i kind of burned out on The Decemberists, but damn this disc is still fantastic, one of my all time favorites. The last two have been pretty meh.



and as stated in another thread:
x2


lots of work = lots of music

Good choice. I've been addicted to this album for the past month.

I'm also spinning Danielson's "Ships" and Beirut's "Gulag Orkestar" like crazy lately. Both are great records.

ALSO: My other addiction at the moment is a new band called Shapes & Sizes. They just signed to Asthmatic Kitty a little while back (recruited by Mr. Sufjan himself), and their debut album is set to be released in July. If the two tracks on their myspace page are any indication of what the whole album will sound like, well hot damn...

Akron/Family. i have been addicted to this record ever since i bought it, which was like 4 months ago. It goes on NOW!



i've rediscovered this one.

New Aloha is amazing as well. i found a picture before but i can't dig it up again. Oh well.

Beirut = great.

Raleigh, that Joy Division is also quite good.

velvet underground - loaded
the strokes - room on fire
xtc - drums & wires

im slowing turning around on this record... (danielson that is), ive warmed to his voice. Last half of the album still isnt that great to me, but that may happen over time.

Don't know much about Dub music at all but this seems like a decent introduction. Right? 3 cd's at a great value.

They are obviously trying to be too cool, but it has Always Crashing in the Same Car and I am the Fly, so I'll let them off

"nutshell" by alice in chains

fucking amazing song

I have been playing Sing Song by the Little Ones quite a bit lately.

I was listening to Smoosh's new one, Scott Walker's new one, and Chutes Too Narrow earlier today.

Right now, I'm listening to Sufjan Stevens' The Avalanche.

Hi dee ho, down the remastered trail....

i just read a review of this one and i am curious... can yoo send it?

finally got my own hard copy of this, loving it. beautiful packaging...

Adem - Love & Other Planets

this is really great stuff imo

"Honey from the Tombs."

Do you think that is referring to her VaChyna?

Simakos...check it out. (It's good btw)

Listening to this right now. Stylus took the words right out of my mouth: "Jesu goes pop." This thing is sugary as hell. I dig it.

thanks for the heads up...

Boris - "Absolutego"
a sprawling 65 minute track!


Saccharine Trust - "We Became Snakes"
Early SST band that combined elements of punk, jazz and spoken word improvisation. Mike Watt produced this album.

Finally caught that VH1 ep of 'behind the music' and got a hankering for the good stuff.

Alright, Aftershock, what's the appeal of Hall & Oates?
I know there are a few others who share your interest on the board.

Jon Auer – Songs From the Year of Our Demise (fantastic)
Au Pairs – Playing With a Different Sex
Grandaddy – Just Like the Fambly Cat
The Frauds – The Frauds
The Church – Uninvited, Like the Clouds
Eleventh Dream Day – Zeroes and Ones
Chapterhouse – Whirlpool
Jolie Holland – Springtime Can Kill You
Alejandro Escovedo – The Boxing Mirror

an odd pairing

a masterpiece!

mogwai - mr beast
the living end
tom petty - wildflowers

celebrating the sunshine with:

Honestly, I really don't know. It could be any number of things. Like, their production, song arrangement and vocal harmonies are pretty tight. Maybe it's just me re-living the pop music of my jr. HS days. In all honesty, they only have like a few songs on each album that really cook - most of the rest all sound like filler. And I can't stand their take on "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'" - but then again, I always hated that song.

I think it all started last month when, for no reason, the song "I Can't Go For That" got stuck in my head for days. So I picked up the remastered, and damn if that track still ain't one of the smoothest pop recordings ever.

And on the flip side, I'm listening to this in preparation for the concert tonight:



I was afraid of this, and not in the way Jourgensen intended. I've been regaining my interest in Ministry a lot in the past few years, but the new RevCo CD was mostly noise and not anywhere near the dancefloor-friendly material of their previous efforts. And this new Ministry album is even more so. Maybe I'll get more into it upon further listening, but the record doesn't get very interesting until the 3rd cut, and it seems like Al + co are really, really into the whole "cookie-monster" vocals these days. So far, I haven't found a lot of groundbreaking stuff on this one.

This is exactly the type of thing that I expect to see you post. Anyway, have fun at the show. I'm sure they'll put on an outrageous show even if the new music is up to snuff.

WOW!!

i was thinking about picking this up, about how good is it?

from the general response it seems like a no-brainer.

Scratch Acid - "The Greatest Gift"
Big Boys - "The Skinny Elvis"

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THE ALIENS - ALIENOID STARMONICA

This has basically been on repeat since I first heard it...

It is a no-brainer. In my top five of the year definitely

Whats the opposite of a grower? It might help if the two worst songs weren't the first two tracks.

Kevin Drumm: Land of Lurches
The Sea and Cake: The Biz
Sun City Girls: Torch of the Mystics
A Minor Forest: Inindependence
To Rocco Rot: The Amateur View
Weakling: Dead as Dreams
Matmos: The Rose Has Teeth In the Mouth of A Beast
Lenola: The Last 10 Feet of the Suicide Mile
Motorhead: Orgasmatron

Wipers - Is This Real


Local H - Pack Up The Cats

yeah, this one is a little disappointing... and i loved his first record.

this is solid...

this has some nice moments:



here's a tune called Tigers