Red Mosquito

i dont think i listened to 25 great albums from last year yet. Might be a top 5.

Kevin Davis wrote:Banning anything from the list is ridiculous. Let people vote honestly.

Let people pick #2 and the rest so...

#1 is rigged

From what I picked up last year, my favorites were:

1. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
2. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
3. Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
4. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blak & Blu
5. Heartless Bastards - Arrow

Mount Carmel- Real Women
Lee Ranaldo- Between Times and Tides
Kowloon Walled City- Container Ships
Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Psychedelic Pill
Blank Realm- Go Easy

Woollen Kits- Four Girls
Screaming Females- Ugly
Ty Segall Band- Slaughterhouse
Torche- Harmonicraft
Colleen Green- Milo Goes to Compton

Loincloth- Iron Balls of Steel
Melvins- Bulls and the Bees
Roomrunner- Super Vague
Karl Hendricks Trio- The Adult Section


Taco Leg- Taco Leg
Protomartyr- All Passion No Technique
Tyvek- On Triple Beams
Golden Boys- DIrty FIngernails
Horseback- Half Blood

1. Redd Kross - Researching the Blues
2. Bob Mould - Silver Age
3. Graham Coxon - A&E
4. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
5. Soundgarden - King Animal

The rest were all box sets or reissues. It appears I'm actually just having a massive 90's hangover and have stopped looking for new artists.

This is my list:

1 Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
2 Sigur Rós Valtari
3 Het Zesde Metaal Ploegsteert
4 Godspeed You!Black Emperor Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5 Beach House Bloom
6 Tallest Man on Earth There's no Leaving Now
7 Tame Impala Lonerism
8 SX Arche
9 Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It
10 Glen Hansard Rhythm and Repose
11 Michael Ward A Wasteland Companion
12 Of Monsters and Men My Head Is An Animal
13 First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar
14 Band of Horses Mirage Rock
15 Absynthe Minded As It Ever Was
16 Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral
17 Grizzly Bear Shields
18 the XX Coexist
19 Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man
20 Blaudzun Heavy Flowers
21 Japandroids Celebration Rock
22 Sharon van Etten Tramp
23 Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory
24 Josh Ritter Bringing in the darlings
25 Regina Spektor What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
26 Wild Nothing Nocturne
27 Isbells Stoalin'
28 How To Dress Well Total Loss
29 Mount Eerie Clear Moon
30 DIIV Oshin


There's some Belgian stuff in there where noone will have heard about, but I'm really not going to delete it and move the rest up.

I think I only heard 10 new albums this year, but here's how I'd rank them:

1. Mynabirds, The - Generals
2. Jack White - Blunderbuss
3. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
4. Glen Hansard - Rhythm and Repose
5. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
6. Mumford and Sons - Babel
7. Pigpen Theater Company - Breman
8. Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
9. Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind
10. Alanis Morissette - Havoc and Bright Lights

But honestly, that Alanis album has no business in a top ten list (whether best or worst) of the year. But, those are the 10 new ones I heard this year. So I'm including it.

Do Soundtracks count? Do digital only releases count? If so, I'd like to replace that Alanis album with the How I Met Your Mother Soundtrack.

Chalmers, I haven't been able to fully get behind Between the Times and the Tides yet. I'm surprised to see it so high on your list. Was that a gradual thing for you or was it an instant classic?

I don't know. Objectively its not that good of a record, but I really liked it. Maybe it was seeing some of the material performed live before the record came out. Lost, Hammer Blows, and Off the Wal all stood out for me. Plus, I went back to it a bunch so it had a high replay value.

I kept coming back to it too, it's going to end up somewhere fairly high in my list.

I think it's done, I'm just uncertain about placement. Ranking is silly.

I might revisit it soon.

durdencommatyler wrote:Do Soundtracks count? Do digital only releases count? If so, I'd like to replace that Alanis album with the How I Met Your Mother Soundtrack.

Why wouldn't they

kreng wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Do Soundtracks count? Do digital only releases count? If so, I'd like to replace that Alanis album with the How I Met Your Mother Soundtrack.

Why wouldn't they

Sometimes they don't. Digital release shouldn't be an issue. But soundtracks are a different animal. Multiple artists, etc. I could see why they wouldn't count.

Any artistic statement through music should count.

Hell, even Beck's 2012 release should count.

washing machine II wrote:Hell, even Beck's 2012 release should count.

i'd have taken more of this

Wow. I've not heard that before.

super nintendo chalmers wrote:Blank Realm- Go Easy

This is cool, thanks for the recommendation.



Did this get a CD release? I can't find it anywhere if so.

1. Soundgarden - King Animal
2. Rush - Clockwork Angels
3. Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2
4. Dave Matthews Band - Away from the World
5. Steven Wilson - Get All You Deserve (Insurgentes/GfD Live)
6. Porcupine Tree - Octane Twisted (The Incident+ Live)