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As we are so close to the end of the year here are my picks of 2010. I haven't heard the Bardo Pond album so obviously can't include it. It's been a very good year for music in my opinion - the most enjoyable for some time.

Album of the year:
Magic Lantern - Platoon

Other great albums:
Serpentina Satellite - Mecanica
Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane - s/t
Gnod/White Hills - Drop Out
Mugstar - Lime
White Hills - s/t
Black Crowes - Croweology

Gig of the year:
CAVE (by a light year - best gig of the last however many years too) at Islington Mill, Salford

Other great nights:
Wooden Shjips at Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
The Heads supporting Wooden Shjips at Bush Hall, London
Sun Araw at Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Spectrum at The Harley, Sheffield
White Hills at the Ruby Lounge, Manchester
The Soft Pack at the Cockpit, Leeds

My musical discovery of the year:
Humble Pie (ta Redcloud for that one)
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That time again! I agree with you Mark - been a great year for loads of quality music. Some exceptional stuff out in the last year or so... Been a crazy up and down year but I'm happy to report it's ending well. Things happen for a reason!

Anyway, let's go...

My album of the year has to be

Janelle Monae - The Archandroid

Beautiful, beyond psychefunkadelica. That tune 'Tightrope' fucking rocks as well.

Other favourites include

Martina-Topley Bird - Some Place Simple
Grinderman 2
Neil Young - Le Noise
Prince - 20Ten
The Phantom Band - The Wants
Subfocus - Subfocus
MIA - /\/\ /\ Y /\
We Fell To Earth - We Fell To Earth
Steve Mason - Boys Outside
Campbell & Lanegan - Hawk
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Volume 2, Return of The Ankh
Tricky - Mixed Race
Sleigh Bells - Treats

There are probably more but those are the ones that got played a lot on my mp3 player.

Honourary Modern Classic Pop Record

Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster. :D

Also mentions to some of these fantastic old-but-new-to-me records...

Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Little Richard's Greatest Hits Recorded Live 1967
Velvet Underground - The Quine Tapes
Phil Spector 74-79
Miles Davis - Prestige recordings box
Prince - One Nite Alone live box
John Lennon - Sometime In New York City


Songs of the year for me are MIA - 'Born Free', Bodyrox feat. Luciana - 'Yeah Yeah' (Ramirez full length & dub versions), Bob Dylan 'I'm Not There' :shock: , Nirvana 'Come Unto Death' bootleg....and many many others.

Gigwise a bit fucked this year due to finanical constraints, but overwhelmingly amazing was Courtney Love & Hole at the O2 Academy, and the awesomely heavy Machine Code at the Art School.

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Album(s) of the year

new

Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain
Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power box set
Grinderman - Grinderman 2

old

Swans - Feel Good Now
Lee Hazlewood - Trouble is a Lonesome Town
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Wooden Shjips - Volume 1 and Volume 2


Gig of the year

Iggy & the Stooges and Suicide at Hammersmith.

Wooden Shjips & The Heads at Shepherds Bush and Tindersticks at Shepherds Bush come a joint close second. Grizzly Bear at the Other Stage at Glastonbury was a Road to Damascus moment for me and I have been a little bit obsessed with them ever since.

Discovery of the year

Grizzly Bear
Boards of Canada
Wooden Shjips
The Heads

Most pleased to see back

Swans
Iggy & the Stooges
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10 favs:

the black angels - phosphene dream
black rebel motorcycle club - beat the devil's tattoo
brian jonestown massacre - who killed sgt. pepper
deerhunter - halcyon digest
flying lotus - cosmograma
gorillaz - plastic beach
grinderman 2
kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
liars - sisterworld
the radio dept. - clinging to a scheme

no order

not a terribly great year imo
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Top 10:
Steve Mason- Boys Outside
Gayngs- Relayted
Dean & Britta- 13 Most Beautiful
Magic Lantern- Platoon
Perplexa- Gone Beyond
Sleepy Sun- Fever
Sun Araw- On Patrol
Gnod/White Hills- split lp
Phosphorescent- Here's To Taking It Easy
Rev. Louis Overstreet- An Evening With


Gigs of the year- Spiritualized Radio City, James- Royal Oak Music Theater

Reissues of the year: Neil Young Vol. 1-4 vinyl Box, Pretty Things SF Sorrow 40th CD/DVD, George Harrison All Things Must Pass 3x LP, Exile On Main Street, The Ruffin Brothers- I Am My Brothers Keeper, Badfinger- Straight Up and both Billy Preston Apple remasters..
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Heligoland by Masive Attack by some margin (but the mp3 download only content is not a step in the right direction)
Mixed Race by Tricky has some high points and is his best record for years
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To name a few bands that rocked my world this year... Atlas Sound (four CDs worth of material in four days!?), Autolux (their new album is massively underrated), Beach House (probably the most listened-to album of the year), Besnard Lakes, Black Angels, Black Mountain, Brian Eno/David Byrne, Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, Dum Dum Girls, Electric Wizard, Gorillaz, Grinderman (best album of the year, obviously), Isobell Campbell/Mark Lanegan, Janelle Monáe (second best album of the year), Jónsi, Kanye West (third best.... I can't believe I'm saying that), Kylesa, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, The National, Ramesses (best 'metal' album of the year), Robyn, Shannon Wright, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Swans (also the best concert of the year), Third Eye Foundation, White Hills... not to mention that epic Spiritualized performance at Radio City Music Hall!
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I'm with BZA - Janelle Monae's The ArchAndroid is definitely my album of the year. So inventive and varied, I can't believe how talented she is. That album is like some wonderful mix of Prince, James Brown, Lauryn Hill, OutKast and a Broadway stage show. Other albums that I've enjoyed this year include, in no particular order:

Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr Rager (best hip-hop album I've heard in a long time, although I await Kanye's album for Christmas)
Underworld - Barking
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son Of Chico Dusty
Robyn - Body Talk Pt.1 & Pt.2 (the second is better than the first, but the first has the amazing Dancing On My Own and Fembot)
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (although the title track is seriously dull, it has Half Life II and Sprawl II, two of my favourite songs of the year)
MIA - /\/\ /\ Y /\ (but only for the second half of the album, including the extra tracks - It Takes A Muscle is horrendous but Tell Me Why and Space are a welcome step away from the wilfully abrasive first half)
Kelis - Flesh Tone
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (albeit their weakest album, including 45:33, and All I Want is shit, but I Can Change and Home are great and even half-decent LCD is better than most other bands)
Steve Mason - Boys Outside
Jonsi - Go

Favourite gig of the year was last Saturday - Screamadelica live at the Olympia. I also loved seeing Underworld at Glasgow Barrowland the night before, LCD Soundsystem at Glasgow Barrowland in April and in November, Grandmaster Flash, Club 75, 2manydjs and Friendly Fires at the Rockness Festival, Robyn and Kelis two weeks apart in Glasgow in October, Supergrass' Scottish farewell at Glasgow Barrowland, Wu-Tang Clan being shambolic in Glasgow in September, Flight Of The Conchords in Glasgow in May and Jay-Z and Erol Alkan at an otherwise awful T In The Park.
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i've had this in reserve for a while.
my five favourites of the year (the ones i listened to the most)-
beach house- teen dream (i need to find a support group to treat my hopeless addiction to this album- it's getting ridiculous)
deerhunter- halcyon digest
dum dum girls- i will be
thee oh sees- warm slime
disappears- lux

other records i really liked this year-
the walkmen- lisbon
grinderman 2
superchunk- majesty shredding
nina nastasia- outlaster
brian jonestown massacre- who killed sgt. pepper
woods- at echo lake
pretty much anything moon duo put out
mogwai- special moves
the black ryder- buy the ticket, take the ride

stuff i got into that wasn't released this year-
kurt vile
the animals (particularly that early r&b stuff)
vetiver
black tambourine
ganglians
ty segall
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Christ, I'm not sure I'll be ble to contribute well to this thread as I struggle to remember 12 days ago let alone 12 months...

I think I started 2010 with an ear towards disco and mainly compilations which I quickly tired of but it did lead me towards a lot of early proto-house music that seemed to consume me for a while and has sustained throughout the year kinda peaking in the Autumn.

Arthur Russel' stuff as Dinosaur L
Mid '80's Ron Hardy bootlegs
Deep techy House

Alongside this were some minimal wave/cold wave/synth pop finds spurred on by unearthing Ike Yard at the end of '09.
There's always room for POP and of note was the Washed Out EP on Mexican Summer. Rediscovered Bjork' Volta and dipped my toe in the swell of Witch House with Balam Acab and o0o00.

My album of the year is actually a short live recording by the Moritz Von Oswald Trio.

As usual too offset my consumption of beats and bleeps is a good dose of...Noise, i guess.
Yellow Swans back catalogue got airing as did Pete Swanson new long player. Again Type Records seemed to draw me in and found the Indignant Senility releases to my tastes.

I spent the majority of the year listening to mixes and therefore I'm hoping that the Wire best of 2010 will lead me to something decent when it comes through the letterbox.

I am interested to discover one act this year and it is Vomir; a Parisian Harsh Wall Noise (HWN) act. I think he is searching through the static, low end, mid and treble to find the melody that exists without planning. The Noise that exists without creation.

Also, can I just say that single of the year has been posted in another thread; Theo Parrish reworking Lil Louis & Amerie.

Ta
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Favourite albums:

Section 25: Retrofit
Mogwai: Special Moves
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Who Killed Sgt Pepper
The Heads: Koko
Wooden Shjips: Vol 2
Brendan Perry: Ark
The Fall: Your Future Our Clutter

I can't believe that i'm nominating two live albums and 2 singles collections in my end of year list. Partly this is due to the fact that I spent most of this year getting over cancer so didn't listen to much new stuff and partly because 2010 was one of the weakest years I can recall.

Old stuff I've picked up/enjoyed on this year:
The Heads: Relaxing with....(re) Release of the year by a country mile IMHO
Alphastone: Life's a Motorway
Bowery Electric (all their albums but the S/T album is a gem)
Damon and Naomi: The Sub Pop Years

Low points: The MGMT album, anything released/done by the former members of New Order, particularly the Bad Lieutenant album and Peter Hook's decision to tour Unknown Pleasures. The absence of a new Spectrum Album
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BzaInSpace wrote: Bob Dylan 'I'm Not There' :shock:
the best song


1: Paul Cary - Ghost of a Man
2: Neil Young - Le Noise
3: Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
4: Dr John & The Lower 911 - Tribal
5: Grinderman - Grinderman 2
6: Hanggai - Juan Zou do Ren
7: Liars - Sisterworld
8: The Bambi Molesters - As The Dark Wave Swells
9: Babybird - Ex-maniac
10: The Black Keys - Brothers

11: V.A. - Brazilian Guitar Fuzz '67-'76
12: Electric Wizard - Black Masses
13: Wolf People - Steeple
14: White Hills - White Hills
15: Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley
16: Shithorse - They Shit Horses Don't They
17: Giant Sand - Blurry Blue Mountain
18: Steve Mason - Boys Outside
19: Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
20: Ryan Bingham - Junky Star

21: Tweak Bird - Tweak Bird
22: Orb ft. David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres
23: Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
24: Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
25: Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers - The Kneeanderthal Sounds Of..
26:The Orkustra - Adventures in Experimental Orchestra by The San Francisco Psychedelic Underground
27: MV+EE - Liberty Rose
28: Hank Williams III - Rebel Within
29: Munly & The Lupercalians - Petr & The Wolf
30: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

31: The Oh Sees - Warm Slime
32: Tav Falco's Panther Burns - Conjurations: Seance for Deranged Lovers
33: Prince Rama of Ayodhya - Shadow Temple
34: Buckethead - Shadows Between the Sky
35: Black Label Society - Order of the Black
36: Deerhunter - Halycon Digest
37: Doug Paisley - Constant Companion
38: Jamie Lidell - Compass
39: Roky Erikson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
40: God is an Astronaut - Age of the Fifth Sun

41: Dylan leBlanc - Paupers Field
42: Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
43: Whispering Pines - Family Tree
44: The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
45: Tame Impala - Innerspeak
46: The Walkmen - Lisbon
47: Sleigh Bells - Treats
48: Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking it Easy
49: LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
50: 22-20's - Shake Shiver Moan
51: The Fresh & Onlys - Play it Strange


gig of the year - mark lanegan (2nd place GnR/Belfast)
worst gig of the year - Gnr/Dublin
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Black Angels, LCD, Retribution Gospel Choir, Neil Young..
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ah, i have no idea. johnny cash- aint no grave, brmc- beat the devil's was good but not great. some wonderful live leonard cohen stuff, i think that's about it some great past masters but each year i feel i am getting less and less inspired by modern music
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Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Neil Young - Le Noise
Steve Mason - Boys Outside
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Fire in my bones - Compilation

Gig of the year: Grinderman
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Although I bought tons of music this year, not a great deal was actually released in 2010. Anyway, here goes. In no particular order:

eels - End Times (my favourite album of 2010)
eels - Tomorrow Morning
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Avey Tare - Down There
Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love
Mogwai - Special Moves
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
David Bowie - Station to Station (Deluxe Edition)

Song of the Year:
Belle and Sebastian - I Didn't See It Coming

Favourite discoveries of the year: Animal Collective (it took me long enough...)

Biggest disappointment of the year: Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (it's not bad per se, it's just not very compelling)

Favourite gigs: eels and Zappa Plays Zappa

Hotly anticipated albums of 2011: Panda Bear - Tomboy; Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1; Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will; Spiritualized - (wishful thinking!)
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Favourite album:
Voice Of The Seven Thunders - s/t

Closely followed by:
Dungen -Skit I Allt

And then in no particular order:
Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
Wolf People - Steeple
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Walls -s/t
Magic Lantern -Platoon
Gnod/White Hills - Gnod Drop Out With White Hills
Wooden Shjips -Vol.2
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Gigs of the year:

Dungen: Manchester, Roadhouse
Tame Impala: Manchester, Ruby Lounge
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I think 2010 has been a splendid year with regards to albums and gigs. I'm actually surprised how many albums I've actually put down on my list. And its been a crazy year on the gigs front. Probably more gigs than I've ever been to in a year before which, at 38, I don't think is bad going. 8)

Albums of the Year (alphabetical not ranked in order in preference):-

Archie Bronson Outfit - Coconut
Besnard Lakes - .....Are The Roaring Night
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
Carlton Melton - Pass It On
Dead Meadow - Three Kings
Drive-By-Trcukers - The Big To-Do
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Magic Lantern - Platoon
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Midlake - The Courage Of Others
Mogwai - Special Moves
Moon Duo - Escape
The National - High Violet
Neil Young - Le Noise
Serena Maneesh - S-M 2:Abyss in B Minor
Sleepy Sun - Fever
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Thee Silver Mt.Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales
White Hills - S/T
Wooden Shjips - Vol.2

Compliations/reissues:-

Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83
The Psychedelic Sounds Of The Sonic Cathedral
The Heads - Relaxing With

Gigs:-

Iggy & The Stooges at The Apollo, London
The Warlocks at The Luminaire, London
The National at The Royal Albert Hall, London
Pavement at Brixton Academy, London
Black Angels/Massive Attack/National/Archie Bronson Outfit/Serena Maneesh at La Route Du Rock Festival, France
Spectrum at The Freebutt, Brighton
Spacemen 3/Natty Brooker Exhibition at the Hoxton Bar & Grill, London
Thee Silver Mt.Zion Orchestra at St.George's Church, Brighton
Wooden Shjips at The Freebutt, Brighton
Eat Lights; Become Lights, Sennen, The Tamborines at the Half Moon, London
Holy Fuck at Digital, Brighton
Peter Hook performing Unknown Pleasure at Shoreditch Festival, London
Silver Apples at St.Andrew's Church, Brighton
Besnard Lakes at Jam, Brighton
Titus Andronicus at The Albert, Brighton
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wow nice one Ads, hope I'm still going strong when I'm your age!

and Jack White- it's amazing you've even heard 50 new albums this year!
I need to buy more new music. I'm usually either buying back catalogue or discovering everything about a year late. :)

Album of the year: Rangda- False Flag
Runner up: Mogwai- Special Moves

Gig of the year- Silver Mt Zion @ Bham Asylum
Runner up: Grizzly Bear @ Warwick Arts Centre

a solid rather than vintage year for me this year. nothing that has entered my top 10 ever or anything, but some great albums n shows. I didnt go to any festivals either (boo hoo :()
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Here are my favorites for 2010, in no particular order:

Beach House ~ Teen Dream
Monolake ~ Silence
White Hills ~ White Hills
GNOD Drop Out With The White Hills
Dungen ~ Skit I Allt
Belle & Sebastian ~ Write About Love
Violens ~ Amoral
Brian Eno ~ Small Craft On A Milk Sea
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Album of the year:
Eels-End Times
Nothing comes remotely close to it. It's beauty and its deep emotional pain summed up in 14 incredible songs.

Other notables:
Sleepy Sun-Fever
Black Crowes-Croweology
Eels-Tomorrow Morning
The Volta Sound-Floppy (this might actually have been released in the eleventh hour of 2009)

Gig of the Year:
Black Crowes- December 3, 2010 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall; Portland, Oregon
The Eels gig in October was special but this three hour extravaganza was phenomenal. What was once a staple on the live circuit (bands chugging away for 2-3 hours) has become a rarity these days. The ghosts of the Allman Brothers 1970 Fillmore East shows were resurrected on 12/3. An absolute scorcher that went on and on.

Other notable gigs:
Wilco 2/9/10
Gomez 3/15/10

Iron Maiden 6/22/10 (in Seattle with my 10 year old son who LOVES Maiden...it was his birthday present. I saw Maiden on their 'Number of the Beast' Tour now here I was with my son watching them 29 or so years later! Good father/son time).
Eels 10/8/10
Sleepy Sun 7/7/10

Most disappointing gig of the year:
Brian Jonestown Massacre 6/17/10
Some fresh new songs were added into the mix, which was good as the band have toured the same setlist for far too long. However, on this night (tour?) the six different electric guitars (inc. bass) made for a nightmare at the mixing desk. What could have been powerful was instead a mess on the ears. It was also the end of a tour and the band lacked intensity compared to previous times.
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Caribou @ Liverpool Kazimier on Wednesday may top my gig list.....
Pretty poor year for music, best stuff from Caribou/The See See/Wodden Shjips one offs/The Coral LP.
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albums by Sleepy sun, BRMC, Giant Sand, Mogwai (live), Besnard Lakes, Moon Duo, Caribou, Sun Araw, Black Angels, The heads (re-issue), Deerhunter, Exit Calm

Gigs
Sleepy Sun (Manchester Band On The Wall), Black Angels (sheps bush, not Black Mountain who i didnt like on the night), Moon Duo (salford trinity church), BRMC (manchester academy), She keeps bees (dulcimers), Wooden shjips (wolverhampton), Exit Calm (fact 251 Manchester)

poor gigs Black Mountain @ The same Black Angels gig, poor album and just basic hair metal/rock crap (love the first 2 albums though) and Interpol (Manch Apollo) simply boring

probably more highlights but i cant remember. Either way its been a good year muically, especially on the Underground scene
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It's hard for me to imagine anybody calling the Black Angels "hair metal/rock crap"
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I think he's referring to Black Mountain, not the Black Angels.
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i don't get all the fuss about Black Mountain, sounds kinda bland from what i've heard
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burningwheel wrote:i don't get all the fuss about Black Mountain, sounds kinda bland from what i've heard
that's pretty much my opinion as well.
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I don't like the new Black Mountain album, either. I prefer the Pink Mountaintops stuff, but I don't think I'll ever be a huge fan of any of his work.
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Not bought too many new albums this year but on the best of list would be......

Sun Araw - On Patrol
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Moon Duo - Escape
Higamos Hogamos - Atomised Pt 1
Fire In My Bones - compilation
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Catch up albums I should have always owned......

Talking Heads - Remain In Light, More Songs, Fear Of Music
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night
Bad Seeds - Bad Seed/Mutiny EP

Singles and EP's......

Sun Araw - Off Duty/Boat Trip EP, Sun Ark 7"
Moon Duo - Catch As Catch Can & Boppers Hat
Wooden Shjips - What It Is tour 7" and the new festive 12" too
Sp3/Shjips - split 7"

Gigs........

Primal Scream - Olympia
Wooden Shjips/Moon Duo - Garage
Sun Araw - CAMP
erm.....can't think back more than a few months ago

and many more records that have slipped out of my brain box into the ether.

EDIT: swiped the new Best Of 2010 cd from the front of Uncut in WH Smiths today. Two albums for my 'want list' are Voice Of The Seven Woods (my oh my what an acid fried psych work out that Set Fire To The Forest track is!!) Also the Black Keys newie as I really like Next Girl.
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johnnyboy wrote: Higamos Hogamos - Atomised Pt 1
Yay! I didn't realize they had a new album out! Their first one is a psychedlicized beauty! Is it good/better etc??
johnnyboy wrote: EDIT: swiped the new Best Of 2010 cd from the front of Uncut in WH Smiths today. Two albums for my 'want list' are Voice Of The Seven Woods (my oh my what an acid fried psych work out that Set Fire To The Forest track is!!) Also the Black Keys newie as I really like Next Girl.
So it's cause of you I need to keep "asking my newsagent".

Heh heh heh...good call though. Pretty sure you didn't miss much in the actual mag.
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BzaInSpace wrote:
johnnyboy wrote: Higamos Hogamos - Atomised Pt 1
Yay! I didn't realize they had a new album out! Their first one is a psychedlicized beauty! Is it good/better etc??
johnnyboy wrote: EDIT: swiped the new Best Of 2010 cd from the front of Uncut in WH Smiths today. Two albums for my 'want list' are Voice Of The Seven Woods (my oh my what an acid fried psych work out that Set Fire To The Forest track is!!) Also the Black Keys newie as I really like Next Girl.
So it's cause of you I need to keep "asking my newsagent".

Heh heh heh...good call though. Pretty sure you didn't miss much in the actual mag.
Yep, the Higamos have had two new cd's out via their own website this year. Only a fiver each and both really good. http://www.higamoshogamos.com/Higamos_Hogamos.html Well worth picking up at that price. They extend into new sounds on both. Both come in hand printed cardboard cd sleeve envelopes.

I shouldn't nick cd's from the front of mags but the idea of paying nearly a fiver for something like Uncut/Mojo when the magazine content is below par is kind of galling. Never do it from an independant newsagent though. It's not a regular thing either your honour, please don't send me to the gallows!
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I think Ads list is probably closest to mine...

Albums of the Year:-
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Carlton Melton - Pass It On
Dead Meadow - Three Kings
Magic Lantern - Platoon
Moon Duo - Escape
Sleepy Sun - Fever
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Thee Silver Mt.Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales
White Hills - S/T
Wooden Shjips - Vol.2
Voice of the Seven Thunders - Voice of the Seven Thunders

(Sure Bardo Pond's new album would be here, but not heard it yet...)

Compliations/reissues:-
The Psychedelic Sounds Of The Sonic Cathedral
The Heads - Relaxing With...

Gigs:-
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Barras, Glasgow
Teenage Fanclub - ABC, Glasgow

(Not been to many this year (as is becoming the norm...) but certainly both were hugely fantastic)

Discoveries Of The Year:-
Voices Of The Seven Woods
King Khan & The Shrines
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Fuck me Laz.....that list of albums in nigh on identical to mine. Spooky! The only one not on my list is Voice of The Seven Thunders so that is going straight on to my Xmas wish list.
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Ads wrote:Fuck me Laz.....that list of albums in nigh on identical to mine. Spooky! The only one not on my list is Voice of The Seven Thunders so that is going straight on to my Xmas wish list.
Too lazy to type it all out again :lol: :lol: , so just copied yours and tried to add any others from this year, but all i could think about was that "Voices..." one. I did binge on the rest of the "Voices..." stuff, but since they are technically not from this year, i refrained from adding... (same with a few others)
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true love cast out all evil - roky

yes I´m an old fart and he is on fire live atm

rollercoaster live by the person who wrote while youre stoned staring him in the face - two hours ago! fuck me just catch roky now if you are in europe!
tis not okkervil backing up it is kyle ellison from the butthole surfers and it is the best thing ive seen this year!
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Bit of a big-up here for White Hills and the Besnard Lakes whom I know are both liked on this forum:-

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records & cd's that made 2010 worth listening to:

gonjasufi - a sufi and a killer
acetone - york blvd
washington phillips - bkey to the kingdom
graham bond organisation - the sound of 65/there's a bond between us
serge gainsbourg - la chanson du prevert
25 brithish mod artefacts from the emi vaults - take my tip
jon spencer blues explosion - controversial negro
neil young and crazy horse - crazy horse at the fillmore 1970
brian eno with jon hopkins & leo abrahams - small craft on a milk sea
mulatu astatke & the heliocentrics - inspiration information
donald byrd - early bird
michael leonhart & the avramina 7 - seahorse and the storyteller
blue flamingo - congo jazz
trojan, sounds & pressure - mod reggae
master musicians of bukkake - themes from the motion pictures: mans with the green gloves on/ban bè cûa anh äy
brown sugar presents - hit the rhodes jack, a tribute to the fender rhodes electric piano
sharon jones & the dapkings - i learned the hard way
southern folk heritage series - negro church music
dr. john - anytime, anyplace
mata la pena - a compilation of international music
neokarma jooklo trio - time's vibes
ilyas ahmed - between two skies/towards the night
rev. louis overstreet - an evening with rev.louis overstreet

and last we not forget, finally the offecial release of "ladies and gentlemen, the rolling stones", fucking amazing.
been waiting for that one to come out for years!

have a brillant xmas and a happy new year

cheers already!
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Monorail Records list for 2010...

01 Teenage Fanclub - Shadows (Pema)
02 Moon Duo - Escape (Woodsist)
03 Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love (Rough Trade)
04 The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
05 Alasdair Roberts - Too Long In This Condition (Drag City)
06 Washed Out - Life Of Leisure (Mexican Summer)
07 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA / EMI)
08 Best Coast - Crazy For You (Wichita)
09 The Vaselines - Sex With An X (Sub Pop)
10 The Sexual Objects - Cucumber (Aktion & Spass)
11 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
12 Bonnie Prince Billy - Wonder Show Of The World (Domino)
13 Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino)
14 Grinderman - II (Mute)
15 One One - Aoooo (P-Vine)
16 Various - Deutsche Elektronische Musik (Soul Jazz)
17 Errors - Come Down With Me (Rock Action)
18 The Liminanas - s/t (Trouble In Mind)
19 To Rococo Rot - Speculation (Domino)
20 Unwinding Hours - s/t (Chemikal Underground)
21 Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (Fat Cat)
22 Lali Puna - Our Inventions (Morr Music)
23 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge / Mercury)
24 Phantom Band - The Wants (Chemikal Underground)
25 Pavement - Quarantine The Past (Domino)
26 She and Him - Volume Two (Double Six / Domino)
27 Moon Unit - Hell Horse & Heady Stratus (Blackest Rainbow)
28 Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (Sub Pop)
29 Silver Mount Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales (Constellation)
30 Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep (Heavenly)
31 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
32 RM Hubbert - First & Last (Ubisano)
33 Mogwai - Special Moves (Rock Action)
34 Umberto - From the Grave (Not Not Fun)
35 Grass Widow - Past Time (Kill Rock Stars)
36 Sun Araw - On Patrol (Not Not Fun)
37 Directorsound - Two Years Today (Tona Serenad)
38 The National - High Violet (4AD)
39 Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself (Editions Mego)
40 Trembling Bells - Abandoned True Love (Honest Jons)

Compiled from sales and customer votes.
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Albums:
Moon Duo - Escape
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Grinderman II
Clinic - Bubblegum
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Liars - Sisterworld
Quasi - American Gong
Swans - My Father Will...
Darker My Love - Alive as You Are

7":
Forgetters -s/t
Pissed Jeans - Your Life is Worth...
The Fall - Bury!
Camera Obscura - The Nights Are Cold

Reissues:
Orange Juice box set
Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall omnibus edition
The Stooges Raw Power legacy edition
LAGWAFIS vinyl (hehe)
Galaxie 500

Shows:
Kurt Vile in Chicago
Spectrum in San Diego
Tyvek/Ty Segall in San Diego
??? I can't think of any others since I haven't been to a show in agessss.


Here's to next year being better (at least for me)....
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I'd like to add Tame Impala's Innerspeaker to my list... its brilliant! Getting a lot of airplay here.
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these are some records that tickled my fancy this year ,in no particular order as I couldn`t possibly do it but any way here goes ,

Moon Duo-Escape ,
Mogwai-Special Moves
Magic Lantern-Platoon,
BRMC-Beat The Devils Tattoo,
The Black Keys -Brothers ,
Salem-Kings Night,
The Fall-Your Future Our Clutter,
Wooden Shjips-Vol.2
Arcade Fire-The Suburbs,
Sun Araw -On Patrol
Voice Of The Seven Thunders-s/t
White Hills -s/t

not a classic year but still some fine music out their,
must mention The Heads-Relaxing With... and White Hills- Heads On Fire,both been getting big licks round here the last wee while.
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Albums:

Set Phazer To Stun – The Time & Space Machine – The best thing I’ve heard this year. A great mixture of psychedelia, krautrock, balearica, and the track Midsummer Night would not sound out of place on Lazer Guided Melodies.

Congratulations – MGMT – I probably only really got this because of Sonic Boom’s production and love what he and the band have achieved on this.

13 Most Beautiful – Dean & Britta – Again, Sonic Boom is all over the two discs on this album and there are some great songs to match the carefully chosen subjects

Volume 3 – The Time & Space Machine – The third instalment of re-edits by Richard Norris of rare psychedelic tracks.

Listen To The Voices – Sly Stone In The Studio – Some rare Sly & The Family Stone unreleased tracks and at last, all the singles which were released on Sly’s short lived Stone Flower label, finally available on cd. These singles were originally brought out in order to fund the expenses incurred during the relatively long process of recording and re-recording There’s a Riot Going On.

Singles Volume 9 – James Brown – This long running project of collecting all the A & B sides of singles chronologically released, now arrives at the period when Mr Brown brought out his two best albums – The Payback and Hell. Also includes singles on the People label which came out under the JB’s / Lyn Collins etc...

I’m New Here – Gil Scott Heron - Haunting and moving, sung and spoken vocals, with a backing track that suits Gil’s voice and lyrics. A remix of this is due out early next year.

Gigs:

Screamadelica Live @ Olympia Saturday – Primal Scream – one of the best performances I’ve seen from the Scream in 30+ gigs and the amount of work and effort that went into these shows was evident. They have definitely raised the bar.

Funkadelic @ Paradiso Amsterdam – Still doing their upmost to tear the roof off the mother

13 Most Beautiful @ Barbican – Dean & Britta – Fascinating background stories and great music to accompany the well chosen screen tests.

Julian Cope @ Thekla Bristol – Excellent solo set. Still has a great voice, still genuinely funny and always a legend.

Music Documentaries

When You’re Strange – The Doors. - Johnny Depp’s passionate narration never hides what a fan he is of the band’s music and there is some great rare footage including clips from the infamous HWY film.

Coming Back For More – The Search For Sly Stone. The long patient search is eventually rewarded with Sly’s first interview on screen for years. Again, there is some great footage, though tantalisingly short, of live performances.

Love Is The Message - A Night At The Gallery. A group of students from The New York Film school were initially invited down to Nicky Siano’s club to film a one off Saturday night. They ended up coming back every week for eight months. An excellent insight into the underground disco club scene of the mid seventies.
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Add Citay's 'Dream Get Together' to the pile. Totally sublime dreamy psychedelic pop with sunshine all over everything. How did I manage to miss these guys before?
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runcible wrote:Add Citay's 'Dream Get Together' to the pile. Totally sublime dreamy psychedelic pop with sunshine all over everything. How did I manage to miss these guys before?

Now they sound right up my street. Got take a listen with a description like that!
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Here:
http://www.myspace.com/citay07

Go directly to 'Careful With That Hat' and bliss out. Then head for 'Secret Breakfast' and trip out.
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wonderfull! I've just ordered dream together and the remixes lps.

You've helped my new years resolution to find some good new music along a treat! Thanks very much.
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ABOCA wrote:
Listen To The Voices – Sly Stone In The Studio – Some rare Sly & The Family Stone unreleased tracks and at last, all the singles which were released on Sly’s short lived Stone Flower label, finally available on cd. These singles were originally brought out in order to fund the expenses incurred during the relatively long process of recording and re-recording There’s a Riot Going On.
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