The Cars - The Cars, 1978
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy, 1978
I hadn't really listened to the first Cars album before. So amazing. Half of the album is hits, the other half are damn good too.
The same can be said for this amazing Warren Zevon album too. It's been sounding an awful lot like 1978 in my apartment recently.
Miles Kurosky - The Desert of Shallow Effects, 2010
I think I was so excited to hear what sounds like a new Beulah album at first that I wasn't actually listening to the album. Not very good.
Midlake - The Courage of Others, 2010
Girls - Album, 2009
Passion Pit - Manners, 2009
White Denim - Let's Talk About It, 2008
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast, 2010
Boring
Two good songs
Not my thing
Wanted it to be better
Might grow on me but just not as good as you'd think based on the raves.
I think I just don't like new bands.
Obits - I Blame You, 2009
Spoon - Transference, 2010
The Flaming Lips, Embryonic, 2009
Or old bands. I think I'm the only person I know not in love with Obits. Then again I never really got into Drive Like Jehu or Hot Snakes either.
The new Spoon is not very good.
The Flaming Lips is good as an album but when I try to remember what it sounded like after listening, nothing really sticks with me about it.
Dodos - Time to Die, 2009
Another disappointment. I really liked their previous album.
Wire - Read and Burn 1, 2002
Read and Burn 2, 2002
Read and Burn 3, 2007
Again - another disappointment. I'd heard about these for years. But I just couldn't get into any of the songs.
Young Fresh Fellows - I Think This Is, 2009
SHR didn't even think I'd want to listen to this when she came home with it. Wha? I'll gladly give all Minus 5 and Young Fresh Fellows a spin. Tons of pop fun on this.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Brutalist Bricks, 2010
I like all of his albums to varying degrees but this one is even better than some of his more recent ones. I like it quite a bit. Hooray for the oldsters!
Red Sticker Collection
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls, 1978
I can't believe I never really had listened to this album before. Man it kicks butt. I knew the hits (Miss You, Shattered, Beast of Burden) but there's a hell of a lot more here. The snide country tunes, the S and M tunes, the drugged out tunes, the lewd tunes. What an album! I'll never get sick of this video either.
Emmit Rhodes - Daisy-Fresh from Hawthorne, California (The Best of the Dunhill Years)There are some wonderfully pretty songs on here and then some boring ones. Make sure to track down the Michael Shelley interview with him on WFMU if you want to get depressed. A sad story leads to a bitter man.
The Jam - Sound Affects, 1980
I only knew their Best of but this album makes me realize that I need to dig deeper. Much deeper.
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9 comments:
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Next time your over we can bust out Jam and Emmitt Rhodes LPS. The new flaming lips blows chunks. Kurosky is a mega dueche. The Cars, a somewhat mediocre band in the context of their era, blow 93% of all new music today.
Hater Larry
I love the many ways Hater Larry spells douche.
I like the Surfer Blood record a lot. Will I care about it in a year? Probably not, but for now it works!
word. jam rule.
dn
Strangely, I've also been listening to some The Jam, that exact Warren record and Some Girls never goes about a month without getting a spin on the turntable.
And this reminds me I owe you that Broonzy record. That guy is the tits.
Also, seconded Sujan. Surfer Blood is totally good. I also like The Drums. I sometimes play both records back to back.
Excitable Boy is one of the 10 most underrated albums from the '70s. No doubt about it. And I'll echo everyone else regarding the Jam's LPs.
And I'll agree with you on all the new stuff (especially that Midlake record, which sadly blows). But I disagree on Spoon. I think it's their best album in several tries. Does it have the hits? No. But it just works so fucking well as a whole.
I wanna hear the Ted Leo.
I am not surprised that you do not love Obits or Hot Snakes because I don't think you like to rock hard. I think you just like to rock medium.
@jim, lolz.
jim,
true. true. i do rock medium. but obits don't really rock that hard do they? they rock real medium.
More medium than Hot Snakes, sure, but there is an urgency and aggressiveness in their music that for me push it into the hard category. Especially if you see them live.
Skimmed this entry the first time and missed your Some Girls discussion. "Before They Make Me Run" might be my all-time favorite Stones song. It's at least in the top 4.
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