LP drukQs should of gotten. i think it's people just kind of giving a career referendum on aphex twin and basically saying "it's cool that he's back! 8/10!" when the album is just kind of.... meh. tuss v2.0 aka SUPERTUSS when i really really REALLY wanted to hear an album full of stuff that expanded on the ideas of tracks like this obscure/ish little gem from ~7 years ago or whatever.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:24 pm

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btw, that #99 entry of "Shit - Feeding Time" sounds like the type of band i can picture ike enjoying based on the band/album names alone =D

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:04 am

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Rolling Stone seems to me as though it is trending even further out of touch.... not impressed by this list.
( I admit that I have only heard maybe 10% of these, maybe others agree with them )

Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2014
1. U2 - Songs of Innocence
2. Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
3. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
4. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
5. Miranda Lambert - Platinum
6. Charli XCX - SUCKER
7. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
8. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
9. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
10. Taylor Swift - 1989
11. Flying Lotus - You're Dead
12. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
13. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
14. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End
15. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
16. FKA twigs - LP1
17. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
18. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
19. Jackson Browne - Standing in the Breach
20. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
21. Eric Church - The Outsiders
22. Skrillex - Recess
23. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
24. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
25. YG - My Krazy Life
26. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
27. Alt-J - This Is All Yours
28. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
29. Spoon - They Want My Soul
30. Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
31. Young Thug and Bloody Jay - Black Portland
32. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
33. The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun
34. Prince - Art Official Age
35. Lenny Kravitz - Strut
36. Alvvays - Alvvays
37. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
38. Hurray for the RIff Raff - Small Town Heroes
39. Caribou - Our Love
40. Jack White - Lazaretto
41. Aphex Twin - Syro
42. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
43. Future - Honest
44. Interpol - El Pintor
45. EMA - The Future's Void
46. Tweedy - Sukierae
47. Gary Clark Jr - Gary Clark Jr Live
48. Coldplay - Ghost Stories
49. Tinariwen - Emmaar
50. Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:06 am

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T-Bone wrote:

Rolling Stone seems to me as though it is trending even further out of touch....

this statement would also have been applicable in 1995

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:07 am

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Bagels wrote:

T-Bone wrote:

Rolling Stone seems to me as though it is trending even further out of touch....

this statement would also have been applicable in 1995

Point taken, I rarely take anything they put out seriously.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:20 am

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How in the ever-loving hell can they....what the.............. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:23 am

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Eric Church is horrible.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:51 pm

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Fuck that shitty U2 album

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

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sjboyd0137 wrote:

Fuck that shitty U2 album

Fuck you.

I thought it was great.

So take a hike!

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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:54 pm

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SomeGuy wrote:

sjboyd0137 wrote:

Fuck that shitty U2 album

Fuck you.

I thought it was great.

So take a hike!

That's awesome that Rolling Stone made it #1

Sorry for that free classic album that's better than everything you like, whiny douches

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

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That was not a classic album! It was just pretty good, which for modern U2, is really good.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:14 pm

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Curious Hair wrote:

That was not a classic album! It was just pretty good, which for modern U2, is really good.

That was not my true opinion, just a shot at the whiners

U2 and Wu Tang are the passed. I enjoy their albums and it reminds me why I loved them to begin with but they arent breaking any new ground or anything.

ATYCLB was a classic. You missed on that one somehow. Which is weird for a Joshua Tree fella like yourself

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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:14 pm

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Can't believe Einsturzende Neubauten is so low.

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rogers park bryan wrote:

SomeGuy wrote:

sjboyd0137 wrote:

Fuck that shitty U2 album

Fuck you.

I thought it was great.

So take a hike!

That's awesome that Rolling Stone made it #1

Sorry for that free classic album that's better than everything you like, whiny douches

I'll take a listen to the U2 today. I have never been a fan. I was commenting on the list in general.
When you talk about whiny douches my immediate thought goes to a U2 front man who can't steer
a bicycle.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:10 am

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T-Bone wrote:

When you talk about whiny douches my immediate thought goes to a U2 front man who can't steer
a bicycle.

Yeah, he's so whiny about War and disease wiping out tens of thousands of people. He should chill on that unimportant stuff

Whatever, Koko

whiney douches actually referred to the people acting like deleting the album off their iphone was a big deal.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:15 am

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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.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:17 am

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rogers park bryan wrote:

T-Bone wrote:

When you talk about whiny douches my immediate thought goes to a U2 front man who can't steer
a bicycle.

Ok, point taken. I don't think he is a bad guy necessarily. He could just step off the 2 or 3 soap boxes he has
stacked up occasionally and let someone else try to save the world.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:23 am

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T-Bone wrote:

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

It was a decent album.

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Post subject: Re: Best of 2014

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:27 am

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rogers park bryan wrote:

T-Bone wrote:

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

It was a decent album.

I didn't turn it off. I just didn't find any of the songs reaching out and grabbing me. They definitely have
some of that stuff in their catalog, just didn't find it here. It was just ok to me. Decent.

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