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It's July, where's the great music of 2009?!

Barbados Slim

Barbados Slim

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I'm looking through my iPod and everything I listen to religiously is from last year or earlier. I can't get enough of Copeland's "You Are My Sunshine," Keane's "Perfect Symmetry" or Kings of Leon's "Only By The Night." All from last year.

The only thing from this year I've enjoyed is the bird and the bee's new album "ray guns are not just the future" and Maxwell's "BLACKsummer's night." The new stuff from Depeche Mode and U2 were disappointing. The new Black Eyed Peas has two good tracks.

Am I stuck in 2008 or has this year sucked for music?
 
I've heard great to brilliant new music from:
Neko Case
Bob Dylan
Bonnie Prince Billy
Marilyn Manson
Placebo
Mos Def
Wilco
Patrick Wolf
Iggy Pop
 
2009 is easily on level terms if not better than 2008 for me. Got some excellent new albums and songs from:

Porcupine Tree
The Mars Volta
Fever Ray
Depeche Mode
Kasabian
Muse
Rammstein
Every Time I Die
Arctic Monkeys
Bat for Lashes
Incubus
Isis
Mastodon
Nine Inch Nails
Maudlin of the Well
Poison the Well

Not to mention both Blur and Faith No More reforming for loads of gigs. Shaping up to blow 2007/2008 out of the water from my perspective.
 
I haven't been paying attention at all this year. But I skipped listening to the radio and having MTV playing in the background.
 
Barbados Slim, you definitely seem to be looking towards older bands. It's hard for bands like that to keep up creativity every year (U2 seems to ebb and flow. 2 poor albums, 2 solid albums, and now one album that looks to be poor again, judging by its single).

Green Day released a solid album if you liked American Idiot. For new bands, there's a band called Band of Skulls that seems to be getting a lot of radio play and has a pretty catchy album that just came out. The year is halfway done and, for the most part, I haven't noticed many great albums (or great radio singles), but I'm sure there's some stuff under the radar and some more that'll pop up soon.
 
I haven't been aware of popular music since the late '90s/very early '00s. And I'm only 22 years old!

I dropped out of the music scene when Britney, Christina, *NSync and BSB were still around. My brief attempt at popular music (or rather, my mother and friends' attempt to convert me to it) started around the Ace of Base, Spice Girls (I was dragged to Spice World during 5th grade), No Doubt, Ricky Martin, the epic My Heart Will Go On/Titanic/Céline Dion overload, Mambo #5 and the Macarena dance that seemed to go on for years. I'm not joking. I completely bailed circa '01-'02 and after that it was back to my childhood love of all oldies... Starting with a discovery that there was more to Elvis than my hits CD (it was stumbling onto An American Trilogy that caused that obsession to have a rebirth).

All that I hear of modern artists are from television shows and fanvids. In fact, that's where I get most of my exposure to modern music. But I pretty much consider anything '80s+ as modern. LOL. If it hasn't been on a Whedon show or a geek fandom-related fanvid, I probably haven't heard it. Well, as far as fanvids go, it means I've been exposed to a grotesque amount of Evanescence (I can't forgive the overuse of My Immortal and I have some serious issues with their treatment of Mozart's poor Lacrimosa--it makes my toes curl), a lot of Within Temptation (a side affect of being a fan of a character called "Angel"), Sarah McLachlan, a fair amount of Green Day (especially Boulevard--very popular in fanvids), etc...

I like old music. Really. Old. Music. Almost entirely pre-me music.

The last time I turned on MTV... Carson Daly was still the host of TRL. Not kidding. I have no clue what that channel has done since.
 
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Barbados Slim said:
Am I stuck in 2008 or has this year sucked for music?
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Try The Leisure Society's debut album, The Sleeper. The lead single off it the album, "The Last of the Melting Snow," was up for the Ivor Novello Award a few months ago. (It lost to Elbow's "One Day Like This," and even Guy Garvey thought "Melting Snow" should have won.)
 
The new Alice in Chains single is excellent, I can't wait for the album. Later this year there should be new LPs from Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots and Anthrax.

Favourite albums already released this year are by Therapy?, VALIS, Morrisey, The Prodigy and Manic Street Preachers.

I think it's a great year for music, but then so is every year.
 
Pingfah said:
1001001 said:
HappyDayRiot said:
2009 is easily on level terms if not better than 2008 for me. Got some excellent new albums and songs from:

Porcupine Tree
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Once the new album comes out in September, it will be the best year ever.

:techman:
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You guys got the Steven Wilson album I assume?
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Actually, no. I don't have Insurgentes. I've heard some of the stuff off of it though. It sounds pretty good. I'm still collecting PT recordings (just got Signify).

Porcupine Tree also released a live CD this year, Ilosaarirock,although it was only available to us in the fan club. Have you heard any of that?

And in case you didn't know, there's a 7 1/2 minutes preview of The Incident on their MySpace page.

:techman:
 
For country fans, Shine from Martina McBride and American Saturday Night from Brad Paisley are well worth checking out.
 
TMV- pretty good album, always happy to see them releasing new stuff.
Animals as Leaders, genuinely new and interesting music
Hot Leg, passable album. Sounds amazing on the first few listens but gets tiresome quickly as there isn't much depth.

I don't really like many bands out there atm, particularly 00s bands, can't stand indie.
 
1001001 said:
Pingfah said:
1001001 said:
Once the new album comes out in September, it will be the best year ever.

:techman:
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You guys got the Steven Wilson album I assume?
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Actually, no. I don't have Insurgentes. I've heard some of the stuff off of it though. It sounds pretty good. I'm still collecting PT recordings (just got Signify).

Porcupine Tree also released a live CD this year, Ilosaarirock,although it was only available to us in the fan club. Have you heard any of that?

And in case you didn't know, there's a 7 1/2 minutes preview of The Incident on their MySpace page.

:techman:
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I've never had a preview on repeat before but hot damn theirs is incredible. All that in ONE song.

Also totally forgot that Alice in Chains track. Wasn't expecting anything worthwhile from that reunion but will definitely be picking that up. September is going to be an expensive month for me music-wise.

And I've got Insurgentes down to get hold of this weekend - I've also been busy with older PT - cheated and bought the 91-05 double disc best of/rarities collection.
 
There's next to no good music this year that isn't really obscure. Everything is just generic indie trash and generic rnb trash.
 
HappyDayRiot said:
1001001 said:
Pingfah said:
You guys got the Steven Wilson album I assume?
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Actually, no. I don't have Insurgentes. I've heard some of the stuff off of it though. It sounds pretty good. I'm still collecting PT recordings (just got Signify).

Porcupine Tree also released a live CD this year, Ilosaarirock,although it was only available to us in the fan club. Have you heard any of that?

And in case you didn't know, there's a 7 1/2 minutes preview of The Incident on their MySpace page.

:techman:
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I've never had a preview on repeat before but hot damn theirs is incredible. All that in ONE song.
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I know what you mean. The preview sounds incredible. I'm assuming they're going to play the entire 55 minute song during the tour. I can't wait.

September needs to hurry up!

:techman:
 
I'm not much on current music, but Brad Paisley put out a (mostly) instrumental album this year call Play which is very good.
 
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