Recommend 3 of your albums of 2009....

[Pantani]

Mono - Hymn to the immortal wind
Soulsavers - Broken
De Rosa - Prevention

I like the new Flaming Lips album though. I always prefered their older noisier stuff so the new album is right up my street.

Honorable mentions to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cate Le Bon, Strike The Colours, f*** Buttons and Joy Formidable.

Oh I nearly forgot the undoubted best album of the year by a million miles is Joe Gideon and the Shark, absolute genius.

 

[Albalbion]

Kasabian - West Ryder

The Temper Trap - Conditions

The Enemy - Music For the People

 

[Southy]

Best music award of the year has to go to Spotify. I just read the post above and immediately started listening to the Mono album.

 

[WhingForPresident]

I don't understand the obsession with the Kasabian album.
I loved their first two albums but i thought bar Fast Fuse and Vlad the Impaler, their new album was atrocious.
Maybe it's just me..

 

[bellsize seagull]

pasison pit - manners is class

 

[Curious Orange]

1= Diagonal - self titled. (of Brighton!)

Saw them play the Star in Guildford last year, proper prog rock - 1 hour set consisting of precisely 4 tracks!

 

[bobbab5]

Just two thus far:

1= Diagonal - self titled. (of Brighton!)

2= Astra - The Weirding.

Both on Rise Above records.

Awesome contemporary prog, for those who like: BJH, King Crimson, Floyd, Sabbath (prog leanings), Heep, Tull, Lord Wakeman and the even more obscure: Nektar, Pulsar, Gracious and perhaps even small elements of Fruup, Gentle Giant, Gravy Train and Gnidrolog.

Set your Mellotron's to stun.

YouTube - Astra - 06/07 - Broken Glass / The Dawning of Ophiucus

YouTube - Astra - 03 - Silent Sleep

YouTube - Astra - Side 1 - 01 - The Rising of the Black Sun

Rock and Roll!

Kosh

Completely agree about Astra, amazing album.
Have you heard any BigElf or Beardfish?

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

It is very good indeed, although I have to say I think Andromeda Heights is probably my favorite PS album.

Hmm.... not sure... Swoon and Steve McQueen still rock me...... did you read the interview with him in the Independent. here's this man without about 25 years of albums written but he can't sing them because it causes him too much pain.

Tragedy!

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

Indeed. And what a voice. Such a shame. Was so glad they released this

 

[therunningbomb]

Echo and the Bunnymen -- The Fountain
Prefab Sprout -- Let's Change The World With Music
The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant

Im interested as to who Prefab Sprout are? I only ask as your other two suggestions would be in my top 3 albums of the year!!

 

[Albion Edd]

The Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant
Jeffery Lewis - Em Are I
Empire of The Sun - Walking On a Dream

 

[Mellotron]

Both on Rise Above records.

Awesome contemporary prog, for those who like: BJH, King Crimson, Floyd, Sabbath (prog leanings), Heep, Tull, Lord Wakeman and the even more obscure: Nektar, Pulsar, Gracious and perhaps even small elements of Fruup, Gentle Giant, Gravy Train and Gnidrolog.

Set your Mellotron's to stun.

Rock and Roll!

Kosh

What do you need me to do?

 

[jcdenton08]

Didn't I already tell you to f*** off?





Really? Wasn't she a one hit wonder about a decade ago! Might give her a bit of a chance after that one hit, t'was quite a catchy little number!

That's just about her only happy song.. "Sitting Down Here"..

 

[Mellotron]

1. Bombay Bicycle Club - I had the blues but I shook them loose
2. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
4. Doves - Kingdom of Rust

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Im interested as to who Prefab Sprout are? I only ask as your other two suggestions would be in my top 3 albums of the year!!

Check wikipedia for band info. Cultish band in the eighties and early nineties. Had one hit with 'The King of Rock N Roll' which Paddy disdains as written in 15 mins on the back of a ciggie pack. Spent the next fifteen years trying to escape their popularity.

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

I always thought When Love Breaks Down was their big hit. That was the song that got me hooked. All The World Loves Lovers was another epic.

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

Im interested as to who Prefab Sprout are? I only ask as your other two suggestions would be in my top 3 albums of the year!!

The Bunnymen just can't do any wrong. I must admit I have played all their oldies to death and am a bit tired of the Cutter etc. But Siberia and the Fountain are among their best cds me thinks. Uplifting stuff

 

[house your seagull]

i'll throw a few out there into this wonderful thread, but can't do a top 3 yet

The Phenomenal Handclap Band - The Phenomenal Handclap Band
telepathe - dance mother
phoenix - wolfgang amadeaus phoenix
fever ray - fever ray
air - love 2
Au Revour Simone - still night, still light
yacht - see mystery lights
in flagranti - brash and vulger

too many, too many

note : if any of you want to email TSLR with your top 5 records at the moment, new or old, for the next issue due out at southampton, then drop us a line at tslr@hotmail.co.uk

 

[house your seagull]

note : if any of you want to email TSLR with your top 5 records at the moment, new or old, for the next issue due out at southampton, then drop us a line at tslr@hotmail.co.uk

 

[CHAPPERS]

The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Jamie T - Kings and Queens

And this goes against EVERYTHING I believe in when compiling lists but I'm going to include

Annie Mac Presents..

Because it's f***ing excellent.