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Best of 2005
lastclearchance:
I'm not even NEAR ready to make a list. But anyway.
--- Quote from: inseutculnaime ---The Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir - A damned good album which, for some reason, lots of people hung crap on
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I haven't heard it, to be honest. But the guy who reviewed it instead of me for our college paper (at the last minute I realized I couldn't write a review and three papers for classes) LOVED it. To the extent that he wrote, "I can't help but imagine that this joyous, artful album is exactly the sort of music John Lennon would have made today, had he lived to a grandfatherly age." (Okay, so he tends toward hyperbole. But that's still pretty glowing.)
I think people were hoping for EP 2, not Blueberry Boat Plus. I get the impression this new record is dense, but not typical literary-dense...more like playful-dense. Which is a combination people don't know how to deal with. They like their playful music light (see: Architecture in Helsinki fans) and their dense music serious (see: Mars Volta fans).
That's my impression anyway.
Peck:
1: New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (After listening to this album once, I knew it would be my number one for the year. It's just that good.)
2: Raveonettes - Pretty In Black (The Raveonettes are just so underrated anyway, and then they release an album just as good as Chain Gang Of Love)
3: Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made (They have never released a bad album.)
4: Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (Black for song of the year.)
5: Handsomeboy Technique - Adelie Land (Fuck I love Said the Gramophone for introducing me to these guys.)
lastclearchance:
--- Quote from: Peck ---4: Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (Black for song of the year.)
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Saw them in Brooklyn Saturday. Got there late so I got shut out of Man Man and Charles from the Wrens, but even with just Okkervil River it was a great show. I wonder whether the Black Sheep Boy Appendix (out today) is worth picking up.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Kid Modernist ---I like counting them as one, dispite the difference in the album. It feels like a double disc to me, one is daytime songs and the other is nightime songs. I may be cheating a little bit, but I say it's valid.
Which do you like better? If I had to pick one I would say Digital Ash (I've been looking for a Digital Ash live set forever, but I don't know if he ever played any).
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He's not toured it yet. He's touring Wide Awake first and then Ash later.
Ernest:
Propagandhi- Potempkin City Limits
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