MUSIC

[The General]

Same concept of the other post.

Top 5:

1. Linkin Park - Meteora

2. Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood

3. Athlete - Vehicles and Animals

4. The White Stripes - Elephant

5. The Best of R.E.M (88-03)

Kev

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[Leeboy]

Hmmm....

Blur - Think Tank

Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power

Electric 6 - Fire

White Stripes - Elephant

struggling now........

Primal Scream - Dirty Hits ( not out until 18th Nov but will be quality ! )

[Matt the Shrimp]

With those lists, I think we can safely say that 2003 is not going to go down as a vintage year, is it?

Probably the only story I can think of is whether The Darkness get consumed in post-ironic glam rock foolishness, or whether instead they can sustain it and take over the mantle left by Queen. I think there's room for them in the world of pop-rock - it's interesting to see whether they take up the challenge.

Am I the only one who think that The White Stripes are a massive case of "the Emperor's New Clothes"? Can't stand them myself - she's not a good drummer, he's not a good singer, and they've offered feck all apart from a catchy riff in 7 Nation Army.

The only singer who's pushed up the Walker thermometer this year was Blu' Cantrell - thought "Breathe" was an excellent single; but that's been about it (other than The Darkness).

I've also a suspicion that Athlete might be rather good - am planning on investing in their album at any rate. However, it makes one wonder why their music hasn't been pushed far more strongly on the music/video channels... their exposure is, at best, peripheral.

Enough from me.

Matt

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Oct. 28 2003,16:39)]I've also a suspicion that Athlete might be rather good - am planning on investing in their album at any rate. *However, it makes one wonder why their music hasn't been pushed far more strongly on the music/video channels... their exposure is, at best, peripheral.

Enough from me.

Matt
Athlete have released Westside, El Salevor, and Beautiful. Not sure if 'You've Got The Style' is going to be released/or has been but its the best song on the album. Well worth having.

The Whites Stripes. The Hardest Button to Button is just as likeable as Seven Nation Army and have been nomiated for 3/4 EMA's this year.

Im a rock fan and its great to see the pop industry going down the pain and rock has come alive again. Good Charlotte and The Darkness have gone 'mainstream'.

Forgot to mention The Thrills as well. Big Sur and Santa Cruz are 2 quality tunes and they have a new single out soon but the name escapes me.

Im sure next year for some of these bands will be 'make' or 'break' year as for many its there first album (or the first one the mainstream have heard)!

The music has been its best for an age for me as bands like Hot Hot Heat, Athlete, The Thrills, The Darkness have appeared and Linkin Park produced another master piece.

Kev

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (The General @ Oct. 28 2003,16:57)]and Linkin Park produced another master piece.

Kev
hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha

Another masterpiece?

Oh btw, Athlete's songs all sound the same, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs stuff has already been done in the 70s, and Blu Cantrell was a former porn star. Go on, google it.

Oh and is Sean Paul on every frigging song? He's done well for a former bank clerk from North London.

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Oct. 28 2003,17:01)]
Quote[/b] (The General @ Oct. 28 2003,16:57)]and Linkin Park produced another master piece.

Kev
hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha

Another masterpiece?

Oh btw, Athlete's songs all sound the same, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs stuff has already been done in the 70s, and Blu Cantrell was a former porn star. Go on, google it.

Oh and is Sean Paul on every frigging song? He's done well for a former bank clerk from North London.
I agree that Blu Cantrell sucks (literally that is ...) and 'Breathe' only sounded good 'cos of the Enimen tune it was played with ...

As for LP. You either hate them or appreciate them. Im not going to argue with you on that one ...

Kev

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[Andy_S]

Hmm. Not in any real order:

Linkin Park - Meteora

The Darkness - Permission To Land

Evanescence - Fallen

Nickelback - The Long Road

Can't really class the last Foo Fighters album as a 2003 album so I can't really name a 5th. I've got the Electric Six album but apart from the 3 singles released and 'Naked pictures of your mother', I don't really rate it as a top album. I'm about to download the Kings Of Leon album as well as Elephant by the White Stripes (even though she must be the most talentless drummer i've ever heard) so i might be able to add one of those to the list when i've got them.

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Oct. 28 2003,17:01)]and Blu Cantrell was a former porn star. Go on, google it.
So? *Still think it was a good song.



Quote[/b] (Napster @ Oct. 28 2003,17:01)]Oh and is Sean Paul on every frigging song? He's done well for a former bank clerk from North London.
Really? *He has done well. *Generally, I think he's extremely overrated; however, I think he worked well with Ms. Cantrell on "Breathe".

The fact that it overlays an Eminem track is, with respect Kev, irrelevant. *It is a feature of modern music that copying - indeed, complete imitation - of earlier songs is something that goes on. *It doesn't mean that the new song is worthless, merely that it must be judged in its own right.

My favourite example of this: Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing, which was written and first performed by Stevie Wonder, is an excellent song. *Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing by Incognito - entirely a cover of Stevie's song - is also an excellent number.

Matt

[carter_true_blue]

White stripes - Elephant

That rocks.

best song is hardest button to button and the video is phat.

[Andy_S]

Quote[/b] (carter_true_blue @ Oct. 28 2003,18:49)]the video is phat.
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Anyway, that video is indeed superb. Very original and it must have been very tedious for them to shoot.

[Ron Manager]

The Kings Of Leon album is indeed fantastic. The White Stripes once again prove their sublime brilliance. I quite like the Athlete album in a non-challenging, just down my alley Brit-pop kind of way. An album I bought this year but I suspect may indeed have come out last year is The Electric Soft Parade's debut - really underated but in my opinion one of the best debuts in a long time. And of course the truly amazing, never fail to please Super Furry Animals (Leeboy, you should have gone the other Saturday mate - the encore of The Man Don't Give A **** was worth the trip alone!).

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Andy_S @ Oct. 28 2003,19:25)]
Quote[/b] (carter_true_blue @ Oct. 28 2003,18:49)]the video is phat.
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Anyway, that video is indeed superb. Very original and it must have been very tedious for them to shoot.
Got me thinking. How much of it was computerised? All off it or none of it!?

Kev

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[Shrimpersarmy]

Quote[/b] (The General @ Oct. 28 2003,16:06)]5. The Best of R.E.M (88-03)
What songs are on it? it is on my shopping list but i aint got any money at the moment...

Dan.

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Shrimpersarmy @ Oct. 29 2003,00:22)]
Quote[/b] (The General @ Oct. 28 2003,16:06)]5. The Best of R.E.M (88-03)
What songs are on it? it is on my shopping list but i aint got any money at the moment...

Dan.
Dunno. All the old school classics i'd hope. Thinking of lists its time to write my X-mas list ...

Kev

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[Vange Shrimper]

There new song is really gud, but i've forgot the name to it! Video's different but cool as well, they're the morning news team http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Oct. 29 2003,00:40)]There new song is really gud, but i've forgot the name to it! Video's different but cool as well, they're the morning news team *http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Bad Day ...

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (The General @ Oct. 29 2003,00:46)]
Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Oct. 29 2003,00:40)]There new song is really gud, but i've forgot the name to it! Video's different but cool as well, they're the morning news team *http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Bad Day ...
That's the one! Ta mate......but overall i aint too keen on REM. I like some songs but ones like Everybody Hurt's ****es me off a bit

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[Bob Cratchitt]

I can only go by I suppose the albums from this year that are being played most on my ipod.

1. White Stripes - Elephant
2. Linkin Park - Meteora
3. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death (Maiden back to their best)
4. Evanescence - Fallen
5. Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque

Will not be everyone's cup of tea but I dont give a sh*t it is my choice not yours http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[new bloke]

My own albums of the year are..

1. David Bowie--Reality
2. David Bowie--- The Best Of Vol 1-2
3. Frank Sinatra-- My Way
4. Meat Loaf-- Bat Out of Hell
5.David Bowie-- Changes 1

God I need to update my CD collection....or get a life
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[Leeboy]

Go back to sleep Uncle............... http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[new bloke]

What do you mean go back tzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Mad Cyril]

My album of the year is the same as it has been for the last ten years.

Chicken Rhythms by Northside.

[Leeboy]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Oct. 29 2003,10:35)]Chicken Rhythms by Northside.
Quality!

Still got "Take 5" on cassette single!

[Adrian C]

Quote[/b] (The General @ Oct. 29 2003,00:36)]
All the old school classics i'd hope.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't have Shiny Happy People on it http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

They hate it apparently, mind you it does get irritating if you hear it a lot

Top 5:
Evanescence - Fallen
Runrig - Proterra
Elbow - Cast of Thousands
Longview - Mercury
The Cult - Beyond Good & Evil (which came out ages ago but I only bought it this year..)

[Bob Cratchitt]

Quote[/b] (Adrian C @ Oct. 29 2003,11:47)]The Cult - Beyond Good & Evil (which came out ages ago but I only bought it this year..)
Quality album - managed to see them tour it at the Brixton Academy, a great night. http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Rumours are a new album maybe out in 2004.

[MrB]

Feck all, cr*p year of music IMHO.

[MrB]

Blimey, it censors cr*p? What a load of cr*p.

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (new bloke @ Oct. 29 2003,08:26)]My own albums of the year are..

1. David Bowie--Reality
2. David Bowie--- The Best Of Vol 1-2
3. Frank Sinatra-- My Way
4. Meat Loaf-- Bat Out of Hell
5.David Bowie-- Changes 1

God I need to update my CD collection....or get a life
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Plus ur starting to sound like MF, Uncle Colin http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

That's not a good thing........

[The General]

Quote[/b] (MrB @ Oct. 29 2003,13:27)]Blimey, it censors cr*p? *What a load of cr*p.
Bah hambug!

Kev

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[new bloke]

Oh my god........... does anybody have a noose and a wobbly chair I can stand on http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[Adrian C]

Quote[/b] (Bob Cratchitt @ Oct. 29 2003,12:36)]
Quality album - managed to see them tour it at the Brixton Academy, a great night. http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Rumours are a new album maybe out in 2004.[/QUOTE]
I was surprised at how good it was, a real return to form.

Sonic Temple was one of the rock albums of the late eighties but everything they did after that was IMHO awful.

A hope for 2004 then so long as Astbury and Duffy don't start fighting again.....

[Vange Shrimper]

Mine are:

1- Linkin Park - Meteora
2. Darkness - Permission to Land
3. Busted - Busted
4. Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes
5. Chicane - Behind the Sun


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[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Oct. 29 2003,13:36)]3. Busted - Busted
If Busted came down my local they wouldn't be going to the year 3000.

They would be going to hospital.

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Oct. 29 2003,14:04)]
Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Oct. 29 2003,13:36)]3. Busted - Busted
If Busted came down my local they wouldn't be going to the year 3000.

They would be going to hospital.
Lol, Dont say that, Chadded will become offended

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[Andy_S]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Oct. 29 2003,13:36)]Mine are:

1- Linkin Park - Meteora
2. Darkness - Permission to Land
3. Busted - Busted
4. Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes
5. Chicane - Behind the Sun


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You started off so well with your first 2 choices VS!. Then suddenly it came hurtling down with your 3rd choice. http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I understand your choice of Delta Goodrem though. I only really listen to rock but i quite like the songs she has done. Her, along with Dido are 2 of the only 'pop' artists i really respect and can listen to. They've got talent, unlike most of the others in that genre. http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Andy_S @ Oct. 29 2003,15:09)]
Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Oct. 29 2003,13:36)]Mine are:

1- Linkin Park - Meteora
2. Darkness - Permission to Land
3. Busted - Busted
4. Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes
5. Chicane - Behind the Sun


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You started off so well with your first 2 choices VS!. Then suddenly it came hurtling down with your 3rd choice. *http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I understand your choice of Delta Goodrem though. I only really listen to rock but i quite like the songs she has done. Her, along with Dido are 2 of the only 'pop' artists i really respect and can listen to. They've got talent, unlike most of the others in that genre. *http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
I had to put Busted in cos this year has been one of the worst with all this music coming out.

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[Bob Cratchitt]

Quote[/b] (Adrian C @ Oct. 29 2003,13:36)]I was surprised at how good it was, a real return to form.

Sonic Temple was one of the rock albums of the late eighties but everything they did after that was IMHO awful.

A hope for 2004 then so long as Astbury and Duffy don't start fighting again.....
Have to agree with you there, it is a real return to form. Still listen to Sonic Temple every now and then takes me back to my mad college days.

[Yorkshire Blue]

Hmmm not sure I've heard any of those albums. In fact I'm not sure whether I own an album made in this millennium, although on second thoughts I'm guessing that John Digweed's MMII was made in early 2002. http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

I certainly don't own any of the albums mentioned above and don't think I've knowingly heard any of the songs from those albums (apart from best of REM). If I have heard them then they've all merged into one bland noise. I get my Westzone/ Boylife/ Limp Blinkin 121 park/ Spice Girls Aloud get Busted etc confused - to me they all sound the same bland cr*p. In fact they don't just sound the same they all pretty much look the same (girl band, gayboy band, girls and gayboys band, 'gangsta' or scruffy). Now I like staring at Kylie's arse or Britney's tits as much as the next man (assuming he's not in a boy band) but when I turn on my radio I'm more concerned about what that band/individual sounds like, not what they look like. To compound matters radio play-lists will repeat the same cr*p every hour. So I just stick to my CD collection (which it seems is fortunately larger and more varied than a commercial radio's) and ignore the radio.

Does that just make me an old git? http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Tis a quandary indeed, does it have to albums released this year cos I'm really struggling with that, or can it be albums I've purchased this year? Anyhoo albums released this year:-

1) Saian Supa Crew - those boys know how to rock the mike right.

2) Outkast (can't remember the name of the cd bit its got 'hey ya' on it)

3) Super Furry Animals - Phanton Planet. Genius enough said.

4) Orange County - OST, I think it was released last year but who's counting?

5) Cafe del mar (volume 13 I think) mixed by (Godlike) Jose Padilla - Lie back and think of sandy beaches Ibiza stylee. Fantastic!

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Guest @ Oct. 30 2003,13:26)]1) Saian Supa Crew - those boys know how to rock the mike right.
Excellent choice. Have you got their first album? Apparently a must-see live act, up there with J5 and PUTS.

[Shagster69]

BLUR - Think Tank. Absolute Quality. Seen them perform it live at the Astoria as well and they were superb.

[shooter mcgavin]

All so gay!!! Where is the RAWK?!?!?

1) Brand New - Deja Entendu
2) Fu Manchu - California Crossing
3) Thursday - War all the time
4) Cave In - Antenna
5) Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance

'nuff said

[Surrey Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Oct. 30 2003,15:09)]
Quote[/b] (Guest @ Oct. 30 2003,13:26)]1) Saian Supa Crew - those boys know how to rock the mike right.
Excellent choice. Have you got their first album? Apparently a must-see live act, up there with J5 and PUTS.
Naps

I've only got 'X Raisons' (I think that whats its called) and it is excellent, I've always liked the sound of french hip hop after I first heat MC Solaar, I'm defiantely gonna get their first cd soon.

Obviously J5 is Jurassic 5 but whats PUTS?

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Surrey Shrimper @ Oct. 31 2003,12:23)]
Quote[/b] (Napster @ Oct. 30 2003,15:09)]
Quote[/b] (Guest @ Oct. 30 2003,13:26)]1) Saian Supa Crew - those boys know how to rock the mike right.
Excellent choice. Have you got their first album? Apparently a must-see live act, up there with J5 and PUTS.
Naps

I've only got 'X Raisons' (I think that whats its called) and it is excellent, I've always liked the sound of french hip hop after I first heat MC Solaar, I'm defiantely gonna get their first cd soon.

Obviously J5 is Jurassic 5 but whats PUTS?
I'm not a huge fan of French hip-hop (although MC Solaar was excellent on Guru's Jazzmatazz), I like the collaborative style, like J5. PUTS is People Under the Stairs- excellent stuff if you like J5.

[Custard Splat]

Tomorrow morning will see the release of Dirty Hits by Primal Scream and this will put every other release this year to shame http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif


On the subject of good releases this year the best albums , IMHO, have been from The Ravonettes, Mew, Elbow, Spiritualized and Evan Dando.

And, for whoever it was that mentioned them, cheers for bringing up Northside. It brought a tear to my eye.... i was always fond of a bit of Revolver myself!!!! Altogether now......

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[Andy_S]

Sorry to drag this back up to the top. It's incredible to think that at the time of the last post in this thread, Wignall was still in charge and if anyone would've said that Collymore was likely to be the next manager, they'd have been laughed at like no tomorrow.

Anyway, after downloading the album "More Than You Think You Are" by Matchbox Twenty, i have to say that it goes flying up on to my list. It's superb, a classy Rock and Roll album that has some brilliant songs on it. 'Unwell' and 'You're So Real' are probably my favourites and i recommend that anyone who likes Rock music gets it. http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif http://www.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif