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Stuff I've bought in 2008.
2 Mar 2008, 15:03 by Steve13105895
Pretty self explanatory. A list of all the music I've bought so far this year. Mostly CDs, a few are vinyl as well.
Current stuff count: 134
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Animal Collective - Feels
Animal Collective - Here Comes The Indian
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash
Amber Asylum - Songs of Sex and Death
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Baroness/Unpersons - A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Beck - Guero
Beck - Mutations
beehoover - The Sun Behind The Dustbin
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Björk - Vespertine
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Boris - Absolutego
Boris - Flood
Boris - Mabuta No Ura
Boris - Pink
Boris - Smile
Boris - Statement
Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream
Boris/Choukoku no Niwa - More Echoes, Touching Air Landscape
Boris/Stupid Babies Go Mad - Damaged
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
Burial Chamber Trio - Burial Chamber Trio
Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
Buzzov-en - Welcome to Violence
Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness
Cross Examination - The Hung Jury
Dälek - Abandoned Language
Dälek - From the Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots
Earth - 070796 Live
Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
Earth - Hibernaculum
Earth- Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword
Earth - Legacy of Dissolution
Earth - Live Hex: In a Large City on the North American Continent
Earth - Live Europe 2006
Earth - Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
Earth/KK Null - Split
Earth /Sir Richard Bishop - Split
Earth/Sunn O))) - AngelComa
Earth/Tribes of Neurot - Split
Efterklang - Springer
Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen
Envy - Insomniac Doze
Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Fantômas Melvins Big Band - Millennium Monsterworks 2000
Fields of Blood - Fields of Blood
Floor - Dove
Floor - Floor
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Khanate - Things Viral
Kid606 vs. Dälek - Ruin It
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
Kiss My Poodles Donkey - New Hope For The Dead
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Les Savy Fav - 3/5
Les Savy Fav - Go Forth
Les Savy Fav - The Cat and the Cobra
Les Savy Fav - Inches
Les Savy Fav - ROME (written upside down)
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Protection
Masters of Reality - Flak 'n' Flight
Masters of Reality - Give Us Barabbas
Melt-Banana - Teeny Shiny
Melvins - A Senile Animal
Melvins - Mangled Demos from 1983
Melvins - Making Love Demos
Melvins - Stag
Melvins/Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire
Meshuggah - obZen
Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
Mogwai - Ten Rapid
Morcheeba - Fragments of Freedom
Mr. Bungle - California
The Murder City Devils - Thelema
Myrkskog - Superior Massacre
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
Nasum - Doombringer
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Portishead - Third
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Ramesses - Misanthropic Alchemy
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Señor Coconut - Fiesta Songs
Señor Coconut - Yellow Fever
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Sick Room 7 - Hail Intolerance
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Sigur Rós - Hvarf-Heim
Sonic Youth - Goo
Stephen O'Malley & Attila Csihar - 6°fskyquake
Sunn O))) - 00 Void
Sunn O))) - White1
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
This Will Destroy You - S/T
This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Unsane - Occupational Hazard
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Weezer - Maladroit
Weezer - Make Believe
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
Weezer - Weezer (Green)
Wildildlife - Six
:wumpscut: vs. Haujobb - The Remix Wars
Yacht - I Believe in You, Your Magic Is Real -
IN 08
27 Dec 2007, 13:50 by omoyoto
Finally...
CRAZY TOWN IS BACK
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Other additions over 08
Untrue .
Cor-Crane Secret .
Exploded Drawing .
Four Great Points .
Preparations .
The Day of Death by Bono Adrenalin Shock .
Significant Other
Lonely Mountain .
Twoism .
Disintegration .
Moon Pix .
Music Has the Right to Children
Konfusion .
Ignoto .
Racecar is Racecar Backwards .
In Nothing We Trust .
Let It Die
Ghosts I-IV .
Street Horrrsing . (this album is crap, don't buy it)
Cryptograms .
Flourescent Grey .
Biscuits For Breakfast
Doolittle .
Plunder, Beg, and Curse .
Let's Stay Friends .
in the hour .
S/T .
Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel .
Going Down Swinging .
All Roads To Fault .
Frisbie .
The Amazing Undersea Adventures of Aqua Kitty and Friends
Pacata Hibernia .
Excellent Itallian Greyhound
The 3 E.P.'s .
Ágætis Byrjun
Animal Magic .
Today's Active Lifestyles
Happy Hollow .
In Utero .
Surfer Rosa .
Head On The Door
Go Forth
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Beim Punk ging es nie ums Aufgeben
26 Nov 2007, 15:21 by Tamoo
Nach sechs Jahren kehren Les Savy Fav mit einer verwirrenden, nach Offenbarung, ja nach Revolution klingenden Energie zurück
(Dieser Text ist schon beim Goon-Magazine erschienen)
Dass The Equestrian von Les Savy Favs neuem Album Let's Stay Friends mit den Soundtrack für ein virtuelles Eishockeyspiel liefert, ist, neben der Gelder die das von Bassist Syd Buttler gegründete Label Frenchkiss Record bestimmt gut gebrauchen kann, auch sehr bezeichnend für die teilweise eigenwillig raue aber dennoch fließende Musik des Quartets aus New York City. Als sich Tim Harrington, Seth Jabour, Syd Buttler und Harrison Haynes an der Rhode Island School of Design kennenlernten beeinflussten sie die weltweite Indierock-Szenerie mit ihrem geraden Post-Punk, gespickt mit einem randvollen Eimer Experimentierfreude nicht unwesentlich. Nach ihren ersten drei Alben (3/5 1997, The Cat and the Cobra 1999 und Go Forth 2001) veröffentlichten sie dann 2004 die Single-Compilation Inches und man dachte schon an ein Ende. Man hätte auch bei dem Albumtitel einen geplanten Zusammenbruch des LSF-Gefüges erwarten können, doch wird diese Frage von Harrington schon in dem Opener Pots & Pans geklärt:
This is where it starts / This is where it ends / Let’s tear this whole place down and build it up again / This band’s a beating heart and it’s nowhere near its end.
Auch bei dem, aus dem Album herausragenden Patty Lee, in dem alle verschiedenen Genres vereint werden in denen Les Savy Fav schon wilderten, manifestieren sie den Willen weiterzumachen, neue Wege zu beschreiten und mit der sich schnell ändernden Umwelt Schritt zu halten. Auf Let's Stay Friends manifestieren die vier New Yorker diese Zähigkeiten in jedem Song neu.
Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee
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top albums of 2000-2004
26 Nov 2005, 07:38 by mathismoney
the final installment? mayhaps. i might go backwards to 85-89 someday, though.
2000: The Moon and Antarctica - another great year, with lifter puller, radiohead, and the avalanches as contenders...but not really contenders, compared to this. the best album of this decade so far, in my humble opinion, and it's no slouch as albums-of-the-decade go. this album paints a portrait of cold, sublime beauty - fitting for an album of its title. it makes you happy, it makes you sad, it makes you think, it's absolutely fucking amazing, and it's beyond perfect when you're stoned - it's an exploration of the universe through the microcosm of the earth, and the earth through the microcosm of humans - and then it travels back out to infinity again. few things make me happier than the opening notes to "3rd planet," the thundering drums and windy feedback of "the stars and projectors" (brian deck = among the best producers ever), the swerving, lazy high organ droning in harmony with the guitar in "life like weeds," or the simple acoustic guitar chords and fiddle under isaac brock's chilling lyrics, "it's hard to remember to live before you die" in "lives." with so many sounds, so many instruments, so many production tricks, and so much drive, this is more than just modest mouse with a reverb pedal - this is modest mouse in 3-D.
2001: Go Forth - finally, a motherfucking rock album. granted, the not-so-rock daft punk and more-general-weirdness-than-actual-rock boredoms are runners-up for this year. but yeah, this is kind of the first straight-up rock album since 1997 on this list. and oh man, does it rock - one of the most underrated albums ever. if the pixies and interpol had a baby that went completely insane, it would probably sound like les savy fav. with guitar riffs that jab and cut through the rhythms and frontman/madman tim harrington spitting some of the wittiest, most biting lyrics in modern rock without missing a beat, it's sad that this album is so overlooked, while the "rome (written upside down)" ep and singles retrospective "inches" were so favored. LSF are the masters of the chorus that leaves your jaw on the floor, and every song on this album manages to hold its own, with moments of true perfectness - the end of "crawling can be beautiful" and "disco drive," the breakdown of "pills," and the entirety of "bloom on demand," specifically - this is what rock is supposed to do: rock the fuck out.
2002: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - one of the best years for music in recent memory, as interpol, broken social scene, the notwist, trail of dead, and sleater-kinney all put out fantastic albums (well, the BSS one is a little iffy - its stateside release was '03, so does it count as '02, when it came out, or '03, when everyone discovered it?). in any case, wilco wins because it's just so easy to fall in love with. every song is gorgeous, and it takes a scarily low amount of time to start having an emotional, potentially romantic connection to the jewel case that holds such beauty. i don't know what more i can say. the slowest, least-like-former-wilco songs such as "i am trying to break your heart," "radio cure," and "poor places" are some of my favorite songs ever (especially "radio cure," oh my god), but every song has its own brilliance to offer. while "summerteeth" improved on "being there" by adding layers and overdubs, "yankee hotel foxtrot" took the classic wilco sound (and, by extension, the classic alt-folk sound) and broke it apart piece by piece before reconstructing it with perfect arrangements, fantastic electronic tricks, and simply better melodies and progressions. oh, also, i really want to make out with jeff tweedy. an emotional blanket like none other.
2003: ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn - okay, so broken social scene might win over it, but we have the '02/'03 discrepancy...plus, this is probably still better. also-rans include manitoba and the books. but really, hardcore with two vocalists dishing out utter lyrical brilliance in tag-team style, a band that serves up some extremely technically demanding lines with ease, and standout after standout showing what hardcore can do when they aim for a studio masterpiece (okay, so refused proved it first, but BPIB is on a different wavelength). this is like being run over by a 55-minute bullet train, with the band barreling through chord after chord and riff after riff complete with stop-start rhythms and time signature fuckups all over the place - and when the band gets more than 5 seconds of ripping power chords in 4/4 time, they play them as if they've never been played before (see "ambulance vs. ambulance," the best hardcore song of all time). amazingly, this all takes a backseat to the charisma of the two vocalists, who are so full of energy, rhythmic intensity, and lyrical genius that two of them can approach energy that should devolve into cacophony, but always remains really fucking smart. the surprising catchiness of the songs, as well as the fervent experimentalism in what is usually a very stagnant genre, prove that BPIB is exactly what hardcore should be.
2004: Sung Tongs - i discovered this album a year ago, and if you had told me then that i would eventually favor this album - let alone any album - over the arcade fire, i probably would have laughed at you. but my play counts on this here site will give you an indication of how much i love sung tongs. it gets better and better with each listen, and if you haven't heard it, pick it up now as winter approaches...there is not a better soundtrack to winter. trying to sum up my feelings about this album here is pretty impossible - i will say a few things though. the attention to detail is really what got me. only two people made this album, and it hardly took them a year to make. god damn it's genius. getting lost in the seas of guitars (which see-saw between freewheeling power chords and intricate polymelodies), or the oh-my-god-how-did-they-do-that brilliance of the vocal harmonies, or the perfect production and fitting samples is ridiculously fun. on the surface this album is really weird, but after a few listens it makes so much sense, and it's so, so comforting, providing the perfect music to fall asleep to, or to do work to, or to get stoned and relax to while watching snow fall. amazing.