Discuss the Musics Thread

[Dead & Messed Up]

The Top 15 Albums I've listened to in 2009 (culled from 51 albums total):

1. Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens
2. London Calling-The Clash
3. Attack and Release-The Black Keys
4. The Ghost of Tom Joad-Bruce Springsteen
5. Who's Next-The Who
6. Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7. Parachutes-Coldplay
8. Guero-Beck
9. Kid A-Radiohead
10. Daydream Nation-Sonic Youth
11. Funeral-Aracade Fire
12. Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend
13. After the Gold Rush-Neil Young
14. thickfreakness-The Black Keys
15. The Queen is Dead-The Smiths

The first seven get ****/****, the rest ***1/2 out of ****

If Who's Next isn't on the top of your list by the end of the year, I'm going to kick you square in the nuts.

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[Adam]

Hey, what's the deal with people still buying so many Creed albums?

[MadMan]

If Who's Next isn't on the top of your list by the end of the year, I'm going to kick you square in the nuts.

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You don't know where I live :P

People who buy Creed albums have terrible taste in music.

[Winston*]

Bon Jovi. He's awful. He's fucking awful.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Bon Jovi. He's awful. He's fucking awful.

This is a fact.

[Adam]

Bon Jovi would be relatively ignorable if not for his many horrible, horrible fans

Same deal with Bruce Springsteen

[Kurosawa Fan]

Bon Jovi would be relatively ignorable if not for his many horrible, horrible fans

No. Absolutely not. He's awful with or without his fans.

[MadMan]

This is a fact.

Damn straight.

Bon Jovi. He's awful. He's fucking awful.

Yes. God yes.

Bon Jovi would be relatively ignorable if not for his many horrible, horrible fans

Same deal with Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen is awesome, though :P

[dreamdead]

Match-cut,

I am looking for recommendations for good introspective driving music. It doesn't need to be ambient, though, and can have vocals... recs?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Match-cut,

I am looking for recommendations for good introspective driving music. It doesn't need to be ambient, though, and can have vocals... recs?

Bob Dylan.

That's all you'll need.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Bob Dylan.

That's all you'll need.

Damn. Was gonna say Dylan, as well.

Seriously, he's the way to go dreamdead.

[Derek]

There's also this band called The Beatles (sp?). I've heard they're pretty good.

I'll throw a few out there in no particular order:

Can - Tago Mago & Ege Bamyasi
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Self-titled
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Dadamah - This is Not a Dream
Slowdive - Souvlaki & Just for a Day

[SirNewt]

Match-cut,

I am looking for recommendations for good introspective driving music. It doesn't need to be ambient, though, and can have vocals... recs?

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Why is it called trip hop anyway? The only through line I see is the reliance on beat.

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and I'll throw out a classic. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless, unless like me you've listened to it to death.

[Spinal]

Match-cut,

I am looking for recommendations for good introspective driving music. It doesn't need to be ambient, though, and can have vocals... recs?

Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura

[Adam]

I would recommend any of Board of Canada's three LPs

Happy Cycling

[Glass Co.]

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Why is it called trip hop anyway? The only through line I see is the reliance on beat.

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and I'll throw out a classic. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless, unless like me you've listened to it to death.

Massive Attack's earlier stuff definitely had more of a hip-hop influence, especially Blue Lines. I know they hate the term itself.

To add to those mentionned: Ride - Nowhere, and most of Mogwai's stuff.

[bac0n]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Great driving music. Great anything music.

[thefourthwall]

Mat Kearny's album Nothing Left to Lose is perfect summer night driving music. It begs for the windows to be rolled down.

[greyhaven]

Saw Kings of Leon at the end of September and have been listening to Only By Night, Between the Times, and Aha Shake Heartbreak...over and over. I swear, it makes no sense, I can't understand half (maybe 3/4) of what Caleb (lead singer) says/sings, but it doesn't seem to matter.

If Lynyrd Skynyrd came out now, I think they'd sound like KOL.

[Sycophant]

I am loving this new Norah Jones album, The Fall, probably her best since her debut. Maybe even surpasses her debut. It's a wonderfully moody piece, with some songs that pierce right into me.

[SirNewt]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Great driving music. Great anything music.

Not fair, Davis is OP.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'm kind of addicted right now to Springsteen's Magic. Some of that comes from the album's very obvious efforts to ape Born to Run's epic sound, but there are times when it not only comes close, but matches that earlier album's earnest grandeur. "Magic," "Devil's Arcade," and "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" are top-notch.

Listened to Graduation by Kanye today in the car. Oddly, not too much of it struck me hard, save "Can't Tell Me Nothing" and "Big Brother," the latter of which was a really fun combination of admiration and antagonism toward Jay-Z. Must listen again later on.

[MadMan]

From what I recall, Graduation was a huge disappointment to me, especially coming after the awesome Late Registration. I'll give it another chance, though.

[MadMan]

Arcade Fire's Neon Bible is fantastic, and better than Funeral. Also, with Wilco's Sky Blue Sky I've gone back to really liking the band. Even though A Ghost is Born was very good, I was kind of disappointed after the amazing Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Now to find out if their lastest album is actually any good at all.

[Adam]

There are only a couple of albums that just totally resonate in my gut as soundly as Funeral does. It's a deep-down, maybe orgasmic, experience that I can't do justice in words, but I'm just saying it's probably better than Neon Bible