From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #10 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, January 12 2003 Volume 03 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Re: [loud-fans] Matt Pond PA (ns) [Stewart Mason ] Re: Re: [loud-fans] Matt Pond PA (ns) [Stewart Mason Subject: Re: Re: [loud-fans] Matt Pond PA (ns) At 02:30 PM 1/10/2003 -0500, jer fairall wrote: >But no, I don't think this was a lackluster >year for music at all unless you are only >examining the popular side of things (Avril, >Eminem, etc). In quantity I may not have found >a lot of great records but in quality my Top 9 >made this probably my favorite year in music >since 1998. What I found heartening about my list for this year is that it's got a lot of fresh faces on it. There's five debut albums (Consonant, Tender Trap, OK Go, The Walkmen, Telepopmusik -- admittedly, the first two of those are fronted by people I've liked from other bands), six second albums (Death By Chocolate, The Lucky Bishops, Brendan Benson, Helms, The Hives, Les Sans Culottes), four records by longer-lived bands I had never heard before this year (Motorpsycho, Major Stars, Scenic, Pat Orchard), four albums by bands I had either written off (Sonic Youth, the Residents) or had previously disliked (Of Montreal, Badly Drawn Boy), and only seven albums by artists that had previously appeared on one of my lists (Cordelia's Dad, Wilco, Flaming Lips, the Bevis Frond, the Negro Problem, the Apples In Stereo, Tom Waits). I know that Miles and others have complained in years past that their lists just seemed to have the same old familiar artists on them, which has happened to me some years, but looking back, 2002 was one of my more wide-open years, which I find encouraging. S ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:01:42 -0500 From: Dana Paoli Subject: Re: Re: [loud-fans] Matt Pond PA (ns) six second albums (Death By Chocolate, The Lucky Bishops, Brendan Benson, Helms, The Hives, Les Sans Culottes) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is the list you're referring to different than the one you sent to loud-fans? I don't see the Les Sans Culottes on that one. If I had, I would have been forced to go on my rant about what assholes they are, and I would have forbidden anyone else from putting them on a best-of-the-year list. - --dana ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:41:43 -0500 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: Re: [loud-fans] Matt Pond PA (ns) At 02:01 PM 1/11/2003 -0500, Dana Paoli wrote: >six second albums (Death By >Chocolate, The Lucky Bishops, Brendan Benson, Helms, The Hives, Les Sans >Culottes) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >Is the list you're referring to different than the one you sent to >loud-fans? I don't see the Les Sans Culottes on that one. If I had, I >would have been forced to go on my rant about what assholes they are, and >I would have forbidden anyone else from putting them on a >best-of-the-year list. *shrug* Serge Gainsbourg was an asshole too, and he's clearly their primary inspiration, so it stands to reason that they'd be assholes too. All I know is that April March isn't doing ye-ye anymore, and I have to get my fix from somewhere. S ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #10 ******************************