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jlhSo I took the day off from work today to get something important done, and as a reward for myself I'm going to buy some CDs with a 20% coupon I have for Tower Records. So the question is, what should I buy?
The list so far:
Maybe The Killers as I do like that single a lot, and maybe The Donnas too. I'm thinking someone I know well will have Interpol and Death Cab so I'm letting them buy it. As you might see from the above, I like singer-songwriters and rock. I also like ambient music but I listen to that usually at work from an online radio station so I'm not sure I really need to buy any.
By the way: no best ofs please. First, because I got a big pile of them from my friend D; second, because they look backward and I am jonesing for new music right now; and third because old fashioned as this may be, I really believe in an album as more than just a random collection of songs but an artistic whole, and bands are more than just their singles. I only like best-ofs for older artists whose entire collection I'm never going to buy (like, Sir Elton or Lady Day or Zeppelin).
So, anything you've heard that you think I should give a try, or that I probably just forgot about?
The list so far:
- U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
- The Vines, Winning Days
- Sam Phillips, A Boot and a Shoe
- Duran Duran, Astronaut
- The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow
- Franz Ferdinand
- Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
- Soundrack, Garden State
- Norah Jones, Feels Like Home
- Duncan Sheik, Daylight
- Aimee Mann, Lost in Space
Maybe The Killers as I do like that single a lot, and maybe The Donnas too. I'm thinking someone I know well will have Interpol and Death Cab so I'm letting them buy it. As you might see from the above, I like singer-songwriters and rock. I also like ambient music but I listen to that usually at work from an online radio station so I'm not sure I really need to buy any.
By the way: no best ofs please. First, because I got a big pile of them from my friend D; second, because they look backward and I am jonesing for new music right now; and third because old fashioned as this may be, I really believe in an album as more than just a random collection of songs but an artistic whole, and bands are more than just their singles. I only like best-ofs for older artists whose entire collection I'm never going to buy (like, Sir Elton or Lady Day or Zeppelin).
So, anything you've heard that you think I should give a try, or that I probably just forgot about?
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Date: 2004-11-15 10:35 am (UTC)Also The Killers. Buybuybuy.
Both albums are wonderful. :)
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Date: 2004-11-15 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 10:44 am (UTC)So if I like "Somebody Told Me" I'll like the rest of The Killers?
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Date: 2004-11-15 10:45 am (UTC)You know, I love your BBC station ID icons.
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Date: 2004-11-15 10:48 am (UTC)Also list price is $9.99, so cheap too.
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Date: 2004-11-15 10:51 am (UTC)Green Day - American Idiot
I don't own either of these (yet!) but I like/love every song I've heard off them, especially the first. I very much want to buy them, which says a lot since I am broke and never buy music.
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Date: 2004-11-15 11:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 11:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 11:30 am (UTC)I would give a more involved review, but I don't have the energy. <3
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Date: 2004-11-15 11:33 am (UTC)I heard "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in a recent Smallville ep and I LOVE IT OMG. And I'm not usually a big Green Day fan. The only other song I really love by them is Time of Your Life.
And you know I have no Postal Service love. ;)
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Date: 2004-11-15 11:53 am (UTC)It's definitely a thematic album, though, so if you don't like that theme, you're pretty much out of luck.
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Date: 2004-11-15 11:59 am (UTC)And I love The Donnas album. We have a lot of overlap in our tastes, as we have over half of those CDs you're about to buy. :D
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Date: 2004-11-15 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 12:48 pm (UTC)I am definitely adding The Donnas. There still aren't enough girls rocking. Oh, god, I forgot, I need me some Pat Benetar.
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Date: 2004-11-15 12:49 pm (UTC)I was really disappointed, btw, in the end of the poker last night, but I shall say no more so you aren't spoiled if you haven't seen it.
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Date: 2004-11-15 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 01:00 pm (UTC)# The Vines, Winning Days
# Sam Phillips, A Boot and a Shoe
# Duran Duran, Astronaut
# The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow
# Franz Ferdinand
# Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
# Soundrack, Garden State
# Norah Jones, Feels Like Home
# Duncan Sheik, Daylight
# Aimee Mann, Lost in Space
Plus The Donnas and The Killers. Marc is very into The Killers album. I can't bring myself to buy new Duran Duran. Maybe I had too many glossy 8x10s as a girl or something, but it just feels too weird.
Also, you may already have it, but I really liked the Snow Patrol album from earlier this year. The Thrills? Like them. The Corey Haim song makes me laugh, anyway.
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Date: 2004-11-15 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 02:11 pm (UTC)Have you heard Vienna Teng? I've recently picked up some tracks from her 2004 "Warm Strangers," and I really enjoy them. Her voice is pure, her lyrics good, and her piano work is top notch.
Poe's "Haunted" also comes highly recommended--the title track is seared on my brain these days.
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Date: 2004-11-15 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 02:23 pm (UTC)The Donnas are good too, for completely different reasons. Their Get Skintight album is great.
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Date: 2004-11-15 02:57 pm (UTC)When is a good time to call you? I need to work out train times and stuff, among other things. :D
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Date: 2004-11-15 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 04:12 pm (UTC)Ignore Modest Mouse, they're not all they're cracked up to be. U2, U2, U2. If that new single is anything to go by, HtDaAB ought to rawk.
Also, Transatlanticism, by Death Cab for Cutie. Fannnntastic. :D
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Date: 2004-11-15 06:08 pm (UTC)I would add to the list--
Badly Drawn Boy- The Hour of Bewilderbeast.
Belle and Sebastian- Tigermilk and/or If You're Feeling Sinister
South- With the Tides
Razorlight- Up All Night
The Shins- Oh, Inverted World ( I personally prefer Chutes Too Narrow, but this is fantastic, too)
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Date: 2004-11-15 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-15 06:21 pm (UTC)I am hoping that CC or Josh or someone gets Death Cab, because I do want it. I know they have some older stuff and I really just plan on stealing it from them.
Thanks for the recos!
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Date: 2004-11-15 06:27 pm (UTC)I heartily recommend Belle and Sebastian. They are like Simon and Garfunkel if they only sang about sex.
Another good one is the Delays- Faded Seaside Glamour. The lead singer sounds like Stevie Nicks if she joined Queen. You can listen here- http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/delays/369667/album.jhtml
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Date: 2004-11-16 06:29 am (UTC)I just got Brian Wilson's SMILE, which I think you'd like. It's really a masterpiece in terms of scope and production. I sort of like PET SOUNDS' more introspective lyrics over SMILES' bouncy trouncy hippy metaphysics, but that may not be a make-or-break point for you.
Another "big ideas" disc I got recently was by The Dears, a Toronto sextet I saw open for Brian Jonestown Massacre the other week. The have a lush and lonely sound, occasionally ambient, but not so much as to be non-song-oriented. Vocals occasionally evoke Morrissey, but aren't as fey.
Lastly, I love the new Robyn Hitchcock disc SPOOKED. Recorded in Nashville just a few days with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, SPOOKED would harken back to the sparseness of the classic I OFTEN DREAM OF TRAINS, or EYE, but Welch and Rawlings lend a very American feel. Hictcock's accent and generally oddball anglo persona work effortlessly with his American hosts.
Hope this helps a little.
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Date: 2004-11-16 05:12 pm (UTC)Thanks sweetie!