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it's not funny when it's happened to you a handful of times in the last year. believe me.

bingo. anyone denying this is a fool.

"Lights Out For Darker Skies" is just...wow. Listening to it again right now. The last half, after that break that sounds like Led Zeppelin's "Rain Song," just keeps building and building until it's almost too much. And yeah, it's only at the start of "Waving Flags" that I'm getting an Arcade Fire vibe. Others are going on about it being "bargain bin AF", and I'm really not sure where they're getting that from. But the start of Waving Flags, with them all singing like that...it really jumped up on me the first few times I listened to it.

oh man. too funny. love shaq.

There was some discussion of this in the Magnetic Fields topic, but I didn't want to completely hijack that so I decided to make a new one. Anyway, BSP's latest disc, Do You Like Rock Music?, leaked yesterday. When they announced it a couple months back, I laughed at the over-the-top title, although that's pretty par-for-the-course given BSP's theatrics and antics, but upon listening to this for the first time last nite, I can't remember a more appropriately titled CD in the last decade. This is turn-the-volume-to-11, put-on-a-helmet ROCK, especially the first half of the CD. So much so, actua

man, so excited to go home tonite and listen to the new BSP. i've got it dloaded but i'm at work. not being able to listen is killllllllling me. i shall start a thread upon first listenage.

I have At Dawn, It Still Moves and Z--are Tennessee Fire and Chocolate and Ice EP necessary listening as well? Also, I've been meaning to pick up the Okonokos DVD for fuckin forever now. If I don't get it under the xmas tree this year, I'm running out on Boxing Day to get it.

in...it was either Paste or Magnet's last issue...James was going off about making a record with a very singular vibe. He then used two rather strange examples--Springsteen's "Nebraska" and Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique." So that listeners going into it could either expect something very laidback, or something all over the place. I'm not explaining this very succinctly, mainly because I don't remember exactly what he said. Point being, with all the different influences being tossed about, this could be VERY interesting.

K so I must admit I stole this from the atease message boards, but it's pretty funny. The rules: 1) Go on wikipedia. 2) Click Random Page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of this article is your band name. 3) Click Random Page again. This is your album name. 4) Click 12 more times. These articles are the CD's tracks. I've found it's a lot more fun if you exclude place names and names of people. This is my latest: Thalys--Portman Building Society 1) vtiger CRM 2) Chinese language 3) Ever Fallen in Love? 4) Soft serve 5) Dobie (disambiguation) 6) Novosibirsk Air Ente

i really don't think i'll be able to make a definitive list until new years. i just got a bunch of 07 discs on saturday that i'd been meaning to listen to ages ago, and i still have a couple i have to check out before everything is said and done. funny thing about this year is that very few of the bands i was expecting to deliver great records--wilco, modest mouse, the shins, white stripes, interpol--only partially delivered. but a lot of bands i wasn't expecting a whole lot from dropped massive albums. i wouldn't say this year has been a let down at all. quite the opposite, actually.

i just got his latest the other day, and it's the first thing by him i'd heard. it's really great.

everybody wants to be on top. heh.

hadn't noticed this thread until now. go canucks, obvs.

yeah, no kidding. so the answer must be cayenne pepper.

godfather would be the logical choice. star wars would be the nostalgic choice. but lord of the rings is the right choice. my anticipation and excitement level for those movies was unprecedented (i can't begin to count the number of times i watched the trailers online leading up to their premieres) and all three movies delivered. granted, i don't watch them as much anymore (i only have the extended editions and rarely have the time to sit down for four hours at once) but they are still fantastic. also, i think the bourne trilogy should be added. doesn't rank up there with the greats, but i c

that amazon list is retarded. BRITNEY SPEARS? the fact she made that list automatically voids it of any plausibility, but then to see her halfway thru the list above the likes of modest mouse, okkervil river, sigur ros, josh ritter...blah.

this movie was missing something. it was good, but not great, and i can't peg why, but it was a missing a special ingredient.

about half of Sound of Silver is mindblowingly good. The other half is merely good. I think it might finish in my top 5 this year, but...it's a huge improvement over the last disc, and if that trend continues, the next album could almost cause the apocalypse. Almost.

this is a ridiculous list. the fact that every band can only have one album included as part of the list basically makes the entire thing pointless.

Daft Punk--Digital Love Radiohead--Jigsaw Falling Into Place British Sea Power--Atom Red House Painters--Between Days The National--Cardinal Song

bingo. the only real gripe i have with the record. it could also lose a track or two and i wouldn't really mind that much. but otherwise, i do like it more than Let It Die. and other than that Apple Ad, do people really hear her everywhere? I rarely listen to radio anymore, but...I mean, come on, I'd rather Feist all the time then Gwen Stefani or any of the other alternatives.

such a blast from the past...encarta. wow. the clock at the end killed me.

ok, apparently that above link didn't work. i'm gonna copy-paste it into my post here. my apologies in advance--it is really lengthy, but what he has to say really meshes with my feelings about the album, even if it is all over the map. here goes... 3.BILINDA BUTCHER by Steven Shaviro

http://www.shaviro.com/Doom/ch03.html interesting read from MBV-Loveless tour days. a little over-the-top (the writer admits at the end he's being doing it stoned and drunk), but it hits on a lot of the key points that made MBV's live shows so legendary. there's another interesting article that i read a couple months back that actually describes the biological effects of the overwhelming noise-tactics they used; i'll see if i can track it down.