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    Your top 3 music albums (collections of songs) released in the year 2012 A.D.

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    Hah!

     

    I feel really bad for not liking them and I really wish I did...I'm just not there.  My opinion of the new records doesn't mean that I don't like GBV anymore...in fact, I just hipped one of my friends to them and he's digging the hell outta B000 and Alien Lanes...there's not a better feeling than introducing GBV to another music fiend...I'm just not feeling the new stuff.

    Your top 3 music albums (collections of songs) released in the year 2012 A.D.

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    one could make a semi-convincing argument that Ty Segall (Slaughterhouse, the record w/ White Fence, Twins) or Guided By Voices (Let's Go Eat The Factory; Class Clown Spots a UFO; The Bears For Lunch) could singlehandedly take top 3 honors this year.

     

    The reunion GBV records have done nothing for me and I cite GBV as one of my all-time favorite bands. The records look so much better on paper than they actually sound. I even passed up the opportunity to see them in September because I didn't feel like putting the money, time or effort into seeing them play material I could care less about.

     

    I keep trying too: yesterday I played bears for lunch twice and still, just not feeling it. I haven't even cracked the seal on class clown and I've had it for months. I haven't even bothered to buy his last solo joint or bears for lunch yet. I guess I'm going through a Pollard-burnout.

     

    My Top 3 for this Year:

    Smashing Pumpkins -  Oceania

    The Shins - Port of Morrow

    Grizzly Bear - Shields  

     

    These are just the ones I've had in my truck and so I've listened to them the most out of any other albums this year.  

    Used to like but cannot listen for long now....

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    This one surprised me, but Sugar. I used to love them in the 90's, but I recently put in FUEL and was shocked at how little I enjoyed it. Maybe it's the production style or that it just represents a weird time of my life that I don't like reliving (or maybe I was just in a grumpy mood)... but yeah, no bueno. I'll give 'em another try in a few months, I suppose.

     

    Copper Blue is where it's at though...That and Black Sheet get spun on a regular basis around here.

    Conversely: Bands/artists that you used to hate, but now you love 'em!

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    The Beatles - Not so much hate as it was lack of exposure. My house growing up was pro-Stones, so we listened to the Stones. Any mention of the Beatles was met with much disdain from my older brother (the guy who controlled the stereo for the first 10 years of my life. As a teenager, my cousin ran the Beatles into the ground with us. He was all about the Beatles and we hung out daily listening to music(my twin ruined the Cure for both of us...I ruined the Smashing Pumpkins for both of them). It wasn't until my late teens/college when I started to appreciate them.

     

    Oasis - Again, my cousin's doing. He was all about Oasis and ran them into the ground. When I went to college, I started jamming out to Oasis quite a bit.

    Used to like but cannot listen for long now....

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    Thought of another one...Of Montreal

     

    Satanic Panic through Hissing Fauna is still pretty good to my ears, on occasion. However, the albums before and after those records are so terrible. The early stuff is cringe-inducing crap, which the band freely admits and the new stuff is so far outta my interests,

     

    Surprised no one has mentioned Weezer yet. I still have hope for them - with each new album, they suck less and less...but it's still not good yet.

    The latest Ryan Adams thread V2.0

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    Should be a good Lemonheads record...Love that record (Shame) to death. Their last real record was the bomb...their covers record... :thumbdown

     

    I hope Ryan's sobriety rubs off on Dando. I saw him back in the spring and it was so sad and ultimately pathetic. Dando was so fucked-up and ambled, that he could barely sing/play/act alive. It's so sad to see one of your heroes in such a bad place...

    Now Playing: September, 2012

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    I need to delve into these guys a bit more, but I am not usually a "Greatest Hits" kind of guy. Is there one album that you would recommend as a good starting point?

     

    I'm partial to Tallulah...but 16 Lovers Lane is their most popular and a a damn good album to boot. I love Grant McLennen but not so much on Robert Forster.

    Most prolific artist of the 00's

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    Robert Pollard still wins this by a mile - no contest. Granted, not all of it is his best work, but holy Toledo Batman, is he the king of prolific. All of the 2000-present releases as of today (and this list doesn't even count the box sets (4), compilations, dozens of 7", EP's and singles he's recorded and released):

     

    GBV:

    Solo:

    Boston Spaceships:

    Acid Ranch: (archival recordings featuring Robert Pollard, Kevin Fennell and Mitch Mitchell)

    Airport 5: (Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout)

    Circus Devils: (Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias and Tim Tobias)

    Go Back Snowball: (Robert Pollard and Mac McCaughan)

    Hazzard Hotrods: (Recording of informal 1990 performance by Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell)

    • 2000 - Big Trouble (re-released as Bigger Trouble 2005)

    Howling Wolf Orchestra: (Pollard and various GbV members)

    • 2000 - Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom (12" EP/CD)

    Keene Brothers: (Robert Pollard and Tommy Keene)

    Lifeguards (Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard)

    The Moping Swans (Robert Pollard, Greg Demos, Jim MacPherson and Tony Conley)

    • 2005 - Lightninghead to Coffee Pot (12" EP/CD)

    Phantom Tollbooth:

    Psycho and the Birds: (Todd Tobias supplementing Pollard solo demos)

    The Takeovers: (Robert Pollard and Chris Slusarenko)

    To quote the master, "What shitty band are you in?"

    your most anticipated releases of 2012

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    James Iha - Look to the Sky

     

     

    I actually got the Japanese import for about $5. It's quite strange to me. I really liked his first one but other than a few tracks, it's very experimental sounding...not James Iha-like at all. I may pick up the 2-3 different tracks that are on the American release though...

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