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Soundtrack To Your Angst
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Love Dylan's Christmas songs. Have never laughed so much at a music video (look out for the crazy guy at 1.46)
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This popped into my head the other day. And since it's the time of year... 0
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Willy wonka was such a perv,but it's fine.This was before this scene would have been frowned upon
Sums up my xmas;
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Beautiful song by Broken Social Scene (with the Metric girl singing):
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Lads. Favourite tracks and albums of 2010? Didn't buy/acquire many albums but really like those that I did. Straight copy and paste of what I wrote elsewhere:
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs. Bit late to the party on this one but it’s fantastic. Best tracks: Empty Room, Ready to Start.
Grinderman – Grinderman 2. Like the above album this took two listens to fully appreciate. Nick Cave rarely lets me down. Best tracks: Palaces of Montezuma, Bellringer Blues, Worm Tamer.
Black Francis – The Golem. Paid 70euro for this album, worth it. Basically it's a soundtrack for an ancient German film, recalling the likes of The ‘Stones, Tom Waits, Pixies and Neil Young. Best tracks: Bad News, You’re Gonna Pay, Miriam & Florian, Obedient Servant.
Beach House – Teen Dream. Incredibly hard to describe their sound but it's amazing. Best tracks: Silver Soul, Norway.
Black Francis – Nonstoperotic: Not as good as The Golem but this is more Pixies-ish. Best tracks: When I Go Down On You, Wild Son, Six Legged Man.
Tracks:
**** You – Cee Lo Green.
Norway – Beach House. I’ve played this song an awful lot. It's just glorious.
Bad News – Black Francis. I first heard this tune two years ago when it leaked but it’s lost none of its power. One of my favourite songs of his.
Crash Years – The New Pornographers. I adore this song. Neko Case and that wonderful whistling.
AF's Empty Room would definitely be amongst those had I known it a little longer. Haven't listened to High Violet yet either which might explain the absence of anything by The National.0 -
Mine would be...
Grinderman 2 - Grinderman
A great album from beginning to end filled with sleazy sounding guitars and lyrics. Best tracks: Mickey Mouse & the Goodbye Man, Worm Tamer, When My Baby Comes, Palaces of Montezuma.
This is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank - Adebisi Shank
Adebisi Shank are one of my favourite Irish bands. Their first album was a strong release but I think this one topped it. It's full of awesome luscious soundscapes. Best tracks: Masa, Micromachines, Genki Shank. The rest are awesome too though.
We Were Exploding Anyway - 65daysofstatic
A lot more emphasis on the dance aesthetic of their music in this album but this doesn't make it suffer. It actually enhances the album creating some really memorable songs. This album was pretty much the soundtrack to 2010 for me. I was constantly listening to it. Best Tracks: Mountainhead, Crash Tactics, Weak4.
Road Salt One - Pain of Salvation
It took me a while to get into but when I did I enjoyed it immensely. I've never really listened to Pain of Salvation's earlier stuff so I can't really make a comparison there. I did really enjoy this album however. Best Tracks: Linoleum, Road Salt and Tell Me You Don't know.
Other great albums:
Chariot - The Cast of Cheers (Free album)
The Letters EP - And So I Watch You From Afar
Snakes for the Divine - High on Fire
Man on the Moon: The Legend of Mr. Rager - Kid Cudi (One that I hope isn't forgotten after the release of Kanye's acclaimed album)
Diamond Eyes - Deftones
The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man on Earth
Best Tracks:
Barbra Streisand - Duck Sauce. You gotta love it.
Masa - Adebisi Shank
Snakes For the Divine - High On Fire
K is for Killing Spree (Ode to) - And So I watch You From Afar
PX3 - 65daysofstatic
REVOFEV -Kid Cudi
Nausea - Trophy Scars
King of Spain - The Tallest Man on Earth
I think that's all the things I enjoyed most this year.
There's plenty of stuff I haven't listened to, like High Violet and stuff. 0 -
^^ Think this is a great idea Monzo! I'll go ahead and list my favourites for 2010, purely 'cause I know it'll take ages but hey its an excuse to listen to some good music from this year. I mixed up the my favourite albums and tracks because my favourite song usually came from a good album as well.
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs. 5 stars, not much more I can say about it that hasn't been said already. Sprawl II: major contender for song of the year imo.
The National - High Violet. Album of the Year? Very few come close. Just magnificent. Arrgh picking my favourite song is so difficult, at the moment it's England... no Afraid of Everyone... no Conversation 16. I'll just put that here now and move on before I change it loads more times.
Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid. Not what I'd normally listen to but and amazing album nevertheless
Yeasayer - Odd Blood. Some absolutely great tracks on this album. I went off them for a while after reading a few interviews with them and they came across as really pretentious and got slated in an article about their crap attitude. But just focusing on the music there's some catchy tunes on the album: O.N.E, Rome, Ambling Alp and Madder Red:
Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewel and
Robyn - Body Talk Both deserve a mention for giving us some of the better pop music for the year. I listened to Marina's album a lot and was disappointed when I missed her gig in Cork, it was supposed to be brilliant.
Foals - Total Life Forever. I probaly listened to this album more than any others this year, it was released early enough in the year so I would always go back to it if I wasn't in the mood for anything new. Loved This Orient and Spanish Sahara.
Jonsí - Go was one of the highlights of the year for me, could not stop listening to it. Animal Arithmetic so upbeat and brilliant:
My favourite finds of 2010 would definitely have to be:
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt.
Two Door Cinema Club
Fang Island
And the magnificent James Vincent McMorrow
Makes me weak at the knees, a sign of a true man-crush
Anywho that's most of what I can think of, just writing this out was pretty enjoyable. And now to look at the others' posts and find new music I missed from this year 0 -
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Some of the albums I liked this year:
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Beach House - Teen Dream
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Caribou - Swim
Delphic - Acolyte
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up!
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
The Roots - How I Got Over
Hope that wasn't too long a post!0 -
My Best of 2010 list on 8tracks pretty much sums up my opinions of the year:
http://8tracks.com/eranmane/twenty-ten
But let me go into detail a bit there. Track by track. The albums are in no particular order
1. Kanye West - Dark Fantasy
Kanye West's 2010 offering is unreal. It's mad, it's crazy, it's dark, it's twisted, it's Kanye West's fantasy, and although it isn't beautiful, it's a damn good rap album.
2. Broken Bells - October
2010 was a great year for Danger Mouse. Working on this album and on the amazing Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse album, it shows that this great producer has much ahead of him. Currently working on the new U2 album. Who knows, he might just save them.
3. Sleigh Bells - Crown on The Ground
AWESOME
4. The Black Keys - Next Girl
My brother gave me "Brothers". Both that brother and "Brothers" are great. Brothers of course being one of the best albums I've heard this year.
5. Foals - After Glow
Total Life Forever marked a change of pace for Foals. I mean, a serious change of pace. But they went in all the right directions. Their new album? Damn near perfect.
6. Delphic - This Momentary
This Momentary was always going to be one of my favourite songs of the year. But the rest of their debut album "Alcoyte" did take some time to grow on me. But damn, it did. Great album.
7. Hans Zimmer - Mombasa
Film soundtrack? In MY Best of 2010 list? Zimmer's score for Inception has some of the most moving music I've seen\heard in a while. Great film. Great soundtrack.
8. Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know
Are Two Door Cinema Club the saviours of pop music? No, they're copying Phoenix.
Are Two Door Cinema Club doing a good job of copying Phoenix? Surprisingly yes. In fact, their album is just as good as Phoenix's.
(still copying them though)
9. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
This is one of two songs that doesn't represent one of the best albums of 2010. This song represents one of the best SONGS of 2010, and maybe one of the best albums of 2011?
10. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
No introduction required.
11. The National - Conversation 16
The National were afraid they'd eat my brains, because they're evil.
They probably did, because this album is good. Very good. It's the only album I've bought.
12. Beach House - Ten Mile Stereo
Beautiful song. Beautiful album. Beautiful. (learn from this Kanye, this is beautiful, your album is not)
13. Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
Everyone who's heard this song and this album rate it highly in Best of 2010 lists. Listen to it. Find out why.
14. The Chemical Brothers - Swoon
"Just remember, to fall in love. There's nothing else. There's nothing else." The Chemical Brothers may created a simply perfect dance album. "Swoon" might show you why I think so.
15. wait what - Mo' Stars, Mo' Problems (The Notorious XX)
DJ wait what blends The XX and The Notorious B.I.G in one of the greatest mixtapes ever. Listen to it.
DID I LEAVE ANYTHING OUT?
Of course.
One I forgot to put in the 8tracks mix is Laura Marling's lovely, lovely second album.0 -
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This sounds like a good idea, I'm gonna do what Colm did and do my top 15 or so songs and work with that, because I haven't really listened to a huge amount of full albums this year, mostly I've been listening to stuff from the last few years and beyond.
1. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
I think Namlub posted this song here a few months back,and since then I've loved it, and then loved it more. It's so addictive and one of my favourite songs ever I think. Thanks Namlub. And I urge everyone to go listen!
2. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio/ Runaway/ England/ Afraid of Everyone/ Conversation 16....it's so hard to pick a favourite from High Violet, I like every song, but there's my top five anyway.
3. Arcade Fire - Ready To Start/Sprawl II, Rococo, The Suburbs...another album with me liking every track (Hey, I actually like Sprawl I), those are the ones I've listened to most though
4. Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun - not a massive fan of Vampire Weekend, but this song...love it.
5. Beach House - Norway...haven't had a chance to actually get into Beach House, but this song definitely stands out.
6. Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Marytn/Something Good Can Work/Eat That Up, It's Good For You. I'm not sure if they are copying Phoenix, there are definitely some (ok, a lot) of similiarities. But in the end, I prefer Tourist History to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and I love all of the TDCC songs I've heard, even if they are a bit samey. Top artist on my last.fm actually.
7. Kanye West - All of the Lights/Dark Fantasy/Monster ... I don't like rap much, or Kanye at all, but his new album is just something else...
8. Eminem - Not Afraid/Space Bound/Almost Famous ...not a huge Eminem fan anymore, but I was fairly addicted over the summer and actually bought his album, and most of it was pretty good. Those three tracks in particular did it for me.
9. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal/Ship Of Promises...another group I'm just getting into. Two stand-out tracks there for me, and a few more listens of the album and I'll surely find more.
10. Regina Spektor - No Surprises. Yes, it's a cover, released for charity but it still makes the list. One of my favourite artists covering one of my favourite songs...what's not to love?
11. Warpaint - Undertow...great, great song. A bit iffy about the album so far, but great song!
12. Sufjan Stevens - I Walked. I didn't expect to like Sufjan's new album after hearing it was different, as I love regular Sufjan, but I actually love it. Still haven't got through that behemoth of a last track, but I'm getting there.
13. Brandon Flowers - Only The Young. What a song, what a video...and the album's quite good too.
14. Yeasayer - O.N.E. Another group I need to listen to more, but after being recommended that song countless times, it's pretty good!
15. The Drums - Down By The Water...and most songs from their self-titled debut album. Copying The Cure, apparently...well, they must be doing a good job too. Heh, I'm not too picky.
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Janelle Monáe is teh awesome! First act I saw at Electric Picnic, and one of the highlights of the whole weekend. Pity her set wasn't longer. (and that I missed her performance in the Body & Soul tent)
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Just going to mention a few random ones of mine that I don't think anyone's included, else I'd be repeating other people's posts (which are all awesome btw)...
LCD Soundsystem-This Is Happening
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
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I just have to reiterate the amazing 'Suburbs' as being phenomenal, its my musical soundtrack to 2010.
Just a few favorites from the year :
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edsbS_SCADE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmKV4b72rog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0VPVawpN8E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUXUfAp3kEA
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