Wednesday 15 December 2010

Andy Disgusting's end of year list

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Band of the Year - Gun Outfit

Track of the Year - Gun Outfit - Last Chants

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Top 10 LPs/12" EPs:

Gun Outfit - Possession Sound
Naked On The Vague - Heaps Of Nothing
Kitchen's Floor - Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax
Tyvek - Nothing Fits
Plug - Plug
Dictaphone - s/t
Puerto Rico Flowers - 4
Puffy Areolas - In The Army 1981
Hounds Of Hate - Head Anthem

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Top 5 7"s :

Glam - Glam
Pissed Jeans - Sam Kinisom Woman/The L Word
The Homostupids - Night Deacon
The UV Race - I Hate You
The Pheromoans - Midnight Watchdog

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Top 5 Tapes :

Neonates/Pussy Patrol Split (NEONATES SIDE)
Woolf - Woolf
Sauna Youth - Mad Mind
The Homostupids - Great Music Collection
The UV Race - Homo

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Best Live Band - Thee Oh Sees blew me away.

Top 5 live shows :

Thee Oh Sees - Brixton, London, Plan B
Gun Outfit/The Pheromoans - Brighton, The Cowley Club
Zounds - Brighton, The Cowley Club
Naked On The Vague - Brighton, The Cowley Club
Charles De Goal - Hainault, London, Offset Festival

Honourable mentions to; YES WAY FESTIVAL & DUDEFEST. Too many great bands played at both to even factor it in. There is more.


Top 5 Labels :

Siltbreeze
RIP Society
Savoury Days
La Vida Es Un Mus
Fashionable Idiots

What Made Me Sad :

Boredom Boys broke up.
The Human Race broke up.
Yuck continued playing music.
The Pheromoans weren't knighted.

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Best LP artwork : Dictaphone - s/t

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Worst LP artwork - Zond - s/t

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Best 7" artwork - Pocahaunted - Threshold b/w Echolocation

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Worst 7" artwork - Negative Approach. New one AND reissue. OUCH.


Reissues/Revisited/Old Records/Most Listened :

Reissues : The Endtables, Black Tambourine, Crisis, Brainbombs, Dolly Mixture (didn't get the LP though, too slow)

Revisited/discovered for the first time/listened to a ton : Neil Young (esp. Zuma), Happy Refugees, Ama-Dots, The Primates, Reversible Cords, The Petticoats, Danzig, Morbid Opera, Big Star, Your Funeral, Rudimentary Peni, Occult Chemistry and all Times New Viking LPs.

2011 will be good because :

GOOD THROB, look for their demo soon, heard a couple tracks, great!
The Pheromoans LP
La La Vasquez LP?
Increasingly frustrating and disgusting government will breed good punk rock or, at the very least, Crass (THE NEW BLACK FLAG!) shirts continue to sell like hot-cakes.
2010 was mostly terrible so 2011 has to be great.

Tuesday 14 December 2010

James Disgusting's end of year list

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Band of the year: Sauna Youth


Track of the year: Home Blitz - Two Steps
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Top 10 LPs in no particular order:

Ty Segall - Melted
Home Blitz - Out Of Phase
Guinea Worms - Sorcerers of Madness
ECSR - Rush to Relax
Drunk Driver - s/t
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
Wire - 1976 demos
White fence - s/t
The Spits - s/t

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Top 5 7's:

Folded Shirt - s/t
Home Blitz - Perpetual Night
Sauna Youth - Youth
UV Race - Knife Fight
La La Vasquez - Hello


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Top tapes:
Former Bullies
Porn Persons
Sauna Youth
Neonates
Sealings


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Top live audio/visual experiences:

Divorce @ Sounds From The Other City
Oh Sees @ Luminare
Dude Fest II - Brilliant Colors, Prize Pets, La La Vasquez, The Sticks, Lovvers, Cold Pumas @ The Cowley Club
Rent Boys @ everywhere, all the time
Charles De Goal @ Offset Festival
Ty Segall, Sauna Youth, Fair Ohs @ Jam


Bummed out in '10: Jay Reatard RIP, the Devo album, Enter The Void, BBC turning into FOX, Yuck the band.


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Best artwork: Bare Wires - Seeking Love



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Worst artwork: The Bitters - Eastern General



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Best 7" artwork: Wild Thing - Age Difference



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Worst 7" artwork: Dirty Projectors - No Intention


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old shit and reissues dug and re-dug:

Pussy Galore
Hardcore Devo Vol 1& 2
20/20
The Lines
Crisis
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Spacemen 3


Labels with good product:

Fashionable Idiots
Goner
La Vida Es Un Mus
Columbus Discount
SS

Other things: The Coalition can fuck off. The Love Triangle are an excellent band. Politicized youth finally, although people just out for a rumble can fuck off. Lots of UK bands set to release LPs next year. SID set to up the release schedule again..two fold. Yuck need to be stopped. All music TV is a fucking joke. Please stop using found photography for artwork. Green Door Store heralds a new era for Brighton's music scene. Music industry needs to hurry up and die. Andy Auld gets buff.