did that rivers cuomo disc ever leak? i've listened to the promo but didn't have time to rip it, but if there are promos out there it must have leaked by now. someone find a link

12/10/2007 10:12:23 PM

Everywhere I've checked has said it hasn't leaked yet. Although, the full version of "superfriends" can be heard here.

http://www.purevolume.com/DNEIRFREPUS

12/10/2007 10:15:39 PM

Quote :

"The Magnetic Fields --- Distortion leaked"

I'm digging this.

12/11/2007 12:41:56 PM

^^ Little Diane and Longtime Sunshine are out as well. You can find them here: http://www.fluofiles.com/hianta/07%20Longtime%20Sunshine.m4a
http://www.fluofiles.com/hianta/16%20Little%20Diane.m4a

Here are 30 second clips of each song at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Home-Recordings-Rivers-Cuomo/dp/B00110JDUQ/ref=sr_f3_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1197323412&sr=103-1

Listening to Superfriend last night was a strange experience for me. As I posted here, that song has been some sort of strange music holy grail for me for years, especially after hearing a very rough rehearsal of it in on the DVD Weezer put out. It really meets my expectations. It's a really rough demo, and his voice is incredibly off key at times on the girl parts, but I can just imagine it in the studio with Rachel Haden singing the girl parts and Pinkerton style production, and I think it would be absolutely epic. The lyrics are cheesy, but in that quirky way that would be so appropriate for the rock opera in space concept, not in the Make Believe embarrassingly terrible way.

12/11/2007 12:48:08 PM

Pitchfork has posted the new Xiu Xiu track "I Do What I Want When I Want"

I'll give it a listen when I get off work.

12/11/2007 4:44:02 PM

^it's got a really killer sax solo.

12/11/2007 5:16:25 PM

Quote :

"* † - Justice"

speaking of, i went home this past weekend to see my family. my mom had me go to lowe's to pick up a doorknob and to the grocery store. i took my 8-year-old brother along for the ride. we were listening to music along the way and i ask him if he's having fun. he says he is and then i tell him "well, i've got something that's going to rock your pants off" and i pop in justice's "phantom"

we played out some more tracks along the way and when we got home, my mom asks how it went. my little bro was like "it was fun. chris rocked my pants off." she looks at me and i bust out laughing, not expecting that sort of verbatim response.

my little bro had me burn the album to the home computer later that day

12/11/2007 5:34:37 PM

i've got the promo of the rivers cuomo cd now, i'll rip it when i get home. if anyone wants a link, pm me

ps all the newest "demos" on this cd are garbage. the one that apparently just missed the cut for the newest weezer album is really bad, which doesn't bode well for album six.

12/11/2007 6:48:14 PM

"I Was Made For You" (Make Believe demo) is better than most of the stuff on Make Believe, but still fairly bland and poor lyrically. "This is the Way" is not only the worst Weezer related song I have ever heard, it's simply one of the worst songs I've ever heard.

12/11/2007 7:11:12 PM

that is the song i am referring to ("this is the way"). in the liner notes, he talks about how he submitted "this is the way" and a song called "daydreamer" that is six minutes long and everyone thought "this is the way" was better but "daydreamer" made the album. apparently it might still make album 7

12/11/2007 7:19:45 PM

Rivers Cuomo solo album Alone

hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/chif4d

get it with the quickness!

ETA: in my haste to put the link up, I didn't see that tschudi had already volunteered to up it.

[Edited on December 12, 2007 at 9:00 AM. Reason : .]

12/12/2007 8:58:46 AM

while i'm happy to have and i really like 2/3's of it, this rivers demo makes me more sad than happy

12/13/2007 3:31:42 PM

Some really great stuff on there, but I'm absolutely terrified about "This is the Way". I pretty much agree completely with the Pitchfork review. On a somewhat unrelated note... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3NLwSVfSzw

12/13/2007 4:30:05 PM

i've listened to that miracle fortress like 100 times in the past few weeks i think...can't really explain why

12/14/2007 1:08:50 AM

pitchforks top 50 albums of 2007 is out today.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/47446-staff-list-top-50-albums-of-2007/page_5

top 10:
10: burial - "untrue"
9. the field - "from here we go sublime"
8. battles - "mirrored"
7. spoon - "ga ga ga ga ga"
6. animal collective - "strawberry jam"
5. of montreal - "hissing fauna.."
4. radiohead - "in rainbows"
3. M.I.A. - "kala"
2. lcd soundsystem - "sound of silver"
1. panda bear - "person pitch"

12/18/2007 9:35:30 AM

Ahahahaha Bon Iver's #29.

12/18/2007 10:07:16 AM

i really can't stand that MIA album.

12/18/2007 10:36:32 AM

neither can i. i dont get the hype.

12/18/2007 10:40:39 AM

i like the M.I.A album a lot, but i am surprised how much love that Battles is getting.. that album has two good songs on it

12/18/2007 10:40:56 AM

i disagree. i think the whole album is phenomenal.

12/18/2007 10:41:46 AM

Kala was awesome, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm going to have to go back and listen to that Battles album myself.


Also, Dan Deacon cracked top 25, thats an accomplishment right there (beating out Arcade Fire).

Lastly, Untrue has me exploring dubstep, which is quite telling of how fascinating the album is.

[Edited on December 18, 2007 at 10:57 AM. Reason : .]

12/18/2007 10:52:15 AM

well shit

ive been looking at that burial album, thinking of dl'n it,

then changing my mind for a month or two

and now it's everywhere

guess ill go ahead and give it a whirl

12/18/2007 11:00:07 AM

i like dubstep, so ill have to check out burial when i get home

12/18/2007 11:01:34 AM

yea, i highly recommend it, and also throwing it on your ipod while you do grocery shopping, its lame but its what I do once a week.

Last note regarding that pitchfork list, Bloc Party's A Weekend in the City didn't crack top 50....


could you give some recommendations on some seminal dubstep albums i should check out sober?

[Edited on December 18, 2007 at 11:02 AM. Reason : .]

12/18/2007 11:01:58 AM

^ well there were 2-3 good songs on weekend in the city.

12/18/2007 11:03:54 AM

I liked the album, granted I'm a Bloc Party die hard and had that and the weekend b sides back to back in my changer for about 6 months.

Did anyone ever see the Human Giant episode where Aziz was in a payola type situation with pitchfork reviews? Clel Tickle or something?

I swear these animal collective, panda bear kids must have Aziz threatening pitchfork to show them love. I mean, I enjoy their albums as much as the next self proclaimed hipster, but you'd think they were the second coming given the amount of love the blogosphere shows them.

12/18/2007 11:09:26 AM

im not into it enough to recommend certain artists over others...i just like the genre in general.

Here's a mix I've been listening to the past couple days. I like it. Its more uptempo then most.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jfk4ik

Broadcast: BBC Radio 1, SAT. Tracklist:

1. Skream - Hedd Banger

2. Skream - Percression

3. Skream - Shake It

4. Skream - Hurt Them

5. Skream - Movin Snarez - Disfigured Dubz

6. Mark Ashken - Size 3 (Skream mix)

7. Skream and CLue Kid - SandSnake - Disfigured Dubz

8. Skream - Lemon

9. Warrior Queen - Take Time

10. Skream - Chest Boxin - Tempa

11. Skreambers Anonnymous2 - Tempa

12. Skream - 2D - Tempa

13. Zinc featuring Slarta John - Flim (Skream mix)

14. Coki - ? - Big Apple Music

15. Skream/Mala - Anti - Tapped

16. Unknown - Alicia

17. Skream - Nemesis

18. Skream - The Line

19. Skream - Tortured Soul - Tempa

20. Benga - Skunk Tip (Skream mix) - Tempa

21. Skream - Skwelcha

22. Skream - Sine - Us

23. Distance - Nightvision (Skream mix)

24. Black Ghost - Find Some Way (Skream and Plastician refix) - Southern Fried

25. Rusko - Jah Hova - Sub Soldiers

26. Skream - Losin Control - Tempa

27. Magnetic Man - Whats Happenin?

28. Coki - BloodThirst

29. Skream - Wobble That Gut

30. Slazenger - 8ateBall

31. Skream feat Warrior Queen - Check It - Tempa

32. Coki - SpongeBob - Big Apple

33. Skream - Oskillata

34. Skream - Murdera

35. Neon Hitch - Derek(BiPolarMen refix) - The Beats

36. Skream - Make Me (Distance remix)

37. SeventeenEvergreen - Ensoniq (Bi-Polar-Men refix)

38. Skream - Krash

39. Skream - Midnight RequestLine - Tempa

40. Skream - CRO Dub

41. Klaxons - Not Over Yet (Skream mix) - EMI

42. Benga - ?

[Edited on December 18, 2007 at 11:14 AM. Reason : s]

12/18/2007 11:12:21 AM

Downloading now, thank you.

And did i read that correctly? Klaxons are on this mix?

[Edited on December 18, 2007 at 11:14 AM. Reason : oh its a remix, ok]

12/18/2007 11:14:19 AM

a skream mix of them, yes.

12/18/2007 11:15:35 AM

the first Burial album is worth checking out as well

12/18/2007 11:27:32 AM

after reading some of the pitchfork writers individual top albums lists

and seeing fall out boy in the top 5 of more than of persons list

i am almost done with pitchfork

12/18/2007 4:26:27 PM

the skream mix was excellent this afternoon, thanks sober

12/18/2007 4:28:15 PM

I wrote a review of the Cuomo demo album just because I have an unhealthy obsession with him and had a lot to say: http://jonathanhawkins.net/index.php/review-alone-the-home-recordings-of-rivers-cuomo/

Don't know if I can really write... but there it is.

12/18/2007 11:42:21 PM

i would agree with of montreal and panda bear being in that top 10 albums, and actually even battles....but i would also include sunset rubdown and the besnard lakes

[Edited on December 18, 2007 at 11:55 PM. Reason : ]

12/18/2007 11:53:22 PM

Better late than never my favorites of the year. I couldn't bring myself to eliminate one so there's 11.

11. Feist - The Reminder
10. Kanye West - Graduation
9. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
8. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
7. The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
6. Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
3. St. Vincent - Marry Me
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
1. Okkervil River - The Stage Names

12/31/2007 4:28:39 PM

not sure if this post fits this thread, but whatever...

I got this Sigur Ros "Heima" dvd and am currently masterbating to its beauty

1/2/2008 5:34:03 PM

yes it is amazing.
I got it for Christmas and it looks lovely.

1/2/2008 6:38:43 PM

this double-ep thing from Why? has some pretty good moments

especially the first 2 tracks

1/5/2008 1:22:11 PM

^^yea its good.

im also late on this but i finally remembered to get 'chase this light' by jimmy eat world. its actually a really solid album.

1/7/2008 10:35:00 AM