wouldn't surprise me your list crosses over the most with mine on this forum. Curious about that Dug Pinnick album..I haven't heard it, you wouldn't be up for Trouting it would you? How is it?

STILL trying to lure you out to a show one of these days Oso.

But if that's not in the cards I s'pose I could mail it or something. How many shelves do I get in exchange for a $5 EP?

Do it!

avec posted it here:
http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?s...st&p=518565

That Earthless album is good and all, but I don't seem to be liking it as much as some.

That album is best when they're switching riff to riff imo. The endless guitar solo's just don't really do it for me.

Does anyone take extra stuff into account, when you're doing your album list? Like do you count bonus EPs/DVDs/packaging as part of that album and its "experience" or whatever? Or are you just voting for those 11 songs that make up Love is Simple (for example)?

would be kinda silly if people do honestly... you're voting for the record, not the extracurricular stuff

I'm considering the second disc of In Rainbows. Seems more of the experience compared to some shitty bonus tracks from Universal on something.

Totally OTM. The riffage is amazing, though. Amazing. I feel like I'd love this if it were four ten-minute songs that were more focused on riffing than noodling. That said, it strikes me as a really great album to throw on and do stuff to. Be that cleaning the flat, getting high, cooking, having sex, etc. Okay, maybe not the sex part.

I like the crunch, but it's lacking melody/ a groove. If I'd had more time to listen it probably would've moved up. And Megadeth would've moved down, I could swear listening to it last night that it's not the same cd I liked so much in the car a couple of weeks ago...

It's probably not kosher, but I take into account live performances of songs from the album that I attended. Also, Radiohead's release model gave them a few extra brownie points. Not enough to really change positioning much (if at all) in either case, but anything related to the album is under consideration for me.

I like velocity's and Vivian's lists a lot.

Though I have yet to be convinced that the Burial is as spectacular as many are claiming (it's good, nice and seductively moody, but...). And I have the Circle mp3s, but can't find the time to listen to them.

Any album in a digipack gets extra points from me. Extra pages in the liner notes, holograms, free stickers, I take all this into account.

Well put. I keep waiting for that album to really grab me.

Nice list, Undo. Glad to see not everyone got tired of (or completely forgot about) Klaxons. January albums usually have trouble, especially when pre-album singles are nearing two years old at this point.

HINT HINT SOMB VOTE FOR THAT SHIT

Morally wrong since it was released in Sweden in '06? Didn't come out 'til late October '07 in the states. Fuck it, I say vote for it. And thanks for the reminder.

edit: I see now that it was released December 11th in Europe. Definitely late enough to assuage any guilt.

Yeah, I'm voting for it. besides, I really like the new bonus tracks.

Yeah, it's an awesome CD but I really don't see how it could be considered "spectacular." Archangel is the only really truly "spectacular" song on the album, IMO.

Backlash time

Soon everyone will be onto the next thing and Burial will only be mentioned in the same breath as Roni Size.

Oh, wait...

This Burial album is some nice work.

No, not backlash. I genuinely like the album. I'm just trying to figure out what is compelling so many critics and listeners to say it's one of the year's very best. I really didn't know dubstep was so de rigeur.

This isn't really 'dubstep' in the classic sense (if there is a classic sense). I hear a lot more soul in this, filtered through dub and house and ambient. It's one of those albums that's really made a huge connection with me, making it impossible for me to really discuss it in any rational sense. I love how it sounds, how it envelops you in smoke and sadness and beauty. Despite all the studio trickery with the cut and bent voices and the chill of the music, it comes through as a very warm, human album. Blows my mind again every time I listen to it.

Not backlash for me either.

my backlash = Arcade Fire

I know exactly what you mean, the same goes for the Alcest album with me, it's tough to put into words.

If I remember last year on the fake Pazz and Jop Burial's s/t was the highest ranked by points/votes enthusiasm.

The thing about this Burial album that puts it over the last one is that it absolutely wears it's heart on it's sleeve, for an artist we know nothing about evoking the place where he lives in such a way is a very powerful thing. It has a similar vibe to the The Good, The Bad and The Queen record in that if you cut it the Thames would bleed out.

I've never seen the Thames but hyperbole never felt so good.

I just went over the Thames half an hour ago, unfortunately it's only 15m wide at that point.

Last time I listened to it I genuinely wished I was on a Nightbus.

While I like the Burial a whole lot, the hyperbole being slung around is getting pretty ridiculous. It's not all that.

Except it is to some people. Y'know, subjectivity and layers of personal meaning and all that nonsense. I'm quite happy for people to think it's a merely very good record, but I can't help wanting to rave about it regardless...

Brugel's list is just a very unique one with a particular bent featuring much good to great music most of us missed or passed on. I think that's why.

Love that you included Clientele so high and had Stephen Marley in there as well. Respect.

different VERSIONS/EDITIONS can definitely make an album higher or lower. 2004, Marillion's MARBLES was my album of the year, but the 2 Disc Campaign edition pushed it that high to me. The single-disc retail might not have been in my top 5 that year.

Quite frankly I'm going to have to eat my words. I'm pretty schizofrenic with my musical opinions, and this is no different. I think Untrue may be the greatest electronic release since Confield or Campfire Headphase. It's pure; way better then I thought. I'm joining the club here. It has that "Loveless" undefineable quality to it.

No doubt the same thing will happen this year.

No doubt Amy Winehouse will get ten times as many votes anyway.

What he said.

agree with everything you've said up in here today, good work.

and to Vamos who mentioned "Loveless" in comparison with it, I get the same feeling when listening to Untrue as I did back in High School spinning that MBV album. The album feels like a great intimate secret, much like loveless does, albeit coming from a different perspective (urban and desolate). The warped vocals, mysterious emotional fabric, sensuality and the alien quality of the work hypnotize me in a spell that is rare for me these days.

That's pretty much why I'm flipping the fuck out over it.

Well, it took me most of the day, but I'm finally completely caught up with this topic. So here's my mini-list awards:

Lists I will try to pilfer from in the next 13 days:

Mouthbreather
Bruegel
Jess
Johnny Bravo

List that seems most anti-me:

Undo

List that seems most insanely eclectic:

Vivian Darkbloom
and maybe Velocity's since I have hardly any familiarity with any of it

Let me know if I can help you out.

Where are sausage and paves???

I know this has been asked already I'm pretty sure, but is Blood Visions allowed?

I think you're talking about my list, not Breugel's (those his is also definitely unique with a particular bent). In either case, grazie...liked your list too, especially the #1 for Clientele, which we both love.

I know it's probably late for a lot of people, but an album I want to throw in the ring:

Solo album from one of the singers/songwriters/guitarists from Gomez. Am I the only one who knows of/has heard this? Nice acoustic keyboard-y album, kind of an insight into Ian's life, his struggles with being in a band, love life, blah blah blah. This is not a Gomez album by any stretch, but it's kind of along the lines of Notice from How We Operate. If you're a Gomez fan, you should at least hear this, it might actually make my top ten.

Ian Ball - Who Goes There

thanks for this. he's my favorite singer in Gomez by far.

and the comparison to Notice has me very excited. i knew he was playing solo shows this year, but for whatever reason didn't check this out yet.

someone mind upping that new Acid Mothers Temple release? My soulseek is being all iffy on me tonight and google's blog search is getting me nowhere.

you prefer plastic cases? weird. i prefer the cardboard gatefold cd cases.

http://shareminer.com/

Yikes, I was just about to hear Untrue for the first time, and now I'm afraid to. Confield is the rare album so unlistenable that I sold it back to the store. Complete sonic abortion. So bad that I haven't had the desire to hear any Autechre since, not even the good stuff. But anyway. [/tangent]

Woah, woah, woah. I rarely meet any other Confield fans but I guarantee that years from now it will be heralded as a masterpiece. Autechre's "good stuff" (Tri Repeatae / Incunabula) is in my opinion no-where near as interesting or massively incredible as Confield. It's like Blue Train compared to A Love Supreme, or something like that.

Crap, I have to rant here.

Autechre is mindblowing in their programming; with any knowledge of the modern day cutting edge computer programming software in relation to music you will certainly gain huge appreciation for Confield. I must admit that I do find immense beauty in the chaos of that album. It's like "Endless Summer" except it makes no attempt whatsoever at penetrable pop music. I know I sound like a fanboy or something right now, but I almost have a religious attachment to Confield, and most of the real Autechre fans I've met (rare occurance) worship them as much I do, and for good reason.

Sure, you can vote for it, but the folks that were the progenitors of reatard love - Ted Falconi, Simakos, Paves, Sausage - aren't going to be voting for it, IIRC. (Excepting Sim's token "00" vote.) I think the party line is that Blood Visions is so great it doesn't need any SOMB EOY-sanctioned approval.

I think the only thing that Yancy hates more than Autechre is all jazz. Not the best way to get him to listen to this album.

Debating CD packaging? Nuts to that: anything not on a 12" circle of wax had better be bloody good for me to even give it the time of day.