Let's talk about music

[Sarcastic]

Kraftster, where's the metal on your list? Don't you have a need for a bit of technical mastery or at least some good ass kicking?

Couple of good choices for 2012.

[Sarcastic]

Let's pretend 2011 is 2012. This likely makes the list.

Click if you like metal. Real metal. Not the fake stuff that is pretty abundant today.

[Kraftster]

I don't necessarily hate metal, I just can't find a place for it. Like Listening to a couple songs I can say, yeah, that's cool. But there's never a time where I'm like, "man, I need some metal right now." I generally try to stay pretty balanced and if there are emotions that I indulge in heavily they would probably be wonder and feeling, not aggression, which I feel like is the emotion that metal most suits.

[Gaucho]

How do you guys go about preparing your lists? Like, do you sort of keep a running tab as you run across stuff?

The idea of ranking seems quite daunting with such a large body of stuff.

I'd be pretty lost without being able sort the album by year on iTunes.

[Sarcastic]

I don't necessarily hate metal, I just can't find a place for it. Like Listening to a couple songs I can say, yeah, that's cool. But there's never a time where I'm like, "man, I need some metal right now." I generally try to stay pretty balanced and if there are emotions that I indulge in heavily they would probably be wonder and feeling, not aggression, which I feel like is the emotion that metal most suits.

Listen to this piano track on the Fleshgod album. Well, there is sadness to it. That's probably why the name. It's beautiful.

[Troy Loney]

How do you guys go about preparing your lists? Like, do you sort of keep a running tab as you run across stuff?

The idea of ranking seems quite daunting with such a large body of stuff.

I'll make a 2012 playlist by just going up and down my ipod picking the songs i liked the most from the year. I'll make a tentative album list from that, then i'll probably go to pitchfork and see if I missed anything from the best new music.

[Kraftster]

Time to start thinking about your Best of 2012 lists, folks.

I don't listen to enough to do best of. All I can do is list some 2012 albums I've enjoyed, which basically amounts to me just looking down through my spotify and finding albums I've listened to in their entirety that I've liked, skipping ones that I've just listened to one or two songs from.

Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Caravan Palace - Panic
Brandi Carlile - Beer Creek
The Lumineers - The Lumineers
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Shearwater - Animal Joy
The Helio Sequence - Negotiations
The Mynabirds - GENERALS

During this exercise, I also realized how many albums I want to get through that I haven't yet.

I forgot Hot Chip, John Fullbright, and Menomena.

[Troy Loney]

I wouldn't think Hot Chip would be up your alley.

[Kraftster]

I wouldn't think Hot Chip would be up your alley.

Hmm. I can see that. I found "How Do You Do?" to be super catchy and gave it enough of a chance to like most of the rest of it.

[Froggy]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rocket-f ... ein,88285/


RFTC reunion? yes, please

[legame]

I'm not very good at these lists, but I'll give it a try later.

[Gaucho]

Ok, here goes. Instead of a Top 20 of songs I included my favorite songs from the respective albums plus a few more from albums that didn't quite make the cut. Guess I don't listen to much "real" "rock" these days. Sorry for being a little excessive.

1. Jessie Ware - Devotion (Wildest Moments, Running, Sweet Talk, Night Light, Taking In Water)
2. Saint Etienne - Words & Music (Over The Border, I've Got Your Music, Last Days of Disco)
3. The Sea & Cake - Runner (On And On, Invitations, New Patterns)
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (Lost, Monks, Sweet Life, Pyramids, Crack Rock)
5. Beach House - Bloom (Wild, The Hours, New Year)
6. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel (Anything We Want, Left Alone, Periphery)
7. Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar (I'm Always Going to Love You, Incapable of Love, She's Got a Wiggle)
8. Grizzly Bear - Shields (Yet Again, Speak In Rounds, Sun In Your Eyes)
9. The xx - Coexist (Swept Away, Tides, Sunset)
10. Bob Dylan - Tempest (Duquesne Whistle, Pay In Blood, Long And Wasted Years)


Songs:

Beak> - Yatton
Boldy James - The Last Two Days
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness (new version)
Cat Power - Ruin, Manhattan
Dinosaur Jr - Don't Pretend You Didn't Know
Iamsu! - All I Rep
John Cale - December Rains, Living With You
Kardone - Light The Torch
Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow
MNDR - Sparrow Voices, Fall In Love With The Enemy
Nas - Loco-Motive, Daughters, Reach Out (just started listening to it, but it just might eventually make my Top 10)
Patti Smith - April Fool
Orbital (feat. Zola Jesus) - New France
Reina Republicana - Dime qué vas a hacer, Clonidina
Richard Hawley - Seek It
Rick Ross - Party Heart, Mine Games
Sharon van Etten - Serpents
Sufjan Stevens - Christmas Unicorn
Tamaryn - I'm Gone, Prizma
The Weeknd - Montreal

[Willie Kool]

Guess I don't listen to much new music these days.

[Willie Kool]

Listen to this piano track on the Fleshgod album. Well, there is sadness to it. That's probably why the name. It's beautiful.

Spoiler:

That is beautiful.

[columbia]

Guess I don't listen to much new music these days.

You might like this:

[Gaucho]

Guess I don't listen to much new music these days.

I probably wouldn't either if not for useful sites like Stereogum and Pitchfork.

[Willie Kool]

You might like this:

That's pretty good. Solid lyrics.

edit: And it led me to all kinds of interesting things.

I probably wouldn't either if not for useful sites like Stereogum and Pitchfork.

Not only have I never heard any of the songs you listed, I've never even been to either of the sites you mentioned. Way to make a brother feel old.

[Troy Loney]

I'll do the track thing to, because that's probably the best way to explain why the album made the cut.

ALBUMS
Japandroids – Celebration Rock: The Nights of Wine and Roses, Adrenaline Nightshift, The House That Heaven Built
Fang Island – Major: Sisterly, Asunder, Regalia, Chime Out
Beach House – Bloom: Myth, Irene, Wild
The Men – Open Your Heart: Animal, Open Your Heart, Please Dont Go Away
Chairlift – Something, Sidewalk Safari, I Belong in Your Arms, Met Before
Hunx – Hairdresser Blues, Always Forever, Hairdresser Blues, Let Me In
Cloud Nothings -Attack on Memory, Wasted Days, Fall In, Stay Useless, Our Plans
The Orwells – Remember When: Lays at Rest, Halloween All Year, In My Bed
Terry Malts – Killing Time: Something About You, Not Far From It, No Good For You, Mall Dreams
Tanlines – Mixed Emotions: Green Grass, Brothers, Not The Same, All of Me

TRACKS
Tanlines – Green Grass
Hunx – Always Forever
Japandroids – The House that Heaven Built
The Babies – Alligator
Sleigh Bells – Road to Hell
Titus Andronicus – In a Big City
The Men – Open Your Heart
The Orwells – Halloween All Year
Fang Island – Asunder
Gentlemen Jesse – Take it Easy On Me
The Big Pink – Stay Gold
Chairlift – Sidewalk Safari
The Walkmen – The Love you Love
Terry Malts – Not Far From It
Crocodiles – My Surfing Lucifer
Mac Demarco – Still Together
Chromatic – Kill For Love
Spiritualized – Hey Jane
Cloud Nothings – Fall In
M. Ward – Primitive Girl
King Krule - Rock Bottom

[Kraftster]

Troy, did you like the Wild Nothing album? I figured I'd have seen them somewhere on there.

[Troy Loney]

I liked Only Heather, but otherwise I found it a little dull.

Also, I added that King Krule song to my tracks, that was just a single, if he made a full length of songs like "rock bottom" that would easily be my album of the year.

[Gaucho]

Same here. They could use a little spunk.

[columbia]

I am eagerly awaiting a King Krule album.....that kid has it.

[Kraftster]

Huh, and here I thought dull is just what you liked.

[Troy Loney]

I am eagerly awaiting a King Krule album.....that kid has it.

I was talking to my friend about him, he told me he saw King Krule in NYC with Girls and Real Estate. Lineups like that never come to Pittsburgh.

[Troy Loney]

I just got this album on sunday, I might be jumping the gun putting this as one of my top tracks...I think it's an awesome song.