This Week's CDs (7/26-30)
 

The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
The Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
Automato - Automato
Centro-Matic - Love You Just the Same
Jean Grae - The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP
Chuck Prophet - Homemade Blood

Tomorrow I'm buying Old 97's - Drag It Up

QOTD: Your favorite summer songs?

Of course, the Beach Boys are way up there, but some others? I love "Summertime Thing" by Chuck Prophet. "Ants on the Melon" by the Gourds is another great one.

What do you think of Automato?

Randy Newman, Sail Away
Angels of Light, How I Loved You
Built to Spill, Perfect From Now On and There's Nothing Wrong with Love
the Beatles, White Album side 2 of LP 1 and side 1 of LP 2 ("Martha My Dear" through "Long Long Long")
Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Jolie Holland, Catalpa
XTC, English Settlement

At the moment, "Green Arrow" by Yo La Tengo. It's like the post-party summer anthem of my life.

Mull Historical Society-This is Hope
Clinic-Winchester Cathedral
Interpol-Antics
The Pernice Brothers-Yours Mine & Ours
The Prodigy-Always Outnumbered....

QOTD: Yep, Beach Boys-Pet Sounds...is there really anyone out there more summer than the Beach Boys?

Jean Grae is a must-have. Possibly the best female emcee in the game today. Here's hoping she doesn't walk away from it (rumor has it she's pretty disenchanted with the entire thing).

RS

Jean Grae is one of the best emcees in hip hop, period. The Bootleg... is an amazing EP.

fallow...I like the Automoto CD but it doesn't blow me away (at least not yet). Not as successful at live band hip hop as the Roots in my opinion.

VA - "Old Enough to Know Better" (Merge)
!!! - "Louden Up Now"
Polyphonic Spree - "Together We're Heavy"
Wilco - "A Ghost is Born"
Camera Obscura - "Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi"
Mirah and the Black Cat Orchestra - "To All We Stretch the Open Arm"
Wolf Colonel - "Vikings of Mint"
Wolf Colonel - "Something/Everything"
Mirah - "C'Mon Miracle"
Jonathan Richman - "Not So Much to be Loved as to Love"
Nina Nastasia - "Dogs"
Fiery Furnaces - "Blueberry Boat"


QOTD: Saturday Looks Good to Me - "All Your Summer Songs" is, appropriately, full of good ones.

Blackout Beach - Light Flows the Putrid Dawn
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP [U.S. version]
Jim Guthrie - Now, More than Ever
Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
My Morning Jacket - Chocolate and Ice
The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 EP (I saw James Iha in an NYC bar the other day...my first known case of "being starstruck"!)
Jim White - Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See

Nice! It's quite a fantastic album...totally Fred Thomas taking a page from Warn Defever--I guess those years playing with His Name is Alive paid off well..."Alcohol" is an awesome summer song!

AOTD: Here's a sampling from my current summer mixes:

• Brian Eno "Needles in the Camel's Eye"
• Built to Spill "Center of the Universe"
• Lambchop "Hey Where's Your Girl"
• Of Montreal "My British Tour Diary"
• The Concretes "You Can't Hurry Love"
• Saturday Looks Good to Me "Alcohol"
• Supergrass "Kiss of Life"
• Talking Heads "Crosseyed and Painless"
• Tahiti 80 "Hey Joe"
• Super Furry Animals "Edam Anchorman"
• Beulah "Gravity's Bringing Us Down"
• Belle & Sebastian "Wrapped up in Books"
• Ben Kweller "My Apartment"
• Gomez "Chicken Out"
• Britt Daniel "You Get Yours"
• The Bigger Lovers "I Resign"
• The Wrens "Rest Your Head"
• Teenage Fanclub "Ain't That Enough"
• American Music Club "Wish the World Away"
• Soul Coughing "Collapse"
• The Decemberists "July, July"
• The New Pornographers "The Ballad of Comeback Kid"
• A.C. Newman "The Town Halo"
• Wilco "I Got You (At the End of the Century)"
• The Minders "It's So Hard"
• The Libertines "The Boy Looked at Johnny"
• Secret Machines "Sad and Lonely"
• Robbers on High Street "Debonair"
• The Long Winters "New Girl"
• The Thrills "Your Love is like Las Vegas"
• Morrissey "We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful"
• Apples in Stereo "Ruby"
• The Cardigans "Rise & Shine"
• Head of Femur "Curve that Byrd"
• The Beach Boys "Help Me Ronda (LP version)"
• Tahiti 80 "1,000 Times"
• Belle & Sebastian "Legal Man"

Nice to see a return of this thread.

Now that I've finished the bar exam, I can get back to my regular listening habits. Albums that I got during that my study period that are on my listening pile:

KRS-One - "Keep Right"
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "Punch the Clock"
The Killers - "Hot Fuss"
John Tesh - "Tour de France: The Early Years"
Flynn - "In Like Flynn"
BT - "Monster" score
Gavin DeGraw - "Chariot" (w/ "Chariot Stripped" acoustic disc)
Jacques Loussier Trio - "Vivaldi: The Four Seasons"
Nellie McKay - "Get Away From Me"
John Williams - "Jurassic Park" score
John Willams - "The Terminal" score
The Roots - "The Tipping Point"
Katie Melua - "Call Off the Search"
All Girl Summer Fun Band - "2"

QotD: On my official summer comp this year, I included the following:
1. "Good Vibrations" - the Beach Boys
2. "Don't Falter" - Mint Royale (w/ Lauren Laverne)
3. "The Other Side of Summer" - Elvis Costello
4. "Cold Beverage" - G. Love & Special Sauce
5. "Hanging Upside Down" - David Byrne
6. "Hey Julie" - Fountains of Wayne
7. "Spill" - Mary Prankster
8. "Happy Now" - Tim Easton
9. "I Can't Love You Anymore" - Lyle Lovett
10. "Mexican Breeze" - Gerald Collier
11. "Sundown" - Elwood
12. "Well, Well" - Nelly Furtado
13. "Sympathy for the Devil (Neptunes Remix)" - the Rolling Stones
14. "I'm the Best in the World!" - Pigeon John
15. "Sunshine" - Joey the Jerk
16. "Just a Ride" - Jem
17. "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" - Cake
18. "Sluts" - John Wesley Harding
19. "That Was a Crazy Game of Poker" - O.A.R.
20. "Mellow Mood" - Bob Marley
21. "Pirate Looks at Forty" - Jack Johnson

bumping up to say that the blood brothers record <i>crimes</i> might be one of the best albums i have EVER heard. they have yet to make a single song that isn't spectacular.

When does Crimes come out?

And I've been listening to the newest Comets on Fire album for the last 4 days.

Yeah, it's the wrong week, but I don't care...

They Might Be Giants - The Spine
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Mozart's Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2, & 3
The Thrills - So Much For The City

AOTD (summer songs): gosh, too many to even think about. Agreed that the Beach Boys have ex officio status in this category. I always thought that Fountains of Wayne's first two albums had very summer-y vibes to them. "The Senator's Daughter," off Utopia Parkway, has a great end-of-summer vibe to it.

Gdrlv, how's the Old 97's? (Apologies if you answered this in another thread...)

no idea on release. what i have are 19 untitled tracks that apparently leaked from the studio. i'm sure you can find them from the typical p2p sources.