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The most recent band for me were Crumb, a kind of mix of jazz and psychedelia. Has to be heard to be believed, really.

To be honest, I think the Chilis are a candidate for the 'best bands with crap first albums' thread.The first one's pretty dire.

+1 on Kevin Parker - check out Apocalypse Dreams and It Is Not Meant to Be. Interpol and Deerhunter are worth a look, and there are some good Strokes basslines! Is This It is pretty iconic

Personally I'm looking forward to the Darkglass AEIOU

Livin' on a Prayer. Ugh.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard in Manchester, for the 3rd time. Their live shows are so frantic, love a bit of it.

Drum machine and cello driven psychedelia - sounds weird but it really works - from 1982. Also, this is possibly the earliest example of anyone using scratching as an effect in a song?

What's the issue with that? (Apart from Bill Ward's leggings of course, lol) For me Megalomania is probably the best song Sabbath ever did.

Xmas pricedrop!

Shame he's such a repellent, small minded douchecanoe - it's really ruined his music for me

Wow, is he still going? Last thing I heard from him was Astrakhan Cafe, and that was in 2001! Personally my favourite has been A Fever Dream by Everything Everything. Alvvays' second was good too, though it wasn't a brilliant year for music. More interested in the mid 90s atm - where the fork have Massive Attack been all this time?!

Ah yes, author of lines such as "I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping". Genius.

The train sounds, the slow build up... sublime

Hear hear. Reminds me of a certain drummer, who having been the subject of intense discussion and heartache about whether his commitment was up to scratch, was confronted in a band meeting and said he'd rather be moving to Australia to be with his girlfriend. Cue a week later, his girlfriend's dumped him and he wants back in... Surprised people in this thread seem to be having most trouble with their guitarists; for us, drummers have always been hardest to find and usually flakes, nutters or egomaniacs. Sometimes all three.

Bump.