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inseutculnaime:
According to the list I keep on my desk:

The Decemberists: Picaresque
The Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir - A damned good album which, for some reason, lots of people hung crap on
Architecture in Helsinki: In Case We Die
Sujan Stevens: Illinois
Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene

I don't buy many albums, though, so it's limited.

McTaggart:
I'm not actually sure, it depends on my mood really. I think you're on to something with the day/night idea though. I'm Wide Awake in the day, Digital Ash it night.

Actually, I'd probably pick Digital Ash, if only for the number of times the lyrics sound like me thinking.

Kossie:
1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. ... Right now I seriously can't think!!! Opeth was the only album I can remember! ARRRRRR!!!!

Before it came out, I was hoping to put Dream Theater's Octavarium on this list, but I was very disapointed with the epics and some of the other songs, so it doesn't get my vote. It was almost like 6 degrees in many aspects, but fell short somewhere...

sjbrot:
But I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning can't really be a day record. In comparison, it definitely feels more like one than Digital Ash but the fact that the disc is pretty much a journey through the night doesn't lend itself well to your idea. Especially with closer "Road to Joy", where they finally come to the title line.

I do see how they could be considered a double disc. They just represent such opposite styles that they seemed to both be part of a singular, calculating effort, which would signify a double disc to me.

But, anyways, here's a prototype of what my list may look like when 2005 comes to a close.

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Marianne Faithful - Before the Poison
A great vocalist, and PJ Harvey's involvement makes this one of my favorites.
3. Socalled - The Socalled Seder
Irresistble jewish hip-hop. Infectious.
4.The New Pornographers - Twin cinema
5. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
6. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
7. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
8. Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
9. Novillero - Aim Right For the Hole in Their Lives
Anything off Mint Records is always a safe bet, especially this mix of Winnipegers, featuring the old vocalist from the original Canadian bass-and-drums duo, Duotang.
10. M.I.A. - Arular

Kid Modernist:

--- Quote from: sjbrot ---But I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning can't really be a day record. In comparison, it definitely feels more like one than Digital Ash but the fact that the disc is pretty much a journey through the night doesn't lend itself well to your idea. Especially with closer "Road to Joy", where they finally come to the title line.

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Well, I don't think it's really a fact, more an opinion of yours. (Ah, sorry if that sounds snappy, I tried several ways to make it not seem so, but there it is. I don't mean to be). Songs like Another Travellin' Song and Land Lock Blues (And Road to Joy) seem to me to be like day light songs. Lua does in deed talk about the night, but I think it's contrasting it by what things are in the day time. Me discussing this in depth gives the lie to the idea that I am a little too serious about it being a day/night thing. It's really more of just how it feels to me rather than what I think they/he were/was trying to do.


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I do see how they could be considered a double disc. They just represent such opposite styles that they seemed to both be part of a singular, calculating effort, which would signify a double disc to me.
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Yeah, you've hit the nail on the head of why I feel that way. Better than I could have said it, I'm all jumbly at the moment.

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