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"The Boy Least Likely To "The Best Party Ever""

7/27/2005 7:09:56 PM

forgot about

spoon "gimme fiction"

7/28/2005 8:07:18 PM

i already have said sleater-kinney's "the woods" but i'll say that common's "be" is a close second.

[Edited on July 28, 2005 at 8:21 PM. Reason : thats better]

7/28/2005 8:20:17 PM

circa survive - juturna

7/28/2005 8:34:40 PM

Iron and Wine- The Sea and The Rythm

7/28/2005 10:23:50 PM

Roast Beef Vagina - The Hallway

7/28/2005 10:33:08 PM

the album im most anticipating is from Islands, the new band from 2 members of the unicorns.

7/28/2005 11:01:38 PM

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"i already have said sleater-kinney's "the woods" but i'll say that common's "be" is a close second."

i have never really gotten into any of sleater kinney's albums for some reason...that being said, im gonna check them out in my soon to be new home of madison, wi anyway

but yeah, common "be" is great...but i could be biased towards chicago musicians or albums about the state of ILL

i will publish my top 10 at the end of the year, be on the lookout

[Edited on July 28, 2005 at 11:31 PM. Reason : d]

7/28/2005 11:30:41 PM

songs for silverman even though its not as good as the fives old stuff

7/28/2005 11:31:25 PM

cloud cult "advice from the happy hippopotamus"

quite good

8/5/2005 7:56:24 PM

There have been 4 albums that have really stood out above the rest so far for me:

1) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2) Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
3) Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
4) Decemberists - Picaresque

8/5/2005 9:22:19 PM

Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"

8/5/2005 9:26:15 PM

I listened to "The Woods" in the car today.

Goddamn.

Just goddamn.

Chills galore.

SUFJAN WHO? This is it, folks.

8/5/2005 11:35:10 PM

Honestly, I think the lyrics to half the songs are just fucking retarded.

The music is great, but I'd prefer if Corin was just going LA LA LA LA the whole time.

8/5/2005 11:40:58 PM

Demons & Wizards - Touched By The Crimson King

8/5/2005 11:57:46 PM

I think the best thematic lyric on the whole record is the dumbest one: "Happy makes me a modern girl." After "Jumpers," the fact that it make no sense makes the mood shift and the meaning of the song that much more powerful.

Then again, I don't really give a fuck about bad lyrics if the music's good. Never have, never will.

On the third hand, most of the great American songwriters, particularly Brian Wilson, know the power of the gibberish vocal.

8/5/2005 11:58:12 PM

I love the gibberish vocal.

Jumpers is fine. Modern girl is fine. Most of it irritates me.

8/6/2005 12:01:53 AM

Coldplay - "X&Y"

soon to come...

Kanye West - "Late Registration"

8/6/2005 1:22:08 AM

it is as it has been for about 18 years

GnR - Appetite for Destruction

[Edited on August 6, 2005 at 2:01 AM. Reason : heheh]

8/6/2005 2:01:26 AM

Skindred - Babylon

8/6/2005 2:49:39 AM

i really like frayser boys cd me bein me

i cant wait for the new three 6 album

supposedly late summer now

8/6/2005 3:42:35 AM

The Decemberists

Sufjan Stevens

Beck

Opeth


all quality shit

8/6/2005 11:33:28 AM

that one decemberists song sounds a hell of a lot like that REM song

8/6/2005 12:47:53 PM

I agree with Piquaresque and The Woods so far. I have to also add The New Pornographer's Twin Cinema.

This fall, look out for Little Brother's The Minstrel Show.

8/6/2005 3:18:02 PM

I figure I would add two more I just started listening to

Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Damien Jurado - On My Way to Absence

8/6/2005 10:48:09 PM

Heres my list after listening to Takk:

1.Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (tie)
1.Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (tie)
3.British Sea Power - Open Season
4.National - Alligator
5.Decemberists - Picaresque
6.Sigur Ros - Takk
7.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8.Wolf Parade - Queen Mary
9.Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
10.Doves - Some Cities
11.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - s/t

Still waiting on the Flaming Lips, Mount Eerie, and Broken Social Scene albums

8/6/2005 11:30:06 PM

lucero - nobody's darlings
and if it makes it out this year: cory branan - umm...
hot snakes - audit in progress (i think it was this year)

8/7/2005 5:48:01 PM

oh, I forgot the new Stephen Malkmus album. I've always been a fan, and this is no exception....

8/8/2005 3:10:56 PM

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"Still waiting on the Flaming Lips"

last i heard, that wasnt coming out til 06

8/8/2005 3:23:34 PM

Bloc Party
Clap your hands say yeah!
Decemberists
Engineers
New Pornographers
Gorillaz
Sufjan Stevens

8/8/2005 3:34:40 PM

Oh hooray. This is one of those fucking threads where everyone tries to prove how fucking indie they are with their music...

8/8/2005 4:15:07 PM

yes, i'm trying to impress you

8/8/2005 4:23:38 PM

^^ Oh hooray. This is one of those fucking posts where some loser gets irritated because he doesn't listen to good music.

8/8/2005 5:48:00 PM

Criteria - When We Break
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

8/9/2005 2:57:43 AM

death from above 1979
sufjan stevens
decemberists
bloc party
kings of leon
stars


Pretty much things people have mentioned already.


Also, I am not sure if "In Motion" by Copeland came out this year, but it is rad.

And I know Mastodon's "Leviathan" came out late last year, but... I just wanna mention how fucking awesome that album is.

8/9/2005 4:11:43 AM

1. Sigur Ros - Takk - absolutely beautiful, by far their best work
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois -tied because its not exactly my favorite type of music, but i recognize its a damn fine album
2. Brothers Past - This Feelings Called Goodbye - tied because its more my type of music, so i like it more then Illinois. a great album by a great band...if you havent heard it, you should.
3. Beck - Guerro - very catchy and fresh....he took his sound in yet another direction
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days - it took a while for me to get into the album, but I think its very dynamic and different.


I gave the Decemberists and Sleater-Kinney a listen, and while I did like them, they didn't strike me as "best album" material. I did like the mixing of The Woods though...very raw and rough. I have Clap your hands say yeah! but I havent listened to it yet.




oh, and my worst album of the year goes to:

Weezer- Make Believe

I couldnt even make it through half the songs...It sounds like Rivers went back to middle school and is having teenager problems again, so he needed to write an album about it.



[Edited on August 9, 2005 at 8:39 AM. Reason : gf]

8/9/2005 8:31:06 AM

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"Oh hooray. This is one of those fucking threads where everyone tries to prove how fucking indie they are with their music..."

QFT.

8/9/2005 8:51:20 AM

I second weezer as the worst album of the year. and this is coming from someone who has seen them four times dating back to the pinkerton tour. just awful.

oh, and I really enjoyed that AC Newman album as well.

[Edited on August 9, 2005 at 9:12 AM. Reason : .]

8/9/2005 9:11:14 AM

Between the Buried and Me - ALASKA

best, most dynamic, most unique metal/metalcore/hardcore/whateveryoucallthismusic CD to come out in the scene in forever it feels like. seriously i am humbled as musician by the dynamics of this CD.

the keyboard and synth is done better than any other metalcore band out there(of course only equaled by horse the band :p)
the vocal range, melodies, and creatively surpass most out there..the clean and singing vocals are NOT cliche like every other band out there. and there are many diff types of non screaming vocals on the cd. not just the standard "sing the most obvious melody in an untrained voice" cliche metalcore singing out there (cough cough it dies today, atreyu, killswitch, etc etc etc).

the guitar and drumwork needs no explination to a musician. shredding yet more importantly with TONS of melody and creativity just brewing with understanding of music.

the clean parts on this CD are the best hands down without question of any metal band ive heard in my opinion. this whole CD just breaks down all the stigmatas ppl have of this band and metal bands out there all being the same and shredding without substance. this album is nothing BUT substance and not just overdone shredding.

best first listen of any CD ive heard in years, hands down. maybe since my first deftones CD i heard back in 6th grade that got me into music.

[Edited on August 9, 2005 at 10:55 PM. Reason : ]

8/9/2005 10:54:48 PM

eff that best CD ive heard in years

8/9/2005 10:57:46 PM

around the fur? me too...

8/9/2005 11:06:42 PM

actually adrenaline. and then i bought around the fur right when it came out too yea. i still love both those CDs to this day man

8/9/2005 11:07:27 PM

dangerdoom

8/10/2005 1:57:38 AM

emery - the question

until september 6th then

between the buried and me - alaska

8/10/2005 3:09:30 AM

Pete Yorn - Music for the Morning After

8/10/2005 6:57:52 PM

Darkest hour - Undoing Ruin


Sick breakdowns

8/11/2005 12:31:40 AM

Every time I see someone mention Emery, I think they're talking about young Ottawa Senators goaltender Ray Emery, not the band.



^^ Also, that Pete Yorn album came out in 2001.

[Edited on August 11, 2005 at 12:58 AM. Reason : d]

8/11/2005 12:56:55 AM

And it's pretty boring.

8/11/2005 1:37:53 AM

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"Between the Buried and Me - ALASKA"

holy fucking shit dude, I just heard it tonight and I cannot stop listening to it...this CANNOT be the same fucking band, this beats the shit out of the silent circus

I am impressed that they had the guts to go this route with their music considering they are on fucking VICTORY. Kudos.

8/12/2005 1:09:37 AM

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"oh, and I really enjoyed that AC Newman album as well."

i mean, if we can use albums from 2004 this could go on forever

like eleventy billion people also said dfa1979 too, but alas, 2004

8/12/2005 1:13:29 AM