Still an awesome album, I don't think it's lost any of its luster yet, though plays are becoming fewer and farther between.

Wedding Present - Seamonsters

and lots of Shellac, thanks to those who posted their singles, EPs, etc.

Over way too quickly. Great album.

More 'Fork Prep:

dwight yoakam - guitars, cadillacs, etc, etc.
explosions in the sky - those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever
ted leo / pharmacists - the tyranny of distance

that candy butchers album is awesome.

So, I'm cramming for the album poll. Not digging Swervedrive as much as most of the board, but it's not bad. Same can be said for the Flaming Lips. The power pop / britpop is awesome though. Really, really great stuff. And how cool is the cover of Frosting on the Beater?

what kind of music is "dwight yoakam" ???
love the cd cover anyway !!

new tv on the radio owns me

I never get sick of Led Zeppelin

Mouth Breather! Thanks for these Wipers albums! Yeah!

"Youth of America" = whoa.

Youth of America is the best punk rock album of all time.

Ditto. Thanks a lot for posting this for me!

Years from now, when we're all aging rock critics, we will look back on this album and recognize it as one of this decade's absolute best, while Sufjan and Funeral are forgotten by all. This is a fact.

Yeah dude - those albums are great.

"Black Bock"? The fuck is that?

Oh, and THANKS, MOUTH BREATHER!

"Black Bock" is good shit.

Stag is the best Melvins album.

Getting psyched...



I just don't understand why there are people who don't like News & Tributes.

Current fave tunes

The Fags - Mistake
The EP version only, the album version is fucking neutered--the EP version is glorious. Discovered this band on Pandora after typing in "Verbena". This is far and away their best song that I've heard thus far.

Destroyer - European Oils
Mammoth Volume - Seagull
Sheavy - Last of the V8 Interceptors
Eagles of Death Metal - Keep Your Head Up
Girl Talk - Smash Your Head, Bounce That
Firefall - Just Remember I Love You
Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief
My Morning Jacket - Dondante (live 11/23/05)
The Horror The Horror - Twice In A Lifetime
Van Halen - DOA
Sonic Youth - Pink Steam
Twilight Singers - Underneath the Waves (I like the album, but it is just missing something for me overall)
Velocity Girl - Forgotten Favorite
Jon Auer - Bottom of a Bottle
Ryan Adams - Cherry Lane
The National - Secret Meeting

Fabulous band.

Plotting my Saturday Indie Rawk assault...



"First Day" kept swirling around in my head on my way to my job after being unemployed for a year...

the fact that pretty much all of Chocolate Genius' albums are out of print is a damn shame. i really want to own an official copy of this, time to search for a used one.

yeah these are amazing. i was just blasting these in the car the other day on a long drive... great guitar and even the spoken word stuff is cool.

Still quite obviously the Best Album of 2005. Listen to it daily. THERE IS A PLACE PAST THE BLUES I NEVER WANNA SEE AGAIN!!! Yes. Starlite Walker becoming one of my favorite albums ever has really emphasized just how much David Berman sounds like a drunken old man on Tanglewood Numbers. And it's awesome. Fiddles and slide guitar and shit like that. Yes.



I should have voted for it in the 2005 poll, really. I've listened to it maybe three or four times this year! That's more than I can say for Architecture In Helsinki or System of a Down. The fuck is that shit? I love the ends of years because that's when I hear something like 50 new albums and maybe 15 of them are amazing and the rest are just music that I wouldn't normally listen to ever. Or they're just awful. Like A Bigger Bang or Harvey Danger or some shit.



Classic. Someday I will hear his other albums that are not Rubies. Don't bother uploading them for me because I won't download them. I hope he plays this album in its entirety today. "Certain Things You Ought To Know" = wow. Why doesn't all the reverb make it sound shitty instead of awesome? Yep.

how is this? i only have a few tracks off of it...

Stag is definitely the turning point of the melvins more artistic shit coming out. great album. speaking of melvins, is that the same Youth of america that they covered? i dig that song. so old school.

oh yeah, and whats up everyone? its been a while

to name a few of late. been waiting for that new don cab since i saw them performing it in new orleans a while back.


... oh yeah and whats up everyone? its been a while. hehe

A day of sun, an overload of Indie Rawk, 2 Duvels, and a discussion about the "influential albums" thread here is to blame...

I keep reading track 2 as "Well Thought Out Twinkies"...

Yes, that is the same "Youth of America" - originally done by the Wipers.
Great song. I might even say slightly improved by the Melvins.

I'm not sure that I think Stag is their best album (who can really pick?), but they got a lot more experimental at that point.

Paves, I agree with exactly 50% of that comment.

GBV - Human Amusements at Hourly Rates

yay!

Amy Millan - Honey from the Tombs

As much as I love Stars, I really want to love this album. It hasn't happened yet for me.

It's pretty good; I haven't been able to get into the other two EPs, but I like this one.

Sunday...



Gosh, I'm so fucking psyched for Jens. What a brilliant songwriter. Yeesh. Os Mutantes should be somewhat interesting, too. I would have listened to a Yo La Tengo album, but those fuckers are looooooong.

That song is a classic. It should be sung whenever someone starts a new job, like "Happy Birthday" is sung on peoples' birthdays.

Meanwhile:

Silversun Pickups are really really great. So is the new Scritti Politti, but in a very different way.

The others are all good to okay, but I have to call the Sleepy Jackson a disappointment.

Also, I played the entire Swervedriver catalog this weekend.

They played an incredible set a Pitchfork. Possibly my favorite of the weekend.

Vs.
(I never made the connection before, but Pearl Jam used this title too, several years later. Fucking copycats!)

Haven't posted here in a minute.

Full Nelson Reilly

I found this at the Touch & Go booth at Pitchfork. Nice surprise. It was out-of-print for long time, so I hadn't heard this little slab of punk rock noise in years. The guy at T&G told me that they just re-pressed it.

Best of Pooh and Friends and Heffalumps, Too - V/A

This is on continuous loop in the car right now, if I put anything else on my Gran'Daughter shouts "No! Pooh! G'igger! NO!" until I put it back on. Right now I have Carly Simon singing (age hasn't been all that kind to the upper register of her voice, has it?) "With A Few Good Friends" & "In The Name Of The Hundred Acre Wood/What Do You Do?" over & over & over&over.... At least she doesn't mind us fast forwarding past "The Promise" & "Luv-a-Bye."