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Last Post 11/3/2006 5:05 PM by stroller

Uncut's Top 50 albums of the year

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stroller

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11/3/2006 5:05 PM
Am I the only one who doesn't really see the logic of publishing your top 50 albums of the year two months before the year's over? Anyway they gave album of the year to Bob Dylan so no surprises there. I was surprised however to see that none of the following bands made the top 50; Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell Yeah Yeah Yeahs Broken Social Scene Tapes'n'Tapes The Rapture Islands The Spinto Band Final Fantasy My Latest Novel Cut Chemist The Decemberists The Long Blondes Lupe Fiasco Sparklehorse Spank Rock Love Is All Mogwai Junior Boys Guillemots They did however manage to squeeze in Kasabian, Lily Allen & Scissor Sisters.

dera

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11/3/2006 5:07 PM
Uncut's The Only 40 Records We Can Remember From This Year Plus 10 We Think We Saw Flicking Through Plan B A Couple Of Month Ago. Aces.

Rev Jules

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11/3/2006 5:28 PM
What I'd like to see is a 'worst 50 albums of the year list.

Una

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11/3/2006 5:33 PM
who's in the top 50

Antistar

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11/3/2006 5:38 PM
Spot on, Stroller. I was just thinking the exact same thing yesterday as I flicked through my spanking new copy of Uncut. Unusually for Uncut, Dylan was on the cover! Yes, the TOP 50 has some glaring omissions: Final Fantasy...Isobel Campbell......Sparklehorse..while Mogwai's majestic, incomparable 'Mr.Beast' should have been number 1!!! Dylan got number 1. ridiculous!! Also, Joanna Newsom 'Ys' was at No 5!: an album so good it makes the top ten before it's even released!!!!!....best albums of the year with 2 months to go????? Another 'Revolver' or 'Nevermind' could be released between now at Xmas, how do they know? Still it's a fantastic mag, the best one on the market, if you can stomach their Dylan/Lennon obsession.

Una

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11/3/2006 5:47 PM
there are very few normal studio albums released in November / December - it's generally compilations, best ofs, re-issues etc. for the Christmas market. Plus any notable ones that are going to be released in Nov/Dec, they probably already have, so you can't really blame them on that front.

elmo95

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11/3/2006 6:02 PM
I remember a time when all the last good records of the year would be released in and around october/ beginning of November. This year there's feck all but to justify somethin at least there are bucket loads of gigs on. But then again they do have to put Tv on the Radio on the same day as the spinto band the ding-alings...and i still can't go to either.

Una

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11/3/2006 6:06 PM
WHO IS IN THE TOP 50? I'm going to throw my rattle out of my pram unless someone lists it.

Antistar

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11/3/2006 6:07 PM
quote: Originally posted by Una there are very few normal studio albums released in November / December - it's generally compilations, best ofs, re-issues etc. for the Christmas market. Plus any notable ones that are going to be released in Nov/Dec, they probably already have, so you can't really blame them on that front. That's me told then! Sorry, Una. Ah yes, 2 months of Westlife's Christmas Love Songs, Tony Fenton's 'Wall Of Sound' Oasis and U2 best-ofs, The Best of James Last and the like. Oh God.

Una

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11/3/2006 6:11 PM
although, I've got a few ones in the last week: ABBA number ones, Sugababes The Singles Collection and a Girls Aloud comp too.

dera

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11/3/2006 6:18 PM
quote: Originally posted by Antistar [Also, Joanna Newsom 'Ys' was at No 5!: an album so good it makes the top ten before it's even released I retract my sarcasm towards Uncut if that's true. It's one of the most incredible records I've ever heard ever ever ever. Very special indeed.

Antistar

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11/3/2006 6:32 PM
quote: Originally posted by Una WHO IS IN THE TOP 50? I'm going to throw my rattle out of my pram unless someone lists it. Please, somebody attend to this at once! Anyone! Don't have the mag at the mo, at work....From Memory: Dylan's Modern Times at No. 1, Joanna Newsom at 5, Cat Power, Flaming Lips, Sufjan, Midlake, Hot Chip, Arctics, Sonic Youth, Band Of Horses, Raconteurs...oh y'know the usual....

Antistar

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11/3/2006 6:36 PM
quote: Originally posted by dera quote: Originally posted by Antistar [Also, Joanna Newsom 'Ys' was at No 5!: an album so good it makes the top ten before it's even released I retract my sarcasm towards Uncut if that's true. It's one of the most incredible records I've ever heard ever ever ever. Very special indeed. I've read about 4 different interviews with her this week alone, some incredible claims have been about the album, will buy tomorrow.I think she could be some sort of genius who is about to reinvent music.

dermot_trellis

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11/3/2006 6:49 PM
Uncut is alright but I'd usually go for Mojo over it.. best written and researched rock and alternative articles around, in my opinion, even if it is very biased towards 60s and 70s stuff. There's a Joanna Newsom interview in The Ticket today, I think the new album was released this afternoon in Ireland. I got the leak off the net a couple of months back along with all the other weak-willed music thieves, and having lived with it for a few weeks, I'm not sure if it justifies all the hyperbole.. I loved The Milkeyed Mender a whole lot but the new one seems to push every parameter to excess without really hitting the same emotional and melodic high-points as her debut. Not loving the twee orchestral arrangements that lurch all over it either.. I think people might be going apes**t over it because it's complex and 'difficult' but I'm not finding it a very enjoyable listen, certainly not falling head-over-heels for it like the last one anyway.

stroller

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11/3/2006 8:27 PM
quote: Originally posted by Una WHO IS IN THE TOP 50? I'm going to throw my rattle out of my pram unless someone lists it. I've spent ten minutes typing this up for you. You owe me big time! 01 Bob Dylan - Modern Times 02 Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer 03 Comets On Fire - Avatar 04 Joanna Newsom - Ys 05 Neil Young - Living With War 06 The Artic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 07 Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther 08 Hot Chip - The Warning 09 Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche 10 Thom Yorke - The Eraser 11 Flaming Lips - At war With The Mystics 12 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go 13 Lindsey Buckingham - Under The Skin 14 Cat Power - The Greatest 15 Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light 16 The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers 17 Ali Farke Toure - Savane 18 CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy 19 Beck - The Information 20 Burial - Burial 21 Vetiver - To Find Me Gone 22 Espers - Espers II 23 Ghostface Killah - Fishscale 24 Howlin' Rain - Howlin' Rain 25 Scott Walker - The Drift 26 TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain 27 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass 28 Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards 29 Oakley Hall - Second Guessing 30 Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood 31 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 32 Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways 33 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 34 Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat 35 Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped 36 Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah 37 Outkast - Idlewild 38 Lily Allen - Alright, Still 39 Lambchop - Damaged 40 Joan As Policewoman - Real Life 41 Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat 42 Donald Fagan - Morph The Cat 43 Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome 44 Kasabian - Empire 45 The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off 46 Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time 47 Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere 48 Muse - Black Holes & Revelations 49 Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit 50 Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse

Unicron

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11/4/2006 2:04 AM
quote: Originally posted by Una although, I've got a few ones in the last week: ... a Girls Aloud comp too. I'd just like to take a moment to say fair f**ks to Mani.

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