Doug

"Hazlitt Takes to Shore"- Centro-matic

What makes you think you'll get that sort of stuff in a thread entitled "New album news!"???

2 Girls, 1 Cup, and a Drummer

Screeching Weasel redid the Ramones' first album. Pussy Galore redid Exile on Main Street. The Smithereens redid Meet the Beatles (retitled Meet the Smithereens).

"It's My Potty (And I'll Cry If I Want To)"--Lesley Gore "And My Unit Moves"--Bob Pollard "Brown Submarine"--Boston Spaceships

Alice Donut Tsunami Prong (I hate heavy metal, but these guys put on a fun show) Five-Eight

I admit it-- I've shed a tear or two listening to the Traveling Wilburys' "End of the Line." Other emotionally moving songs for me... Traveling Wilburys- "Handle With Care" (the older I get, the more this song means to me) Dylan- "If You See Her, Say Hello," "I Threw It All Away," "Standing in the Doorway" and "Most of the Time" My Morning Jacket- "Lowdown," "By My Car," "Hopefully" and "The Bear" (even though I have no idea what "The Bear" is about) Will Johnson- "Re-Run Pills," "Like a Madman" and "Tent of Total Mystery"

I've been a Bob/GbV fan since '93, but I didn't get around to seeing them in concert until January 2000, in Orlando, so I was super-excited and had unreal expectations. Bob didn't let me down. Best concert of my life. It was the Bob/Doug/Nate/Tim/JimmyMac lineup. That show is famous for being the one that started the douse-Bob-with-beer craze. Next time they came to Orlando, Bob walked onto stage wearing a raincoat and goggles. Funny guy. Nope, didn't make it to the farewell show. My last GbV show was November 2003 in Atlanta. I have yet to see Bob in concert, post-GbV.

I think these are the only bands/artists I've seen multiple times, not counting tiny local Tampa bands: Guided by Voices (12) Wilco (5) Green Day (3) ALL (3) Circle Jerks (3) Samiam (3) Delbert McClinton (2) Public Image Limited (2) Yo La Tengo (2) 7 Seconds (2)

Guided by Voices Unrest My Morning Jacket Wilco The Wedding Present

Obviously not a band, but the most important musical artist in America is Kinky Friedman.

Snow Angels- Stewart O'Nan A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers The Know-It-All- A.J. Jacobs Jesus' Son- Denis Johnson The Laughing Matter- William Saroyan honorable mention: So Long, See You Tomorrow- William Maxwell Portnoy's Complaint- Philip Roth

"U" and "Leatherman"- Pearl Jam "Fly Into Ashes," "Why Did You Land?," "Isolation Drills," "Deaf Ears," "Tropical Robots," "Color of my Blade"- Guided by Voices

Small 23 Saturnine 60 Both of these fantastic 90's indie bands wisely dropped the #'s early in their careers.

Son Volt- "Windfall" MMJ- "Heartbreakin' Man" Centro-matic- "Rat Patrol and DJs" Centro-matic- "Mighty Midshipman" Frank Black- "Los Angeles" GbV- "Hardcore UFOs" GbV- "Everyone Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)" GbV- "Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox" Mendoza Line- "Water Surrounds"

Guided by Voices- Universal Truths and Cycles (they opened a summer 2002 show in Athens, GA by playing the entire album)

TWSS

anything by Wire Public Image Limited- Flowers of Romance

God's Favorite Band- In Through the Outhouse (saw these guys open for Alice Donut in '92) Bob Evans- Adult World Unrest- Imperial f.f.r.r. and Perfect Teeth U2- October Flaming Lips- Hit to Death in the Future Head (it's sandwiched in-between two classics, but c'mon, it's got "Felt Good to Burn, "Frogs," "Gingerale Afternoon," "Hit Me Like You Did the First Time," and "Halloween on the Barbary Coast" for god's sake!)

Centro-matic- "Love Has Found Me Somehow"

Kinky Friedman- "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in Bed"

I agree 100% with all of the above. Other underrated records... Rocket from the Crypt- Circa:Now! (Scream, Dracula, Scream gets the accolades and the airplay, but give this one a chance; it's simply one great rock song after another) M. Ward- Transistor Radio Centro-matic- Distance and Clime (fans tend to overlook this one for some reason) The Who- The Who By the Numbers

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