December 2009
38 posts
My Top 5 Albums Of 2009
I haven’t posted anything for a while because I’ve been busy (read lazy) so as it’s the end of the year I thought I’d share my favourite albums of 2009 with you. Picking 5 releases was practically impossible so I have limited myself to full lengths only, and trying to put them in any sort of order has given me a headache I plan to drink my way through as soon as possible....
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Goodbye 'The Noughties'
So today is the end of the decade, it went pretty fast right? From Kid A to Them Crooked Vultures and everything in between, I personally have certainly bought a lot of good albums but with the main and crucial difference that I bought Kid A on CD whereas Them Crooked Vultures was downloaded straight from iTunes to my Pod. Hopefully in the next 10 years formats and music alike will continue to...
THE AGCS CHRISTMAS CALENDAR PLAYLIST
Our calendar came to an end today but we here at AGCS have gone to the trouble of making a Spotify playlist of some of our favourite Christmas songs, including a few which didn’t make it into our calendar for some reason.
Here’s the tracklisting…
Do You Hear What I Hear? - Duels
Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
Spotlight on Christmas - Rufus Wainwright
Town Meeting Song...
24TH DECEMBER : CHRISTMAS EVE
We here at...
23RD DECEMBER
Today we’ve got...
22ND DECEMBER
We’re only a couple of days...
21ST DECEMBER I really like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and...
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19TH DECEMBER
Here at AGCS we’re all fans...
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The White Stripes - Under Great White Northen...
UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS chronicles the Stripes’ Canadian tour that took place over two years ago. Jack and Meg did it up right – they played every province and territory in the country, and not just in traditional venues. They played in a boat! On a bus! In a park! The results were all captured by a film crew for the documentary.
The Stripes are now issuing a massive box set to be...
ALBUMS OF THE DECADE: THE STATS...
TO TRY AND HELP YOU COMPREHEND AGCS’ ALBUMS OF THE DECADE, BELOW IS A NICE GRAPHIC DISPLAYING ALL THE FACTS. IT’S BEEN A WILD RIDE PEOPLE, BUT WE GOT TO THE END EVENTUALLY!
Jed. x
ALBUMS OF THE DECADE: WHY THERE ARE MOUNTAINS...
There were some great albums released this year. Slow Club’s début managed to capture all the charm of their early singles and live shows whilst Arctic Monkeys wrote their best songs yet on Humbug. There were also impressive records from Dananananaykroyd, Franz Ferdinand, Peter Björn & John and Girls.
For a while, Patrick Wolf was set to fill this spot with The Bachelor, an almost...
200 Posts!!!
Just a quick post to say thanks for reading! Here’s a few stats…
Number of posts - 200
Number of albums reviewed - 25
Number of posts about Los Campesinos! - 8
Number of posts containing the word “happy” - 4
Number of posts with self-indulgent references to John Cage - 2
Here’s to the next 200. Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty more Los Campesinos!...
17TH DECEMBER
After yesterdays little piece of...
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Art vs Science - Parlez-Vous Francais?
The observant amongst you will know that I’m currently residing in Australia, a country that musically has done very little for the world. For every Nick Cave there’s a Rolf and for every Avalanches there’s a Jet (I won’t go on because I’ve almost exhausted Australia’s music scene, except Kylie obviously). However, I am trying my hardest to source some good stuff amongst the bad/nothingness and my...
John Frusciante leaves Red Hot Chili Peppers (?)
Sad news if true of course, as since John returned in 1999 for Californication the Chili’s output has been overall outstanding, with his classical and electronic influences often sneaking in. But having seen the bands final show with John in August 2007, it feels like maybe this is for the best. It was insincere to say the least, and it’ll be sad if we have to remember what has been a tight live...
13TH DECEMBER
Halfway through our calendar and...
12TH DECEMBER
I don’t know about you,...
11TH DECEMBER
Day 11 of our countdown brings us...
ALBUMS OF THE DECADE: WE ARE BEAUTIFUL, WE ARE...
Below is a list of just some of the great album’s released in 2008 which failed to make it onto our Albums of the Decade…
Metronomy - Nights Out
Hot Club De Paris - Live At Dead Lake
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up ‘Til It Was Light
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
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LIARS - SCISSOR
A few weeks ago I posted about forthcoming Liars album “Sisterworld”, and now you can get a free download of album opener Scissor from the bands website. Surprise surprise, it’s great. The first half of the song is a thing of real beauty, with awesome harmonies and rich strings, and even though things get a bit more rowdy halfway through overall the track is a pretty subdued...
8TH DECEMBER
While Eels last album may have...
7TH DECEMBER
AGCS is looking forward to a...
6TH DECEMBER
Day 6 of our countdown and...
5TH DECEMBER
It wouldn’t be an indie...
Lightspeed Champion Q&A / New Video
Dev Haynes aka Lightspeed Champion has been doing a Q&A through one of his website forums and to save you trying to find it, AGCS have compiled the best questions with the best answers to create a post that may look like we interviewed Dev ourselves. But we didn’t.
Q: Are you afraid, with sophomore albums usually having some sort of defining moment on your career, that people may not...
ALBUMS OF THE DECADE: HISSING FAUNA, ARE YOU THE...
2007 saw the release of Bloc Party’s ambitous quasi-concept album A Weekend In The City, the Arctic Monkeys’ excellent sophomore effort Favourite Worst Nightmare and the Cribs’ breakthrough record Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever. It also saw the release of Radiohead’s innovative In Rainbows, which had the tunes to match the hype. Overall, though, if 2006...
3RD DECEMBER
“Christmas In Adventure...
2ND DECEMBER
“Christmas Reindeer”...
