Albums you're looking forward to 2012.

[Sullivinho]

It wouldn't be right to start this thread without respecting tradition and quoting the most optimistic man on the forum and Dr. Dre loyalist, tetsujin1979. (The decade long wait will end in 2012, I'm absolutely sure of it.)

from Albums you're looking forward to in 2011: http://foot.ie/threads/145661-Albums...rward-to-2011.

Might as well kick things off with my annual request for Dr Dre to release Detox, currently due for release in February: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detox_(Dr._Dre_album)

from Albums you're looking forward to in 2010: http://foot.ie/threads/128612-Albums...orward-to-2010.

If Dr Dre would just release Detox, I'd be happy.

from Albums Your Looking Forward To In 2009: http://foot.ie/threads/109442-Albums...ard-To-In-2009

I'll just be happy if Dr Dre releases Detox
Think I remember saying that this time last year too!

from Albums You're looking forward to in 2008: http://foot.ie/threads/79595-Albums-...ard-to-in-2008

Aren't Green Day due a new album?
Dr Dre's new album has been in the mix for while, I'd like for it to see the light of day

Speaking of long waits, (not to be confused with 'Tom Waits', as is occasionally the practice when it comes to this guy) Mark Lanegan hasn't released a solo album since 2004 but that'l matter little come next month and the arrival of 'Blues Funeral'.



I pre-ordered this earlier and truth be told, I'd walk over hot coals and back for a Lanegan demo, nevermind an LP.

[Pauro 76]

Slipknot are releasing a new album next year, really looking forward to that.

http://www.pauseandplay.com/upcoming.htm

Could be a good year for rock. Queens of the Stone Age releasing new album. Comebacks from Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, and Nine Inch Nails hopefully too...

[Jofspring]

Will be looking forward to Slipknot too. Looking forward to The Offspring releasing a new album and Maverick Sabre's will be one to get i'd say.

[nigel-harps1954]

Jesus should be a class year for music so. Couple of great names there.

Personally I'm looking forward to finally getting my own bands first album out there after 9 months recording and preparing it amongst so much financial difficulty.
So...amongst all these names I'll just throw in TeddyBallet..;P

[Wolfie]

First Stone Roses album in 18 years!!

The Ian Brown quote of "...we're aiming for classics.." is encouraging.

Also:

Blur
Noel Gallagher
Bruce Springsteen
Interpol

[Wolfie]

Following "Band on the Runs" remaster and very good reception (how brilliant is lost classic album closer "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" ????), Paul McCartney's "RAM" rumoured to undergo the Re-master treatment in 2012.

[BonnieShels]

First Stone Roses album in 18 years!!

The Ian Brown quote of "...we're aiming for classics.." is encouraging.

Also:

Blur
Noel Gallagher
Bruce Springsteen
Interpol

It would want to be something special. And I mean reaaaaaalllllly special for them to get me back to caring about them.

On that note I think I'll throw on Obstacle 1.

Roll on QOTSA and a live show thank you very much.

[Beavis]

It would want to be something special. And I mean reaaaaaalllllly special for them to get me back to caring about them.

On that note I think I'll throw on Obstacle 1.

Agree, went to complete toss after Antics...they went from one of my favourite bands to one I now loath. They thought their fans would swallow any tripe. An archetype of success getting to a band

[BonnieShels]

Agree, went to complete toss after Antics...they went from one of my favourite bands to one I now loath. They thought their fans would swallow any tripe. An archetype of success getting to a band

Unfortunately their fans (me included) did. To the point that I travelled to Edinburgh to see them last year. Actually in Nov 2010.

[Beavis]

Unfortunately their fans (me included) did. To the point that I travelled to Edinburgh to see them last year. Actually in Nov 2010.

I saw them three times and each time they did little more than go through the motions. Coupling that with two bad albums, I have totally lost interest in them. A bad album is forgivable, but the nature of the third - songs about potentially having taken too much coke to sh@g a groupie, threesomes and dating actresses - completely turned me off.

That said, it doesn't undo the fact that The Specialist is one of my favourite songs and TOTBL is one of my favourite albums in the last ten years.

[BonnieShels]

I saw them three times and each time they did little more than go through the motions. Coupling that with two bad albums, I have totally lost interest in them. A bad album is forgivable, but the nature of the third - songs about potentially having taken too much coke to sh@g a groupie, threesomes and dating actresses - completely turned me off.

That said, it doesn't undo the fact that The Specialist is one of my favourite songs and TOTBL is one of my favourite albums in the last ten years.

The first time I saw them was at Oxe2004 and they blew me and everyone who was there away. The tent was wedged. It had a feeling like this was gonna be one of those gigs... And it was. I swear that Paul Banks shat himself when he came out to what I would say was easily one of their biggest crowds at that stage.

In fairness I didn't mind OLTA and in fact some of my favourite songs of theirs are on that album. TOTBL is special though coupled with that driving bassline of Not Even in Jail from Antics and you have a mighty fine back catalogue to be proud of. Since OLTA though it has been so so downhill terrible live and the songs are missing that Carlos D drive.

I did enjoy the Julian Plenti album and thought his performance of that live in the Academy was great.

[Beavis]

The first time I saw them was at Oxe2004 and they blew me and everyone who was there away. The tent was wedged. It had a feeling like this was gonna be one of those gigs... And it was. I swear that Paul Banks shat himself when he came out to what I would say was easily one of their biggest crowds at that stage.

In fairness I didn't mind OLTA and in fact some of my favourite songs of theirs are on that album. TOTBL is special though coupled with that driving bassline of Not Even in Jail from Antics and you have a mighty fine back catalogue to be proud of. Since OLTA though it has been so so downhill terrible live and the songs are missing that Carlos D drive.

I did enjoy the Julian Plenti album and thought his performance of that live in the Academy was great.

Yeah I remember everyone raving about the Oxegen 2004 gig. Really built up my expectations and probably contributed to the sense of dissapointment at what I experienced ( RDS and Oxegen twice - left the second halfway through). From OLTA, I'd proabably listen to Pace is the Trick and Pioneer to the Falls but there's far too much tat on it. Didn't give Julian Plenti a chance, I was apathetic by then and would prefer to save my listening time for artists who warrant it. Really feel they've only themselves to blame for their demise.

[BonnieShels]

I'm now looking forward to this album... Mother Mother- "The Sticks".
Have loved this band since I heard their second album "O MY HEART"
Didn't get into their third album "Eureka". the Sticks is streaming here...
http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHe...s_album_stream
It's brilliant. Really really brilliant.
Released next week. Cannot wait!

The bang off "The Sticks (song)" of "When the Levee Breaks" is something else! No harm.

[BonnieShels]

Eh... so today I decided to listen to Apocalypso by The Presets for the first time in what seems like years. And then I thought to myself that "Surely they are due a new album", and lo and behold it's released in Britain tomorrow... which means it was released here on Friday...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific...Presets_album)

Whoop... that's my evening covered.

[Beavis]

I don't know any of the above but it has been a great month for new releases IMO.
New Grizzly Bear album is fookin brill; XX album is very nice (if a bit samey); Animal Collective album seems good to but yet to totally get into it. Haven't heard the new one from Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti but it's out there and reviews are good.


I like music.

[Olé Olé]

The first time I saw them was at Oxe2004 and they blew me and everyone who was there away. The tent was wedged. It had a feeling like this was gonna be one of those gigs... And it was. I swear that Paul Banks shat himself when he came out to what I would say was easily one of their biggest crowds at that stage.

In fairness I didn't mind OLTA and in fact some of my favourite songs of theirs are on that album. TOTBL is special though coupled with that driving bassline of Not Even in Jail from Antics and you have a mighty fine back catalogue to be proud of. Since OLTA though it has been so so downhill terrible live and the songs are missing that Carlos D drive.

I did enjoy the Julian Plenti album and thought his performance of that live in the Academy was great.

Carlos D has been a loss indeed, but the fact is he didn't even write the basslines himself- it was Daniel Kessler, the guitarist.

Antics and TOTBL are bona fide classics. TOTBL is superior, but Antics is still a quality bit of work, even though it lacks TOTBL's subtlety. That said, Our Love to Admire and the S/T album do have their moments. The Heinrick Maneuver and Mammoth are two worthy tracks, as are Lights and Barricade.

I think they've tried to do too much. Things were simpler on the first two albums when they wrote quality songs with broody atmospheres that were easily and capably evoked by Kessler's guitar and Paul Banks voice. The two subsequent albums were a bit forced, especially Interpol, the last one.

Are you sure there is an Interpol album on the cards? I thought they were on hiatus.

Titus Andronicus' album is the next one I'm awaiting. Can't imagine it beating Passion Pit or Purity Ring in my list for the year, though it could send Bloc Party down a peg. I was abroad for the summer so I'm sure there albums I've missed that I must catch up on too.