What music are you listening to?

[METALMAN]

This isn't a what are you listening to, but I thought this interesting article was worth sharing: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/01/04/cultural-studies-paul-mccartney-is-eddie-vedder-eddie-vedder-is-paul-mccartney/

[SRN]

Browsing through some Tonetta on YouTube, out of curiosity.

Uhm, this sure is a thing.

[VerbalPuke]

I've always known this song, but I never did know it had this video for it. This is great.

For you thrashers out there.

Been a good day on youtube.

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

In my attempt to listen to just about everything ever put to tape, I've started with 1990 and starting to hit the harder to find stuff now:

Sons of Kyuss S/T: Enjoyable enough but fairly bland playing. They'd improve a great deal with their next albums but the groove that fills the Desert Sessions and some QOTSA stuff is already in place.

Nick Lowe: Party of One: Pretty bad. Too many songs are 12-bars with very little interesting about them aside from bad vocal hooks. All worth it for "What's Shakin' on the Hill?" which could have sat alongside his finest songs. Slow ballad with perfect chord changes.

Adrian Belew: Young Lions: Bowie's Guitarist goes pop or as pop as he can be. The experimental stuff is hit and miss with 'Gunman' closing the album well enough. 'Young Lions' and 'Looking for a U.F.O.' are the standouts with him filtering The Beatles-style melodies through his own style. Bowie's vocals on 'Pretty Pink Rose' are particularly poor.

[Plubby]

M83 - Midnight City vs Credence Clearwater Revial - Bad Moon Rising cool little mashup.

[VerbalPuke]

What have I been listening to? Motown. Fuck you cunts, motown kicks ass, eat my ass, motown fucking kicks donkey nuts. Fuck off.

[deli]

Eerie as shit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE16ZCwNKRU

[SRN]

So yeah, time to end the 2013 list. I had some stragglers by the end of December so I said to myself that if I wasn't done with everyone on the "Upcoming" list by the end of January, they would not make the actual list. And here we are, February, and I almost got everyone - mind you, I will still listen to these albums but the list as of this post is definite.

And then it is on to the 2014 one! I already have about ten albums lined up, including the new Bruce Springsteen, new Buckethead and new Lil B!

Anyways, here is the list. I edited the format a little bit because fuck all those categories; there isn't a real quality drop before around #62 or #63 anyways.

Debuted
Church of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
Major Lazer - Free the Universe
Starbomb - Starbomb
Celer - Salvaged Violets
Bombino - Nomad
Everything is Made in China - Amber
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Concha Buika - La Noche Mas Larga
Shigeto - No Better Time Than Now
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Chase & Status - Brand New Machine
Danny Brown - Old
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Gesaffelstein - Aleph
Darkside - Psychic
Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonie
Joey Bada$$ - Summer Knights
October Falls - The Plague of a Coming Age

Top Ten
1. Helen Money - Arriving Angels
2. Redwood Hill - Descender
3. Det Nopsus - Det Nopsus
4. Disclosure - Settle
5. Kvelertak - Meir
6. Shining - One One One
7. Iceage - You're Nothing
8. Humanfly - Awesome Science
9. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
10. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

The Rest
11. Boris - Präparat
12. Ian Pooley - What I Do
13. Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus?
14. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
15. Danny Brown - Old
16. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
17. Peer Group - Brutalist Sketches in the Style of Water-Stained Concrete
18. Shigeto - No Better Time Than Now
19. Darkside - Psychic
20. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

21. Daftside - Random Access Memories Memories
22. Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy
23. Joey Bada$$ - Summer Knights
24. A$AP Rocky - LONG.LIVE.A$AP
25. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
26. Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
27. Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonie
28. Tricky - False Idols
29. Bombino - Nomad
30. James Blake - Overgrown

31. Deafheaven - Sunbather
32. Kavinsky - OutRun
33. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
34. Concha Buika - La Noche Mas Larga
35. October Falls - The Plague of a Coming Age
36. Thundercat - Apocalypse
37. Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love
38. Wormed - Exodromos
39. David Bowie - The Next Day
40. Avicii - True

41. plök - Infolympics
42. Various Artists - Think and Change
43. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
44. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
45. Celer - Salvaged Violets
46. Major Lazor - Free the Universe
47. aivi & surasshu - The Black Box
48. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
49. AlunaGeorge - Body Music
50. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

51. Church of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
52. Mountains - Centralia
53. Everything is Made in China - Amber
54. André D./Henner Gräf/Christophe Meulien/Frank Wilke - Les avantages d'une haie de troènes
55. Gesaffelstein - Aleph
56. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
57. A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
58. Alberich - Guard Tower: Cassette Works, Vol. 1
59. Alberich - Fortification: Cassette Works, Vol. 2
60. Starbomb - Starbomb

61. Tomahawk - Oddfellows
62. Dirty Knobs - A Disenchanted Snake
63. Woodkid - The Golden Age
64. Suuns - Images Du Futur
65. Chase & Status - Brand New Machine
66. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2
67. Gold Panda - Half of Where You Are
68. inc. - No World
69. Otis Taylor - My World Is Gone
70. My Bloody Valentine - m b v

71. David Lynch - The Big Dream
72. Snoop Lion - Reincarnated
73. Vinnie Who - Midnight Special
74. Nosaj Thing - Home
75. Foals - Holy Fire
76. Portal - Vexovoid
77. Emancipator - Dusk to Dawn

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I got a Best Of The Stranglers album off the market for £2 so I've been listening to that in the car a lot. Nice 'n Sleazy, Peaches, Golden Brown, No More Heroes, Hanging Around and more. Makes me a happy bunny.

I somehow missed the fact that this song is actually theirs. Very surprised when it started playing.

The other CD I've REALLY been playing to death is the two disc best of Toots and the Maytals.

'Cos nothing is better than old reggae. Their best of is frightening though. The more you delve the more you realise "whoooah, that was Toots as well!"

My daughter sits in the back when it's on and she just keeps smiling and shaking her little maraca along to it.

[VerbalPuke]

I love this jam. I just ordered this LP along with Bad Manners - Bad Manners and the Doors - the Doors.

I've been going a bit crazy ordering myself vinyl lately, might even say I'm addicted. Could be worse things to be addicted to right?

[thatshortguy]

Top Ten

1. Helen Money - Arriving Angels

2. Redwood Hill - Descender

3. Det Nopsus - Det Nopsus

4. Disclosure - Settle

5. Kvelertak - Meir

6. Shining - One One One

7. Iceage - You're Nothing

8. Humanfly - Awesome Science

9. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

10. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels]

As expected, a wildly different list for me:

Honorable Mentions:

Dave Grohl & Friends - Sound City: Reel to Reel

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

The Ten:

10. Dawes - Stories Don't End

9. Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Decension

8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

7. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

6. Mogwai - Los Revenants

5. Teagan & Sara - Heartthrob

4. David Bowie - The Next Day

3. Bad Religion - True North

2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

1. Editors - The Weight of Your Love

Onward to '14!

Checking out the following:

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues

Pixies - EP2

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags

Switchfoot - Fading West

The Crystal Method (Self-Titled)

Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes

Young the Giant - Mind Over Matter

Mogwai - Rave Tapes

Casting Crowns - Thrive

David Crosby - Croz

Amazingly, the Springsteen & Crosby albums have been solid thus far. Against Me and Pixies have made my favorite rock songs, while Mogwai & Crystal Method have some solid electronic stuff. Have yet to run through each album in full, though I have not yet heard a bad song of the lot.

[VerbalPuke]

I've never been a huge country fan. I do love "outlaw country" and have only recently checked out the Highwaymen. Talk about a fucking all-star cast of country man. If only Hank Williams the first had been part of this, outlaw country is awesome. I love this fucking cowboy, backwoods mother fucking hillbilly shit. Fuck the cry baby horse shit that the 80s spurned on us. Give me fucking real ass cowboy mother fuckers playing shit you would probably find from a bunch of drunk fucking southern dudes playing around a campfire. This is my idea of country, not Tim McGraw's happy pseudo cowboy boot diarrhea.

[SRN]

Outlaw country is the fucking best. Like many, I was also apprehensive of delving into the genre but once I got around to listening to some Hank Williams and Waylon Jennings, I was hooked.

[RPS]

This is probably one of my favorite finds. It's 80 tracks of ghettotech, which basically tears apart old house/pop vocal samples, amps up the speed, turns up the glitch and lets loose. Bitch Ass Darius Follow the Sound is basically the best example. Definitely not safe for work. If you ever have a party and are sick of the hipster go-to party records, put this on.

[SRN]

Having a go at the new Major Lazer EP Apocalypse Soon. Not entirely sold on it yet, though. At least it will be released on vinyl so I can give it a few spins on the decks if it grows on me. I mean, there are some nice moombah tracks like "Come On To Me" and "Lose Yourself" but yeah, I don't know. It would fit nicely into my budding moombahton collection but we'll have to see.

Were all things I thought before the last track, "Dale Asi", spun into effect. That is one hell of an eclectic trap track. I might just spend some dough on this EP after all.

[RPS]

Major Lazer has gotten progressively worse since Switch left.

I think Diplo is everything I find wrong with electronic music in 2014. Which is sad, because the guy started off with strong output.

[SRN]

As a solo artist, he is very doubtful, yes. I think I have heard maybe two tracks of his that I like but I honestly think that Apocalypse Soon is a good EP; especially after having lent it a bit more time. At least, it seems much more focused than Free The Universe which had about four good tracks and a bunch of garbage on it.

[DMN in the House]

I've recently gotten into Blue Foundation, Lana Del Rey, shit like that. It's amazing to me how much my musical tastes have changed as I've aged.

[livid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRBseJAmtJQ

[Lint]

I read an interview once...can't remember who it was with, but they said if your going to do a cover song, make it your own. Make people forget the original and think of the song as yours.

You know how many times I've heard/seen this song

and completely forgotten it was a Genesis song...

Disturbed did right with their cover