I know this is going to sound like hating and trolling ala Flame of Liberty but I really tried to give Bon Iver a chance, especially after naming a song after our fair city. But alas in my unsophisticated head the songs sounded like Coldplay and Radiohead teamed up to make the most pretentious overwrought album ever to piss off those that find simple pleasure in the odd popular music track. Maybe I'm just one of the unwashed masses that's slowly contributing to the end of music as we know it, but that's my reaction.
My favorite album of '11 was M83 - Hurry Up, We're dreaming
I know this is going to sound like hating and trolling ala Flame of Liberty but I really tried to give Bon Iver a chance, especially after naming a song after our fair city. But alas in my unsophisticated head the songs sounded like Coldplay and Radiohead teamed up to make the most pretentious overwrought album ever to piss off those that find simple pleasure in the odd popular music track. Maybe I'm just one of the unwashed masses that's slowly contributing to the end of music as we know it, but that's my reaction.
Both Bon Iver's and PJ Harvey's albums are decent, but they're headphone music. Something to listen to if you're on a long drive, flight, etc., or if you like to sit in your room and smoke a lot of weed. They're albums you listen to if you want to do nothing else but just sit and listen to music. I'll occasionally throw on the PJ Harvey album when I'm on the bus, but other than that it doesn't get much playtime with me.
Also, that reminds me, up on my all-time people I can't stand list is the dude that puts on headphone music at his party. Nothing kills the mood faster than when you shut down songs that everyone knows to play something you feel is important for everyone to listen to.
1 Mission Bells - Armistice
2 Lose It - Austra
3 Lonely Boy - Black Keys
4 Time - Black Lips
5 50 Words For Snow - Bush, Kate
6 Light That Never Shines - Cowpuncher
7 Chinatown - Destroyer
8 No Embrace - Dirty Projectors & Bjork
9 Bedroom Eyes - Dum Dum Girls
10 The Bad In Each Other - Feist
11 Lorelai - Fleet Foxes
12 Dear Rosemary - Foo Fighters
13 Balance - Future Islands
14 Midnight City - M83
15 Revolution Girls - Mariachi El Bronx
16 Circulation - Moore, Thurston
17 Oleander - Mother Mother
18 Second Chance - Peter Bjorn & John
1 Überlin - R.E.M.
2 Little By Little - Radiohead
3 Ignite - Raveonettes
4 Kool On - Roots
5 Rewrite - Simon, Paul
6 Follow The Leader - Sloan
7 Safe And Sound - Sun Wizard
8 Miranda - Surfer Blood
9 Be Your Bro - Those Darlins
10 Walla Illa - Tinariwen
11 Es-So - Tune-Yards
12 Keep Your Heart - TV On The Radio
13 Effigy - Urge Overkill
14 Sara - VanGaalen, Chad
15 Pay Me - Waits, Tom
16 The Morning - Weeknd
17 Born Alone - Wilco
18 Plaything - Wild Beasts
19 Romance - Wild Flag
20 Holing Out - Yuck
Been casually making my way through the various "Best of" lists, trying to find stuff I missed this year, and I officially don't get the love for The Weeknd. It's Top 40 humping music masquerading under an indie label.
Been casually making my way through the various "Best of" lists, trying to find stuff I missed this year, and I officially don't get the love for The Weeknd. It's Top 40 humping music masquerading under an indie label.
I found it difficult to find a song there that resonated with me.
Been casually making my way through the various "Best of" lists, trying to find stuff I missed this year, and I officially don't get the love for The Weeknd. It's Top 40 humping music masquerading under an indie label.
That's what its meant to sound like. The lyrics are really dark, but it sounds so sexy. That's why I love it
I know this is going to sound like hating and trolling ala Flame of Liberty but I really tried to give Bon Iver a chance, especially after naming a song after our fair city. But alas in my unsophisticated head the songs sounded like Coldplay and Radiohead teamed up to make the most pretentious overwrought album ever to piss off those that find simple pleasure in the odd popular music track. Maybe I'm just one of the unwashed masses that's slowly contributing to the end of music as we know it, but that's my reaction.
My favorite album of '11 was M83 - Hurry Up, We're dreaming
The list of artists he teamed up with in 2011 and now into 2012 is pretty impressive. Not only did I think Bon Iver Bon Iver was one of the best of 2011 but the random singles he and other artists scattered throughout the past year could have made another equally impressive album. The latest : Bon Iver with the Chieftains : Down by the willow gardenhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/..._the_song.html
Damnit, M83's Hurry Up We're Dreaming is the best album I have heard in years. In fact, it's the only album I've heard in a decade where every single song is good. I've got to pick this up. Maybe on Vinyl.
Not new at all, but I just purchased Nirvana's MTV Unplugged on iTunes ($6.99 ftw) and it is fantastic. I don't think i've listened to the whole thing since I owned it on tape in grade 7/8.
