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So with Christmas coming up, a lot of us are probably asking for CDs or MP3s, and a lot of us are probably buying CDs or MP3s for other people, so I thought we could share some recommendations of great music that came out this year, or that came out earlier but that you discovered this year.

Here are mine:

Department of Eagles, "In Ear Park," an offshoot of the band Grizzly Bear. The songs are a bit peculiar and dreamy, but they're also playful and layered and occasionally have a great Phil Spector sorta vibe.

Nick Cave, "Dig!!! Lazurus, Dig!!!" The title track might be my favorite song out this year, but the whole album is just ferocious.

Fleet Foxes, self titled. Sorta 70s, sorta My Morning Jacket, sorta Shins.

Hot Chip, "Made in the Dark." It's electro-pop, but with a lot of instrumentation that gives these songs room to breathe. Super fun, and never monotonous.

and an album I just discovered this year is Michael Hurley's "Long Journey." Hurley was a songwriter whose recordings on the side were mostly overlooked, but this 1977 album is incredible. I learned of it because one of the songs, "Hog of the Forsaken," was used in Deadwood. You hear the song and it's pretty hard not to want to hear more of this guy. 

Anybody else have some picks?

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There is NEW music?

I thought they stopped making music after Kurt Cobain died. right?

by Rev Halofan on Nov 29, 2008 12:46 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Not for nothing...

but if I were a tormented musical genius, I wouldn’t invite Pat Smear into my band. Didn’t work out to well for the last few.

Lamest poster of all-time.

by ineptituderunsamok on Nov 29, 2008 10:45 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

damn to/too/two

Lamest poster of all-time.

by ineptituderunsamok on Nov 29, 2008 10:46 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

nice

Go gettem next year, what have we got to lose--Frankie?

by AnaheimHalos61 on Nov 29, 2008 7:22 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

New Rock Music Rant

I guess I am getting old, but I am not really into any new rock music. It seems like nothing is too original anymore.

I am tired of the skinny jean, tight t-shirt, white 20 something rock guys singing about high school crap or how they want to rock ‘n’ roll. Tired of Joy Division rip-offs, new wave revival, post-punk revival, synth pop revival, etc that NME claims is original and exciting. Tired of the cliche brash rocker that insults everyone, does drugs, drinks, etc. Tired of the fake upper middle class, easy on the eyes, skinny white dude that sings about how tough their life was growing up even though mommy and daddy probably provided the instruments, lessons, and other monetary resources that many other people would die to have.

Until rock musicians start to do something original instead or rehashing the music and visual images from the past, then I won’t be listening.

by stolenbases on Nov 29, 2008 7:37 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Wow,

did someone wash your Def Leppard shirt in the hot cycle? Buck up little camper, on the bright side the cycle of rehash/renewel will make grunge cool again in about 5 years, and the guys at lookout landing will have somehting to do besides sponsor web pages.

Lamest poster of all-time.

by ineptituderunsamok on Nov 29, 2008 10:52 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Relax Meatloaf

: )

Willie Mays Aikens is FREeeeeeeee

by Angel Aviator on Nov 29, 2008 7:53 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Always been a fan

of Social Distortion. The greatest hits album (while sounding like shite in comparison to the originals) is a way to ease new fans and a new generation in to the older stuff.

Lamest poster of all-time.

by ineptituderunsamok on Nov 29, 2008 10:56 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

I recently rediscovered my vinyl Mommy's Little Monster album after 20 years

and The Creeps sounds just as good as it did when I bought it at Music Mart in CM.

You ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?

by PieceOfAase on Nov 30, 2008 12:50 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

I'm not a HIp-Hop fan but...

check out the new CD by People Under the Stairs. They’re local (L.A.) and really harken back to the days when rap music was fun and not in filled with in your face tough guys. Good beats, fun rhymes, an all around good party disc.

by Doctor Wu on Nov 30, 2008 11:40 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

i really dug the new M83 record

"why do you we still have quitlin?" -VladdyG

by cupie on Nov 30, 2008 10:05 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

I’m still waiting for Detox to drop.

"i got 5ive on it"

by Funke5ive on Dec 1, 2008 9:56 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Old Music I discovered this year and like

The first album of Neu!, King Crimson’s first album, The Fall’s early stuff, and The Move’s Message from the Country album.

I guess I forgot to take my meds during that one rant. lol. These new artists may not be the Stones, Beatles, Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, or Gang of Four, but I will settle for something entertaining even if it’s not all that original. Just please no Jonas Brothers, Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects sounding rubbish.

by stolenbases on Dec 3, 2008 3:11 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

awesome

Saving countless runs with my defense.

by Sam Miller OCR on Dec 3, 2008 9:23 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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