01. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

 

 

02. Poor Man's Heaven - Seth Lakeman

Great lyrics, great stories, great voice, great musicianship, great harmonies, great drums, handclaps!

 

03. Dreaming Of Revenge - Kaki King

Luscious.

 

04 This Is Alphabeat - Alphabeat

POP!

 

05. The Hawk Is Howling - Mogwai

 

06. Exit Strategy Of The Soul - Ron Sexsmith

 

07. Accelerate - R.E.M.

 

08. Encanto - Sergio Mendes

 

09. Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp

how many are we allowed?

 

25 I do believe.

how many are we allowed?

Yep, at least 5 and no more than 25.

 

I'll get all the details like that spelled out at the official kickoff... which should happen soon.

after listening to fleet foxes twice its already one of my favorites. i wonder where it will end up..

Hopefully high up. :) It shot right up my charts.

List in progress... Waiting for some others...

 

1 Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends

2 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

3 Beck - Modern Guilt

4 TV On The Radio - Dear Science

5 The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead

6 Tom Baxter - Skybound

7 Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things

8 REM - Accelerate

9 Nada Surf - Lucky

10 James - Hey Ma

11 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

12 Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark

13 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

14 South - You Are Here

15 Glasvegas - Glasvegas

 

Honorable

 

. Seth Lakeman, . Alanis Morissette, . Fleet Foxes . Keane, . Mat Kearney, . Sugarland, . The Dodos, .Kathleen Edwards, . Sheryl Crow, . My Morning Jacket, . Travis, . Sam Phillips, . Bon Iver, . Sun Kil Moon, . Hot Chip, . Weezer, . Metallica, . Oasis

 

Still excited about

 

Snow Patrol

 

Disappointed

 

The Verve, Gavin Rossdale, Lenny Kravitz, U2 for waiting

 

 

Back later to update :D Have a GREAT day everybody

 

South fan! Good choice! I haven't met many south fans.

South fan! Good choice! I haven't met many south fans.

 

LOVE their music! Ive never met anyone that has heard there music... Glad to finally know someone has heard of them!:D

Viva La Vida is obviously the one

Viva La Vida is obviously the one

 

I disagree, it doesn't even feature in my top 10 albums of the year so far list.

I disagree, it doesn't even feature in my top 10 albums of the year so far list.

 

says the one person who didn't put coldplay in their favorite artists lists.....

What :P

Slightly revised list. Perfect Symmetry is *just* outside the top ten at the moment. Only By the Night has gotten a bit stale. It's good, but it isn't brilliant like the rest of the albums in my top ten.

 

Oh, and the new Dartz album is fantastic.

Yeah, whats up with that? Definitely my favorite, I think its their best. Just slightly better than AROBTTH...

Sigh. So many things I want to get around to listening to, so little time. grr.

 

*Adds Fleet Foxes to the list*

Bloc Party-Intimacy

Frightened Rabbit- Midnight Organ Flight

NIN- Ghost I-IV

Girl Talk- Feed the Animals

Throw Me the Statue- Moonbeams

Sigur Ros- With A Buzz in Our Ears...

MGMT- Oracular Spectacular

Coldplay-Viva La Vida

 

 

just a few on my mind lately.

I disagree, it doesn't even feature in my top 10 albums of the year so far list.

 

 

same here.

 

 

Fleet Foxes for the win!

List updated again, probably my last draft.

Once I listen to the new Computerclub and Snow Patrol records I'll do the final draft of my list.

List updated.

Figure I'd do a blurb

 

THE MUSIC - STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

 

 

Remember The Music? In 2002 they released thier debut self-titled album (and easy to google) The Music, featuring such tracks as The People and Getaway. They had only just gotten out of high school and already they are touring the world and producing radio hits. The second album saw the band vastly grow on thier songwriting abilities for a much more accessable second album. The Music were going to be huge, but young life on the road takes it's toll. Singer Robert Harvey became an alcholic and the other members were rethinking thier musical ambitions. It could've been so easy for the band to call it all off at this point.

 

4 years passed and The Music dissapeared from the limelight whilst the band got thier personal lives in order. With much help Robert kicked his addictions and began to focus on music again. Eventually they returned to the studio with Flood and half of Orbital to create thier most emotionally honest record to date.

 

It's easy to see how The Music have evolved through this experience. Whilst the title track "Strength In Numbers" reassures fans that The Music are back and might have never been away, songs like "Idle", "Drugs" and album closer "Inconcivable Odds" could not have been done earlier in thier career. My personal highlights are "The Left Side" and "Vision", dark tracks with some of the best singalong choruses this year.

 

The album's production makes for a challenging listen at first which has turned many people off the band's 3rd effort, however I found despite bizzare tracklisting choices this album just keeps getting better and better with each repeated listen. Whether you want to be swept away into a dreamy world or rock out and dance like crazy, there's bound to be something on "Strength In Numbers" which takes your fancy.

 

[ame=http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=omFWGBfVRo4]YouTube - The Music - Strength In Numbers[/ame]

 

[ame=http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=MymjRrxZOgA]YouTube - The Music - Drugs[/ame]

 

PS - Someone please proofread this!

keane - perfect symmetry !!!!!

You need at least 5 albums Darkchoc ;)

^^You need at least 5 entries for your list to count. Care to add to that? Eh, Dave beat me to it. :tongue: ;)

 

Figure I'd do a blurb

PS - Someone please proofread this!

 

Hooray! :dance:

 

Proofreading:

 

released their debut

much more accessible second album.

an alcoholic and the other

rethinking their musical ambitions.

The Music disappeared from

got their personal lives

"Inconceivable Odds"

are eps allowed cuz i wonder where prospekts march will end up in this list...

are eps allowed cuz i wonder where prospekts march will end up in this list...

 

That is a very good question. Last year eps of exclusively original material were allowed. The year before no eps were allowed. BUT nothing previously released or live was allowed, and Prospekts March is not entirely new so even if they are allowed, it probably won't count.

 

Hmm. I'll get back to you on it.