CoS: 20 Criminally Overlooked Post-2000 College Rock Albums

of this lot i only have doves and constantines.
i have a different album by mates of states, but its buried deep.
have always wanted the stellastarr* album as i remember hearing a track off it and loving it.

what a strange random list ..

yeah weird list. i know maybe half this stuff and none of it is related?

will prob take the second-best cons record over the third-best pinback record.

Huh. Though I'm no longer the audience, it seems pretty tightly clustered.

the list would have been less random if they just called it "nostalgia trip by 35-year-olds who used to do college radio." i know most of these records, but it's only because i'm a 35-year-old who used to do college radio and i remember team clermont or whoever sending them to the station

Weakerthans is a good record and it will get my vote here.

But when yer talking about Emperor X, ya gotta start with Western Teleport. What is this, amateur hour?

it's only because i'm a 35-year-old who used to do college radio and i remember team clermont or whoever sending them to the station

lol pretty sure i saw Enon at the 40 Watt. and Elf Power ofc.

feel like Black Heart Procession got ripped off by tons of popular bands in the 2000s, the vaguely Victorian indie rock chamber orchestra sound (Decemberists? Arcade Fire? i mostly know these acts from their press photos)

Weakerthans record is so good but gonna have to go for Ugly Casanova as "Hotcha Girls" is amazing

I still get down with some Constantines every now and then, particularly that album.

Correction: the album after that one. But Shine a Light is okay.

you are referring to tournament of hearts, which has one of the best 5-song sequences in indie rock

Yep.

"College rock?"

Yeah man. Leave us old people alone with our college rock memories

Enon vs mates of state. Unsure.

Aren't stellarstar corporate ringers or something? Saw ads and shit for them EVERYWHERE at the time

yep i remember that too

The college/indie rep for whatever label Stellasterisks were on was pushing them very hard in my store, FWIW.

Although I was a college radio DJ myself at one time, these albums come from a period when I'd pretty much stopped listening to the stuff, and certainly to the 2nd-tier stuff, so to my knowledge I've never heard any of these albums. The Constantines were on a CD that came with the 2005 Believer magazine music issue that I listened to a bit that year, and which featured in places a similar vibe to many of these, as I'm listening to them now, though the freak-folk sound was by then in the ascendant.

Enon vs Doves vs Black Heart Procession

Cloud Cult is still huge here and are fucking abysmal

@ AB - I only ever saw Enon at Tasty World, with Doll Farm opening. If they played 40 Watt too I'm sorry I missed it!

I'm a former college radio DJ in my 30s. Enon - High Society gets my vote, listening to that is like taking a time machine back to those days.

That Long Winters album has some very excellent power-pop on it. Constantines were great live, though I also think the album after is their best. Wasn't that Doves album pretty huge?

Long Winters album is the best thing on this list by a decent margin

which is not to say everything else sucks, it's just that When I Pretend To Fall is a classic, in my book.

next: Weakerthans, Pinback

only one I know is Kashmir which is indeed a great Danish rock album

Long Winters, followed by Weakerthans, with Pinback pretty high on the list too.

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I'm tempted to listen to the ones I haven't heard, but at the moment another vote for Enon. That was actually my #1 album in the year it came out.

i own Stellastarr*, Doves, Constantines and Enon. voting Doves

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