From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #124 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 Saturday, July 18 2009 Volume 08 : Number 124 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] At the half (plus about a half of the next one-sixth...) [Michael Bowen ] [loud-fans] Aptos ["Brian Block" ] Re: [loud-fans] At the half (plus about a half of the next [Michael Mitto] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:58:52 -0400 From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At the half (plus about a half of the next one-sixth...) On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:18 PM, wrote: > Trashcan Sinatras In The Music I thought the release on this had been delayed - I've been waiting for a chance to order it. MB ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:25:37 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At the half (plus about a half of the next one-sixth...) It is a crime against humanity to reference the almighty TB-303 in your band name but fail to come correct with proper acieeeed lines in your music. -d.w. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: >> "Shush girl/Shut your lips/Do the Helen Keller/and talk with your hips..." >> >> --from a song blasting out of an SUV on Fifth Avenue N.E. earlier today > > That's 3OH!3 : Don't Trust Me: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1McUBDqy_is > > As appalling as the lyrics would imply. > > -- > Joe Mallon > jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:50:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: treesprite@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At the half (plus about a half of the next one-sixth...) >> Trashcan Sinatras In The Music > > >I thought the release on this had been delayed - I've been waiting for >a chance to order it. The U.S. record deal fell through, apparently, but there was a pre-order for a deluxe version that came with a download code and I guess I managed to get it on that -- not sure if it's still available or if they'll be selling copies on their upcoming tour. B ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:18:08 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At the half (plus about a half of the next one-sixth...) > PROF. AHMED SODIQ Wow! That name does not even sound vaguely made up. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: { - -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommarcinko http://clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/2009 http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/TomMarcinko http://www.new.facebook.com/tom.marcinko http://blip.fm/the_night_manager ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:17:50 -0400 From: outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] At the half (plus about a half of the next I've been experimenting with the notion that the things I like best in a year are the things I listen to most. Unfortunately I lost one major source of this data and don't have time to mess with the other one, so this under-reports January, and I'm mostly not attempting to correct for the bias albums with more tracks enjoy, but: 1. Metric - Fantasies 2. Ben Krieger - Class Dismissed 3. Apollo Ghosts - Hastings Sunrise (this is the one I think is most loudfan friendly. still waiting for someone to second me on this.) 3. The Smittens - The Coolest Thing About Love 5. My First Days on Junk - No Order 6. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (although "See the Enemy," my favorite Andrew Bird song since "Sovay" is actually on the "Fitz & the Dizzyspells" EP) 7. Bishop Allen - Grr 8. The Capstan Shafts - The Cretin Flowers longplayer (as opposed to the Cretin Flowers EP) 9. Various Artists - The Box (just one of the several compilations available free from www.peppermillrecords.com. This one features The Chap, who i think I've spieled about previously, and it's all mutant covers of TV show themes.) 10. The Broken Family Band - Please and Thank You 11. Colin Clary and the Magogs - Her Life of Crime - (for those keeping score, with The Smittens and My First Days on Junk, that make *three* acts featuring Colin Clary .. make of that what you will...) 12. John Wesley Harding  Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead 13. Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern  Pram Town (now I'm entering the realm of albums that got tracked 2 or 3 times all the way through. Would've quit with a dozen but I'm gaming the system a lil bit so Liechtenstein makes the cut) 14 New Grenada  Energy Shortage 15 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 16 Liechtenstein  Survival Strategies In A Modern World (only 9 songs, else would rank higher and will def. rank higher by the end of the year, since it's a newish acquisition. There's a fair quantity of C86-ish acts around now, but I think this may be the best.) 16 Heartless Bastards - The Mountain 16 The Sounds  Crossing The Rubicon (the song "The Only Ones" despite -- or even because of -- its awkward English-as-a-second-language phrasing -- made me completely rethink my stance on this band (I panned their previous "Dying to Say This to You"). So this is basically me playing "The Only Ones" over and over and the rest of the album much less. Some of these probably officially came out late last year, or even earlier, but they were all new to me in 2009. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:16:15 -0700 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) So this is the year my interest in keeping current took a plunge: my toddler is a precocious music geek but couldn't care less about release dates, while my baby probably loves music but it's hard to tell. But I'm still able to generate a top-ten list from '09-so-far made entirely of albums I care about. Top eleven, not yet, though the New-Wave-pop revival of Sissy Wish was awfully impressive on first hearing ... 1. Tori Amos, Abnormally Attracted to Sin (her most musically varied/adventurous album in 11 years, her most band-oriented ever) 2. Cheer-Accident, Fear Draws Misfortune (fast, heavy, angular prog-rock) 3. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca (never expected to see something this modern-composery, Wayside/Cuneiform-ish, or complexly vocal-harmonized hit it big with the Pitchfork crowd; my infant also seems quite fond of this album) 4. Camille, Music Hole (complex vocal harmonies, but jaunty and/or blusey and/or monkish and/or silly and/or sexy and/or just plain lovely) 5. Regina Spektor, Far (piano-pop; my wife and toddler guarantee it will be played more here this year than any two other new albums) 6. Amy X Neuburg, the Secret Life of Subways (cello, tuned electronic percussion, highly expressive and pitch-accurate vocals, and wryly insightful studies of relationships and of city life; likely to rank higher later) 7. Decemberists, the Hazards of Love (I didn't know I wanted them to be the world's cuddliest hard-rock band, but it's fun hearing them try) 8. Cary Judd, Goodnight Human (the synths and guitars sound very 2009 and i like that, but i'm not certain he isn't Howard Jones in disguise) 9. U2, No Line on the Horizon (split between songs where they aren't trying and songs where they're trying much too hard, but i like the latter quite a bit) 10. Five Hole Band, Tales of Hockey Erotica (the title isn't lying, and this folk/rock/poetry/whatever mashup is rather a weird destination for my favorite old Rheostatics songwriter, but it's charming)

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