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There's a dual purpose to this thread. Firstly, I'm on the prowl for good songs I may have missed during 2009. As I don't claim to have a finely attuned ear for current gems I often overlook huge amounts of musical goodness. Secondly, I'm currently in the process of making a compilation for a friend and I'm on the lookout for source material. The compilation is based on music released this year but I've come up against a big problem: we have very different tastes in music - I'm drawn to electronic sounds, and my pal, who the comp is for, is less so. So far I've selfishly gone down the path

About a month or so ago I was going to post about the trailer for the new Jim Cameron film Avatar. Ideas in my brain are like snowflakes in the desert, rare and fleeting, so I forgot all about it. This thread has reminded me and it seems as good a place as any. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXF2nH4Z9sc&feature=related This trailer, indeed, even the prospect of the film, bothers me. It bothers me because of the whole backstory, that Jim Cameron waited 12 or so years to make this, mainly waiting for technology to catch-up. Also, the press blurb in the build up to this

Anton was my initial thought too, but hope that it won't be the case as it's so out of character; he's a nice guy! Oh, I think there was a whole lot of Dexter character development in the episode, but I wanted more movement in the more linear narrative department. In otherwords, crank up the Trinity intensity more, and the ensuing investigations, and stop playing the whining-wife-and-kids card. With Lundy (seemingly) gone, though, it means Dexter has a bit more liberty. I'm sure we (the audience), and Dexter, thought that Lundy might have an inkling about Dexter's nocturnal hobbies.

Apart from the ending, I thought this episode was a bit lame. It didn't really move the story along at all and just seemed to get side-tracked with Dexter finding his murderous mojo again. It was mainly filler for me. I am a fan of the show, but I was hoping they would start ratcheting up the creepiness and tension of Trinity. Am I alone in thinking that the ending was a bit 'tacked-on'? It felt a bit extreme and out of context compared to that episode's other content. And then I got to thinking that maybe, due to the timing and aftermath of his half-brother's wardrobe-altercation, they

Just called the police to inform them that Grandaddy were missing from this thread. They're looking into it. PS: I know some of their best doesn't fall neatly into the 90s, but still.

Super Furry Animals Spiritualized both spring immediately to mind.

If you like Dan Deacon's Bromst then I'd suggest the following: Clark - Totems Flare Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II The Field - Yesterday & Today Clark is more aggressive but also wonderfully melodic, also a couple of Explosions/Sigur moments in there. Lindstrom / Prins Thomas is a spacey jam record that is deceptively hypnotic. The Field is trancey and repetitious, not quite as good as his previous album but has some good moments, particularly when John Stanier from Battles rocks up.

One album I was surprised to see so high was the Avalanches. I suspect this more a case of absence making the heart grow fonder. It's not a bad album, and definitely worthy of place in the 200, but it certainly isn't one of the ten best of the last decade.

Now I'm not the biggest fan of Pitchfork - too precious and exclusive - but I am fan of polls, charts and any stat pecking order bollocks, so it was a great surprise to see Pitchfork's top 200 album picks of the 2000s. Surprising, because I actually think it's pretty good. The selections, barring the odd omission, and them not necessarily being in the right order, are pretty much spot on. Biggest gripe, for me at least, is that there is no A Ghost Is Born. I would replace YHF with it in the list, but that's just my personal preference. Kid A makes top of the pops which I wouldn't entirely

One of my favourites: G.O.B.: Oh, I missed you, Michael! Michael: All right. G.O.B.: Or should I say robot. Michael: What, ’cause’m not crying? G.O.B.: Maybe you don’t have enough RAM to understand this, Michael, but there’s such a thing as brotherly love.

I was at this show, and at Green Man incidentally, and it has to go down as one of my favourite London shows - a city whose concert-goers usually prefer to have the performing band act as background music to their own personal chat parties. Tonight was different, the crowd were eager and excited for the music, younger than expected and totally enamoured with the band. I was stood about 6 people (or rows, not that there were rows) behind the guy who wanted 'Richard' to come down from the stalls. Slight grumble: if Jeff wanted a Queen-moment for his birthday then he must realise that the son

I'm away for two weeks now. And not only is that an open invite to would-be burglars, but also allows me the luxury of listening to your mixes whilst on the road. Some I'm loaded up with joss ackland's baroque pop and southern soul mixes, GtrPlyr's eccentrics collection; DAngerer09's Less Than Popular rock and Pop Todd's effort. I'll report back to class (and the police) in a fortnight.

Phew, mix finally finished now. A few points to note: * Apologies, this is just one long mp3. My skills aren't yet at the advanced stage were I can divide the tracks up. * To upload I used Rapidshare. At 90% completion of the upload it provided me with the download link(??!). I don't know if this is the norm, but my confidence isn't exactly high in everything having been captured - where did that missing 10% go?? * Because I used Rapidshare, the link is limited to ten downloads only. In the unlikely event that this link expires, and demand for downloading not being met (again, unlikely)

No, not heard anything by Jim Ford. I noticed he was the opener on GtrPlyr's mix, but, unfortunately I haven't had much time to listen to other people's mixes, beyond thankyoufornothingatall's - I will though. If there's a likeness to Brinsley Schwarz, and by that reasoning The Band, then I guess I'll dig it. Incidentally, I also noticed GtrPlyr had included the very same Arthur Russell track that nearly made my mix. I'm thinking there's some almost cosmic, musical touchstones beyond Wilco that are common amongst quite a few posters here. Which raises such questions as: Is ViaChicago buil

Here is the mix that thankyoufornothingatall did for me. You'll find the tracklisting as part of the .rar file, and I don't have it downloaded on this machine (work laptop). thankyoufornothingatall's Mix It's a really good contemporary mix, with a little splash of vintage in there. The more modern stuff on there I'm pretty familiar with (Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, The Knife, Stars, Kevin Drew) but the track selection and sequencing really gives it a natural and warm flow. There were some surprises on there, like the Dave Sitek track that I hadn't heard previous. Also, I blame thankyouforn

If you're gonna make a confession like that, do yourself the dignity of being anonymous! Unfortunately, I've been paired up elsewhere, so no Royal Mail Rumblings coming from me. Rick Witter or no Rick Witter!

Any rules apply to this mix-off? Usually we've have a limit to ten songs, and sometimes even a theme? Equally, we could have no rules, which would ultimately mean me sending twigboyjoe a 'Best of Shed 7' triple cd-set.

Just had big long car journey so: and Animal Collective live at Glastonbury 09 The top three are some of my favourite albums of 09 - I know Plants and Animals was last year but I only heard this year, so there. And the AC live set is pretty good and excellent quality too, including the newish cut What Would I Want Sky, and a massively elongated new version of Fireworks.

I'm in. Digital vibes can be sent and would be gratefully received. With a logistics head on, and to keep costs down, I could pair up with twigboyjoe as he's a Laaahdaaaarn lad, from saaaaarf of the river, so I can easily package up the goods being UK based.

I've been playing a fair bit over the last couple of days, and I'm likin' it. It's plenty fun.

This is more of a 'Was Playing' than a 'Now Playing' as I've just been through these in a long journey. I will say that the Mos Def album was/is a lot of fun and is a really enjoyable album, it's not as immediate as Black On Both Sides, but certainly could be seen as a companion piece, it's along similar lines albeit newer and fresher. However, one of the other two albums I ejected part way through track three. Was not really enjoying it. Here's a clue: it wasn't the Sleepy Sun album.

Forgot to add Dan Deacon's Bromst to that ^^^, and I don't know how to edit posts on this new board.

I've spent far too much time in 2008's backwaters recently (Hush Arbors, Harvey Milk, Plants & Animals), but these from 09 I've enjoyed: Clark - Totems Flare Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest The Field - Yesterday & Today Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II

That one by Judas Priest that made that kid redecorate his palate with a bullet. Dunno what it was called but (seemingly) contained the words, "Do it!" It may actually have been called that.