best album uve bought/acquired in the last 12 months

[Thomo]

hmm, coming off the best songs of teh year thread, i thought we could try this. can be old or new.


my personal fav's have been:

the killers:hot fuss
willy mason: where the humans eat
green day: american idiot
bloc party: silent alarm
jurassic 5: quality control

[Pat O' Banton]

Not a bad selection hombre (I have J5's other two albums if you wish to borrow them) So, I'll agree with 'Hot Fuss' as well add in 'Blackout' by 'The Dropkick Murphy's, 'Ocean Rain' by 'Echo and the Bunnymen' and also 'Four Lads who Shook the Wirral' by Half Man Half Biscuit.

[the 12 th man]

[QUOTE=Pat O' B, 'Ocean Rain' by 'Echo and the Bunnymen' [/QUOTE]


outstanding album . :cool:
title track still makes the hair stand up on my neck.

btw ,what took you so long to get yer mits on it ? ;) :D

[Ruairi]

Christ there's so many

The Cinematic Orchestra (http://cinematicorchestra.com/) "Everyday"

Nightmares on Wax (http://nightmaresonwax.com/) "Carboot Soul"

Harry Nilsson (http://www.harrynilsson.com/) "A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night"

Jay Z and DJ Dangermouse (http://bannedmusic.org) "The Grey Album"

Wu Tang Clan (http://www.sonymusic.com/labels/loud/wutang/wu.html) "The W"

and a lot more that i cant think of..

[Pat O' Banton]

title track still makes the hair stand up on my neck.

btw ,what took you so long to get yer mits on it ? ;) :D

Poverty or stupidy, you can take your choice! :eek: :D (please don't post answers as I may not like that outcome ;) )

[M@ttitude]

Kasabian Kasabaian
The Killers Hot Fuss
Ian Brown Solarised
Snow Patrol Final Straw
Declan O'rourke
Mundy 24Star Hotel(only bought it last year)

[tetsujin1979]

The Music - Welcome to the north
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Kasabian - Kasabian

[ken foree]

Wu Tang Clan (http://www.sonymusic.com/labels/loud/wutang/wu.html) "The W"



niiiiiice, the wu are something else. me i'd have to say animal collective's 'sung tongs', great record

[Flea]

Contraband by Velvet Revolver, class

[sadloserkid]

Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
All American Rejects - All American Rejects
Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation
Lostprophets - Start Something
The Beautiful Mistake - This Is Who You Are
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Good Charlotte - The Chronicles Of Life And Death
Blink 182 - Blink 182
Matchbox 20 - Mad Season (I know it's old but it took a first break up with an American girl to really get me into Matchbox 20)
The Killers - Hot Fuss (but only the first half or so, it runs out of steam then)

I'm sure I'm forgetting at least a few worthy contenders but what the hey...

[IsMiseSean]

The Killers - Hot Fuss


I heard this album during the week and I thought it was absolute garbage
I got 'The Waifs- Up all night' of a friend, and its a fantastic album.

[noby]

I've been 'upgrading' a lot of my tapes to cd recently, so a fair chunk of what I've bought is old.
Some of the albums I've got for the first time round:
Nick Cave's last one (the double album)
Ballboy - Club Anthems
British Seapower
Trojan Skinhead Reggae boxset
Morrissey

[speedking]

Hmm... Bought alot of cd's last year. The best out of the bunch has to be...

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Rammstein - Mutter
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
John Lee Hooker - Blues is My Middle Name (Double CD, Best of, €3.99!)
Children of Bodom - Hate Crew
Meshuggah - I.

[speedking]

speedking look up some dream theatre. technically the most gifted band ever and i mean ever, they have everything.
I have some of their stuff. They're ok, can't really listen to them any more as the keyboardist just ****es me off. Don't get me wrong I like keyboards in metal (eg. Children of Bodom) but Jordan Rudess is more like hmmm... I think I'll put a big keyboard solo here just to impress everybody.

It isn't the most technical I've ever heard. Listen to Spiral Architect if you want to hear the most technical stuff ever! One of their albums even comes with a health warning! :eek:

But again prog metal is a bit too "wow look at me I'm doing a massive sweep/tap/shred at 1000 notes a second" for me. Music always comes first, anything impressive after that is only a bonus.

Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say that you shouldn't like these uber technical bands, but its just my opinion on them.

[gustavo]

guns n roses appetite for destruction
rip roaring from start to finish :D

[James]

Interpol - turn on the bright lights

am loving it :)

[sadloserkid]

guns n roses appetite for destruction
rip roaring from start to finish :D

Very true but if you've only gotten into it in the last twelve months you deserve a slap anyway! ;) It is 18 years old now after all. :)

[Hibs4Ever]

KEANE - Hopes & Fears

[Babysis]

KEANE - Hopes & Fears


Now you see, I really liked thier album. Got me through my dissertation. Think they are a bit of a marmite band though - You either love them or hate them. :)

[Thomo]

Megadeth - The System Has Failed

Is that the new album? is it any good, really like their old stuff, and wasnt sure bout whether theyd be any good after daves hand arthritic condition.

[speedking]

Is that the new album? is it any good, really like their old stuff, and wasnt sure bout whether theyd be any good after daves hand arthritic condition.
I think its pretty good, its got a very good sound to it. Sounds very different to anything Megadeth has ever done before. Couple of very good songs on it. Its obviously not back to the Peace Sells sort of sound but its very good in its own way.

Their best release since Countdown To Extinction and maybe even Rust In Peace IMO.

[ken foree]

Nick Cave's last one (the double album)


how is that one noby?

[Colbert Report]

Tegan and Sara - So Jealous

[noby]

how is that one noby?

I like it alot.

Can't decide whether I'll get the new one or not (triple album of b-sides and rarities)
Would be interesting to hear Blixa singing Kylie's part in the wild rose.

[The Good Son]

I like it alot.

Can't decide whether I'll get the new one or not (triple album of b-sides and rarities)
Would be interesting to hear Blixa singing Kylie's part in the wild rose.
I bought it the other day and while it's hard to really judge it after only a couple of listens it seems to be a cut above the usual B-sides and rarities releases, (i.e it's not the dregs that wasn't good enough to get on the albums).

[noby]

I'll probably get it alright. It's just I was looking at the track list on amazon, and I already have a few of the songs anyway.

[Shae_B2D]

Just got the new Moby album and it's great.
Also "Belfast" by Mago de Oz, a Spanish metal band who plays a cross of spanish metal with celtic infulences.

[Gareth]

Last 12 months, lets see:

Hell is for Heroes - Neon Handshake
Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoster)
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Tom McRae - Either Tom McRae or Blood Like Rain
Declan O'Rourke
Bright Eyes - Its Morning.....

[noby]

Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoster)


Excellent choice

[Gareth]

They are tremendous in my eyes. Problem is most people find them depressing/sad/dreary. Personally I love them. I purposely have not gotten the other albums yet because I will not have given enough time to this one then!!

I meant to add The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button was very good to me whilst I was coding. Pony Club - Family Business as well and Mark Geary - Ghosts.

[Peadar]

I got The Best of Luke Kelly and Planxty live at Vicar St. 2004 from Santa and enjoy both of them.
Have to say that two other gifts, U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and Keane - Hopes and Fears are really good too.

[Eire06]

Bought Green Day American Idiot class album.. :D Best I've heard in ages

Got the Wolftones collection and the Mary Black Collection for Christmas.. Theyre good I tell ya :D

[Peadar]

Bought Green Day American Idiot

Thanks for reminding me, I meant to pick up a copy at the weekend.

[Gareth]

I just find that Hopes and Fears unimpressive drivel. I really seem to have missed the atraction of that one!!

[Peadar]

I just find that Hopes and Fears unimpressive drivel. I really seem to have missed the atraction of that one!!

I feel the same about the Chemical Brothers. ;)

[Babysis]

Bought Green Day American Idiot class album.. :D Best I've heard in ages

Got the Wolftones collection and the Mary Black Collection for Christmas.. Theyre good I tell ya :D


The wolftones did a small gig in brighton a few years abck. Absolutely loved them after that. got the collection they released a while back, great stuff.
Have Greenday American idiot, Killers, and Willie Mason waiting at home for me.

[Gareth]

I feel the same about the Chemical Brothers. ;)

Of the previous Chemical Brothers album I have not had much of an interest. I seem to just like this one alot. I am sure the attraction will fade and I tried listening to it when I wasn't actually working and it wasn't as good :). Coding and Chemical Brothers go together it would seem.

[pete]

Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Killers - Hot Fuss

Beck - Guero (jury still out)

Last U2 abum was muck, i can't even play it straight through.

Should be thread on most disappointing album.

[Thomo]

I just find that Hopes and Fears unimpressive drivel. I really seem to have missed the atraction of that one!!

Here here! dreary uninspiring average bland, safe middle class nancy boy music IMHO, complete waste fo time.

[Gareth]

Keane, I have listened to the album again last night. First thing that hit me was I was bored. Then I started to notice how his voice didn't do anything at all in the way of entertain me. Now I am not looking for wild crazy rock singing seeing as I put Tom McRae, Red House Painters and Crowded House are up there in my top albums. Maybe its the lack of a guitar or the use of piano (I find Coldplay painful too). Each song just added to my boredom before I had to cast aside the album and stick on some Cure with a medicinal dosage of Doves.

Brings me to something I start wondering writing this. What bands use Piano and use to well. I always think of Lady Madonna and Imagine when I think of Piano in a song!!

[tiktok]

Brings me to something I start wondering writing this. What bands use Piano and use to well. I always think of Lady Madonna and Imagine when I think of Piano in a song!!

Keane have gone past the point of boring me too, "somewhere only we know" will still hold my attention but that's about it.

I don't mind Coldplay's use of piano, but then it's peripheral, Ben Folds Five were about the only band I can think of at the moment who used piano well.

Loving the Rilo Kiley album at the moment

[Peadar]

safe middle class nancy boy music


That's me! :D

[Eire06]

The wolftones did a small gig in brighton a few years abck. Absolutely loved them after that. got the collection they released a while back, great stuff.
Have Greenday American idiot, Killers, and Willie Mason waiting at home for me.

Wouls love to see them live but have never had the chance always something else on when they are here :( ...

Love the Killers album
Stereophonics new album is good too

[Lionel Ritchie]

Jinx Lennon -Thirty Beacons of light for a land full of spite, drug slugs and energy vampires

Grandaddy -Sumday

Wedding Present -Take Fountain

Giveamanakick -Is it okay to be loud jesus?

[noby]

Brings me to something I start wondering writing this. What bands use Piano and use to well. I always think of Lady Madonna and Imagine when I think of Piano in a song!!


While there are plenty of good piano-based songs, there are a lot less bands that predominantly use piano, and as you say use it well.

One of my favourite artists is Nick Cave, and, being a piano playing singer songwriter, most of the bad seeds songs use piano.

[Peadar]

Paul Brady - The Island

[Risteard]

John Spillane - Hey Dreamer
Aziz Ibrahim - Lahore To Longsight

[sadloserkid]

Something Corporate are the top piano rock band about at the moment.

[dcfcsteve]

Surprised no-one has mentioned 'Mylo - Destroy rock n' roll'. Mild dance music (i.e. won't give you a nose bleed) with some great tunes in there.

Just got 'Thunder Lightning Strike' by 'The Go! Team' . An absolutely superb album. Infectiously lively and uplifting music from start to finish - sounds like the soundtrack to a cartoon super-hero film (imagine an album full of tunes in the vain of 'Self Preservation Society' from The Italian Job). Mild dance with a complete mix of loads of different influences - would inject energy into someone in a coma.

A bit wacky, but get it - you won't be disappointed....

Click here to listen to a few tunes on their site : http://www.thegoteam.co.uk/layout.html

Listen in the following order : 3, 4, 2, 5, 1.

To hear more than 3 tunes you have to register, but it's literally a 10sec job.

[ken foree]

for something further afield, the band Sightings have this amazing record 'arrived in gold' - what a clatter, the songs sound half-formed and bizarre, imagine a demonically possessed fridge trying to play a guitar

for something sunnier and unrelentingly groovy, it is difficult at present to top M.I.A.'s 'arular' - great london/sri lankan lass incorporates grime, bhangra, and lotsa vocal undulations for the sexiest political record ever