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Best of 2005
porkypine:
As a soon-to-be-ex-music critic, I make more than one list. This was for No Depression magazine.
I forgot to include the Rudds!
While I like Illinois, I find it hard to believe that so many people could listen to it all the way through more than a couple of times ;) It's a hellaciously long album!
I listen to Smog, btw, but found this year's album a big disappointment.
Top 20 new releases
1 Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy
2 Spoon, Gimme Fiction
3 Damien Jurado, On My Way to Absence
4 Ryan Adams & The Russians, Cold Roses (disc one)
5 Sarah Borges, Silver City
6 Magnolia Electric Co., What Comes After the Blues
7 Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs
8 Phosphorescent, Aw Come Aw Wry
9 the everybodyfields, The Plague of Dreams
10 The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
11 Eliza Gilkyson, Paradise Hotel
12 James McMurtry, Childish Things
13 The Cloud Room, s/t
14 Michael Penn, Mr. Hollywood Jr. 1947
15 Winterpills, s/t
16 Hayes Carll, Little Rock
17 Eric Andersen, Waves
18 Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
19 Espers, The Weed Tree
20 Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
Spartan Pho3nix:
I can't stand any Sufjan, really. It's way too boring.
Anyways - so, you guys all know how Death Cab kinda went pop with Plans, right? After the postal service album, everyone wanted plans.
Well, i've never been enamored with Death Cab's stuff to begin with, don't really like the postal service, so, consdering it went mainstream and I didn't even like it too much to begin with, I just never listened to it.
So, I was at a friends house yesturday, and out of my friends I guess i'm really the most into music. I know all the new bands, etc etc, always downloading music, always keeping up to date.
Well, one of my friends puts Plans onto his Stereo and like - everyone starts singing. One person even goes "hey! This is a song we can all sing along to"...and sure enough everyone knew it. I looked around and they ALL knew this song. And I just...didn't. They were shocked.
There fricken kids, who make fun of Pavement, Broken Social Scene, CYHSY whenever they get in my car are all singing along to an album by a band that none of them knew of a year ago, and making fun of me for never hearing it.
I love how, suddenly when Death Cab goes mainstream, i'm suddenly an outcast for not listening to it, when a year ago I would have been an outcast for listening to it (Cause it was Emo drabble before commercial radio adopted it). What crap. I hate commercial radio.
OOOOOHH! You know what else this applies to? The Arcade Fire. Funeral - an album i've been spinning for over a year now. People heard it back in '04 and went "wtf is this trash." Then, all of a sudden, it appears on Commercial radio in teh form of a couple singles and everyone's going "LAIKA! ALEXANDER! WHAT?"
I want to slap them.
porkypine:
--- Quote from: Spartan Pho3nix ---
OOOOOHH! You know what else this applies to? The Arcade Fire. Funeral - an album i've been spinning for over a year now. People heard it back in '04 and went "wtf is this trash." Then, all of a sudden, it appears on Commercial radio in teh form of a couple singles and everyone's going "LAIKA! ALEXANDER! WHAT?"
I want to slap them.
--- End quote ---
Funny you should say this, because while I now like the Arcade Fire I didn't get them at all last autumn-- my specific response being, "Wait, I thought this was supposed to be deep? It's not deep! It's fun dance music!"
Kai:
Oh, is someone upset because people are getting into music that you like (or in your case, liked) and you're angry because they don't know that you've been listening to them longer? Tough shit, kid.
Merkava:
--- Quote from: Spartan Pho3nix ---I can't stand any Sufjan, really. It's way too boring.
Anyways - so, you guys all know how Death Cab kinda went pop with Plans, right? After the postal service album, everyone wanted plans.
Well, i've never been enamored with Death Cab's stuff to begin with, don't really like the postal service, so, consdering it went mainstream and I didn't even like it too much to begin with, I just never listened to it.
So, I was at a friends house yesturday, and out of my friends I guess i'm really the most into music. I know all the new bands, etc etc, always downloading music, always keeping up to date.
Well, one of my friends puts Plans onto his Stereo and like - everyone starts singing. One person even goes "hey! This is a song we can all sing along to"...and sure enough everyone knew it. I looked around and they ALL knew this song. And I just...didn't. They were shocked.
There fricken kids, who make fun of Pavement, Broken Social Scene, CYHSY whenever they get in my car are all singing along to an album by a band that none of them knew of a year ago, and making fun of me for never hearing it.
I love how, suddenly when Death Cab goes mainstream, i'm suddenly an outcast for not listening to it, when a year ago I would have been an outcast for listening to it (Cause it was Emo drabble before commercial radio adopted it). What crap. I hate commercial radio.
OOOOOHH! You know what else this applies to? The Arcade Fire. Funeral - an album i've been spinning for over a year now. People heard it back in '04 and went "wtf is this trash." Then, all of a sudden, it appears on Commercial radio in teh form of a couple singles and everyone's going "LAIKA! ALEXANDER! WHAT?"
I want to slap them.
--- End quote ---
Old Death Cab is SOOOO much better than new Death Cab. I miss the days of Airplanes, We Have the Facts, and The Photo Album. If they had stuck with what they had been doing on the Stability EP, I would still like them.
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