Best/Favourite Albums You've Discovered This Year (Read 1,405 times)

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The thread for everyone who is stuck in the past:

The Beach Boys - Sunflower
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
John Cale - Paris 1919
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
The Kinks - Arthr
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
The Stooges - Fun House
Television Personalitites - And Don't The Kids Just Love It
The United States Of America - The United States Of America
The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down

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Primal Scream - XTRMNTR / Vanishing Point
Massive Attack - 100th Window
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Peaking Lights - 936

[theyknowwhatimean]

Thanks again, R Kid

[theyknowwhatimean]

Oh, we're doing old albums we've heard for the first time as well?

In that case:
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Pulp - Different Class
T. Rex - Electric Warrior; The Slider; Tanx
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me; A Head On The Door
The La's - The La's (Might have been 2014, can't really remember)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (again, same as above)
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World

And I've listened to a lot of greatest hits compilations as well - namely Bob Dylan's and Bob Marley's.

[joladella]

Manic Street Preachers - Futurology --- blindly bought and loved at first listen
Gesaffelstein - Aleph --- shazamed "Pursuit" last year at Kasabian's concert and finally bought the album this year
Radiators - Ghostown --- by rediscovering my beloved Pogues, as this was Philips Chevron's band

[Frank Lee Vulgar]

Gene - Olympian -- good enough to be regarded as a classic, but somehow I hadn't heard of them before
Kingmaker - Sleepwalking
The Holloways - So This Is Great Britain
Jet - Get Born
Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me (I see a lot of people shitting on these guys, but as far as MOR indie rock goes, they have some really nice tunes)
Yeti - The Legend of Yeti Gonzalez
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (another great and underrated band)

[andybellwillring]

Crowded House - Woodface
Cousteau - Sirena
Cousteau - Cousteau
Mansun - Six
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Simple Minds - Big Music (okay this came out last year but it grew on me more this year)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Weezer - Weezer (the Blue Album)
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

And me being a new fan:
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Oasis - Be Here Now
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
NGHFB - NGHFB

[noelygthelegend]

I'm a new fan of oasis, noel and beady eye but also stone roses, catfish and the bottlemen, kasabian, razorlight and johnny marr so ill try and cut it down but it should be a big list:
Oasis:
Definitely Maybe
WTSMG
Be Here Now
Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants 
Don't Believe the Truth

NGHFB:
NGHFB
Chasing Yesterday

Beady Eye:
BE

Johnny Marr:
The Messanger
Playland

Razorlight:
Razorlight

Kasabian:
Empire
48:13
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Stone Roses:
The Stone Roses

Catfish and the Bottlemen:
The Balcony

[mimmihopps]

Intuit - Ramona Falls
Prophet - Ramona Falls
If You Leave - Daughter

[carryusall]

Excluding new releases:

Ride - Nowhere
Going Blank Again

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
- Use Your Illusion (I and II)

Hank Williams - The Complete Recordings

Jandek - Various records, particularly:

- You Walk Alone
- Ready For the House
- On the Way

Suede - Dog Man Star

The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
- This is the Sea

Yo La Tengo - Painful

But most of all, and about half of my listening this year:

The National - The National
- Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
- Alligator
- Boxer
- High Violet
- Trouble Will Find Me

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[Lennon2217]

Dec 31, 2015 7:11:47 GMT -5 theyknowwhatimean said:

Thanks again, R Kid

Unfortunately this is not available in the good old US of A. Only a couple single tracks.

[theyknowwhatimean]

Dec 31, 2015 11:09:26 GMT -5 Lennon2217 said:

Dec 31, 2015 7:11:47 GMT -5 theyknowwhatimean said:

Thanks again, R Kid

Unfortunately this is not available in the good old US of A. Only a couple single tracks.

That's a real shame, not only for you lot missing out on a genuinely great album, but also the band as well. But I'm sure, if they keep on as they are, they'll get a bit more exposure in the coming years.

Could always lend you my copy in the meantime, if you like?

[The Crimson Rambler]

I've probably heard quite a few old albums this year, but the ones I've actually bought are:

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico [1967]
Fugazi - Repeater [1990]
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless [1991]
Sugar - Beaster [EP] [1993]
Sugar - File Under Easy Listening [1994]
Massive Attack - Mezzanine [1998]
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R [1999]
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels [2013]
Superfood - Don't Say That [2014]
Aphex Twin - Syro [2014]

There's a fair bunch of 2015 records I still haven't brought so I'll stick them on next year's list. 

[Cast]

Dec 31, 2015 11:40:35 GMT -5 The Crimson Rambler said:

I've probably heard quite a few old albums this year, but the ones I've actually bought are:

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico [1967]
Fugazi - Repeater [1990]
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless [1991]
Sugar - Beaster [EP] [1993]
Sugar - File Under Easy Listening [1994]
Massive Attack - Mezzanine [1998]
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R [1999]
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels [2013]
Superfood - Don't Say That [2014]
Aphex Twin - Syro [2014]

There's a fair bunch of 2015 records I still haven't brought so I'll stick them on next year's list. 

Ah I remember discovering those bolded albums for the first time. Magical experiences blasting Loveless on my headphones. Still nothing sounds like it. Shields guitar playing is just warped madness. That Velvet Underground record is a top five album of all time for me. It still blows my mind sometimes just how ahead of its time it was/is. Very dynamic group of songs as well. Sunday Morning is wonderful bliss, whereas Venus in Furs is legit terror.

Massive Attack, QOTSA, and Aphex Twins are all wonderful acts as well, but I just don't really love them but I really appreciate the artistry of those three. Run The Jewels just continue to get better.

[Lennon2217]

Dec 31, 2015 11:22:15 GMT -5 theyknowwhatimean said:

Dec 31, 2015 11:09:26 GMT -5 Lennon2217 said:

Unfortunately this is not available in the good old US of A. Only a couple single tracks.

That's a real shame, not only for you lot missing out on a genuinely great album, but also the band as well. But I'm sure, if they keep on as they are, they'll get a bit more exposure in the coming years.

Could always lend you my copy in the meantime, if you like?

Only 4-5 Holy Holy songs are available in the USA iTunes store. "You Cannot Call for Love Like a Dog" being the best of them. It was released in April 2015. No other songs since. So strange. I really dig the late 70s Pink Floyd guitars.

[John Henry Holliday]

I really enjoyed the b-sides to Some Girls by the Rolling Stones......amongst the best music I've heard in a long time....

'Do You Think I Really Care?', 'Claudine', 'No Spare Parts', 'Tallahassee Lassie', etc....



God bless.

[mossy]

I've been reading Rip It Up And Start Again this year (excellent book, I recommend it) so I've been discovering loads of post punk.

Highlights:

Devo - Are We Not Men


The Slits - Cut

[rockitchris89]

Boston- Boston (1976)
Gingersol- Extended Play (1995)
Sparklehorse- It's a Wonderful Life (2001)
Kettcar- Du und wieviel von deinen Freunden (2002)
The Real People- Think Positive (2010)

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In no order :

Cotton Mather- Kontiki (1997)
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle (1968)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
Bob Dylan - The Times They're a-Changin' (1964)
Neil Young - On The Beach (1974)
The La's - The La's (1990)
The Coral - Roots and Echoes (2007)

And some others...


By the way, if you're a Beatles fan (more precisely of the Revolver-era), listen to that "Kontiki" album by Cotton Mather. It's a highly underrated album !

[mimmihopps]

Dec 31, 2015 10:18:34 GMT -5 mimmihopps said:

Intuit - Ramona Falls
Prophet - Ramona Falls
If You Leave - Daughter

One more to add:

They Want My Soul - Spoon

Yes, I know I'm late for a party, Cast and Lennon2217.

[Mean Mrs. Mustard]

Jan 1, 2016 17:39:35 GMT -5 lubeck said:

In no order :

Cotton Mather- Kontiki (1997)
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle (1968)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
Bob Dylan - The Times They're a-Changin' (1964)
Neil Young - On The Beach (1974)
The La's - The La's (1990)
The Coral - Roots and Echoes (2007)

And some others...


By the way, if you're a Beatles fan (more precisely of the Revolver-era), listen to that "Kontiki" album by Cotton Mather. It's a highly underrated album !

Everyone keeps saying that about that Cotton Mather album, but I still haven't listened! Will definitely check that out.

[theyknowwhatimean]

Jan 2, 2016 9:38:20 GMT -5 @supermario said:

-Most of Pink Floyd's albums (only knew the hits and Dark Side of the Moon before that)
-Syd Barrett's solo albums
-The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
-Electric Warrior by T. Rex
-Behind The Music by The Soundtrack of our Lives
-Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
-Daisies of the Galaxy by Eels

And probably a few others I forgot.

You heard the one he did after that, The Slider? Some good tunes on it. 

Tanx is really great in places an' all, though it suffers massively from 20th Century Boy and Children of the Revolution being left off (now I know why Noel said Bolan was a big influence on him...)

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Dec 31, 2015 8:11:08 GMT -5 Frank Lee Vulgar said:

Jet - Get Born

what a great album. i forgot all about these guys. they opened up for oasis back in 2005.

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Jan 1, 2016 16:10:44 GMT -5 rockitchris89 said:

Boston- Boston (1976)

nice one, good for you. the second highest selling debut album of all-time in the united states. R.I.P. brad delp, one of the greatest rock 'n' roll vocalists of all-time.