2010 top 3 albums

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:23 pm

Where the hell did the year go?

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:32 pm

For me:

1. Glossary
2. Henry Clay People

#3 rotates week to week.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Yail Bloor Wrote:

For me:

2. Henry Clay People

I tried with that one but just couldn't get into it. I liked their last album too.

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:14 pm

Three of my favorites not yet mentioned:

Wild Nothing - Gemini
The Silver Seas - Chateau Revenge
Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:20 pm

The Dreaded Marco Wrote:

Three of my favorites not yet mentioned:
Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy

I like this album quite a bit, just not top 3 worthy for me.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:12 am

billy g Wrote:

Yail Bloor Wrote:

For me:

2. Henry Clay People

I tried with that one but just couldn't get into it. I liked their last album too.

Yeah, I don't why it grabbed me (even moreso than the last one) but it gets played a whole hell of a lot (which is my totally unscientific method for determining what records I like)

posthumus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am **Posts:** 589

1. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
2. Crystal Castles- II
3. The National - High Violet

...or something... whatever...

Fryxell · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:03 am

1. J Roddy Walston & Da Business
2. DBTs
3. Two Cow Garage/Bobby Bare Jr (tie)

(I think I have a "type")

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:49 am

for bobby bare jr, you guys mean "A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head" right?

wilked · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:31 am

Pretty interesting story behind it

Quote:

The thirteen song collection, which took the Nashville rocker four years to write and release, plays like a short autobiography of its author, with titles like “Your Goat is On Fire,” “Swollen But Not the Same,” and “Liz Taylor’s Lipstick Gun” alluding to Bare’s unusual but sharp sense of humor, and more somber tunes like “The Sky is the Ground” and the record’s title track reminding listeners there’s a serious, personal side to the man behind it.

On “A Storm, A Tree, My Mother’s Head,” Bare sings of an incident that almost left his mother dead in 2008, resulting in one of his most solemn, gripping songs to date. Throughout the album, traces of working man’s rocker Bruce Springsteen can be heard, while an at-times-subtle undercurrent of Nashville country runs through courtesy of growing up living and writing with his father, Bobby Bare, Sr.

andyfest · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:02 am

Drinky Wrote:

Even being the big Les Savy Fav fan that I am, I think that album is pretty weak.

I'm in this boat as well - I generally like their stuff but this one just isn't doing it for me.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:48 pm

Fryxell Wrote:

1. J Roddy Walston & Da Business
2. DBTs
3. Two Cow Garage/Bobby Bare Jr (tie)

(I think I have a "type")

It's a good type, though. Keep up the good work, sir.

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:55 pm

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

The Dreaded Marco Wrote:

Three of my favorites not yet mentioned:
Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy

I like this album quite a bit, just not top 3 worthy for me.

Playing this album now for maybe the second time, but feeling like I've been listening all year. I've been sleeping but could very easily hear this soundtracking the rest of a year of taking it easy. Here here.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:10 pm

I forgot the Phosphorescent. That album rules.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

i ordered that album a week or so ago...looks like I made a good choice, then.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:47 pm

A couple weeks ago J. Roddy Walston opened for Phosphorescent and Deer Tick and completely blew those pretenders off the stage.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:47 pm

And by that I mean you guys should love 'em.

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:16 pm

i bet i would love them live, but i've given that album a number of chances and don't like it. but i don't like deer tick either and phosphorecent is decent

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:04 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

A couple weeks ago J. Roddy Walston opened for Phosphorescent and Deer Tick and completely blew those pretenders off the stage.

I don't think Phosphorescent would be that great of a show...of course J Roddy blew him off the stage.

But I bet you could find a few good options for a Slowcore Monger Vol V on his albums.

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:02 pm

deer tick were great live the two times i've seen them in their hometown.

thrillhouse · **Posted:** Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:15 am

Radcliffe Wrote:

A couple weeks ago J. Roddy Walston opened for Phosphorescent and Deer Tick and completely blew those pretenders off the stage.

happened last night in brooklyn too. i would not want that band opening for me if i was deer tick.

harry · **Posted:** Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:20 pm

Lots of good music this year, much of it off the mainstream and I haven't been able to think coherently about relative merits (which for me are always computed in the zeitgeist's context and need, arbitrarily ascertained at the end of a calendar year). But in the service of purposeful conversation:

Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Llyria
Tame Impala – Inner speaker
Phantogram - Eyelid Movies

Hegel · **Posted:** Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:36 pm

harry Wrote:

Phantogram - Eyelid Movies

Oh hell. How could I forget this one. Can we have a top 4, please?

jagged · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:59 am

J Roddy
Black Angels
Besnard Lakes

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:09 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

andyfest Wrote:

Wow, lots of love for the Bare Jr. album. Is it significantly better than his other stuff? I've always found him to be hit or miss.

This is another I haven't heard yet. All the praise kind of put me off it.

I put it down for a few weeks to let it cool off a bit, but have been playing it again this week and it's actually better than my first impressions for two reasons:

1. IMHO, BBJ's albums have always been a little front loaded or inconsistent in the quality songs department but I think this one stays pretty strong throughout. Not every song is a Big Winner but then again there aren't a lot of moments where it falls off a cliff either.

2. The MMJ-as-a-backing band aspect. I think I mentioned this to you on Facebook, but it is a huge positive for me and I think relating back to #1, the muscle of the music carries what might otherwise be some of the more borderline songs into "fucking awesome" territory.

So yeah, it's a top 5, top 3, top whatever for me.

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