latest pile

[bitterfruit]

Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma
Mission of Burma - vs.
Destroyer - Your Blues
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Stephin Merritt - Piecies of April
Matt Suggs - Amigo Row
Matt Suggs - Golden Days Before They End
The Microphones - Live In Japan
TY - Upwards
Richard Hell - Time
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers 88
Richard Hell - Time

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by bitterfruit

Destroyer - Your Blues
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Stephin Merritt - Piecies of April

good stuff there.

[bitterfruit]

Why did I create a new thread rather than add it to the existing one? Fucked up. Sorry.

[fuzztony]

What a way to battle convention.

Bitterfruit - to change the topic, I am interested in ordering a Microphones album, but can afford one at the moment. What do you recommend - should it be The Glow Part 2?

[TheSadDebaser]

The Glow, Pt. 2 is fucking awesome.

Mt. Eerie is really good, too, but not really as interesting to me as The Glow. Probably because The Glow has, like, 21 songs to Mt. Eerie's five.

But whatever.

[tinobeat]

a short list for this week, not so much time for variety, and I've been really feeling these three:

cLOUDDEAD - s/t CD
Eluvium - Lambent Material CD
V/A - Rocket Girl Compilation 2CD

blissin' out...

[DefenderOfPants]

how did you like the matt suggs'?

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by fuzztony
What a way to battle convention.

Bitterfruit - to change the topic, I am interested in ordering a Microphones album, but can afford one at the moment. What do you recommend - should it be The Glow Part 2?

Mount Eerie is a great Elvrum record to start off with. Fall in love with it, then get "Singing From Mount Eerie," which will just increase your hard-on that much more.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by DefenderOfPants
how did you like the matt suggs'?

I was hesitant at first, but I gambled on "Amigo Row" and it was a great chance to take. I'm surprised that people are fucking raving over Franz Ferdinand when it makes me scratch my head a little. Ahh, I only heard a couple of tracks and I was like, "Next."

Anyway, "Amigo Row" was so brilliant that I had to run out and get his 2000 Merge release called "Golden Days Before They End," which is nothing to sneeze at. What I need to do now is decide which Butterglory record to buy. If Matt Suggs had a better schtick, he would be all the rage.

[satcho]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
I'm surprised that people are fucking raving over Franz Ferdinand when it makes me scratch my head a little.

i think people rave too much in general.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by satcho
i think people rave too much in general.

s'very true. I rave too sometimes.. but I then look back and think, "settle down, tino.. damn..."

[fuzztony]

Thanks guys - got excited and ordered The Glow Pt. 2 - I guess if it does it for me, then Mount Eerie will be the logical next stop. So, some more catching up, given I missed a few critical years of indie music for a spell there.

Shipping to me now:

The Microphones: The Glow Pt. 2
The Unicorns: Who Will Cut Our Hair...
The Wrens: Meadowlands
Neutral Milk Hotel: In An Aeroplane...
Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I

[vesper]

Actually the next logical step from The Glow pt. 2 is It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water. I would reverse those but that wouldn't make any sense considering you already ordered the former. Mt. Eerie, while good, is one of the last Microphones albums I would purchase just because it isn't an easy or representative point of entry.

The last thing I listened to was The Hidden Cameras' The Smell of Our Own. I've developed a fondness for this that I didn't have last year. The last thing I purchased was the Pet Sounds stereo/mono re-issue which, for some reason or another, I never got around to in the last four years of obsession with Elephant 6.

[satcho]

Speaking of Elephant 6, isn't Elf Power's latest due out this next week? Has anybody heard it?

[tinobeat]

Speaking of Elephant 6, Of Montreal's latest is due out this week or next. Its their best one yet. less "whimsy," more solid songwriting uncluttered by child-like storytelling. Totally awesome.

I'm also pumped cos my band gets to play with them in two weeks (ignores collective eye-rolling from everyone here...).

heh

[bitterfruit]

Speaking of your band, I heard something being played from AR on Album 88. Sounded pretty okay. I assume it was off the last album that you didn't play on, but are supporting?

[tinobeat]

What's Album 88?

Yeah, there's currently no publicly available recordings that I play on, and the older stuff is pretty different in dynamic, as they didn't have a drummer then. I think its gorgeous stuff, but these days its a lot bigger sounding. less on the "delicate" tip and more on the "droned out and loud" tip.

Once we get some final mixes done (tonight), I've been meaning to post some of them on my site and let some of y'all know about it. It won't come in the form of board spam though, so don't worry...

[bitterfruit]

"Album 88" is the Georgia State University student run radio station. It's really, really good. There's always something interesting on. Whether it's the "traditional" indie stuff, or the more eclectic Japanese music show called Nippon Music Champ (http://www.nipponmusicchamp.com/), it beats commercial radio any day of the week. I never knew radio could be so good.

[tinobeat]

cool.. does it have a stream online?

[bitterfruit]

Negative. The man is holding the people's music down. Legal shite is keeping them from internet streaming apparently.

[tinobeat]

yeah, right after I posted the question, I found their site with the explanation for why no stream. a bummer for sure. I wonder why the man's holding them down but not other college stations like WMBR and WZBC in the boston area. Presumably they have to work in the same framework..

[otto midnight]

Originally posted by tinobeat
I wonder why the man's holding them down but not other college stations like WMBR and WZBC in the boston area. Presumably they have to work in the same framework..

'cause bc and mit can hire some mean-assed lawyers if someone tells them what to do.

[bitterfruit]

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Consonant - Love and Affliction
Jay-Z's Beatles mixes - The Grey Album
Gang Of Four - 100 Flowers Bloom
Utada Hikaru - First Love
East River Pipe - Garbageheads On Endless Sun
Air - Talkie Walkie
Clinic - Internal Wrangler

New Iron & Wine record is sinful. It could have been the second disk if "The Creek Drank The Cradle" was a double CD set.

New soon to be released French Kicks album is pretty fucking good too. Found myself sangin' along after too much coffee.

J Lo's entire family is lucky. She must get it from her momma (http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/06/people.lopezs.mom.ap/index.html)

But not as lucky as this guy. (http://www.pacificdrums.com/playback/billy_pb.html)

[vesper]

Broadcast, Haha Sound
of Montreal, Satanic Panic in the Attic
Chromatics, Plaster Hounds

[tinobeat]

So how awesome is that new Of Montreal?

I drove about a total of 16 hours this weekend, and listened to it about 5 times.

unbelievably awesome.

[justin_S]

hey bitterfruit,


is the new Iron & Wine cd really that bad? i ordered it on Amazon, and just got the notice that it shipped on thursday, so its too late to cancel.

[Patrick]

Interesting to hear about I&W. I'd heard good things about this record.

Patrick

[vesper]

Originally posted by tinobeat
So how awesome is that new Of Montreal?

I drove about a total of 16 hours this weekend, and listened to it about 5 times.

unbelievably awesome.

I scribbled an A in my notebook. The second track, "Lysergic Bliss," is probably the best song I've heard this year.

[tinobeat]

yeah, that song, with the sick-ass stretched out ending... I never knew they had it in 'em.

[pabost]

This is one of those bands that I'm so happy to have recently discovered, despite the fact that they've been around for a while. I started out with Cherry Peel, which I love, and then I bought The Gay Parade, which is also tremendous.

Satanic Panic in the Attic is really great. I am in perpetual awe of bands that can turn out great melodies so prolifically. As far as I'm concerned, Of Montreal has reached that illustrious company of the Beach Boys, the Beatles, New Pornographers, etc . . . in terms of melody. Their lyrics are pretty witty, too.

Sort of related: what do you guys think of the High Llamas? I have a feeling I would really like them, but I actually don't really know any of their shit that well. Good records to start out on? Over/under-rated? Give me the scoop. Thanks.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by Patrick
Interesting to hear about I&W. I'd heard good things about this record.

Patrick

I should have used critics-ease and said something overly intellectual in relationship to lunch the other day.

What I meant was that the record is awesome. It's decadent, thus it's sinful.

[vesper]

Originally posted by pabost
Sort of related: what do you guys think of the High Llamas? I have a feeling I would really like them, but I actually don't really know any of their shit that well. Good records to start out on? Over/under-rated? Give me the scoop. Thanks.

I only have Retrospectives, Rarities, and Instrumentals so I can't recommend any specific High Llamas albums, but it is one very good 2 disc collection of songs. If anything, I'd say that they are underrated just because I never hear anyone mention them. Given the list of bands you just posted, I think you'll dig 'em.