Favorite Albums of 2010

[Metallicaholic666]

Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

Blackout and Wretches And Kings are my favorite songs off that album.
Pretty damn good redemption from Minutes to Midnight IMO...

[estemshorn]

soulja boy was huge for a little while, do you think anyone will remember his name 10 years from now? probably not.

seriously, wtf is this shet?



-- Edit: Tue, Jan 04, 2011 3:13 --

and it took me about a minute to remember the name of the guy that does i love college. in 5 years i probably won't remember.

I could never think of his name without googling it lol.

[Nathaniel607]

Uggg...

BTW, there's also MORE music now than there ever was (well, more music accessible outside of going to the artist's house). I for one don't subscribe to that whole "authentic" crap. There's a reason people usually don't do it nowadays - it's a pain in the ass. A lot of it was just caused by record companies pressuring bands to release albums quickly, as described in, for example, Frank Zappa's autobiography.

Some bands do record to make their music sound old, and sometimes it works;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZQ5OHS09w

And some bands don't hit every "right" note, and sound awesome;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDfIwqP041A

Anyway, my list. I have trouble remembering when albums were released lol, but I'll try;

1. Haken - Aquarius
2. Frogg Cafe - Bateless Edge
3. Amplifier - The Octopus (recent, so this might be a little off)
4. The Nels Cline Singers - Initiate
5. Godsticks - Spiral Vendetta
6. Shaolin Death Squad - Five Deadly Venoms
7. The OneUps - Super Mario Kart Album
8. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
9. Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
10. OCRemix - Serious Monkey Business

I don't seem to have listened to many albums FROM this year... weird.

Also, Kanye West. Maybe I should check out that new album. I heard one track, "Power" and didn't think much of it. Sure, he sampled King Crimson, but seemed to use it to create a horrible, repetitive song.

[vedicardi]

that's just one song though, it really is an album

even if I don't think it's interesting

-- Edit: Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:54 pm --

also digital is much more cost efficient. However, it really does sound worse than analog. Sounding "old" has nothing to do with it lol. For example, all of the white stripes, and really anything jack white does is recorded and released on analog, as well as most bands on the temporary residence label, and at one time constellation (though I believe they are running digital now).

regardless, Nathaniel makes a great point in that more music is released now than ever before. it's just that ironically people are now too lazy to go look for it.

[Nathaniel607]

that's just one song though, it really is an album

even if I don't think it's interesting

-- Edit: Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:54 pm --

also digital is much more cost efficient. However, it really does sound worse than analog. Sounding "old" has nothing to do with it lol. For example, all of the white stripes, and really anything jack white does is recorded and released on analog, as well as most bands on the temporary residence label, and at one time constellation (though I believe they are running digital now).

regardless, Nathaniel makes a great point in that more music is released now than ever before. it's just that ironically people are now too lazy to go look for it.

I want to say, yes, it can be proven that analogue sound recording sounds better than digital. But really, there isn't much of a difference, and I'm not convinced of how many people can actually tell the difference. And besides, it has more to do with the way an album is mastered and mixed than the methods that really decides it's sound. The only way to compare is to get a recording mixed and mastered in the exact same way, just one is analogue and one is digital (not even sure if that is possible) and I still think only one in a thousand people could tell the difference.

Yeah, I'm one of those guys who thinks people who like vinyl are simply victims of the placebo effect. I really don't think anyone will convince me otherwise - I just can't hear the difference (except for the scratching), and vinyl's are prone to breaking and unwieldy

But regardless, most of the people condoning old music in past comments were banking on it's "oldness", like all the notes being perfect and stuff.

EDIT:

Oh, that songs off an album recorded like that, vedi. There's some others I know as well that sound this way, though obviously it isn't as prominent as it used to be.

[piinyouri]

Warp Riders

[dertanz]

Well Nathaniel your problem of not hearing any difference with the old mighty vinyl is probably because you're using THIS when you should be usingTHIS with THIS. But anyway, in the end is your call I totally prefer the amazing vinyl quality over a crappy 320kbps mp3...

I think from 2010 the only album that really got stuck in my head was:

Oceansize - Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up.

Oh and Pat Metheny's Orchestrion. Sick album!

[Jama7301]

7. The OneUps - Super Mario Kart Album

This is Jama Approved (tm).

[homerrulz]

Here's mine in order:

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Simply outstanding from start to finish. One of the best prog/rock albums I've ever heard.

Disturbed - Asylum
This album blew me away. Ok so its not at all technical, and it is repetative (I know after charting it just how repetative).. but damn its a great album to listen to.

Rage - Strings To A Web
After all these years, the band is still going strong. Its not quite 'Soundchaser', but it came close and didn't leave my player for quite some time

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Iron Maiden excel at everything they do and this was no exception (we won't mention Virtual XI) .
Several songs on this album that I'm contemplating making charts for.

Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
Another band still going strong after all these years.. whilst I prefer their older and heavier sound, I can certainly appreciate the new direction... and the epic songs on the album truly are EPIC.

[Nathaniel607]

Well Nathaniel your problem of not hearing any difference with the old mighty vinyl is probably because you're using THIS when you should be usingTHIS with THIS. But anyway, in the end is your call I totally prefer the amazing vinyl quality over a crappy 320kbps mp3...

It doesn't change the facts that vinyls are unwieldy, outdated, and no one - as far as I know - has been able to scientifically prove that there is actually an audible difference. 320kbps mp3 sounds amazing if the mixing is great and you're not listening to it at freaking 200% volume. I respect your right to listen to vinyls, and prefer them, but saying you "prefer the amazing vinyl quality over a crappy 320kbps mp3" really grinds my gears.

This is Jama Approved (tm).

It's amazing, isn't it? I don't even understand how they got the idea to record the Super Mario Kart music in a jazz style. It's just genius.

[dertanz]

It doesn't change the facts that vinyls are unwieldy, outdated, and no one - as far as I know - has been able to scientifically prove that there is actually an audible difference. 320kbps mp3 sounds amazing if the mixing is great and you're not listening to it at freaking 200% volume. I respect your right to listen to vinyls, and prefer them, but saying you "prefer the amazing vinyl quality over a crappy 320kbps mp3" really grinds my gears.

Here you go pal... You wanted it scientifically proved right? Here's it is wrote by Jimmy Red Why Vinyl Sounds Better So if this is not enough I just don't know what else to do... I may search the religious prove too for that matter...

[Jama7301]

This is Jama Approved (tm).

It's amazing, isn't it? I don't even understand how they got the idea to record the Super Mario Kart music in a jazz style. It's just genius.

That being said, I think it's their worst of their three albums, haha.

Volume 1 and 2 are probably in my top 20 favorite album lists, haha.

[estemshorn]

actually my favorite album of 2010 was the nogaems album.


best album evar.

[vedicardi]

just report the post saying "ban please" don't help anything lol

[nwru]

Ban please.

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