Xerath IIITerenureJim wrote:Album(s) of the year folks?
Triptykon Melana Chasmata
Behemoth The Satanist
Pink Floyd The Endless River
Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun
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Xerath IIITerenureJim wrote:Album(s) of the year folks?
Autopsy and Godflesh.ichabodscrane wrote:Xerath & Behemoth's offerings were very good. I'll have to have a think about my metal album(s) of the year.
I've only even heard of 6 of them. Way to make a fellow feel old!Dave Cahill wrote:The Guardian's top 40 albums of the year
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Jaysus I had to really scan hard to make it to 7. And that includes Taylor Swift who I probably wouldn't have heard of had I no kids.Lamb of BOD wrote:I've only even heard of 6 of them. Way to make a fellow feel old!Dave Cahill wrote:The Guardian's top 40 albums of the year
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Must be an age thing...15 for mejohng wrote:Jaysus I had to really scan hard to make it to 7. And that includes Taylor Swift who I probably wouldn't have heard of had I no kids.Lamb of BOD wrote:I've only even heard of 6 of them. Way to make a fellow feel old!Dave Cahill wrote:The Guardian's top 40 albums of the year
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Do I care? Fock no. Being old is the new being young.
I know Scott Walker, so counted that one. Maybe I should have said 14 1/2.Dave Cahill wrote:12 for me, 13 if one takes into account that Scott Walker and Sunn 0))) are separate acts.
Only one Scott 'Noel Scott Engel' Walker, its the same- to quote Julian Cope - 'godlike genius'. Since 'Climate of Hunter' hes been right at the forefront of the Avant-garde movement in european music.johng wrote:I'm presuming there are 2 Scott Walkers and that this one was not in the Walker Brothers back in the 60s
Wellllll.... that's kind of ignoring the personal journey that led from Mark Knoppfler on guitar in Climate (seriously) to Sunn O))) on soused. That's quite some distance. And the way that the last Walker Brothers album has, say, "the electrician" on it. Or indeed the actual arrangements (particularly the Wally Stott vertical blocks of sound) on some of the crooner material.Dave Cahill wrote:Only one Scott 'Noel Scott Engel' Walker, its the same- to quote Julian Cope - 'godlike genius'. Since 'Climate of Hunter' hes been right at the forefront of the Avant-garde movement in european music.johng wrote:I'm presuming there are 2 Scott Walkers and that this one was not in the Walker Brothers back in the 60s
Give Primordial's new one a spin - just got round to picking it up yesterday - it's incredibleichabodscrane wrote: I'll have to have a think about my metal album(s) of the year.
I wouldn't consider there to be a massive journey between Climate and Soused in terms of what Engel is doing - if you consider the gaps between his solo albums 11 years to Tilt, 11 years to The Drift, 6 years to Bish Bosch and another couple to Soused the progression is reasonable. The big journey was the one that led from Scott 4 to Night Flights. He had found himself and his voice by the time Climate came out - it was the struggles after Scott 4 that led to the lost years.fourthirtythree wrote: Wellllll.... that's kind of ignoring the personal journey that led from Mark Knoppfler on guitar in Climate (seriously) to Sunn O))) on soused. That's quite some distance. And the way that the last Walker Brothers album has, say, "the electrician" on it. Or indeed the actual arrangements (particularly the Wally Stott vertical blocks of sound) on some of the crooner material.
When Sultans of swing came out in 1977 all us teenage guitarists thought he was god. Then we heard the rest of the album and thought Hmmmmm. Then we heard the 2nd album and thought.... Ah. So sultans of swing was a fluke. And stopped listening. By the time he got to the stab yourself in the ears bad "walk of life" in the 80s he had become a total joke.Dave Cahill wrote: Younger folks forget that there was a time before Brothers in Arms, when Knopfler was really respected as a musician who was constantly stretching himself and trying new things. Then Brothers In Arms came out and he came to be perceived to be some kind of cut price yuppie clapton
The War on Drugs album Lost in the Dream might have been written by Knopfler in those pre-Brothers years. It's very hard to listen to it and believe that it wasn't made in the early 80s. For all that, I like it a lot, but you can't have an album that retrospective being the best album of the year, imo.Dave Cahill wrote:Younger folks forget that there was a time before Brothers in Arms, when Knopfler was really respected as a musician who was constantly stretching himself and trying new things. Then Brothers In Arms came out and he came to be perceived to be some kind of cut price yuppie clapton