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So this is being recorded today. Any update on when it will be posted?

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. The Beatles - The White Album

3. Elliott Smith - Either/Or

4. Led Zeppelin - III

5. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

6. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

7. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

8. The National - Boxer

9. Radiohead - The Bends

10. Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

11. Wilco - Summerteeth

12. The Beatles - Abbey Road

13. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

14. Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

15. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

16. Pixies - Doolittle

17. Joni Mitchell - Blue

18. Paul Simon - Graceland

19. Wilco - Being There

20. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

21. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

22. Arcade Fire - Funeral

23. Otis Redding - Otis Blue

24. Tori Amos - Under the Pink

25. Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence

26. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

27. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

28. Son Volt - Trace

29. Damien Rice - O

30. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site

31. Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love

32. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

33. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

34. Cat Power - You Are Free

35. The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers

36. Radiohead - OK Computer

37. John Lennon - Imagine

38. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years

39. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

40. The Clash - London Calling

41. Smoking Popes - Born to Quit

42. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

43. Jay-Z - Blueprint

44. R.E.M. - Murmur

45. John Coltrane - Giant Steps

46. The Band - The Band

47. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

48. Guster - Lost and Gone Forever

49. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

50. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Thanks for all the replies!

Can anyone help me with a research question I'm working on? I wonder how long after an album is release do most of its sales occur. Does anyone have an idea on how to guess at how fast sales slow down following an album's release date, after say one week, one month, or three months. Thanks for any thoughts or anecdotes,

Bob

Thanks for your replies. Pause and Play sounds particularly good.

I am looking for a website that posts information about which music albums will be/were released on which day (Tuesday). In particular, I would like a site that separates out reissues so that I can see only albums on their first release. Also, several sites I find only list this and upcoming weeks, but not last week and the weeks in last month. I would like both future and recent past. Googling brings up some options but ones that require sorting out reissues. Any advice? Thanks!

Ok, I need that Foxmarks thing.

 

Who makes Opera? It looks great but now that I want Foxmarks, they don't make Foxmarks for that.

If I understand if correctly, Foxmarks syncs your bookmarks across all computers you use. If so, Opera does this without an extension by signing up for Opera Link

http://www.opera.com/link/

I sync between my home, office, and Blackberry Storm. Works perfectly but I've never used Foxmarks so I can't compare them.

Also, the Opera Link website also lets you log in and access your bookmarks (and notes) from anywhere.

That's another good reason not to update my iTunes, then.

 

With as frequently as there are iTunes updates, I expect it to eventually include a program that will feed my cat and reorganize my sock drawer while I'm at work.

 

I love Firefox, and it's good to hear there's a new version coming out soon. There's still a few sites that I have trouble with when I'm on it, though. Netflix, for instance, only offers their instant viewing feature in IE. That's about the only reason I use IE anymore.

Netflix instant viewing is now possible in Firefox (and Opera incidentally). I think it requires the Silverlight plugin.

I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders.

Obama: 364

McCain: 174

1 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2 - The Beatles - The White Album

3 - Led Zeppelin - III

4 - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

5 - Elliott Smith - Either/Or

6 - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

7 - Radiohead - The Bends

8 - Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

9 - Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

10 - Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac

11 - Tori Amos - Under the Pink

12 - Wilco - Summerteeth

13 - The Beatles - Abbey Road

14 - The Pixies - Doolittle

15 - Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

16 - The Clash - London Calling

17 - PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

18 - The Frames - Dance the Devil

19 - Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

20 - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

Reading through the lists is lots of fun. Thanks for putting this together.

i am going thursday night with bobby bare, jr opening. looking forward to it.

I'm planning to go to the Nashville show as well. Never seen Son Volt despite being a long-time fan.

I am trying out Opera, it is working extremely well. According to my friend who uses Firefox (with Fasterfox) and Opera, Opera is a tad faster than Fire+fasterfox and more secure. The Speed Dial function is a godsend.

I've been using Opera for a while now and love it. Couldn't imagine switching to any other browser.

Pretty good discussion of this here:

http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=24705

The only ones I've listened to enough to know will rank for the year (in rough order):

Hayden - In Field & Town

Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

She & Him - Volume One

Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood.

Is the Jamie Lidell better than the last one? I thought it was really inconsistent so I haven't bother to check the new one out.

I have several to Libble and another place as well. Send me a PM if you're interested.

"This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected."

I keep a list of favorite quotes and wanted to add this to it. Does anyone know if it originated with Obama? I know that speeches sometimes draw on/play off of other passages/speeches/texts, but this was unfamiliar to me and I wanted to make sure to appropriately attribute it. Thanks.

My top 5 would be:

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Muswell Hillbillies

Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Lola Versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round

Something Else.

I think Muswell Hillbillies tends to be somewhat polarizing but it can be my favorite depending on my mood. I happen to think Something Else is overrated but I know some people like it a lot as well. I'd say that Village Green is the best place to start if you already know their hits.

I have lots of libble invites (none to anywhere else). PM me your email address and I'll send it along. Please remember to include your email address in the PM.

In other news, Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson got suspended for five games recently when it came to light he used HGH to help him get an erection...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?sectio...&id=3001066

"Wilson said he purchased the substance last fall to help him deal with the impact of diabetes. He has had problems with fatigue, kidney function, vision and sleep patterns because of the illness."

I think it's part of the game, and if you don't want them stolen, it's on you to make them harder to steal.

Here's an interesting solution from Wade Phillips:

"Let the defense have the same coach-to-player communication device the offense has to send in the play to the quarterback. That way, signaling in plays is eliminated, along with the obvious real temptation to somehow steal the signals."

i LOVED the last one... but this one just isn't doing it for me at ALL yet unfortunately

It seems more pop-oriented, but it really grew on me. I've listened to Decimate so many times that I think I'm starting to get worn out on it.

David Ford - Songs For The Road

Someone (?) from this board turned me on his last album, but I haven't heard any discussion of the new one. I like it even better.

It's part of the game is not a good argument. Lots of pitchers would tell you that doing lots of things to the ball is part of the game.

I see the point though and I see that stealing signals is different than bugging the away locker room or hacking into the headset channel, but using a video camera seems to have crossed the line of just stealing signals. Depending on their defense, I've lost respect for Belicheck.

Interesting argument. It seems like with so many ways to use technology to steal signals, we need the rule now more than ever. Do you think it's ok to steal signal or that it's just irresponsible not to obscure them better?