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2005 is quite the year for music...

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Diablos

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I have a feeling it'll be just as good, if not better than 2003. Thank god. 2004 was a total bore, IMO. So I just wasted most of it listening to Wilco and Sonic Youth. :D

There's already...

-Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
-Doves
-Queens of the Stone Age
-The Mars Volta
-Stereophonics

And more on the way...

-Billy Corgan
-Pearl Jam
-Foo Fighters
-Sonic Youth (I'm hoping, anyway :D)
-Death Cab for Cutie (I'm pretty sure I read this somewhere...)
-Muse (ditto)
-The White Stripes (ditto)
-Tool
-Nine Inch Nails
-Radiohead (Chances are this will be next year, but again, let's hope it's this year)
-System of a Down
-Weezer
-Gorillaz
-Broken Social Scene
-Sigur Ros
-Flaming Lips

Simply put: This year is gonna rock.
 
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StrikerObi

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You forgot

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and

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I just got Guero today, and it's really good. Bloc Party's Silent Alarm is fucking GREAT.
 
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Triumph

Banned
Damn. StrikerObi beat me to the punch. Can't leave the AOTY off yer list, Diablos! Remember, Beck's farts have more talent than Corgan has in his entire body!
 
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Ill Saint

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Lots of Merzbow releases this year already... Merzbuddha will be killer. Monolake, Rhythm & Sound, Arpanet albums... lots of quality 12"s. Not bad so far at all.
 
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SD-Ness

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So far...

-Bloc Party
-Of Montreal
-The Decemberists
-Kaiser Chiefs
-Beck
-And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
-Moby
-David Bowie

Awaiting...

-Sigur Ros (I REALLY want this)
-Opeth (And I REALLY want this too)
-New Order (I think)
-Depeche Mode (I think)
-The Flaming Lips (I think)
-Super Furry Animals (I think)
 
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theo

Contest Winner
a couple more:

-Our Lady Peace (late summer)
-Matthew Good - greatest hits compilation (fall?) i hear the working title is so far so good, and that there will be at least 2 new songs.
 
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White Man

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Dude, calling the Mars Volta record one of the high points of the year so far is like dressing up a shaved monkey and calling it your wife or life partner or whatever term you people prefer.
 
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Diablos

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Our Lady Peace? Bah. If Gravity is any indication, this band means absolutely nothing to me anymore. Honestly, there's selling out and then completely changing your band's approach and going from being creative to following a corporate template.

In just a couple years they went from Happiness and the Fish & Spirtual Machines to... Gravity. Sad.

White Man said:
Dude, calling the Mars Volta record one of the high points of the year so far is like dressing up a shaved monkey and calling it your wife or life partner or whatever term you people prefer.
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Pfffffft. You only wish you were as talented!
 
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Substance

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The new Beck album was actually released a week and half ago in Australia. Has it even been released in the U.S yet?
While it should have been AOTY it is most unfortunately not.
 
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White Man

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Diablos said:
Pfffffft. You only wish you were as talented!
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I wish I did have the skills to convince someone to fund and release something so disaffecting and obvious as that pap. I'd make millions.
 
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Diablos

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White Man said:
I wish I did have the skills to convince someone to fund and release something so disaffecting and obvious as that pap. I'd make millions.
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Why do hardcore indie folks hate TMV? Frances the Mute isn't AOTY material but it's still good...
 
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Mrjellybeanct

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The new Aesop Rock EP is very nice, better than Bazooka Tooth. Even includes a lyric book that spans almost all his releases.

FtM is pretty good, I have to admit it took a little while to set in, but i'm really enjoying it now.

M. Ward's Tranisistor Radio deserves to be mentioned in this thread, and I've been playing Andrew Bird's The Mysterious Production of Eggs quite a bit. Check out the song "Tables and Chairs."
 
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White Man

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I'm hardly hardcore indie. I own Abba albums.

Fuck, I don't even listen to music anymore. I just troll the Mars Volta. They're the Shenmue of music. . .they've successfully turned me off music forever. Frances the Mute is the aural equivalent of asking where the sailors are at. I may never enjoy hearing things again.
 
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Diablos

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White Man said:
I'm hardly hardcore indie. I own Abba albums.

Fuck, I don't even listen to music anymore. I just troll the Mars Volta. They're the Shenmue of music. . .they've successfully turned me off music forever. Frances the Mute is the aural equivalent of asking where the sailors are at. I may never enjoy hearing things again.
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:lol WTF...
 
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Dead

well not really...yet
Damn white man, harsh. The shenmue of music? Lets not say things we cant take back now.
 
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Triumph

Banned
White Man said:
I'm hardly hardcore indie. I own Abba albums.

Fuck, I don't even listen to music anymore. I just troll the Mars Volta. They're the Shenmue of music. . .they've successfully turned me off music forever. Frances the Mute is the aural equivalent of asking where the sailors are at. I may never enjoy hearing things again.
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Too weird to live, too rare to die.

You rule, good sir. Keep up the good fight.
 
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White Man

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Mars Volta is tantamount to original sin. Its artless pockmark shall forever be emblazened (in a manner absent of anything resembling subtlety) upon the soul of music. Oppenheimer said, "Science has known sin" after the bomb went off; now, I say, "Music has known shittiness."

I can only pray that the title of the album is some sort of winking joke. The album has to be a complex bit of high-level satire concerning the state of the music industry. There has to be a rational explanation for this. If Relationship of Command is The Empire Strikes Back, then Frances the Mute is one of the romantic scenes from Attack of the Clones.
 
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bridegur

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Yes, this is an awesome year for music:

-TWO Bright Eyes albums
-Bloc Party
-Kaiser Chiefs
-Decemberists
-Beck
-Brendan Benson
-Andrew Bird
-Okkervil River
-New Order
-M.I.A.
-Patrick Wolf

More to come:
-weezer
-strokes
-TWO Fiery Furnaces albums
-yeah yeah yeahs
-super furry animals
-Flaming Lips
-white stripes
-billy corgan
-supergrass
-foo fighters
-shins (possibly, anyway)
-fountains of wayne b-sides collection
 
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GG-Duo

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belle-sebastian early EPs re-release
new sufjan
sleater-kinney
new new pornographers

which reminds me, America will be invaded by Canadian bands this year.
 
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Mifune

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Great stuff so far:

Decemberists
LCD Soundsystem
Bloc Party
Andrew Bird
Low
Fiery Furnaces
Doves


Still to come:

Super Furry Animals
Spoon
Sleater-Kinney
Sufjan Stevens
Eels
Circulatory System
Books
Okkervil River
Magnolia Electric Co.

I don't think the new Flaming Lips will make it out this year.
 
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FightyF

Banned
which reminds me, America will be invaded by Canadian bands this year.
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Really? I thought that this year you'd see Canadian bands die down big time in the States...simply because there hasn't been a Canadian band that has caused a splash during that last year or so...
 
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bridegur

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How could I forget the New Pornographers? That's easily one of my most-anticipated new albums. Oh, and the new Hot Hot Heat is a great pop album as well.
 
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BuG

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Zero said:
-And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
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I'm not huge into music but these guys were being pimped quite heavily on local radio last month and I really got into the title track of their album. The origin of their full name is also a quirky tale.
 
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Meantime

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White Man said:
Mars Volta is tantamount to original sin. Its artless pockmark shall forever be emblazened (in a manner absent of anything resembling subtlety) upon the soul of music. Oppenheimer said, "Science has known sin" after the bomb went off; now, I say, "Music has known shittiness."
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This is almost certainly the greatest thing I've ever read in several years of perusing GAF. I am in awe.
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
White Man said:
Mars Volta is tantamount to original sin. Its artless pockmark shall forever be emblazened (in a manner absent of anything resembling subtlety) upon the soul of music. Oppenheimer said, "Science has known sin" after the bomb went off; now, I say, "Music has known shittiness."

I can only pray that the title of the album is some sort of winking joke. The album has to be a complex bit of high-level satire concerning the state of the music industry. There has to be a rational explanation for this. If Relationship of Command is The Empire Strikes Back, then Frances the Mute is one of the romantic scenes from Attack of the Clones.
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you know my feelings on Frances...but curiously, how high did you rank De-loused?
 
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White Man

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Eminem said:
you know my feelings on Frances...but curiously, how high did you rank De-loused?
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I was addicted to Deloused for almost a year. Nowadays, there are only 3-4 songs I listen to on the album, but those songs are really good.

EDIT: I think the Tremulant EP is the best, though. I like the production on it a lot better. The version of Cicatriz on it is excellent (and the De-loused version is one of my favorites on that particular album).

The Volta is all about potential not becoming kinetic. In an alternate timeline, I'm almost positive they are the best rock band going today.
 
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Manabanana

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bridegur said:
Yes, this is an awesome year for music:

-TWO Bright Eyes albums
-Bloc Party
-Kaiser Chiefs
-Decemberists
-Beck
-Brendan Benson
-Andrew Bird
-Okkervil River
-New Order
-M.I.A.
-Patrick Wolf

More to come:
-weezer
-strokes
-TWO Fiery Furnaces albums
-yeah yeah yeahs
-super furry animals
-Flaming Lips
-white stripes
-billy corgan
-supergrass
-foo fighters
-shins (possibly, anyway)
-fountains of wayne b-sides collection
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Pretty nice list! You forgot the Books, though. Patrick Wolf's Wind in the Wires is amazing. Has to be my most listened to this year. If music were beverages, Patrick Wolf would be water. (hey look I'm White Man!) But seriously, white man I love you.
 
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drohne

hyperbolically metafictive
i don't think i've bought a single new album this year. i've been having one of those withdrawals from music. i really need to get the doves record. i heard half of a bloc party song on the radio and liked it, so i think i'll get their record too. when's the new spoon coming out anyway? may?
 
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nitewulf

Member
damn, you guys REALLY like the bloc party album that much? i thought it was too derivative and monotonous.
so far for me New Order has been the best, with The Bravery and Thievery Corporation's "The Cosmic Game" lagging behind. Thunderbirds Are Now! album is very fun as well, though i gotta give it a more thorough listen.
and Daft Punk has been the biggest dissapointment so far. blech.
 
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bridegur

Member
I think The Bravery are overrated. Maybe if they released the record a couple of years ago, but now it just seems derivative. Not as much as The Killers mind you, but derivative all the same.

Oh, and does anyone know where to get an mp3 of "Feel Good Inc." by the Gorillaz? PM me please!
 
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Coen

Member
nitewulf said:
damn, you guys REALLY like the bloc party album that much? i thought it was too derivative and monotonous.
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Exactly. Most songs seem to be created around a single line, which has to be repeated over and over again. It really got on my nerve, even though I like the sound of the band.
 
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Jim Bowie

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New Transplants album and new Streetlight Manifesto. Now, I know ska and.... whatever the hell Transplants are may not be everyone's cup o' tea, but I sure can't wait.

Also, Kaiser Chiefs, Norma Jean, new FF, new Flaming Lips, The Bravery... so good.

And I don't know what the hell's going on, but I'm totally feeling Daft Punk's new album. It's so awesome. Granted, it's my least favorite of their albums, but it's still through the fucking roof.
 
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