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Posted: Nov 10, 2010 3:33 pm | Edited by: Record Shop Asshole
 
I haven't fully been keeping up, but I like the records by:

Guinea Worms
John Wesley Coleman
Ratas Del Vaticano
Puffy Areolas
Drunkdriver
The Men
Tandoori Knights
Balaclavas
Swans
Sun City Girls
Paul Collins
Dead Farmers
Defektors
Circle Pit
Demon's Claws
Nice Face

Still want to hear the new MOTO

Anyone got anything else? I feel like every year I mostly listen to older music and then spend the last couple months trying to catch up on everything new I missed. It'd be nice to hear some new music not of the "garage" variety -- I know this is Goner and everything, but still -- so many bands are going for that sound nowadays without having any hooks to back it up, and it can get pretty tiring. What are you guys listening to?
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 4:11 pm
 
New Tyvek is great!
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 9:14 pm
 
Sun City Girls Funeral Mariachi LP has been the only thing that I have been listening too. The second side is wonderful.
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 9:32 pm | Edited by: Cole
 
James Arthurs manhunt, Overnight Lowes "City of Rotten Eyes", John Wesley Coleman "Bad Lady Goes to Jail", and Thee Oh Sees "Warm Slime" have been my favorites.

I just listened to The Menthols for the first time today(missed 'em at Gonerfest). They sound awesome. Ordered the record. I have a feeling that album is going to be goood.
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 10:40 pm
 
New Tyvek is great!

HOLY BALLS - seconded! Definitely on my top ten for this year for sure. It RAGES.
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 10:52 pm
 
outside garage, i kinda have a thing for rockabilly, bluegrass stuff. the new two man gentlemen band is okay, but i like great calamities the best. new legendary shack shakers is great as always. movie star junkies is good, same with everything on voodoo rhythm records. for more local stuff in that genre, i'm okay with buffalo clover and barnstormers new albums, but i think i'm biased.
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 11:34 pm
 
OK Judge Revival and 333. Haven't really thought about it yet though.
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 11:53 pm | Edited by: Janderass
 
Overnight Lowes
Ours closes at 10.

Warm Slime was awful.
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 12:05 am
 
Warm Slime was awful.

No way. Those guys put out great music. You could make the argument that "Help" was better, but that record is not awful.
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 12:19 am
 
I'm a big fan. Warm Slime and Dog Poison were superfluous and not good.
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 1:36 am
 
333

A-Frames? I only ever got the 7". Good?

Mainly mad I missed out on the Mayyors from last year.
If anybody has a copy....
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 12:16 pm
 
I Gotta get the TYVEK record. Saw'em in Lawrence and they slayed!
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 1:51 pm
 
I think next to Masters Bedroom, Warm Slime is the best thing Oh Sees have ever done. Never warmed up to Help in the same way I did to either of those records.
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 1:59 pm
 
My personal favorites of the year are probably the Puerto Rico Flowers 12" (really underrated record) and the Happy Birthday LP (which I think is just as good as the King Tuff record). I also thought that Nice Face LP and both the Mount Carmel and Puffy Areolas records on Siltbreeze were great. Probably bought more re-issues this year than actual new records, which is a first in many years for me. Dunno if the quality of new releases had anything to do with it, or these re-issues are just so damn enticing....
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 2:36 pm
 
The Promise...sessions from the Darkness on the Edge of Town....holy crap! I love Bruce Springsteen. it's true.

Weathered Pines-Sky Between the Buildings! I think it technically came out in Feb? Country. straight up.
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 2:40 pm
 
best of November 9th-12th for me anyway!
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 3:45 pm
 
endtables
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 3:47 pm
 
The Limes record has definitely been a highlight of the year for me.

Sharon Jones "I Learned the Hard Way" also got a lot of airplay around the house.
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 4:08 pm
 
Television Personalities - A Memory is Better Than Nothing
Posted: Nov 14, 2010 12:53 am
 
The Limes record has definitely been a highlight of the year for me.


Yep, add The Limes record to my list. I shouldn't have I left it out. Great record. Alot of times what you listen to depends on the mood your in, that record has been perfect for me.

Sharon Jones "I Learned the Hard Way" also got a lot of airplay around the house.

I love what Daptone has been doing. I'm a huge fan.
Posted: Nov 14, 2010 7:14 pm
 
I've been listening to the Crusaders of Love record over and over again.
Posted: Nov 14, 2010 8:05 pm
 
harvey milk "a small turn of human kindness"
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 4:08 am
 
Tyvek record fuckin' slayed me; also...

Woven Bones- In And Out And Back Again
Endtables
Gonjasufi- A Sufi And A Killer
Rip Off Records compilation
Clinic- Bubblegum
Timmy's Organism- all of it, especially Rise Of The Green Gorilla
The Welders 7"
Ex Humans
Subtle Turnhips- Terd
Chronic Sick reissues
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 8:15 am
 
Fred Eaglesmiths "Cha Cha Cha" gets heavy rotation at the house, and if not album of the year, clearly "I would" wins out for catchiest song of the year.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 9:07 am | Edited by: tigerblinds
 
Wooden Tit
Burning Hatreds
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 10:30 am
 
I like this list so far. Past years there's been a lot of the same names mentioned. This one so far has a lot of stuff I haven't listened to yet and a bunch of new stuff. Keep it going!
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 10:54 am
 
i'm hoping janderass will add j.c. satan to this list.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 11:18 am
 
I'm not sure about adding something I don't exactly know how to say.

Satàn. How are you supposed to pronounce that? With a gay Frenchy accent or the regular way, like a Georgia hick.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 11:49 am
 
satin, like the silk.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 11:52 am
 
It's good. Sometimes I buy two of the same record because I think it might sound good if you play both sides at once. Totally works for this one! Best record all year for playing both sides at once!!!!

Would sound better on colored vinyl though.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 12:15 pm
 
I was going around saying it like 'rattan'. What a Dip!

Here's another one; Ethier, French pronunciation or clumsy American pronunciation?

'Cop Killer' - Also a crucial release from way back on Jan. 1!
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 12:20 pm
 
I've only heard about half that Tyvek record, but it will be at the top.

GUINEA WORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll also get behind 333.

I didn't buy much new music. Not really into this year.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 12:33 pm
 
'rattan'


that's correct.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 12:36 pm
 
OK! I like that. RECORD OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 12:36 pm
 
J.C. Satan sounds like most everything else to me...yet another lo-fi garage pop/punk album with the right sound but few/no hooks. What's latching you on to that one?

New Jason and the Scorchers is good. Is that lame?
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 1:03 pm
 
JAILL thats how we burn
MAGIC KIDS memphis


KILLER ALBUMS!
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 1:04 pm
 
few/no hooks


it's nothing but hooks!

disclaimer: i work for the label

truth: i've listened to this record about 100 times because i honestly love it, and i don't come on here and say that about everything we release.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 1:05 pm | Edited by: Janderass
 
What's latching you on to that one?
I'm just fucking around. I just started listening to that one. It has few hooks but it's still real powerful. I get something new out of each listen. I don't know, it was awesome for playing D&D to yesterday . . .

For a little while this year I was getting really into space organ type of stuff like Black Boy George and The Spectrometers. I'm not sure if any of that is from this year though.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 1:12 pm
 
What's latching you on to that one?

Also meant to say, I'm totally into all the French bands right now anyway.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 1:28 pm
 
it was awesome for playing D&D to yesterday . . .


That record has a +3 in low fi hooks damage.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 1:36 pm
 
Ty Segall - Melted
Wrong Words (Oakland)
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 1:54 pm
 
New Jason and the Scorchers is good. Is that lame?

No, not at all.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 5:13 pm
 
I got the Menthols lp in yesterday....holy shit....this thing is vicious and it took one day to make my top three.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 6:50 pm
 
Saw the Royal Baths at the weekend and picked up their LP. Great drone and definitely on the list of the best of 2010.
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 8:03 pm
 
Personal & the Pizzas/Wounded Lion/Knights Of The New crusade
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 1:00 pm
 
Hi Folks, greetings from Boston, first post here: The new Vaselines record, Sex with an X, is great!
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 5:27 pm
 
Did this come out in 2010?
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 6:10 pm
 
Did this come out in 2010?
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 6:13 pm
 
i'm hoping janderass will add j.c. satan to this list.


OK! I like that. RECORD OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I want it known that I ordered j.c. satan soley on janderass's strong reccomendation. When you put that many exclamation points in there...it's gotta be good.
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 6:28 pm
 
it's fucking great.

ya know, i have a hard time dealing with the fact that bands in the genre (poppsychgarageshit???) are being hyped way more than j.c. satan. the first time i put the record on when i got the test press i was floored, and all i could think to myself was, "goddamn, this thing is fucking perfect. i better keep drinking." and i drank, and i played it over and over and over. i'm hearing way too much poppsychgarageshit from alot of bands lately, but this is the only album i ever put on and thought that it was as good as a beatles record. non-beatles fans, don't be afraid. there's no overhyped band legend stigma attched to these guys. and no paul macca chipmunk face, either.

also:

HAUNTED GEORGE
HUMAN EYE (LIVE)
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 6:29 pm
 
i have a hard time dealing with the fact that bands in the genre (poppsychgarageshit???) are being hyped way more than j.c. satan.

i know it's only been out less than a month, but that seems like 5 years in goner/ termbo time.
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 6:30 pm
 
Well, just for the record, I was kidding about "record of the year", but I meant it with the exclamations. You get what I'm saying about D&D soundtrack music, so I'm guessing you'll dig it.

My friends bought me the gift of a ride in a bi-plane this coming weekend. I also think this record will also be good soundtrack for that.

I'm open to other suggestions for mile-high open cock-pit listening . . .
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 6:33 pm
 
bi-cock
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 7:16 pm
 
Yeah, I knew you were kidding. I sampled it by watching some videos. I know I'll dig it.
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 7:32 pm
 
I just went and listened to some youtube clips. I must agree that there are no hooks. But, my definition of a hook is a little more complex than a wash of monotonous riffs that turn on a dime. The Fall and Joy Division have monotonous riffs that divert your attention from the brilliant hook. It's sly. This stuff seems to be missing something.
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 8:24 pm
 
ok, ok. i get your point. the melodies and mood and groove (gasp!) slay me though.

buy my mix tape!
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 8:47 pm
 
i think the song "prehistoric love" has what fits your definition of a hook. i think we're speaking technically about structure, right?

check this weird site i've been setting up slovenly band stuff on:

http://www.stereokiller.com/JCSatan

take a listen and lemme know.
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 9:33 pm
 
Not bad at all and groovin' fer sure.
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 9:34 pm
 
but as far as what you mean by a "hook?"
Posted: Nov 17, 2010 3:57 am
 
that band bio is really poorly written

band's not bad, but not sure it warrants the handjob bj's giving it
Posted: Nov 17, 2010 10:39 am
 
that band bio is really poorly written

i ain't no writer, that's for sure.
Posted: Nov 17, 2010 5:16 pm
 
ride in a bi-plane

does that come with ribbon candy and an oversize lapel button exclaiming that your voted for calvin coolidge?
Posted: Nov 17, 2010 6:08 pm
 
Actually, comes with a deluxe buffet and free champagne in a WWI theme restaurant. I like your idea though . . . maybe I'll wear a costume.

Goodnight Loving was pretty great this year, except that they split. Acrobaleno then Supper Club.
Posted: Nov 18, 2010 7:41 am
 
.holy crap! I love Bruce Springsteen. it's true.

you see, cort? other people DO LOVE the boss! knew i wasn't the only one!

and what about ECSR- Rush to Relax??? That's gotta be in the top ten of the year.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 10:47 am
 
I must agree that there are no hooks. But, my definition of a hook is a little more complex than a wash of monotonous riffs that turn on a dime.

our friend don howland disagrees. he wrote this to the band, who forwarded it to me:

Facebook alerted me to your sound. I've listened to the songs on the myspace page and think they are among the best things I've heard in a long, long time. Please let me know when your LP/CD is out.

and then he wrote to me, when i asked his permission to use the above quote, which he approved:

can't really imagine how anyone could slam a record w/ those songs on it. It sounds fantastic and the songs are both hooky and rank.

Don FUCKING Howland!!!
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 11:46 am
 
hook and rank

I'm going to get two new dogs just so these can be their names!
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 12:28 pm
 
My previous comment was based on live youtube clips. Which once again, seem kinda monotonous. Don's was based on the audio clips of the album. I think I already said that I checked out the myspace and thought the record sounded pretty cool. That said, I do not feel the compulsion to like everything Don"fucking"Howland likes. Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel. Will Black radiator be signing her, or slovenly?
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 12:37 pm
 
Will Black radiator be signing her

HEE-HAW
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 12:41 pm
 
Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel.

Musically or aesthetically pleasing?
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 12:43 pm
 
El Duce liked Jewel alot too
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 12:50 pm
 
Joe, I think you're taking this a bit too personally.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 1:01 pm
 
I've been listening to the latest Tyvek which ranks as a best album of '10. The 2nd song on side 2 sort of reminds me of Blitz.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 1:33 pm
 
I do not feel the compulsion to like everything Don"fucking"Howland likes.

i never insinuated you had to, but an endorsement like that from a guy i respect as much as i respect you needed to be posted. i think most goner board readers have the same equal admiration for don fucking howland and the legendary ed o alike. i gotta say it was pretty thrilling to read that for the first time, but i never went digging for it. it was just sent to me by a band member.

you also said "there are no hooks" based on a live clip, but we are talking about "albums" in this thread, not live clips. it's fine if you like it or don't like it, but record shop asshole, who apparently has heard the album, said it has "few/ no hooks." so once again, i'm confused as to what a hook is, based on don fucking howland's confirmation of the album's hooks. are hooks an opinion or a matter of fact?

Joe, I think you're taking this a bit too personally.

i always take matters of my taste personally. i truly feel bad for people that don't dig what i freak on, whether i'm involved in it or not. you think i even wanna know anyone who doesn't love the oblivians, cheater slicks or 60s go-go music? i have been moved by this album, and i'm defending it as i would anything else someone was, for a lack of a better term, harshing. i know i probably have it coming to me after all the shit talikng i've done here for the past 8 years, and i'm fine with that. i'm excited about the album, and i won't stop making my points about it.

Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel. Will Black radiator be signing her, or slovenly?

my guilty pleasure is the cardigans. i'd love to do a record with them. jewel sucks!

getting that new tyvek record soon. can't wait!
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 1:36 pm
 
Can I nominate that Spits/NoFx record without hearing it?
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 1:40 pm
 
you can nominate one side of it since you haven't heard it. a or b?
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 2:04 pm | Edited by: Crystal Lake
 
Weathered Pines The Sky Between the Buildings - I love this record, and not just because it's my little sister's band. I think they could be HUGE if more people heard them.
(www.myspace.com/weatheredpines ...pretty sure she's channeling Ed O on "Run & Hide")

The Goodnight Loving Supper Club

Sex Church 6 Songs

Outrageous Cherry Seemingly Solid Reality
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 2:15 pm
 
And I guess it came out last year, but I've been really into The Golden Boys Thee Electric Wolfman this year. The title track reminds me of Zappa's "Zomby Woof." I hope that doesn't offend anyone from the band that might post here. Zappa is a touchy subject for some people.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 2:34 pm
 
If you dig it, shout it from the highest mountain. I would! I just don't want to be dragged into some third party instigation with Don.
Regarding hooks.
Good question. What constitutes a hook probably is subjective. In the sense that a hook should grab "you". If it doesn't, there's no hook. The subjective element here is the "you". So one could say that there are hooks but they just don't work very well or just don't work very well on "you". Is that the same as stating that there is no hook? I dunno, it's a good question. And to be clear, we are no longer talking about J C Satan. Just hooks. But if nothing grabs me, I would probably say there are no hooks.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 2:38 pm
 
I got my J.C. Satan record in the mail today. I've spun it, both sides, about 4 times. I think it's great and in my non-musician opinion....it has alot of hooks.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 2:39 pm
 
you can nominate one side of it since you haven't heard it. a or b?

Whichever side is The Spits.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 2:55 pm
 
I just don't want to be dragged into some third party instigation with Don.

seriously greg, instigation wasn't my intention at all. i hope you know that, but i certainly wouldn't blame you for thinking i might be trying to stir shit up.

thanks for the hook talk. it's pretty much the answer i was looking for. i was under the assumption that it was strictly a song structure issue.

I got my J.C. Satan record in the mail today. I've spun it, both sides, about 4 times. I think it's great and in my non-musician opinion....it has alot of hooks.

nice!
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 3:58 pm
 
i'd say the titus andronics record is by far the best i've heard this year, probably the best show too. nobunny is real good. tyvek has 6 really great songs, 6 okay ones, it'll make top 5 probably, but certainly not number 1.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 4:25 pm
 
i truly feel bad for people that don't dig what i freak on, whether i'm involved in it or not. you think i even wanna know anyone who doesn't love the oblivians, cheater slicks or 60s go-go music?

well, i'm sure they're getting by ok.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 5:03 pm
 
I'll ride for the Strange Boys record that came out this year. They don't make kids who make records like this anymore.
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 5:38 pm
 
well, i'm sure they're getting by ok.


fuck those dickweeds!
Posted: Nov 19, 2010 11:21 pm
 
nobunny

The DMR Single was a slam dunk and surely one of the biggest hits this year. First Blood was disappointing though (sorry Goner).

JAILL thats how we burn

Where do I get this?
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 12:57 am
 
Since I have nothing better to do, except for cow tipping or something, I've decided to drink a few beers and make a top ten list. It's going to be hard, because I didn't really start digging the scene until about October of 09. The thing is I bought alot of great 2010 records, but 2010 was also the year I bought my first Oblivians and Back From the Grave albums. It's all a little tainted I think. Sorry, if this gets long but I'm bored and I've got a six pack to kill.....

10. No Bunny-First Blood- I think this guy is a great songwriter. That might be sometimes missed in all the masked antics and such. I do seem to like my stuff a little harder and weirder so that's what kept this at #10.

9. J.C. Satan- Sick Of Love- Alright, this pick is really tainted. Mainly because I just got it today and It's all I've been listening to. I do love it though. I love the Oh Sees alot. These guys kind of sound like them but a little less pretentious and with less freak out guitars and I love the slower songs. Just good grooves and strong songwriting.
It's also the only record I've bought that the cover made my wife(a church piano player,but not a fundamentalist) raise an eyebrow. She was like "WTF is this about?" I just said "rock 'n' roll" and she just shrugged.

8.Pierced Arrows-Descending Shadows- I've played the hell out of this. Great record. The only thing I've heard from the Cole's so I know I'm behind, but for people in their fifties to be writing songs this good is amazing.

7.Eddie Current Suppression Ring-Rush To Relax-Great album by one of the best bands on the planet. It should be higher. The problem is that when I bought this I'd only had "Primary Colors" for about a month so I think it got overshadowed. It's great though. I have a feeling I'll start listening to it more later and be like, "This should have been #1!".

6.Limes-Rhinestone River-Like a garage rock Dylan. Simply great songs with a weird country twist. I don't need to write alot, if you've heard it you understand.

5.Thee Oh Sees- Warm Slime-I love this band. This band is to me what Pink Floyd are to classic rock dudes. It's weird though, as good as they are, and have been, you just get the feeling that they're going to release a "classic" at some point that can't be denied.

4.Overnight Lows-City of Rotten Eyes-I love punk. It's what helped define me as a teen. This is a great, kick-ass, punk album from my state of MS and I didn't think that was possible. I'm fucking proud.
Hung out with Marsh at Gonerfest a couple of times...really cool guy.

3. Menthols-Michigan Works-This is just a kick ass album. I will be listening to this years down the road. I think this album is a low-fi classic that will never get it's proper due. When I'm not listening to it, I remind myself how life would be more kick-ass if I was.

2.James Arthurs Manhunt- This is a delightedly fucked up album. The sounds this band gets just touches a nerve with me. This is the kind of music I'd like to make if I had any talent. I don't even know how to properly describe it, which is a huge compliment.

!. John Wesley Coleman-Bad Lady Goes To Jail-This guy is my favorite at the moment. This is everything I love about music. It's loose, fun, and catchy. I think that this guy is highly underrated in the Goner universe. His music is everything I've ever heard about Austin, Texas put on wax. I can't get enough.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 8:43 am
 
!. John Wesley Coleman-Bad Lady Goes To Jai

i need this. i love the golden boys so... the one song i heard (was it from a video?) was great.

2010 was also the year I bought my first Oblivians and Back From the Grave albums.

this doesn't make me question your opinions at all. i dig your enthusiasm and taste.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 9:29 am
 
Thanks for reading that long, drunken, piece of shit post.

Tonight! Moonshine and my top 50 7"!....just kidding.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 12:07 pm
 
Singer from the Strange Boys has an awful voice...was easy to overlook on the first LP but I can't do it on this new one for some reason.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 12:11 pm
 
Also, still can't figure out why so many people love the last Nobunny LP but don't like the new one...sure, the Hunx-like singing can get annoying, but I think the songwriting is better on the new one.

Haters...explain?
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 12:42 pm
 
I love everything Golden Boy. Gonna see them three times in Europe. I'll be wearing my new coat.

I named myself after Don Howland. I shat myself when he played Barbara at Gonerfest last year.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 1:30 pm
 
Breakaways- walking out on love LP
Recorded in 78 or so but not released until this year. Amazing!
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 1:31 pm
 
Also, still can't figure out why so many people love the last Nobunny LP but don't like the new one...sure, the Hunx-like singing can get annoying, but I think the songwriting is better on the new one.

Haters...explain?



i love 9 out of the 11 songs, but it took me a few listens to get into most of them. i still don't like 'motorhead with me' because the 7" version is so superior. but i usually feel that way, the version i hear first i tend to like more. same with strong come on. i had the 7" before popular favorites so i think that version is much better. anyway, motorhead i don't like, and 'breathe' just sucks. complete rubbish song. i like the record a lot, but i don't think too many people will say it's better than 'love visions.' because it just isn't.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 3:03 pm
 
Singer from the Strange Boys has an awful voice...was easy to overlook on the first LP but I can't do it on this new one for some reason

his awful voice is actually what i like most about strange boys. yet, i'm not a big fan of the new(est) album.

i've had a hard time not playing the limes album since i got it last week. i also got the latest demon's claws & intelligence albums at the same time. between the 3, they've been all i've been listening to << not a complaint.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 3:23 pm
 
Also, still can't figure out why so many people love the last Nobunny LP but don't like the new one...sure, the Hunx-like singing can get annoying, but I think the songwriting is better on the new one.


Agreed. It's pretty killer. Maybe people view it as schtick and are tired of "the act" but the songwriting is really strong. Play it once a week which is more than I can say for a lot of other stuff I bought this year.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 3:39 pm
 
Haters...explain?

It's because . . .the songwriting is better on the new one

Takes himself way to serious on the new one and it's not much fun. Bring back the schtick, I say.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 3:41 pm
 
Singer from the Strange Boys has an awful voice...was easy to overlook on the first LP but I can't do it on this new one for some reason.

I missed the first album but I cannot take the newer one because of the singing. Sounds like it ruins what might be a good act.
Posted: Nov 20, 2010 3:42 pm
 
it's not much fun


"(Do the) Fuck Yourself" How much more fun do you want?
Posted: Nov 22, 2010 3:56 pm
 
but for people in their fifties to be writing songs this good is amazing
Fred and Toody are in their sixties. Long may they live.
Posted: Nov 23, 2010 8:01 am
 
I'm digging on the Jail Weddings "Love is Lawless" lately.
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 5:12 pm
 
1. Bill Orcutt- Way Down South
in no particular order:
2. Twin Stumps- Seedbed
3. Peripherique EST- Demos Vol. 2
4. Group Doueh- Beatte Harab
5. Overnight Lows- City of Rotten Eyes
6. John Wesley Coleman- Bad Lady Goes to Jail
7. Cheetah Chrome autobiography
8. Only Death is Real (Hellhammer/Celtic Frost book)
9. Eddy Current Suppression Ring- Rush To Relax
10. Om- God Is Good
probably forgot lots of stuff
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 5:15 pm
 
yep,
11. Michael Hurley- Blue Hills
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 7:08 pm
 
1. Wheels on Fire - liar liar
2. the Moonhearts - s/t
3. the Fresh & Onlys - play it strange
4. Tokyo Electron - az238
5. Ganglians - monster head room

Best com: You Baby- the songs of Sloan & Barri on Ace
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 7:38 pm
 
No love for Melted? That's a hell of an album.
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 8:23 pm
 
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 9:41 pm
 
Guinea Worms
ECSR
Nobunny


i only bought three cuz im gay.
Posted: Nov 26, 2010 6:11 pm
 
Acephalix "Aporia"
Best Coast "Crazy For You"
Cola Freaks
fleshies "Brown Flag"
Harlem "Hippies"
Neil Young "Le Noise"
Sade Soldier of Love
Sigh "Scenes From Hell"
Titan "Sweet Dreams"
Tokyo Electron "AZ238"
White Wires "WWII"
Toad/Drone Throne split 12"

Mind Spiders timesucker 7"
Arctic Flowers 7"
Folded Shirt 7"
Posted: Nov 26, 2010 8:50 pm
 
Sade Soldier of Love
Barnes and Noble in-store play!
Don't Terminal Boredom guys see this, it will spark a 10 page thread about how not cool Sade is ...
Posted: Nov 27, 2010 8:08 am
 
worried
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 10:00 am
 
My previous comment was based on live youtube clips. Which once again, seem kinda monotonous. Don's was based on the audio clips of the album. I think I already said that I checked out the myspace and thought the record sounded pretty cool. That said, I do not feel the compulsion to like everything Don"fucking"Howland likes. Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel. Will Black radiator be signing her, or slovenly?
WHOOA! come on, now!
I check in on here from time to time as a reader, but I had to sign up to respond to this shit! I don't usually give a fuck what people say about me - there was a rumor going around Columbus for a while that I'd been spotted at a Chicago el station at 4:00 in the morning in a dress and I let that slide (even encouraged it), but UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DID DON HOWLAND TELL ANYONE, LEAST OF ALL A MAN OF "INTEGRITY" LIKE GREG O THAT "JEWEL" WAS HIS GUILTY PLEASURE. Princess Tinymeat, perhaps. Sia, definitely. But I have never heard a motherfucking Jewel song in my life. Goddamn - I'm looking into pressing slander charges on this shit.

And the fact that I am not seeing the Puffy Aereolas LP on these lists means yer all full of shit!

Peace!
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 10:15 am
 
Dead Ghosts s/t
Estrogen Highs Tell It to Them
Ty Segall Melted
Moonhearts s/t
Straight Arrows It's Happening
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 10:37 am
 
Peace!

Awesome! Welcome, Don.
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 11:14 am
 
hilarious!
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 11:22 am
 
and now i want to hear the puffy aereolas lp.
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 11:35 am
 
And the fact that I am not seeing the Puffy Aereolas LP on these lists means yer all full of shit!

No it doesn't; just absent-minded. In The Army 1981 is a killer. Anybody that ganks that Let It Rock photo for label art is alright by me. Need to see those boys live ASAP.
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 5:52 pm
 
don't have the record, don't even have the mp3s...but just heard a song last night by this band and have been listening to their songs on myspace and I'm now in love with them

Posted: Nov 29, 2010 7:01 pm | Edited by: greg O
 
Not Jewel? It was something like that! Tori Amos? I saw the disc at your house and you said "oh yeah, that's my guilty pleasure". Maybe it was your daughter's and you were pulling my leg. But about that closet full of dresses....
Posted: Nov 30, 2010 9:44 am
 
Dunno. Kate Bush, maybe? I have lots of embarassing records. Just... not... Jewel... Are we clear on that? JUST NOT JEWEL.

That closet was in my daughter's room.

My dresses are hidden in my basement, in a dummy furnace duct.
Posted: Nov 30, 2010 11:28 am | Edited by: Record Shop Asshole
 
Don, will anyone be putting out any of the other Gibson Bros. material along the lines of this year's Build a Raft reissue?
Posted: Dec 1, 2010 9:30 am
 
(Not that I know of. But then the CDR thing was pretty much done before Jeff or I learned about it... I'd like to see Big Pine get that treatment one day. That was actually decent.)
Posted: Dec 2, 2010 11:18 pm
 
There's quite a few thing already mentioned that would go into my list for this year but I know some where Joe Kile "Southern Beauty Queen" will rank high on my list. Blah blahs and webshits about it being some logical extention of the Townes Van Zandt vibe are actually warranted. Too bad the label that put it out made it really rare (100 copies or some shit) cuz it's a charmer in it's creaky own way. He actually sounds like he's got some hurt in those songs.
Posted: Dec 3, 2010 1:13 am
 
Thought I'd be into Joe Kile after reading about it everywhere but he just sounds like another horrible indie singer/songwriter to me...he's got that generic voice that so many others have (and I personally can't stand it).
Posted: Dec 3, 2010 3:29 am | Edited by: dale
 
Thought I'd be into Joe Kile after reading about it everywhere but he just sounds like another horrible indie singer/songwriter to me...he's got that generic voice that so many others have (and I personally can't stand it).

I am usually like that too but there's something about that album I like.I'm not big into the folkie dudes but that one nabbed me this year. I was pissed that I didn't like the AA Bondy record from this year though.

I'm also with Stephanie (the Wisconsin one) about the Springsteen's 'The Promise'. There's some good songwriters out there but it's hard to beat that version of 'Racing In The Street' on that thing....Also, Stephanie plays bass on the Sugar Stems album which is one of my favorites of the year too.

Wes Coleman 'Bad Lady', the Menthols and both the Black Mountain and Black Angels albums will be in top 20 too. I still have the rest to mull over.
Posted: Dec 3, 2010 3:38 am
 
Oh yeah, and Wheels On Fire "Liar, Lair" is one my list too...
Posted: Dec 3, 2010 10:09 am
 
Don told me of his secret admiration of Jewel as well, my wife chalked it up to cuteness, Jewel's that is.
Posted: Dec 4, 2010 5:44 am
 
3. Peripherique EST- Demos Vol. 2


from their 45

Posted: Dec 4, 2010 11:20 am | Edited by: Useless Eater
 
3. Menthols-Michigan Works-This is just a kick ass album. I will be listening to this years down the road. I think this album is a low-fi classic that will never get it's proper due. When I'm not listening to it, I remind myself how life would be more kick-ass if I was.

Thanks Cole! Those dirty buttlickers are dead to the live world but I still have plenty of copies of the LPs in my dining room, bedroom, and spare bedroom if anybody still hasn't gripped it yet.

Here's my list in almost order off the top of my head in 15 minutes. I'm sure that I missed a few.

Lengths
Menthols - Michigan Work$ LP
Riverdales - Tarantula LP
Nobunny - First Blood LP
Spits - Haunted Fang Castle 10"
Overnight Lows - City Of Rotten Eyes LP
Guinea Worms - Sorcererers Of Madness 2xLP
Dead Farmers - Go Home LP
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax LP
Personal And The Prizzas - Raw Pie LP
Kitchen's Floor - Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress LP
Puffy Areolas - In The Army 1981 LP

Sevens
Circle Pit - Everybody Left 7"
Spits split 7" on Scion/Vice
Total Control - Paranoid Video 7"
Peripherique Est - Demos Vol. 2 7"
Vex Ruffin And The Lo-Fi Jerkheads - 7" EP on Black Gladiator
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Wet Cement 7"
People's Temple - Make You Understand 7"
Ooga Boogas - Eisbaer 7"
Unfuckable - 7"
Drugs Dragons - I'm In A Braingrave/Predator Weapons 7"

Re-issues
Jon Wayne - Texas Funeral LP
Endtables - Process Of Elimination 12"
Rollerball - Savage Eyes 7"
Voice Of The Pruppets - I Don't Wanna Know 7"
Posted: Dec 5, 2010 8:58 pm
 
Spits - Haunted Fang Castle 10"

Who knows where this is being sold!?!! My girlfriend's been on my back to order one for her for a couple weeks!
Posted: Dec 5, 2010 9:01 pm
 
third man underground has it on ebay
TTT has it in their catalog
and bradx is selling it as well
Posted: Dec 5, 2010 9:33 pm
 
Haha. Good one!
Posted: Dec 6, 2010 12:33 pm
 
the Sugar Stems album

I'm Going Down gives me a boner.
Posted: Dec 6, 2010 6:13 pm
 
^

something about that sentence just ain't right.
Posted: Dec 7, 2010 8:38 pm
 
I'll throw in for one of the Scion Garage releases - That Bad Sports song is killer! I ended up with most of the series, but I say it's only about 50% good. The good tracks are all pretty great though.
Posted: Dec 8, 2010 1:52 pm
 
Probable late season Best ofs that I haven't heard yet:

Cheveu - 1000
The Rebel - T.R.A.T.H.U.

Anybody have these yet and will they make this thread?
Posted: Dec 8, 2010 2:01 pm
 
records i want to get:

a-frames 333
limes-i love the 1st two records, why haven't i bought this yet?
new grinderman

also, is there a new Viva L'American Deathray album?

i got the Sex Church Hozac 7" in the mail last week! 209! dooooooooood
Posted: Dec 8, 2010 2:25 pm
 
also, is there a new Viva L'American Deathray album?

yup!
Posted: Dec 8, 2010 4:29 pm
 
a-frames 333
Still my in my top two this year (kind of shocked there's no love for the other one I mentioned up top). I'm a big fan, but also jaded, but was still BLOWN AWAY! Still digesting, really.

new grinderman
My best friend is a real fag for this shit and keeps pushing this album on me, but I have a hard time paying attention to it. I like Nick C. at the right times I guess (at least I used to).
Posted: Dec 8, 2010 7:02 pm
 
Personal and the Pizzas- Raw Pie
Sex Church- 6 songs by Sex Church
Happy Birthday- Girls FM
Limes- Rhinestone River
Posted: Dec 10, 2010 1:52 pm
 
but was still BLOWN AWAY! Still digesting, really.


I got into a car accident the night of the show here in town over the summer so i missed it. worst.
Posted: Dec 10, 2010 6:02 pm
 
the Sugar Stems album

I'm Going Down gives me a boner.

^

something about that sentence just ain't right.



Dude, the first lyric in the song from this chick is "Just look at, my brown eye..."

Syrupy sweet and awesome.
Posted: Dec 10, 2010 7:23 pm
 
Dude, the first lyric in the song from this chick is "Just look at, my brown eye..."


maybe she's actually sandy duncan.
Posted: Dec 12, 2010 10:31 am
 
I really like Grinderman 2 a lot, full of weirdness. Saw them 2 weeks ago in Atlanta, they were on fire. The Range Rats (Fred and Toody Coles early 80's swamp-blues-primitive-twang band is great.) I think it came out last year on Mississippi Records, but I still play it all the time. Still love the last Golden Boys, and Wes records as well.
If any of the Burning Bus stuff we've recorded ever gets released some of you will be psyched , I think.
Posted: Dec 13, 2010 7:37 am
 
Been wanting the new Hank IV, but it's hard justifying that high dollar siltbreeze vinyl $ for 8 tunes. Noticed they were out of stock anyway at Goner, so this seems like a good excuse to just go for the .99 cent download..
Posted: Dec 13, 2010 1:21 pm
 
Killing Joke "Absolute Dissent"




Enforcer "Diamonds"
Posted: Dec 13, 2010 2:11 pm
 
Cheveu - 1000
Man this is going to be good!

Posted: Dec 19, 2010 1:00 pm
 
I just opened up a box from Goner and I really like that Sonny & the Sunsets - Tomorrow Is Alright LP (i think it's from 2009) but it's pretty darn good.
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 12:47 am
 
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 7:30 am
 
Clone Defects
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 7:32 am | Edited by: tigerblinds
 
Nevermind, I thought this was the best albums of the decade list.

Ditto for my other choices...I only half read these things.
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 12:27 pm
 
Afro-Beat Airways (Ghana & Togo 1972-1979) - another great Analog Africa comp. Just picked this up and it's outstanding.
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 5:57 pm
 
That is my favorite record of last year and I am blown away by the 2nd side each time...

Eric.... Sun City Girls?
Cool! Last one rules. Side one seems to last for 4 hours and is never boring.
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 6:51 pm
 
Spits - Haunted Fang Castle 10"

Who knows where this is being sold!?!! My girlfriend's been on my back to order one for her for a couple weeks!


Did you find one yet? My friend was selling copies that he got from the band at show here in Kalamazoo last week.
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 6:56 pm
 
Still looking for two.
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 10:43 pm
 
the tyvek record sreally does kick so much ass
Posted: Dec 22, 2010 11:10 am
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/SPITS-FANG-CASTLE-10-BOOK-RECORD-PUNK-1000-press-/ 330508886101?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4cf3dd6055

Or on eBay you can get it for $12.00.

Somebody that really hates NOFX should help me find a copy of the Spits split 7" because I don't want to pay SoCal, Veraflex deck, and Vision street wear sweatband prices.
Posted: Dec 22, 2010 12:18 pm
 
Timmy's Organism- all of it, especially Rise Of The Green Gorilla

I'll second that, and can't wait to hear the new Human Eye track recorded for Scion/Vice, produced by Ivan Julian!
Posted: Dec 22, 2010 7:41 pm
 
Did you find one yet? My friend was selling copies that he got from the band at show here in Kalamazoo last week.

Does your friend still have it? No luck on the eBay link.
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 2:27 am | Edited by: SSSSSSS
 
Funeral Mariachi by Sun City Girls is definitely one KICKASS record.

I think my favorite of the year is One Life Stand by Hot Chip. Guess it's been a pretty gay year for me.
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 8:29 pm
 
i'm slightly impaired right now...but I'll voice my opinion anyhow....

Raw Pie is the best release of the year. Stooges influenced Ramones songs (or is that Ramones influenced Stooges songs)...and 38.4% of the songs are about pizza...and one of the songs chorus is about a retard...and tearjerker is like the same 4 or 5 words over and over again...sublime, ecstatic, euphoric brilliance

Black Jaspers...I know, I know, it came out in December of 2009...that should count for 2010...who had this on their 2009 list? NOBODY, that's who, because December 2009 should count as 2010. I don't know if stupider songs exist, but if they do, I want to hear them.

Brutal Knights-Blown 2 Completion...stupider songs do exist...and they're on this. I love it! Reminds me of those cleverly retarded early 80s hardcore-punk albums I used to salivate at the record store for when I was in high school.

Black Angels: Phosphene Dream...this reminds me of Roky...huge 13th Floor Elevators vibe here...not for all the Goner-geeks, but I love this. Psychedelic, for sure, but different than the trebly OH SEES or JC Satan...this is thicker...trippier.

That JC Satan thing is good, too.
ECSR of course

Celebration Ale is making tonight great.
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 9:06 pm
 
Oh yeah, that Nolan Strong tribute is a winner...it has the best Dirtbombs song in YEARS..

no love for the Wavves? "Linus Spacehead" is a great cut.

of course, the John Wesley Coleman is great, too...at first it sounded like unfinished Golden Boys outtakes, but now I'm addicted
Posted: Dec 25, 2010 9:13 pm
 
cleverly retarded, huh? tolle wurst.
Posted: Dec 27, 2010 3:42 pm
 
tyvek record is a a a KILLER! A KILLER! A KILLER!
Posted: Dec 27, 2010 4:33 pm
 
you know i got the new tyvek and the old (only?) karate party the same day and i love how they both have a song titled 1234 or a variation of that line up. uh, yeah...
Posted: Dec 27, 2010 5:32 pm
 
Going have to check out the Tyvek!
Loving this John Wesley Coleman album...

But also spent a lot of time listening to these:
Overnight Lows
ECSR
Tokyo Electron - AZ238
Vending Machine - Let the People sing
Ty Seagull


I know I am forgetting some from earlier this year.
Posted: Dec 27, 2010 8:13 pm
 
iranian homos 7" is the best 7" of 2010.
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 2:31 am
 
you know i got the new tyvek and the old (only?) karate party the same day and i love how they both have a song titled 1234 or a variation of that line up. uh, yeah...

1-2-3-4, I don't like you anymore. 1-2-3-4, I don't like you at all.
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 5:06 pm
 
mayyors
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 10:39 pm
 
karate party
I had that record. I broke it by accident one day when I was leaning back in my chair and lost my balance and fell on it. I should get another. That was a best of '03 or whenever it came out.
Posted: Dec 31, 2010 12:33 pm
 
Mark Sultan - '$'

The definition of a grower, but I love it now! Thinking it will be a pretty good NYE mood setter to play at the bar tonight!
Posted: Jan 7, 2011 1:35 am
 
DUUUDESSSS


Reading Rainbow
Posted: Jan 7, 2011 11:07 am
 
Still listening to Weathered Pines...man. She probably wrote these songs when she was like 22 and aches likes she's been through a 100 broken relationships.

Got the latest Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan album..one of these songs has a Goodnight Loving riff (which is probably from something else...who knows)! and there's a very ethereal, mazzy star-ish-y-whatever song that's awesome...all songs really good and it's all over the place.
Posted: Jan 7, 2011 11:29 am
 
Got the latest Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan album..one of these songs has a Goodnight Loving riff (which is probably from something else...who knows)! and there's a very ethereal, mazzy star-ish-y-whatever song that's awesome...all songs really good and it's all over the place.

i really dig that record too.

Tyvek
Ty Segall
The Swans
Endless Boogie
Howling Hex
John Wesley Coleman
The Fall
Endtables
ECSR
Superchunk
Hank IV
Ghostface Killah
Heavy Times
The Mantles
The Young
Good God Comp on Numero Uno
Saigon Rock-n-Soul Comp
In the Storm So Long Comp
Menthols
Posted: Jan 7, 2011 3:20 pm
 
Did you find one yet? My friend was selling copies that he got from the band at show here in Kalamazoo last week.

Does your friend still have it? No luck on the eBay link.


I bought an extra, sealed copy from him the other night thinking that you might actually exist in real life and not just on the internet.

ufodictator ATTT gmail DOTTTTTTTT com
Posted: Jan 7, 2011 3:22 pm
 
I made my list in radio form.
Listen here: http://keddy.podomatic.com/
Lots of great stuff this past year.
Posted: Jan 7, 2011 11:11 pm
 
I exist in real life! I'll email you tomorrow!
Posted: Jan 8, 2011 1:08 pm
 
Sandwitches 'How To Make Ambient Sad Cake' is pretty good girlie slice if pop-wonderfulness.
Posted: Jan 9, 2011 12:17 am | Edited by: Cole
 
Sitting here and and drinking a few beers while listening to the Limes lp again. Damn it's good. No, it's fucking genius. How cool would it have been to be playing on or recording or putting out this fucking great album? Congrats to all who worked on it. It's sooo good.
Posted: Jan 11, 2011 9:30 am
 
Still listening to Weathered Pines...man. She probably wrote these songs when she was like 22 and aches likes she's been through a 100 broken relationships.

She's only 24 now and the record was recorded 3 years ago. Ballad of the Boozehound is the first song she wrote at age 15!
Posted: Jan 11, 2011 9:37 am
 
Ballad of the Boozehound is the first song she wrote at age 15!


fuuuuuuuuuuck
Posted: Jun 24, 2011 2:01 pm
 
Posted: Jun 26, 2011 9:48 am
 
Posted: Jun 26, 2011 12:31 pm
 
just got around to matt k. shrugg "gone ashtray"

better late than never. gnarly record that sounds good back to back with obnIII's. these dude are the shit!
Posted: Jun 26, 2011 12:37 pm
 
the new obnIII's 45 is a double b-side! anyone know of another other record that has that? seems like an obvious trick, but i can't recall any.
Posted: Jun 27, 2011 10:48 am
 
tunnel of love "rockin' rollin' bitches" reissue from last '10 reviewed by bobby hussy:

http://www.kindturkey.com/mysh/record-of-the-week-tunnel-of-love-rocki n-rollin-bitches/
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