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Thread started 10/13/16 6:54am

Shawy89

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And the finest album of the year is...

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

This is the definition of game-changing. The sounds you hear on this album transcend the usual trends of music today. It's challenging, I fucking felt something purely surreal while listening to it. And if you like Brian Eno or Radiohead or even Kanye West, you will surely find this brilliant on so many levels.
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Reply #1 posted 10/13/16 7:32am

2freaky4church
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They are still searching for Janet Jackson.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #2 posted 10/13/16 1:09pm

EmmaMcG

Shawy89 said:

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

This is the definition of game-changing. The sounds you hear on this album transcend the usual trends of music today. It's challenging, I fucking felt something purely surreal while listening to it. And if you like Brian Eno or Radiohead or even Kanye West, you will surely find this brilliant on so many levels.
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I don't like any of the acts you mentioned but I'll still give it a listen anyway. I might hate it but you've convinced me to give it a go.

I am more interested in Bon Jovi's new album though.
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Reply #3 posted 10/13/16 2:58pm

Shawy89

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EmmaMcG said:

Shawy89 said:

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

This is the definition of game-changing. The sounds you hear on this album transcend the usual trends of music today. It's challenging, I fucking felt something purely surreal while listening to it. And if you like Brian Eno or Radiohead or even Kanye West, you will surely find this brilliant on so many levels.
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I don't like any of the acts you mentioned but I'll still give it a listen anyway. I might hate it but you've convinced me to give it a go.

I am more interested in Bon Jovi's new album though.




Take a listen razz
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Reply #4 posted 11/08/16 6:07am

RicoN

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Shawy89 said:

Bon Iver - 22, A Million This is the definition of game-changing. The sounds you hear on this album transcend the usual trends of music today. It's challenging, I fucking felt something purely surreal while listening to it. And if you like Brian Eno or Radiohead or even Kanye West, you will surely find this brilliant on so many levels. [Edited 10/13/16 7:48am]

He needs to get away from his computer and start writing songs again.

this is just average background muzac.


If I'm being generous I'll give it 6/10

Hamburger, Hot Dog, Root Beer, Pussy
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Reply #5 posted 11/08/16 7:51am

CoolMF

I vote for the Life of Pablo.

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Reply #6 posted 11/08/16 8:01am

dancerella

For me it's the Peach Panther by Riff Raff.
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Reply #7 posted 11/09/16 3:40pm

sexton

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My favorite 2016 album is TEEN's Love Yes.

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Reply #8 posted 11/09/16 4:24pm

IstenSzek

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it's a great album indeed. i also loved both nick cave's "skelleton tree" and leonard cohen's
"you want it darker".

not feeling the new radiohead that much, except for 'true love waits', which has always
been one of my favorit songs anyway. glad to have a good studio version finally. but i'm
not as much enamored with the rest of this album as i was with all their other ones. but
perhaps it will win me over in time.

bowie's "blackstar" is still great as well. i've been listening to "lazarus" a few times each
week since the album was released. some very good material on that album.

i think many people were a bit disappointed with it by me, personally, i think maxwell's
"SUMMERs" is a fine album. again, some great great tracks on there that are on my
regular playlist and won't leave it for a while yet.

another one that is quite good is flume's "skin" -which i only checked out because it has
a song with beck on vocals. but it's a very cool album.

only thing left this year i'm looking forward to -in fact, more so than any other album-
is beck's new one. it's been pushed back till late november, i think? hope it's released
soon. i can't wait. beck always delivers the goods.

the one album that disappointed me most this year was bat for lashes' "the bride" sad it's
just not my cup of tea. oh well, i still enjoy "the haunted man" anyway, so i'll just keep
pretending that "the bride" never happened smile

and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #9 posted 11/09/16 6:19pm

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CoolMF said:


I vote for the Life of Pablo.


Great pick.
Also Majid Jordan.
Solange.
Yuna.
King.
“It means finding the very human narrative of a man navigating between idealism and pragmatism, faith and politics, non- violence, the pitfalls of acclaim as the perils of rejection” - Lesley Hazleton on the first Muslim, the prophet.
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Reply #10 posted 11/09/16 9:21pm

Toofunkyinhere

Prince - Hit n' Run Phase 2

Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing

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We're here, might as well get into it.
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Reply #11 posted 11/10/16 5:28am

alandail

Toofunkyinhere said:

Prince - Hit n' Run Phase 2

Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing

[Edited 11/9/16 21:58pm]

Phase 2 was released last year.

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Reply #12 posted 11/10/16 6:01am

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There's been a lot of good stuff released this year, but in between Prince dying, my developing ear pain and tinnitus and my speakers breaking I haven't been listening to a lot for over half of the year. It's a shame as there's been so many releases that I've wanted to check out but haven't really been able to, so I feel like I've missed out on a lot of stuff which has slipped through the cracks. So the albums that particularly enjoyed this year were all released near the beginning of it. I think my favourite was probably Anderson .Paak's Malibu, that was pretty damn great, it already feels a bit like a lifetime ago since it was released though due to all the fucked up shit that has happened since.

Heavenly wine and roses seems to whisper to me when you smile...
Always cry for love, never cry for pain...
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Reply #13 posted 11/10/16 6:26am

RicoN

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sexton said:

My favorite 2016 album is TEEN's Love Yes.

Good shout Sexton. I LOVE All About Us, so had the album on pre order, I think the album is a little patchy but still good non the less smile

I ought to give my faves, I'll have a think

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Reply #14 posted 11/10/16 9:59am

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RicoN said:

sexton said:

My favorite 2016 album is TEEN's Love Yes.

Good shout Sexton. I LOVE All About Us, so had the album on pre order, I think the album is a little patchy but still good non the less smile

I ought to give my faves, I'll have a think


It has the most songs to which I gave five-star ratings so that's why it comes out on top.

Edit: My updtaed best of 2016:

1. TEEN - Love Yes
2. Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate
3. Angel Olsen - My Woman
4. David Bowie - ★
5. La Femme - Mystère
6. Sex Stains - Sex Stains
7. Mitski - Puberty 2
8. Cat’s Eyes - Treasure House

9. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer’s Daughter

10. Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony

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Reply #15 posted 11/10/16 11:14am

Cinny

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hausofmoi7 said:

King.

Kept meaning to pick this up, but I didn't see it anywhere to pick it up. Haven't ordered it.

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Reply #16 posted 11/11/16 12:04pm

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For me it was Anderson Paak's "Malibu". Check this out if you are into alternative R&B and stuff like Kendrick Lamar.

RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time...
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Reply #17 posted 11/11/16 1:03pm

LittleBLUECorv
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A Tribe Called Quest
PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever
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Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It
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Reply #18 posted 11/11/16 6:24pm

MickyDolenz

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The Hue - Aurora

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #19 posted 11/12/16 2:02am

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For me: Bowie's Blackstar, by far.

Too bad there only 7 tracks on it.

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Reply #20 posted 11/12/16 6:53am

alandail

Barry Gibb - In the Now

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Reply #21 posted 11/14/16 11:21am

Cinny

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

A Tribe Called Quest

Having heard it now, I agree.

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Reply #22 posted 11/15/16 2:08pm

2020

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David Bowie Black Star

Kendrick Lamar Untitled Unmastered

Rhianna Anti

The greatest live performer of our times was is and always will be Prince.

Remember there is only one destination and that place is U
All of it. Everything. Is U.
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