From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #142 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, August 8 2009 Volume 08 : Number 142 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] a special place [Russ Lewis ] Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) [Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] a special place On Aug 7, 2009, at 12:00 AM, loud-fans-digest wrote: > Devolved from "Baby on Board" perhaps? My favorite variation on this was one that a DJ pal at the local college radio station made in the mid-'80s and put up in the studio that read BABY'S ON FIRE. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:10:46 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) C atching up... Thanks for this. I liked the Tori album too, tho' I'm not her biggest fan. I seem to like the Decemberists a lot more than some people. Somebody's probably mentioned The Morning After Girls somewhere? On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Brian Block wrote: > 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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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. > - -- 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, 07 Aug 2009 12:14:09 -0400 From: "Michael W. Zwirn" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) Frankly, I'm amazed that any parents of young kids (Brian, glenn, etc.) have time to listen to new music. Seriously, how can you find time to listen to a record long enough or frequently enough to get a full impression of the merits?I have the new Tori, the 2009 U2 and Joe Pernice and a few others, but haven't the slightest time to seek out much in the way of new bands. I saw so much of the Decemberists when I lived in Portland that I wasn't running out to buy The Hazards of Love, but I liked the concert I heard on NPR's All Songs Considered concert podcast. I sent good, hard Canadian dollars to Emm Gryner's company in Ontario but they never sent me the new Emm record. Very disappointing. n.p. the Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop and iTunes on shuffle at workMichael W. Zwirnmichael@zwirn.comSkype: zwirnm-----Original Message-----From: "Tom Marcinko" [tmarcinko@gmail.com]Date: 08/07/2009 11:19 AMTo: loud-fans@smoe.orgSubject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc)C atching up... Thanks for this. I liked the Tori album too, tho' I'm not her biggest fan. I seem to like the Decemberists a lot more than some people. Somebody's probably mentioned The Morning After Girls somewhere? On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Brian Block ; wrote: > 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) > > > http://toolbar.Care2.com > Make your computer carbon-neutral (free).
http://www.Care2.com Green Living, Human Rights > and more - 8 million members! > -- 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, 7 Aug 2009 09:52:08 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) <> It ain't easy, I'll say that. I took my son (age 8) on a road trip and he managed to tolerate a little Colin Meloy and a little Sam Cooke (but not, oddly enough, Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke) -- and some of the tracks on the Beatles' "#1" CD. He's been a "Yellow Submarine" fan since he was 3. Other than that, it was "Could you turn that down, I'm trying to read." (The book was "A Wrinkle in Time"; I couldn't discourage THAT) Of course, one reason to keep the CD or radio off during even a routine school pickup is that you never know what is going to come out of his mouth. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Michael W. Zwirn wrote: > Frankly, I'm amazed that any parents of young kids (Brian, glenn, etc.) > have > time to listen to new music. Seriously, how can you find time to listen to > a > record long enough or frequently enough to get a full impression of the > merits?I have the new Tori, the 2009 U2 and Joe Pernice and a few others, > but > haven't the slightest time to seek out much in the way of new bands. I saw > so > much of the Decemberists when I lived in Portland that I wasn't running out > to > buy The Hazards of Love, but I liked the concert I heard on NPR's All Songs > Considered concert podcast. I sent good, hard Canadian dollars to Emm > Gryner's > company in Ontario but they never sent me the new Emm record. Very > disappointing. n.p. the Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop and > iTunes > on shuffle at workMichael W. Zwirnmichael@zwirn.comSkype: > zwirnm-----Original > Message-----From: "Tom Marcinko" [tmarcinko@gmail.com]Date: 08/07/2009 > 11:19 > AMTo: loud-fans@smoe.orgSubject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus > etc)C > atching up... Thanks for this. I liked the Tori album too, tho' I'm not her > biggest fan. I seem to like the Decemberists a lot more than some people. > Somebody's probably mentioned The Morning After Girls somewhere? On Fri, > Jul 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Brian Block ; wrote: > 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) > > > href="http://toolbar.Care2.com">http://toolbar.Care2.com > Make your > computer carbon-neutral (free).
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