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[...] were really shocking when they played at The Tivoli at the end of last year; really terrible and disinterested, a band that had obviously spent far too long on the road. But [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:53:26 +0000

I haven’t got that Grates album but probably will get around to it; I’ve got the 1st one and the EP that they released before that. Been a pretty strong year for Brisbane local releases. If the Gin Club album was by someone like Josh Pyke or the Texas Tea one was by something like Angus and Julia Stone I’m sure they’d be inescapable whenever you turned the radio or tv on or opened an Australian music magazine and up for every album award going in the country. Good review of the Texas Tea album in The Courier Mail today by Noel Mengel. Soho seem to be making waves and on the cusp of possible making a real breakthrough, so fingers crossed for them. I had to go into the city at lunch and planned on picking up a few albums from the end of year polls that I know are more my thing. But ended up with a load of old stuff:

Pavement – Brighten The Corners 2CD remastered set (to go with the others I’ve got and as a stand-in for the vinyl version of the album that lives on the other side of the world…);

Rowland S Howard – Teenage Snuff Film (which been meaning to buy for ages);

Bowie – Reality + A Reality Tour Live DVD set ($15 from JB); and

Lou Reed – Berlin + Coney Island Baby (The perfect Xmas selection, full of festive cheer. Or not. 2xCD set from JB = $10. Couldn’t say no…)

Yeah, so best of 2008 albums will have to wait until the new year…

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:14:53 +0000

I am probably way off the pace, too — largely because I stopped listening to Triple J about three years ago. I don’t even listen to the Zeds that much as well. I feel a touch cynical about some of these next big things that the Js promote tbh, and most of my new acquisitions, as it were, come gig-going and personal recs.

I suspect that you probably have most of these, but these ones were my album highlights of 2008:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig! Lazarus Dig!
Ladytron: Velocifero
The Gin Club: Junk
Texas Tea: The Junkship Recordings
The Grates: Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
Esther Lamb: Listen For Home
Violent Soho: We Don’t Belong Here

Not sure you’d go for the icy electro-tones of Ladytron, but the soft pop-cabaret of Esther Lamb might appeal? I discovered her via Rave — she’s a South Australian and I think last.fm offers a few free downloads of her stuff.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:07:07 +0000

I did lol when i got to The Spaghetti Incident, possibly because I also need it to round out my G’nR collection…

But I’m the same as you in that most of what I buy is in the $10 range. But it’s more because there’s still so much music that I’ve never gotten around to listening to, there’s still plenty of ‘classic’ albums I’ve never heard so a lot of what I buy is spent on that – this year have bought all the Triffids re-releases and been making my way through getting the Go-Betweens back catalogue as well, and also the Bob Dylan stuff. Also been buying up a few things that got back in the UK on vinyl but that missed, ie David Bowie’s 1971 – 1980 period, and at $10 you might as well just buy it. $10 is like 2 drinks, it’s lunch from a food court. It’s why I can trouble fathoming the whole ‘music is too expensive’ thing when it’s used as an argument for illegal downloading. $10 for a lifetime of listening pleasure, how can you go wrong? I so need to start a non-photo blog….

By: Adam Weathered

Adam Weathered — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:42:18 +0000

Oh and I didn’t realise that MGMT actually played instruments

By: Adam Weathered

Adam Weathered — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:41:10 +0000

I have scored a big 0. I will open myself up here and list the 8 CD’s I bought yesterday…nothing new or groundbreaking…some quite ordinary…all on sale for under $10

Motorhead – No Sleep At All
John Cougar Mellencamp – Scarecrow
Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Incubus – Light Grenades
Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
Steely Dan – The Best Of
Guns n Roses – The Spaghetti Incident
Pearl Jam – Yield

I think the underlying theme is that I thought these albums weren’t worth buying until they were heavily discounted (and one was bought purely to round out my Guns and Roses collection).

Says a lot about me and my uncultured ways I think.