Best ignored album(s) of the year

[Gary Floyd 0]

You know, every year, albums come out that are great, but don't get a whole lot of attention, or even good reviewes from critics. So, with that in mind, what are the best albums that didn't get the attention they deserved, or at leat in your opinion?

[Red Baron 0]

Local H: Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?

Megadeth: The System Has Failed

Iced Earth: The Glorious Burden

 

Thats all I can think of right now.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Megadeth: The System Has Failed

Iced Earth: The Glorious Burden

 

What

[Nighthawk 0]

Thug Matrimony

[Placebo Effect 0]

Cypress Hill - Till Death Do Us Part

Thornley - Come Again

The Format - Interventions and Lullabies

 

I'm sure there's been better ones, but that's all I can think of.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Local H: Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?

Thei next album should be called Local H: Whatever happened to Local H.

 

I have Ham Fisted, As Good as Dead, and Pack up the Cats. As Good as Dead still gets regular play from me...but I haven't heard anything about them in forever.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Thornley is the bottom of barrel Canadian content junk. If we didn't have regulations that a certain % of music on our radio needed to be canadian, those fuck ups would be pumping my gas.

[Red Baron 0]

Thornley is the bottom of barrel Canadian content junk. If we didn't have regulations that a certain % of music on our radio needed to be canadian, those fuck ups would be pumping my gas.

Ian Thornley comes off to me as a Chris Cornell impersonator.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Thornley is the bottom of barrel Canadian content junk.  If we didn't have regulations that a certain % of music on our radio needed to be canadian, those fuck ups would be pumping my gas.

Ian Thornley comes off to me as a Chris Cornell impersonator.

Exactly, the adult contemporary version of Chris Cornell.

 

And Chris Cornell was pretty damn horid when he was a rockster with Soundgarden. I did like Black Hole Son as a kid, though.

[Red Baron 0]

I wouldn't say horrid, but tolerable with other people around.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

I wouldn't say horrid, but tolerable with other people around.

Grunge music is bad.

[Red Baron 0]

No, just over-exposed and over-saturated, but there were some bands from the grunge era that is decent.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Bleeding Through's This Is Love, This Is Murderous

 

I've heard a few tracks off of it, and the energy in the songs is THERE. The vocalist has a very Phil Anselmo-ish voice, too, when he actually sings, which is a positive because Phil's best vocals are when he actually SINGS and doesn't try screaming or growling or going all 80's high-pitch. Metal-influenced hardcore with a tinge of ambience brought on by keyboards.

 

What's sad is that the band DOES get attention, but not because of themselves. They get attention because Davey Havoc of AFI says they're his favorite band, so all the little emo fucks listen to them to be cool.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

No, just over-exposed and over-saturated, but there were some bands from the grunge era that is decent.

Nirvana is tremendous.

[Red Baron 0]

 

yes.

 

like nirvana.

[Gary Floyd 0]

My Picks

 

Headset "Space Settings" Jimmy Tamborello(Postal Service) and Allen Avanessian(Plug Research) do a Hip Hop album. They don't rap, but the guest MC's do. Oh, and the end result is pretty satisfying.

 

Coil "Black Antlers" A CD-R limited release, but possibly the last piece of original Coil material we're going to get, sadly.

 

Ming and FS "Back to One" Great stuff from the Turntabalist duo

 

SUNN0))) "White 2" An improvement over the dissapointing "White 1".

 

Jack Dangers "Loudness Clarifies/Electronic Music from Tapelab" Great 2 disc set. Disc 1 is a more dance orinated, while disc 2 features some great musique concrete experiments.

 

The Orb "Bicycles and Tricycles" Ok, so it's not "UFOrb", "Orbs Adventures into the Ultraworld", or even "Orblivian", but it's an major improvement over "Cydonia"

 

Space Machine, "3" Suprisingly not so noisy psychedelic syth side project from Japanese Noise god Maso Yamazaki (Masonna)

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

This thread was created solely for metalheads, and skid rock album of the year. I can see it now; I'll leave.

[Gary Floyd 0]

This thread was created solely for metalheads, and skid rock album of the year. I can see it now; I'll leave.

Well, I started the thread, and I'm not a metal head. I know, I included SUNN0))),

but I have a thing for stoner metal, and it's still a good album.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

This thread was created solely for metalheads, and skid rock album of the year.  I can see it now; I'll leave.

Well, I started the thread, and I'm not a metal head. I know, I included SUNN0))),

but I have a thing for stoner metal, and it's still a good album.

oxymoron.

 

don't fall into one of these Boston punk is different than skate punk things. you are a metal head if you like stoner metal. metal is metal, biznitch.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Sunn O))) isn't stoner metal.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Sunn O))) isn't stoner metal.

 

Good point. I don't even think they consider themselves a metal band

 

 

oxymoron.

 

don't fall into one of these Boston punk is different than skate punk things. you are a metal head if you like stoner metal. metal is metal, biznitch.

 

Oh, well excuse me. Just because I'm into Stoner Metal does not make me a metalhead. I just like what I like.

[Nighthawk 0]

Banky is still learning. Be gentle with him.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Banky's trying to be a hipster, guys. He knows the words, but none of the music.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

I don't know Sunn O)))

 

Whats the difference betwene metal and stoner metal; educate me

[Nighthawk 0]

Well, you see...

 

 

nevermind

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Banky's trying to be a hipster, guys. He knows the words, but none of the music.

I've got the haircut, the music might as well coincide with it.

[Red Baron 0]

I'm sure Corey or AoO would clarify for you.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I don't think it's a particularly great album, but the Twilight Singers She Loves You is a very good collection of the sort of covers that Greg Dulli does so well. Worth a download or $10 buy for anyone who's an Afghan Whigs or Twilight Singers fan.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I'm still the only person I know who loves The Delgados' Universal Audio.

[Gary Floyd 0]

I don't know Sunn O)))

 

Whats the difference betwene metal and stoner metal; educate me

Well, Stoner Metal, while loud, and with screeching or growling vocalists, is usually very slow. I'm talking molasses rolling down a hill slow. I like that slowness, it adds a great atmosphere.