From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #7 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, January 12 2009 Volume 08 : Number 007 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Reminder: 2008 Loudfans Poll [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] Miles' 2008 top albums ["Michael Mitton" ] Re: [loud-fans] glenn's top tens ["glenn mcdonald" ] Re: [loud-fans] Reminder: 2008 Loudfans Poll [treesprite@earthlink.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:03:10 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Reminder: 2008 Loudfans Poll Alright, here's what I ended up with, more or less in order: Bauhaus: Go Away White Black Hollies: Casting Shadows Department of Eagles: In Ear Park The Dandy Warhols: Earth To The Dandy Warhols The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely Dungen: 4 The Uglysuit: The Uglysuit 13 Ghosts: The Strangest Colored Lights Blitzen Trapper: Furr Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:02:18 EST From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Reminder: 2008 Loudfans Poll My top ten: 1. Conor Oberst: self titled 2. Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away 3. Lindsey Buckingham: Gift of Screws 4: Sea and Cake: Car Alram 5: Gutter Twins Saturnalia 6: Eagles of Death Metal: Heart On 7. Santogold: Self Titled 8 Black Kids Partee Traumatic 9, Dar Williams: Promised Land Jeff Ellis: Covering the Distance. Andrea **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:58:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Richard Blatherwick Subject: [loud-fans] Loud Fans Poll 2008 I'll join he chorus of 'there is too much stuff I've not listened to enough that might otherwise have made this list', with an additional bridge of 'if I were to write this tomorrow it would probably look completely different'. But anyway, current top 10 would be; 1. The Kooks - Konk 2. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely 3. Panic at the Disco - Pretty.Odd 4. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! 5. Shearwater - Rook 6. American Music Club - The Golden Age 7. Dana & the Changes - Consonant Cacophony 8. Nada Surf - Lucky 9. Attic Lights - Friday Night Lights 10. Grand Atlantic - This is Grand Atlantic Richard ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:50:53 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: [loud-fans] Miles' 2008 top albums I heard so little music this year. There was a lot going on in my life, much of which precluded time and and money for music. If I get some more of both of those latter, precious commodities, this list could be completely different in two months, much less a year. I was going to annotate this, but if I wait for that, it may never happen. Maybe I'll do a revised and annotated version later. But right this minute, here 'tis: 1) Hank III, Damn Right Rebel Proud 2) Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree 3) British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music? 4) Local H, 12 Angry Months 5) Radiohead, In Rainbows 6) Lindsey Buckingham, Gift of Screws 7) School of Seven Bells, Alpinisms 8) Todd Steed & the Suns of Phere, Eskimo Hair 9) REM, Accelerate 10) Scott Miller, Appalachian Refugee (the ex-V-Roy Scott Miller, that is) 11) Wire, Object 47 12) The Features, Some Kind of Salvation 13) The Bye Bye Blackbirds, Houses and Homes 14) New Radiant Storm King, Drinking in the Moonlight 15) AC/DC, Black Ice 16) The Dandy Warhols, Earth to the Dandy Warhols 17) Beck, Modern Guilt hate hate hate: Vampire Weekend. It has nothing to do with hype. I just really do not like anything about them. shockingly does NOT suck one little bit: From the Jam didn't hear: The Fall, Of Montreal, James, Byrne/Eno, Steve Wynn, You Am I, Ladytron, Magnetic Fields, Tricky, Raveonettes, T-Bone Burnett, Sigur Ros, Sloan, Don Dixon, Chris Difford, Matthew Sweet, Mudcrutch, Okkervil River, the Ting Tings, Portishead, Lucinda Williams, Ray Davies, Billy Bragg, Destroyer, Raconteurs, Weezer, many many more later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:34:46 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Reminder: 2008 Loudfans Poll We're at 17 voters so far, and so probably not on track to match last year's 30, but you have today and tomorrow to get your votes in if you haven't already. As for me, I'm using my "non-metal" list in this poll, which is: Frightened Rabbit: The Midnight Organ Fight Puressence: Don't Forget to Remember Sigur Ros: Med Sud i Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust M83: Saturdays=Youth Katy Perry: One of the Boys Delays: Everything's the Rush Ida: Lovers Prayers Bob Mould: District Line Shearwater: Rook Asian Kung-Fu Generation: World World World For comments, mp3s and the metal list, see http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=318 glenn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:43:04 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: [loud-fans] The Longlist, or, Who Shall Be Chosen (Let Alone Called)? http://33third.blogspot.com/ 597 pitches this batch. Longer odds are coming to us, win or lose. Pleasantly surprised (but shouldn't have been surprised, at least) to see: all the Talking Heads pitches. Nervously noted: Two pitches for SOMETHING/ANYTHING?--looks like a certain lister has competition. And two pitches for RAW POWER--looks like a certain non-lister friend of mine has competition... Could've sworn they'd already got one (guess not): MARQUEE MOON Signs of Our glenn afoot?: SPIRIT OF EDEN, THE CROSSING Glad to see (among others): BAT OUT OF HELL (no, that wasn't me this time), CHIRPIN', BIG SCIENCE, KLAUS NOMI, I'M WITH STUPID (Aimee's last worthwhile album?), TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN, PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE, SING NO EVIL, IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND HONEST, MODERN LOVERS, RAY OF LIGHT... ...which is to say, I'm glad somebody pitched them, though I can't say what each pitcher's chances might be. Most pitches for one album: Well, I counted five for EXILE IN GUYVILLE, but I didn't count everything. Let me know if you find one that beats that. Guess I'll have to give up protesting: alphabetization by first name, not last. Once again no love for the Happy Flowers, Andy "I like a church; I like a cowl; I like a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles: Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowlid churchman be." - --Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Problem" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:58:17 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Longlist, or, Who Shall Be Chosen (Let Alone Called)? No, I didn't pitch anything. Then again, a proper book about Spirit of Eden would mostly be composed of the sounds of fingers being lifted off of the keyboard, rather than actually typing, so perhaps in a sense I did... glenn On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > http://33third.blogspot.com/ > > 597 pitches this batch. Longer odds are coming to us, win or lose. > > Pleasantly surprised (but shouldn't have been surprised, at least) to > see: all the Talking Heads pitches. > > Nervously noted: Two pitches for SOMETHING/ANYTHING?--looks like a > certain lister has competition. And two pitches for RAW POWER--looks > like a certain non-lister friend of mine has competition... > > Could've sworn they'd already got one (guess not): MARQUEE MOON > > Signs of Our glenn afoot?: SPIRIT OF EDEN, THE CROSSING > > Glad to see (among others): BAT OUT OF HELL (no, that wasn't me this > time), CHIRPIN', BIG SCIENCE, KLAUS NOMI, I'M WITH STUPID (Aimee's > last worthwhile album?), TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN, PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE, > SING NO EVIL, IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND HONEST, MODERN LOVERS, RAY OF > LIGHT... > > ...which is to say, I'm glad somebody pitched them, though I can't say > what each pitcher's chances might be. > > Most pitches for one album: Well, I counted five for EXILE IN > GUYVILLE, but I didn't count everything. Let me know if you find one > that beats that. > > Guess I'll have to give up protesting: alphabetization by first name, not last. > > Once again no love for the Happy Flowers, > > Andy > > > "I like a church; I like a cowl; > I like a prophet of the soul; > And on my heart monastic aisles > Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles: > Yet not for all his faith can see > Would I that cowlid churchman be." > > --Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Problem" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:02:56 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: [loud-fans] 2008 Poll Well, for the first time ever, I don't feel anywhere near comfortable submitting a top ten list for the year. I'm way too far behind on my listening, and I know there's some I haven't heard yet that would make it on the list. I can say with confidence that OCEANS WILL RISE by The Stills would most likely be on the list. Probably because it was such a big surprise - their past stuff always sounded a bit mediocre to me. The new Sparks (EXOTIC CREATURE OF THE DEEP) would probably be there. Are we allowed to include EPs? If so, then the DONE WAITING EP from I Was Totally Destroying It would most likely be on the list. 23 minutes of bliss, though the last song does drag a bit. New Radiant Storm King's DRINKING IN THE MOONLIGHT is a good bet. Listen to "Islander" and try not to be enthralled. The new Damned (SO WHO'S PARANOID) might make it (once I hear the whole thing), the new Cure (4:13 DREAM) not. Spinto Band's MOONWINK might make it after a few more listens. R.E.M.'s comeback ACCELERATE? Hmmm, possibly. I'm still trying to decide about the new Kaiser Chiefs OFF WITH THEIR HEADS. Al Stewart's SPARKS OF ANCIENT LIGHT proves that the old storyteller is settling nicely into Elder Statesman status, but I'm not sure it's top 10 material. "Elvis At The Wheel" is probably one of my Songs of the Year though. Firewater does their usual exemplary job on THE GOLDEN HOUR. ARMY NAVY is tantalizing, but needs another listen. SEX WITH STRANGERS by The Gresham Flyers. Good BritPop, that. And of course, HOUSES & HOMES by the Bye-Bye Blackbirds. I'm sure there are many more highlights, but I'm tired of looking through iTunes. Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:22:33 -0800 From: "Michael Mitton" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Miles' 2008 top albums Everyone's behind on their "to listen" pile, but as they say, you can't win if you don't play. So alphabetically: Beck: Modern Guilt The Cure: 4:13 Dream Kathleen Edwards: Asking for Flowers M83: Saturdays = Youth Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride Wolf Parade: At Mount Zoomer R.E.M.: Accelerate Sigur Ros: Meo suo i eyrum vio spilum endalaust Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend Notes: The first track on Sigur Ros, Gobbledigook, was the best surprise of the year. Kathleen Edwards' "Run" was the saddest song of the year--I've listened to it a dozen times, and I still bawl like a baby. "The Only One" was the best bubbly pop song from The Cure since "Just Like Heaven". I feel like REM tried so hard to shake the mid-tempo blues that they went too fast-tempo, but it is a lot of fun. Finally, my favorite album that I thought was from 2008 but only figured out while making this list that it was from 2006, Junior Boys, "So This Is Goodbye". Not that you asked, here are a couple of movies: 1) Rachel Getting Married--it jumps from high-drama moment to high-drama moment, but it is balanced by the deep warmth of an a-cultural wedding. 2) Wall-e--I think Charlie Chaplin would have loved this. 3) Man On Wire 4) Tropic Thunder 5) In Bruges 6) Hellboy II ~7,8) Two movies that may well make the list in time, but I did just see them this weekend--The Wrestler and Gran Torino. Thanks, glenn! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:58:01 -0800 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] glenn's top tens I was a little startled, on reading glenn's best-of entry, to discover that 1) I haven't heard any of the albums on his "normal" list, which is already odd, but 2) Without any awareness that he'd been listening to them, I've gotten to know three of the albums on his metal list -- Cynic's _Traced in Air_, Septicflesh's _Communion_, and Trinacria's _Travel Now, Journey Infinitely_. I second all three of those recommendations. And while I haven't heard the new In This Moment or Everon cd's, glenn has successfully turned me on to earlier of their works (Everon's _Fantasma_ is one of my favorite metal albums ever). 3) Unless Marnie Stern counts as metal -- which in my opinion she probably should -- the only metal album of 2008 that I like and DIDN'T show up on glenn's list is Kingfisher Sky's _Hallway of Dreams_, which is, like Everon and In This Moment, on the pretty end of metal.

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http://www.Care2.com Green Living, Human Rights and more - 8 million members! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:15:51 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: treesprite@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Reminder: 2008 Loudfans Poll Alright, thanks for the Houses & Homes love! One of my New Years resolutions is to be a little more aggressive in promoting a record that I think folks will dig! >(Bradley - thanks for reminding me about the new AMC. I must have it!) I really think the AMC album is the most unfairly ignored album of the year. Eitzel is at his best melodically, and the whole album is really gorgeous. Maybe the absence of AMC's noisier, aggressive side caused people to pass it up, but it's worth investigating. I think it could be a winner for folks who don't usually like them, too. Am I the last person to learn that Gerry Rafferty has been missing for months? B ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #7 *****************************