Music Round-Up 2013

[Gucci Piggy]

Thought it might be nice to have a thread to discuss 2013's music in general, including acts unrelated to the festival. A place to discuss favourite albums/tracks of the year etc.

I'll start with some lists...

Albums of the Year:

Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

Savages - Silence Yourself

Foals - Holy Fire

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

Songs of the Year:

Queens of the Stone Age - I Appear Missing

The Strokes - Slow Animals

Daft Punk - Giorgio by Moroder

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street

Black Sabbath - Methademic

Sigur Rós - Brennisteinn

Editors - Sugar

Kanye West - Black Skinhead

Disappointing Albums of the Year:

Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Tribes - Wish to Scream

Editors - The Weight of Your Love

Atoms For Peace - AMOK

Anticipated Albums of the Year:

White Lies - Big TV

Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Kings of Leon - Mechanical Bull

Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt

The Horrors - TBA

Arcade Fire - TBA

Then there's a few albums I've listened to, but not enough to judge them properly (Yeezus, 13 etc.)

Edited July 17, 2013 by Will-2609

[Com Truise]

Harshly Judged Album of the Year

Editors - The Weight of Your Love

[mrtourette]

Off the top of my head:

Favourite Albums Of The Year

The Joy Formidable

FIDLAR

Alessi's Ark

QOTSA

Chelsea Light Moving

Haven't Got Round To Buying Yet But Expect It To Be Awesome

The National

Not As Bad As People Made It Out To Be, Actually Pretty Good

The Strokes

Palma Violets

Awesome Single, Shame About The Rest Of The Album

Foals - Inhaler

Oddly-Appealing Songs I Didn't Expect To Like As Much As I Did, Although Not Enough To Make Me Buy The Album Yet

Editors - A Ton Of Love

Miles Kane - Give Up

Crystal Fighters - You & I

What The Fuck Is This Shit, I Thought This Was Suposed To Be Good?

The 1975

Imagine Dragons

Records Looking Forward To

Swim Deep

Azealia Banks

Arcade Fire

Edited July 16, 2013 by mrtourette

[DMCJ2]

Albums of the year:

Nick Cave and the bad seeds - Push The Sky Away

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Peace - In Love

Gabriel Bruce- Love In Arms

Courteeners - Anna

Beady Eye - BE

Biffy Clyro - Opposites

Songs of the year:

Nick Cave and the bad seeds - Jubilee Street

Pulp - After You

Jay Z - Holy Grail

The Strokes - All The Time

Phoenix - Entertainment

QOTSA - My God Is the sun

Disappointing albums of the year:

Vampire Weekend - Modern vampires of the city

Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

Albums looking forward to:

Swim Deep

Arcade Fire

Arctic Monkeys

Kings Of Leon

Justin Timberlake (part 2)

Franz Ferdinand

Nine Inch Nails

[Com Truise]

Okay, in all seriousness.

Looking Forward To

The 1975

Arcade Fire

Nine Inch Nails

Arctic Monkeys

Kings of Leon

Wu-Tang Clan

Pearl Jam

Pusha T

Drake

Favourite Albums of the Year

Foals - Holy Fire

Biffy - Opposites

Black Sabbath - 13

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

Kavinsky - OutRun

QOTSA - Like Clockwork

Kanye - Yeezus

Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap (it's a mixtape, but still)

Disappointing Albums of the Year

Jay-Z - Magna Carta Holy Grail

David Bowie - Where Are We Now?

Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart (should have cut about 8 songs off it)

The Strokes - Comedown Machine

Tribes - Wish to Scream

Albums That Have Grown On Me

Palma Violets - 180

Bastille - Bad Blood

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Favourite Songs

Frank Turner - Plain Sailing Weather

Foals - Late Night

Biffy - Sounds Like Balloons

Editors - A Ton Of Love

The 1975 - Sex

Queens of the Stone Age – Smooth Sailing

Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?

We Are the Ocean – Machine

Stereophonics – Graffiti on the Train

Vampire Weekend – Step

[music-fan4]

My Fave Albums of the year (in order)

1. Kanye West - Yeezus

2. Disclosure - Settle

3. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

4. Foals - Holy Fire

5. Biffy Clyro- Opposites

6. Peace - In Love

6. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap (mixtape)

7. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

8. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

9. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of The City

10. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

Best Songs

1. Kanye West - I'm in it

2. Disclosure - Confess To Me (ft. Jessie Ware)

3. Kanye West - Blood On The Leaves

4. Foxygen - On Blue Mountain

5. Chance The Rapper - Cocoa Butter Kisses

6. Queens Of The Stone Age - I Sat By The Ocean

7. Savages - She Will

8. Foals - My Number

9. Biffy Clyro - Different People

10. Kanye West - Black Skinhead

11. Peace - California Daze

12. Haim - Falling

13. Chance The Rapper - Favourite Song

14. Daft Punk - Lose Yourself To Dance

15. Kanye West - New Slaves

Anticipated Albums

Arctic Monkeys

Arcade Fire

Swim Deep

The 1975

Haim

Wu-Tang Clan

Pusha T

Earl Sweatshirt

The Horrors

Nine Inch Nails

Pearl Jam

[Gucci Piggy]

Harshly Judged Album of the Year

Editors - The Weight of Your Love

[robMUFC96]

Favourite Albums

Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart

Foals - Holy Fire

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

The Courteeners - ANNA

Tribes - Wish To Scream

Biffy - Opposites

Editors - The Weight Of Your Love

Favourite Songs

Kanye West - New Slaves

Disclosure - Latch

Arctic Monkeys - Do I wanna Know?

San Cisco - Fred Astaire

Biffy Clyro - Spanish Radio

Albums I didn't expect to be that good

Kanye West - Yeezus

Bastille - Bad Blood

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

Albums I haven't had a chance to listen to yet

QOTSA - Like Clockwork

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Laura Marling - Once I was an Eagle

Anticipated Albums

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Spector - TBA

The 1975

The Family Rain

[dentalplan]

Favourite albums of the year:

1. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork (surprise motherufkckers)
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
3. Savages - Silence Yourself
4. Foxygen - We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
5. The Strokes - Comedown Machine
6. Tribes - Wish to Scream
7. FIDLAR - FIDLAR
8. Deap Vally - Sistrionix
9. Suede - Bloodsports
10. Editors - The Weight of Your Love

Albums better than I expected:

• Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
• Editors - The Weight of Your Love
• Suede - Bloodsports
• Black Sabbath - 13

Albums worse than I expected:

• The National - Trouble Will Find Me
• Foals - Holy Fire
• Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito

Footnote: I haven't listened to Push the Sky Away yet.

[Com Truise]

Oh yeah I forgot, Doris too. Although the release has been pushed back to just before R&L

Meh, I thought it was going to be great after hearing Sugar and Nothing live last year. In the end they made Sugar worse on the album (okay, still awesome) and completely changed Nothing from a great, upbeat song, to a depressing, slow, nothing (lol pun) song.

[robMUFC96]

Wish To Scream also got a 4, and although it wasn't as good as their other stuff, it was still miles better than some of the drivel they gave 7 and 8s this year

[Com Truise]

Wish To Scream also got a 4, and although it wasn't as good as their other stuff, it was still miles better than some of the drivel they gave 7 and 8s this year

[robMUFC96]

e.g. Beady Eye

Edited July 16, 2013 by robMUFC96

[Gucci Piggy]

it's not as good as you'd expect from the singles, A Ton Of Love and Formaldehyde is the next one, but it's still a good, solid, album. I'm just really disappointed in NME's incredibly harsh 4/10 review of it. Not cool enough for them.

Edited July 16, 2013 by Will-2609

[robMUFC96]

That review was absolute shite. I've stopped reading any of NME's opinions on music. I could write a better review than them.

[Dead throne]

Favourite Albums Of The Year

Amon Amarth

Airbourne

Heaven Shall Burn- VETO

Thy Art Is Murder- Hate

Haven't Got Round To Buying Yet But Expect It To Be Awesome

QOTSA- Like Clockwork...

TBDM

Frank Turner

WSS-This Is The Six (Deluxe Version)

Not As Bad As People Made It Out To Be, Actually Pretty Good

Black sabbath-13

Awesome Single, Shame About The Rest Of The Album

BMTH- Shadow Moses

What The Fuck Is This Shit, I Thought This Was Suposed To Be Good?

Avenged Sevenfold (going by the first released song)

30 seconds to mars

TDCC

Flyleaf's new album

Green Day (or was it 2012?)

Records Looking Forward To

Carcass

Alter Bridge

Asking Alexandria

Betraying the martyrs

the defiled

Black spiders

ADTR

TDWP

Fenech-Soler

Enter Shikari

Korn

Behemoth

Turisas

etc

[Gucci Piggy]

Let's do it. New thread:

"The R + L Community weekly review" 3 albums a week we select to review, then everyone gets their own chance to post a reply containing exactly what they think of the album. Could have a poll each week to decide which albums to review

[Gucci Piggy]

Not As Bad As People Made It Out To Be, Actually Pretty Good

Black sabbath-13

[robMUFC96]

I'd be up for it. I actually meant to start a blog with album reviews and such, but my friend started the exact same thing like 2 weeks ago, so it'd just look as though I was copying him if I did it now.

[Com Truise]

I checked the Graffiti On the Train review too, and they used the same Status Quo analogy as they did on the Wish To Scream one

[jonodillieono]

1) Disclosure - Settle

2) Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

3) Kanye West - Yeezus

4) Biffy Clyro - Opposites

5) Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

6) Classixx - Hanging Gardens

7) The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law

Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

9) And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures

10) Knife Party - Haunted House EP

Move everything down one place and add Chvrches' album to number 1 once that's released

[Duw13]

Seems like I'm the only person who thinks Wish To Scream is better than Baby...

[robMUFC96]

Seems like I'm the only person who thinks Wish To Scream is better than Baby...

Edited July 16, 2013 by robMUFC96

[Gucci Piggy]

people called 13 bad?

[Com Truise]

Just noticed this. I thought he said "not as good as people made out". I haven't seen anyone say 13 is bad.