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EMA's California is definitely at the top of my best tracks of the year list. I definitely prefer Life Fantastic over Rabbit Habits. Rabbit Habits still have a lot of highlights: oddly, it actually sounds better after I've heard Life Fantastic. I can't wait to see them, again. I just hope this time the crazy kids won't mosh and elbow me while they perform Engrish Bwudd or Young Einstein On The Beach. That was a pretty bizarre and annoying moment for me.

Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin' Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome 13 & God - Own Your Ghost UDPATE: EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints This is wonderful!

Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact Confusing, yet delighted.

The Cars - Move Like This Meh. UPDATE: Man Man - Life Fantastic Awesome so far.

Wild Beasts - Smother A much more delicate piece of art then their previous works. First TV On The Radio, now Wild Beasts. Who's next? UPDATE: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Once again, not impressed by the hype. Antlers, The - Burst Apart

Better late to the party than never.

Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas is a also a pretty anomalous and yet great highlight of the show. Dino Stamatopoulos even helped write that episode. I'm still a pretty big fan of Moral Orel. Back to topic, I noticed a small shift and evolution in the show during Mixology Certification that brought the show outside of the Greendale zone with a serious and yet humorous tone. I thought that was a great exploration that didn't meander like many other series would. I definitely prefer the episodes where they place spotlight on a character or two. Unfortunately, I find Paradigms Of Human Memor

Since I haven't seen a thread on this in the archives,... let's talk about Community, a comedy on NBC television network (and streaming on Hulu). The episode Critical Film Studies has easily convinced me that this is one of the best episodes of television this year as well as the best 1/2 hour comedy on air since Arrested Development. Not only do they do homages well, but they have excellent control of the variety of ways to elicit humorous responses, which range from black comedy to slapstick. Please, tell me I'm not the only one keeping this show alive.

I'm not quite sure what makes this so special.

English is my foreign language.

Yeah, Solace (check the now playing thread) and their main website informed me the day I planned to see them in concert, which happened to be the same morning Mr. Smith has passed. Sad times, indeed.

Voice, string, trombone pull me forward, onward to the sea. Take my picture, soon all I will be is my disease.

Rest in peace, Mr. Gerard Smith. Onto filling the empty voids that are the dead band member and tonight...

I first saw them when they were touring for Return To Cookie Mountain. The sound was just this awful bland grunge sound similar to the dismal sound they had at SNL (which they claim is their regular sound, and nothing was wrong). The only things that stood out from that concert was Young Liars, Wolf Like Me, and Staring At The Sun. They're playing at the same venue, sadly, and I do really want to give them another try live. I just hope the mix isn't horrible and that they don't sound like some awful grunge band again. I think they suffer from some of the weird studio sickness that Spoon

TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light Going to see them tomorrow. Hope they don't still suck live.

Low - C'mon

/jaw-dropped-still

I could swear I hear hints of Queens Of The Stone Ages' Songs For The Deaf sprinkled on most of the tracks. Then again, Dave Grohl did drum for that album.

I've noticed several repeats already: good to know people don't read. I can still take advantage of them!

Gold Panda - Companion [a compilation of previous material]

Yo La Tengo - Saturday

Yeah yeah yeah, everyone and their moms and dads are listening to it.

Agreed. Disappointed that in a forum so heavily alternative-singer/songwriter-favored, despite the direction of his evolving band, that The Mountain Goats receive little praise. High Hawk Season is amazing. np: LCD Soundsystem - The Final Show [streaming NAO]