Best Albums of 2005

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Apparently, todays issues is not yet available online. They had two editors pick top ten lists, as well as a separate hip hop list, a worst of, and a best of the rest (comps, live albums, etc). They also had a small section of reader picks, including mine, with small blurbs.

I think they pretty much destroyed their cred when one of the editors chose Fall Out Boy as his best album of the year.

Countrypolitan?

http://ee.dcexaminer.com/dc/?haspdf=1

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Countrypolitan?

http://ee.dcexaminer.com/dc/?haspdf=1 [/QB]

Countrypolitan â?? an outgrowth of the Nashville sound of the '50s â?? is among the most commercially-oriented genres of country music. The Nashville sound emerged in the '50s as a way to bring country music to a broad pop audience. The movement was led by Chet Atkins, who was the head of RCA Records' country division. Atkins designed a smooth, commercial sound that relied on country song structures but abandoned all of the hillbilly and honky tonk instrumentation. He hired session musicians and coordinated pop-oriented, jazz-tinged productions. Similarly, Owen Bradley created productions â?? most notably with Patsy Cline â?? that featured sophisticated productions and smooth, textured instrumentation. Eventually, most records from Nashville featured this style of production and the Nashville sound began to incorporate strings and vocal choirs. In the late '60s, the Nashville sound metamorphosed into countrypolitan, which emphasized these kinds of pop production flourishes. Featuring layers of keyboards, guitars, strings, and vocals, countrypolitan records were designed to cross over to pop radio and they frequently did. The sound dominated the country charts in the '70s and stayed popular until the early '80s.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
And I can say that my tentative top 10 list has:

3 of the top 100 Amazon picks
0 of the top 50 popmatters picks
0 of the top 50 pitchfork picks

you are AWESOME Rhett. man, you MUST have a fucking kick ASS taste in music. I wish all of our ears were as blessed as yours!

Originally posted by sonickteam, forum nice guy:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
And I can say that my tentative top 10 list has:

3 of the top 100 Amazon picks
0 of the top 50 popmatters picks
0 of the top 50 pitchfork picks

you are AWESOME Rhett. man, you MUST have a fucking kick ASS taste in music. I wish all of our ears were as blessed as yours!

He is SUCH a FREE thinker. No one tells him what to like, no sir, that's why everything he likes is unpopular, because he thinks on, like, a whole 'nother level of musical enjoyment.

or maybe he just likes crappy music and doesnt know it.

Are you ladies bored at work or something?

What it is the sound of two retards fighting?

Ask my neighbors. harharharhar.

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
What it is the sound of two retards fighting?

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Are you ladies bored at work or something?

Sonick, he implied we're female! We're ruined!!

Having Julian, the guy who loved HFS so much, accusing you of not being a sheep is pretty funny.

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Having Julian, the guy who loved HFS so much,

I think I heard the station of all once in my life, and never said I loved it, or even liked it. This insult is about on par with me attacking your credibility because "you work for the 9:30 club."

Whatever dude.

Your mom is probably on her way home from work, so you should probably put her mascara back, log-off from HFStival.com, and pretend you're doing your homework.

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Having Julian, the guy who loved HFS so much,

I think I heard the station of all once in my life, and never said I loved it, or even liked it. This insult is about on par with me attacking your credibility because "you work for the 9:30 club."

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Whatever dude.

Whatever yourself. It's pretty well known I live in Richmond, why would I have some attachment to a radio station I don't even get? Go look at my preliminary top 25 list for the year: there's maybe one artist that WHFS would even play.

Golly, I don't know. Maybe it's your 35,000+ posts on the HFStival message board?

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Whatever yourself. It's pretty well known I live in Richmond, why would I have some attachment to a radio station I don't even get?

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Golly, I don't know. Maybe it's your 35,000+ posts on the HFStival message board?

That doesn't mean I like the station. Rhett has 10,000 posts here, and has he even attended a show at the club in 2005? It's not as though I discuss DC radio or what's going on with the radio station. I don't see what difference it makes which board's off-topic section I post in.

I attended two shows at the 9:30 Club in 2005: Old 97's with Bobby Bare Jr, and the Decemberists. There were no venues where I attended more than two shows in 2005.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I attended two shows at the 9:30 Club in 2005: Old 97's with Bobby Bare Jr, and the Decemberists. There were no venues where I attended more than two shows in 2005.

OK, I stand corrected, but I believe you made a post about how you find yourself attending less and less shows at the 9:30 club every year. Does that mean you shouldn't post here? Not if we discuss things other then the 9:30 Club.

I just find it bewildering that anytime I say anything someone doesn't like, their immediate response is, "you post on hfstival.com," as though mere membership to another messageboard discredits anything I have to say. I do that well enough by myself, thank you very much.

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
That doesn't mean I like the station. Rhett has 10,000 posts here, and has he even attended a show at the club in 2005? It's not as though I discuss DC radio or what's going on with the radio station. I don't see what difference it makes which board's off-topic section I post in.

My my….We're a little testy today. Did your mom forget to refill your Ritalin prescription?

If someone posts thirty-five thousand times to the Star Trek message board, it's a safe bet that they like Star Trek.

If a person posts thirty-five thousand messages on the Star Trek message board and doesn't like Star Trek, doesn't watch Star Trek, and doesn't like anything related to Star Trek, well – perhaps that's an indication of deeper problems.

So when did you graduate from being an HFS slave to being a pitchfork slave? Or would you say you're more of an NME slave? :D

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
So when did you graduate from being an HFS slave to being a pitchfork slave? Or would you say you're more of an NME slave? :D

Pitchfork by far. I like the occasional NME hyped band, but 85% of the Babyshambles, etc. crap they hype is garbage. And I disliked several of Pitchfork's biggest raves of the year (Sufjan, Decemberists, etc).