Csak ábécé-sorrendet állítok, így legalább bővíthetem a listát, ha netán kifelejtettem volna valamit. Micsoda kiskapu, igaz?
Absu - Absu --- Igen kellemes károgás. Another Way - Holtágak az Ártérben --- Gyors kalapálás magyarul (állítólag :D) Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect --- Az első albumuk a Colors volt, ami igazán tetszett tőlük, és bár illeszkedik az idei is a sorba, az elődőt nem sikerült lepipálni. Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution --- Visszajöttek, mint ahogy azt a V.S.O.P. tette 2008-ban. Reméljük Truth-ték tovább maradnak, mint a Zuglói Kutyák. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness --- Butábbak lettek mint eddig voltak, de szerintem nem áll rosszul nekik, dara oszt kész, fasznak kell magyarázkodni. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague --- Megbízhatóak, mint a halál. Converge – Axe To Fall --- Elégedett vagyok vele, jobb, mint az utolsó kettő, a Jane Doe-t meg úgysem lehet űberelni. Damned Spirits' Dance – Weird Constellations --- Nagyon egyben lévő magyar korong, bár annyira nem a stílusom, mégis kénytelen vagyok nevezni, mert megfogott a dolog. Deák Bill Gyula - A Király Meséi --- Ezzel már megint csak az a baj, hogy a blőőőzkirály a fagyit is dicséri benne, pedig tudhatná már ennyi idős fejjel, hogy a Violáknak kell szurkolni. Devin Townsend Project – Addicted! --- A Project első részével máig nem tudtam megbarátkozni, a 2. nekifutás viszont egy igen jóféle popalbum, a Devin-fajtából. Volt már jobb dobása az tény, de adjunk bizalmat a széria következő felének is egy listás részvétellel. Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space - A tavalyi nagy thrash hullámom után már csak egy hírmondó akadt... John Frusciante – The Empyrean --- Ilyen lemezek mellett nem kell sírni, hogy kiszállt a RHCP-ből. (mármint jó és fasza, hogy a szólózik :D) Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave --- ugyanaz mint a Corpse-nál. Mastodon – Crack the Skye --- Örökre a Remission marad a kedvenc, de egyfelől meg ez is korrekt, meg előrelépés is a BM második feléhez képest. The Moon and the Nightspirit – Ősforrás --- Imádnivaló ez is, talán kicsit homogénebb, mint az előző, de ez nem gond. Murcof – La Sangre Iluminada --- Ennél elbaszottabb már nem is lehetne az ürge muzsikája, talán egy kicsit több életet is vihetne bele, mint a Martes-érában. My Dying Bride – The Lies I Sire - Nem nevezném tökéletesnek, de azért lehet rajta búsulni, nomeg még mindig jobb, mint az idei Katatonia. Nightrage – Wearing a Martyr's Crown --- Ők meg az In Flames halálával keletkezett űrt töltik be nálam. Tompával persze még zsírabb lenne :) Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest --- Kikúrt nagy tízes, mint ahogy az általában szokott lenni. Nils Petter Molvær - Hamada --- Volt már a vén lókötőnek nagyobb lemeze, de akkora volt a Millenárison adott koncertje, ami miatt bűn lenne őt kihagyni. Ólafur Arnalds - Found Songs & Dyad 1909 EP --- Kétszer 20 percet már lehet nagylemeznek nevezni, és mivel jó mindkettő, feltüntetem itt is. Jövőre meg itt a 2. LP. OM – God Is Good --- A Pilgrimage volt idáig tőlük a kedvencem, most minimum kialakult egy holtverseny. Jöhetnének lassan felénk is. Slayer – World Painted Blood --- Ugyanaz mint a Napalmnál :D Slagmaur – Von Rov Shelter --- Hangulatban nem szenved hiányt ez a démonidézés sem. Suhancos – Jól Tévedni Emberi Dolog --- Kell egy zene, ami alatt kinyílik a zsebedben az Árpádsávos-zászló, és akkor még mindig inkább ez, mint bármi más. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions --- Nálam az év nyertesei, mert egy zsír albumot egy még jobb koncerttel fejeltek meg The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Succubus --- Ha már az idei Kilimanci vérszegény lett, legalább az alteregó nem vallott szégyent... Thy Catafalque – Róka Hasa Rádió --- Igazából ez megint egy olyan lemez, amit alig hallgattam ahhoz képest, mennyire jó. 2010-ben pótlás! Tinariwen - Imidiwan – Companions --- Rájuk kellett volna 5 éve tevegelnem Tunéziában, de szobában is működik a mutatványuk. Zu – Carboniferous --- Az Ephel Duath helyett beugrottak mint olasz gondolkodók és megfejtők.
Csalódások:
Idén megszületett a Blind Myself sorozatban 2. nekem nem tetsző lemeze, mint ahogy azt sem nagyon értem mit műveltek idén az Ephel Duath, a Buried Inside vagy az Isis tagjai. A legnagyobb szívfájdalom viszont a Gansxta Zolee és A Kartel valamint Rihanna mélyrepülése. Dögéknél azért bosszantó a dolog, mert a zenekar nagyon jó alapokat tett alájuk, amire trehány szövegeket írtak, míg a barbadosi énekesnőnél (egyszer én is el akartam lőni ezt a szókapcsolatot) fel nem foghatom, hogy írhattak ilyen szar nótákat egy Disturbia vagy egy Unfaithful után.
Minden egyéb: Tarantino megint egy remek alkotással vétette észre magát, októberben végre újra legyőztük a makikat a Szentélyben, koncertekből meg oltári volt a már említett Sunn O))) & Nils Petter Molvaer mellett, a Tito & Tarantula sokadik és a Down első hazai koncertje. A Burst szintén ügyesen zajongott (és mint utóbb kiderült, búcsúzott), valamint a Soulfly negyedszerre is gyönyörűséges szambát járatott velem. Táncokból még a Fueled by Fire - Bonded By Blood est és a Limp Bizkit vitte a prímet.
Ha szerinted kihagytam valamit, írd meg nyugodtan. Azért ha úgy érzed, minden jót kifelejtettem, ne törd magad, valószínűleg oka van. Csókolom a seggeteket! :)
Well the year is almost over again and everyone is making lists of albums of 2009 so I'm going to too. This year I'm going do a top ten of My Albums which are the ones which I've went out and bought the real thing that you can hold in your hands. No downloads here if I couldn't be bother to find the CD it's not really here in front of me now so call me old fashioned. Also I'm going to do My Wishlist of this year which is CD's I haven't got but if someone needs a Christmas present or ten. Plus a few other things which I think I'll start with now.
TRACK OF THE YEAR: The Drones Suicide is Painless
I've been waiting for this for a long time now. I don't know how many times I've watched the video for this song on JTV, it's a Triple J radio's Like A Version cover song. Volume five has just come out and I went out and got the CD just for this track, is that mad? It's got some of the most bleak and depressing lyrics ever written but The Drones members are laughing at them throughout the song which kind-off juxtaposed it. I've written a whole journal about this track earlier so have a look in my older posts if you want to know more.
EP OF THE YEAR: Magic Dirt White Boy EP
This EP was released after the passing away of Dean Turner which is the saddest news of the year because he was so young still, only 37. Dean was a founding member, bass player and their producer. Recording these last tracks which ended up being his last before he passed away Friday August 21st, 2009 and a statement from band said: "For nine years, Dean battled an extremely rare form of soft tissue cancer called dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP)... Being a very private man, Dean chose to fight the cancer in a quiet and dignified manner. He displayed great courage and incredible stoicism. And above all else he had an unshakeable positive attitude throughout his long ordeal.White Boy is from their last album. Two duets: Summer High (featuring Rowland S. Howard) and Love Is The Armour (featuring Gareth Liddiard), deep in a net of red, valley of the rose plus the epic ten minute last song Future Fuck.
REISSUE OF THE YEAR: Beasts of Bourbon Box Set with the first three albums: The Axemans Jazz, Sour Mash and Black Milk
Finally you can get these albums on CD, they were deleted forever and these three albums are their best by far. The original line-up of Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones on guitars, James Baker on drums, Boris Sujdovic on bass and Tex Perkins on vocals. The little booklet that comes with the box is very cool too with a lot old photos which I haven't seen before and liner notes by all the band members, not some music critics talking wank.
DVD OF THE YEAR: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Your Funeral... My Trial (2009 Digital Remaster)Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 4) by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
I really hate music documentary DVDs most of the time and just can't sit through them most of the time. But these talking heads and how it's filmed and edited together is really, really, really cool. Warren Ellis also says this is his favourite Bad Seeds album and I have to agree with him. To have a new copy of it is great is wicked too because my old one is totally falling apart so beaten up.
LIVE ACT OF THE YEAR: The Drones
Seeing them twice this year as a full band and then seeing Gareth Liddiard and Dan Luscombe playing acoustic too. These where unbelievable shows and I can't wait for the next time they come to town. Havilah winning my 2008 album of the year and now if you buy it you get a bonus disc of Live At The Hi-Fi which I downloaded because I wasn't going to buy the same CD twice but it a great live album so I do wish I had the real thing. The Drones are already starting to working on a new album.
MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR: David McComb & The Triffids Edited by Chris Coughran & Niall Lucy
A truly great book about one of the best Australian singer-songwriters and rock groups with all sorts of different writing styles, old color and black & white photos, drawings by Martyn P. Casey, and more all on beautiful gloss paper. This would have to be by far the best music book of the year. Nothing would be close to this and could be one of the best music books ever really. Check it out here: http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/currentaffairs_culture_social_history/1104
RE-RECORDING OF THE YEAR: Warren Fahey Australia Folk Songs and Bush Verse: Bushrangers, Bolters and Other Wild Colonials
Well I think I have to explain this one a bit. This is new recording of very, very old traditional Aussie tracks. There are more themed discs in this series, or you can get two box sets of all of them but this is the only one I got, if you want more info have a look here: http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=304626&SearchID=2382722&SearchRefineID=4902015 I think re-recording is the best thing to call this album plus he hasn't gone too far from the old arangements of how these songs would have been played two or one hundred years ago.
WISHLIST OF THE YEAR: TEN Warren Fahey
Australia Folk Songs and Bush Verse: Rare Convict Ballads and Broadsides
The other album I would like from the above series. NINE The Blackeyed Susans Reveal Yourself
Three CDs and DVD box set from a great but mostly forgotten Aussie band. EIGHT Rihanna Rated R
The best pop album of the year. SEVEN Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
The best album cover of the year and the music is pretty wicked too. SIX Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
The best British rock group of the year. FIVE The Flaming Lips Embryonic
The best American rock group of the year. FOUR Tinariwen Imidiwan
The best African rock group or World music of the year. THREE Beak> Beak>
The best side project band comes from Geoff Barrow of the legendary Portishead. TWO Fever Ray Fever Ray
The best electronic artist of the year. The best Nick Cave cover with Stranger Than Kindness which is on the updated version of the album from early this year but I have yet to see it. ONE Rowland S. Howard Pop Crimes
Rowland S. Howard first album in ten years so I really should have this already. Early this month, Howard admitted that he has had liver cancer for awhile and is now awaiting a transplant so wishing you to get well soon Rowland.
VIDEO CLIP OF THE YEAR: Bob Dylan Must Be Santa
It's the week of Christmas but this is so funny, Bob in silly hats and a wig, dancing a polka, standing next to Santa Claus at the end and he re-names the reindeers after Presidents of the United States if you listen carefully. This is the best track on the album, maybe The Christmas Blues is the other cool one or should I say the song I like best. It's directed by an Aussie guy called Nash Edgerton.
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: TEN Bob Dylan Together Through Life
Coming at the tail end of my top ten this is the other Dylan album and not his Christmas one. Really not as good as his three previous ones but those are some of his best ever albums so it would be hard follow them. Most of it was written with Robert Hunter. The best track is This Dream of You is Bob's only "solo" song on this album but the whole thing is not bad for a 68 year old. NINE Marianne Faithfull Easy Come Easy Go
I love a good cover songs album. Who else but Marianne Faithfull could get Cat Power, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Keith Richards to sing backing vocals. She sings two real duets with Antony on Ooh Baby Baby and Somewhere with Jarvis Cocker. My favourite track is the classic Neko Case song Hold On Hold On but this cover has Warren Ellis playing an epic electric violin solo at the end. EIGHT Various Artists The Rockwiz Duets Volume 3
Another great cover album full of duets this time from the Aussie TV show. With tracks like Adalita & Gareth Liddiard doing The Saints' Messin' With The Kid, Amanda Brown & Glenn Richards doing Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's Some Velvet Morning, Patience Hodgson & Broderick Smith doing MGMT's Time To Pretend, Eve Von Bibra & Jed Kurzel doing The Bee Gees' To Love Somebody, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson doing Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head, Sophie Koh & Steve Kilbey doing The Go-Betweens' Streets Of Your Town and so many more. SEVEN Nick Cave & Warren Ellis White Lunar
I love Nick Cave & Warren Ellis but one disc of new stuff, another disc of tracks I've already got. And now The Road soundtrack which is coming soon or you can download now. They are really pushing it at the moment and Cave publishing his very silly dirty jokes book this year too. Dirty Three are touring soon and still hoping for a new Dirty Three album but it sounds like it's going to be a new Grinderman one. All the bitching to one side the second disc is some of the best music they have both done and by far the best thing Cave has done this year. SIX Titus Andronicus The Airing Of Grievances
The best newcomer of the year goes to these guys and this is the best debut album in a long time. This was recorded in 2008 but not released here in Australia until the beginning of year. With The Monitor, the band's follow-up to The Airing of Grievances, will be out on March 9 which I hope that is here too and I don't have wait a year or something. According to singer Patrick Stickles in a press release, the LP is "sort of" a concept album about the Civil War: "It doesn't take place in olden times, nor does it necessarily feature any characters that participated in that conflict. Really, it is a record about how the conflicts that led our nation into that great calamity remain unresolved, and the effect that this ongoing division has on our personal relationships and our behavior and how they're all out to get us (or maybe not?) and yadda yadda yadda." FIVE Laughing Clowns Laughing Clowns Live
I love a great live album and this is the second one here, the first was the Rockwiz album. This is the seventh volume in the new prince melon bootleg series. If you didn't know Prince Melon is a nickname Ken West gave Laughing Clowns back in the late 70's and early 80's when they were around the first time, this is a reunion tour album. Ken West is now one of the men who runs something called The Big Day Out tour but his first job in the music business was manager, door man, lighting guy and all rounder for Laughing Clowns. It's a pity they're not on this years line-up and it's more of a pity that they're not coming over to Perth, but the best reunion band of the year is Laughing Clowns. FOUR The Mess Hall For The Birds
This band has always been in the shadow of The White Stripes like the Aussie version but with this album and latter turning into a very pricey DVD side project and one of the many novelty for Jack White. After The Mess Hall winning a lot of award money from their last album Devils Elbow which payed for time and space to do this one which is even better and by far the best thing they have done and taking the two piece band format above and beyond anything that has been done before and others will now have to keep up with these guys, the best band of the year. THREE Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill Callahan was called Smog for years and years but went "solo" a couple of years ago and now has painted his masterpiece on his 13th album. From the beginning to the end this is one of the most beautiful and wonderful albums. Him adding the strings is a great addition, so my male artist of 2009 is Bill Callahan. TWO Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night
What can I possibly say about Sarah Blasko's As Day Follows Night album that has not been said before now. More perfect that her last and grows more and more with each listen. She has painted her masterpiece on this only her 3rd album. From the beginning to the end is totally breathless record, so my female artist of 2009 is Sarah Blasko. ONE Tom Waits Glitter And Doom Live
I don't know if anyone else would name a live album as their album of the year but it's Tom Waits. Maybe he wins by default because this is the last album I bought. Anyway the reason is I would love to see him live and I have no hope of him coming here. This is brilliant and wicked so it would be unbelievable to see him live and this is most likely the closest I'll ever get. Better that his two other live albums 1988's Big Time and 1975's Nighthawks at the Diner and with Tom Tales a 1/2 an hour long track as a bonus disc which is classic in it's own right, he could be the best stand-up of the year. So my album of the year is Tom Waits' Glitter And Doom Live.
P.S. I don't know if you heard this but someone called Michael Jackson died this year too.
As 2009 draws to a close, its a great time to reflect on the wonderful year we've had. One special way to reflect is with lists of things that were important to us. Specifically: music that blew our minds in 2009. We've compiled "Best of 2009" lists from select members of the Trekky Records Collective. Here's what they loved:
As 2009 draws to a close, its a great time to reflect on the wonderful year we've had. One special way to reflect is with lists of things that were important to us. Specifically: music that blew our minds in 2009. We've compiled "Best of 2009" lists from select members of the Trekky Records Collective. Here's what they loved:
Lun. 5 oct. – Tinariwen
Hier soir j'ai eu le plaisir d'aller voir Tinariwen en concert à l'Alhambra de Paris, qui dans l'espace de deux heures s'est transformée en tente touareg. Sans aucun doute, le public parisien a eu l'opportunité de se téléreporter dans le désert du Sahara, à milliers de kilomètres de la salle, et pourtant seulement à deux pas de la place de la République…
Les sept membres du groupe, habillés de leurs taguelmoust (chèches) et boubous caractéristiques, nous ont joué des morceaux de leur nouvel album Imidiwan (2009) ainsi que des titres des albums précédents.
Il faisait chaud dans la salle et il y avait du monde. De la fosse noire anonyme du public, on voyait les silhouettes des musiciens qui gigotaient, éclairées par derrière dans une fumée rock donnant un superbe effet de contrejour.
Inutile d'évoquer les titres qu'ils ont joué. Tinariwen nécessite d'une lecture différente de celle des groupes ordinaires. Je dirais même qu'il ne faut pas voir leur musique dans le détail mais plutôt faut-il l'écouter dans son ensemble. Un de leurs concerts n'est autre chose qu'une seule et longue chanson de deux heures, dans le climat antinomique que seul le mariage des guitares Gibson Les Paul et la texture du Sahel malien peut offrir.
Et c'est intéressant comme chacun dans le groupe adopte une attitude différente face au public. Le bassiste tient son instrument à la Robert Trujillo et fait des mini sauts à la Bob Marley dans une démarche funk-rock, pendant qu'Abdallah (surnommé Catastrophe…) bouge avec l'élégance d'un ambassadeur du désert. Abraybone, leader du groupe, chante et joue (stoïque), et les autres membres alternent des danses ou tout simplement font des solos à tour de rôle.
Comme dans un concert de Bobby McFerrin, en allant voir Tinariwen le public a la possibilité de monter librement sur scène et danser aux côtés des musiciens.
Deux heures d'évasion, deux heures de désert et de dépaysement… mais aussi deux heures de testostérone. Malheureusement les choristes ne sont pas venues cette fois-ci, et ça m'a manqué. La dernière fois que je les avais vu au Bataclan en 2007, Tinariwen était venu accompagné de ces merveilleuses voix féminines qui chantaient et criaient comme des louves.
Et puis, comment oublier la fin de ce concert? Leur invité d'honneur : M. Robert Plant, voix de Led Zeppelin, avec qui ils avaient joué une inépuisable version de Whole Lotta Love en version Blues touareg. Sublime et inoubliable, mais il y a deux ans…
Le passage du temps. Hier soir ça sentait donc le sable et les pierres, mais aussi la nostalgie, la saudade, le blues. Cette fois-ci Tinariwen m'a transmis un profond et sincère sentiment de solitude, telle une lamentation de deux heures, tel un spleen venant du coeur et du sable du désert.
1. Brkovi - Punkfolkwellness (Brkovi 2009.)
2. Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains (Anticon 2009.)
3. The Minus 5 - Killingsworth (Yep Roc 2009.)
4. [mandelbrot set] - Hotel Magnolia (Dirty Old Label/Guranje s litice 2009.)
5. Maisa Moura - Moira (Cooperativa da Música de Minas 2009.)
6. Yonlu - A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (Luaka Bop 2009.)
7. Maribel - Aesthetics (Oslo Grammofon 2009.)
8. Tinariwen - Imidiwian: Companions (World Village 2009.)
9. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch 2009.)
10. Zvuk Broda - Chicken On The Boat (Egooboobits 2009.)
11. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns (Saddle Creek 2009.)
12. MUM - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know (3D 2009.)
13. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (Ruth St 2009.)
14. Mos Def - The Ecstatic (Downtown 2009.)
15. Izae - Teatro Lunatico (Izae, 2009.)
1. Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains (Anticon 2009.)
2. Yonlu - A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (Luaka Bop 2009.)
3. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns (Saddle Creek 2009.)
4. Maisa Moura - Moira (Cooperativa da Música de Minas 2009.)
5. MUM - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know (3D 2009.)
6. King Wilkie - King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers (Casa Nueva 2009.)
7. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (Ruth St 2009.)
8. Izae - Teatro Lunatico (Izae, 2009.)
9. DJ Quik/Kurupt - Blaqkout (Mad Science 2009.)
10. Tinariwen - Imidiwian: Companions (World Village 2009.)
11. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch 2009.)
12. [mandelbrot set] - Hotel Magnolia (Dirty Old Label/Guranje s litice 2009.)
13. Mos Def - The Ecstatic (Downtown 2009.)
14. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (Jagjaguwar 2009.)
15. Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous (Full Time Hoby 2009.)