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the_bub_from_the_pit

#41 December 27, 2008, 08:17:08 pm

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heh, you'd probably like quite a few of those.

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#42 December 27, 2008, 08:17:57 pm

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no he wouldn't.

trust me on this.

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the_bub_from_the_pit

#43 December 27, 2008, 08:26:29 pm

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really? i'd think he'd probably like vivian girls, walkmen, nick cave, portishead, and maybe crystal stilts. i don't see why not anyway, after seeing some of his fave music from a while back

edit: not to mention i forgot to mention quite a few, so gazzwa's too

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#44 December 27, 2008, 08:34:11 pm

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What's all the fuss about fleetfoxes? I see them on all the music blogs being raved as geniuses and whatnot, but I don't catch it myself.

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headphonics

#45 December 27, 2008, 08:44:26 pm

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whos this.........portishead you speak of??

i said i didnt follow this year in music not this decade!! i like nick cave/walkmen/portishead but who doesnt. most of the rest of the list i felt was very mediocre/forgettable though. vivian girls i actually thought were pretty bad. i think this is the problem with zeroing in/keeping up with new music. realistically there are very few GOOD RELEASES every year from such a narrow section of music and if you do not zoom out then things are only good in relative terms. visitor is on gazzwa's list but 80% of visitor is completely unexceptional, yet it is still probably one of the best albums to come out this year. this is what happens when you limit yourself to 2008/NEW STUFF; you end up listening to forgettable stuff because it is the best compared to whatever other junk came out that year. altho i do not know if you actually do this but i would hope not.

i just do not see the point in downloading/listening to music that you find SIMPLY OKAY and that is what almost everything you listen to will be if it is all from THIS YEAR or this century even. i see people's ipods and it is ALL NEW INDIE SHIT and it's all completely average because all they let themselves choose from are NEW RELEASES and i do not know how they do it.

Last Edit: December 27, 2008, 08:46:45 pm by headphonics

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#46 December 27, 2008, 08:51:37 pm

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I thought you would like vivian girls I wasn't being mean (based off Marine Girls). also you liked vampire weekend didn't you? I don't think fp was 100% off base

also I listen to the new shit but I continue to find great old stuff too. I probably just listen to more music than you (still less than a lot of people) and pidge listens to fucking TONS more than me and everyone else here

yeah Octave Doctor, I want someone here to explain why it's on their top 10!! actually I liked their EP as relaxing and falling asleep music but now it's annoying

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the_bub_from_the_pit

#47 December 27, 2008, 08:54:46 pm

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based on your musical taste i don't see how you think vivian girls are terrible but w/e.
Also, you are going on a tirade about new releases but guess what!!! this is a best 08 topic, not music in general!!! obviously i would include other shit that's good , i don't EXCLUSIVELY listen to music made post-2000, that's just silly. i too like sonic youth, joy division, post-punk bands, etc etc. but it's also good to listen to OTHER STUFF, you know? i try to maintain fairly open-minded to music, so i listen to folky shit, dance, punk, post-rock, whatever. i think it's pretty unfair to just shun out INDIE(-rock) which is a really broad genre and where there really are good artists amongst the 4957645 similar-sounding ones.
no one here is limiting themselves to 2008/NEW STUFF. that's just the topic's purpose.

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#48 December 27, 2008, 08:55:37 pm

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come on man most people can use that excuse of "it's just best of this year" but you specifically said 08 was ONE HELL OF A YEAR. he's saying it wasn't!

brian chemicals

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#49 December 27, 2008, 08:56:09 pm

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Quote from: Magical Negro on December 27, 2008, 07:41:46 pm

its an autotune album made of just 808 beats all about how kanye is rich but lonely.

read: he has no friends because he's a prick

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the_bub_from_the_pit

#50 December 27, 2008, 09:02:51 pm

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Quote from: Magical Negro on December 27, 2008, 08:55:37 pm

come on man most people can use that excuse of "it's just best of this year" but you specifically said 08 was ONE HELL OF A YEAR. he's saying it wasn't!

i guess that's true. sorry, but for me it was pretty good! i guess i just have a SHITTASTE

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#51 December 27, 2008, 09:04:51 pm

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I was gunna mention a few albums but then I realised that they're 2007
Actually
Daevid Allen and the glissando orchestra: The seven Drones
Is pretty cool if you like ambiant drone music. Each track is based around variations of one note, which is played mainly by gliss guitar and synth. It's really chill, and kinda the opposite effect to Basinski's drones.

and AMT did some cool shit but nothing to stand out from previous albums :/

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headphonics

#52 December 27, 2008, 09:06:09 pm

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Quote from: earl chip on December 27, 2008, 08:51:37 pm

I thought you would like vivian girls I wasn't being mean (based off Marine Girls). also you liked vampire weekend didn't you? I don't think fp was 100% off base

also I listen to the new shit but I continue to find great old stuff too. I probably just listen to more music than you (still less than a lot of people) and pidge listens to fucking TONS more than me and everyone else here

yeah Octave Doctor, I want someone here to explain why it's on their top 10!! actually I liked their EP as relaxing and falling asleep music but now it's annoying

wait, how are vivian girls similar to marine girls at all beyond the world GIRLS being in both bands. my problem with one is my problem with both tho; the entire cd sounds almost like it is the same song, except where in mg's case i thought they had some pretty decent/catchy riffs and more importantly, good vocals, vg's songwriting is amateurish imo and comes off as very JAMBAND and their vocals are just practically not there. idk it could be a good band if they were better at writing songs and had actual vocals. also i kinda like vampire weekend but i do not listen to them ever. i just like that someone integrated AFROSHIT into their music and it sets it apart from the rest of indie pop but it is very brainless and saccharine so i rarely listen.

also why do you say you listen to more music than me? maybe you do i would not know but i am curious about how you came to this conclusion

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#53 December 27, 2008, 09:10:19 pm

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ps. does everyone here have a last.fm? i may have asked this before, but i'm kinda curious to see

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#54 December 27, 2008, 09:15:22 pm

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Quote from: FlowerPower on December 27, 2008, 09:02:51 pm

i guess that's true. sorry, but for me it was pretty good! i guess i just have a SHITTASTE

I feel like being a dick and burnin you and pointing out I felt like I saw your list before. here is where every single band fell on pitchfork's list:

vivian girls-16
tv on the radio-6
m83-8
no age-3
portishead-2
fleetfoxes-1
walkmen-19
crystal castles-15
santogold-22
nick cave-32
crystal stilts-49
beach house-46

not one wasn't on it, and 8 of the 12 you listed were in the top 20! I know you said FEEL PFORKY but damn son.

ya new name? rockist as fuck. peace droogs...

ps heres last fms hilarious best of 08 list: http://www.last.fm/bestof/2008

brian chemicals

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the_bub_from_the_pit

#55 December 27, 2008, 09:19:10 pm

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actually that's exactly what i did. i didn't feel like going through my itunes and handpicking the artists 1-by-1 so i just went to pitchfork's list and picked out what i liked since it was conveniantly all there. that's why i missed some shit.

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#56 December 27, 2008, 09:21:51 pm

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FlowerPower, everyone here has a LastFM. There was like a trend two/three years back where everyone had their mp3 scrobbles in their sigs so everyone got it then.
I'm kinda embarassed Pink Floyd are in my top 10, even if Piper at the gates of dawn is such an awesome album.

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#57 December 27, 2008, 09:35:28 pm

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Quote from: headphonics on December 27, 2008, 09:06:09 pm

wait, how are vivian girls similar to marine girls at all beyond the world GIRLS being in both bands. my problem with one is my problem with both tho; the entire cd sounds almost like it is the same song, except where in mg's case i thought they had some pretty decent/catchy riffs and more importantly, good vocals, vg's songwriting is amateurish imo and comes off as very JAMBAND and their vocals are just practically not there. idk it could be a good band if they were better at writing songs and had actual vocals. also i kinda like vampire weekend but i do not listen to them ever. i just like that someone integrated AFROSHIT into their music and it sets it apart from the rest of indie pop but it is very brainless and saccharine so i rarely listen.

also why do you say you listen to more music than me? maybe you do i would not know but i am curious about how you came to this conclusion

because you said you don't have the desire to listen to new shit when there's much better stuff our there to listen to. I said that I, like you, still try to find GREAT OLD SHIT but I look into new releases as well, so I probably listen to more previously unheard music than you. for this same reason you probably found more obscure shit since about 80% of the new albums I listened to this year pitchfork picked up on too.

I guess it's because both vivian and marine have passive music with some punk rock influence. but I barely listened to marine girls, so I'm not saying they're incredibly similar or anything. they just both gave the same feeling of 'stuff I find boring but headphonics might like'

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headphonics

#58 December 27, 2008, 09:46:52 pm

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oh. yeah i dunno, there's a huge backlog of shit out there that is old! this is another reason i did not get around to listening to much new shit this year; i never felt like i was RUNNING OUT of music from the 60s/70s/80s. it's ludicrous; there's so much of it. in a way this is kinda bad because it means i spend all my MUSIC time looking into this shit and have no time to really check into anything post-2000 which is why you know, i will take forever to realize tv on the radio are exceptional.

i would not say that my essentially ignoring new music means i listen to less tho because yea, there's a lot of old music! i could hunt for things pre-1990 all day every day and still not put a dent in it. it helps that i care about more than rock i guess. having an interest in blues/jazz adds an insane amount of things that are old that i should listen to.

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#59 December 27, 2008, 09:59:10 pm

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Quote from: The Octave Doctor on December 27, 2008, 09:21:51 pm

FlowerPower, everyone here has a LastFM. There was like a trend two/three years back where everyone had their mp3 scrobbles in their sigs so everyone got it then.
I'm kinda embarassed Pink Floyd are in my top 10, even if Piper at the gates of dawn is such an awesome album.

this only happened because you retagged all your linkin park songs LOL

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Kaworu

#60 December 27, 2008, 10:04:17 pm

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pfft I'm not my brother.

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