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Love both the Al Green and Sam Cooke discs. Those are good nominations I would have to say Bob Marley's Legend though is head and shoulders above all compilations.

Thought it would be interesting to limit the thinking to only 2 albums and see what people come up with. Here's mine. Thoughts? 2000's -Black Rebel Motorcyle Club - Howl -Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 90's -Son Volt-Trace -The Black Crowes-Amorica 80's -Prince & The Revolution-Purple Rain -Paul Simon-Graceland 70's -The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street (best album of all time IMO) -The Clash-London Calling 60's -Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde -The Beatles-Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band How's that for a fine evening of listening pleasure???

AFter downloading the 2 tracks they have on their website and then previewing the whole album on Itunes I am decidedly underwhelmed. I was really looking forward to this album after stumbling on their first one a year or so ago. Think I'll wait until I can find a used copy somwhere though.

I haven't read throught the entire thread, but I've skimmed throuh several pages and haven't seen the best song ever, which is quite obviously .... Brown Eyed Girl Reminds you how great it is to be in the company of the woman you love who loves you back. Nothing better in this life.

I wan't a huge fan of Ms. Lynn's before I picked this up. I mostly got it because of the good buzz it was getting pre-release and because of Jack White's involvement. I immediately fell in love with the record once I got it. Her voice is one of a kind and is still so strong for a woman at her age. Its just a very good country music album. When I say country music, I mean COUNTRY music, not the sugar-coated pop garbage that gets played on your average coutnry radio station today. Very down to earth lyrics. Nothing earth-shattering or high-concept, but they come across as very honest

I'm driving down from KC and am very excited about seeing my favorite band in my hometown in the building where my high school prom was held.

picked this up yesterday.Fantastic live performance. When I heard this was coming out a couple of months ago, I didn't realize that it was going to be the same set as what was filmed for the High-Def special on HDNET a while back. I saw that show and liked the set a lot. Great surprise when I get the CD and find out it is the same set! Some highlights: -the all acoustic mini-set towards the end of the show featuring She Talks To Angels and the freaking unbeatable trio of Amorica tunes - Cursed Diamond, Wiser Time, and Nonfiction. Awfully awfully good. -the inclusion of female backup voca

Interesting that you would include a Portishead record in a hip hop list. Obvious hip hop influence in terms of the instrumentation. I guess I just never considered it to be hip hop since the lyrics are sung instead of spoken. Actully, I don't know what I'd call it. Dummy is a phenomenal record at any rate. Okay, I'll give it a shot.. 10.Kanye West - The College Dropout 09.De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising 08.Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full 07.EPMD - Strictly Business 06.The Roots - Things Fall Apart 05.Beastie Boys - Check Your Head 04.A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory 0

cool. I hope it works well for you.

maybe the wood floor IS stiill there. In any case the place is not horrible by any means, just not as nice as that pictue would make it seem. I'll be there for sure for my fourth Wilco show.

I've probably got somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% rap of all the albums in my collection. Most of my stuff is 80's or 90's and is mostly made up of the big names of that time: PE Ice Cube Run DMC A Tribe Called Quest Beastie Boys EPMD De La Soul NWA Dre's Chronic (after which I lost interest since he's tried to release this same album over again) Snoop's first album As for contemporaries, I haven't gotten into them as much but there are a few out there who are worth listening to: The Roots (these guys are the best thing going in hip hop today IMO) Jurassic 5 (just now got into them

Well Chango I don't want to damper your excitement and I certainly hope you go ahead and hit the Wichita show, but that picture of the Cotillion must be from the night the place opened. I'm from Wichita. My high school prom was held at the Cotillion. It doesn't look anywhere near that good anymore, and I definitely would not call it "swanky". It's been awhle since I've been there myself, but those chandeliers are not there anymore, and I don't think the floor is wooden anymore - been replaced with concrete. Still, it's not very big, so it should be a nice little intimate show. I'm making

I'm not huge into them but I do have Bakesale and Harmacy and enjoy both of them. I'd recommend either one of those records. Why the hate for Pavement BrianJeremy?

This plus the news a couple of weeks back about the Crowes releasing the Taller sessions have made my summer.