End Of Year - Top Music Lists

[troutman]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Do yourself a favour and just give Neko Case's album a listen. Download some tracks or something.. it's just amazing. Country sound, but still..

Agreed about the relatively weak music selection this year. But there were some really good things put out.

I never understand how people can say a given year in music is "weak". There are literally hundreds of CDs released every month. It just takes some work to find the quality, and that's why I enjoy threads like this to see what I have missed out on.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by Cerebral

Same thing here man, it feels as though I waited a bloody decade for their new album to come out!

I'm a huge fan of Good Morning Spider and Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot and this album doesn't come close to beating those two but it's still pretty decent (it cracked my top 15 of the year fairly easily).

Yah, Sparklehorse seemed to dissappear literally there for a while...with no trace, at all. Checking out the website (http://www.sparklehorse.com/) it looks like it has been 5 years since anything was last put out....

Anyways, thanks for the heads up. I will see if I can find it here (down east), which I may not be able to but worth a try. Glad to hear that you really like the 2 albums that I did...I LOVED Good Morning Spider (1st album I got of theirs). Its a Wonderful Life was alright, but not nearly as good as those first two I think.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by troutman

I never understand how people can say a given year in music is "weak". There are literally hundreds of CDs released every month. It just takes some work to find the quality, and that's why I enjoy threads like this to see what I have missed out on.

That's true, but in terms of the number of really good releases, this year seems to be lacking what last year had.

[troutman]

Ok, here is Volume One of my annual compilations:

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Tell Me Baby
I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS - Lights
LOS LOBOS - Luna
HOT ONE - Sexy Soldier
WALKMEN - Lost In Boston
BUILT TO SPILL - Conventional Wisdom
SAINT ETIENNE - Lightning Strikes Twice
YO LA TENGO - The Race Is On Again
BELLE & SEBASTIAN - We Are The Sleepyheads
JOHNNY CASH - Like The 309
PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES - The Nocturnal House
THOM YORKE - Atoms For Peace
PRINCE - Fury
PEARL JAM - Comatose
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN - The False Husband
DESTROYER - European Oils
YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Mysteries
ARAB STRAP - Dream Sequence
CALEXICO - Letter To Bowie Knife
BECK - Nausea

[troutman]

And, Volume Two:

CAT POWER - The Greatest
TRAGICALLY HIP - Family Band
NEIL YOUNG - Living With War
METHENY MEHLDAU - Ring of Life
SONIC YOUTH - Incinerate
NEKO CASE - Star Witness
ARCTIC MONKEYS - When The Sun Goes Down
SLOAN - Can't You Figure It Out?
FUTUREHEADS - Skip To The End
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM - Try For The Sun
BOB DYLAN - Spirit On The Water
STREETS - Two Nations
TV ON THE RADIO - Wolf Like Me
ROOTS - In The Music
FLAMING LIPS - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
TAPES 'N TAPES - 10 Gallon Ascots
GNARLS BARKLEY - Crazy
ISLANDS - Rough Gem

[Igottago]

Originally Posted by troutman

ARCTIC MONKEYS - When The Sun Goes Down

Single of the year. How the kids (on this side of the pond anyways) aren't eating this song up is beyond me. They prefer horse manure like My Chemical Romance I guess.

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by Igottago

Single of the year. How the kids (on this side of the pond anyways) aren't eating this song up is beyond me. They prefer horse manure like My Chemical Romance I guess.

I could've sworn that the kids were eating this song/album up. Everyone seems to know about the Arctic Monkeys now. Although I don't know if they get any play on things like Muchmusic or MTV.