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Best Albums of 2009 (so far)

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jlb1705;1514839; said:
This is either gonna be really awesome or really [censored]ty:

Pitchfork: Grohl/Homme/Jones Supergroup Post First Brief Hint of New Music
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My vote: really awesome.

I'm listening to the album right now on the yootoobs - click thru to the actual YouTube page and it will autoplay the songs in album sequence.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6arQ-qK34&feature=PlayList&p=FCC1368DF9BDE312&index=0&playnext=1"]YouTube - 01 ~ No One Loves Me & Neither Do I[/ame]
 
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Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Huey_Lewis_&_The_News_Fore!_CD_cover.JPG
 
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I'm gonna add another one:
goatwhore_cover.jpg


Solid album front to back. Plus, can you go wrong naming your band Goatwhore? Shut up!
 
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Picked up the eponymous Them Crooked Vultures disc yesterday at Best Buy ($9.99 this week). I think it goes without saying: Homme + Grohl + JPJ = 13 tracks of awesome.

Homme's fingerprints, given he contributes the guitar and vocals to the collaboration, are all over the disc at first blush. If this were released as a Queens of the Stone Age album, a majority of people probably wouldn't even know. The first half of the record is a lot of QOTSA robot-rock. JPJ's influence is more apparent over the second half of the disc, particularly in the tracks Warsaw, Gunman, and Spinning In Daffodils. Tracks 10-13 pack a lot of 60s/70s era psychedelia.

Of course, Grohl is back behind the kit, and it's great to hear. I'm a big Foo Fighters/Dave Grohl fan, but he was completely underrated as a drummer back in his Nirvana days.

This entire disc, which was self-produced, is superb. Best "new" band I've heard in years.
 
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Dryden;1597736; said:
Picked up the eponymous Them Crooked Vultures disc yesterday at Best Buy ($9.99 this week). I think it goes without saying: Homme + Grohl + JPJ = 13 tracks of awesome.

Homme's fingerprints, given he contributes the guitar and vocals to the collaboration, are all over the disc at first blush. If this were released as a Queens of the Stone Age album, a majority of people probably wouldn't even know. The first half of the record is a lot of QOTSA robot-rock. JPJ's influence is more apparent over the second half of the disc, particularly in the tracks Warsaw, Gunman, and Spinning In Daffodils. Tracks 10-13 pack a lot of 60s/70s era psychedelia.

Of course, Grohl is back behind the kit, and it's great to hear. I'm a big Foo Fighters/Dave Grohl fan, but he was completely underrated as a drummer back in his Nirvana days.

This entire disc, which was self-produced, is superb. Best "new" band I've heard in years.
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I have to throw in a vote for this as well. Great stuff...
 
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CD review: Them Crooked Vultures | Stuff.co.nz

Are you ready to fall in love? Because all it will take is three minutes of Them Crooked Vultures' debut album to send you head over heels, smitten forever with these new rock superheroes.

That's the effect blistering opening track No One Loves Me & Neither Do I is guaranteed to have, as that killer piledriving groove at the three-minute mark proves this "supergroup" - featuring Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones and Queens of the Stone Age guru Josh Homme - deserves that over-used title.

It's just one stunning moment from an album full of them. Mostly, Them Crooked Vultures play faultlessly filthy, blues-inspired swamp rock. If you're in a band, hang up your guitar because chances are you will never, ever be this good.

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:banger:
 
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QOTSA hasn't been as good since Nick Oliveri was kicked out. I think this is the true and rightful follow-up to Songs for the Deaf, and it sounds exactly how you'd expect it to if you subtracted Mark Lanegan and the bat-shit crazy Oliveri and replaced them John Paul Jones - still fuckin' awesome.
 
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jlb1705;1597960; said:
QOTSA hasn't been as good since Nick Oliveri was kicked out. I think this is the true and rightful follow-up to Songs for the Deaf, and it sounds exactly how you'd expect it to if you subtracted Mark Lanegan and the bat-shit crazy Oliveri and replaced them John Paul Jones - still fuckin' awesome.
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That was exactly my thought upon first listen...sounds a lot like QOTSA. "Rated R" and "Songs For The Deaf" era...
 
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