March 26, 20169 yr Those last two are magnificent albums. Agree with Dandy about the 'It's Blitz!' cover!
March 26, 20169 yr Really thought The Suburbs would have been the one to beat. It's the second strongest Arcade Fire album after Funeral for me, very strong although with a huge highlight in Sprawl II. Very glad to see The Black Parade so high, I wouldn't have thought it but it's an easy album to love I guess, lots of strong hooks and emotional rock. And Riot! at #15 is doing very well, it's quite a different tone to many of the albums here but I can't help but find it an obsession (and it is perhaps Paramore's most alternative album, with its high-energy rock riffs). Family Jewels is easily Marina's best, good to see it so high.
March 26, 20169 yr Art Angels is an absolute stunner of an album :wub: Really would've liked to see BTD, Froot and TFJ higher tbh :kink:
March 26, 20169 yr My Chemical Romance in the top 10 :o Fantastic album and wonderful concept, I'd definitely recommend it! The Suburbs & Neon Bible are fantastic too, the former in particular really got me into them and they're yet to make a single bad album by my reckoning. PJ Harvey & Elbow were ones I sought out after their mercury wins (so mainstream lol), both were fantastic, and the latter album holds one of my favourite songs of all time.
March 27, 20169 yr It's Blitz is a brilliant album, the opening of “Zero” and “Heads Will Roll” is one of the strongest of the past 10 years. I still sing 'it's Derek' to the chorus of “Hysteric”... : )
March 27, 20169 yr People still like My Chemical Romance? The Suburbs is really good but could quite easily have been better by being a few tracks shorter. As an 11 track album it could've been ace. I've recently started re-appreciating just how good the first Arctic Monkeys album was, kind of surprised AM didn't make it in here. A top 3 of Lungs, Black Holes and Revelations and High Violet then? Decent enough. Though I hope Muse don't win.
March 27, 20169 yr The best Monkeys album for me is still Favourite Worst Nightmare - though that is mainly for the stunners that are “Teddy Picker”, “Fluorescent Adolescent” and “Do Me A Favour”. They could do no wrong for me in that period 07-09. ‘Who’d want to be men of the people. When there’s people like you?’
March 27, 20169 yr I have never really understood Arctic Monkeys... maybe because I'm not British. They have some good songs though but that's all I get from them.
March 27, 20169 yr Author The best Monkeys album for me is still Favourite Worst Nightmare - though that is mainly for the stunners that are “Teddy Picker”, “Fluorescent Adolescent” and “Do Me A Favour”. They could do no wrong for me in that period 07-09. ‘Who’d want to be men of the people. When there’s people like you?’ 505 is such a mature song for lads so young.
March 27, 20169 yr If I made a definitive Arctic Monkeys playlist it'd be fairly evenly split across the eras after their debut tbh. The View From The Afternoon I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor Still Take You Home Mardy Bum When The Sun Goes Down A Certain Romance Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts Teddy Picker Fluorescent Adolescent This House is a Circus 505 My Propeller Secret Door Cornerstone She's Thunderstorms Black Treacle Suck It and See Do I Wanna Know? R U Mine? Snap Out of It Then add the live lounge cover of Hold On, We're Going Home to make it up to 20. Edited March 27, 20169 yr by RabbitFurCoat
March 27, 20169 yr Author http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/3_2.png Lungs is the debut studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, released on 3 July 2009 by Island Records. The album debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart for five weeks after its release. In January 2010, the album reached a new peak position of number one for two consecutive weeks. Lungs was eventually certified five-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The album also peaked at number two for six weeks on the Irish Albums Chart. Upon release, Lungs received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised lead singer Florence Welch's vocals and the album's instrumentation. The album was shortlisted for the 2009 Mercury Prize, and won the MasterCard British Album award at the 2010 Brit Awards. Lungs has sold more than three million copies worldwide. Lungs received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 22 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".James Christopher Monger of AllMusic praised it as "one of the most musically mature and emotionally mesmerizing albums of 2009" and stated, "With an arsenal of weaponry that included the daring musicality of Kate Bush, the fearless delivery of Sinéad O'Connor, and the dark, unhinged vulnerability of Fiona Apple, the London native crafted a debut that not only lived up to the machine-gun spray of buzz that heralded her arrival, but easily surpassed it." Ryan Dombal wrote for Pitchfork Media that Florence Welch "bursts mouth wide wide over garage rock, epic soul, pint-tipping Britbeat, and—best of all—a mystic brand of pop that's part Annie Lennox, Grace Slick, and Joanna Newsom." Entertainment Weekly's Joseph Brannigan Lynch opined that Welch's "immaculately constructed indie pop recalls Regina Spektor, but without the studied artiness: Welch is more concerned with raw emotional release." I'm probably not the best person to comment on Lungs as I've always found it a very over-wrought proposition. Rabbit Heart and Cosmic Love are the only songs that do anything for me. It's strange because she has all the factors that I like. She's hugely charismatic. She's dramatic. She's influenced by Kate Bush. She uses the harp. I think all those things have been covered more subtly by Bat for Lashes and Joanna Newsom. I tried. I really tried. I even re-sequenced the album in the order than Dandy* suggested. It was not different. Some things are just not meant to be. Edited March 27, 20169 yr by Colm
March 27, 20169 yr Author http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/2_2.png High Violet is the fifth studio album by The National, which was released on May 10, 2010 in Europe and on May 11, 2010 in North America via 4AD. The band produced the album themselves assisted by Peter Katis with whom they worked on their previous albums Alligator and Boxer at their own studio in Brooklyn, New York, and at Katis' Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The sculpture on the album cover was created by artist Mark Fox, and is called The Binding Force. An expanded edition of High Violet was released through 4AD on November 22, 2010. The reissue includes the standard 11-track album along with a new bonus disc, featuring the unreleased tracks "You Were a Kindness" and "Wake Up Your Saints" as well as alternate versions, B-sides, and live recordings. High Violet was released to wide critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a "universal acclaim" score of 85, based on 36 reviews. Sputnikmusic awarded High Violet 5 out of 5, stating that the album "is another batch of cement to further supplement The National's already unshakable concrete career," also calling the album "their third masterpiece in a row." Drowned in Sound gave the album a 9 out of 10 rating, and the BBC hailed the album as "the New Yorkers' finest disc to date" and "a potential album of the year." Pitchfork Media's review stated that High Violet is "the sound of a band taking a mandate to be a meaningful rock band seriously," and gave the album a score of 8.7 out of 10. A friend of mine who I made though our love of indie/alternative music sat me down one day near the end of 2010 and played me Runaway. It blew me away. I hadn't a clue who it was. I thought it was one of the various American male singer song writers that the likes of Mojo or Uncut loved. When he told me who it was I was so annoyed with myself that I had never investigated the band before, even though I had heard they were great. Later that day I downloaded the album and fell in love with it. There's no poor songs on the album. Conversation 16 ended up being the highlight.
March 27, 20169 yr Conversation 16 really is beautiful. Prefer Boxer but struggle to come up with a band who has three ablums as good as Alligator, Boxer and High Violet.
March 27, 20169 yr Rabbit Heart and Cosmic Love are the only songs that do anything for me. They are by FAR the best tracks on the album, she isn't the most consistent artist but I find Lungs a more cohesive and enjoyable album than either of the follow-ups, a very strong debut with tribal influences and wonderfully inventive sounds that finds the sweet spot between radio friendly and 'hipster'. The National are of course amazing, first got in to them in 2007 with Mistaken For Strangers. Bloodbuzz Ohio floored me though, one of the best songs of the decade so far! The album is consistently good too, not a bad track there. :wub:
March 27, 20169 yr AnCo victorious? Unless I missed it earlier oops I have only gotten into Animal Collective's music this month. It's crazy how good Merriweather is. And so is Feels. I'm obsessed with Grass in particular.
March 27, 20169 yr I think that like her last one Art Angels is very hit and miss, though the highs are absolutely stunning! I disagree a bit, Art Angels is definitely a lot more HIT than miss. It saddens me hugely to think that pop blockbuster gems like “Butterfly” will never be heard by huge swathes of the population. Pop perfection!
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