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Thread ID: 122623	2012-01-03 09:10:00	Best Albums of 2011	Twelvevolts (5457)	PC World Chat

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1251890	2012-01-03 09:10:00	One of the joys of this time of year is reading the critics top 50 albums lists and catching up on some of the ones you missed. My list doesn't seem to agree with any of the critics - but then I like what I like. Top Ten 1. Smother - Wild Beasts 2. Suck It And See - Arctic Monkeys 3. Velociraptor - Kasabian 4. Colour Of The Trap - Miles Kane 5. Happy Soup - Baxter Dury 6. A Different Kind Of Fix - Bombay Bicycle Club 7. Submarine - Alex Turner 8. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? - The Vaccines 9. Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - WU LYF 10. Portamento - The Drums Honorable mentions No Thyself - Magazine Build a Rocket Boys - Elbow Killer Sounds - Hard-fi Best Concert Music DVD's 1. Live at Red Rocks - John Butler Trio 2. Real Life and Thereafter - Magazine And purchased the lot!!! Ones I have still to give a good spin Skying - The Horrors Last Night on Earth - Noah and the Whale Yuck - Yuck and no doubt a few more yet.	Twelvevolts (5457)
1251891	2012-01-03 09:20:00	Awesome 12v to be honest i dont know any of them...must be really behind the music scene i still listen to queen and pink floyd etc music is a funny interest and generally most are quite vocal on what they like or dislike and i do struggle to wonder how music critics make a crust good post, well done	Gobe1 (6290)
1251892	2012-01-03 10:12:00	All British bands expect for The Drums (American). John Butler is also american but considered an australian as he has lived most of his life there. Got to see Wild Beasts live this year - always good to see your favourite band live whoever they are!!	Twelvevolts (5457)
1251893	2012-01-03 10:18:00	^amen	Gobe1 (6290)
1251894	2012-01-03 11:37:00	Geez I'm getting old, never heard of any of them. Perhaps you should mention the genre so we know what we're looking at :) I'm a Hard Rock / Metal fan myself but metal is evolving away from my tastes lately. Plus I almost have to force myself to buy New stuff. Only two from me and it turns out they are from 2010 / 2009 lol. I'll mention them anyway. 1. Halestorm - self titled 2. The Pretty reckless - Light me up What can I say I love rock music with female Vocalists and there isn't that much around	dugimodo (138)
1251895	2012-01-03 17:07:00	Geez I'm getting old, never heard of any of them. Perhaps you should mention the genre so we know what we're looking at :) I'm a Hard Rock / Metal fan myself but metal is evolving away from my tastes lately. Plus I almost have to force myself to buy New stuff. Only two from me and it turns out they are from 2010 / 2009 lol. I'll mention them anyway. 1. Halestorm - self titled 2. The Pretty reckless - Light me up What can I say I love rock music with female Vocalists and there isn't that much around I will be checking these 2 out thank you :) If you're into goth rock; check out Within Temptation IMHO the lead singer makes Evanesence lead sound like an amateur Older (80's) rock with female leads: Warlock - she went on to perform alone as Doro Pesch As for current stuff, can't say as I have enjoyed much. I guess Gotye kind of put a spark in the audio senses Nothing much else memorable though	Myth (110)
1251896	2012-01-04 06:23:00	Genre is normally described as indie or alternative - but fair to say these are hardly obscure bands and would be well known to music fans in the UK. For some reason New Zealand follows American mainstream music (or what passes for pop these days) which to me is all fairly bland. Haven't followed metal after about 1978, doesn't really do anything for me but I know of course it has a big following. Big fan of The Cure though if they count even remotely as Goth, like their recent Bestival live double and bought it the day it came out.	Twelvevolts (5457)
1251897	2012-01-04 06:31:00	Just saw a New Zealand band called Midnight Youth on television - sounded very average to me. I'm sure there are better bands in New Zealand - Fat Freddy's Drop aren't exactly my cup of tea but they way better than Midnight Youth. I'd like to get into New Zealand music more - I'm still keen on bands like The Clean from my days at Uni in Dunedin, but not really familiar with bands that haven't made it overseas.	Twelvevolts (5457)
1251898	2012-01-04 11:29:00	I will be checking these 2 out thank you :) If you're into goth rock; check out Within Temptation IMHO the lead singer makes Evanesence lead sound like an amateur Older (80's) rock with female leads: Warlock - she went on to perform alone as Doro Pesch As for current stuff, can't say as I have enjoyed much. I guess Gotye kind of put a spark in the audio senses Nothing much else memorable though Snap, got some Within Temptation albums, several warlock ones, and 1 from Doro. Just recently discovered she has heaps more. Halestorm also have a covers album which is pretty good, I don't even hate the lady gaga cover. About the American vs British music thing, I never realy cared or often even noticed where my music comes from and have something of a mixture. I've always loved Judas Priest (British) am a big fan of Metallica up until Load (American), Have several albums from German and other European bands. Drawing Imaginary boundaries around which countries have better music just makes you miss stuff that you might love. Also English people seem to think Kylie Minogue is a singer, something wrong there. I never liked the alternative genre, not because of the music but because it's too vague of a category to know what to expect. Also record stores seem to put anything they can't figure out into alternative. But then I don't like categories that much in general, so many bands don't want to be labelled and try to call themselves something new, prospective fans like to get an Idea of what kinda music it is and instead are baffled with a million sub-categories. My guilty pleasure is any cute female singer with a nice voice, regardless of Genre :) You'll find some strange things mixed into my mainly metal collection. surprise recomendation from the last year or so from me; Slash and Fergie - Beautiful dangerous. She should sing more rock songs, I love this one.	dugimodo (138)
1251899	2012-01-04 19:43:00	Thought "beautiful dangerous" sounded remarkably like the Headless Chickens	Whenu (9358)
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