PopTodd

Something like this (from another board that I frequent): http://www.obner.org/bb/charts.php?action=all_list Board members can both add albums and rate them, to create a ROLLING "VC's Greatest Albums" feature. Just a thought. Any support?

Used to be my favorite band; and my all-time favorite album used to be Nothing's Shocking. I would certainly be curious to hear some of this stuff, but just as certainly will not be spending this kind of money on it.

What can you tell me about them? You like 'em? What's the best record to get?

Okay, I have to relay this story (if I haven't somewhere, already): Where I went to H.S. we had an every-other-year event called "Focus On The Arts", where people who made their living in the arts came to speak to the students about what they did. And, sometimes to perform. Now, Milwaukee is only about an hour from my childhood suburb, and Brian Ritchie came down to perform and have a moderated conversation with a group of students. I was lucky enough to score tickets to the dialogue. Brian ambled into the room, with about 35 students in attendance, and 3 teachers. He was amicable and to

Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson Shrimp Boat - Something Grand (disc 2) Television - Marquee Moon Stereolab - Dots & Loops Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains

...the entire crowd can sing along every word to every song and have it not be annoying, but actually fun. Hell, maybe the ONLY live band for which this is true. I'm listening to a live recording of them doing a couple of songs off that first album and remembering back to when I saw them. We in the crowd

(Sorry, I had to do that.) But yeah, they wrote great song after great song.

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig! Green - Green "Billy G's No Frills Pop Mix" (a really great 2002 power pop mix from an internet friend)

I listened to this last night (twice) and again this morning (twice). It is like something entirely new. So amazing. I love it love it loveit loveitloveitloveitloveit!!!! Not every day you get a new Beatles track.

Glad you dug it, Scott. Linus Of Hollywood - A pure pop songwriter, through-and-through. He's also a studio musician out in L.A., and the owner of Franklin Castle Records. That song is an Ozzy Osbourne cover. Roy Wood - The leader (and founding member of) The Move, which is the band that later morphed into ELO, once Jeff Lynne wrestled control of the band away from Roy. Roy's solo albums are amazingly eccentric and frequently quite beautiful, even at their most ridiculous. The Move's song "Flowers In the Rain" (pre-Lynne) was the first song ever played by BBC1. Recommendations: Linus Of

"If everyone was happy, there'd never be a love song." Harry Nilsson - "Joy"

I loves me some SFA! And I'm excited about the new album. Thanks, Joss! Fave SFA album: Radiator Fave song: "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" Fave song title: "The International Language Of Screaming"

I need to see this when I get home! Thanks so much.

Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Vol. 3 Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer The Wolfgang Press - Queer Tom Z

05/15/2009 Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL I gotta be there. What Is?! is one of my favorites of the millennium, so far.

Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills Arcade Fire - Funeral The Format - Dog Problems Various artists - Paisley Pop: Pye Psych & Other Colours (1966-1969)

I was gonna throw in my 2

I was just about to graduate college when it came out. But yeah, I loved it, too. I don't listen to it enough, but when I do, I love it all over again.

The Clash - The Clash Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Fishbone - The Reality Of My Surroundings Margo Guryan compilation

That's why there are passing chords. Call the Hotline and they'll tell you how to modulate.

Call the "Fountains Of Wayne Hotline" So dead-on. I love it.

Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, and Delivered Thelonious Monk - The Best Of the Blue Note Years Martin Newell - A Summer Tamarind Roky Erickson - Don't Slander Me

What do you think? I think it's easily her best album to-date; finally making good on all of the obviously great influences that she's had all along for an entire album. Marriage and motherhood has been good to her muse, it seems.

I'm gonna be a bastard and suggest something else altogether: or Seems like you would love either (or both), given the albums you are asking about. And, I will never stop pimping for the Brinsleys for as long as I live and as long as they are not legends, the world-over. Such a truly great band.

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Ultimate Collection Supergrass - Life On Other Planets Leo Kottke - Greenhouse The Zombies - Odyessy & Oracle