Albums You're looking forward to in 2008

**boovidge** · 01/02/2008, 5:21 AM

I'm looking forward to albums from:

Cynic
Pestilence
Opeth
Jack Johnson
Nick Cave
Dr. Dre
Metallica (just so we can all moan about how terrible they've been since the '80s)

**SaucyJack** · 01/02/2008, 12:34 PM

got the new Catpower covers cd, "Jukebox", not really thrilled with it, picked up the new Magnetic fields, still have to listen to it, hope it's good.

**ken foree** · 01/02/2008, 5:37 PM

Originally Posted by SaucyJack

got the new Catpower covers cd, "Jukebox", not really thrilled with it,

i heard it wasn't up to scratch too. it's her second covers disk no? i've seen her twice with the better half and am going next thursday to see her again. she's been very good live those two times, hopefully banishing performance demons once and for all!

**ken foree** · 01/02/2008, 5:40 PM

Originally Posted by noby

I thoroughly recommend it. Although for 'bizarre outer-space soul explorations', I think you might be thinking of 'In our lifetime', the follow up to 'Here, my dear'.

thanks noby i'm sure you're right, i jotted down "here, my dear" some time ago and thought it was related to some cosmic soul in a review i read. but: thanks! must go look it up

**BohsPartisan** · 01/02/2008, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by ken foree

thanks noby i'm sure you're right, i jotted down "here, my dear" some time ago and thought it was related to some cosmic soul in a review i read. but: thanks! must go look it up

The long overdue new Portishead.

**Rocky77** · 07/02/2008, 1:55 PM

Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses should it ever see the light of day. Although it could never live up to the hype.

Failing that, the new Metallica and Motley Crue albums will keep me happy.

**ken foree** · 12/02/2008, 5:17 PM

Originally Posted by Rocky77

Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses should it ever see the light of day. Although it could never live up to the hype.

at this stage it might as well be called "Smile" by the beach boys!

**Wolfie** · 27/03/2008, 10:27 AM

[QUOTE=Wolfie;842534]Supergrass release a new album in March 2008 - "Diamond Hoo-Ha" . Thought "Road to Rouen" was a little below par despite a few good singles. Hoping the new one is a return to form.

"Uncut" Magazines review of the new Supergrass album.

Can it really be nearly fifteen years since Supergrass hitched a ride to the Britpop party? With all their peers, save a depleted Blur and Oasis, now safely in the rear mirror, five top ten albums in the trunk and a new generation of admirers – most notably The Arctic Monkeys – urging them on, they could be forgiven for cruising nostalgically towards middle-age.

But beneath that easy-going exterior lurks a fearsome inner drive. When bassist Mick Quinn sleepwalked through a first floor window and sustained serious injuries last September, most bands would have taken it as an excuse for a year off. Instead, Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey embarked on a club tour as White Stripes spoof The Diamond Hoo Haa Men, while Quinn made the kind of miraculous recovery normally reserved for David Banner.

Such strength of purpose reverberates through Diamond Hoo Ha. Perhaps it’s the thrill of recording at the legendary Hansa studios in Berlin (once home to David Bowie and Japan) which led them to the “Heroes”-esque ambience of “Rebel In You” or the swirling Krautrock rumble of “Rough Knuckles”. All this mesmeric swagger is, however, still matched by a rapier lyrical guile.

JJ Cale-esque lament “Ghost In You” sees Gaz bemoaning the loss of a friend to the party set, seething: “There’s always a circus in town/ Vultures, peacocks and hounds” while “Whisky & Green Tea” sees them encountering Chinese dragons, middle-aged schoolgirls and “being chased by William Burroughs” amidst runaway drums and squealing sax. Not quite “We keep our teeth nice and clean”, then.

More clues to the demons which forced Danny Goffey to “wander off” during sessions for 2005’s brooding Road To Rouen appear on “When I Needed You” .“In the middle of a shady bar/Broken bottles flying through the air/That’s when I needed you” sighs Gaz, music as ever, a salve for their disrupted friendship.

Heavy stuff. But apply megawatt tunes and career-best performances and you’ve got an album to top even 2002’s criminally neglected Life On Other Planets. Twenty-four carat stuff, guaranteed.

PAUL MOODY

**Marked Man** · 27/03/2008, 1:50 PM

Have to say the new Nick Cave is disappointing.

**Wangball** · 27/03/2008, 2:06 PM

Just read the review of Portisheads new album "Third" - it gets 5 stars in this months Uncut...am really looking forward to this, there's also a piece about Jason Pierce & Spiritualized's new album - am looking forward to these too, Ladies & Gentlemen We're Floating in Space is probably one of the best albums I own

**razor** · 27/03/2008, 2:12 PM

Bought the new albums from The Young Knives and We Are Scientists and am very happy with my purchases.
Boy Kill Boy is next

**TonyD** · 27/03/2008, 6:29 PM

Billy Braggs new album is a major disappointment. I've only been able to bring myself to listen to it once all the way through. Shame. For someone with his back catalogue it's a big let down. (Mind you his efforts since Don't Try This at Home have all been fairly patchy.)

**shakermaker1982** · 27/03/2008, 7:52 PM

anybody buy the Raconteurs album yet? Just got it this afternoon....need to listen to it a few times before I pass judgement!!!

**Jamjar** · 27/03/2008, 8:18 PM

As an avid illegal downloader I have to say I'm disgusted by people awaiting new cd's from U2 and Metallica, 2 of the most corporate money grabbing bands in the world. I must download their new albums, burn them onto cd, give them to my dog to eat, clean up his excrement and post them back to the bands with a compliment slip which says "my dog thinks your new album is shiiite".

**SligoBrewer** · 30/03/2008, 6:36 PM

Bought the Teenagers album today. Brillant stuff I recommend to thee.

**Pauro 76** · 31/03/2008, 8:36 AM

Have to say Im really liking Moby's single 'Alice', just heard it today as with Portishead's new single 'Machine Gun'. Moby's album is getting some good reviews too, possible purchase maybe. REM 'Accelerate' getting some good reports as well. Portishead's 'Machine Gun' sounds on the first few listens, Nine Inch Nails mets New Order. Very different but excellent stuff.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 08/04/2008, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Lionel

Is there a provisional title for HMHB vol. 11?
.

Half Man Half Biscuits 11th album entitled CSI:Ambleside is out on Monday 28th April.

Happy days!

**Wolfie** · 08/04/2008, 1:12 PM

Could be nostalgia playing a part but interested to hear James new album "Hey Ma".

Apparently as good as anything they've ever released. We'll see.

**NeilMcD** · 08/04/2008, 3:23 PM

Originally Posted by Jamjar

As an avid illegal downloader I have to say I'm disgusted by people awaiting new cd's from U2 and Metallica, 2 of the most corporate money grabbing bands in the world. I must download their new albums, burn them onto cd, give them to my dog to eat, clean up his excrement and post them back to the bands with a compliment slip which says "my dog thinks your new album is shiiite".

Why are you disgusted what people do with their own money. They are not spending your money after all. How are U2 any more money grabbing than any other band. They simply charge the going rate for their gigs and their albums.

**Billsthoughts** · 08/04/2008, 3:58 PM

Have to say I think they are a bit rubbish. U2 that is. The odd good to brilliant song but a lot of sub standard pap.

Love Ladies and Gentlemen by spiritualised alrite but follow up was a bit lacklustre.