From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #2 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 Tuesday, January 5 2010 Volume 09 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Ladies and gentlemen, who'll conduct the poll? [Tom Galcz] [loud-fans] 2009 list [outbound-only email address ] [loud-fans] Re: krieger ["Brian Block" ] Re: [loud-fans] Re: krieger [glenn mcdonald ] [loud-fans] Re: Corner Laughers ["Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Ladies and gentlemen, who'll conduct the poll? ac newman - get guilty brendan benson - my old familiar friend bruce springsteen - working on a dream cheap trick - the latest invisible cities - houses shine like teeth new york dolls - cause i sez so orange peels - 2020 pet shop boys - yes raveonettes - in and out of control soundtrack of our lives - communion Tom Galczynski tgalczynski@comcast.net--------------------------------------- There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. -- Ernest Hemingway glenn mcdonald wrote: The Pazz & Jop results are never published until late in January. But they will be. I know, because I'm tabulating them this year. As for the LoudFans poll, I'll say the same thing I said last year: If anybody would like to take over the running of the yearly poll, presumably in order to do it some other way that pleases you more, feel free to speak up! If nobody proposes anything else, I will run the poll exactly the same way I ran it last year: each voter sends me a list of up to ten albums (no points, no order), I tabulate the results. If you like this, feel free to register your approval by sending me your list. glenn On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: After all, a new year calls for a poll for the previous! No sign of life at the Village Voice so far... Andy "The main character is a brown bone matter which and does not talk with a happy face's fuzzy toy." --the previous .sig translated into simplified Chinese and re-translated back into English at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:07:17 -0500 From: outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] 2009 list 1 Metric - Fantasies 2 Hallelujah the Hills - Colonial Drones 3 Franklin Bruno - Local Currency 4 The Invisible Cities - Houses Shine Like Teeth 5 Apollo Ghosts - Hastings Sunrise 6 The Broken Family Band - Please and Thank You 7 The Sounds - Crossing the Rubicon 8 Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies in a Modern World 9 The Beatings - Late Season Kids a Terry Poison - Terry Poison If consensus is that Ben Krieger's "Class Dismissed" counts as a 2009 release, then that should be #2 and Terry Poison is out. If consensus is that "Local Currency" is disqualified due to compilationishness, then Sonic Youth's "The Eternal" is next in line. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:06:49 EST From: LeftyZ@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 2009 list I know there are some Todd fans on this list. I just wanted to report that I saw the "A Wizard, A True Star" tour two nights in a row in Los Angeles and Ventura early in December. It was everything I expected it to be. It's hard to describe how great it is to see one's favorite album of all played in its entirety. Todd was great. The band was incredible. Still a show in Amsterdam and London to come in a few weeks. Left ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:16:15 -0800 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] Re: 2009 list >>2 Hallelujah the Hills - Colonial Drones >> That's an excellent record that I think would be popular on this list. Tuneful indie guitar-rock, with lyrics that occasionally sustain entire brilliant songs ("Oxus Pagoda", "Variations on the Grand National Championships") and, even when they don't, are guaranteed to produce one or two really striking phrases, images, or insights per song. My list: 1. Amy X Neuburg, the Secret Life of Subways (rock music made from three cellists, tuned electronic percussion, and the best singer I know of: one capable of everything from quiet harrowing melodies, to musical comedy, to articulate and suspiciously tuneful punk aggression, to looped-and-sampled fugues, to dryly observant Laurie Anderson sing-speak, to opera. And one whose lyrics are excellent in ways that warrant all of the above) 2. Tris McCall, Let the Night Fall (his very ordinary singing nonetheless skips through impressive, sometimes Scott-like melodies over piano-led punked-up classic rock, as he sings his New Jersey songs about juvenile-delinquent class warfare, summer romance class warfare, a great schoolteacher in jail, a promising politician with too many ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends, and a life's calendar set by the succession of failed fast-food joints along the highway) 3. Tori Amos, Abnormally Attracted to Sin (her singing's more accessible than usual,her piano-playing and lyrics less impressively detailed than usual, her band arrangements unexpectedly strong and adventurous. I almost always consider her albums intelligent and gorgeous, and this does nothing to change that) 4. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca (it's not unusual for me to buy albums full of weird instruments, where the songwriters have musicology degrees and the multi-part vocal arrangements take daring melodic leaps as a matter of course. It is new for the resulting albums to be light and catchy enough for the albums to sell lots of copies and place in lots of critics' polls, though) 5. Cheer-Accident, Fear Draws Misfortune (I'm not sure how these arrangements can be so obviously ultra-composed, practiced, and mechanically rigorous, yet feel so utterly reckless and exploratory. It's a great trick, though, and works even during the several songs where they aren't racing around rhythmic curves at top speed) 6. Regina Spektor, Far (her piano songs are melodic in a mainstream way, but with interesting rhythmic and arrangement twists; her lyrics manage to be whimsical, curious, earnest, and open-hearted at the same time) 7. Camille, Music Hole (weird, many-layered a-capella; jaunty, funky, goofy, sexy, and/or lovely. About halfway from the Bobs to Bjork's 'Medulla', but angled off some towards Dusty Springfield) 8. Mike Keneally, Scambot 1 (the guy who did the "Nice When I Want Something" guitar solo, and was stun-guitarist for Zappa's touring ensemble, writes breezily intricate, gentle-humored quasi-pop music with off-handedly startling instrumental expertise. Also, the liner notes contain the first part of a fantastical story about mind control, surplus eyebrows, malevolent gulls, Internet comment forums, and the alien beings with bowling-ball heads who came to earth to score a hit Crosby/Stills/Nash-like college-rock single in the early '90s and now play concerts for the minor nostalgia-act circuit) 9. Eyedea and Abilities, By the Throat (perhaps the catchiest punk-rock album ever to pose as rap music, and it's pretty smart and empathetic too, although I really do not approve of albums being only 29 minutes long) 10. Decemberists, the Hazards of Love (stories of the glamour, lust, melodramatic romance, scheming and violence that have typified English folk music for 1000 years, but now spiked with big, geeky heavy metal riffs. Just as wonderful or awful as that sounds) *** Two very list-friendly other recommendations I should make: Charlotte Hatherley's 'New Worlds' -- energetic punk-pop with much slyer, more winding melodies than the genre requires Roger Joseph Manning's 'Catnip Dynamite' -- from the ex-Jellyfish leader, sort of an ambitious if oft-cheesy fusion Queen with XTC

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