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It's because people are lazier, which means bands are lazier and they don't practice nearly as much, which means lower quality songs. Album sales aren't dying for good albums, just bad ones. Dark Side of the Moon has seen an incrase in sales up to 300,000 per year 40 years after it's release....

Political Manifest is good and captures the anger of the Bush years. Mystic Theeater to me is easily his weakest effort.

At least you don't have to kill an entire tree to enjoy it.

Gotta go with the Flaming Lips, both because they are easily the best and most original live act of the decade(rock music is about much more than downloading and listening to an album), and they also had two of the best albums in Yoshimi and Embryonic. Beyond that I would say The Drive By Truckers, M83, Animal Collective and the White Stripes.

1. Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts - M83 2. Yoshimi Battles the Pink robots - The Flaming Lips 3. The Sopthware Slump - Gradaddy 4. The Dirty South - The Drive By Truckers 5. Ys - Joanna Newsom 6. It's a Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse 7. Blueberry Boat - The Fiery Furnaces 8. Sea Change - Beck 9. The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers 10. Gillian Welch - Revelator 11. Embryonic - The Flaming Lips 12. The Salvation Blues - Mark Olson 13. Boys and Girls in America - The Hold Steady 14. You Are There - Mono 15. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

That Letterman performance was outstanding. Can't say the same for the album though.

That's becasue all art rock, alternative rock etc was spawned by psych rock.

You gotta go with Piper. That's the one that set THE standard. And it's not just the sugary bullshit psych, but the contrasting dark stuff. My "updated" list would look something like this, based on what I would tell someone if they said "what music should I listen to while on psychedelic mushrooms or LSD?" 1. Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd 2. Meddle - Pink Floyd 3. Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts - M83 4. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix 5. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis 6. In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson 7. Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues 8. The Sof

In the Flowers - Animal Collective: Worm Mountain - The Flaming Lips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z9HDrk6gFg Two Doves - The Dirty Projectors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmmy9Q0bMGo Lady Divine - Alela Diane: Saturday Morning on Sunday Street - Mark Olson and Gary Louris: There are a few.

It's going to take some time for people who aren't normally into whacked out experimental psychedelia.

Pretty bad record.

Hollywood Town Hall - The Jayhawks Tomorrow The Green Grass - The Jayhawks Trace - Son Volt The Bends - Radiohead Transmissions From the Satellite Heart - The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic - The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips Summerteeth - Wilco Air - Moon Safari Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev I Feel Alright - Steve Earle El Corazon - Steve Earle Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins Ragged Glory - Neil Young The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb If You're Feeling Sinister- Belle and Sebastian Amused To Death - Roger Waters Crook

The Lips are playing a show in a few mionutes that is being streamed live: http://www.flaminglips.com/blog

This is a good observation. This seems to be some big, organic, pagan, tribal, hallucinogenic ball of fury. At least that's what I get out of it so far.

OTM! This is what great art rock bands do. They reinvent themselves. Again totally OTM. This is Miles Davis + early Floyd. Think "Nick's Boogie"(1966) and "Interstellar Overdrive" meshed with Ummagumma: It's experimental psychedelic rock done very well.