(Hey Jeanne, I'll check that record out based on your recommendation just now, so hey, good thing you posted it here.)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
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― chuck, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
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― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
40 Electric Six "Fire"38 Basement Jaxx "Kish Kash"34 My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves"29 Joe Budden "Joe Budden"28 Drive By Truckers "Decoration Day"27 Bubba Sparxx "Deliverance"25 The Darkness "Permission To Land"24 The Rapture "Echoes"19 Atmosphere "Seven's Travels"15 AFI "Sing The Sorrow"14 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "Hearts of Oak"12 Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner"10 Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"06 Jay-Z "The Black Album"05 Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Fever To Tell"03 The Strokes "Room On Fire"02 Outkast "Speakerboxx/The Love Below"01 The White Stripes "Elephant"
Haven't decided on Missy yet. Like 50's birthday song just fine.Bubba Sparxxx is the only one that will make my top ten, probably.
― chuck, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link
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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:51 (twenty years ago) link
The Darkness are way marginal, but I like how some melodies remind me of old Scorpions/Boston/Night Ranger proto-pop-metal stuff. Their songwriting kinda sucks, they don't take enough guitar solos, and the Tiny Tim dork is way better singing in a lower register. That said, I definitely find hooks all through that CD that I respond happily to.
― chuck, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
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― islandscott, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
If all it takes to make Spin's top 40 is cop a Neil Young line for a hook, I need to start a band, post haste!!
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
I gotta admit I'm digging Decoration Day a lot more than the cheapo Lynyrd comp called What's Your Name? that I've got. Compared to the Darkness and Rapture guys, Karen O, Patterson Hood and Ted Leo are definitely NOT as monochromatic and empty.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
You couldn't have made more of a mindfuck if you tried! Let it slip in your ballot and then deny ever having thought about it.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
Anthony, I can only chalk this up to your famous "rhythm section problem." (And remember, DBT's considerably less alt country but still not danceable enough previous album topped my list last year, unless you count bands from 25 years ago.) (Also, I didn't compare Ted Leo, etc to Darkness, etc; I compared them to Thin Lizzy, etc.)
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:37 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah judging bands on more than their rhythm section IS my problem, Chuck.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
1. That Smell 2. Workin' for MCA 3. Call Me the Breeze 4. Mississippi Kid 5. What's Your Name? 6. Simple Man 7. Things Goin' On 8. I Need You 9. Swamp Music 10. Sweet Home Alabama
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
And yeah, that's what I was getting at, too, with the Pharmacists. I didn't feel like typing the whole thing.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link
Drive By Truckers have yet to write a song as good as:
1. That Smell 2. Workin' for MCA 3. Call Me the Breeze 5. What's Your Name? 6. Simple Man 10. Sweet Home Alabama
Wittier lyrics, more engaged singing, fuller guitars, sadder beauty. More at STAKE. Not just a better beat, though they swung as hard as any rock band ever. But they were an album band, Anthony. You should buy their albums. The first two are a really fine place to start.
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
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― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
Avalanches TOTALLY surprised me! I'd barely even heard of them!
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
because it's a good album that's been released in the midwest?
also, what rock were you living under that you'd never heard of the Avalanches? yeah, I even knew they sucked by then!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
I heard the NAME Avalanches. Somebody in Canada had pitched me the record. I just assumed it was, like, a popular in Canada thing. I still don't understand what's so great about that album, so maybe that's got something to do with it. But obviously, many disagreed.
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link