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2005 musical discoveries
barcoach
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So, now that the year is about to end, how was it in terms of music? I mean not only records released this year, but also music that though done in the past you just discovered this year.
Mine, I think, was actually pretty cool.
Maybe my most joyful discovery of the year was Johnny Thunders, he now defines punk for me. But I just can't forget about The Weakerthans an absolute favorite at this moment, their album Left & Leaving is an absolute masterpiece of the 2k's, now I have all their CD's and I'm very interested in looking what will the future bring for them.
I also discovered a couple of local -Mexican- bands I really liked: Niña and Monocordio. Also a band from Spain that kept me rockin' towards the end of the year was La Costa Brava and an spanish singer with some sort of Tom Waits influence, Josele Santiago.
Also found some love for the Raveonettes, to whom I hadn't pay much attention in the past.
Z by My Morning Jacket I think became my fave album of the year, and was a great introduction to this band.
I also discovered and loved the Mountain Goats and Black Hearts Procession.
The Canadian band Stars, were just love at first sight (listen)
And some bands I didn't exactly discovered this year, but found my admiration growing for them were The New Pornographers and Broken Social Scene.
Mine, I think, was actually pretty cool.
Maybe my most joyful discovery of the year was Johnny Thunders, he now defines punk for me. But I just can't forget about The Weakerthans an absolute favorite at this moment, their album Left & Leaving is an absolute masterpiece of the 2k's, now I have all their CD's and I'm very interested in looking what will the future bring for them.
I also discovered a couple of local -Mexican- bands I really liked: Niña and Monocordio. Also a band from Spain that kept me rockin' towards the end of the year was La Costa Brava and an spanish singer with some sort of Tom Waits influence, Josele Santiago.
Also found some love for the Raveonettes, to whom I hadn't pay much attention in the past.
Z by My Morning Jacket I think became my fave album of the year, and was a great introduction to this band.
I also discovered and loved the Mountain Goats and Black Hearts Procession.
The Canadian band Stars, were just love at first sight (listen)
And some bands I didn't exactly discovered this year, but found my admiration growing for them were The New Pornographers and Broken Social Scene.
Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
-The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
Mexico C. 12/10/05.
"There is a rose that I want to live for
although, God knows, I may not have met her"
-J. Strummer
"And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
-The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
Mexico C. 12/10/05.
"There is a rose that I want to live for
although, God knows, I may not have met her"
-J. Strummer
"And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
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many more stoner rock bands
and just increased musical knowledge
Got much more into: Broken Social Scene, The White Stripes, Bright Eyes and The New Pornographers.
I was a great year for me, I took bought "Broken Social Scene" and "Z" on the same day and from then on my tastes became much more 'indie.' Still trying to catch up on a lot of the bands I have heard since then. Probably be spending most of next year trying to get albums by bands like Belle & Sebastian, Ted Leo, Broken Social Scene, Stars, ect.
It would have been a very weak year if I had kept my old listening habits and stuck mostly to mainstream stuff, not much came out after June that really interested me in that categoy. I like Get Behind Me Satan, Guero and a couple of others, but looking for non-mainstream music definitely made this year great for me.
Flaming Lips
Mars Volta
Bands that I already liked, but now really love-Tool, Aic
Bands that I already loved, but now I am obsessive about-Pink Floyd, I always enjoyed puttin in a good Floyd album, and just 'chillin', but since I rediscovered Animals, my love for this band has tripled, and I liked them quite a bit before.
Oh, I also loved Spoon this year, discovered them with Gimme Fiction and I would've got more albums by them if they had them at the record stores of my city... I'll be looking forward for their cd's in 2006.
An other great dicovery this year I was forgetting was British Sea Power, the album they realeased this year is fairly good, but their first one just blew me away.
-The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
Mexico C. 12/10/05.
"There is a rose that I want to live for
although, God knows, I may not have met her"
-J. Strummer
"And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
A great year!
Some die just to live.
Atomic Rooster
Grand funk railroad
Budgie
Cactus
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
clap your hands say yeah
six organs of admittance
shining
sleepybird
philosopher's stone
wolf parade
black mountain
devandra banhart (sp??)
jana hunter
the islands
blood meridian
jerk with a bomb
ladyhawk
pink mountaintops
the joggers
hella
hawk and a hacksaw
love
chocolate watchband
caustic resin
link wray
moby grape
greenhornes
blood on the wall
morning after girls
frog eyes
silver jews
sixteen horsepower
cloud cult
avalanches
beachwood sparks
magic numbers
augie march
antony and the johnsons
tim seely
okkervill river
sugarcubes
tangelo
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Bright Eyes
The Decemberists
Low
Wolf Parade
The New Pornographers
The Magic Numbers
That is why I'm singing
You always innevitably go back to Floyd.
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I wasn't expecting that one...awesome...they're from my hometown.
As for me, I really got into Jeff Buckley this summer and The Drive-By Truckers.
Both very good.
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My morning Jacket Z, fantastic
Spoon Gimme Fiction, excellent
Flaming Lips, great too
And I'll take note of the other ones you mentioned, maybe I'll like them too!
mastodon
jesu
johnny cash
jose gonzalez
iron and wine
the melvins
thats all i can think of off hand
those bands suck dude!!!!
you're such an ass and always will be!!!
balls
Emiliana Torrini
Mother Hips
The Go! Team
Nuspirit Helsinki
The Decemberists are fantastic. I just got into them in the last year too. On a similar vein of mellow/folksy music, I started to like Iron & Wine and Kings of Convenience. Other bands I discovered recently are Spoon, Interpol, Arcade Fire, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ben Harper, and Kaiser Chiefs.
Artists I had heard of but only recently started to listen to include Flaming Lips, Beck, Bob Dylan, Guster, John Frusciante's solo stuff, System of a Down, and the White Stripes.
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Fat Freddys Drop
" makes much more sense to live in the present tense "
Ben Gibbard's projects
The National
Spoon, although I'm kind of worn out on them already
Black Keys
Bright Eyes
Elliott Smith
Renewed Interest:
White Stripes
Neutral Milk Hotel's "Avery Island"
The Verve
Dylan
Beatles, specifically the "White Album"
Art Brut.
Architecture In Helsinki.
Botch.
Can.
DJ Shadow.
Explosions In The Sky.
Fugazi.
Godspeed You Black Emperor.
Liars.
Magazine.
M. Ward.
Menomena.
Sage Francis.
Saul Williams.
Slint.
Strapping Young Lad.
The Books.
The Mountain Goats.
Tiamat.
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Wow, musically you have had sucky years before 05 IMO
Hey, that's also an other band I got into last year, loved their album to the bone... is always good to hear The Sporting Life early in the morning, after it you only expect the worst... and in that way it's easier to think your day was better than expected.
-The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
Mexico C. 12/10/05.
"There is a rose that I want to live for
although, God knows, I may not have met her"
-J. Strummer
"And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
I discover other groups... like The Mummies, Fabulous Disaster, The Stitches, The Dead Boys, Die Huns,...
Can is fucking GREAT! Tago Mago is completly insane!
DJ Shadow, really cool! I discover it this year too.. Some friends are big fans!