Relaxer
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Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 01:42 PM UTC
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There's been some good records this year. I was surprised how much I ended up liking the Winehouse and Stripes discs. I could see the Monkeys disc moving up to Great, as I feel like it gets better and deeper every time I listen to it (which is how I felt about the 1st one).
Great:
Battles
White Stripes
Fratellis
Amy Winehouse
Arcade Fire
Good:
Good Bad & Queen
Pissed Jeans
Gallows
1990s
Dino Jr
Arcade Monkeys
Klaxons
National
Wilco
Panda Bear
Ehhhh:
LCD SS
Feist
Kings of Leon
NIN
Shins
Brian_Walalce
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 01:48 PM UTC
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You have good taste, relaxer. I agree with almost everything. I'd move "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" record up to "great" and the Kings of Leon album up to "good" but that's nitpicking.
Brian
BookerT
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 01:50 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
You have good taste, relaxer.
man, ain't that the kiss of death right there.
Rhett Miller
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 01:51 PM UTC
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1. Wilco
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Spoon
4. Nick Lowe
5. Feist
6. Pela
7. Dolorean
8. Seu
9. Eleni Mandell
10. Apples in Stereo
slappy
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 03:27 PM UTC
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4hero
Wilco
Black Francis
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators
The New Pornographers
Mavis Staples
Klaxons
Want to like but not feeling it…
Happy Mondays
Dizzee Rascal
Battles
Chemical Brothers
ratioci nation
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 03:50 PM UTC
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Andrew Bird
brakesbrakesbrakes (although maybe that is 2006)
Menomena - Friend and Foe
GBV - Live from Austin
the National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
azaghal1981
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 04:22 PM UTC
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Some of my favs not mentioned yet in no particular order:
Animal Collective
deerhoof
pantha du prince
Merzbow/O'Rourke/Giffoni
Von Sudenfed
Distance
Last Step (venetian snares)
Besnard Lakes
µ-Ziq
Apparat
Boris (rainbow)
Cornelius
Dan Deacon
Ghost
Gui Boratto
Kettel
Liars
Low
Nels Cline Singers
Papercuts
Pole
Raccoo-oo-oon
Shellac
Soft Circle
Thurston Moore
Ween
Bjork
Amon Tobin
Cloud Cult
Deerhunter
Do Make Say Think
Caribou
Growing (2006?)
Ulrich Schnauss
xneverwherex
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 04:30 PM UTC
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maximo park - love love the new album!
same goes for the cinematics.
azaghal1981
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 04:42 PM UTC
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Did the Jarvis Cocker disc come out in 06 or 07?
kookiemnstr8
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 05:55 PM UTC
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I love the Of Montreal record.
azaghal1981
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 06:00 PM UTC
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Yeah me too. Not sure how I forgot to list that one.
Rhett Miller
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 06:03 PM UTC
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Maybe you were being selective in what you were putting on your list. smiley
Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Yeah me too. Not sure how I forgot to list that one.
ggw
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 07:36 PM UTC
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Clearly I haven't listened to enough 2007 music.
The Ponys
Radio Moscow
Vietnam
The new White Stripes is alright. The latter half better than the first, in my opinion.
The new Interpol sounds like Interpol, but nothing about it has grabbed me like their previous albums.
The new Burning Brides album has been a bit of a disappointment. I bet it will sound great live, but it finds their melange of styles tilting a bit too much to the heavy-rock side (and I have nothing against heavy rock).
I haven't heard the new Spoon yet, but the Post's glowing review today has piqued my interest.
2007 is still the Year of the Disppointing Follow Ups - see the Shins, Voxtrot, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands….
Rhett Miller
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 07:38 PM UTC
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You can hear the Spoon here:
http://www.mergerecords.com/gagagajuke/ Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Clearly I haven't listened to enough 2007 music.
The Ponys
Radio Moscow
Vietnam
The new White Stripes is alright. The latter half better than the first, in my opinion.
The new Interpol sounds like Interpol, but nothing about it has grabbed me like their previous albums.
The new Burning Brides album has been a bit of a disappointment. I bet it will sound great live, but it finds their melange of styles tilting a bit too much to the heavy-rock side (and I have nothing against heavy rock).
I haven't heard the new Spoon yet, but the Post's glowing review today has piqued my interest.
2007 is still the Year of the Disppointing Follow Ups - see the Shins, Voxtrot, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands….
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 07:40 PM UTC
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Klaxons
White Stripes
Arctic Monkeys
Queens of the Stone Age
Amy Winehouse
Justice
azaghal1981
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 07:44 PM UTC
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That list was actually pretty selective. I've listened to a lot of music this year.
taperkat
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 10, 2007 at 10:38 PM UTC
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My tastes are obviously not like those of this board.. well, maybe, but I admit it.
Stuff I'm excited about:
Pat McGee Band - These Days (The Virginia Sessions) .. this is what happens when you say fuck you to record labels. tasty.
and in no particular order things I need to buy and / or preorder:
Interpol
Josh Rouse
Matt Nathanson
Dream Theater
Yeah… eclectic, says i..
and i'm missing a few, but my list isn't here atm. =/
lancha
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 11, 2007 at 04:03 AM UTC
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I must say I wasnt to keen on LCD's new album, but most of has grown on me now! Its really good. Same with the new Chem's album, I hope they start a US tour sometime soon.
lancha
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 11, 2007 at 04:04 AM UTC
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Oh, and biggest disappointment of the year so far for me:
Linkin Park - minutes to midnight.
just not the same, total crap
you be betty
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Re: Mid - Year Bests for 2007
July 11, 2007 at 04:17 AM UTC
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Nighttiming by Coconut Records is still my favorite of the year so far. This thing was recorded practically without a budget in a friend of the artist's basement, and it is holding up like none other. I keep coming back to it and it keeps sounding good. If you are into simple, catchy pop songs a la weezer and elliott smith…seriously…check out this record.
also have been digging Apples in Stereo, Army of Me, Feist, Washington Social Club, Albert Hammond Jr, The Virgins, and not a whole lot else. oh. the new M.I.A. single. and the upcoming new Rilo Kiley single is pretty cool.
a little disappointed by new Rufus Wainwright and Rooney discs
a lot disappointed in the kings of leon
and also feel that i'm the only person in the country who is COMPLETELY UNDERWHELMED by Au Revoir Simone…what is the deal with that???