Calexico

You don't need a weatherman, Danish or otherwise, to know which way the wind blows.

Ima liking the Krautrock lately...

Well, that's just plain silly. Do these fakers secretly listen to Phil Collins and Mariah Carey behind closed doors? Why bother trying to look cool by saying you like so and so latest hip band? Are people that shallow that they are afraid to seem out of step with popular cultural "tastemakers"?

Wasn't there an option to buy the cds individually when it was issued first? Anyway, trust me to get the DVD edition and last week my DVD player gives up the ghost. Seeing as we just bought a tv the size of a minivan NOW we decide to get a BluRay player...which I didn't want to fork out on in the first place. If only I had that earlier I would have sprung for the Archives BluRay edition. Sheesh...

He signs off all of his posts like this. Lord, wouldn't you just love to get stuck in a bar with this guy. For what it's worth, I enjoyed Ashes but I didn't fork out for it. I just saw it on tv.

I do quite like the My Girls song but then find the rest of it just bores the tits off me. Those underwater sounding vocals irritate the shit out of me too. On the plus side, because of this thread I got the Califone album and it is impressive so far. Never listened to them before.

All great lists of course...the one inclusion that has gone right over my head this year has been the Animal Collective album. Every magazine has given it top of the pile and it appears here quite a lot too. I dunno, it just passes me right by.

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love The Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward Son Volt - American Central Dust Louris and Olson - Ready For The Flood Vetiver - Tight Knit The Black Crowes - Before The Frost...Until The Freeze Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Self Titled Rickie Lee Jones - Balm In Gilead Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue Mastodon - Crack The Skye Eels - Hombre Lobo Porcupine Tree - The Incident Richmond Fontaine - We Used To ThinkThe Freeway Sounded.. Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away Very honourable m

I love this guy's stuff. First saw him supporting Josh Ritter and now that seems a strange pairing but since that night I have loved Lund's Canadian country music.

I agree with you. I was slightly miffed that stuff I had bought already turned up again in the Archives. Still, gorgeous stuff all the same.

Without doubt. The latter stages of the finals will be without some very good players when one of those three doesn't qualify.

They are all gone now. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were such a touchstone for Irish families living in America during the 50's and 60's. It was a way for people to keep in touch and hold onto a little bit of home. For that reason alone I applaud them even though I normally run a mile from Irish traditional music and balladeers. Every time I hear them sing Four Green Fields I tear up and remember my mother loving that song so much. She's gone almost 29 years but that song brings her back in an instant.

I am another big fan of the reading the book before you see the movie way of doing it. I think the fact that the book draws you into it's world and it becomes a personal experience for the reader is it's raison d'etre. You personalise the whole thing in your head and almost inject yourself into the story. The movie going experience may destroy a little bit of this as you experience it with an audience.

What? No see through Christmas negligee?

Yea, that's it. I never minded the hit single incarnation but I much preferred the early stuff.

God yes...I long for the days when albums were just yer basic 45 mins long. New Adventures In Hi Fi is a classic example of just too fucking much! NP:

This is going to sound a bit weird coming from a middle aged, curmudgeon like myself but from a purely pop single point of view... Beyonce/Destiny's Child have put out some tail shaking, dance monsters of singles and I have enjoyed the heck out of them, especially when drunk.

Mystic Theatre isn't at all bad. I quite like the DIY aspect of it. Political Manifesto was very overblown and sounded like a man who had run out of ideas. Happily, The Salvation Blues put him right back in the game.

Which is miles and miles better than the rubbish one I forked out for in Russia. Final Vinyl...tosh of the highest order.

Anyway, now listening to Radiohead's Kid A. Nearly 10 years old now andstill sounds fresh and lively. Surely, there are a few long termRadiohead fans here..what did you make of Kid A when it came out? A fewshort years before we had lovely tunes such as High And Dry et al andnow this veering off into Warp label inspired electrnoica and free jazzexperiments. I certainly didn't see this coming even though boundarieswere being pushed with OK Computer. Adding to my feeling of alienationwhen I bought it, I was in Bordeaux for 10 or so days and this strangealbum added to my sense of disloaction and b

Are you saying I should have posted that instead of my ill thought out, bile inflected post? Smart aleck....

You guys should hear the church hierarchy try to defend the indefensible here this week. Two reports on systemic abuse of children by priests in Ireland ,over the last 20 or so years, were published this week. Everyone is scrambling to pass the buck onto someone else and spin the topic to suit themselves. Church, cops, schools, all manner of institutions. Fucking shameful. Makes me glad I gave up on religion and the church as a kid. Never trust an organisation where men volunteer for chastity. No fucking way. A priest came to our door a while back looking for donations or whatever it is

Seeding system, like Wimbledon.

Done and done.

Reading the thread title, the song that came to mind immediately was Something. Wilco's current laid back, rustic vibe would be perfect for this tune. Then to balance it out a version of the Stones Faraway Eyes and straight into Monday.