Top 5 2016

Gonzovision

Your top 5 Albums

1 - 65daysofstatic — No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Univere
2 - Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
3 - Overhead, The Albatross — Learning to Growl
4 - Russian Circles — Guidance
5 - Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam — I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

Your top 5 songs

1 - Florrie - Real Love
2 - Wreck and Reference - Powders
3 - Radiohead - Present Tense
4 - 65daysofstatic - Asimov
5 - Olafur Arnalds - Particles

Your top 5 gigs

1 - God is an Astronaut - Cypress Avenue
2 - Overhead the Albatross - Cyprus Avenue

UrbanSprawl

Albums

Protobaby - Cosmic Heart
Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
Crystal Castles-Amnesty (I)
Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial
Easy Tide -Enumi

Gigs

Protomartyr@workamns
Le Butcherettes@workmans
Otherkin@Whelan (November)
Sultans of Ping@Grand soical
Engine Alley@Grand social

Honorable mentions

Protobaby@gigonometry presents ,workmans

EPS

Have listened to more EP'S than albums this year so will add Top 5 EP'S category.

Just Mustard
Otherkin- New Vice
Wolf Parade -EP4
Galants
Thumper – Magnum Opuss


Songs:

Dear James from Burnt out gets my top song of the year.

Irish_rat

Top Albums

Daughter - Not To Disappear
Angel Olsen - My Woman
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Live gigs

Biffy Clyro - 3Arena
Kendrick Lamar - Longitude
Editors - Indiependence

Top 5 Songs
Blink 182 - Bored to Death
The Strokes - Oblivious
Glass Animals - Youth
Radiohead - Burn the Witch

mosstin

Gonzovision wrote: »

Your top 5 Albums

1 - 'Wildflower' - The Avalanches
2 - 'A Moon Shaped Pool' - Radiohead
3 - 'Skeleton Tree' - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
4 - '....and the Anonymous Nobody' - De La Soul
5 - 'Good Luck and Do Your Best' - Gold Panda

Your top 5 songs

1 - 'Burn The Witch' - Radiohead
2 - 'How He Entered' - Tindersticks
3 - 'Jesus Alone' - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
4 - 'Best Days on Earth' - Trashcan Sinatras
5 - 'The Hustle' - Lambchop

Your top 5 gigs

1 - Julia Holter @ Button Factory
2 - Low @ Christchurch
3 - Robert Forster @ Whelan's
4 - Stars of the Lid @ NCH
5 - Lloyd Cole @ Róisín Dubh

Favourite video
Wasn't included as a category but I think that this Nick Cave clip, given the background to the album he released this year, is beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iGxoJnygW8

I also love this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBzsjga73s

A slimmed down poll this year - it strikes me that we are an endangered species on the Music forum.

mosstin

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

Albums

Protobaby - Cosmic Heart
Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
Crystal Castles-Amnesty (I)
Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial
Easy Tide -Enumi

Gigs

Protomartyr@workamns
Le Butcherettes@workmans
Otherkin@Whelan (November)
Sultans of Ping@Grand soical
Engine Alley@Grand social

Honorable mentions

Protobaby@gigonometry presents ,workmans

EPS

Have listened to more EP'S than albums this year so will add Top 5 EP'S category.

Just Mustard
Otherkin- New Vice
Wolf Parade -EP4
Galants
Thumper – Magnum Opuss


Songs:

Dear James from Burnt out gets my top song of the year.

I didn't include any EPs but Aphex Twin's 'Cheetah' was wonderful.

UrbanSprawl

mosstin wrote: »

I didn't include any EPs but Aphex Twin's 'Cheetah' was wonderful.

I never did get aphex twin..come to daddy and a few others ok but can't say I would know much of his work but I do know one of the tracks on that EP as it turns out .. due to the video being shot in Dublin by a 13 year old .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEP-Qpw3lHg

Anesthetize

Top 5 albums:
1. The Hotelier - Goodness
2. Angel Olsen - My Woman
3. Shura - Nothing's Real
4. Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
5. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales

Top 5 songs:
1. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
2. The Hotelier - Soft Animal
3. Chairlift - Crying in Public
4. Radiohead - Daydreaming
5. Martha - The Awkward Ones

Favourite video:
Granted I don't even watch too many music videos, but Tegan and Sara deserve a round of applause for placing as many subtle sexual references into a music video as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLUDxVezNes

scottmcb04

Your top 5 Albums

1 - Car Seat Headrest - Teens of denial
2 - Big Thief - Masterpiece
3 - Whitney - Light upon the lake
4 - Jean-Michel Blais - il
5 - Pinegrove - Cardinal

Your top 5 songs

1 - MONO -Ely's Heartbeat
2 - Wreck and Reference - Powders
3 - Pinegrove - Size of the moon
4 - Big Thief - Humans
5 - Olafur Arnalds - Particles

Your top 5 gigs

1 - Sigur Ros - vancouver
2 - Daughter - vancouver
3 - kiasmos - big ears festival
4 - godspeed you black emperor - vancouver
5 - bjork - iceland airwaves

T.V Eye

Albums

Preoccupations - S/T
Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
Future of The Left - The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

Songs

Preoccupations - Fever
Wedding Present - Bells
Future of The Left - Back When I Was Brilliant
Ty Segall - Candy Sam
Car Seat Headrest - (Joe Gets Kicked out of School for Using) Drugs with Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)

Gigs

Blanked a bit on this..

Wedding Present
Dinosaur Jr

were great, Buzzcocks was fun too.

Rothko

Albums:
Blackstar - David Bowie
A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
Sleep Cycle - Deakin
Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not - Dinosaur Jr.
Blonde - Frank Ocean

Songs:
FloriDada - Animal Collective
Identikit - Radiohead
Lazarus - David Bowie
Burning Bright - Nine Inch Nails
Jesus Alone - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Gigs:
Neil Young - 3 Arena
Pixies - Iveagh Gardens
Dinosaur Jr. - Vicar Street
Stone Roses - Marlay Park
Sigur Ros - Kilmainham

I've been very bad listening to music this year. Plenty of songs I've loved this year, harder to think of albums.
And I went to very few gigs, so the highlights were all clustered in the final two months of the year.

Songs
Little Green Cars - Easier Day
Radiohead - Identikit
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Birdy - Keeping Your Head Up
Samaris - Wanted 2 Say

Albums
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Savages - Adore Life
David Bowie - Blackstar
The Jezabels - Synthia

Gigs
Little Green Cars - Vicar Street, December 2016
Jimmy Eat World - Olympia Theatre, November 2016
Grace Jones - Metropolis, November 2016
Moderat - Metropolis, November 2016

Videos
Don't really watch music videos much but I'll throw in the entire "One More Time With Feeling" documentary.

Biggest disappointment
M83 - Junk

loyatemu

Albums:

Bowie - he left on a high, genuinely his best since the 70s.
Radiohead - I blow hot and cold on RH, but I think this may be their best work.
Lambchop - quite different to their previous records, works better as a whole than as individual songs
Avalanches - better than expected after a 16 year wait
Metronomy - grew on me the more I listened to it, unlike their last album which was disappointing.

Songs:

King Creosote - "You just want"
Pixies - "Classic Masher"
Cate le Bon - "What's not mine"
Whitney - "No Woman"
Parquet Courts - "Dust"

Gigs:

Only gig I went to this year was Super Furry Animals, which was pretty good.

iomega

Your top 5 Albums (no order)

Drugdealer - The end of comedy (hippy dippy folk rock, 70's laurel canon vibes abound)
Vinyl Williams - Brunei (head spinning, lush spaced out loveliness, drowned in reverb)
Morgan Delt - Phase Zero (spaced out mellow neo psychedelia. Not as good as his debut, but still good)
Mild high club - Skiptracing (yacht rock, but played underwater)
Vanishing Twin - Choose your own adventure (fans of broadcast, stereolab & the soundcarriers might like this)


Your top 5 songs (no order)

The Lemon Twigs - These words (Cracking 70's style power pop by 2 teenage brothers)
Drugdealer featuring Weyes Blood - Suddenly (I love weyes blood's languid vocals on this)
The last shadow puppets - Miracle Aligner (Crooner rock with a subtle infectious chorus)
Vinyl Williams - Riddles of the sphinx (Sounds like a fresh painting with a bucket of water thrown over it)
Exmagician - bend with the wind (I heard this alot on TXFM (rip) kind of a late 90's flaming lips feel to it)

Your top 5 gigs

Didn't go to any...

lordgoat

Albums:

Bowie, Frank Ocean, Kanye.

Song:
The Greatest Conversation Ever in the History of the Universe - Jesu and SKM

NapoleonInRags

scottmcb04 wrote: »

Your top 5 Albums

1 - Car Seat Headrest - Teens of denial
2 - Big Thief - Masterpiece
3 - Whitney - Light upon the lake
4 - Jean-Michel Blais - il
5 - Pinegrove - Cardinal