From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #222 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 Monday, September 24 2007 Volume 07 : Number 222 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Glenn Mercer [DOUDIE@aol.com] re: [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark. [zoom@muppetlabs.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:39:07 EDT From: DOUDIE@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Glenn Mercer They played about an hour. It was the most nostalgic i've ever felt at a show. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:08:00 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: re: [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark. au revoir simone, -bad religion, *steve barton, andrew bird, black francis, blonde redhead, -chelsea, deerhoof, deerhunter (the ep, not the full-length), -dents, dino jr. (astoundingly unsucky; surprise of the year so far), *dollyrots, epoxies, get him eat him, glos, *hallelujah the hills, hot cross, immaculate machine, -information, *ted leo, love of diagrams, mekons, melt banana, mendoza line, *menomena, montag, national, new prawnographers, palomar, *parts & labor, emma pollock, shepherdess, elliott smith, -taxpayer (their half of the split with dear leader), *laura veirs, *volt (the one on in-the-red records, not the one on the german label), *tommy womack *Wheeee-ooo.* Even with Amazon's unforgivably buggy system rushing me along (so much faster if you move on after your first "having difficulty downloading"), that there made one enormous sample-snackin' buffet. Jumped Out At Me: Dinosaur Jr. (a sound I've come to love after initial hesitation), Mendoza Line, Menomena (wasn't Larry Fast the last guy trying to get a computer to write songs?) Greatest Song On An Otherwise Only Okay Record: Epoxies' "Here In The Dark," Jim Steinman down to the baion and the sultry menace. Telling The Story Of My Life: Mekons' "Dick Chalkie And Nobby" ("A bath, a meal and bed/Then off to work again...") Sounds Uncannily Like Chicago With Peter Cetera: That New Pornographers opener. Sounding Great For A Guy Who Died Six Years Ago Last July: Steve Barton Apparently Released Three Records This Year (So I Listened To As Much As I Could): Love Of Diagrams No Samples Available: Deerhunter (the ep), Dollyrots, Get Him Kill Him, Glos, Laura Veirs, Volt No Amazon Listing (That I Could Discover) For A 2007 Release By: Chelsea (Peter Criss' band before Kiss--a reunion?), Dents, Information, Shepherdess No Amazon Documentation (That I Could Discover) That They Exist At All: Information, Shepherdess Wondering Why Nobody's Talking About: Marillion, Mika, Peter Bjorn and John 2007 Find Of The Week For Me: Busdriver, ROADKILLOVERCOAT. "Abstract hip hop," says Wikipedia. I say, so nutty he's bound to throw out some kernels. Find Of The Month From Further Back: Divine Styler's SPIRAL WALLS CONTAINING AUTUMNS OF LIGHT. That's right, Scott Walker made a rap album. Gave Franklin Bruno WHAT IF IT WORKS hoping he'd review it (I don't think he did), Andy ul 09 2007Why Not I'm listening to Icons of Evil this morning and asking myself stupid butterfly-collector questions like "is this year-end top three or top five material," which are questions I generally try to avoid asking, for reasons I've gone into before. This year I kinda gave up though and started keeping a running list of what was killin' me just so I wouldn't forget at the end of the year when people started asking me to send 'em "my top ten." If Icons of Evil weren't just kneecappingly great, I probably wouldn't have thought to do this at all, but it is - no joke - so here's the list as it stands so far, first presented alphabetically and without album titles, since as far as I know none of these people have released more than one album this year. Angels of Light (Young God) Bloody Panda (Level Plane) Bone Thugs (Interscope) Bowerbirds (Burly Time) Coco Rosie (Touch and Go) Dizzee Rascal (XL) Foetopsy (Barbarian) Kings of Reggae (Rapster) Laethora (Unruly Sounds/The End) Mayhem (Season of Mist) Melechesh (Osmose Productions/The End) Missy Higgins (Eleven/Virgin) Phazm (Osmode Productions/The End) Pig Destroyer (Relapse) Rwake - Voices of Omens (Relapse) Rotting Christ - Theogonia (Season of Mist) RTX (Drag City) Vital Remains (Century Media) Year of Desolation (Prosthetic) [--John Darnielle, from http://lastplanetojakarta.com/ ] ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #222 *******************************