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Post by jp on Jun 10, 2013 13:54:52 GMT
So I have the day off work and am bored. Did this a few years back and wanted to see where I'm at now. Having a RYM account makes it a hell of a lot easier.
Started in 1965 as that seems to be the first year where I've listened to a decent handful of records from it. Thought it would be quite interesting to have a think about my favourite lps from each years. I remember trying to do this about 10 years ago and really struggling with some years in the 80s but now I know plenty of top records from then. Also thought it would be fun to reassess some of the more recent years, with for example the SBTRKT album being one I completely missed listening to in the year it came out but is now one of my favourites of the last few years.
Some things I noticed whilst doing it....
2007 is still the best year in recent history for albums I think
I have really gone off Vivian Girls and Best Coast at the moment
There is definitley a clear trajectory of me being a bit of a try hard twat in the mid 00s and coming back to normal now
1965
1, Jackson C Frank - Jackson C Frank
2, The Beatles - Help!
3, Otis Redding - Otis Blue
1966
1, The Beatles - Revolver
2, The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3, The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of...
1967
1, The Velvet Underground - ...and Nico
2, The Beatles - Sgt Peppers...
3, Love - Forever Changes
1968
1, The Beatles - The White Album
2, Silver Apples - Silver Apples
3, The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
1969
1, Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Republica
2, The Stooges - The Stooges
3, The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
1970
1, Neil Young - After the Goldrush
2, John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
3, The Velvet Underground - Loaded
1971
1, Lee Hazlewood - Requiem for an Almost Lady
2, The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
3, Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
1972
1, Lou Reed - Transformer
2, Neil Young - Harvest
3, Al Green - Let's Stay Together
1973
1, Tom Waits - Closing Time
2, Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
3, The Stooges - Raw Power
1974
1, Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
2, Neil Young - On the Beach
3, Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
1975
1, Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
2, Robert Wyatt - Ruth is Stranger than Richard
3, Patti Smith - Horses
1976
1, The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
2, Ramones - Ramones
3, Tom Waits - Small Change
1977
1, The Clash - The Clash
2, Iggy Pop - The Idiot
3, Wire - Pink Flag
1978
1, Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
2, The Jam - All Mod Cons
3, Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
1979
1, Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2, Gang of Four - Entertainment
3, The Clash - TCOTU Calling
1980
1, Joy Division - Closer
2, The Fall - Grotesque (after the gramme)
3, Captain Beefheart - Doc at Radar Station
1981
1, Television Personalities - ...and Don't the Kids Just Love it
2, Josef K - The Only Fun in Town
3, The Fall - Slates
1982
1, Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
2, Orange Juice - Rip it Up
3, The Birthday Party - Junkyard
1983
1, REM - Murmur
2, The Fall - Perverted by Language
3, Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy
1984
1, The Replacements - Let it Be
2, The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
3, The Smiths - The Smiths
1985
1, The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
2, Half Man Half Biscuit - Back in the DHSS
3, The Smiths - Meat is Murder
1986
1, The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
2, Arthur Russell - World of Echo
3, The Fall - Bend Sinister
1987
1,The Wedding Present - George Best
2,The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
3, Dinosaur Jr - You're Living all Over Me
1988
1, Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2, Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
3, Pixies - Surfa Rosa
1989
1, The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2, Pixies - Doolittle
3, The Pastels - Sittin' Pretty
1990
1, The La's - The La's
2, Ride - Nowhere
3, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son
1991
1, Primal Scream - Screamadelica
2, My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3, Main Source - Breaking Atoms
1992
1, Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
2, The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
3, The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
1993
1, Nirvana - In Utero
2, The Verve - A Storm in Heaven
3, Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
1994
1, Oasis - Definitley Maybe
2, Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
3, Pulp - His n Hers
1995
1, Pulp - Different Class
2, Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
3, GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
1996
1, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
2, Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
3, Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
1997
1, Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlmen We Are Floating in Space
2, Oasis - Be Here Now
3, The Verve - Urban Hymns
1998
1, Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
2, Arab Strap - Philophobia
3, Pulp - This is Hardcore
1999
1, The Flaming Lips - Soft Bullettin
2, Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
3, Hefner - The Fidelity Wars
2000
1, Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
2, Radiohead - Kid A
3, Gradaddy - The Sophtware Slump
2001
1, Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
2, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
3, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
2002
1, The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2, The Libertines - Up the Bracket
3, The Coral - The Coral
2003
1, Four Tet - Rounds
2, British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
3, Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
2004
1, Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
2, Kanye West - The College Dropout
3, Morrissey - You are the Quarry
2005
1, Sufjan Stevens - Illonoise
2, Herman Dune - Not on Top
3, The Wedding Present - Take Fountain
2006
1, The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2, Joanna Newsom - Ys
3, Magoo - The All Electric Amusement Arcade
2007
1, The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
2, The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
3, Burial - Untrue
2008
1, The Wedding Present - El Rey
2, The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
3, The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
2009
1, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
2, Girls - Album
3, Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
2010
1, Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
2, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
3, The National - High Violet
2011
1, SBTRKT - SBTRKT
2, Action Bronson - Dr Lecter
3, Aidan Moffatt and Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older
2012
1, Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2, Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3, Perfume Genius - Put Yr Back N 2 It
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 16:50:15 GMT
I miss threads like this. Awesome work! Here's mine, listed 1, 2 & 3 in the order they are in. I've included EP's too as there is a few which it feels silly not to include when I like them so much more than any other record. A lot of things that were my top 10s of all time a few years ago are no longer even favourites of the year they was released. Got bored of a few things I loved in recent years too.
Whilst there are never any 'bad' years for music (anyone who says that is a nark who needs to hear more music) 2006, 1996 & 1983 are either below par or there's a lot of great records I still need to hear from those years. I've gotten into more 80s stuff since whenever we last did these things but still the 70s is easily my favourite decade. So much diversity in music, so many genres that were at their peak, the best time ever for the album if you ask me.
2012: Goat - World Music / Niechęć - Śmierć w miękkim futerku / Moon Duo - Circles
2011: Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen / British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall / Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
2010: Eels - End Times / Nobunny - First Blood / Shit Horse - They Shit Horses, Don't They?
2009: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! / Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of a Friend
2008: Neon Neon - Stainless Style / Paul Weller - 22 Dreams / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2007: LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver / Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil / Wild Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire - Punk Rock at the British Legion Hall
2006: Brakes - The Beatific Visions / Shack - The Corner of Miles and Gil / Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
2005: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl / Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations / Dustin's Bar Mitzvah - Dial M for Mitzvah
2004: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / Morrissey - You Are the Quarry / The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
2003: Shack - ...Here's Tom With the Weather / The Strokes - Room on Fire / British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
2002: The Streets - Original Pirate Material / The Coral - The Coral / Tom Waits - Blood Money
2001: The Strokes - Is This It / Spiritualized - Let It Come Down / Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
2000: Primal Scream - Xtrmntr / Doves - Lost Souls / Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
1999: The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin / Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla / Beck - Midnite Vultures
1998: Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty / Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea / Beck - Mutations
1997: Primal Scream - Vanishing Point / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call / Super Furry Animals - Radiator
1996: Weezer - Pinkerton / Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic / Beck - Odelay
1995: GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords / The Verve - A Northern Soul / Shack - Waterpistol
1994: Oasis - Definitely Maybe / Smudge - Manilow / Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
1993: Nirvana - In Utero / The Lemonheads - Come On Feel the Lemonheads / Billy Childish with The Singing Loins - At the Bridge
1992: The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray / Ride - Going Blank Again / The Stairs - Mexican R'n'B
1991: Primal Scream - Screamadelica / A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory / My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1990: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Good Son / The La's - The La's / Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
1989: Pixies - Doolittle / The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses / The Vaselines - Dum-Dum
1988: My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise / Pixies - Surfer Rosa / Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1987: Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction / The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands / The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
1986: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead / The Fall - Bend Sinister / Thee Mighty Caesars - Acropolis Now
1985: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs / The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy / The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
1984: Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg / Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. / Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
1983: Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy / Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones / The Milkshakes - After School Session
1982: The Jam - The Gift / Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska / Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
1981: Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It / Kraftwerk - Computerwelt / Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
1980: David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) / Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels / The Jam - Sound Affects
1979: David Bowie - Lodger / The Clash - TCOTU Calling / Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
1978: Kate Bush - The Kick Inside / Neil Young - Comes a Time / The Jam - All Mod Cons
1977: The Clash - The Clash / Iggy Pop - The Idiot / David Bowie - Low
1976: Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War ina Babylon / Ramones - Ramones / Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1975: Yabby You - Conquering Lion / Neil Young - Zuma / Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
1974: Neil Young - On the Beach / Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain / James Brown - The Payback
1973: Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life / Al Green - Call Me / The Stooges - Raw Power
1972: The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. / Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot / Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
1971: The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers / Lee Hazlewood - Requiem for an Almost Lady / Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
1970: Neil Young - After the Gold Rush / Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden / Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
1969: Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Frank Zappa - Hot Rats / Scott Walker - Scott 4
1968: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee / Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake / Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
1967: Love - Forever Changes / The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico / Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
1966: The Beatles - Revolver / Wilson Pickett - The Exciting Wilson Pickett / Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
1965: Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul / The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics!!! / Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
1964: Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News / Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' / Johnny Cash - Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
1963: Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo / The Beatles - Please Please Me / Solomon Burke - If You Need Me
1962: Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf / The Shirelles - Baby, It's You / Françoise Hardy - Tous les garçons et les filles
1961: Dion - Runaround Sue / Pink Anderson - Carolina Blues Man, Vol. 1 / Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
1960: Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain / Hank Mobley - Soul Station / Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger
1959: John Lee Hooker - I'm John Lee Hooker / Elvis Presley - A Date With Elvis / John Lee Hooker - House of the Blues
1958: Little Richard - Little Richard / Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley / Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
1957: Little Richard - Here's Little Richard / Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar! / Chuck Berry - After School Session
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 17:34:45 GMT
JP, I'm going to check out some pieces from your list that I've not heard. A lot I've meant to check out & just not gotten around to. I've STILL not given the Birthday Party a proper listen which is ridiculous considering how much I love Nick Cave. Though I'm not sure from what I've heard I'm going to love them, with Nick Cave I prefer him 90s onwards rather than his 80s records.
I'm going to try and check these out, might make it one record a month that I'll spend time time with. I'll call it THE JP CHALLENGE.
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt - Ruth is Stranger than Richard
Josef K - The Only Fun in Town
The Fall - Slates
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
The Replacements - Let it Be
The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
Half Man Half Biscuit - Back in the DHSS
Arthur Russell - World of Echo
Arab Strap - Philophobia
Hefner - The Fidelity Wars
Four Tet - Rounds
Also Wire's Pink Flag & Lou Reed's Transformer I've heard a few times each but quite some time ago. I wasn't keen on either, but then I was probably still listening to Shed 7 at the time.
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Post by jp on Jun 10, 2013 17:50:31 GMT
If those Fall lps are good enough for Keith to take along to Finsbury Park they're good enough for you to check out. Hope he didn't have to put them in the bin on the way in like he did those cans of whiskey and coke he tried to smuggle in  But yeah there's some albums I really love on that list you've just posted of ones you've never really listened to. Likewise there's a fair few in your list I'm not overly familiar with. Will have to have a dig around and check some out. May as well use this thread for posting thoughts on them as lets face it no-one else is going to do a list |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 18:02:02 GMT
Nobody else is fucking sad enough to make one I thought about starting up the Soapbox album club again which was going pretty well until Ben deleted the board. Or maybe the mix-tape exchange. Though, I can't imagine either having enough interest to be worth bothering with nowadays. I think when downloading music became so easy it kind of killed off people exchanging stuff/recommending shit like it used to happen. When we could freely post links & turtle shit for each other there was more people willing to try stuff. Now its 30 seconds of a youtube clip & onto the next thing. Yeah OK, we'll use this thread to suck each other off in. I'm going to start with Arab Strap who I've never given the time of day. I loved that Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat record from a couple of years ago. |
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Post by jp on Jun 10, 2013 18:20:16 GMT
Arab Strap are fucking amazing and yeah most people, myself included seem to regard Philophobia as their best. Their songs are pretty sombre but have a dark humour to them at the same time that properly cracks me up.
I haven't heard any of the pre 1963 records you've mentioned and then after that the following I've never listened to...
Solomon Burke - If You Need Me
Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo
Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
Johnny Cash - Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life
James Brown - The Payback
Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
Yabby You - Conquering Lion
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
David Bowie - Lodger
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
The Milkshakes - After School Session
Thee Mighty Caesars - Acropolis Now
Smudge - Manilow
Shack - Waterpistol
Shack - ...Here's Tom With the Weather
Shack - The Corner of Miles and Gil
Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of a Friend
Niechęć - Śmierć w miękkim futerku
Moon Duo - Circles
and there's several more I've only heard a handful of times. Any of those I've never touched you particularly reccommend as a starting point?
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Post by ton on Jun 10, 2013 18:22:30 GMT
I am sad enough, problem is you two have covered pretty much everything that I'd put in any way.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 18:49:19 GMT
Any of those I've never touched you particularly reccommend as a starting point? The Bowie stuff is essential. That late 70s early 80s period Bowie is just unbelievable. I can't believe it has taken me until recently to fully appreciate it. I'd be really curious to see what you made of Alice Cooper's Love It To Death. People instantly turn their noses up at the thought of him, but back then Alice Cooper was the name of the band rather than a solo artist, the record sounds like the missing link between The Stooges & The Rolling stones, it isn't perfect by any means but I really love it, ballsy rock n roll. Kate Bush in general is worth spending time with, most wouldn't list her debut as her best work so I'm not sure I'd recommend starting here (She gets more 'out there' and into her own as an artist on later records) but the song-craft on there is unbelievable, especially as she wrote half the record when she was about 15. It's my favourite of hers even if it doesn't really define her as an artist like some of her later records. Smudge I sent you a few tracks from a few years ago and you wasn't that keen. The singer has co-wrote a bunch of Evan Dando's best songs & the record sounds exactly like the Lemonheads so predictably I love it. The Billy Childish related stuff I wouldn't rush to hear, not because it isn't any good, but with him if you've heard one you've pretty much heard them all though, if you ever fancy hearing any more Childish then those are good places to go. Mandingo's The Primeval Rhythm of Life is one of them one off kind of records. It was made by two British session musicians. They used a lot of African rhythms & made record that's a mix of Jazz, Funk & a bit of prog. It literally floored me the first time I heard it. The same as Yabby You's Conquering Lion, it's the best reggae record I've ever heard. There's an atmosphere woven into songs like nothing else I've ever heard. Baz checked it out recently too & he also loves it. |
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Post by jp on Jun 10, 2013 19:10:09 GMT
Nice one. Yeah Bowie is a weird one in that looking over my list he doesn't feature once. He's someone I still probabl properly need to get into. Obviously I have and am a fan of the most popular stuff like Ziggy, Hunky Dory, Low etc but outside of that I've never really bothered with and even those I've hardly spent any huge periods of time with. I really like his new album too and kinda wish he'd announced a TCOTU gig this year as I'm sure with tickets for that it would have been the catalyst for me to spend loads of time with his stuff. Will have to do it regardless.
Shack are another one who I noticed have several entries on your list. I think I bought HMS Fable years ago, found it quite dull and never bothered with it again. Probably not the record to have tried getting me into them really by the sounds of it. Will have to give them another go one day.
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Jun 10, 2013 19:11:32 GMT
I have really gone off Vivian Girls and Best Coast at the moment That's because they are fucking shit. Good thread tho JP  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 19:20:24 GMT
Nice one. Yeah Bowie is a weird one in that looking over my list he doesn't feature once. He's someone I still probabl properly need to get into. Obviously I have and am a fan of the most popular stuff like Ziggy, Hunky Dory, Low etc but outside of that I've never really bothered with and even those I've hardly spent any huge periods of time with. I really like his new album too and kinda wish he'd announced a TCOTU gig this year as I'm sure with tickets for that it would have been the catalyst for me to spend loads of time with his stuff. Will have to do it regardless. Shack are another one who I noticed have several entries on your list. I think I bought HMS Fable years ago, found it quite dull and never bothered with it again. Probably not the record to have tried getting me into them really by the sounds of it. Will have to give them another go one day. HMS is their attempt at britpop, it's nothing special but has its moments. Waterpistol is the cult classic, real Love vibes with a bit of Stone Roses thrown in. Here's Tom, an overlooked gem, just beautiful.. The other one I listed is good, but it was more to do with that year not being that adventitious for me. My Bowie bandwagon has hit a fence as I've reached the tin Machine period After dealing with a couple of terrible mid 80s records this is testing my patience. I must crack on as I'm really curious to hear his late 90s/early 2000s material. I dig the glam era Bowie but the run of five records from Station to Station to Scary Monsters is where its at. |
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Post by jp on Jun 10, 2013 19:33:46 GMT
I should really check out Springsteen properly before he dies too. I remember listening to Nebraska and Born to Run a few years back and think I recall quite liking Nebraska. It's quite handy letting you do all the donkey work with these people who have huge back catologues and then just listening to the ones you've found out are decent.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 19:37:52 GMT
The Boss needs time & understanding before you can feel his power. He is going to ROCK wembley so hard Saturday night. Show them old mancs how to hold a crowd.
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Jun 10, 2013 19:41:25 GMT
I dig the glam era Bowie but the run of five records from Station to Station to Scary Monsters is where its at. I rate that run of Bowie albums above Dylan at his peak. No one can come near Bowie 76-80. |
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Post by Simone on Jun 10, 2013 23:00:10 GMT
2012 - ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2011 - ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2010 - Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises / Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can / Eels - End Times
2009 - Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine / Doves - Kingdom of Rust / Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
2008 - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light / Sun Kil Moon - April / Son of Dave - 03
2007 - PJ Harvey - White Chalk / Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! / Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
2006 - The La's - BBC in Session / Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails / Shack - The Corner of Miles and Gil
2005 - The Stands - Horse Fabulous / Doves - Some Cities / The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
2004 - Jason Molina - Pyramid Electric Co. / The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat / The Stands - All Years Leaving
2003 - Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway / Shack - ...Here's Tom With the Weather / Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
2002 - Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain / The Coral - The Coral / The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2001 - Björk - Vespertine / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C. / Rufus Wainwright - Poses
2000 - Doves - Lost Souls / Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. II / Songs: Ohia - The Lioness
1999 - Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace / The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
1998 - Mark Eitzel - Caught in a Trap... / Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue / Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer / Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On / Björk - Homogenic
1996 - 16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes / Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining / Weezer - Pinkerton
1995 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love / Radiohead - The Bends / Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
1994 - Oasis - Definitely Maybe / Weezer - Weezer [Blue Album] / Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
1993 - Nirvana - In Utero / Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang / The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1992 - Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan / PJ Harvey - Dry / The Stairs - Mexican R'n'B
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind / A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory / Primal Scream - Screamadelica
1990 - The La's - The La's / Tim Buckley - Dream Letter: Live in TCOTU 1968 / Lucio Battisti - La sposa occidentale
1989 - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses / Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy //////////////////////////
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1986 - The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead / Paul Simon - Graceland / Billy Bragg - Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
1985 - Kate Bush - Hounds of Love / The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy / The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
1984 - ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1983 - ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1982 - Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow / Donald Fagen - The Nightfly / Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
1981 - ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1980 - Lucio Battisti - Una Giornata Uggiosa / Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station / Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
1979 - The Clash - TCOTU Calling / Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps / Lowell George - Thanks, I'll Eat It Here
1978 - Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy / Kate Bush - The Kick Inside / Van Halen - Van Halen
1977 - Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True / Television - Marquee Moon / Lucio Battisti - Io Tu Noi Tutti
1976 - Joni Mitchell - Hejira / Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon / Bob Dylan - Desire
1975 - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks / Neil Young - Tonight's the Night / Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1974 - Neil Young - On the Beach / Queen - Sheer Heart Attack / Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
1973 - John Martyn - Solid Air / Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon / Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1972 - Paul Simon - Paul Simon / Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly / T. Rex - The Slider
1971 - Joni Mitchell - Blue / The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers / Karen Dalton - In My Own Time
1970 - Nick Drake - Bryter Layter / Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath / Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
1969 - Tim Buckley - Happy Sad / Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry / Scott Walker - Scott 4
1968 - The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society / Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
1967 - Love - Forever Changes / Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk / Fred Neil - Fred Neil
1966 - Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde / The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sound of... / The Who - A Quick One
1965 - Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited / The Beatles - Rubber Soul / Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
tried my best but I haven't heard much from the 80s. As you can see, I haven't properly listened to a new release in a couple of years
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Post by eddiemurphy on Jun 11, 2013 0:15:07 GMT
blanks out the last 2 yrs. i'd be blanking out the last 10 i think. browny points for picking the nightfly though. van halen's debut is a gem as well. despite these stuffy cunts being too cred for eddie's shredding genius.  |
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Post by barny on Jun 11, 2013 6:59:01 GMT
- Good thread, not gonna do a list though.
- Record club was good, mixtape thing was not.
- The quotes on this new forum look like shit.
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Post by lukebox on Jun 11, 2013 13:56:24 GMT
Cheers Barny gr8 thread. I have to say I'm team jp in the formatting war that's going on here, though admittedly I don't have as much to write up as the rest of you. According to RYM, with the exception of 1971 I don't have 3 albums from the same year until 1994 1994 1. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 2. Blur - Parklife 3. Nas - Illmatic 1995 1. (What's The Story) Morning Glory ? 2. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords 3. Pulp - Different Class 1996 1. Weezer - Pinkerton 2. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt 3. Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk 1997 1. Oasis - Be Here Now 2. The Charlatans - Tellin' Stories 3. Blur - Blur 1998 Just listened to Be Here Now again 1999 1. Blink 182 - Enema Of The State 2. The Charlatans - Tellin' Stories 3. Beth Orton - Central Reservation 2000 1. Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants 2. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea 3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2001 1. The Strokes - Is This It 2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C. 3. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2002 1. The Streets - Original Pirate Material 2. Talib Kweli - Quality 3. The Libertines - Up The Bracket 2003 1. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell pt. 1 2. Blur - Think Tank 3. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell pt. 2 2004 1. Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak 2. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch 3. Annie - Anniemal 2005 1. Dustin's Bar Mitzvah - Dial M For Mitzvah 2. Ryan Adams - 29 3. The Rakes - Capture/Release 2006 1. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country 2. Graham Coxon - Love Travels At Illegal Speeds 3. Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet 2007 1. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted 2. Tegan and Sara - The Con 3. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 2008 1. Caitlin Rose - Dead Flowers EP 2. Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim 3. Jessica Lea Mayfield - With Blasphemy So Heartfelt 2009 1. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood 2. The Rifles - Great Escape 3. Regina Spektor - Far 2010 1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can 3. Robyn - Body Talk 2011 1. Bright Eyes - The People's Key 2. Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Well Done 3. Yuck - Yuck 2012 1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock 2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city 3. Action Bronson & Party Supplies - Blue Chips 2013 so far 1. Tegan and Sara - Hearthrob 2. Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In 3. The Strokes - Comedown Machine I enjoyed doing that! Great way to spend an afternoon where I could otherwise be bettering myself. Funny to think back to some of the ratings and end of the year lists I've done back along, I had the last Bright Eyes album at 2.5 stars at one point and I don't think Kanye's last one even made my top 10 of that year. Subconsciously or not maybe there's a bit of overlistening, overthinking or sometimes even posing that goes into end-of-year lists which doesn't so much with stuff like this, these are just, by-and-large the records we'll want with us for the rest of out lives. I think 2005 & 2007 are my favourite years going by amount of stuff it was hard to leave out. But going by solid top 3's I really love the 9 albums in 2001, 2010 & 2011's |
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Jun 11, 2013 20:16:08 GMT
Comedown Machine really is a great record. It's really grown on me in the past month.
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Post by hepburn on Jun 11, 2013 20:21:52 GMT
Great idea for a topic. Strange to think of the ones that've drifted away and the ones that've stayed the same, eg. I remember being completely mental about both Tin Planet by Space in 1998 and by This Is My Demo by Sway in 2006. On recent listens, both seem pretty ordinary now  2013 (so far) THE BRONX - The Bronx (IV) Peace - In Love My Bloody Valentine - m b v 2012 NAS - Life Is Good Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, maad City Every Time I Die - Ex-Lives 2011 FRIENDLY FIRES - Pala Katy B - On A Mission Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older 2010 KANYE WEST - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid Les Savy Fav - Root For Ruin 2009 DE ROSA - Prevention Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 2008 FRIGHTENED RABBIT - The Midnight Organ Fight Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim No Age - Nouns 2007 THE BIRD AND THE BEEThe Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters Burial - Untrue 2006 ARAB STRAP - The Last Romance Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury Alexisonfire - Crisis 2005 BLOC PARTY - Silent Alarm Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love Kano - Home Sweet Home 2004 KANYE WEST - The College Dropout The Futureheads Madvillain - Madvillainy 2003 THE BRONX - The Bronx (I) OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose 2002 MCLUSKY - Mclusky Do Dallas The Streets - Original Pirate Material Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute 2001 FEEDER - Echo Park Embrace - If You've Never Been Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American 2000 EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP Deftones - White Pony Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants 1999 FEEDER - Yesterday Went Too Soon The Chemical Brothers - Surrender Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions 1998 PULP - This Is Hardcore OutKast - Aquemini Arab Strap - Philophobia 1997 DEFTONES - Around The Fur Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Stereophonics - Word Gets Around 1996 NAS - It Was Written Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go 1995 PULP - Different Class Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... GZA - Liquid Swords 1994 OASIS - Definitely Maybe NAS - Illmatic MANIC STREET PREACHERS - The Holy Bible 1993 SMASHING PUMPKINS - Siamese Dream Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers 1992 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINENine Inch Nails - Broken (EP/Mini-album) Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power 1991 MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Loveless Massive Attack - Blue Lines Primal Scream - Screamadelica 1990 HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills N Thrills And Bellyaches Fugazi - Repeater The La's Will do pre-90s ones another night |
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