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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: crone_lover720 on December 21, 2012, 01:07:48 am
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welcome to another this year's music thread from your year-end music thread maker Ear Bip. this isn't necessarily a "best of" thread since most of us don't seem to listen to that much new music, but feel free to post best of 2012 lists or just text/youtube dumps of whatever new music you listened to this year. your participation is vital!!/appreciated, I always anticipate the bonzi and kaworu curmudgeonposts, sincerely my friends...
I'm just gonna list some of the albums I remember enjoying, and hopefully yall can add a little to it cuz it's looking kind of grim. I don't know if it was a down year or not, but it didn't really seem like there were any bands that everyone was talking about. the music sites, at least, talked a lot about the two Death Grips albums and all the other crud that band has done this year (I bet pitchfork ends up putting both albums in their top 20 they love doing that stuff)
death grips - The Money Store; No Love Deep Web
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/featuredcontent.utorrent.com/deathgrips/images/sleeve.jpeg)
I've Seen Footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DigtCrO77L8
Get Got http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrKSqb4H4A
No Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY_S-CLd3n0
neat ultra aggression music. my favorite tracks are the ones that sound the most like guys yelling stuff on the street. I don't really understand anything other people have been saying about em, but I guess there's been a lot of controversy with them and their label. I know their second album cover is a picture of the one guy's boner with the album title written on it with magic marker, but unfortunately the background looks pretty clean and isn't a subway bathroom. I think that says all you need to know
there have also been some solid new releases from pretty well-established SW bands:
swans - the seer
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/system/images/thumbs/www/articles_2012_08_28/swans_the_seer_300x300.jpeg)
mother of the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mQxGXxU2M
more swans
dinosaur jr - I Bet on Sky; Chocomel Daze (live 1987)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style300_300/public/120912_dinojr.jpeg) (https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/dinojrlive.jpeg)
watch the corners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsGcnLEZbk
in a jar live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOfuEPbhNME&list=PLkxaWXJ1sTmooES3HnDpAEPRpUJVvZwyz
more dinosaur jr
ariel pink - mature themes
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2012/4ad-3230.jpeg)
only in my dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta46M5rksBk
baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS6-CeLSuE0
more ariel pink, pre-before today style/trying to scare off his new fans
other 2012 music:
strange passion - explorations in irish post-punk
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/weirdorecords.com/zen/images/14264.jpeg)
The Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN4YXM8dgJA&noredirect=1
idk if this belongs here but it's got some good tunes, the catamite spits puss in disgust
shed - the killer
(http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/shed-thekiller.jpg)
viomf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG5EIeyK8lQ
I come by night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryymHd6WjP4
electronic stuff
bonde do role - tropical/bacanal
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27389192/Bonde-Do-Rol%C3%AA-TropicalBacanal.jpg)
picole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E81c7yAV6Zw
tropical bacanal music
moon duo - circles
sleepwalker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6OyUREaxk
jesse ruins - dream analysis
dream analysis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCJrgDToCn8
metz - st
wet blanket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNxVxzLnYBQ
WOW this looks like junk. everyone please help.
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everything released in 2012 sucked
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The amount of music released that left an impression this year is very low for me.
I guess Mac DeMarco's album was ok. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_r94MwW18 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_r94MwW18)
I might think of more later.
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The Money Store was definitely album of the year for me, followed by Mature Themes (although honestly, I think it was much more accessible than Before Today).
Also loved AM & Shawn Lee's Celestial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-CnDb0Gfw) Electric (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8Lh6GIdpQ) (I was lucky enough to see them play at a record store in East London and they were fantastic). Flying Lotus' Until The Quiet Comes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRNGpATRCrI) (hey look Elijah Wood!), while not as strong as his earlier work, was great too, and Tindersticks' The Something Rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dgj8UJMs4) was decent.
Apart from those I'd have to agree that 2012 was a pretty mediocre year for music.
(I don't even know what I'm doing here)
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Best song ever!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys7-6_t7OEQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GuqB1BQVr4
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Sharon Van Etten, Tramp
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TDJWbybSL._SL500_AA300_.jpeg)
Magic Chords (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WywIFyWyPTI)
Leonard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ivtwRq0x_k)
Give Out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exJ3AG0JIeo)
Serpents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgyQ20TJAs)
Tame Impala, Lonerism
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VV-54k0lL._SL500_AA300_.jpeg)
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes)
Sun's Coming Up (Lambingtons) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLKuM1aAfwQ)
Gotta Be Above It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q87AnlxBaNI)
I pretty much just listen to First Listens (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen) very sporadically. I've also liked Shearwater's Animal Joy, Andrew Bird's Break It Yourself, and David Byrne/St. Vincent's Love This Giant, but can't pin down specific tracks.
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Twin Shadow - Confess
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/07/Twin-Shadow-Confess1.jpeg)
Golden Light - http://youtu.be/ZH5XjFJtXUw (http://youtu.be/ZH5XjFJtXUw)
Run My Heart - http://youtu.be/5zwZDvj565g (http://youtu.be/5zwZDvj565g)
Patient - http://youtu.be/wlknpVspI-A (http://youtu.be/wlknpVspI-A) (the album version is better but I can't find it on youtube)
I like him. If you pay attention to his lyrics, on this album especially, he's a bit of a motherfucker but he makes really good pop songs and I think I like his mean edge on this, too. There is a lot of music with the kind of influences he obviously draws from around right now, but I've always liked people who have really defined personalities beyond you know, just good songs or fitting certain styles that I like, and this guy is like that for me. I will post another pick later.
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thanks puppet, vale, esiann, and jamie, I'm checkin em all out. don't be reluctant puppet and vale, I think many of us appreciate any suggestion from a SWer a lot more than some misc music site. yall get us
pitchfork's list came out today, fiona apple's the idler wheel is at #3, smug snort
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Pitchfork DID name Ariel Pink's "Round and Round" #1 single of 2010 IIRC. I haven't been able to hate them much since
Twin Shadow's great but I couldn't really get into Confess. Felt like it was trying too hard to be 80's.
EDIT: Grimes' Oblivion at #1 hahaha well done Pitchfork
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i seriously don't get how anyone could like ariel pink's music, or at least what i've heard of it from pitchfork/etc.
like i watched a live video of him performing or sometihng a song and i just assumed it was a joke of some sort
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I also really like the Screaming Females album that came out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ism4J7QvsZQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ism4J7QvsZQ)
I saw this band on a whim this year after they played a club not too far from my apartment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkePLlTUcY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkePLlTUcY)
I still haven't heard too much of the new Dinosaur Jr. album, but I saw them on the tour for it.
It's not that I'm afraid you'll laugh at my music choices or something, I'm really drawing a blank. Most of the stuff I listened to this year was older or local stuff.
EDIT: I am checking out the songs everyone puts up, though. I have some good music to catch up on it seems.
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yeah i liked screaming females as well
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I've never heard of the screaming females but I like the vocalist so far!
It's not that I'm afraid you'll laugh at my music choices or something, I'm really drawing a blank. Most of the stuff I listened to this year was older or local stuff.
that's ok. I was wondering if it really is a down year or if I'm just growing out of popular music. I hope not, I'm not even out of college yet
i seriously don't get how anyone could like ariel pink's music, or at least what i've heard of it from pitchfork/etc.
like i watched a live video of him performing or sometihng a song and i just assumed it was a joke of some sort
I'm being as earnest and non-smug as possible when I say it's not for everyone. it just deals with a lot of stuff that not everyone would find value in for better or for worse. and of course people can have totally valid criticisms of it too
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I'm being as earnest and non-smug as possible when I say it's not for everyone. it just deals with a lot of stuff that not everyone would find value in for better or for worse. and of course people can have totally valid criticisms of it too
music for laffs?
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Also I also kind of hear what you are saying I've kind of grown out of popular music and I'm totally okay with that. I go over music zines and what not and find that I haven't heard most of the artsits listed and thats not totally a bad thing, because I still occasionally stumble across music that I like on my own, and can find the things I'm interested in, not whatever pitchsuck or NME thinks that I should enjoy listening to. It's one thing to take suggestions, but another thing to let a third party dictate what you like. If you find yourself falling outside of what is popular and most people on the dancefloor are familiar with, there is nothing wrong with that as long as you are finding things that are pushing the envelope and are musically interesting and challenging beyond the basic pop-structure.
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swans ----BEST ALBUM----
most disorienting/best dance expeirnece/album goes to SHACKLETON
RUnner up; Drudkh
Antediluvian/adversarial split
i saw aerial pink and i had a blast. i refuse to ever hear it's music fromt he studio. i've never heard it before or after and despite my fun time i never want to hear it. mr. pink i salso a huge asshole Lmao
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Also I also kind of hear what you are saying I've kind of grown out of popular music and I'm totally okay with that. I go over music zines and what not and find that I haven't heard most of the artsits listed and thats not totally a bad thing, because I still occasionally stumble across music that I like on my own, and can find the things I'm interested in, not whatever pitchsuck or NME thinks that I should enjoy listening to. It's one thing to take suggestions, but another thing to let a third party dictate what you like. If you find yourself falling outside of what is popular and most people on the dancefloor are familiar with, there is nothing wrong with that as long as you are finding things that are pushing the envelope and are musically interesting and challenging beyond the basic pop-structure.
ya, I don't think pitchfork really even represents what's popular but I like looking at it since they're a big music site and sometimes something stands out to me. i don't really follow popmusic but I like to check out the new stuff & be able to talk about it with the young folk
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young folk suck, they don't know what they're talking about. fuck em
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"Back in my day we listened to REAL music...like Porcupine Tree"
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To be honest, I haven't gotten much new music this year, been mostly getting a load of old albums(the big story of the year being the Zappa reissue series, meaning that many of his albums have now become affordable again...), though I did get a few:
(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/79877613/Son+of+a+Bitches+Brew.png)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paradiso UFO - Son Of A Bitches Brew
combining their usual sonic spacerock freakouts with free jazz stylings, AMT have come up with an exciting album creating vast audio worlds of sheer madness. It's really fun to listen to and totally out there. Their best album in quite some time!
(http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/e8/79/002279e8_medium.jpeg)
Hawkwind - Onward
This year has been marked by the tragic death of Huw Loyd Langton earlier this month, but man, Hawkwind managed to get a good album out around spring time. It's taking their more typical sound but using a lot more modern production and stylings, so took a while to get into. It's just great that a band consisting of guys in their 50's-70's is making music more modern, fresh and exciting than the newer psychedelic bands who mostly just copy what Hawkwind did 40 years ago. It's good music, though hit and miss in parts, and lacks the continous trip feeling of earlier Hawkwind, but when it gets into the Blanga zone, it's great.
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.thisisnotretro.com/wp-content/uploads/Madness_OuiOuiSiSi-300x300.jpeg)
Madness - Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da
let's face it, it would be impossible to surpass 2010's The Liberty Of Norton Folgate, so what Madness have instead done is focused on what got them respected back in the eighties, a series of superbly written short length tracks about life. Now sounding closer to The Small Faces than ever, but still definative Madness, great album. Get it.
Like I said though, this year I've mainly been focusing on getting old stuff, records, tapes and whatever, and it felt like another year where most've the new bands around didn't really do anything new or interesting. Lawrence Arabia is carrying the 60's style singersongwriter mantle pretty well, and is pleasent to listen to, though top new band of the year?
perhaps Syd Arthur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsuB4IXEJz8)? They've taken the modern indie rock and just rewrote the rule book by adding heavy elements of the canterbury scene into it, just putting those soft folk/jazz dynamics into the music and breaking up the monotomy adding a laid back sophistication. It's 'prog lite', and just glides over the ears.
EDIT: Actually the biggest music story of the year was the official release of Captain Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller, after like 35 years in development hell, the Zappa family trust were finally able to release it since he died in 2010. Unfortunately, I haven't got a copy yet, which sucks.
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haha, curmudgeonpost. -3 FACTION POINTS TO "BONZI'S THUGZ", a picture of vomiting pipboy. it's a good way to put it i guess! Hah Hah, i no longer feel anonymisity to the world earl... i'm a changed man! Hah hah, let all flowers bloom.
tbh not so much new music! a couple and most of them aren't from 2012 strictly. Whadya Want From Me
EDIT ahahah i tried to do a mixtape but there's so much stuff i'd want to put in! it's really impossible!! Hah Hah, why do we sometimes even try!
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thanks gang. I heard about Huw (probably here) but I didn't know Hawkwind had a new album. think I'll go for the AMT first tho!!
SPIT bonzi it wasn't meant as a bad thing!!! it's just good bc you all bring dif TASTES in music I wouldn't get from the music sites
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"Back in my day we listened to REAL music...like Porcupine Tree"
I remember I got on the Porcupine Tree bandwagon right before the rest of Gaming World abruptly stopped liking them. Good times.
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SPIT bonzi it wasn't meant as a bad thing!!! it's just good bc you all bring dif TASTES in music I wouldn't get from the music sites
yeah i know i know pal. i just liked the way you put it and just put up my berserk bonzi role. i truly am a curmudgeon, one cannot help it/pr much absorbed into my own research or ideas in music.
also idk about you but isn't the big problem with you/us guys is that there is no right narrative on modern music/music that is going on? you mostly react to the social debris that surround modern music VS blissfully avoiding it when getting into older music (people were just "as awful" when everybody jumped on the Television - bandwagon way back in 80's).
the only thing i think that could be a problem is that most of the music now has a pretty cohesive musical narrative/ideas on what is considered a. cool (most current indie music) b. esthetic music (bon iver) c. good musical ideas or tricks to use (ergo hipster pop jams with percussions, moaning/wailing vocals etc). but even then you could just look into the mirror and think why you think the musical ideas of eg post-punk/death disco or pavement/90's altindie rock sounds and ideas are more profound that eg some british club alternate dubstep ideas. thinking vs labeling.
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Blondie released a couple cool singles this year:
Bride of Infinity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIIf-Qo8XJo
Dead Air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCQortnUAo
Rock On (cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Ltk01Ew3k
I think the only other new music I listened to this year was the new No Doubt album, and it was Alright. Really liked a couple songs but otherwise it was kinda forgettable.
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Anathema's Weather Systems.
Coheed's The Afterman (part 1 of 2, second one comes out in early 2013 I believe).
That's it. That's the only new music I've listened to all year that didn't come out of a radio.
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Anathema's Weather Systems.
Coheed's The Afterman (part 1 of 2, second one comes out in early 2013 I believe).
That's it. That's the only new music I've listened to all year that didn't come out of a radio.
forgot weather systems that was p. good
koi no yokan was a p. good album actually
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Deftones_%E2%80%93_Koi_No_Yokan.jpg/220px-Deftones_%E2%80%93_Koi_No_Yokan.jpeg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgNBxNvAJg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgNBxNvAJg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgNBxNvAJg)
(Do we not have a youtube tag anymore?)
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yeah i know i know pal. i just liked the way you put it and just put up my berserk bonzi role. i truly am a curmudgeon, one cannot help it/pr much absorbed into my own research or ideas in music.
also idk about you but isn't the big problem with you/us guys is that there is no right narrative on modern music/music that is going on? you mostly react to the social debris that surround modern music VS blissfully avoiding it when getting into older music (people were just "as awful" when everybody jumped on the Television - bandwagon way back in 80's).
the only thing i think that could be a problem is that most of the music now has a pretty cohesive musical narrative/ideas on what is considered a. cool (most current indie music) b. esthetic music (bon iver) c. good musical ideas or tricks to use (ergo hipster pop jams with percussions, moaning/wailing vocals etc). but even then you could just look into the mirror and think why you think the musical ideas of eg post-punk/death disco or pavement/90's altindie rock sounds and ideas are more profound that eg some british club alternate dubstep ideas. thinking vs labeling.
I guess that's right re: no cohesive narrative, maybe that's why I make these threads. what you're talking about in the last part is pretty visible in places like pitchfork, where the critics will reject something if it fits a narrative TOO closely, but otherwise use them to determine what is good in their weird pseudo-academic rating system
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The Secret - Angus Dei
I just listened to this for the first time yesterday, liked it. A wall of aggressive noise, .. Skulls brutal 7 billion graves etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeOy651hK6Q
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http://youtu.be/WzYzAcSjkao
Just heard this Charles Bradley on the radio and seeing him perform is pretty awesome. He's always making this intense painful-looking face, dancing, and then doing The Flinstone up to the mic (followed by weird camera zoom) amongst these bored looking white dudes. His biography according to Wikipedia is tragic. I don't know much about soul or funk, so I'd assumed he'd been jamming since the 70s, but there's this 30 year silence after which he got an upstart with a band. Very inspiring. It's like a fresh take on the genre from someone who has lived "the normal life" with no pretense or drama.
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i liked the new GY!BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0
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i loved 2012
That Deftones album was great
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Action Bronson - Blue Chips and Rare Chandeliers
Future- Pluto
Kendrick Lamar- Good Kidd Madd City
Ab Soul - Control System
Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
Miguel - Kaledioscope Dream
Freddie Gibbs - Baby Faced Killa
Deniro Farrar and Shady Blaze - Kill or Be Killed
Schoolboy Q - Habits and Contradictions
Nas - Life is Good
Killer Mike - R.A.P Music
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Amanda Palmer is one of my favorite musicians and she was especially great this year. the album Theatre Is Evil by Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra is soooo good~ <3 also, i saw them play live in November, and it was suuucchh a good show :D
check this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE8mll3WlDg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE8mll3WlDg)