This week's CDs (8.11.04)
 

The Smiths - "Louder Than Bombs"
Jack Johnson - "Brushfire Fairytales"
Jack Johnson - "On and On"
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "Almost Blue" (remaster)
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "Goodbye Cruel World" (remaster)
Elvis Costello - "Kojak Variety" (remaster)
v/a - "Buyaka" (dancehall reggae mix CD)
Nellie McKay - "Get Away From Me"
Gavin DeGraw - "Chariot"
KRS-One - "Keep Right"
Emmet Swimming - "Arlington to Boston"

On order:
XTC - "Skylarking" (remaster)
Donavon Frankenreiter - s/t
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - "Queen Elvis" (finally won an ebay auction for this OOP CD)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - "Globe of Frogs" (found a decent copy on Half.com)

Question of the Day: What's your favorite opening line from a song released this year (so far)?

Mine's from Nellie McKay's "Ding Dong":
"my cat died and I quickly poured myself some gin"

Graham Smith - "Final Battle"
Various Artists - "Ragazza Pop"
From Bubblegum To Sky - "Nothing Sadder Than Lonely Queen
Nanook of the North – "The Täby Tapes"
Breeders - "Pod"
Breeders - "title TK"
Breeders - "Last Splash"


On order

Various Artists – "We Could Live in Hope" (Low Tribute)
High Water Marks - "Songs About the Ocean" (members of Apples in Stereo, Palermo, Oranger/Preston School of Industry, and Von Hemmling)
Wolf Colonel - "Castle"
Matt and Bubba Kidane - "Original Score: Hell House" (members of Bedhead and The New Year)


QoD

I'll have to think about it.

Body & Soul- NYC Vol. I-IV

Alanis Morrisette- So called chaos

Mateo & Matos- Essential Elements

Poison the Well- You come before you

Burnt by the Sun- The perfect is the enemy of the good

Bluegrass Today

QotD: Not sure

LCD Soundsystem, "Yeah" 12"
David Grubbs/Avey Tare split 12"
PiL, Album LP
Comets on Fire, Blue Cathedral CD
the Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me CD
Bedhead, Whatfunlifewas CD
Do Make Say Think, & Yet & Yet CD
Explosions in the Sky, The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place CD

QoTD: I liked the intro to the Scissor Sisters' demo (never properly released but floating on p2p) that was about a team of scientists who found a vagina-shaped cave leading to the Valley of the Scissor Sisters. Proper releases, though, I guess the intro to "America's Most Blunted" on Madvilliany.

FabricLive series - Bent
Razorlight - Up all Night
The Open - The Silent Hours


QoTD: I don't have an immediate answer.

TMBG - The Spine Surfs Alone EP
Kathleen Edwards - Failer
V/A - Paste Magazine vol. 11 Sampler
Guster - Lost And Gone Forever
The Thrills - So Much For The City

QOTD: No immediate answer -- opening lines don't really have the same impact as they do in books, do they?

I just got Mobb Deep's "Amerikaz Nightmare," and the album is on fire. I was disappointed with "Infamy," but the Infamous Mobb Deep has finally returned.