2005: The Up/Down

Forum. As in rab. Anywho I guess I never filled this questionaire out.

Best:

1. My Morning Jacket, "Z" - Lots of (unfair) comparisons and carnival noises. They learned how to squeal and shout, but this album seemed less seriously folky, and more confidently rock. The song "what a wonderful man" really made this album fly, the whole thing is good but that song was the song that catapulted it to the level it is. Also, I love "off the record" because any song with the line "ill make it up to you right now at the penny arcade" has to be good

2. The White Stripes, Get Behind me Satan - I was hesitant to put this because its going to look like im doing it to be a prick, but their my favorite new badn right now, and while not their strongest effort, it was still solid. White Boy funk, Mountain Music, 70's Rock, country folk, GBMS has it all, and the lyrics are still right there. More piano for me is always a good thing, but what really struck me about the Cd is how much more swagger jack packed into this album. His voice swoons and dives, dances, and tip toes around the music on the album. The whine is still there, but nowit has companey. When to comes to Jacks voice, to me, the more the merrier.

3. Kings of Leon, "Aha Shake Heartbreak" - A banner year for rock. in some varation, every idiot publication said this about either 04/05. The truth is, if they have to tell you that, it isn't. A lot of banRAB these days are getting a free pass on the coattails of some other amazing banRAB, and they can all thank KOL. They don't seem to vary much in their formula on albums (everything I found that breaks stride is a B side, or not on an LP) but they work with what they have. Rasied on the stones with an Ac/Dc work ethic (if it ain't broke don't fix it) if any band keeps its rock dirty its these guys. Just be thankful the Drive-by Truckers didn't release anything this year.

Worst:

1. SOAD, Hyp/Mez: If it weren't for Hyp, they might have made the best of, but the fact is, I was promised an even better album, instead I got one with less dimensions. Mezmerize's versatility was handed in to placate the throngs of 13 year olRAB who demanded harder rock to look more extreame. They sold out intellectual avant garde for monosylabic everyday. They'll be back on the right track again, but not soon enough for my liking.

2. Fiona Apple, Extrondary machine: Whole lotta...hype for nothing. "Studios were scared to release her album because Fiona is so...fearless" one well-paid advertiser said. Too left of center said Rolling Stone. All lies. If anything kept this thing on the shelf, it was the fact that it out right sucked. Emotive lyrics? Good singing? Fine, thats great but we buy music for the music folks, lets not have the same sedated piano on all tracks except for the one where we got a rap producer to put a hip-hop beat behind a vocal tracking that couldn't match any less. She's have done well to be the new Axl Rose.

3. Arcade Fire, Funeral: So many big named musicians said this was the most mind-blowing labum of the year that I thought I'd give it a shot. I mean, they had a ****ing accordian. You always give a band using the squeeze box a try...except the arcade fire. This wasn't music, it was an aural hemorage. I did end up hearing "Cold Wind" on the Six Feet Under Sountrack and thatw as decent but bland. The rest sounded as if At The Drive-In did all their track with acoustic instruments. Screaming, scrreching, feedback...on acousitcs. It was like garage punk unplugged in the worst way humanly possible.
 
(In no particular order, both ways)

Best:
Interpol - Antics
Drive by Truuckers - The Dirty South
Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News

Worst - (in my case most disappointing, was looking forward to all these releases)
Daft Punk - Human After All
Moby - Hotel
Fear Factory - Transgression
 
Never heard of your nunber one for best before, but on the whole it's a fair representation especially the White Stripes.It completely slipped my mind to include them.
I salute thee.
 
yeah you could take it that way. But its not as if he said it in general like "screw you guys, this is my forum", it was done like the militery but not with "my" as in ownership, but my as in somewhere people belong to, have passion about.

he's a mod, he has some obligation to enforce a modicom of order.

So what did you think of my list cheeseman?
 
I'm hurt. The songs are there. Blue Orchid. Denial Twist. Take, Take, Take. Red Rain. I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet). It was a lot different for Jack, he took a step back from electric guitar. But this album rocks. It is something new and exciting for the White Stripes, and just as they managed to kick ass on Elephant, they completely reinvented themselves and still kicked ass on Satan. It is the album they needed to release to be set apart from the 'garage rock' talk. They will entertain you whether it's electric guitar, piano, mariraba, mandolin, or acoustic. I think you need to listen to the Stripes first three recorRAB (Elephant was well-produced) and realize how huge of a progression they've made, from being a Detroit garage rock duo to rock and roll idols.
 
It's a positive world we live in nowadays.:rolleyes: On the other hand, I was glad to hear you call that guy out in some kind of a way, letting him know what you think and despise!!!Cheers to that, man!!!:beer: :clap:
 
Let me type this slowly so you will find it easier to read.

U2 are overrated bollocks.My earwax has twenty times the charisma and talent of Bono.
So i'll say it one more time with feeling.I detest U2.Now p*ss off and find something constructive to add to this forum.
 
Well, isn't that funny-Another guitarist trying to switch from Electric to Acoustic and failing!!!:laughing: See, the thing is, just about anyone can play a riff on an Electric and make it sound cool...
...When the inexperienced try to be creative on the Acoustic and fail, you guessed it, they're shown to be clearly not as adept a guitarist as you may've believed before!!!Anyone that doesn't know, just take some lessons and try to play well from one, to the next!!!
With that point made, I guess I'll trust you on judging that album as a pile of shhit!!!;)
 
Yes. He really has no idea what the fuck he's talking about, but that really has nothing to do with what I said, because that argument in general is what annoys me. It wasn't a personal attack on your or anything, and I wasn't defending him, I was just saying that that argument is silly when used by anyone, because it means that most people shouldn't be able to talk about anything other than the few topics they're knowledgeable in.
 
No, what I intended to say was, if you don't play guitar, don't say that guys ****ty at it. First of all, I think he's great at it, so its clearly subjective. Secondly, what defines ****ty? If you can't play, you must be worse, so what leve does that make you?

it was less of a "you don't have a right to talk about it" and more of a "I wouldn't be so ciritcal of something I can't do at all"

Whether or not it came out that way is, I guess, how you read it.
 
The :)

Eels - A Double Album in which a good 50% of the songs weren't crap. That in itself is a rarity. Being in my book better than anything else they've ever released was even more of a bonus.

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