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Coonstar:
Today, I purchased:
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
I've already listened to this album a lot before I had purchased it, so there was really no surprise factor. I don't remember the last time I purchased an album without listening to it beforehand. Anyway, it's probably currently my favorite Stereolab album, although Stereolab albums tend to sound ridiculously similar to each other anyway. But they have such a winning template for their music! Frenchy lounge-pop with their 60'sique melodies that hates on capitalism! It's simply for the win.
and
The Book of Lists - Red Arrows EP
I think the first time I listened to the Book of Lists was early 2005? Maybe even earlier than that, then I saw them perform over the summer of 2005, but didn't buy anything of theirs, and only listened to those three tracks on their website over. and over. and over again. I really hadn't gotten sick of it, ever. This EP gives me an additional three songs, which are pretty good but just aren't up to the caliber of stuff like Sweet Malady, although Pacifist Revolt is pretty good. This EP is overall good even if it's not earth shattering, definitely a Vancouver band to watch.
KharBevNor:
I just got Looking For Europe, the history of neo-folk, and it comes with a quadruple compilation disk which is pretty damn fantastich. Even though I'm familiar with a lot of the bands, especially on the middle two discs, there's lots of bitching unreleased or exclusive material, and there's some great new stuff I've never heard before. The first disc, which is mainly folk rock experimentation from the 70's which grew into neo-folk, is particularly nice.
thedevilissix:
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
I like this a lot. Much more straight-up and punky than Another Green World, which I also own. The drag act from the album cover also comes through brilliantly witty and vibrant on record, rather than just obstinately & carelessly trashy.
What is it about Eno's stuff that always sounds so timeless? (I believe that AGW & HCTWJ sound just as current today as they probably did 30 years ago). I guess probably that he has a great deal of pretenders to the throne today might be it.....
Gold Chains - Young Miss America
Wickedly diverse beats and some instances of real poetry, even if there are times when the rhymes revert to misogynist gangsta rap cliché (really guys, you don't need that crutch to lean on.)
schimmy:
Golden D - Graham Coxon
I bought this record in a 4 for £20 deal HMV had on. I mistakenly thought Graham Coxon was the guy from Pulp (Jarvis Cocker, I think). Now it sits on my shelf. Mocking me, daring me to listen to it. I have yet to even put it in any CD-playing device, I'm scared of it, I really am. What if I put it on and I don't like it. What then?
sjbrot:
--- Quote from: Spinless ---I was giving serious thought to buying rather ripped, but after 'At War with the Mystics' decided I didn't want to risk it. Even though I know the yoof can't possibly make anything that's THAT bad.
--- End quote ---
I'm lost. Are you saying that you didn't buy Rather Ripped because At War with the Mystics didn't suit you? If so, I'm at a bit of a loss.
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