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    THE BEST MUSIC OF 2014 General Thread

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    MEGA POST

     

    My favorite 100 songs I heard in 2014

     

    Explanation of criteria: Had to hear it for the first time in 2014.  I generally make a monthly mix CD (using the old rules of 79 minutes for a standard CD) from songs I find on Soundcloud, bandcamp, Stereogum, Pitchfork, etc..  Sometimes more than one playlist.  Every song that makes a CD goes into the master playlist for the year, and then I whittle the ones I dig the most into a top 100.  Out of 19 CDs, 294 songs, this was the top 100.  In alphabetical order.

     

    1. Adderall – Greys

    A good approximation to how it feels to be on Adderall with an appropriate stuck in your head punk chorus – GET OUT OF MY HEAD

    1. Ain’t Got Nobody – Weezer

    I think most people liked “Back to the Shack” better, but I knew Weezer was back seconds into the first track.

    1. Albatros – Whales & Aurora

    Whales & Aurora’s two song EP went for a more atmospheric / psychedelic take and it knocked it right out of the park.  Perfect driving music.

    1. Algiers – Afghan Whigs

    The Afghan Whigs returned older, beaten down, and different.  Greg Dulli’s voice is worn out and only got a little bit left, and you can hear it gloriously in this song.  Pretty much the only one I liked off the new album.

    1. All the Rage Back Home – Interpol

    Finally, a return to form.  Sounds like old Interpol.

    1. Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song) – Spiritualized (Mississippi Space Program)

    A most pleasant, late night, drifting off to sleep a Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space return to form.

    1. Archangel – USA Out Of Vietnam

    Drone-y, Psychedelic-y, crushing, with epic chorale vocals.  One of my favorite discoveries this year.

    1. Ashes – Pallbearer

    A perfect respite from the unrelenting doom.  I like Pallbearer, but I don’t love them.

    1. Aurorae – Triptykon

    Excellent exercise in tension.  I don’t know quite how to describe Triptykon, other than brilliant.  This is Tom G. Warrior with his old man strength.

    1. B&E – Nothing

    Too heavy for shoegaze, too light and airy for metal, it’s the crushing climax of the best album of the year.

    1. Be My Blood – Young in the Way

    This is the heaviness and chaos I want.  The drums in this make the song.

    1. BFFs – Beach Day

    Sounds like lazy Best Coast.  In a good way.

    1. Birthday – Night School

    Lexy Morte was the best thing about Whirr.  This is her new super catchy band.

    1. Bitches Brew – Crosses

    Chino Moreno at his most hipster-ish.  Cool like a cat rocking a beret snapping his fingers.

    1. Blackwood – Dead Horse One

    Beautiful, serene, psychedelic, pastoral. 

    1. Boleskine House – Triptykon

    More old man strength.

    1. Book of the Fallen – Caladan Brood

    This makes me prepare for battle.  That flute solo, though.

    1. Boom Clap – Charli XCX

    Just pure bubble gum goodness.

    1. BORTA - Ştiu Nu Ştiu

    A fantastic 4 min song stretched out to 16 minutes in some language I don’t even understand.

    1. Burial Society – Have a Nice Life

    Haunting, hypnotic – these guys are masters of using their voices as instruments of chaos.

    1. Can’t Stop the Fall – Has a Shadow

    Has a real Black Angels vibe that just grooves and grooves and grooves.

    1. Ceaseless White – Petrychor

    An acoustic black metal masterpiece.  Sounds like it was recorded in a garage by a boombox.  In a good way.

    1. Come Crashing – Failure

    First new song by Failure in 17 years.  Like it wouldn’t be on this list.  Greatness.

    1. Complete Surrender – Slow Club

    Fantastic 60s-ish popness and both singers shine here. 

    1. Deathtripper – Tombs

    Dark, wallowing trip into slow moving mayhem.

    1. Deep Wound – Swervedriver

    First new Swervedriver song in 19 years.  Of course.

    1. Dream Within a Dreamworld – The Daysleepers

    First new Daysleepers in … I don’t know how long.  But long overdue.  Great dream pop.

    1. Dreamers (feta. Phoebe Lou) – Hopium

    Incredible pop song about sleeping in too late (with a spoken word coda that has to be heard to be believed).

    1. Dreamwalker – Wo Fat

    Finest 17 minutes of stoner bliss this year.

    1. Ember City – Mastodon

    Far from their greatest, but this song stuck with me all year.

    1. Fallen Tree Bridge (Brave Rainbow Rider) – Candy Claws

    Manic pixie dream pop that feels just so damn happy.

    1. Fancy (Feat. Charli XCX) – Iggy Azalea

    Song of the Summer – but Charli’s the reason why.

    1. Far From Any Road – The Handsome Family

    Yes, song is ancient, but didn’t hear it until True Detective, and it will endure under that context.  Just haunting.

    1. Fifteen Minutes – The Hunt

    This is old too, but I just heard it this year – like an old Cure cover band finally playing its own tunes and owning it.

    1. Flower Power – Ringo Deathstarr

    Hard shoegaze that rocks.  Love it.

    1. Forgiving the Cleansing Meteor – Junius

    Intelligent post-metal with soaring vocals by the coolest dudes.

    1. From the Kettle Onto the Coil – Deafheaven

    This song is written obviously from the Sunbather script, but that script is damn good and this song just destroys.

    1. Gimme Choko!! – Babymetal

    Melodic Death Metal plus J-Pop vocals?  What could go wrong?  NOTHING! NO ONE DENIES THIS.

    1. Give Me Your Love – Gateway Drugs

    Electro-pop goodness.  So catchy.

    1. Go (feat. Blood Diamonds) – Grimes

    Song she wrote for Rhianna – but I can’t imagine anyone but Grimes singing it.

    1. Go Away (feat. Bethany Consentino) – Weezer

    Best Coast and Weezer in the same song?  Get out.

    1. Guggenheim Wax Museum – Have a Nice Life

    I wish I was alive.

    1. Guilty of Everything – Nothing

    Given that the singer actually did some serious prison time, this song means so much.

    1. How To Put An Audience To Sleep In Under Two Minutes – the Weaks

    Best song title and best album title (The World is a Terrible Place and Now I Hate Myself and Want to Die) and best pop punk song of the year.

    1. Hubris – Blut Aus Nord
    While Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry got all the press, this song off of a split with P.H.O.B.O.S. was the best for me – especially the Horrorscope-esque riff in the midst of it all. 
    1. Hymn to the Pillory – Nothing

    First track of the best album of the year.  Instantly puts you in the mood.

    1. I don’t Know Myself – LowCityRain

    Lantlos guitarist puts out a solo album and it’s pure 80s.  Genius.

    1. I’m on Fire – Low

    Surprising Springsteen cover that adds to and lives up to the original. 

    1. In Metal – Nothing

    Surpising Low cover that adds to and lives up to the original. 

    1. Institutionalized 2014 – Body Count

    Surprising Suicidal Tendencies cover that changes all the lyrics brilliantly and it fucking works.

    1. Interference Fits – Perfect Pussy

    It’s like they never bothered to learn how to play their instruments, plus a mad woman screaming unintelligibly.  It works.

    1. It’s the Hard Knock Life – Annie

    It’s like they never bothered to learn how to play any instruments, plus pre-teens screaming unintelligibly.  It works.

    1. It’s the Motherfucking Hell (You Dick) – the Hell

    It’s like they never bothered to learn how to play their instruments, plus chavs screaming unintelligibly.  It works.

    1. Leg of Lamb – USA Out of Vietnam

    An amazing trip.  Psychedelic Drone bliss.

    1. Lost Cause – Ellen Page

    It’s a cover of a Beck song in the midst of the saddest part of a fantastic game. 

    1. March of Spirito (Rise of Sheol) – Ethereal Riffian

    Fine Russian stoner jam.

    1. Mediocre at Best – Sorority Noise

    Best pop punk album – consistently great all the way through. 

    1. Melting Sun I: Azure Chimes – Lantlos

    Lantlos, minus Neige = better Lantlos.

    1. Motherfucker – Faith No More

    First Faith No More song in 17 years?  Of Course.

    1. Mumble – Whirr

    Heavy as shit shoegaze from the mad geniuses in Whirr (minus Lexy Morte now, unfortunately).

    1. Neptune – Black Willows

    More stoner bliss.

    1. Nick Kwas Christmas Party – Sorority Noise

    Great song about growing up.

    1. Nihil – Aquilus

    This is old, but this is incredible stuff that really takes black metal in interesting directions.

    1. No Dog – Esben and the Witch

    These guys (and girl) are pros at that slow buildup to total breakdown. 

    1. Opale – Alcest

    I really didn’t like the non-metal album, but this song has its moments.

    1. Passage of Gaia – Arctic Sleep

    Excellent post-metal with super chill clean singing and remarkable production values.

    1. Pursuit-Predator – Godhunter

    The call and response vocals sear into your mind for your next game of hide and seek – PURSUIT – RUNNING YOU DOWN!

    1. Ready to Run – The Rememberables

    Fountains of Wayne-esque pop that just catches you.

    1. Red Eyes – War on Drugs

    This band sucks.  This song is ok, I guess.

    1. Reeling – Nux Vomica

    Another fantastic discovery this year – it’s epic atmospheric hardcore? Something like that.

    1. Salt – Narcosatanicos

    Out of control shoegaze / noise with saxophone?  Wow.

    1. Serious Business – United Nations

    Punishing hardcore that hides an ear for melody under the din; it’s great stuff.

    1. Shaken – Death of Lovers

    Part Nothing, part Whirr, combined into a Cure lovefest.  Can’t go wrong.

    1. Sir Arthur Evans – Giant Squid

    Epic slowcore / sludge / post-metal who knows what but when it hits, it’s bloody heavenly.

    1. Smile – Deftones

    From the lost record Eros, released on the anniversary of Chi’s death, a beautiful reminder of what we had and what we lost. 

    1. Sometimes – Winkie

    Takes balls to release a shoegaze song named “Sometimes.”  But this dissonant, discordant, rocketing blast is invigorating.

    1. Superhawk – Aurelio Valle

    Ex-Calla still showing his chops – the improvised horns at the end pull this one together.

    1. Superlove – Charli XCX

    Charli’s best song?

    1. Sway – Whirr

    Gorgeous haze this one’s bathed in.

    1. Take My Hand – Young and in the Way

    Tremendous riff work here and just a gorgeous, ugly song.

    1. The Blue of Noon – Death of Lovers

    More Cure lovefest from parts of Nothing and Whirr.

    1. The Clarity – Sleep

    First Sleep song in who knows how long.  Of course.

    1. The Cold – Exitmusic

    Yes, it’s an old song.  But it was on Shameless this year, in a spot where the song fit. 

    1. The Ghost I Used to Be – Pallbearer

    Best song on this year’s album.  Rich and weighty is probably the best way to describe.

    1. The Longest Shadows Ever Cast – Cold Body Radiation

    Another meditation of how far blackgaze has traveled from black metal.  Just a gorgeous, shimmering song that feels like the sun on a cold day.

    1. The Stranger – The Rememberables

    It’s guitar-pop that feels genuine.  Very Fountains of Wayne / Archers of Loaf vibe.

    1. The Trouble – Pogo

    Remixed Disney samples into their own little songs. My 6 year old’s favorite.

    1. Third Day of a Seven Day Binge – Marilyn Manson

    Never thought in a million years I’d enjoy a Manson song this much in 2014. 

    1. Too Broke for Drugs – Post Teens

    It’s a sub minute long punk diatribe about wanting inebriation but can’t.

    1. Turn Down For What – DJ Snake (feat. Lil Jon)

    It’s JJ Watt’s theme song.  Duh.

    1. Unexisting – Dream Suicides

    Immersive shoegaze about feeling like you don’t exist with guitars and vocals that come in and out reality.

    1. Up In the Sky – Somali Yacht Club

    Uplifting Russian stoner bliss.

    1. Vltava – Cult of Fire

    A magical metal reimagining of Bedrich Smetana’s “Vltava” 140 years after the fact.  Brilliant.

    1. War on Drugs, Suck my Cock – Sun Kil Moon

    Song of the motherfucking year.

    1. We Are the Dreamers – Stargazer Lilies

    Gorgeous shimmering shoegaze.

    1. Where Greater Men Have Fallen – Primordial

    Another song to get you pumped up for battle. 

    1. Where You Rest Your Head at Night – Planning for Burial

    PFB’s best song, a rev you up, tear you down number that gets you excited to be depressed.

    1. Work – Iggy Azalea

    My wife’s theme song when she’s up all night, trying to get that rich.

    1. Your Eyes and the Sea – LowCityRain

    I can’t get over how perfectly 80s this song is. 

    1. काली मां – Cult of Fire

    Czech black metal band obsessed with India write perfect song about Kali, goddess of death.  That piano interlude blows me away.

     

    JANUARY 2015 MOVIE DISCUSSION

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    Went to a screening of They Live at the Alamo Draft house with live in theater pyrotechnics. They gave us Hoffman lenses and bubblegum.

    I've seen the movie dozens of times, but I can't remember the last time I gave it my full undivided attention. It's a great film.

    Still relevant (if not more so) and total wish fulfillment. Down with the police state!

    Oh, and that legendary 30 min brawl between Piper and Keith David? Only about 3 minutes total. In my mind, that fight is still going.

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    Wrestlemania XXXI

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    Wyatt/Ambrose vs Usos, so here me out here. Wyatt and Ambrose both need to be saved (in a non-kayfabe sense.) Wyatt wants Ambrose as a follower, and wins at match at Elimination Chamber to make Dean his new follower. Dean says "...ok" and becomes the worst follower ever. They become the new Team Hell No, complete with trust issues and wacky hijinks.

    THIS.

    Wrestlemania XXXI

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    I'm thinking Wrestlemania Moments.

     

    -- John Cena © v. Daniel Bryan 

     

    Bryan wins clean!  With Seth Rollins cash-in *attempt* may or may not be successful.

     

    --- Undertaker v. Brock Lesnar - Career v. Career

     

    Brock taps to Hell's Gate in a brutal match. Taker gets stretchered out and "dies" and his soul ascends to immortality like when Yoko beat him in that coffin match.

     

    --- Reigns v. Rusev

     

    Reigns wins his first title and gives Rusev his first loss.

     

    --- Andre the Giant Battle Royal

     

    Bray Wyatt wins when the Wyatt Family reforms.

     

    --- Ambrose v. Rollins in a falls count anywhere

     

    Ambrose finally gets his revenge!

     

    --- Usos © v. Ascension v. Kidd and Cesaro v. Show and Henry

     

    Cesaro giant swing on Show and Henry!

     

    --- Dolph Ziggler ©  v. Randy Orton

     

    Ziggler gets his biggest win ever.

     

    --- Sting v. HHH

     

    30 second squash for Sting.

     

    Some Diva match.

    JANUARY 2015 TV DISCUSSION

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    I started watching Black Mirror on Netflix and I don't think I've seen such a bleak satire show on TV before. There's something to a show where I have the feeling to look away when nothing graphic is going on but what they hit with modern people's traits is really brutal and quite honest. I'm watching the episode with the "American Idol" type show is leaving me breathless.

    I've only watched "The National Anthem" but it was definitely one of the most vile and gripping things I've ever seen. My wife wandered in right around the part where he was about to f that pig and decided I was a lesser person for making her watch it.

    Great stuff.

    THE BEST MUSIC OF 2014 General Thread

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    I hammered out my top 100 songs of the year today; expect a mega post this weekend, with songs, explanation and methodology. It'll include songs that came out way before 2014, but they were new to me, so that's what counts.

    Of course, I'm still going through the suggestions posted here so I'll need to go through those too.

    Keep posting new music y'all, I love it and need it. My favorite music is the stuff I haven't heard yet.

    All things Tolkien

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    I'm really mad about the treatment of Smaug. If it was going to end up being a five minute squash between Bard and Smaug, don't end the last film on a cliffhanger. Let Desolation be the Empire of the trilogy.

    The Gandalf / Saruman / Galadriel stuff sucked. Thorin's paranoia was lame. I wanted Killi and Tauriel to kill Bolg, not just be fodder to build up Legolas (the Cena of Peter Jackson's Middle Earth).

    I did like the Bard / Smaug showdown, but it should've been in the 2nd movie. I liked the Thorin / Asok death match.

    I guess that's it.

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    Wrestlemania XXXI

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    Brock has Cena beat, but the lights go out and Taker returns and tombstones Brock, giving Cena the win.

    Taker v. Brock at WM career v. career.

    Cena v. Rollins v. Reigns v. Ambrose 4-way dance, Cena triple powerbombed in the first 5 minutes and eliminated first.

    2014 NFL: WEEK SEVENTEEN

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    Texans win! But don't make playoffs. Boo.

    I'm pretty sure Watt is first player to have multiple 20 sack seasons. I'm pretty sure he's first to have a INT return for TD, fumble return for a TD, receiving TD and a safety.

    I don't know what else he could have done for MVP.

    NBA - 2014-15 Regular Season - 1st Half

    in BASKETBALL

    Posted

    Josh Smith had a few alarming air balls whenever he shot from deep, but he took down some key rebounds and scored well in the paint in his Rockets debut. Dwight seemed determined to defer to Smith all night, but Harden was in MVP mode and tied the game for OT with an effortless drive and layup and got a key block on Tony Allen that would've tied the game.

    It's early, but I think I'm not going to regret signing Smith. Also, Corey Brewer looks like a good addition as well.

    2014 MOVIE OMNIBUS THREAD

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    Annie was a blast. My 8 year old son who loves superheroes and hobbits and wrestling told me afterwards that Annie was the greatest movie he ever saw in his whole life.

    My daughter was equally thrilled and told me I had to get Hard Knock Life for her playlist immediately.

    It was as expected, but the modernization added rather than took away from it, and the performances were fine; Diaz's Hannigan was a bit more sympathetic - more pathetic than malevolent, and Foxx was a little manic in his earlier scene than probably necessary but was more toned down later.

    But the biggest highlight was definitely Moon Quake Lake.

    THE BEST MUSIC OF 2014 General Thread

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    I shook Carla Bozulich's hand back in 1999 or so -- after the second Fibbers record.  She played a two-person show with Nels Cline inside at Emo's in Austin to about 20 people.  They closed their set with a heart-ripping version of "Outside of Town" which to this day I don't think I've ever seen a better live version of a song than the original.  Just heart-wrenching stuff.  I forget who she was opening for -- maybe Mike Watt, but I was one of two people who actually knew who she was, and she acknowledged me.

     

    Dude I'm such a fucking hipster. 

     

    On the other hand, I didn't know she was still making music in 2014.  Must check out.

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    Raw 12-22-14 - Christmas Show

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    I think the only real way to salvage the Ambrose / Wyatt feud is for them to inexplicably become best friends.  Ambrose needs to get beat down by Rollins and other heels during the Rumble, and then the countdown for the next guy to come out goes down, lights go out, Wyatt teleports in and starts beating on all the heels and saving Dean. 

     

    And then they realize everyone else is down except them, so they immediately start brawling again. 

     

    Given this is the WWE, it'll be a precursor to becoming tag champs.

    2014 RANDOM TV THOUGHTS

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    I enjoyed the Z Nation finale (really, the whole season was way better than expected) but I wonder if they didn't know if they were going to get a second season considering they pretty much painted themselves into a corner with the whole nuclear bombs about to kill all the remaining cast thing.

    Fix Every Sport

    in SPORTS

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    NFL: put a goddamn GPS in the ball so that spotting the ball is not such a damn mystery.  Also, put those shoplifting things at the entrances of stores at the goal line that can detect if the chip passed by.  

     

    NBA: Fire Joey Crawford.

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