From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #189 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, July 11 2004 Volume 04 : Number 189 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Half-Year Bests [Aaron Mandel ] [loud-fans] Re: loud-fans-digest V4 #188 [Robert Toren ] Re: [loud-fans] mid-year bests [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Half Year Bests [JRT456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Half Year Bests ["richard BLATHERWICK" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:36:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Half-Year Bests On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Roger Winston wrote: > >>DESTROYER - Your Blues > From the sampling I did of this off a retailer site, it sounds to me like > all the songs are stripped-down, non-band, no-drums, slow tunes. Is that > true? I don't know if I can take a whole album of Naked Destroyer. Non-band, yes. I believe there's percussion in some, but not in others. About half the songs sound as if they were intentionally arranged for a larger band and then left bare; the other half are just kind of appropriately mellow. a ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:06:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Toren Subject: [loud-fans] Re: loud-fans-digest V4 #188 ?? Grateful De Ad Frank Black Francis MacDonald Hadda Farm(er in the Dell)-Tones on Tale ?? ===== http://www.angrylambie.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:48:20 EDT From: ELFFLOW@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] mid-year bests 1. Morrissey You Are The Quarry 2. Camera Obscura Underachievers Please Try Harder (touring with the Rosebuds this summer...don't miss it) 3. Andrew (Sandoval) What's It All About? (yet to be released but should be out before year's end) 4. Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time Keep Going (issued in '04 in the US) 5. Of Montreal Satanic Panic In The Attic 6. The Magnetic Fields i 7. Juliana Hatfield In Exile Deo 8. Call And Response Winds Take No Shape 9. Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days 10. Terry Hall & Mushtaq The Hour Of Two Lights (late '03 release bought in Feb.) 11. Anything by Myracle Brah, especially "Life On Planet Eartsnop", a brilliant classic, or the Rooney debut, a guilty pleasure Back to being a fly on the wall, - --Elf (excommunicated Loudfan) p.s. Hi Jen and Andrea...thanks for keeping in touch ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:19:19 -0400 From: "Stefaan Hurts" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] mid-year bests On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:48:20 EDT, ELFFLOW@aol.com said: > Back to being a fly on the wall, > --Elf (excommunicated Loudfan) Welcome back, Mark. Looking forward to much onlist controversy. =) Toodlepip, - -Stef ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:46:25 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] mid-year bests Welcome back Mark! Who knows, maybe this time a few more people have read their Rene Girard, Andy "Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us." - --Eric Hoffer ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:38:38 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Half Year Bests Astralwerks seems to have cleared up their glitch with the reissue of "Another Green World," which reminds me that fans of that album and "Before and after Science" will probably greatly enjoy Lori Carson's "The Finest Thing." More vocals, but still an inspired tribute to that sound. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:26:51 +0100 From: "richard BLATHERWICK" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Half Year Bests Checking back, I'm a bit surprised how few things I've got from this year, but here's the best few: Daryll-Ann - DON'T STOP (a bit up and down, but when it is up, as on Raga the Messenger, it's stratospheric) Ryan Adams - LOVE IS HELL (glad I waited for the whole thing, contains some of the best things he's done since Whiskeytown) Bauer - BAUERESQUE (another brilliant band on the Dutch Excelsior Recordings label) Dimmer - YOU'VE GOT TO HEAR THE MUSIC (ex-Straitjacket Shayne Carter goes trip-hop, but, imo, in a more balanced way than on the debut) The Rudy Trouve Sextet - 2002-2003 (a strange little confection from the former dEUS guitarist, though not as jazzy as the band's name suggests). Slightly disappointing Brit efforts: Franz Ferdinand - S/T The Stands - All Years Leaving both are good at times, OK at others and rather flat at others. 2003 stuff that has turned up this year: Alamo Race Track - BIRDS AT HOME (spotted opening for Daryll-Ann in Haarlem - nice slightly angular guitar stuff, no prizes for guessing what label they are on) The Singles - BETTER THAN BEFORE (a bit of a Myracle Brah/ Strokes hybrid, but at their best they are better than either - album is a bit uneven though) Richmond Fontaine - POST TO WIRE (by far their best album, being touted by some as the next great alt. country band, though they do tend to come out on the wrong end of all the Son Volt/ Whiskeytown comparisons - this album has fewer of their going round in small circles not getting very far songs) Richard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:44:08 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] mid-year bests At Saturday 7/10/2004 05:46 PM, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: >Welcome back Mark! > >Who knows, maybe this time a few more people have read their Rene Girard, Now now, Andy, I don't think you should place restrictions like that on lost sheep returning to the fold. Like the rest of us common working folk, Mark will get around to Girard when he's darn good and ready. Latre. --Rog - -- Distance, Redefined: http://www.reignoffrogs.com/flasshe ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #189 *******************************