Your top 5 musical discoveries of 2004 (1 Viewer)

[Ex-User (250)]

Oneida
Liars
Faust
Can
King Crimson
Magma
Mosaik

have all been floating my boat of late

are you going to let these bands influence your writing?

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Waiting Room and Rollers/Sparkers albums.
Not a whole lot else has surprised me...

yep, totally agree. everything else was knida boring. waiting room were really great in whelans the weekend before last. road relish single. buy it. ( not you, everyone else... )

 

[Ex-User (250)]

crapola. giraffe running was mentioned twice here. we've just split up, we only like being in bands no one likes... our track record is testimony to this.

 

[Unclealo]

are you going to let these bands influence your writing?

Are you going to fuck off?

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Are you going to fuck off?

do you really think that's likely to happen? come on allen...

 

[Unclealo]

blah blah blah I get the last word...

Whatever Dave. Two words for you: ignorant ingrate

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Whatever Dave. Two words for you: ignorant ingrate

allen, you're under the impression you've done a lot for me and i'm ungrateful. and you're mixing this up with me not liking your band and calling me all sorts of names and telling me to fuck off. what gives? did you give me an email address once? does that mean i have to think you band is, and i quote...

"Holy Ghost Fathers - Not the religious order, but a fantastic band from Sligo who are the reason the Ballroom exists."

dude, i can tell you for nothing that's never going to happen. and i know you're a decent chap so i'm going to keep niggling you until you cop on.

 

[Unclealo]

allen, you're under the impression you've done a lot for me and i'm ungrateful. and you're mixing this up with me not liking your band and calling me all sorts of names and telling me to fuck off. what gives? did you give me an email address once? does that mean i have to think you band is, and i quote...

"Holy Ghost Fathers - Not the religious order, but a fantastic band from Sligo who are the reason the Ballroom exists."

dude, i can tell you for nothing that's never going to happen. and i know you're a decent chap so i'm going to keep niggling you until you cop on.

This makes no sense. What are you trying to say?

Specifically we (HGF and Billy) gave you a gig. I also let you DJ at a Birthday Ballroom. I passed you a few number for gigs in sligo etc. This doesn't mean you should like us. It does mean you shouldn't be ragging on us like a bitch everytime I post here.

I don't care if anyone likes or doesn't like my band. You, however, have a hardon for giving us shit going back 3 years at this stage (I can dig up every jibe if you like). There are plenty of bands that post on thumped. Why don't you turn your attention to them?

The fact that you keep trying to provoke me into arguments (despite me asking you several times to go away) to proves my point.

Hag = Ignorant Ingrate

 

[Ex-User (250)]

This makes no sense. What are you trying to say?

Specifically we (HGF and Billy) gave you a gig. I also let you DJ at a Birthday Ballroom. I passed you a few number for gigs in sligo etc. This doesn't mean you should like us. It does mean you shouldn't be ragging on us like a bitch everytime I post here.

I don't care if anyone likes or doesn't like my band. You, however, have a hardon for giving us shit going back 3 years at this stage (I can dig up every jibe if you like). There are plenty of bands that post on thumped. Why don't you turn your attention to them?

The fact that you keep trying to provoke me into arguments (despite me asking you several times to go away) to proves my point.

Hag = Ignorant Ingrate

ugh. allen, we were getting on fine until you made a comment about jazz being the last refuge of the untalented. are you telling me you were seething with rage all this time and were only just about able to keep a cap on it and my comment suggesting that hgf, instead of jazz, was the last refuge for the untalented was just too much for you to handle? every band in dublin has played at the ballroom, it's a great great thing. i asked you if i could dj at the xmas thing because i support what you do. in case i didn't express my gratitude at the time, thanks a million for letting me dj. for some reason you're taking my comment about the last refuge for the untalented and flying it as a flag to excuse your hatred of me. i like jazz music. you totally offended me by saying that. did i ask for an apology? no!

by today's standards, i'd venture to boast that i'm not all that ignorant. as for being ungrateful... i am ungrateful to you for taking the piss out of my favourite musical movement/genre.

 

[mendozy]

Um, so to get back to what this thread is supposed to be about...

My discoveries this year:

Felix Kubin
Pinback
The Books
The Go! Team
Feist

That most of these were recommended by my younger brother is something I'm not proud of. Must...stop...inevitable...slide...into...middle-age.

Irish bands (discovered all by meself):

The Waiting Room
Ten Past Seven
GAMAK
Rest

Thanks OOAL!

And best gigs of the year:

Lali Puna
Aesop Rock
Shellac et al.
Any of the many gigs featuring above Irish bands
C4O at Mor
ATP
Coil
The Twilight Singers (or was that last year?)

 

[Ex-User (250)]

jeez, excuse the digression ms. matureo but... are you crazy? i totally got you into waiting room...

Irish bands (discovered all by meself):
The Waiting Room

 

[mendozy]

jeez, excuse the digression ms. matureo but... are you crazy? i totally got you into waiting room...

You forgot to mention as well that the sun travels around the earth, DF don't sound anything like Don Caballero and you don't suffer from lapsed memory syndrome.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

it's funny the way people step up and correct maths and then say "i'll get my coat" as if they were embarrassed. jimmy magee did it too. it's total horse shit. you're showing off your knowledge and pretending to be embarrassed by it. it's totally funny

It's true, it's true

you're the only one to get this actually right!

This, however, is not.

See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Wait, I forgot...

I'll get my coat






I'll get my coat

 

[SadieOutlaw]

ok here's my list:

lightning bolt
rufus wainwright (ok i'm cheating a bit here, i've had his music for a long time but i only really got into it this year)
golden
the ex (holy jesus, how did it take me this long?)
crazy music that the band the ex gave to the band zu who lent it to hag for our drive down to limerick and cork.....music from mali, inuit music etc. wow.

at the beginning of the year i mostly listened to phoenix and bauer and although i've been doing that for ages now i still think they're worth a mention for this year

 

[old]

Frogs | Sufjan Stevens | Efterklang | LCD Soundsystem | Juana Molina

Also that Damon Albarn/Afel Bocoum/Toumani Diabate Mali Music CD.
Is that the one youse others are on about? It's deadly.

 

[SadieOutlaw]

no i don't know that one.
i'm not even sure what i've listened to, it came to us in the form of a burned cd that just had "mali" written on it, but from what i can tell it's just music from mali with no outside involvement.

 

[The Fwames]

Battles
Lynx
Bloc Party
Sufjan Stevens
Joanna Newsom
Red House Painters
Jon Brion

Re-Discovered early Beck and Archers of Loaf

 

[Ex-User (250)]

no i don't know that one.
i'm not even sure what i've listened to, it came to us in the form of a burned cd that just had "mali" written on it, but from what i can tell it's just music from mali with no outside involvement.

it's trad mali. no blur shite ass wanker in it.

 

[billygannon]

And best gigs of the year:

Coil

Eh... no. That gig was shit. Objectively speaking, it was total shit.