From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #29 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 Friday, February 3 2006 Volume 06 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] poll reminder + my picks [Aaron Mandel Subject: [loud-fans] poll reminder + my picks The album poll ends at close of business tomorrow. Check it out: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~aaron/poll/lf05 Myself, I was way more into individual songs than albums this year-- if anyone wanted to know my favorite 175 songs of 2005, I would be more or less prepared to tell them-- but here are some things I liked. In order, even! 01 Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die 02 Nothing Painted Blue - Taste The Flavor 03 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 04 Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree 05 Why? - Elephant Eyelash 06 Electric Six - Senor Smoke* 07 Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It* 08 Jens Lekman - The Department Of Forgotten Songs# 09 Trollin Withdrawal - Bootleg Rege# 10 The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done 11 Gang Of Four - Return The Gift 12 Bob Drake - The Shunned Country 13 Ad Frank - Is The World's Best Ex-Boyfriend 14 Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives 15 Portastatic - Bright Ideas 16 Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue* 17 Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary 18 Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa 19 Fischerspooner - Odyssey 20 Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (tie) 20 Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger (tie) * UK release # internet release Four ringers: Brooks - Red Tape (actually a 2004 release) Luke Haines - Luke Haines Is Dead (compilation) Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic (loved the early mixes, very very lukewarm about the released version) Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir (just not the same kind of thing as all these others) Also very good: John Vanderslice, Mountain Goats, Lyrics Born, the Perceptionists, Get Him Eat Him, Jamie Lidell, the Caesars, the Decemberists, the Books, Ben Folds, Swords, the New Pornographers, Patrick Wolf, Kevin Blechdom, Stars, Subtitle, Run The Road (v/a), Rogue Wave, Lady Sovereign EP, okay I should stop. a ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #29 ******************************