Music Round-Up 2013

[Dead throne]

I don't like to talk about my friends' music tastes. We share a lot in common, except theirs is a lot more limited and they don't like expanding their taste. The ratio of bands I like, to bands they like, is probably about 20:1

[Com Truise]

Same here, none of my mates are so 'dedicated' to music as I am, and only rarely attend gigs/fests, which is a bit silly, mainly because they always go "Oh you're so lucky , you can go to so many concerts" and "Jeez u hav so much monay lol"

200:1 for me lol

[Muppetmark]

Yeah, when I want to get into a band, I listen to them constantly, all of their albums, everything, my mates kind of listen to a couple of songs then they're like, "yeah they're cool" and I'm just "THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH"

I'm just going to start going to gigs alone from now on anyway, too much effort asking people if they're bothered or not, just for them to reply with "I'm not sure, lets wait a while" no -.-

[alex28]

For me the album of the year by a million miles is Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal

other favourites include:

Biffy Clyro - Opposites

QOTSA - Like Clockwork

Daylight - Jar

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

Arcane Roots - Blood & Chemistry

[Dead throne]

Yeah, when I want to get into a band, I listen to them constantly, all of their albums, everything, my mates kind of listen to a couple of songs then they're like, "yeah they're cool" and I'm just "THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH"

I'm just going to start going to gigs alone from now on anyway, too much effort asking people if they're bothered or not, just for them to reply with "I'm not sure, lets wait a while" no -.-

[Hart Attack]

Albums

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal

Jimmy Eat World - Damage

Paramore - Paramore

Fall Out Boy - Save Rock And Roll

Black Veil Brides - Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones

Funeral For A Friend - Conduit

Bullet For My Valentine - Temper Temper

Biffy Clyro - Opposites

Songs

Bring Me The Horizon - Can You Feel My Heart

Bring Me The Horizon - Sleepwalking

Bring Me The Horizon - Shadow Moses

Jimmy Eat World - I Will Steal You Back

Jimmy Eat World - Byebyelove

Jimmy Eat World - You Were Good

Paramore - Now

Paramore - Still Into You

Paramore - Part II

Black Veil Brides - In The End

Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)

Fall Out Boy - The Phoenix

Alkaline Trio - I Wanna Be A Warhol

Alkaline Trio - She Lied To The FBI

Frank Turner - The Way I Tend To Be

Avenged Sevenfold - Hail To The King

Looking Forward To

Avenged Sevenfold - Hail To The King

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy

Need To Listen To More

Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

Black Sabbath - 13

Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart

Stone Sour - House Of Gold And Bones (Part 2)

Alkaline Trio - My Shame Is True

Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent

Thirty Seconds To Mars - Love, Lust, Faith And Dreams

Hollywood Undead - Notes From The Underground

Falling In Reverse - Fashionably Late

Edited July 17, 2013 by Hart Attack

[lightning1000]

Favourite albums of the year so far.

Biffy clyro - opposites

Frank turner - tape deck heart

Letlive - the blackest beautiful

Phosphorescent - muchacho

The flaming lips - the terror

Biggest disappointments

Daft punk - ram ( still like it though)

Qotsa - like clockwork

Foals - holy fire

Editors - the weight of your love

Looking forward to.

Arcade fire

Pearl jam - lighting bolt

Avenged sevenfold - hail to the king

Five finger death punch - The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 & 2

[Chiefski]

Not had full listens of a lot of stuff to be honest, but...

Albums of the Year:

Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

Foals - Holy Fire

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

Deap Vally - Sistrionix

Sigur Ros - Kviekur

Rudimental - Home

YYY's - Mosquito (a bit undecided on this atm)

Kanye West - Yeezus

The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law

Songs of the Year:

Queens of the Stone Age - I Appear Missing

Arctic Monkeys- Do I Wanna Know?

Daft Punk - Giorgio by Moroder

Kanye West - Black Skinhead

Editors - A Ton of Love

YYYs - Sacrilege

Haim - Falling

Inhaler - Foals

Disappointing Albums of the Year:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - so overblown, telling that Get Lucky is the only track getting real airtime

Atoms For Peace - AMOK

The Strokes - Come Down Machine

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Jay-Z - Magna Carta (still to give a solid listen, all seems a bit, 'meh' though)

Anticipated Albums from:

Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, NIN, Franz Ferdinand, KOL, Haim, Chvrches, MIA, The Black Keys

[SOAD]

Definately have to add Letlive into my favourites of the year... what a great band. The Savages album is great also.

[suckitandsee]

Albums Of The Year

Peace - In Love

Palma Violets - 180

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

QOTSA - ...Like Clockwork

Miles Kane - Don't Forget Who You Are

Courteeners - Anna

Disclosure - Settle

Songs Of The Year

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

Peace - Delicious

Peace - Lovesick

Peace - Wraith

Palma Violets - Best Of Friends

Palma Violets - Johnny Bagga Donuts

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

Daft Punk - Doin' It Right

Kanye West - Bound 2

Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

QOTSA - I Sat By The Ocean

Miles Kane - Taking Over

Disclosure - White Noise

Icona Pop ft. Charlie xcx - I Love It

Albums Im Waiting For

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Swim Deep - Where The Heaven Are We

White Lies - Big TV

KOL - Mechanical Bull

Arcade Fire

[Dukeeyyy]

Favourite 10 in no particular order:

Miles Kane - Don't Forget Who You Are

Biffy Clyro - Opposites

Kanye West - Yeezus

Bastille - Bad Blood

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal

Editors - The Weight Of Your Love

Palma Violets - 180

Courteeners - Anna

Knife Party - A Haunted House EP

Kodaline - In A Perfect World

Anticipating:

Avicii

Enter Shikari

Arctic Monkeys

White Lies

Avenged Sevenfold

Kings Of Leon

Top 10 Tracks of The Year in no particular order:

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

Woodkid - Run Boy Run

Bastille - Laura Palmer

Biffy - Sounds Like Balloons

KOL - Supersoaker

Knife Party - EDM Death Machine

Miles Kane - Don't Forget Who You Are

Kodaline - After The Fall

Enter Shikari - Radiate

Avicii - Wake Me Up

Edited July 18, 2013 by Dukeeyyy

[robMUFC96]

Worst song of the year

Arctic Monkeys - 2013

[Com Truise]

Worst song of the year

Arctic Monkeys - 2013

[Superunknown]

Favourite albums of the year have been Wish to Scream, how that warranted a 4 and BE didn't get below 2 is an absolute shambles.

Other albums I've enjoyed:

Opposites - Biffy Clyro

Weight of Your Love - Editors, despite the assault its been taking.

Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend

Tape Deck Heat - Frank Turner

...Like Clockwork - QOTSA

Looking forward to:

Arctic Monkeys

Nine Inch Nails

White Lies

[kaosmark2]

I normally don't listen to many albums before the price of CD drops to £5/6 but I seem to have streamed far more this year. Here's some thoughts:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - This has really been growing on me. It doesn't sound that much like earlier Daft Punk, but with every listen I enjoy it more. It's got a few crap tracks, but so has Homework. It's an album that needs time, especially considering the hype that there was going into it, but I feel it rewards that.

QOTSA - Like Clockwork - There are some absolute corkers on this album, and it has the variety that both the TCV album and Era Vulgaris were missing, but I find a few tracks grow tiresome upon repeat listens, My God is the Sun in particular. Still a cracking album, but I think the love for it will steadily drop, they've still not matched SFTD yet.

The National - Trouble Will Find Me - I adore it. High Violet got a lot of media hype, but this is a superior album. Perfect balance of beauty and liveliness, my AOTY so far, and is currently winning the competition with Boxer for my affections as favourite National album. Get it. Now.

Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave. On Form. What more do you need? A vast improvement after the disappointing Dig Lazarus Dig, this showcases a great range of what he can do, albeit without quite reaching his peak at any point.

Tomahawk - Oddfellows - Another solid, but not quite outstanding album from one of Patton's many bands. Some cool sounds, some epic choruses, it's up there as one of the best non-FNM Patton-albums, but there's little to make it truly standout.

Atoms for Peace - Amok - Meh.

Biffy Clyro - Opposites - Meh. It's a good double-album, consistent, without-filler and far more engaging and lively than Only Revolutions, but ultimately Biffy have mellowed far too much for my liking. They're good songs, with a bit of variety, but none that I'd prefer to hear than their early stuff.

Albums I really should have listened to (in some cases more than once):

My Bloody Valentine - m b v

Flaming Lips - The Terror

Primal Scream - More Light

How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion

Bowie - The Next Day

Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law

Editors - The Weight of Your Love

Sigur Ros - Kveikur

Tricky - False Idols

Justice - Access All Arenas

Eels - Wonderful, Glorious

Albums I'm looking forward to:

NIN - Hesitation Marks

Placebo - Loud Like Love

Of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar

Arcade Fire

[sammylee]

Favourite Albums Of The Year:

1)Foals-Holy Fire

2)Qotsa-...Like Clockwork

3)Kanye West-Yeezus

4)Fidlar-Fidlar

5)Peace-In Love

Other Decent Albums:

Comedown Machine-Strokes

II-UMO

Long.Live.ASAP-ASAP Rocky

Modern Vampires-VW

Wish To Scream-Tribes

180-Palma Violets

Looking Forward To:

Arctic Monkeys-AM(Kind Of)

Babyshambles

Haim

The Horrors

Klaxons(Hopefully they'll release something soon)

Splashh-Comfort

Swim Deep-Where The Heaven Are We?

[SOAD]

I'm bored so here is my top 25 albums of the year so far. PS order I'm not totally sure on but it's the general idea.

1. Arcane Roots – Blood & Chemistry

2. Biffy Clyro – Opposites

3. Editors – The Weight of Your Love

4. Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork

5. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer

6. Sigur Ros – Kveikur

7. Letlive – The Blackest Beautiful

8. Kanye West – Yeezus

9. The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation

10. The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law

11. Primal Scream – More Light

12. The Dear Hunter – Migrant

13. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away

14. The Flaming Lips – The Terror

15. Everything Everything – Arc

16. Bring Me The Horizon – Sempiternal

17. Savages – Silence Yourself

18. Me – Even the Odd Ones Out

19. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

20. Kvelertak – Meir

21. The National – Trouble Will Find Me

22. Clutch – Earth Rocker

23. Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse

24. Paramore – Paramore

25. Fidlar – Fidlar

Edited July 28, 2013 by SOAD