04-04-2006, 10:43 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by kermitology
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Elliott Smith Figure 8
Both are fantastic. If you're into this type of music I highly recommend checking out the magazine Paste. Each magazine comes with a sampler CD with some great stuff on it, that and the articles are pretty good as well.
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I really enjoy Illinois too.
I subscribe to Magnet for the same reasons (CD samplers):
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/
http://www.pastemagazine.com/
Tuesday is new release day. Looking to pick up:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Destroyer
Morrisey
Flaming Lips
I Love You, But I've Chosen Darkness
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04-04-2006, 10:51 AM
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#82
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: do not want
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Alert Troutman!!
Avoid the new Morrisey at all costs. It fudging sucks bad.
Otherwise, the new YYYs is great as is I Love You.
Kind of a dearth of good albums coming out in the past 2 months. Hopefully that will change soon.
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04-04-2006, 10:51 AM
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#83
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Originally Posted by troutman
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Magnet and Paste seem pretty similar...
You can't beat the value of Illinois. 22 tracks all beautifully arranged. I just picked it up because I heard a few good things about it and thought it looked interesting...It's blown me away.
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04-04-2006, 10:53 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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I haven't bought a CD, song or even downloaded anything for the longest time. I think the last music I aquired was The Tragically Hip - Hipeponymous. I'm a big hip fan.
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04-04-2006, 10:54 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: do not want
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Seven Swans by Sufjan is also very good if you like Illinois.
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04-04-2006, 11:06 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Is Illinois really worth all the credit it got? I listened to a couple tracks and didn't think much of it..maybe I need to listen more...what's the album like overall?
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04-04-2006, 06:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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Originally Posted by Igottago
Is Illinois really worth all the credit it got? I listened to a couple tracks and didn't think much of it..maybe I need to listen more...what's the album like overall?
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I think it is worth the credit. I saw him in concert a few months ago, and seeing a great concert really colours the way that you hear an album. But even before seeing him perform, I thought it was remarkable. I'm a big fan of musicians who are willing to explore beyond a standard guitar/bass/drums/vocal model, and I really like his use of keyboards, horns, choirs, strings, and other instruments. Really unusual arrangements. His songwriting is great, but his lyrics sometimes get lost in the musical complexity, especially on this album. Casimir Pulaski Day is the only track where the lyrics really stand out above the music. I'm not saying you'll definitely like it. If you've heard a couple tracks and don't like it, you may not like the entire album. I actually feel that Michigan is a better album than Illinois. Seven Swans is also solid.
To all the Sufjan Stevens fans out there, I'm curious to know if anyone has listened much to Andrew Bird's latest. He started out as the violin/fiddle player for Squirrel Nut Zippers, went to playing old-style jazz/gypsy music, and has now emerged as an extremely talented songwriter. Comparable to Stevens in terms of a very unorthodox indie/folk sound, and really intriguing lyrics.
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04-04-2006, 06:59 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Originally Posted by Dan
While I'm at it, does anyone have some recommendations for some good country albums? I never got into country before but I love Johnny Cash right now
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Willie Nelson-Red Headed Stranger
Dwight Yoakam-Last Chance for a Thousand Years (actually anything by this guy is gold).
The Mavericks-Greatest Hits
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04-04-2006, 07:48 PM
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#89
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Dan
That's the one
The only song I had heard from that album when I bought it was Lay Lady Lay, which is a good song but is actually my least favorite on the album
Great great album
I also just bought Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison and I can't stop listening to it
While I'm at it, does anyone have some recommendations for some good country albums? I never got into country before but I love Johnny Cash right now
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Ian Tyson.
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04-04-2006, 07:51 PM
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#90
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Crash and Bang Winger
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get a band called 'The Blank Theory' they are awesome hard rock.
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04-04-2006, 07:53 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: An all-inclusive.
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Originally Posted by Dan
That's the one
The only song I had heard from that album when I bought it was Lay Lady Lay, which is a good song but is actually my least favorite on the album
Great great album
I also just bought Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison and I can't stop listening to it
While I'm at it, does anyone have some recommendations for some good country albums? I never got into country before but I love Johnny Cash right now
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I'm a fan of Uncle Tupelo (Jeff Tweedy from pre-Wilco days) and Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams pre-solo). Actually, Ryan Adams' solo stuff is dynamite as well.
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04-04-2006, 08:02 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary
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The Highwaymen...I don't have any of their CDs, but love the songs I've heard. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings. Country's version of the Travelling Wilburys
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04-04-2006, 08:04 PM
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#93
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Franchise Player
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On a seperate note, Seperation Sunday by The Hold Steady is absolutely fantastic.
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04-23-2006, 03:46 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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My favorite recent album is the new one from Graham Coxon, lead-guitar player from Blur. Just a lot of good, noisy british guitar rock, very reminiscent of some of the punk / new wave bands from the early eighties. I like it more than a lot of Blur's stuff. The new one from Yeah Yeah Yeahs is also pretty good.
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04-24-2006, 09:26 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Originally Posted by Igottago
Is Illinois really worth all the credit it got? I listened to a couple tracks and didn't think much of it..maybe I need to listen more...what's the album like overall?
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It is well deserving of the praise it received. Simply the best album of 2005. Tremendous replay value, creative but not pretentious. Love it.
And kermit, Figure 8 by Elliot Smith is another great album. You just picked up two of the best CDs from the past 7 or 8 years.
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04-24-2006, 11:49 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by troutman
Recent buys:
Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
Arab Strap - The Last Romance
Thelonious Monk Quartet - with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Cat Power - The Greatest
Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat
Prince - 3121
Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
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Latest buys:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Built To Spill - You in Reverse
Massive Attack -
Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
Streets
Looking for new cds:
Calexico
Destroyer
Rainer Maria
Drive-By Truckers
Islands
Last edited by troutman; 04-24-2006 at 12:58 PM.
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04-24-2006, 12:55 PM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
In heavy rotation on my iPod at the moment:
The Weakerthans
The Arcade Fire
Stars
Metric
The Shins
Danny Michel
Broken Social Scene
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Great taste!
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