What the hell are you listening to...2009 Edition - Page 4

whomario · 07-06-2009, 10:41 AM

totally unknown (no wikipedia entry f.e.

) but totally great :

http://www.myspace.com/theianfays

sweet-voiced indie pop group from California with very smooth melodies and great use of the 2 voices.
saw them in germany playing at a small festival with a mostly Hip Hop lineup (and audience) , they made a ton of fans there. And while them being female twins (with varying rest of the lineup) obviously helped at that, it wasn´t the biggest reason

Kind of like Tegan & Sara but more soft-spoken musically and a bit less direct lyrics .

MikeVic · 07-21-2009, 11:25 PM

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Santogold -Santogold
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine

Honestly, DFA is one of my favourite albums ever right now. I can't stop listening to it. I'll need to leave it along for awhile and then go back to it to see if I still like it as much. I like Santogold a lot right now too, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Klaxons albums are both enjoyable too. I'm listening to the later two because of FOFC< so thank you!

Passacaglia · 07-22-2009, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

This song is wow.

I finally got around to watching this -- I like this version a lot more than the album version.

Karlifornia · 07-23-2009, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine

Honestly, DFA is one of my favourite albums ever right now. I can't stop listening to it. I'll need to leave it along for awhile and then go back to it to see if I still like it as much. !

When I first got this album, I loved it. Nobody I played it for (and I mean nobody) ever liked it. I was stunned. I was like "How can you deny this? It's fantastic!" I still, to this day, listen to it on occasion, but these days I have to be in the mood for it, and it has to be loud.

Got a favorite song off of it? I'll either go with Black History Month or Blood On Our Hands.

If you like them, the next step may be the Blood Brothers. They can be a little tough to get into, but maybe try the song "Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck". Be forewarned! One of the two singers has what you could call a "grating voice", and that's putting it very mildly. Cheers.

Young Drachma · 10-03-2009, 09:13 PM

It's been a few months since I bumped this thread.

Let's see.

Here are the albums I'm currently sampling:

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The xx – Xx (As good as advertised.)
Paramore – Brand New Eyes (The track "Ignorance" rocks.)
The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You (People are raving about it. I haven't heard it yet...but they're pretty good anyway)
Brand New – Daisy (Meh. Nothing really compared to Deja Ent
Ghostface Killah – Ghostdini Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City (Good stuff.)
Foreign Born – Person to Person (What I've heard, I like.)
The Features – Some Kind of Salvation (I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet.)
Harlem Shakes – Technicolor Health (I already don't like it.)
Wye Oak - The Knot (Awesome.)
Zero 7 – Yeah Ghost (Haven't heard it in detail, but no SiA means it probably won't be as good as it could..)
Ha Ha Tonka – Novel Sounds of the Noveau South (Worth checking out)
The Horrors – Primary Colours
jj – No. 2 (It's good.)
Karen O & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack (If the movie is half this good, it'll be a masterpiece.)

Wye Oak - The Knot This LP is great. I liked them okay on their debut, but this album is really a huge sophomore step forward. Here's a sample track
called "Take It In"

Take It In - Wye Oak

The rest are a few songs that have stood out on some new albums:

The Dodos - This Is A Business (Time To Die LP)

This Is A Business - The Dodos

The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (The Devil, You + Me LP)

5 The Devil, You & Me - The Notwist

This LP came out last year, but I heard the song this year and really dig it.

Jay-Z released The Blueprint 3. It's...commercial to be sure. But it's not bad and he really mixes it up while still rhyming. I like So Ambitious with Pharrel

So Ambitious [Jay-Z + Pharrell] (Amended Album Version) - Jay-Z

Other than this, D.O.A. is great and On To The Next One (Swizz Beatz produced it) is pretty cool because that's just not a typical beat for him to rhyme on.

On To The Next One [Jay-Z + Swizz Beatz] (Amended Album Version) - Jay-Z

Ghostface Killah released a new album ("Ghostdini Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City") and as usual, he mixes and matches, but the best tracks are the ones with R&B artists. Paragraphs of Love (feat. Estelle and Vaughn Anthony) is really good.

Paragraphs Of Love (Feat. Estelle & Vaughn Anthony) - Ghostface Killah

Here's "Do Over" with Raheem DeVaughn (who if you haven't heard him, you should..)

Do Over Ft. Raheem "Radio" DeVaughn - Ghostface Killah

Trey Songz - Neighbors Know My Name
My brother had been raving about this dude while also saying "it's hot, but not the kind of stuff you can play in the car with a bunch of dudes." Uh yeah. But that said, the track works.

Trey Songz - Neighbors Know My Name - Trey Songz

Easy Mac · 10-04-2009, 09:08 AM

Don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but lala.com may be the best way to sample albums I the US. Basically, signing up for an account let's you listen to nay song 1 time for free. I pretty much use it each week to play all the new albums I think I might be interested in. It's saved me plenty of money over the past 6 months.

Music I've purchased if late:
the Drums - I rally enjoy this album. It's lite and summer-y.
Washed out- it's ok, a little too electronic for my taste.
Girls - also enjoy this, when I didn't think I would particularly like it.
Arctic Monkeys - really, really dislike it, which is sad. Diminishing returns.
Needtobreathe - Meh. Its a band I went to college with. Their debut was actually pretty good and had a lot of different sounds. Now they've settled into Christian rock.
The phenomenal handclap band- hate it.

duckman · 10-04-2009, 09:12 AM

Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

JonInMiddleGA · 10-07-2009, 03:52 PM

Freebie from Longhorn Steaks showed up in my email today. Limited to the first 5,000 registrations at
Luke Bryan - Album Download

Free .mp3 downloads of the new album from rising country star Luke Bryan (although you do have to confirm the d'load track by track as each one finishes)

Probably not the cup of tea of too many people here but free is free (while it lasts anyway) so I figured I'd throw it out there just in case somebody might like it.

Groundhog · 10-19-2009, 11:53 PM

OK, I so rarely buy new albums these days, but two of my favourite groups have released stuff pretty recently.

Flaming Lips - Embryonic
This is a big change of direction for the Lips. Some of the tracks (The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine & See The Leaves in particular) are just plain menacing at times, something you really haven't been able to say about a Lips song in... well, a long, long time. At first I was a little dissapointed in this album because it lacks much of melodic "pop" stuff that the Lips are so good at, but repeated listens have revealed more layers to each song. There are a few lighter tracks (Evil & I Can Be A Frog in particular), but even in these the lyrics are darker than usual for the Lips. There is very little of the intentionally naive wide-eyed idealist lyrics found on the last couple of albums.

Air - Love 2
I still really need to give this one a few more spins. Air have quickly become a "pleasant background music" group rather than song writers, and while they can be fairly good at creating moods, they are skating a very thin line between "moody" and "plain boring" on Love 2. I've only sat through it a few times though, so maybe it'll grow on me, though Pocket Symphony never really did.

Qwikshot · 10-20-2009, 06:53 AM

Walking on a Wire: Richard Thompson Box Set

Want to hear probably the best unknown guitarist ever?

Started out playing folk music with Fairport Convention, session man for Nick Drake, moved onward to experimental solo career that faltered, met a lovely lady (Linda Thompson), started recording dark gritty folk/rock/British albums ("I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight"), converted to Sufi Islam, recorded possibly the best break-up/divorce album ever ("Shoot Out the Lights"), toiled in relative obscurity but his live shows are to die for, even recorded soundtrack work (latest was the stirring guitar work in the documentary "Grizzly Man")...you will listen to any of his albums and probably not recognize anything, but yet it'll sound amazing, like hearing something special for the first time (and yet the guy has been around for decades).

This is the perfect intro to his work, 4 CDs encapsulate a great bulk of his work, highly recommended.

path12 · 10-20-2009, 06:02 PM

I've been meaning to post about The xx. I've been listening to this for a few weeks now, almost a Low sound to it.

Could be my favorite disc of the year.

Young Drachma · 10-20-2009, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by path12

I've been meaning to post about The xx. I've been listening to this for a few weeks now, almost a Low sound to it.

Could be my favorite disc of the year.

Vcr is my favorite song on that album.

samifan24 · 10-20-2009, 06:55 PM

The new album from Noah and the Whale is very good although it's taken some time to grow on me. I compare it to the last National album in depth and the way the singers use their voices.

path12 · 10-20-2009, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Vcr is my favorite song on that album.

Mine too. I'm putting together a top 40 songs of the decade list for a music club I'm in and think it's going to make it (trying to have each year represented at least once).

bob · 11-10-2009, 06:21 PM

Them Crooked Vultures' first album is coming out next week, but is streaming on their website now at http://themcrookedvultures.com . For those of you that don't know who they are, its Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age on guitar and lead singer, Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters / Nirvana on drums and backup vocals, and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin on bass. If you don't like Queens of the Stone Age, you probably won't love this, but I think its awesome.

Young Drachma · 11-27-2009, 04:31 PM

BlakRoc, a collab album featuring The Black Keys and 11 artists from Hip Hop and R&B. No samples, all live studio sessions. Released today. Pretty epic and original stuff.

Ramzavail · 11-28-2009, 01:35 PM

I'm really digging the new Aggrolites album, most notably, this song.

Karlifornia · 12-24-2009, 04:02 PM

All I have to say is:

What Would I Want? Sky

Young Drachma · 12-24-2009, 04:50 PM

BEST ALBUMS OF 2009

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
The Wooden Sky - If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone
Frankel - Anonomity Is The New Fame
Josh Mease - Wilderness
Robert Francis - Before Nightfall
Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Karen O. & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack
Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well
Metric - Fantasies
Black Gold - Rush
Foreign Born - Person to Person
Wye Oak - The Knot
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Girls - Album
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
God Forbid - Earthsblood
Other Lives - Other Lives
Imaad Wasif - The Voidist
Passion Pit - Manners
Ha Ha Tonka - Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
The Xx - xx
Mirah - Aspera
Death - …For The Whole World To See

BEST SONGS (Not in rank order)

Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move

Passion Pit - The Reeling

Feist & Benjamin Gibbard - Train Song

Mirah - Gone Are All The Days

The Girl & The Robot - Royksopp

The Swell Season -Fantasy Man

Jenny Wilson - Porcelain Castle

Zee Avi - Bitter Heart

Papercuts - The Machine Will Tell Us So

Drake, Eminem, Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne - Forever

The Dodos - This Is A Business

Black Gold - Plans & Reveries

Iran - Baby, Let’s Get High One Last Time

Beirut - La Llorona

Major Lazer - Hold The Line (f/Mr. Lex & Santigold)

Ramona Falls - I Say Fever

Rain Machine - Give Blood

The Xx - Do You Mind?

Alice in Chains - Check My Brain

The Twilight Sad - Made To Disappear

Shelley Short - How Was The Water?

07-21-2009, 11:25 PM	#152
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future Santogold -Santogold Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine Honestly, DFA is one of my favourite albums ever right now. I can't stop listening to it. I'll need to leave it along for awhile and then go back to it to see if I still like it as much. I like Santogold a lot right now too, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Klaxons albums are both enjoyable too. I'm listening to the later two because of FOFC< so thank you! Last edited by MikeVic : 07-21-2009 at 11:26 PM.

10-07-2009, 03:52 PM	#158
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Freebie from Longhorn Steaks showed up in my email today. Limited to the first 5,000 registrations at Luke Bryan - Album Download Free .mp3 downloads of the new album from rising country star Luke Bryan (although you do have to confirm the d'load track by track as each one finishes) Probably not the cup of tea of too many people here but free is free (while it lasts anyway) so I figured I'd throw it out there just in case somebody might like it. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

10-19-2009, 11:53 PM	#159
Groundhog Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia	OK, I so rarely buy new albums these days, but two of my favourite groups have released stuff pretty recently. Flaming Lips - Embryonic This is a big change of direction for the Lips. Some of the tracks (The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine & See The Leaves in particular) are just plain menacing at times, something you really haven't been able to say about a Lips song in... well, a long, long time. At first I was a little dissapointed in this album because it lacks much of melodic "pop" stuff that the Lips are so good at, but repeated listens have revealed more layers to each song. There are a few lighter tracks (Evil & I Can Be A Frog in particular), but even in these the lyrics are darker than usual for the Lips. There is very little of the intentionally naive wide-eyed idealist lyrics found on the last couple of albums. Air - Love 2 I still really need to give this one a few more spins. Air have quickly become a "pleasant background music" group rather than song writers, and while they can be fairly good at creating moods, they are skating a very thin line between "moody" and "plain boring" on Love 2. I've only sat through it a few times though, so maybe it'll grow on me, though Pocket Symphony never really did. __________________ Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. --Ambrose Bierce

10-20-2009, 06:53 AM	#160
Qwikshot Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: ...down the gravity well	Walking on a Wire: Richard Thompson Box Set Want to hear probably the best unknown guitarist ever? Started out playing folk music with Fairport Convention, session man for Nick Drake, moved onward to experimental solo career that faltered, met a lovely lady (Linda Thompson), started recording dark gritty folk/rock/British albums ("I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight"), converted to Sufi Islam, recorded possibly the best break-up/divorce album ever ("Shoot Out the Lights"), toiled in relative obscurity but his live shows are to die for, even recorded soundtrack work (latest was the stirring guitar work in the documentary "Grizzly Man")...you will listen to any of his albums and probably not recognize anything, but yet it'll sound amazing, like hearing something special for the first time (and yet the guy has been around for decades). This is the perfect intro to his work, 4 CDs encapsulate a great bulk of his work, highly recommended. __________________ "General Woundwort's body was never found. It could be that he still lives his fierce life somewhere else, but from that day on, mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them. Such was Woundwort's monument, and perhaps it would not have displeased him." Watership Down, Richard Adams

10-20-2009, 06:02 PM	#161
path12 Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Seattle, WA	I've been meaning to post about The xx. I've been listening to this for a few weeks now, almost a Low sound to it. Could be my favorite disc of the year. __________________ We have always been at war with Eastasia.

07-06-2009, 10:41 AM	#151
whomario Pro Starter Join Date: Jul 2007	totally unknown (no wikipedia entry f.e. ) but totally great : http://www.myspace.com/theianfays sweet-voiced indie pop group from California with very smooth melodies and great use of the 2 voices. saw them in germany playing at a small festival with a mostly Hip Hop lineup (and audience) , they made a ton of fans there. And while them being female twins (with varying rest of the lineup) obviously helped at that, it wasn´t the biggest reason Kind of like Tegan & Sara but more soft-spoken musically and a bit less direct lyrics .

10-04-2009, 09:08 AM	#156
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	Don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but lala.com may be the best way to sample albums I the US. Basically, signing up for an account let's you listen to nay song 1 time for free. I pretty much use it each week to play all the new albums I think I might be interested in. It's saved me plenty of money over the past 6 months. Music I've purchased if late: the Drums - I rally enjoy this album. It's lite and summer-y. Washed out- it's ok, a little too electronic for my taste. Girls - also enjoy this, when I didn't think I would particularly like it. Arctic Monkeys - really, really dislike it, which is sad. Diminishing returns. Needtobreathe - Meh. Its a band I went to college with. Their debut was actually pretty good and had a lot of different sounds. Now they've settled into Christian rock. The phenomenal handclap band- hate it.

10-20-2009, 06:55 PM	#163
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	The new album from Noah and the Whale is very good although it's taken some time to grow on me. I compare it to the last National album in depth and the way the singers use their voices. __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

11-10-2009, 06:21 PM	#165
bob College Starter Join Date: Oct 2004	Them Crooked Vultures' first album is coming out next week, but is streaming on their website now at http://themcrookedvultures.com . For those of you that don't know who they are, its Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age on guitar and lead singer, Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters / Nirvana on drums and backup vocals, and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin on bass. If you don't like Queens of the Stone Age, you probably won't love this, but I think its awesome. Last edited by bob : 11-10-2009 at 06:22 PM.

11-27-2009, 04:31 PM	#166
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	BlakRoc, a collab album featuring The Black Keys and 11 artists from Hip Hop and R&B. No samples, all live studio sessions. Released today. Pretty epic and original stuff.

11-28-2009, 01:35 PM	#167
Ramzavail College Starter Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Strong Island, NY	I'm really digging the new Aggrolites album, most notably, this song.

12-24-2009, 04:02 PM	#168
Karlifornia Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: San Jose, CA	All I have to say is: What Would I Want? Sky __________________ Look into the mind of a crazy man (NSFW) http://www.whitepowerupdate.wordpress.com

12-24-2009, 04:50 PM	#169
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	BEST ALBUMS OF 2009 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone The Wooden Sky - If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone Frankel - Anonomity Is The New Fame Josh Mease - Wilderness Robert Francis - Before Nightfall Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere Mos Def - The Ecstatic Karen O. & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack Various Artists - Dark Was The Night The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well Metric - Fantasies Black Gold - Rush Foreign Born - Person to Person Wye Oak - The Knot Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels Girls - Album The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart God Forbid - Earthsblood Other Lives - Other Lives Imaad Wasif - The Voidist Passion Pit - Manners Ha Ha Tonka - Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South Silversun Pickups - Swoon Andrew Bird - Noble Beast Fanfarlo - Reservoir The Xx - xx Mirah - Aspera Death - …For The Whole World To See BEST SONGS (Not in rank order) Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move Passion Pit - The Reeling Feist & Benjamin Gibbard - Train Song Mirah - Gone Are All The Days The Girl & The Robot - Royksopp The Swell Season -Fantasy Man Jenny Wilson - Porcelain Castle Zee Avi - Bitter Heart Papercuts - The Machine Will Tell Us So Drake, Eminem, Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne - Forever The Dodos - This Is A Business Black Gold - Plans & Reveries Iran - Baby, Let’s Get High One Last Time Beirut - La Llorona Major Lazer - Hold The Line (f/Mr. Lex & Santigold) Ramona Falls - I Say Fever Rain Machine - Give Blood The Xx - Do You Mind? Alice in Chains - Check My Brain The Twilight Sad - Made To Disappear Shelley Short - How Was The Water? Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-24-2009 at 04:51 PM.

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