Montanas list seemed nice to me Sparklehorse number 1 and no mention of Joanna Newsoms shitty record. I hate when children sing and it's even worse when an adult sounds like one

fuck that shit is horrible

i'm surprised to see all the love jenny lewis is getting around here. my list won't be done for a few more weeks yet but that is definitely my #1 record of the year. i'm hoping for a top 10 placement, even though i don't think it'll happen as the lists continue to roll in. just listened to it while walking my dog actually .

You are right, it probably won't make top ten. Americana doesn't fare well here.

More Jenny Lewis love:



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i hope so. right now she in 9 on my list and will probably move up as I iron out my final standings.

Eh, guess I can't blame you... well except for the Cubs games... that's gotta be rough.

Yes it is.......yes it is. I tried not to watch too many last season.

This is really good. Thanks.



I posted this in the ambient thread the other day but I don't think anyone noticed.


Æthenor - Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light (VHF, 2006)


Fantastic stuff, give it a try.

i just fell in love for the fifth time with that conan clip (with all 3 of em)

1. Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary
2. Califone - Roots and Crowns
3. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
4. The Knife - Silent Shout
5. T.I. - King
6. Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
7. Jesu - Silver
8. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
9. Converge - No Heroes
10. White Whale - WWI
11. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
12. Figurines - Skeleton
13. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
14. J Dilla - Donuts
15. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
16. Calexico - Garden Ruin
17. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
18. Boris - Pink
19. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
20. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
21. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
22. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
23. M. Ward - Post War
24. Clearlake - Amber
25. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
26. Liars - Drums Not Dead
27. Cat Power - The Greatest
28. Melvins - A Senile Animal
29. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
30. Larkin Grimm - Harpoon

this was a very 'white bread indie rock' year for me. Disappointed by Fishscale and Ringleader of the Tormentors.

It was on my list, Cool Blue. You must have missed it. Good stuff:

that subtle record has a decent number of votes already but virtually no points. I helped its cause by placing it at No...50. :/

Not enough people have heard this one. I like it more than the first Jesu CD.

It's #10 for the year so far on Metacritic.

We had a thread on it here that didn't draw in as many people as it should have.

Oh wow. This is really good. Creating quite the dilemma of whether to list it or not based on limited time spent with it.

people like a lot of new music. top 50?! i'm having a trouble making a top 10.

I feel like making a top 10 20 50 100 whatever list right at the end of the year is usually pretty inaccurate. I mean, considering how much music actually comes out, and how much time should really be spent with an album before making a real judgement about it, chances are most people have only gotten really wrapped up in about 20-30 albums, with another 20-60 (depending on the degree of music junky) that they're familiar with. And either way, there's always discs that are gonna slip through the cracks and we're gonna hear later on next year or whenever and be like "this is good shit how did I miss this?"

Which I suppose is the reason a board like this kind of kicks-ass... I've added more discs to my "to listen to" list in the 3 days I've been browsing this board than I have in the previous 3 months.

Thanks dudes.



Yeah way to blatantly admit that you're making a sweeping judgement about Ys based solely on the 30 seconds you heard of Milk-Eyed-Mender one time...

But I suppose we should bow to your music knowledge... White Pony is pretty obviously the best album of the last 10 years and everyone knows it... lol

That's what I'm finding as I try and make a list. There's a lot of things that I feel I should give a nod to, but I didn't really listen to them enough to make my decision that fair.

i'm talking actually more about the albums people really like vs albums from which they like 1-2 songs.

i guess some people are less critical of the stuff they hear.


or he could just not like freak folk

Usually if I discover that I only like 1-2 songs on an album, I never listen to it again.

Um... please define the term 'freak folk'... because I think that's just a ridiculous term someone came up with and that you're now tossing around to sound like you know what you're talking about that in no way describes Ys... which is pretty clearly not a folk album by any stretch of the term.

that's not the point

I'm fairly confident you could stretch the Folk tag around Ys.

When I discover that, I just delete all the songs except the ones I like. At the end of the year, I have some sort of record of what percentage of an album I like.

Hmm... perhaps by adding the word 'freak' in front of it? You're a genius! We've just coined a new music term! FREAK FOLK, baby!

I suppose I just don't equate orchestration like that on Ys with what I think of as 'folk'...

And Artem, the point wh1tepony was making had nothing to do with whether or not he cared for a specific genre of music... he was making a sweeping generalization about her voice, which doesn't sound nearly as 'child-like' on Ys as it did on Milk Eyed Mender... which is where my barb stemmed from.

But the 'what exactly do people mean when they say freak-folk?' question is worth asking... do we just mean acoustic-lyrical stuff that sounds a little off-center like Devendra, Newsom, Six Organs of Admittance... 'cause I don't find much about those artists to be 'freaky'. Freak folk sounds like it should be some sort of hybrid between folk music and psych-rock or something...

i'm fine with calling those artists as freak folk artists

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?.../04/14/derk.DTL

Is the new Tom Waits eligible? Seems like it should be, seeing as most of the material is brand new or re-recorded.

I voted for it...I'm sure it'll fly...2 discs of new material

1. The Divine Comedy - Victory For The Comic Muse
2. TV On The Radio - Return To The Cookie Mountain
3. Arctic Monkeys- What People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
4. Guillemots- Through The Window Pane
5. Cat Power – The Greatest
6. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
7. Fields - 7 from the Village
8. Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
9. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
11. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
12. Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time
13. Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther
14. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
15. Lily Allen – Alright Still
16. Badly Drawn Boy - Born in the UK
17. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
18. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
19. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
20. El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar
21. Lambchop - Damaged
22. M. Ward – Post-War
23. Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The
24. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out Of This Country
25. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes

Just the cover of the Joanna Newson album makes me want to hate it

Sweet, I thought I was gonna be the only one voting for this.

yeah, it's a great album. Putting it at 10 only emphasizes how great the other 9 albums are.

totally agree

It would be great if this thread could be limited to just lists and maybe people uploading some of the albums. We are already at 5 pages (in Nov.) and the majority of it is a bunch of shitty posts.

yeah the s/t is pretty dull, but Silver is excellent. Worth a download from everyone; it's only a half hour long anyway.

edit: yes I also support no discussion of anything

I was just thinking along the same lines. I really think I'd have trouble coming up with a list of 50 albums that I really like this decade.

http://www.myspace.com/jesujesu

I'll upload the rest when I'm not lazy. For now, check out "Star". It's good.

heheheh

No, we still have to talk about how unattractive Joanna Newsom actually is and how hawt Jenny Lewis is. These things matter.

we try to do this every year and it never works...

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yes I agree, she certainly did become older since she was a child.

Clever.

wasn't particularily sure what you were getting at with that post

He's saying he likes 'em young. Real young.

great list. I'll probably have all of this on mine, but in quite a different order. With the
exception of Hecker, who of course owns my #1 as well. That Svarte Greiner
cd is fantastic, it will probably be in my top ten (maybe even five). Thanks for posting it.




You bet I noticed , it's great.



I'm putting it on my list, I like it.

I know this is great but I need a couple of months to digest it properly. Thanks for the up.

Fixed.

Wiki says Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll came out overseas in 2004.
It was released in the US in February. Eligible?

edit: And don't forget your comedy albums. Demetri Martin in particular.