[kj] Releases of the year - 2012

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Here's my Top 10 for 2012 :)


http://souciant.com/2012/12/olivers-top-10-for-2012/


-0liver



On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Mike Cooper <mike at coopersurf.fsnet.co.uk>wrote:


> I think 2012 has been a really good year for music so my top ten would be

> the following:****

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> Killing Joke:                         MMXII

>                 despite being from the boys this is by far and away the

> greatest album of the year despite any bias!!****

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> Mark Lannegan                 Blues Funeral                     a truly

> beautiful album, heart and soul abound.****

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> Public Image Ltd               This is PIL                             not

> popular with everyone but I love it.****

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> Godspeed You Black Emperor    Allelujah! Don’t Bend

> Ascend!                   Oldish songs but great to have them back at last

> – mesmerising.****

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>                 ****

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> The Stranglers                   Giants

> Brilliant, best thing they have done in decades and through pure luck I

> have back stage passes for their Brum show in March****

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> ZZ Top                                   La

> Futura                             I have to say it is deep down and dirty

> – loving it!****

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> The Meteors                      Doing The Lords Work    Been a fan from

> day one but this is their best album since Wreckin Crew in the late 80’s.

> Not sure how they just seem to have hit it right – great version of

> Paranoid too.****

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> Dead Can Dance               Anastasis                             Welcome

> back – wonderful****

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> Bad Brains                           Into the Future                 I

> love this band and this is up there with the best of them.****

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> Swans                                   The

> Seer                              epic****

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> Bubbling under:                Viv Albertine, Jah Wobble/Keith Levine,

> Bill, Fry Adrian Sherwood****

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> Best reissue:                      The Beat -           I Just Can’t Stop

> It****

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>                                                 Mogwai

> Wrenched Virile Lore****

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> Best Film                              Batman Dark Knight Rises / Killer

> Joe****

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> TV Show                              Homeland, Fresh Meat****

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> Best Gig                               Killing Joke, PIL, Sea of Bees, ***

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> Hero/ine                              Wiggins, Hannah Cockcroft,****

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> Twat of the Year               Clegg, Rebecca Brooks, Saville legacy, John

> Terry, ****

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> Event                                    Olympics, Swindon Town Promotion*

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> Crap of the year               50 Sheds of Grey, weather, ****

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> *From:* gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]

> *On Behalf Of *adrianwason at btinternet.com

> *Sent:* 28 December 2012 09:54

> *To:* Jim Harper; A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

>

> *Subject:* Re: [kj] Releases of the year - 2012****

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> i listened to rude awakening the other day.****

>

> caprice is still awesome and the whole album is vey consistent unlike

> other Prong albums.****

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> i love everything about this album even the artwork/packaging is great.***

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> what a line uo they had then!****

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> i picked up made in Germany which if you think is a filter of all

> Rammsteins stuff.****

>

> I managed to filter it down even further to Mein Teil/Ich Will/Sonne &

> Mein Land......****

>

>  ****

>

> at one stage i thought 2012 was the best killing joke release yet but i

> played extremities at full blast all the way through last week and it just

> confirmed what i thought that extremities is still the best release ever**

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>  ****

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> i think 2012 outclasses pandemonium as poleshift/fema camp/colony collapse

> etc are far superior to anything on that album****

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>

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> --- On *Wed, 26/12/12, Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>* wrote:****

>

>

> From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>

> Subject: Re: [kj] Releases of the year - 2012

> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <

> gathering at misera.net>

> Date: Wednesday, 26 December, 2012, 12:42****

>

> Okay, my turn. As usual, most of my purchases have been past albums, but I

> did pick up a few 2012 releases:****

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> Killing Joke: MMXII. Really like this one. It's had more play than any of

> their albums since Pandemonium. Not uniformly fantastic, but the good

> tracks are really bloody good.****

>

>  ****

>

> Swans: The Seer. Not a huge Swans fan, but I do like what I've heard. I've

> been in a much more up-tempo musical mood, so I haven't listened to this

> one a great deal but I do think it's pretty damn good.****

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> LM.C: Strong Pop. LM.C are a visual kei band who are probably best

> described as electro-rock. Bouncy and relentlessly chirpy, Strong Pop might

> be their best album. Live they simply explode: stupidly loud, the guitars

> now in drop-C. Best show I've seen in a while.****

>

>  ****

>

> Honourable Mention goes to The GazzettE for Division. Not been much of a

> fan of visual kei band The GazzettE in the past, but Division has some

> bloody good material on. Unfortunately they choose to separate the songs

> into one side of melodic rock and one side of industrial/techno-flavoured

> metal. Side 2 is fantastic, but side 1 drags. If they'd put the best few

> songs from side 1 in with side 2, the album would have been a giant. Other

> bands- most obviously the much-missed VK icons D'espairsRay- managed to

> blend the pounding riffs and the melody pretty well. It's a shame, because

> Division could have been brilliant.****

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> Best reissues goes to the Japanese editions of This Mortal Coil's back

> catalogue: Blood, It'll End In Tears, Filigree & Shadow. All excellent.***

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> If we're including compilations, my awards go to Propaganda's Noise And

> Girls Come Out To Play and An Introduction To... Laibach.****

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> My favourite musical discovery of 2012 would be legendary Japanese

> 1980s metal band Dead End.****

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>

> Checking iTunes, it seems the albums I've been listening to most in the

> past years are MMXII, Prong's Rude Awakening, Rammstein's Made in Germany,

> 3.2.1. by Zilch, Dead End's Zero and Schweinstein by Schwein. Pretty much

> an industrial year, I guess!****

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> I'll shut up now.****

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> Jim.****

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>  ****

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> *From:* "Phillipps, Marc" <Marc.Phillipps at nclondon.nhs.uk>

> *To:* Gathering at address-not-supplied.nhs.net

> *Sent:* Friday, 21 December 2012, 12:28

> *Subject:* [kj] Releases of the year - 2012****

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> Must be time to do this: ****

>

> The Unwinding Hours – Afterlives  (Craig proving there is life after

> Aereogramme)****

>

> Neurosis – Honor Found In Decay ****

>

> Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense (with an honourable

> mention to the Man Vs Melody EP)****

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> Killing Joke – MMXII (of course!)****

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> Mogwai – A Wrenched Virile Lore (OK, it’s a remix album but it deserves a

> mention of its own) ****

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> British Theatre - Dyed in the Wool Ghost (EP) – (Ex Oceansize – absolutely

> brilliant) ****

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> Knifeworld – Clairvoyant Fortnight (EP)****

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> Meshuggah – Koloss      ****

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> Deftones - Koi No Yokan****

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> Swans – The Seer ****

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> So, what have I missed this year? ****

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> Marc****

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