Here is my top eleven albums from last year [2010] (AKA Better than Kanye ;) )
#11: The Pack A.D. - We Kill Robots
#10: LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
#9: Tweak Bird - Tweak Bird
#8: The National - High Violet
#7: Fang Island Fang Island
#6: Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
#5: Sleigh Bells - Treats
#4: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Let it Sway
#3: Cloud Cult Light Chasers
#2: The Thermals Personal Life
#1: Los Campesinos! Romance is Boring
The best song of last year was Younger Us by the Japandroids but that was released as a single.
Also Also my favorite Cure song is far and away Burn off the Crow soundtrack. It is brilliant.
Oof, totally forgot FlyLo... love him, but I'd trade him for J Dilla in a heartbeat. Devil don't work deals like that, though... >.>
Also, SotS, he's a damn good producer, if a little... eh, not my cuppa, but I understand the appeal. I still think the best stuff he's done were the tracks he did for Mos Def. Either way, he'll never have anything on Dilla, Blockhead, Madlib, El-P, Prefuse 73... the list goes on, and I hate to play this card, but if you're making hip-hop, it'd better be immediately accessible to white, suburban kids if you want any kind of commercial viability.
And even in that field, The Neptunes kick his ass. >.>
I can't talk about Kanye's skills as a producer; I'm not that well educated there and prefer a dirty sound anyway.
But one thing that irritates me is that a lot of people will take anything Kanye does and claim it as an example of musical genius- even when it really, really isn't.
My best example for this is "Touch The Sky". While I'll admit that there's some lyrical dexterity there, musically, the song is lazily ripped off from Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up". To the point that the original vocals are still part of the sample.
And yet, if you look at the video for it on youtube, EVERYONE is claiming the track is a piece of musical genius and that Kanye is such an amazing songwriter...
Sorry, just annoys me.
__________________ sense and sensibility
and peaceful productivity
a pretty girl with broken wings
is all that i desire
SotS, you know as well as I do that sampling is a legitimate method of creating music. On the other hand, when a truly great producer samples, it tends to be a hell of a lot harder to place.
SotS, you know as well as I do that sampling is a legitimate method of creating music.
It can be a legitimate way of a creating music, when it's being used to actually create something new. It can also be just a lazy way to avoid having to come-up with a melody or riff, and indeed it in most mainstream music it is used at least as often in the latter respect as the former.
My point is, singling out "sampling" as opposed to "guitar playing" is a little unfair. You could just as easily knock off someone else's guitar riffs; it'd just take a few hours longer than sampling 'em. Creativity and originality doesn't care what instrument you're playing or what techniques you're using.
And I didn't intend it to be seen as any different as any musical technique.
However, Kanye's music primarily uses sampling, and, I know, he tends to use sampling in a more subtle fashion. But calling something a piece of musical genius when it evidently completely copies its melody from another piece of music is a bit much.
__________________ sense and sensibility
and peaceful productivity
a pretty girl with broken wings
is all that i desire
I recently remembered, why I love Polyphonic Spree - there is just so much positivity in their songs. I didn't get to check all their albums, but I like Together We're Heavy much more then Fragile Army.
I was also recently amazed by their predecessor: Tripping Daisy.
__________________
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
I recently remembered, why I love Polyphonic Spree - there is just so much positivity in their songs. I didn't get to check all their albums, but I like Together We're Heavy much more then Fragile Army.
I was also recently amazed by their predecessor: Tripping Daisy.
Nah, The Beginning Stages Of... is my favourite! Nothing can be better than "Hey, now, it's the sun! And it makes me smile, all around"
Seriously, that album has to be one of my favourite albums ever.
Actually, I'm going to put that album on right now!
For no reason that I can adequately explain, The Strokes debut is the most... I guess familiar album I've ever heard. Everything on it feels uncannily right.
I really don't get Kanye. I don't get why he's popular. At all.
He's one of my favourites. Partially for his lack of a filter (Taylor Swift) and partially for his lyrical deftness. I don't think he's one of the most technically skilled musicians out there, but I enjoy him.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Moff Chumley
C'mon, Raist. College Droupout got an 8.2. And College Dropout was miles better than MBDTF, easily.
Nah, The Beginning Stages Of... is my favourite! Nothing can be better than "Hey, now, it's the sun! And it makes me smile, all around"
Seriously, that album has to be one of my favourite albums ever.
Actually, I'm going to put that album on right now!
To each his own, but choral parts of Suitcase Calling and the way they mesh with instruments worked better for me.
In all honesty a mix of physical exhaustion and Polyphonic Spree made me so relaxed I'm barely awake now.
__________________
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
So the new Diary of Dreams album, Ego: X is out, and I've been too preoccupied to even notice. I know I'm going to get it regardless, but has anyone heard it yet? Just to get an idea of what my expectations should be.
__________________
Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
Charitably...I think...sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. ~Sandman
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zale
Also, this is the internet. We're all borderline insane for simply being here.
I've been thinking of my favorite albums of 2011. Man this has been a good year for music. My short list has over 20 albums on it, and November has three of my most anticipated releases for the year coming out: Johnny Foreigner, Los Campesinos!, and Circle Takes the Square.
If any of you have seen Mogwai in the last couple of years, you'll have noticed their guitarist/violinist sideman Luke Sutherland (the sole black guy in a very white band). Turns out he was in an awesome band in the 90's called Long Fin Killie... check it out
__________________
- Poul Hĝi
Check out my band! - Red Deer Jebediah
... please
If any of you have seen Mogwai in the last couple of years, you'll have noticed their guitarist/violinist sideman Luke Sutherland (the sole black guy in a very white band). Turns out he was in an awesome band in the 90's called Long Fin Killie... check it out
Anyone else listened to Gallhammer's new album...?
:v
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by dehro
so basically vampires are sporks?
Quote:
But I don`t have to know an answer. I don`t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose. It doesn't frighten me.
__________________ Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions
To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughter, come down and startle
Composing mortals with immortal fire.
You know you're a music geek when you start arguing over whether Stravinsky or Mussorgsky is better, and the merits of various arrangements of Mussorgsky pieces. Amirite, Chumley?
__________________ Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions
To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughter, come down and startle
Composing mortals with immortal fire.
But I don`t have to know an answer. I don`t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose. It doesn't frighten me.
RSS Feeds: 
Re: Can we just do another music thread?
... I get ta go home...
