CDs this week

any thoughts on this weeks releases?

Children Of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1995
– this looks GREAT

Ryan Adams: Jacksonville City Nights

Big Star: In Space

Blackalicious: The Craft

Her Space Holiday: The Past Presents the Future

Ric Ocasek: Nexterday

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Ryan Adams: Jacksonville City Nights

Awesome. Great cover art, too.

Detroit Cobras
High Strung
Grandaddy (EP)
Neil Young

And the CD on everyone's holiday wish list…
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I'll pass on all of those.

How about the new High Strung. Any good? Didn't one of the singers leave the band?

Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story [BOX SET]

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Everybody - Madonna
2. Mirror In The Bathroom - English Beat
3. Kiss Me - Tin Tin
4. Oh Lâ??Amour - Erasure
5. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
6. Situation (Remix) - Yaz
7. People Are People - Depeche Mode
8. Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange
9. That Summer Feeling - Jonathan Richman
10. Young At Heart - The Bluebells
11. One Step Beyond - Madness
12. Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
13. Im Ninâ??alu - Ofra Haza
14. Endicott - Kid Creole & The Coconuts
15. Love And Mercy - Brian Wilson
16. All The Way - Little Jimmy Scott
17. Crazy - Seal
18. Fire Woman - The Cult
19. Constant Craving - k. d. lang

Disc: 2
1. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
2. This Charming Man - The Smiths
3. I Melt With You - Modern English
4. Moskow Diskow - Telex
5. (Iâ??m) Stranded - The Saints
6. Ã?a Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
7. Top Of The Pops - The Rezillos
8. Nowhere Girl - B-Movie
9. Part Of The Process - Morcheeba
10. Come Together (7" Version) - Primal Scream
11. Beat Dis - Bomb The Bass
12. The Love Cats - The Cure
13. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
14. Warm Leatherette - The Normal
15. Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
16. Never Never - The Assembly
17. Oblivious - Aztec Camera
18. Inside Out - The Mighty Lemon Drops
19. Soon - My Bloody Valentine
20. Leave Them All Behind - Ride

Disc: 3
1. Alex Chilton - The Replacements
2. Come On Letâ??s Go - The Paley Brothers And Ramones
3. Aloha Steve & Danno/Theme From Hawaii Five-O - Radio Birdman
4. The Wagon - Dinosaur Jr.
5. Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
6. White Horse - Laid Back
7. Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
8. I Want That Man - Deborah Harry
9. Iâ??ll Be Your Everything - Tommy Page
10. Summer Teeth - Wilco
11. World Class Fad - Paul Westerberg
12. Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders
13. Give Back The Key To My Heart - Uncle Tupelo
14. Shake Some Action - The Flaminâ?? Groovies
15. Counting Backwards - Throwing Muses
16. Boy - Book Of Love
17. Romeo Had Juliette - Lou Reed
18. O. G. Original Gangster - Ice-T
19. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
20. Burning Down The House - Talking Heads

Disc: 4
1. Pop Muzik - M
2. Rock â??Nâ?? Roll High School - Ramones
3. Letâ??s Go To Bed - The Cure
4. A Little Respect - Erasure
5. Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders
6. The Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen
7. Bastards Of Young - The Replacements
8. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
9. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
10. Like A Prayer - Madonna
11. Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
12. Feed The Tree - Belly
13. Drifting, Falling - The Ocean Blue
14. Reach - Martini Ranch
15. Groovy Train - The Farm
16. Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream
17. New York City Boy - Pet Shop Boys
18. In The Meantime - Spacehog
19. One Week - Barenaked Ladies
20. Come To Daddy - Aphex Twin

Yeah, the Ryan Adams is a must, I think. Though I'm a huge Ryan Adams fan. However, I think that the Cardinals are the best thing to happen to his music in years.

I also liked the last Her Space Holiday record, but he's kind of hit or miss.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story [BOX SET]

Great compilation, though I think I already own just about all the stuff I like.

I'm anxious to hear about the Big Star album. I'm not picking it up immediately, but I'll bet I end up with it soon.

Elbow - Leaders of the Free World

The next flavor of the month:

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

Insound e-mailed me a coupon for 10% off the new Wolf Parade album:

FOR 10% OFF THE ALBUM, USE COUPON CODE: queenmary10

FOR ORDERS $50 OR MORE, SAVE 15% WITH COUPON CODE: wolfqueen15


This coupon is good until October 3rd and is to be used during checkout at INSOUND.

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
I'll pass on all of those.

How about the new High Strung. Any good? Didn't one of the singers leave the band?

yeah the album is released tomorrow wahoo, i got an early version of it but i think there is only 4 tracks from it that are on the new album……mark (the less nasal singer) left so it had to be reworked.

i did really like the tracks that i believe they've kept on moxie bravo, but we shall have to see as it was, it wasn't as good as good as these are good times…….

The new Grandaddy has some pretty cool songs on it. "Goodbye?" is one that I really enjoy, I've listened to the whole thing a few times now. A must for anyone who digs them. They're not covering any new territory, but it's a decent record.

Robertson charts the Band's musical journey

By Melinda Newman Fri Sep 23, 6:51 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - If Robbie Robertson had his way, every owner of "Across the Great Divide," a three-CD retrospective of the Band issued in 1994, would toss that collection in the garbage and replace it with "The Band: A Musical History."

The new set, which comprises five CDs and one DVD and includes more than 100 tracks, comes out September 27 on Capitol/EMI. Robertson spent years curating the collection.

"That (1994) set was completely inaccurate. I think they were just guessing," the Band's guitarist says. "This one is absolutely true. Forget the 1994 one ever was."

The new collection starts with a 1963 recording of "Who Do You Love" by Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks (the Band's earliest incarnation) and ends, as it must, with tracks from "The Last Waltz," the Band's star-studded farewell performance, captured on film by Martin Scorsese.

While the highlights are too numerous to mention, many fans will consider the previously unreleased live material – including sets with Bob Dylan (whom the Band backed from September 1965 until May 1966) – the set's standout.

For Robertson, who had not listened to much of this material in years, if ever, one of the most pleasant surprises was "the musicality of the journey." But, as he stresses, he and his Band mates were hardly a "group who got guitars for Christmas and decided we wanted to get a record deal."

DIGGING ROOTS

Indeed, by the time "Music From Big Pink," the Band's legendary 1968 album came out, the group had been together for years and had absorbed musical influences from across America's vast landscape.

"When that album came out, people acted like, 'Where in the world did this come from?' like it was so unusual," Robertson recalls. "And we were like, 'These are all the musics that we know. There are the flavors we know. It was that simple. We're bringing them with us when we come."'

While there was joy in putting together the boxed set, Robertson says there was also great sadness for people lost along the way. "The painful part of all this was losing Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. The sounds of Richard's voice or Rick's voice, it would just tear my heart out." Danko died in 1999 and Manuel in 1986.

The set's release puts an end to the Band … for now. "I keep saying, 'Now I'm done with the Band,"' Robertson says. "I'm just not keen to be going back up into the attic and going into the trunks. I'm more interested in tomorrow."

Still, he admits he may go back to the well one more time. "I just have to write a book on it, and I'll be all caught up. As soon as I get some time, I'm going out to that little cabin in the woods (and write). I like telling stories, as one might figure."

But there has never been a moment when Robertson considered reuniting with the Band's surviving members. "It never crossed my mind. Things happen a certain way. It's in some higher power's hands. You can't do something if it won't bend that way."

Blackalicious: The Craft!!!

nice stuff

also new

Supergrass - Road to Rouen
Morcheeba - The Antidote (although they have a new singer and it's apparently less trip-hop. the song i heard was more 60s pop sounding)

Originally posted by Bags:
I'm anxious to hear about the Big Star album. I'm not picking it up immediately, but I'll bet I end up with it soon.

Pitchfork reviewed it today. 5.3

They also give the Neutral Milk Hotel re-issue a 10.0.

Pitchfork's review of Neutral Milk Hotel annoyed me. From what I have heard of that record I like it, but the guy that wrote it had the "hip" tone that curses some of their writers.

Originally posted by bearman:
Pitchfork's review of Neutral Milk Hotel annoyed me.

I hate the revisionist history Pitchfork takes with everything. They gave the record a 8.5 the first time, which is a good rating, but not a 10. And I think it came in like #40 on their first best records of the 90's list.

Then, they decide after the record becomes venerated, "wait! maybe that wasn't good enough! let's redo everything" and re-reviews it for no real reason and they redo their top of the 90's list as well. All because the public perception changed.

Same thing with hiphop/rap. "Oh, rap is the new indie cred? Let's redo out top 90's list and go from 2 hiphop albums to 45! We so clever!!"

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At least one board member will be interested in this reissue or a reissue… also available via eMusic…

complaining about pitchfork ratings is so 2002