Brake-neck.
I've never been a great fan of Neil Morse. I much preferred Spocks Beard after he left. Probably because of the pop sensibilities direction. This explains my choice of It Bites and PTs Deadwing. More commercial I suppose.
The reason I mentioned Flying Colors was because of the Portnoy connection with A7F.
Saw a band called Threshold, at the Summers End Festival a few years ago. very much in the vain of Pain of Salvation / A7F.
6 Music
6 Music is brilliant.
Since my kids came along, the amount of music I buy has fallen off a cliff, mainly because I don't have the hours I used to have for spending in record shops and even when I do buy records, I don't get to wallow in them when I get home. If it wasn't for 6 Music (and Vic Galloway on Radio Scotland) I doubt I'd hear any new music at all. So much good stuff on it. Our fridge is covered in post it notes with scribbled names of records to follow up I've heard on the radio while making the dinner. Sometimes I even do go and buy them, rather than just find them on Spotify.
Self-imposed limit of ten:
Gillian Welch [i]Time (The Revelator)[/i]
Cat Power (either) [i]The Covers Record[/i] or [i]You are free[/i]
Max Richter [i]Memory House[/i]
Stars of the Lid [i]And Their Refinement of the Decline[/i]
Madvillain [i]Madvillainy[/i]
Bon Ivor [i]For Emma Forever Ago[/i]
Arve Henriksen [i]Chiaroscuro[/i]
Sufjan Stevens [i]Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State[/i]
Susumu Yokota [i]Sakura[/i]
Cath & Phil Tyler [i]Dumb Supper[/i]
Cougar, you [i]really, really[/i] ought to find 6Music on your car DAB. I recently had one fitted in mine, and it only has one station set on a preset, and that's 6! Since I started listening back in 2004/5 the amount of new music I've discovered is staggering, it's cost me a fortune, both in albums and concert tickets.
It's worth picking up Uncut magazine now that The Word is defunct, they review lots of interesting stuff, and you get a free CD with sample tracks on, which is a good way of filling up an iPod. I have every sample CD that The Word gave away, around 140, with 15 tracks on each, so there's lots of interesting stuff there.
Metric, Stars, Arcade Fire, Black Mountain, The New Pornographers, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Postal Service, and The Dears are all bands who I discovered through 6Music, and I've seen most of them. The Paper Aeroplanes, who I saw earlier this year gave an enormously warm and enjoyable concert, and I only discovered them through 6. If you have Shazam on a smartphone it'll be getting a lot of use, as will scraps of paper with band and track names scribbled on them. 😀
The duller they got the more success they seemed to haveWell, that's jolly unusual in the music world!! (classic eg: RHCP)
KoL are far from one of the best artists of the last decade though.
They normally get really successful and then get duller though, KoL seemed to do it the other way round. I do like Youth and Young Manhood a lot but agreed it probably wouldn't be on any 'best of' lists.
I quite like KOL's first album, then they went a bit boring, then I read [url= http://www.prefixmag.com/news/this-just-in-kings-of-leon-are-sort-of-jerks-to-ot/44234/ ]this[/url] - & I really went off them & haven't listened to them since.
DezB - MemberGiven the accusations being levelled against all of us for both excessive obscuritanism and excessive populism
Really - who gives a flying one what the musically ignorant say?
🙂
I assume this is ironic?
If not, you really, really need to chill out. 😀
There is NO good or bad in music.
Your taste is no better or worse than anyone elses.
Music is just noise. We all like different noises.
It all sounds good to someone.
Musical snobbery, however, is one of the surest ways to identify an idiot yet invented. 8)
+1 in rainbows - radiohead
+1 turn on the bright lights - Interpol
Also
Ian brown - music of the spheres
Sneaker pimps - bloodsport (excellent album)
Another very fine album Is The Pond, the eponymous album by Kathryn Williams, Ginny Clee and Simon Edwards.
Kathryn had a number of albums as a solo singer/songwriter, Ginny released three with Barbara Marsh as The Dear Janes, who I saw four or five times, and Simon used to be with Fairground Attraction, and is Ginny's husband. Adrian Utley from Portishead was involved as well. It's a very fine piece of work, and I'm going to see them at the Louisiana in Bristol next month. Looking forward to that very much indeed. 😀
[i]There is NO good or bad in music.
Your taste is no better or worse than anyone elses.[/i]
No mate, you misunderstand - you need to read the post I'm responding to to get it. (I'm talking about people who don't particularly [i]care[/i] about music using the "oh, you only like [i]obscure[/i] stuff" (attempted) critism).
My favorite album of any period keeps changing but just now this is my choice of best of the 2000s
If only for the memories of being there 🙂
Another vote for:
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Hell is For Heroes - The Neon Handshake
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Also:
Oceansize - Frames
ISIS - Panopticon
And So I Watch You From Afar - Eponymous
Oh, and Aereogramme - Sleep and Release
There is NO good or bad in music.
Your taste is no better or worse than anyone elses.
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+1 the National - Boxer
Wintersleep - new inheritors
Interpol - turn on the bright lights
+1 for QOTSA and Songs For the Deaf.
+1 for Biffy Clyro and Only Revolutuions
Has anyone said Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Just by the album I have played the most during the last 12 years; Cornershop - Handcream for a Generation
