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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.

I'm not sure it has anything to do with weird noises, but rather the *energy* and the complete artistic change. The Lips are an older band than both Wilco and Radiohead(still considered their peers), but Embryonic is just crackling with vitality and the energy of a 25 YO rock band that sounds excited and driven. This is in stark contrast to the lower energy MOR released by their peers. With Embryonic, the Flaming Lips have the vitality, drive and energy that Wilco and Radiohead seemed to circa 1998-2000. That is mindblowing.

The Conan performance was brilliant, edgy and full of energy. A far cry from Wilco doing that Starbucks song a few months back.

One gets the feeling that a lot of their peers working on material right now just said "awww shit" and started over after hearing Embryonic - and that's not even getting into the song quality of it, just the sheer energy and vitality of how the thing sounds. BTW, in case anyone didn't know that's Wayne soloing on Powerless and playing guitar on Worm Mountain.

That's a good way of putting it. I'd say they've been in a holding pattern since Kid A. Embryonic to me is "moving forward". At this point I have no choice but to put this easily as the top album of the year, even with a couple other very nice releases (Middle Cyclone, MPP, Ready for the Flood, etc).

Compared to Embryonic and Kid A, absolutely.

That is what is most amazing about this new Lips album. As their age peers produce corporate, safe and friendly music (In Rainbows, Wilco the Album), these guys come out with a complete rawkus surprise that pushes sonci boudnaries and redefines the band. With the release of Embryonic, I am forced to conclude that the Lips truly are a throwboack to the truly great rock bands. I am shocked and awed at this buzzing, chaotic, beautiful psychedelic piece of work. If psychedelic pioneer Syd Barrett were alive today, he would want to shake hands with this band not only for the quality of this alb

Yes, a free form experimental rock record is "overworked".

This record is mindblowingly good. Floyd and Miles Davis are all over this thing, and mixed in perfectly with the Lips own sound. Beautiful, inventive, vibrant, alive, daring. This is how you make a rock record. OTM.