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Best albums of 2013 (1 Viewer)
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Ilov80s
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Yeah, a lot if different styles there from country, folk, that 60s Amy Winehouse blues revival, and pure dance music. I heard that Hey Brother song on the radio and was confused when they said who the artist was. Not at all what i thought Avicii would sound like. It's a cool album.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Deafheaven album will end up pretty high on my AOTY list and I also am not a fan of the style of vocals. It is the hardest rocking music I have heard this year. The band just crushes.
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Nigel Tufnel
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Ash
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I totally fell for this "Corey Haim" schtick. Was all, like, "What?! You guys suck, I'm so much cooler with better taste".
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Buzzfeed's 23 Best Rock Records of 2013
Their top 10:
1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
3. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
4. Deerhunter - Monomania
5. Haim - Days are Gone
6. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
7. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
8. Tricot - THE
9. Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
10. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Their top 10:
1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
3. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
4. Deerhunter - Monomania
5. Haim - Days are Gone
6. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
7. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
8. Tricot - THE
9. Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
10. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Time Kibitzer
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Stumbled across this song backing a mountain biking video on deadspin today
Catfish and the Bottlemen: Rango
Looks like they don't have an actual album out (and too lazy to find the single thread) but I did find 4 tracks on iTunes
Catfish and the Bottlemen: Rango
Looks like they don't have an actual album out (and too lazy to find the single thread) but I did find 4 tracks on iTunes
Apple Jack
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I also liked the sound of the newest u-ziq album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOumxBpqVZ0&list=PLUFR84gDYwRpm2muowspyg9GNwPoOlaTy
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
I forgot about this one and left it off my list. I may need to send an amendment.Ilov80s said:
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
There's a song on that new Beyonce album that literally gave me a boner.
bosoxs45
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Good Posting Judge
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Not a fan. The vocals and music just seem completely mis-matched. Not that I'm against either on their own.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Im going to have to put together my list, but it should end up Top 5 this year for me, and Ive really liked a ton of albums this year. Ive also been consistently listening to it still and for the entire year, definitely my most listened to album.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I have played it beginning to end like 10 times this week alone. There isn't a bad song on it. I feel like it has been overlooked in many of the lists I've seen.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Agreed on both of the bolded.Ilov80s said:
I was looking at metacritic's composite music critics best album list yesterday, and just double checked it again now, and of the 23 music magazines they listed, NONE had Local Natives anywhere in the top 10 (they stopped at #10).
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
I totally forgot about this album, I think in part because I kept checking spotify for it and it was never there, but I thought about it over the weekend. Well, it was on spotify finally and Ive been listening to it a ton since.
That album would be Hanni El Khatib's Head In The Dirt (even if you've never heard of him, you probably have heard his song You Rascal You that was on a liquor commercial a year or 2 ago). I liked his debut that You Rascal You was on, and was interested to see where he went, as the debut is pretty raw but interesting. An easy comparison to him I think is Jack White or Black Keys, but he definitely has something of his own going on, and thats even more apparent on the new album, which coincidentally was produced by TBK's Dan Auerbach (and the production is great). Like the aforementioned, he's based in blues rock, but really has a sprawling sound. Not a bad song on the new album. I guess the best way to describe it is catchy guitar driven rock. I actually think the album gets better as it goes. Hard to even pick what songs to link, they're all good and offer something a little different.
Pay No Mind
House On Fire
I actually think this album makes a late push into my top 10 this year. Loving it.
That album would be Hanni El Khatib's Head In The Dirt (even if you've never heard of him, you probably have heard his song You Rascal You that was on a liquor commercial a year or 2 ago). I liked his debut that You Rascal You was on, and was interested to see where he went, as the debut is pretty raw but interesting. An easy comparison to him I think is Jack White or Black Keys, but he definitely has something of his own going on, and thats even more apparent on the new album, which coincidentally was produced by TBK's Dan Auerbach (and the production is great). Like the aforementioned, he's based in blues rock, but really has a sprawling sound. Not a bad song on the new album. I guess the best way to describe it is catchy guitar driven rock. I actually think the album gets better as it goes. Hard to even pick what songs to link, they're all good and offer something a little different.
Pay No Mind
House On Fire
I actually think this album makes a late push into my top 10 this year. Loving it.
wazoo11
Footballguy
Way late to the party on this one. Good Call.
Meant to mention these guys a few weeks ago when I first gave their new one Baby Yaga a couple listens. Ive liked them since I first heard them a few years ago with their EP that had Megachills, Dirty D, and a few others on it. Really like their sound, lots of reverb and lap slide, but my only complaint with them is for some reason their songs all start to sound the same to me. Thats a little bit of an exaggeration, but not much. The new one is more of the same, gotta give it more listens though, but I like it.
I think anyone who like the Kurt Vile, Phosphosrescent, or early My Morning Jacket should definitely check out Futurebirds.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Gotta give this one some more listens. You should also check out their live album from last year Seney-Stovall. I have yet to see them live but anyone I know who has seen them raves about it. Some real good covers on that album as well, Chris Isaak's Wicked Game and Stevie Nicks' Wild Heart.Way late to the party on this one. Good Call.
Meant to mention these guys a few weeks ago when I first gave their new one Baba Yaga a couple listens. Ive liked them since I first heard them a few years ago with their EP that had Megachills, Dirty D, and a few others on it. Really like their sound, lots of reverb and lap slide, but my only complaint with them is for some reason their songs all start to sound the same to me. Thats a little bit of an exaggeration, but not much. The new one is more of the same, gotta give it more listens though, but I like it.
I think anyone who like the Kurt Vile, Phosphosrescent, or early My Morning Jacket should definitely check out Futurebirds.
Wild Heart
doublavae02
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paramore / bring me the horizon / laura stevenson / the civil wars / protest the hero / the devil wears prada / conditions / the joy formidable / the venetia fair / afi / moving mountains / august burns red / letlive / hands like houses
Apple Jack
Footballguy
I hate to say it, but the new world order seems to result in fewer quality records and possibly more good songs. Is there a song version of this poll?
I've listened to MBV's In Another Way and Vampire Weekend's Step multiple times in the last hour.
In Another Way
Step
I've listened to MBV's In Another Way and Vampire Weekend's Step multiple times in the last hour.
In Another Way
Step
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kupcho1
Footballguy
That shtick is not yet taken. The field is yours AJ.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Id have to say the 2 biggest surprises for me this year were Vampire Weekend and Arctic Monkeys.
I liked VW's debut quite a bit, but it wasnt great songwriting by any means and had a few fillers. I didnt care much for Contra at all and cant name a song I liked off it because after a handful of listens I could tell it wasnt hitting me like the debut and seemed like a sell out album. I guess that's where the biggest surprise comes for me with them and Modern Vampires since I have liked some of their previous work, but with the new one I felt like theyve taken it to an much higher level musically, lyrically, and just general songwriting. Many songs are quite catchy, but that "cheap" catchiness of the debut is gone as theyve matured and the music has more depth to it. What also surprises me at tells me how great of an album it is, is that literally 7-8 tracks from it could be my favorite from the album on a given day.
As for Arctic Monkeys, never listened to them much. I remember their debut blowing up when I was in college, including in my circle of friends who listened to more indie type music than myself those days. I gave it a shot, but couldnt get into at all and didnt understand the hype. Over the past few months even listening to WPSIATWIN again, as well as the rest of their albums, while there are songs here and there I like a lot, in general they dont do much for me. However, I think AM is fantastic. I guess it remains to be seen with their next album if AM was a progression in their sound or more of an outlier, but I hear so many different influences on it yet it sounds like their own, and the track to track stylings are much more varied than their previous efforts. Im certainly hoping they continue in this direction.
I realize both of these bands are pretty popular and have plenty of fans around here and elsewhere, but just based on my expectations and enjoyment of both bands previously, these were both major surprises for me. I think both deserve all of the end of the year acclaim they are getting, and both are probably in my top 5 of 2013 which I thought was loaded with great albums.
I liked VW's debut quite a bit, but it wasnt great songwriting by any means and had a few fillers. I didnt care much for Contra at all and cant name a song I liked off it because after a handful of listens I could tell it wasnt hitting me like the debut and seemed like a sell out album. I guess that's where the biggest surprise comes for me with them and Modern Vampires since I have liked some of their previous work, but with the new one I felt like theyve taken it to an much higher level musically, lyrically, and just general songwriting. Many songs are quite catchy, but that "cheap" catchiness of the debut is gone as theyve matured and the music has more depth to it. What also surprises me at tells me how great of an album it is, is that literally 7-8 tracks from it could be my favorite from the album on a given day.
As for Arctic Monkeys, never listened to them much. I remember their debut blowing up when I was in college, including in my circle of friends who listened to more indie type music than myself those days. I gave it a shot, but couldnt get into at all and didnt understand the hype. Over the past few months even listening to WPSIATWIN again, as well as the rest of their albums, while there are songs here and there I like a lot, in general they dont do much for me. However, I think AM is fantastic. I guess it remains to be seen with their next album if AM was a progression in their sound or more of an outlier, but I hear so many different influences on it yet it sounds like their own, and the track to track stylings are much more varied than their previous efforts. Im certainly hoping they continue in this direction.
I realize both of these bands are pretty popular and have plenty of fans around here and elsewhere, but just based on my expectations and enjoyment of both bands previously, these were both major surprises for me. I think both deserve all of the end of the year acclaim they are getting, and both are probably in my top 5 of 2013 which I thought was loaded with great albums.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Doing a lot of year end list searching and listening to stuff I missed,
Finally got around to listening to that Mikal Cronin. Didnt blow me away, but very solid and will get more listens for sure.
Finally got around to listening to that Mikal Cronin. Didnt blow me away, but very solid and will get more listens for sure.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
The year wrapped...the albums I find myself going back to listen to the most often are:
QOTSA
Savages
Haim
Arctic Monkeys
I also keep going back to Bloodnstuff, who I discovered in 2013, but I believe the album came out in 2012.
QOTSA
Savages
Haim
Arctic Monkeys
I also keep going back to Bloodnstuff, who I discovered in 2013, but I believe the album came out in 2012.
mad sweeney
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Late on board to Waxahatcheee. Good stuff.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
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mad sweeney
Footballguy
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Here are a couple of You Tube links. Swearin' - Watered Down
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sq_rojEn-U&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2Sq_rojEn-U
Swearin' - Dust in the Gold Sack
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJpU85VquO8
Connections - Finally
mad sweeney
Footballguy
Thanks, I just went in and used my itunes gift card to get some albums from them.
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