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This Year in Music
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#1 bro
FEELING GREAT, FEELING GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
Too late, and so far I like them both. :P
Agreed, I don't like all those ambient tracks. But then again I've never been much of a NIN fan.
Tarvos
helt plötsligt blev det tyst
Third is a good record. I don't get why you guys are getting so defensive. I like Dummy more but Third is a more than worthy comeback for a band that I thought would never come back.
Nine Inch Nails are alright but their older work is waaaaaay better. I have heard the Slip and Year Zero, and some of it is nice but it's more background music than anything. The Downward Spiral is by far their best album, musically and lyrically.
Nine Inch Nails are alright but their older work is waaaaaay better. I have heard the Slip and Year Zero, and some of it is nice but it's more background music than anything. The Downward Spiral is by far their best album, musically and lyrically.
#1 bro
FEELING GREAT, FEELING GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
foreign contaminant
"tray ben," what's that mean?
though it wasn't my resolution for 2008, i pretty much spent the whole of it consuming numerous new musicians and bands i discovered through word of mouth. despite that, a lot of music i heard in 2008 was old. i can actually count on my fingers what albums i heard that came out this year..
cat power - jukebox. it was a thoroughly boring collection of covers in a soul style. not unique enough to be a good listen, but just boring enough to be worthy of a spot on a shelf at starbucks.
playradioplay - texas. a bunch of really catchy electronic pop songs are in here, but they're kind of samey. the whole is actually worse than the sum of its parts.
portishead - third. portishead was one of the bands i discovered this year. i bought dummy, listened to it once and wasn't sure of what i heard. i heard it once more, loved it, and bought their second album a week later. not long after that, i bought this and was bewildered. everyone says this is a grower, but it hasn't grown much on me. to be fair, i never listened to it fully more than once, and most people went into third with no expectations, unlike me. after hearing all the praise this record's gotten from people like pitchfork, popmatters and stereogum, i'm convinced i should probably give it a few more chances, which i was already willing to do.
santogold - santogold. this one is filled with good pop songs end to end. santogold doesn't seem to be able to stick to one type of music, but she has a good enough grasp on new wave, ska, hip-hop and punk-ish styles to be likeable in any guise.
cut copy - in ghost colours. i really really really like this record! i downloaded it having only heard "lights and music," which i felt had a good beat and neat synth effects that echoed silly disco music. once i listened to it, though, i was floored; lights and music is probably one of the worst songs on it and i really like that one! there are a lot of ambient tracks on it and those are fairly useless (they do segue into the other songs, but then again, a nice chunk of a lot of the songs is spent preparing to segue into the next part, so why bother), but otherwise there are nine good songs on here. not necessarily recommended, but it's a really fun album from a good new band.
justice - a cross the universe. i haven't actually sat down and listened to this yet. i've heard three songs off of it; it sounds like it's going to be another alive 2007, which is a good thing for me.
beck - modern guilt. it seemed like a competent follow-up from beck. i really liked the information, and this seems to have its good songs also. (i haven't actually heard this one since july and i can't really speak for it.)
the mae shi - HLLLYH. i can't speak for this either; i just got it and still have... maybe seven-and-a-half other albums to listen to before i get to this one.
that said, the only album i haven't heard from this year that i want to hear from this year is the new of montreal cd and maybe the david byrne/brian eno collaboration.
cat power - jukebox. it was a thoroughly boring collection of covers in a soul style. not unique enough to be a good listen, but just boring enough to be worthy of a spot on a shelf at starbucks.
playradioplay - texas. a bunch of really catchy electronic pop songs are in here, but they're kind of samey. the whole is actually worse than the sum of its parts.
portishead - third. portishead was one of the bands i discovered this year. i bought dummy, listened to it once and wasn't sure of what i heard. i heard it once more, loved it, and bought their second album a week later. not long after that, i bought this and was bewildered. everyone says this is a grower, but it hasn't grown much on me. to be fair, i never listened to it fully more than once, and most people went into third with no expectations, unlike me. after hearing all the praise this record's gotten from people like pitchfork, popmatters and stereogum, i'm convinced i should probably give it a few more chances, which i was already willing to do.
santogold - santogold. this one is filled with good pop songs end to end. santogold doesn't seem to be able to stick to one type of music, but she has a good enough grasp on new wave, ska, hip-hop and punk-ish styles to be likeable in any guise.
cut copy - in ghost colours. i really really really like this record! i downloaded it having only heard "lights and music," which i felt had a good beat and neat synth effects that echoed silly disco music. once i listened to it, though, i was floored; lights and music is probably one of the worst songs on it and i really like that one! there are a lot of ambient tracks on it and those are fairly useless (they do segue into the other songs, but then again, a nice chunk of a lot of the songs is spent preparing to segue into the next part, so why bother), but otherwise there are nine good songs on here. not necessarily recommended, but it's a really fun album from a good new band.
justice - a cross the universe. i haven't actually sat down and listened to this yet. i've heard three songs off of it; it sounds like it's going to be another alive 2007, which is a good thing for me.
beck - modern guilt. it seemed like a competent follow-up from beck. i really liked the information, and this seems to have its good songs also. (i haven't actually heard this one since july and i can't really speak for it.)
the mae shi - HLLLYH. i can't speak for this either; i just got it and still have... maybe seven-and-a-half other albums to listen to before i get to this one.
that said, the only album i haven't heard from this year that i want to hear from this year is the new of montreal cd and maybe the david byrne/brian eno collaboration.
Tarvos
helt plötsligt blev det tyst
they usually do so I guess... it's called being experimental I guess
#1 bro
FEELING GREAT, FEELING GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
It's experimental if you do it once in your career (like the Beatles), it's just kind of annoying/pretentious if every other song ends that way :|
