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Thought this could be fun. Your favourite 10 albums by artists from your hometown, place where you currently live, or general area scene. Interpret hometown/local however you feel like!

 

 

Here's my 10 from Toronto, in no order

 

Hayden - Everything I Long For

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth

Attack In Black - Marriage (from nearby Welland, but close enough)

treble charger - Maybe It's Me

Zeus - Say Us

Jim Guthrie - Now, More Than Ever* (Guelph-born, but I think he was living in Toronto)

Constantines - Shine A Light* (also from Guelph, but living in Toronto)

Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare, My Butt

NQ Arbuckle - XOK

 

 

I've probably forgotten a few, but these are off the top of my head...

 

 

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Nice! From AZ in no particular order:

Dear and the Headlights- Small Steps, Heavy Hooves

Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience

The Hot Guy Band- Let's Do Coke in the Bathroom

Jimmy Eat World- Clarity

Jimmy Eat World- Futures

Refreshments- Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy

The Format- Interventions and Lullabies

Mr Kline and The Wizards of Time- Soft Pipes Play On

The Solo Project- Bend/Break (short lived on Rise records)

The Bled- Pass the Flask

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Thought this could be fun. Your favourite 10 albums by artists from your hometown, place where you currently live, or general area scene. Interpret hometown/local however you feel like!

 

 

Here's my 10 from Toronto, in no order

 

I think my all-time favourite Toronto album is probably Sarah Harmer's 'You Were Here.'

 

I don't really know much Halifax-area music from before the 90s. My favourite albums from the early to mid-90s alt. boom are:

Jale - Dreamcake
Sloan - Twice Removed
Hardship Post - Somebody Spoke
 
In terms of more recent stuff these would be my faves:
Jenn Grant - The Beautiful Wild
Old and Weird - What I Saw
Mauno - Rough Master
Mike O'Neill - Wild Lines
Dark For Dark - Warboats
Gabrielle Papillon - The Tempest of Old
Gianna Lauren - On Personhood
Jennah Barry - Young Men
Kim Harris - Only the Mighty
Quiet Parade - s/t

 

My faves so far in 2016 from Halifax are:

Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale
Ronok Sarkar - Waiting For Alice
 
There should be several more good ones coming.
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Great list dartmike!

I love Nap Eyes - especially Whine of the Mystic. I'm still deciding about the new one. I like that it is a change of pace but I wasn't as immediately drawn to it as I was to Whine.

Forgot about Sarah Harmer - though I'm not so familiar with any one album of hers to pick.

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Nice thread!

 

Not a lot that you all would have heard of out of my hometown minus Eric's Trip - so here's Moncton, N.B.

 

Eric's Trip - Love Tara

Eric's Trip - Forever Again

John Jerome & The Congregation - Ask Not What I can Do For You, But What We Can Do Together

Danger Cat - The Danger Cat EP

Danger Cat - Out of the Woodwork

Hope - Lupus Man

Savage Young - Savage Young

Zaum - Oracles

Elevator - Elevator to Hell

a handful of Julie Doiron & Feral Trash releases.

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Nice thread!

Not a lot that you all would have heard of out of my hometown minus Eric's Trip - so here's Moncton, N.B.

Eric's Trip - Love Tara

Eric's Trip - Forever Again

John Jerome & The Congregation - Ask Not What I can Do For You, But What We Can Do Together

Danger Cat - The Danger Cat EP

Danger Cat - Out of the Woodwork

Hope - Lupus Man

Savage Young - Savage Young

Zaum - Oracles

Elevator - Elevator to Hell

a handful of Julie Doiron releases.

That Zaum album is so goooooood!

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^ Awesome that you know of it! Nice people, toured Europe and around NA a bit last year. Was lucky enough hear these guys a lot and to have a jam space a few doors down the last few years.

That's awesome! I think you'd be surprised, the Stoner/Doom thread loves Zaum :)
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Television - Marquee Moon

The Ramones - S/T

The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T

Patti Smith - Horses

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Karen Dalton - In My Own Time

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

Suicide - S/T

Pussy Galore - Dial "M" for Motherfucker

 

 

Argh---too many to list.

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I love Nap Eyes - especially Whine of the Mystic. I'm still deciding about the new one. I like that it is a change of pace but I wasn't as immediately drawn to it as I was to Whine.

Yeah, Whine was great but for whatever reason I'm enjoying the new one even more. Their first compilation CD had some good tracks on it too. Worth checking out if you haven't yet.

 

Do you know that band Beams? I think they're a Toronto band. I really loved their debut CD a couple/few years ago. One of my recent Toronto faves.

 

And just because you mentioned a couple Guelph acts, have you ever checked out Alanna Gurr? I loved her Late At Night album.

 

I saw Nap Eyes this past summer and they were really good. I think they're playing again here in Edmonton in the near furture, so I'll probably go to that too.

I think that's probably a good idea.

 

Argh---too many to list.

Haha. This must indeed be pretty tough for someone living in New York.

 

Not a lot that you all would have heard of out of my hometown minus Eric's Trip - so here's Moncton, N.B.

I feel like even here in NS I don't hear much about Moncton bands, more about Sackville.

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I feel like even here in NS I don't hear much about Moncton bands, more about Sackville.

 

There are/were some very good ones. Some of the ones I listed will play on and off - no real consistency. People seem to jump bands and start new ones often, plus there aren't many great venues. It feels old and overdone, if that makes sense.

 

And I agree with the Sackville comment. I went to MtA for 4 years and felt the music scene tenfold more than Moncton, with a population like 70 times smaller.

 

I have a number of friends that made the move to Halifax over the summer. Trying to keep up with some new stuff there.

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Television - Marquee Moon

The Ramones - S/T

The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T

Patti Smith - Horses

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Karen Dalton - In My Own Time

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

Suicide - S/T

Pussy Galore - Dial "M" for Motherfucker

 

 

Argh---too many to list.

Living in New York is kind of like cheating though, yeah? haha

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Hometown: Duluth, MN
Low - The Curtain Hits The Cast

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Retribution Gospel Choir - 2

Bear Garden - Disco Biscuit

Trampled By Turtles - Palomino

 

Current Home: Bergen, Norway

Enslaved- Frost

Taake- Hordalands doedskvad

Hole In The Wall- S/T

Monica Heldal- Boy From The North

Immortal- Battles In The North

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Hometown

Northstar -- Is This Thing Loaded?

The Snake The Cross The Crown -- Cotton Teeth

Thomas Function -- In The Valley of Sickness

Ugly Houses -- Vs The Infinite Hole

The Pine Hill Haints -- God, The Devil, and the Two by the Gates

G-Side -- Starshipz & Rocketz/Huntsville International (can't decide)

Curbside Service -- I Packed My Bags A Year In Advance

Gloom + Doom -- Gloom + Doom

Thunder Krotch -- All Systems

The Counter Clockwise -- The Counter Clockwise

Current Town

Wray -- Hypatia

G.T. -- Beats Misplaced

Shaheed & DJ Supreme -- Knowledge, Rhythm, and Understanding

Green Seed -- Drapetomania

Flair -- Sew Your Wings On

Black Hole Kids -- Easy Masks

Plate 6 -- Battle Hymns For A New Republic

Gainer -- You Say It Like It's A Bad Thing

The Urns -- Deep Web

P.S. Eliot -- Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds

Dan Sartain -- Too Tough To Live

Verbena -- Souls For Sale

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Hometown: Duluth, MN

Low - The Curtain Hits The Cast

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Retribution Gospel Choir - 2

Bear Garden - Disco Biscuit

Trampled By Turtles - Palomino

Ha, ya beat me with Duluth! I was just going to say Dylan and leave it at that, but I'll add a couple for posterity:

Trampled By Turtles - Songs From A Ghost Town(I saw them a LOT around town in 2004, this album holds a special spot with me.

Haley Bonar - The Size Of Planets

David Dondero - Simple Love

Black Eyed Snakes - Its The Black Eyed Snakes

The Black Labels - no actual albums, but a fucking amazing bar band.

The Keep Always - The Keep Always

Loup Garou - ST ep

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Flint, MI

Kid Brother Collective - Self Titled EP
Empty Orchestra - One More Time, All Together Now
BraidedVeins - Self Titled LP
May/June - The Sea is Filled With Horrible Fish

Power On Hold - ISM

Spit - Blue Collar

Smatch - Anthology (1993-1997)

Matt Ratza - Demo

The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing

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Well I've only been in Edinburgh for a year and a half, so I don't really know much about the local scene, but for anyone who's a fan of Full of Hell, I'd definitely recommend checking out Godhole. Great band and real nice dudes to boot. Their ep with Crozier is fucking awesome.

https://godhole.bandcamp.com/album/anthrophobia

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Knoxville, TN

Gamenight - Pets Pets

Lions - MTNZ

Generation of Vipers - Howl and Filth

Royal Bangs - Let It Beep

Generation of Vipers - Coffin Wisdom

Johnny Astro and the Big Bang - Monuments

Zach and Kota's Sweet Life - S/T

Wasn't Superdrag from Knoxville??? That's a big one to omit (for me at least)

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