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bob dylan - love & theft joanna newsom - ys wilco - a ghost is born super furry animals - rings around the world wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot gillian welch - soul journey super furry animals - phantom power fiery furnaces - blueberry boat lambchop - nixon panda bear - person pitch grandaddy - sumday i think they are probably in order, and it's 11

Listening now, and they sound really good. Better than Band Of Horses! The A'cappella bits are great, it would be good if they made a whole album that sounds like White Winter Hymnal - that's great stuff. Cheers for pointing them out, I'll watch out for them in the future.

I think you are right about the list of artists being the people he sampled. My favourite one I found on the record is on Good Girl, which is a sample from Ducks On The Wall by The Kinks. On the orginial song it's a duck call sound, but he's slowed it down to make it sound more like a horrible screaming noise. He quotes them on the album sleeve, so it fits in with you theory - also, here are a couple of threads on the Collected Animals Forum which have a load of other examples of this: 1 and 2 I don't think many people on here like them at all, and I'm sure that everyone who does likes Pe

That name really puts me off wanting to listen to them. What do they sound like? Maybe I can get past the name, because the album cover looks cool.

i'm in agreement with you on this. i did have a copy of the blue cd-r on my computer, but i deleted it over christmas because i knew i'd probably never want to listen to it again after a couple of weeks of listening prior to that (during which i thought it was alright, but a bit light weight to sustain my interest). plus, i thought that the files might corupt my other music or, worse still, start stealing music from my other folders to make a monster music file that would take over my computer and then take over the internet and then take over the world (or should it be 'world' before 'interne

That's a bit of a stange question to ask, if you want to get solid figures on fast food consumption: I like the taste of fish and chips (fast food) far too much to give it up too, but I probably only eat fish and chips 3 or 4 times in a year, and fast food in general at the most 10 to 20 (and that's being very generous) times in a given year. So I would fit into that 45 percent too, but I hardly eat the stuff - so nothing is proved there then. Not trying to defend Britain or anything, I just think that survey is stupid - and I also think the problem with poor diet actually steams from shi

seeing as it's nearly the new year - here is the greatest television moment from it. it is john sweeney (a bbc reporter for pamorama - the bbc's flagship current affairs show) going mental at an american scientologist who raises his voice, but foolishy doesn't plan for the onslaught he gets back in return. the bit when sweeney calms sunddenly and says, "do you understand?" is the peak of its brilliance. it also proves that no matter how much you shout at religious fanatics - they don't really attempt to listen to your point. i think all interviewers should have the balls to get that woun

Yeah, I don't get the 'no melodies' thing, seeing as how the whole album is made up entirely of melody and rhythm. But, I remember a lot of people saying the same thing about Joanna Newsom's Ys from last year, so I just assume some people have a different idea of what melody actually means. I think it actually comes down to song structure which people have an issue with, along with the fact that they don't like what they hear (which, as I said before, is more than fair enough)

Sorry to have to say this, but my first thought was - "This'll be shit" And I'm saying this from the stand point that they are my favourite band of all time.

You're not missing anything if you don't like it. At least you gave it a try, though.

Here's the top ten from Twisted Ear My personal list goes: 1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch 2. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera 3. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam 4. Gruff Rhys - Candylion 5. Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love 6. Citay - Little Kingdom 7. Caribou - Andorra 8. Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart 9. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 10. Andre Ethier - On Blue Fog

I picked this up on a radiohead forum earlier today, and someone said a similar thing. That was what made me grab it, actually - I love female singers like that and British folk music from the 1970s is a big love of mine (and this fits that style - vocally at least), and I have to say I am really enjoying it a lot at the moment. I would have thought that album cover would have given away the sound to you!

Except it sounds like The Human League wrote Someone Great, just for starters. I don't want to get caught discussing the negatives of it all, because it's a fairly good album, and it will end up sounding like I hate it.

then . . .

I didn't say it was bad or anything, just not great. A bit like I think Boxer; or Neon Bible; or For Emma, Forever Ago; or In Rainbows (albums lots of other people like this year) all have songs I like on them, but as entire albums I can take or leave them. It's not that I can't see why other people would like them, but they're just only 50% my cup of tea as opposed to 100% (with 2 sugars).

Surprises Panda Bear - Person Pitch (I didn't like Young Prayer, so this came right out of the blue - and I see it as a long way above all the other things I liked from this year) Caribou - Andorra (Never heard of them/him until this year - so it was a nice surprise) Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love (After the EP they put out a few years back I knew they were good, but it was a surprise how good this album was) Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Good to see he's still making great, interesting, music) Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground (Like Wyatt, it's good to see him still making great music) Dis

Good to see pitchfork had it in their top 50 of the year. NP> Fuzzy Logic - SFA

And The Intro & The Outro, that's a great song. Basically their first four albums are brilliant.

The Move playing Fire Brigade on Top Of The Pops is one of my favourite music moments. There's a show called Top Of The Pops 2 (or there was, anyway) which used to show old clips and seeing Roy Wood looking like a Cavalier from the neck up, but wearing Medieval clothes, whilst singing a 1960s song was one of the weirder moments that always stuck in my mind. Blackberry Way and Flowers In The Rain were big hits too. Another weird tv moment I was too young to watch the first time round, but saw at some point, and thought was odd was Steeleye Span on the kids tv show Crackerjack singing Not a g

They're pretty well known in the UK - perhaps mainly for I'm The Urban Spaceman, and obviously their association with Monty Python and The Beatles. People should also know that Death Cab For Cutie are named after a Bonzo Dog Band song (the one you mentioned from Magical Mystery Tour in fact!) My personal favourite of theirs is Look Out, There's A Monster Coming oh and Keynsham. Both of which, I've just found are on Youtube! Very good stuff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdA4zKp-00 (if you're offended by white people blacking themselves up, and wearing a deluxe mersey beat wig a size to

get him cross (or +) by justice, or if you really want to take a risk try load blown by black dice. trouble is, if his father is the one who has told you the music he likes then you might find out that he's not into electronica at all, and instead listens to the sugababes - never trust parents. (i'm not having a go at the sugababes, by the way - their new single is yet more proof of how great they are as a pop band, my point is that they aren't electronica). don't get him animal collective - they're incredible, but not what i'd call electronica. maybe you could get him silver apples by s