* * * End of Year List * * *

Gonzovision

Will keep the same categories as last year.

Best Album - Nominate no more than 3 albums.

Best Song - Nominate no more than 3 songs

Best Video - Just one video

Best Irish Album - Nominate no more than 3 albums.

Best promoter - Just the one.

Best Gig - Confined to Ireland and no more than 3.

mosstin

gonzovision wrote: »

Will keep the same categories as last year.

Best Album - Nominate no more than 3 albums.
Mid-Air - Paul Buchanan
kin - iamamiwhoami
North Sea Scrolls - North Sea Scrolls

Best Song - Nominate no more than 3 songs
Myth - Beach House
Life's A Beach - Django Django
Thinkin Bout You - Frank Ocean

Best Video - Just one video
Never watch 'em

Best Irish Album - Nominate no more than 3 albums.
I See Three Birds Flying - Adrian Crowley

Best promoter - Just the one.
Neil Warnock

Best Gig - Confined to Ireland and no more than 3.
Paul Buchanan - Liss Ard festival
Low - Cyprus Avenue
Magnetic Fields - Olympia Theatre

Here ya go.

The Scratcher

Best Album:

Alt J - An Awesome Wave
Ombre - Believe You Me
Katie Kim - Cover and Flood

Best Song:

Alt J - Something Good
Katie Kim - Your Mountains
Soak - Sea Creatures

Best Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkyejpTH9XI

Best Irish Album:

Katie Kim - Cover and Flood
Ocho - Young Hunting
Laura Sheeran – What the World Knows

Best Promoter:

-

Best Gigs

Soak - Dingle
Le Galaxie - Indiependence
Nanu Nanu - Crane Lane

symbolic

Best Album
Om - Advaitic Songs
Mark Kozelek - Among the Leaves
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Best Song
Frank Ocean - Pyramids
Mark Kozelek - UK Blues
Mick Flannery - Red to Blue

Best Video
Alt-J - Breezeblocks

Best Irish Album
Mick Flannery - Red to Blue
Owensie - Citizens
Last Days of 1984 - Wake up to the Waves

Best promoter
U:Mack

Best Gig
Om - Button Factory
Ghostpoet with Alt-J support - Whelans
Dry the River - Whelans

karaokeman

Best Album - Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Death Grips - The Money Store
Alabama Shakes - Girls & Boys


Best Song - Frank Ocean - Sweet Life
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - Holy Roller
The Beach Boys - Isn't It Time


Best Video - Death Grips - The Fever

Best Irish Album - Katie Kim - Cover and Flood


Best promoter - AEG Live


Best Gig - Leonard Cohen at Kilmainham
Stone Roses - Phoenix Park
Alabama Shakes - EP

Pudsy33

Best Album

Frank Ocean- Channel Orange

Tame Impala- Lonerism

Grimes- Visions

Best Song

Tame Impala- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.

Frank Ocean- Lost

Kendrick Lamar- Bitch don't kill my vibe

Best Video

Grimes- Oblivion

Best Irish Album

Delerentos- Little Sparks

Best promoter

POD, for Forbidden Fruit

Best Gig

Stone Roses
Grimes at EP
Watch the Throne

Edited to include watch the throne, no idea how I forget that

A V A

Best Album - the weeknd - Trilogy
the xx - coexist
drake - take care

Best Song - Flashmob - need in me
frank ocean - pyramids
bobby womack - love is gonna lift you up (julio bashmore remix)

Best Video - kanye west - mercy

Best Irish Album - jogging

Best promoter - Mud

Best Gig - watch the throne , the 02 dublin
sbtrkt , the academy dublin
the xx , the olypmia theatre dublin

Captain Graphite

Don't have anything to offer for best video, Irish album or promoter I'm afraid. (That's just my ignorance of them as opposed to there not being any worthy candidates!)
But anyway.....

Best Album
Trust - TRST
Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe
Yeasayer - Fragrant World

Best Song
Bat for Lashes - Laura
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Alt-J - Tessellate

Best Gig
Bat for Lashes at Electric Picnic
Sigur Rós at Electric Picnic
Lady Gaga at AVIVA Stadium (Not in keeping with the forum, I know, but she is great live! )

Stompbox

Best Album:
Tame Impala - Lonerism
The Walkmen - Heaven
Grizzly Bear - Shields

Best Song
The Walkmen - We Can't Be Beat
Deerhoof - There's That Grin
Merchandise - Time

Best Video
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

Best Irish Album:
Princess - Blow Up EP
So Cow & Squarehead - Out of Season

Best Gig:
Palma Violets - Bruxelles
Princess - The Grand Social

Dubhthamlacht

Best Album:
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
The Radioactive Grandma - The Radioactive Grandma
Godspeed You! Black Emporer- 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

Best Song:
Bats - Wolfwrangler
Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny - Lilliput
Father John Misty - Nancy From Now On

Best Video
Raglans - Digging Holes

Best Irish Album:
The Radioactive Grandma - The Radioactive Grandma
Bats - The Sleep of Reason
Skelocrats - The Complete Skelocrats

Best Gig:
The Black Keys - O2

sarahdon

Best Album:
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Screaming Females - Ugly

Best Song:
Jack White - Sixteen Saltines
The Cribs - Come On, Be a No One
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar

Best Video
No Monster Club- La La Land

Best Irish Album:
The Radioactive Grandma - The Radioactive Grandma
Sea Pinks - Freak Wave
Jogging - Take Courage

Best Gig:
Grandaddy at Electric Picnic

nervous_twitch

Nothing for Irish Album/Promoter either.

Best Album
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel..
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Best Song
Grimes - Oblivion
Purity Ring - Fineshrine
Beach House - Myth

Best Video
M83 - Fleur & Mano Trilogy (Midnight City, Reunion, Wait; technically 3, but all part of one episode!)

Best Gig
Grimes - Forbidden Fruit

ShaneU

Best Album

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
The Vaccines - Come of Age
Beach House - Bloom

Best Song

Beach House - Myth
The Gaslight Anthem - "45"
Japandroids - The House that Heaven Built

Best Video

Explosions in the Sky - Postcard From 1952

Best Irish Album

Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon

pinksoir

Best Album

Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Grizzly Bear - Shields

Best Song

Father John Misty - Now I'm Learning to Love the War
Alt-J - Taro
The Walkmen - We Can't Be Beat

Best Promoter

Aiken (Leagues O'Toole)

Best Gig

Beach House - Vicar Street
St. Vincent - Body & Soul

EDIT: was gonna go for Grimes' Visions, but I reckon Julia Holter's album is better in the end...

sink

Best Album

Grizzly Bear - Sheilds
John Talabot - fin
Chromatics - Kill For Love

Gonzovision

Best Album
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Grimes - Visions
Grizzly Bear - Shields

Best Song
Chromatics - These Streets will Never look the Same
Chairlift - I belong in your Arms
Frank Ocean - Pyramids

Best Video
Alt-J - Breezeblocks

Best Irish Album
The Cast of Cheers - Family
Jogging - Take Courage
Le Galaxie - Fade 2 Forever


Best promoter - POD

Best Gig
Modeselektor
Father John Misty
Animal Collective

smacg

Best Album
The Maccabees - Given To The Wild
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave


Best Song
Grizzly Bear - 06 A Simple Answer
Spector - 12 - Never Fade Away
Tame Impala - 07 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

Scubadevils

2012 has been flippin great for music and I hate pulling it down to 3 but as it stands today, these spring to mind.

Best Albums

Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearance
Efterklang - Piramida (I can't stop playing this since buying just before Christmas!)
Grizzly Bear - Shields

Best Songs

Efterklang - Black Summer (anyone who may have missed this album, think 'Spirit of Eden')
Jason Lytle - Somewhere There's A Someone
DIIV - Doused

Best Video (I've not seen that many really)

Moon Duo - Sleepwalker (taken from an incredible album)

Best Gig

Destroyer - Whelans
Spiritualised - Vicar Street

notnumber

Best Album - Still have not heard the likes of ALT-J,Beachouse et all

The Babies-Our House on the Hill
Porcelain raft -Strange Weekend
Echolake- Wild Peace

Best Song -

Saturday Captains- Fool Then
Public Service Broadcast -Everest
Future of the Left-Failed Olympic Bid

Best Video -
Imagination Head - Sandcastle

Best Irish Album

Riptide Movement-Keep On Keepin' On
Saturday Captains- Saturday Captains
LAST DAYS OF 1984 – Wake up to the waves

Best promoter - Just the one. Not too sure about promoters but venue of the year Workmans

Best Gig -
Echo Lake
PIL
Porcelain raft

also mention Cassia and Milo gig in Gypsy Rose-ones to watch for sure.

A great year for music,am keeping old age away by trying to keep current with the best music and thanks to all who contribute to the boards music sections and make it a informative and useful resource.
Happy New Year to all!

nlgbbbblth

My top albums of 2012.

1 Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar
2 Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
3 Grimes - Visions

Thundercats Ho

Best Album
Django Django - ST
First Aid Kit - The Lions Roar
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral (just edged out Bat for lashes)

Best Song
Atoms For Peace - Default
Cat Power - Cherokee
Bobby Womack - Stupid (Including the introlude by Gil Scott-Heron)

Best Video
Don't watch 'em, but liked the Kodaline one.

Best Irish Album
Bit ignorant here i'm afraid.
Liked cast of cheers and funeral suits though.


Best promoter - wouldn't have a breeze.

Best Gig
Stone Roses - PP
Mark Lanegan Band - EP
Bon Iver - O2 (Savage gig, even if the sound was a bit ropey)

I've left out some brilliant gigs tbf. There used to be a section for best gig by an Irish artist?

Great year for music.

loyatemu

Albums:

"Django Django"
Tame Impala - "Lonerism"
Tindersticks - "The Something Rain"

Heisenberg.

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Rothko

Best Album:
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Celebration Rock - Japandroids
The Bunkhouse Vol.1: Black Anchor Tattoo - Fionn Regan

Best Song:
Keep On Lying - Tame Impala
Younger Us - Japandroids
Gone Forever - Mick Flannery

Best Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H570ifQfpDk

Best Irish Album
The Bunkhouse Vol.1: Black Anchor Tattoo - Fionn Regan
Red To Blue - Mick Flannery
Wallis Bird - Wallis Bird

Best Gig
Japandroids - The Workman's Club
Stone Roses - Phoenix Park
Jay-Z & Kanye West - The O2

Air_Bass

Best Album
Graham Coxon - A+E
Jack White - Blunderbus
Grimes - Visions

Best Song
The Cribs - Chi Town
Grimes - Oblivion
Bat For Lashes - Laura

Best Video
Sorry, rarely watch them

Best Irish Album
Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Jogging - Take Courage
The Cast Of Cheers - Family


Best promoter
?

Best Gig
Mark Lanegan Band - The Academy
Jack White - The O2

johnny_ultimate

Best Album:
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Titus Andronicus - Local Business

Best Song:
Continuous Thunder - Japandroids
God Wants Us To Wait - Magnetic Fields
Pyramids - Frank Ocean

Best Video:
Sakanaction - Yoru No Odoriko (the jump-cuttiest music video ever made)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AozElbRnTM

Best Gig:
Magnetic Fields - Olympia

jefreywithonef

Best Album
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't

Best Song
Cloud Nothings - Wasted Days
Bob Mould - The Descent
Mark Lanegan - Quiver Syndrome

Best Gig
Bob Mould Band - Cork

Corholio

Best Album

The Maccabees - Given To The Wild
Purity Ring - Shrines
Paul Banks - Banks

Best Song

Everything Everything - Cough Cough
Paul Banks - Paid For That
The Maccabees - Unknown

Best Video

Miike Snow - The Wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk1gaE1G7JM

Best Irish Album

The Cast Of Cheers - Family
Croupier - Croupier
Bell X1 - Field Recordings

Best promoter

Don King

Best Gig

The Maccabees - The Academy
Gomez - Cyprus Avenue
Kasabian - The O2

Rory1

Best Album
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Lost in the Trees - A Church that Fits our Needs
Paul Banks - Banks


Best Song
Pinkunoizu - Parabolic Delusions
Alt-J - Tessellate
Alt-J - Breezeblocks

Scubadevils

^ I completely forgot that Lost in the Trees was this year, I played that non stop during the summer, an incredible album and one I'd definitely count in the best albums this year... gonna dig that out for over the weekend.

Rory1

Scubadevils wrote: »

^ I completely forgot that Lost in the Trees was this year, I played that non stop during the summer, an incredible album and one I'd definitely count in the best albums this year... gonna dig that out for over the weekend.

Yea, brilliant album. "All alone in empty house" from 2010 is really good as well.

Scubadevils

Rory1 wrote: »

Yea, brilliant album. "All alone in empty house" from 2010 is really good as well.

Cheers, I hadn't got that yet - will definitely add to my wish list.

Mountainlad

Is Frank Ocean alternative/indie?

Album:

Only nominating one to be fair given the amount I've listened to this year.

Shields-Grizzly Bear

Songs:

Amanita-Animal Collective

Half-Gate-Grizzly Bear

Lazuli-Beach House

Gig:

SBTRKT-Electric Picnic

lordgoat

Mountainlad wrote: »

Is Frank Ocean alternative/indie?

yes

sineadgalway

This is at tonight, could well change my mind again....

Albums

Bat for Lashes: Haunted Man
Cat Power: Sun
Grizzly Bear: Shields

Songs

Alabama Shakes : Hold On
Bat For Lashes: Laura
Gotye: Somebody that I used to know

Gig

Loved Ham Sandwich live
Sharon Van Etten
The Civil Wars

Gonzovision

Just going to keep this open until the end of the month.

handsomecake

Mountainlad wrote: »

Is Frank Ocean alternative/indie?

downloaded it based on this thread.dont want to start a row with lordgoat but if this is alternative and indie then i don't know what alt/indie is?

is he not like john legend or something. rap / R and B

Gonzovision

handsomecake wrote: »

downloaded it based on this thread.dont want to start a row with lordgoat but if this is alternative and indie then i don't know what alt/indie is?

is he not like john legend or something. rap / R and B

Serious?

handsomecake

gonzovision wrote: »

Serious?

yeah dont get it at all.deadly serious.

handsomecake

it sounds like 17 interludes from a kanye west album

Thundercats Ho

handsomecake wrote: »

it sounds like 17 interludes from a kanye west album

I listened to it on spotify based on all the nominations here. Did not like

lordgoat

Sometimes with good music you gotta sit with it.

Frank Ocean is alternative to the vast majority of stuff posted in here. Which i'd file under pop, but hey there ya go.

handsomecake

lordgoat wrote: »

Sometimes with good music you gotta sit with it.

Frank Ocean is alternative to the vast majority of stuff posted in here. Which i'd file under pop, but hey there ya go.

im not saying its bad im just saying it doesnt seem alt indie.

im not saying im right either.

handsomecake

BEST ALBUM

tame impala-lonerism
alt j- an awsome wave
the xx-coexist

BEST SONG

arctic monkeys-r u mine?
tame impala-feels like we only go backwards
santigold-disparate youth

BEST VIDEO

british india- i can make you love me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOAwbazzKQ

BEST GIG

watch the throne -o2( not alt/indie but it was biblical)


cheers gonzo/goat

notnumber

lordgoat wrote: »

Sometimes with good music you gotta sit with it.

Frank Ocean is alternative to the vast majority of stuff posted in here. Which i'd file under pop, but hey there ya go.

Well LG you are welcome to change the balance:)
I can't say his music would be something I would listen and in fact never even check until I saw his name in so many end of year lists.not just here but other sites as well but he is a good songwriter ,(time as ghostwriter for justin bieber exempted)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0LM2k1ze4A

sydthebeat

Best Album
The Lumineers - The Lumineers
richard hawley - standing at the skies edge
Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne

Best Song
Beach House - lazuli
Richard Hawley - Down in the woods
swans - the apostate

Best Video
Kodaline - all i want

Best Irish Album
ghost estates - ghost estates
The Cast of Cheers – Family
Delorentos- Little Sparks
emmett tinley - emmett tinely

Best promoter -
aidan shortall -
Up Close & Personal Promotions

Best Gig
richard hawley - vicars st
Stone Roses
Lumineers / civil wars

lordgoat

notnumber wrote: »

Well LG you are welcome to change the balance:)

E]

Nope. I quite like pop music and hate genres so i'm happy to let most things slide. As long as i like it!!

Thundercats Ho

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

Best Album
Django Django - ST
First Aid Kit - The Lions Roar
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral (just edged out Bat for lashes)

Best Song
Atoms For Peace - Default
Cat Power - Cherokee
Bobby Womack - Stupid (Including the introlude by Gil Scott-Heron)

Best Video
Don't watch 'em, but liked the Kodaline one.

Best Irish Album
Bit ignorant here i'm afraid.
Liked cast of cheers and funeral suits though.


Best promoter - wouldn't have a breeze.

Best Gig
Stone Roses - PP
Mark Lanegan Band - EP
Bon Iver - O2 (Savage gig, even if the sound was a bit ropey)

I've left out some brilliant gigs tbf. There used to be a section for best gig by an Irish artist?

Great year for music.

I oddly can't edit my own post!
Just want to add Fíonn Regan's new album to the Irish Album selection.

I was listening to one of those BBC6 music playlists on spotify, and a Frank Ocean song (Pyramids?) came on that i didn't like the 1st time i heard, and while i didn't love it this time, i certainly didn't hate it. I liked the 1st half, but it went on for ages (9 mins or something!)

Rory1

Not many many replies. But prob time to call end to this tread.

Gonzovision

Will post the results in the next few days.

Gonzovision

Sorry about the delay, results are below.

Best Album
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Best Song
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Frank Ocean - Pyramids
Beach House - Myth

Best Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtf7hC17IBM

Best Irish Album
The Cast of Cheers – Family
Jogging - take courage
Delerentos- Little Sparks


Best promoter
POD

Best Gig
Stone Roses - Phoenix Park
Watch the Throne - O2
Magnetic Fields - Olympia Theatre

Thanks for voting guys.