Glad to see that Moles reissue mentioned by Spin. BTW, even the record label doesn't know what the mixes on it are. It looks like Richard Davies re-mixed it as well as re-mastering...some of the versions are very different. What a strange thing to do.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:09 (twenty years ago) link
Meanwhile I gotta bump something from my list to make way for blink!
This year was fucking great for albums.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:21 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:26 (twenty years ago) link
It will get plenty from PFM, nick. (unfortunately ;) )
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:58 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:51 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:52 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:02 (twenty years ago) link
cf. "Supersonic"
(Anthony - all I know is my special time with my little collection, but two words - Street. Survivors. I Never Dreamed out of You Got That Right. Manna from heaven.)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link
I don't find this nutty at all. I can't imagine SPIN harbors a whole lot of love for a band like DCFC, esp. with a record that's good but ultimately not that exciting or that different from their other albums (which didn't get attention from SPIN, either).
Add that to the fact that the Postal Service record got way more hype (esp. w/ that readymade PR hook = "see, he mailed it to the other guy, and then the other guy mailed it back...) and LOTS of crossover appeal, with both the indie-rock and electro-pop audiences. I have a couple friends who aren't into Death Cab at all (I mean, have barely heard the band) who like the Postal Service. Dude, even Matos likes the record!
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 06:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 09:09 (twenty years ago) link
I don't understand why everyone cares about the damn thing. It's not like it's ever surprising at all.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
21 The Mars Volta "Deloused in the Crematorium"16 Blur "Think Tank"13 Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"11 Metallica "St. Anger"10 Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"08 The New Pornographers "Electric Version"
Records from this list that made my top 10:
13 Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"10 Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
― maura (maura), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
― maura (maura), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
Surprisingly, I've actually heard most of the rest of the albums.
And what I like about 50 Cent is his lack of enunciation. He's very soft, melodic, nearly legato, the words blend together like water. It's such a contrast to his image. What I don't really care for, is basically, everything else about him and his music.
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
i would like to hear just the backing track of in da club as the new 'law and order' theme, i think
― maura (maura), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
in 2004I will leave it all behindSO looking forward....
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link
I will keep writingbut will stop being obsessed,SPENDING ALL MY CASH
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, I'll publish it fairly soon. I'm just a bit lazy about rounding up all the album covers and such.
(And of course I'll be listening to Radio 3 on Friday.)
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 December 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 December 2003 02:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 4 December 2003 04:47 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link