From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #152 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 Thursday, August 20 2009 Volume 08 : Number 152 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Re: Tull [Tim Walters ] Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? [Steve Holtebeck ] Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? [treesprite@earthlink.net] Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? ["R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Tull Steve Schiavo wrote: > I listened to Floating World, Waves, and Kites all the time when they > came out. All excellent. Add WAY OF THE SUN (my favorite), and you have, I believe, the complete stripid set. > Or not; looks like REFLECTIONS is in as well. That one I don't know. - -- Tim Walters | The Doubtful Palace | http://doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:30:19 -0700 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > As much as I hate being pedantic, and as much as I love the album, > UTOPIA PARKWAY is from 1999. I'm sure about that because I used it to > burn the first CD-R in our first CD-R drive, in 1999. I forget about years-of-release as the years go on.. Replace UTOPIA with WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS. - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 7:41:23 -0700 From: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? Which earned them a Grammy nomination for best new artist...(???) - ---- Steve Holtebeck wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > > As much as I hate being pedantic, and as much as I love the album, > > UTOPIA PARKWAY is from 1999. I'm sure about that because I used it to > > burn the first CD-R in our first CD-R drive, in 1999. > > I forget about years-of-release as the years go on.. > Replace UTOPIA with WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:44:45 -0400 (EDT) From: treesprite@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? This thread has made me realize that I have no idea what year any album came out! It's also made me realize that 1999 was a really strong year. I can't possibly reduce the huge list down to 10, but I do know that number one on the list is definitely Statuesque's Live From Lake Vostok. After that it's a big mess that should include: Dylan's Love & Theft, Neil Finn One Nil, Ted Leo Heart of Oak, Isolation Drills, Plush Fed, Mekons Journey To Edge Of The Night, some Pernice record, Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Turf Talk Street Novelist, some Outkast record, Yuji Oniki Tvi, Humphreys & Keen Overflow..forget it, i'll be here all day. Statuesque Live From Lake Vostok -- that's the one. xo, B PS _Big_ thumbs up on new releases from Mos Def, Magnolia Electric Company and Reigning Sound. Big thumbs, too, to the reissue of Bert Jansch's L.A. Turnaround. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:31:38 -0400 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? Though I'm loathe to link it, and somebody else probably already has, here's what Pitchfork has to say about the 500 songs of the decade. http://pitchfork.com/p2k/ On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:44 PM, wrote: > This thread has made me realize that I have no idea what year any album came out! It's also made me realize that 1999 was a really strong year. > > I can't possibly reduce the huge list down to 10, but I do know that number one on the list is definitely Statuesque's Live From Lake Vostok. After that it's a big mess that should include: Dylan's Love & Theft, Neil Finn One Nil, Ted Leo Heart of Oak, Isolation Drills, Plush Fed, Mekons Journey To Edge Of The Night, some Pernice record, Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Turf Talk Street Novelist, some Outkast record, Yuji Oniki Tvi, Humphreys & Keen Overflow..forget it, i'll be here all day. Statuesque Live From Lake Vostok -- that's the one. > > xo, > B > > PS _Big_ thumbs up on new releases from Mos Def, Magnolia Electric Company and Reigning Sound. Big thumbs, too, to the reissue of Bert Jansch's L.A. Turnaround. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:07:12 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Miles Goosens wrote: >> 1) Scott Miller & the Commonwealth - Thus Always To Tyrants >> 2) Wire - Send >> 3) Paula Carino - Aquacade >> 4) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot >> 5) The Church - Forget Yourself >> 6) Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated >> 7) Hank III - Straight To Hell >> 8) Goldfrapp - Supernature >> 9) Todd Steed & the Suns of Phere - Knoxville Tells >> 10) Interpol - Antics > > Scott Miller but no Scott Miller, eh? Muy triste. Still, chacun ` > son gout. I fail to see what the joint ailments of Shawn Chacon have to do with any of this. But as far as Our Scott goes, AN is a very fine album and I also enjoyed WHAT IF IT WORKS? Neither of them made my top ten for the decade, but that's not a knock on any omission. Well, not a knock on the omitted works of Our Scott, anyway. Speaking of artists that I wasn't dissing, it's surprising to me that I don't have anything by the New Pornographers or Ted Leo, two artists that were essential to me during the almost-past decade, but that's just how it turned out when I sat down to rank them. They'd have representation in the next ten (probably HEARTS OF OAK and ELECTRIC VERSION). Other shout-outs for consistent super-high quality go to Paul Burch and Robert Plant. > and I'm unlikely to ponder > anything masterminded by that girlfriend-stealing carbuncle sometimes > called S. Kilbey; A fair number of us folks can handle the cognitive dissonance. It's a fair tradeoff in my book for the Church's ever-gloriously gorgeous sound, but it's completely understandable to me that it could be a dealbreaker for someone else. > I like Hank III a lot better playing country music than > ragging on everybody else's country music--what's the ratio on > STRAIGHT TO HELL? Kid Rock gets a well-deserved and well-put beatdown ("He ain't no son of Hank"), but that's all I immediately recall. "Country Heroes" alone merits my ranking of the album (though there are tons of other goodies to be had on STRAIGHT TO HELL too). I heard the song while shopping in the Tower Records on West End (come to think of it, it's probably the last thing I ever bought based on instore play at Tower), and there was no way I was leaving the store without it. The clerk said that he sold at least a copy every time he played the song. > And why shouldn't SMILE count (we'll use "What year's on the > copyright?" in the spirit of Miles' favorite "What country do I live > in?")? The latter phrase is one of my favorites, for sure, but it is also 100% the coinage of our own Stewart Mason. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:42:45 -0700 From: "Brian Block" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Album(s) Of The Decade? Must say, I'm a fan of everything on Holtebeck's list except possibly Teenage Fanclub (never liked their singles/ never tried their albums/ no firm opinion). The best way for me to rank these is not to agonize over the task even slightly: 1. Amy X Neuburg, Residue 2. Dresden Dolls, either S/T or Yes, Virginia 3. Regina Lund, Everybody's Darling 4. Loud Family, Attractive Nuisance 5. Sage Francis, a Healthy Distrust 6. Radiohead, Hail to the Thief 7. Ford Pier, Pier-ic Victory 8. Tris McCall, If One of These Bottles Should Happen to Fall 9. Charlotte Martin, Stromata 10. Tori Amos, Scarlet's Walk Even rounding out a top 30 feels exclusionary: Charming Hostess, Sarajevo Blues Cloud Cult, Feel-Good Ghosts Count Zero, Robots Anonymous Everon, Fantasma Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat Ben Folds, Rockin' the Suburbs Veda Hille, This Riot Life Jim's Big Ego, Noplace Like Nowhere New Pornographers, Electric Version Rasputina, Oh Perilous World Rheostatics, Night of the Shooting Stars Bryan Scary, Flight of the Knife Sparks, Hello Young Lovers Regina Spektor, Begin to Hope Sufjan Stevens, Illinois System of a Down, Mezmerize TV on the Radio, Dear Science Weakerthans, Left and Leaving Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Dar Williams, the Green World >1) A Ted Leo album, probably HEARTS OF OAK >2) A New Pornographers album, probably ELECTRIC VERSION >3) The Decemberists - PICARESQUE >4) Fountains of Wayne - UTOPIA PARKWAY >5) Green Day - AMERICAN IDJIT >6) The National - BOXER >7) Radiohead - IN RAINBOWS >8) Sufjan Stevens - ILLINOISE >9) Teenage Fanclub - MAN-MADE >10) SMILE >-Steve

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