2003 most anticipated albums

[soniktruth]

2003's albums that should be coming out this year.

RADIOHEAD
TEAM SLEEP
DEFTONES
NOFX
LAGWAGON
THE STROKES (HOPEFULLY)
THE MARS VOLTA (HOPEFULLY)
A.F.I.


BUT THE MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS WOULD BE

DEFTONES AND TMV

[CoKeS]

Radiohead
Thursday
Mars Volta
Saves The Day
Matthew Good (Next week ;D)
Hey Mercedes
Armor for Sleep

[Kingofcretins]

Haven't we done this already? remember Paranoid said the cooper temple clause and I got all over-excited?

David W

[soniktruth]

actually, the other thread was BANDS THAT "NEED" TO COME OUT WITH NEW ALBUMS. this one is actual albums that are supposed to come out this year...in other words.........DEJA VU!

[soniktruth]

the Blood Brothers

[Kingofcretins]

how very complicated
well for march and April my top 3 would have to be

Cave In
The Blood brothers
The white Stripes

David W

[headINcortex]

i've been meaning to get a white stripes album. any suggestions?

i'm looking forward to TMVs new one. i hope rubin doesn't fuck it all up. i'm going to see them live whenever they go on tour.

who is matthew good?

[MercurySolo]

I'd have to say Radiohead, The Mars Volta, and the Deftones... Manson, too, I'm interested to hear how the post-Twiggy era's going to be. I anticipated Zwan, does that count?

[soniktruth]

completly forgot about THURSDAY. if it's even half as good as
FULL COLLAPSE, it would be a good ass album.

[CoKeS]

Matthew Good used to be the lead singer of Matthew Good Band, a band out of Canada. Matt Good is a poet too, so his lyrics extremely good. I suggest you get one Matt Good Band's albums.. my personal favorite is Beautiful Midnight.

[Kurtz]

Deftones
ATD-I(i'm in denial don't bother)

[Kingofcretins]

headINcortex said:

i've been meaning to get a white stripes album. any suggestions?

i'm looking forward to TMVs new one. i hope rubin doesn't f**k it all up. i'm going to see them live whenever they go on tour.

who is matthew good?

I reckon De Stjil is the best white stripes album but White Blood Cells is also good. however, you really, really need to see them live if you can.

David W

[clearvampire]

Everclear's Slow Motion Daydream, comes out in 3 days!
Also

AFI
and of coruse radiohead
RADIOHEAD'S new one, for those of u who dont know, will hit europe june 9th and american june 10th. They havent decided on a name yet, either "Are you listening" or "2+2=5"

[clearvampire]

O yea,...and Ani Difranco's Evolue also coming out march 11th

[soniktruth]

good year for album releases. some of my favorite bands are amongst them.

[CoKeS]

Ill second that. '03 is gonna be a kick ass year for releases. I cant wait til spring/summer, so many good albums are gonna come out. 2003 has also had a lot of good releases already, like:

Zwan
Ataris
Matthew Good
Reggie and the Full Effect
Placebo
Further Seems Forever
Cursive
Juliana Theory

[piesore]

Since no one else has mentioned it, I think I will add these:
American Head Charge (good nu metal isn't always an oxymoron folks)
Zack de la Rocha's solo effort (I think this effort will have that RATM edge that I loved so much, more so than Audioslave, though I've grown to like them too)
Audioslave's sophomore effort (I know they are done with the album, so I imagine they will be releasing it this year)

[soniktruth]

i agree with that zack de la rocha deal. the music is the shiz, but zack put in that extra shiz that really defined RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. i really miss ratm. hey piesore, what's your favorite RATM ALBUM?

[soniktruth]

who's next ? which band is coming up with a new alby??

remind me i'm not all here!!

[Kurtz]

when will the deftones album be realesed?!

[CoKeS]

Deftones is coming out in early May.. I wanna say the third but Im not sure. When is Thursdays album coming out?


New Moneen - June 6th (My birthday)

[piesore]

Rage is my favorite band, though ATDI has slowly been closing the gap as I've listened to them more and more and seen more and more live footage, so I cannot pick amongst their 3 CD's of original material, I think they are all as good as each other, with each CD being unique in its strengths and weaknesses. I know the popular choice is to pick their debut, but as much as I enjoy it, I think that people often overlook its flaws while emphasizing the flaws in their future efforts. With their debut, Zack's vocal delivery and lyrics were at their most elementary and the bass and drums were pretty much a yesman to the guitar. And while Know Your Enemy is my favorite riff of all time, the sonic exploration and the band working as a cohesive unit I think was far eclipsed by thier future efforts.
People tend to be split on Evil Empire, I've heard it been called a dumbed down version of their debut, which for the life of me I cannot figure out why. It did take the longest of the Rage albums to get into for me, but I think that it contains both their best and worst work, and overall comes closest to that raw agressive sound one would associate with such a name as RATM. Here I think the rock and rap elements were successfully blended seamlessly, it's now a sound that can only be described as Rage, just as ATDI can only be described as ATDI even though their roots are punk. I love the bass and think its sound is the best of the three albums, and while TBOLA beats it out in terms of the amount of weird sounds, I think Tom's chattering machine gun and revolver intro are the most far out noises he's created. And of course, it's important to not forget that Zack's delivery and lyrical development have improved tremendously, really learning how to create devastating imagery through metaphor and manipulation of syllables. If it hadn't been for the medicore tracks 9 and 10, this would definitely be my favorite.
With TBOLA, I think it has the most lift and bounce to the riffs, and each track really sparkles with a burst of inspired energy. Here Rage almost sounds like they are creating a sense of hope with their music instead of the desolate soundscapes of Evil Empire. The band really seems to have gelled at this point, with each instrument adding a distinct element to the music, and Zack's lyrics now read like beautiful poetry, sounding inspired as ever. It's by far their most diverse effort, which actually worked for me as a double edged sword. While each track was extremely distinct in sound, at times it could have rocked a whole lot harder. I'm not actually talking about Mic Check, Ashes in the Fall and Born of a Broken man, which are among my top picks on the album, but tracks 8-10, where each track is not bad, but it almost feels like they are going through the motions, with the drums and bass simply ambling along for the ride. And while I think sonically Rage was at it's most creative on this album, structurally, it was not. This album has the most cut and dried verse-chorus-verse formulae of all the Rage albums. Of course pretty much all bands follow that, but on TBOLA there were times when there felt to be little relation between the verse and chorus, they simply didn't flow together seamlessly.
And that's about it. I won't comment on Renegades because it was a covers album, and I think it didn't match up to their past releases, though it is one of the better non-compiliation cover albums I've heard. It's easier to shrug it off as not a real record and leave TBOLA as their swan song than to say Rage left on such a lackluster note.
So, that was kind of long, but those are my opinions of the Rage albums, and why I can't pick a favorite.

[piesore]

But to bring back the topic at hand, I'm downloading a new track by Zack featuring DJ Shadow and all I can say is, wow. I really am enjoying it, even though I've only heard about 30 seconds. At first, it sound too much like a collaboration, but as soon as zack starts to spit the first lyrics, everything falls into place. It' pretty much what I was expecting and that's good. It has the same good flow and delivery you would expect from Zack and the backing hip-hop beats are truly energetic and not the crappy tinny and recycled sounding loops that constitute popular hip-hop right now. The track is called March of Death, about the war right now, and can be found, I guess either on a p2p network, or www.zackdelarocha.com
I would also reccomend checking out some of his past collaborations which really got me excited about his upcoming solo effort such as his work with Roni Size called Centre of the Storm and his cover of Public Enemy's Burn Hollywood Burn on the Bamboozled soundtrack. I really don't have any apprehension about this release unlike I did with Audioslave's, because Zack seems to have been working longer and harder than the aforementioned band, and being that the frontman is always the element that I immediately identify with, I know he will retain that RATM bite in spirit, if not in style.

[soniktruth]

on that track, he kinda flows like chuck d used to. i don't know what it is but it reminds me of PE. and that's a good thing.

also, phucking piesore, do you write for spin or some music magazine? you left me wanting to read more. but i'm still not satisfied. let's say you had to choose one or your pet dog (fluffy) would get thrown in a tree shredder. what would your answer be then......j/k, i know how it is to choose between so many good works of art. if you do not choose a certain material, you feel as if you're betraying that art. therefore, leaving you undecided.

[piesore]

No, I don't write for a magazine...that's a compliment right?...Anyways, people say I tend to ramble on message boards, but it's really the only place I know where I can fully articulate my ideas since I usually have trouble when I speak directly with other people.
I guess if I had to chose, it would be a toss-up between EE or TBOLA, and right now I'm more partial to EE, because it feels the most menacing and has the most original sound, both in the tone of all the instruments and the style of the riffs and everything.
I guess I had so much trouble picking because to me the albums are in no way equivelent to each other, though from reviews I've read a lot of people say EE and TBOLA sound very derivative of their debut, which is why I felt like posting why I liked them and thought they were so different. To me Guerrilla Radio doesn't try to be anything like Bulls on Parade which doesn't try to be Killing in the Name, yet they all kick serious ass.
And since I thought TBOLA was as good as their past releases, in some ways it makes it better, because it's rare for a band continue to sound as inspired at break as much new territory without simply rehashing their old material.
While each album was very RATM, the style of the instruments, production, vocals and delivery were all completely revamped, but not at the sake of great songwriting. I guess what irks me a bit is that I bet if the records had been released in reverse order, everyone would be bitching about their debut and praising TBOLA; they are all great albums and each one was a logical progression.
But there you have it in a round about way, I would pick EE if I had to...but why pick just one? We'll always be able to listen to all of them, these hypothetical questions just cause uneccesary pain.

[soniktruth]

TRUE. WHY CHOOSE WHEN YOU CAN LOVE 'EM ALL.

[clintonbignell]

AFI's new cd is a coaster. It doesnt touch the old stuff. their third full length is the bible of what hardcore music should be. The new ''anticipated'' one is garbage.

so of course they will get big with this one.

[soniktruth]

radiohead, radiohead, radiohead