Today's CDs (3/9-10/03)
 

The Minus 5: Down with Wilco
The Rules of Attraction: Soundtrack
Simian: We Are Your Friends
A Band of Bees: Sunshine Hit Me

I bought each of these this weekend. Best one...Simian's album. It's really, really good...the Beatles and the Kinks meet Duran Duran meet the Chemical Brothers...excellent album.

Neko Case - Blacklisted (this'll be the first time for this album for me)
Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Waterboys - This Is The Sea
Son Volt - Trace

Lot 6 - Gwylo
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Outkast - ATLiens
Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
Leonard Cohen - Songs From a Room
Ex-Models & the Seconds -- Split EP
Electic Six -- Danger! High Voltage!
A.R.E. Weapons -- A.R.E. Weapons

Postal Service- Give Up
Blur- 13
Cursive- The ugly organ
Spoon- Girls Can Tell
Primal Scream- Evil Heat

Retisonic - "Lean Beat"
Luna - "Penthouse"
Lilys - "Eccsame the Photon Band"
To Rococo Rot - "Music is a Hungry Ghost"

:up:
I like this album a lot.


My stuff today:

Walker Kong - "There Goes the Sun"
Spokane - "Able Bodies"
Cat Power - "You Are Free"
VA - Pehr Label Sampler
Rivulets - "Rivulets"
Calla - "Televise"

Who? (to all of the above)

:lol:

Everytime I come into one of these thread, I go :confused:

But I do download a few MP3's from a couple of artists from here to see if they strike my interest.

As of this thread, I am going :confused: to most of them.

I do know Cohen, Aalyiah, Outkast, and Blur

the rest: :confused:

I bought:
"the beginning stages" by The Polyphonic Spree (been relying on mp3s of this group for too long, so I bought it to support them).
"Pieces of Africa" by The Kronos Quartet (so far, wonderful).

:lol:

Most of what is listed is, imho, very good music. It's typically bands who care about music more than they car about being a "star."

If you haven't heard of one of these bands, then I'd suggest going to amazon.com or cdnow.com to play a sample of a few songs. If you like the sampling, then go further and read some reviews at places like pitchforkmedia.com, neumu.com, or even theonionavclub.com to see if others, who like this sort of music, enjoy that particular album you sampled from. Furthermore, most who list bands in these threads are open to replies questioning what they thing of the album, the band, or other recs in that particular thread or even email.

Looking at these threads is probably the best way to build a really stellar music collection. :)

for this week:

Frank Zappa - Them or Us
Vending Machine - The Chamber from Here to There
Eleni Mandell - Wishbone
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Bassholes - Long Way Blues/1996-1998
Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West

I just want to echo Alyoshka's well-tempered comments. This thread has been very open to discussions of the artists and albums mentioned. I've discovered a number of artists thanks to this forum (and these threads in particular).

Reading through the list of artists and albums, I realize that it's a not very mainstream list (for the most part). I was intimidated to post my (generally more mainstream) lists -- for about a week. Then I realized that people were not going to say that I was stupid because I was listening to stupid CDs.

Sometimes this forum can get judgmental, but these threads are very open.

Just because an album is not mainstream doesn't make it good -- or bad.

Super Furry Animals-Rings Around the World
Teenage Fanclub-God Knows It's True
Gomez-In Our Gun
The Notwist-Neon Golden
The Coral-Self-Titled
Soundtrack of Our Lives-Behind the Music
Loose Fur-Self-Titled

next week (Mar.18th) the new Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
is out, the release I'm looking forward to the most this year.

Blur-Think Tank (awesome, btw)
The White Stripes-Elephant (overrated, I don't see what's the big deal about it)

The Malkmus album is a letdown, unfortunately. The Preston School of Industry disc is still the best post-Pavement release.

Today:

Killer Mike -- Monster
DFA Mix
Blood Brothers -- Burn Piano Island, Burn
A.R.E. Weapons -- A.R.E. Weapons

(those last two records are my early No. 1 and No. 2 albums for 2003)

Today:

Cat Power - You Are Free
Longwave - Strangest Things
Sahara Hotnights - Jennie Bomb
Pearl Jam - Live Osaka, Japan 03.04.03
The Raveonettes - Whip It On
Supergrass - Life On Other Planets

Banco - Come in Un'Ultima Cena
Jules and the Polar Bears - Bad for Business
Klattu - Klattu/Hope
Nantucket - It's a Long Way to the Top
Rory Gallagher - Tattoo
Gregg Bissonette - Gregg Bissonette
Jimmy Page - Live USA
The Church - Priest = Aura
P.F.M. - Storia di un Minuto
Golden Smog - On Golden Smog

Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Atmosphere - Overcast
Little Brother - The Listening
Mixed CD - Peeople of Sohh.com

the Essential Sly And The Family Stone

A Camp - A Camp
Richard Ashcroft - Human Conditions
Beulah - The Coast is Never Clear
Bjork - Selmasongs
Bright Eyes - Lifted...
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
Folk Implosion - The New Folk Implosion
Golden Smog - Weird Tales
Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere
Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Sings
Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Metrodub: How are those Pearl Jam bootlegs?

American Hif-Fi - The Art of Losing
Everclear - Slow Motion Daydream
Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Quicksand - Slip

Golden Smog - Weird Tales (3 Golden Smog references in one thread -- must be some sort of record)
World Party - Goodbye Jumbo
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Television - Marquee Moon

At work this week:

Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Drive by Truckers - Alabama Ass Whoopin
Clem Snide - Your Favorite Music
Damien Jurado - Ghost of David
Bonnie Prince Billy - I see a Darkness
Jay Bennett & Edward Burch - Palace 1919
Rilo Kiley - Execution of All Things

Clearly, I'll have to be the judge of that myself as although I like PSOI, Malkmus's self-titled release is the best post-Pavement release to me.

Well, yeah, clearly you will. But the new Malkmus is nothing but mediocre blues-based guitar solos and songs that try too hard to be quirky. "1% of One" is the only track that does much for me.