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Darth Ed

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs July 21, 2006 at 03:09 AM UTC #

Originally posted by Bags:
I'm with you on really liking the album (Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green), and being an ass for missing them at DC9 not too long ago….

They were at DC9 too? DAMN! I don't recall hearing about that….

jude376

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs July 21, 2006 at 02:38 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Darth Ed:

Originally posted by Bags:
I'm with you on really liking the album (Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green), and being an ass for missing them at DC9 not too long ago….
They were at DC9 too? DAMN! I don't recall hearing about that….

Caught them at the Black Cat backstage in May - perhaps you were thinking of that show?

kosmo

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs July 24, 2006 at 01:47 PM UTC #

Going to have to add Cheap Trick - Rockford to my list and having listened to it am being to wonder if sensitive guy singers aren't in fact killing rock. Robin still has it that toughness and attitude so lacking it current rock vocalists. There a couple clunkers on the album, the Linda Perry and faux ZZ Top tracks. But soundwise it runs the gambit from when Cheap Trick ruled, Dream Police and Heaven Tonight.

For I don't The Raconteurs record just wished they had taken the time to actually finish it. Suspect that six months down the road I play it again and enjoy it.

I agree with Vansmack at all the feeble attempts at updating classic rocks today. Wolfmother only being more listenable than say Jet. It's too bad that Do Me Bad Things had to call it day as they were able to turn classic rock on it's ear a bit. But with nine members on board I'm guessin' it was a bit tough to keep it all together financially.

The other trend that worth noting at the moment is the return of the EP. Given that the cost of pressing any CD is the same whether or not it has five or ten songs, I like that some artists like Cary Brothers and Voxtrot are going the EP route. I would rather hear five great songs from a developing artist instead of it being padded by filler in order to release it a full length album.

Reod Dai

Joined: July 26, 2006 at 05:01 AM UTC

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs July 26, 2006 at 06:49 PM UTC #

Absolutely LOVE:

The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun</li>
Mates of State - Bring it Back</li>
Built to Spill - You in Reverse</li>
Calexico - Garden Ruin</li>
Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat</li>
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years</li>
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open</li>
Michael Leviton - My Favorite Place to Drown</li>

Really, Really Like (A Lot)

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam</li>
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations</li>
Soul Asylum - The Silver Lining</li>
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat</li>
Smoosh - Free to Stay</li>
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche</li>
Tilly and the Wall - Bottoms of Barrels</li>
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit</li>
Asobi Seksu - Citrus</li>

Like

Mogwai - Mr. Beast</li>
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds</li>
Falkenbach - Heralding the Fireblade</li>
The Gathering - Home</li>
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time</li>
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Ã?lan Vital</li>
Starlight Mints - Drowaton</li>
Islands - Return to the Sea</li>
The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics</li>
Tool - 10,000 Days</li>
Cowboy Mouth - Voodoo Shoppe</li>
Kind of Like Spitting - "The Thrill of the Hunt"</li>
Jason Collett - Idols of Exile</li>
Mono - You Are There</li>
The Lovely Feathers - Hind Hind Legs</li>
Birdmonster - No Midnight</li>
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar</li>
Lauren Hoffman - Choreography</li>
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage</li>
Sia - Colour the Small One (US version)</li>
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country</li>
The Extraordinaires - Ribbons of War</li>
JosÃ© GonzÃ¡lez - Veneer</li>

The new Long Winters, Putting the Days to Bed, just came out, and I expect that'll be on my list, too.

HoyaSaxa03

Joined: March 22, 2004 at 06:01 AM UTC

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs July 26, 2006 at 09:15 PM UTC #

picks from allmusic.com editors … some good stuff on here

(edited so that the link is a little less revealing, i.e. No "Hello Pxxxx" on the page)

[ 07-26-2006, 05:26 PM: Message edited by: kosmo vinyl ]

HoyaSaxa03

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs July 26, 2006 at 09:19 PM UTC #

has anyone heard the envelope album? saw a video on subterranean, really great stuff

starrdogg92

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs July 26, 2006 at 09:20 PM UTC #

I figure since it's a mid-year list, 5 albums should suffice. My top 5 thus far:

1) Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
2) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
3) Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
4) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country
5) The Knife - Silent Shout

Also just got this EP from this band Tokyo Police Club, definitely have "next big thing" written all over them, I think they're opening for Enon when they come to town.

Lastly, anyone know why the new TV on the Radio US release date keeps getting pushed back? And anyone know where to get a cheap copy of it so I don't have to wait until September? I absolutely love "I Was a Lover."