Uncle Tupelo - 89/93: An Anthology
2002

Amazon-Uncle Tupelo has received far more attention retrospectively than the band ever did while active. Maybe the best thing about this compilation, then, is that it ignores the myth and exalts the music. Issued eight years after the Jay Farrar/Jeff Tweedy split that yielded Son Volt and Wilco--and compiled with the participation of both parties--the anthology gathers its 21 tracks from every stage of the band's brief career. It's all here: lurching rockers like "Graveyard Shift" and "Outdone," ballads both rich ("Still Be Around") and raw ("Gun"), and more polished acoustic tunes, like the stark "Black Eye" and the bouncy "New Madrid," that came as Tweedy found his voice. There's also Farrar's definitive cover of the traditional "Moonshiner," and on "Chickamauga," his most desperate, galvanizing guitar solos. And, of course, there are the "hits" ("Whiskey Bottle," "The Long Cut"). Interspersed throughout are seven formerly hard-to-find songs, including covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Stooges, live versions of the album cuts "Looking for a Way Out" and "We've Been Had," and the non-album originals "I Got Drunk" and "Sauget Wind." To top it off, everything's been remastered, and the sonic upgrade does wonders to brighten up and animate the older material.

1. No Depression
2. Screen Door
3. Graveyard Shift
4. Whiskey Bottle
5. Outdone (1989 demo
6. I Got Drunk
7. I Wanna Be Your Dog (previously unreleased)
8. Gun
9. Still Be Around
10. Looking for a Way Out (acoustic version)
11. Watch Me Fall
12. Sauget Wind
13. Black Eye
14. Moonshiner
15. Fatal Wound
16. Grindstone
17. Effigy
18. The Long Cut
19. Chickamauga
20. New Madrid
    

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Radiohead - KCRW Performance, Electric Lady Studios
June 2003

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1 Intro
2 Punchup At A Wedding
3 I Might Be Wrong
4 I Will
5 Sail to the Moon
6 No Suprises
7 Interview
8 Interview
9 Go to Sleep
10 Karma Police
11 Everything In Its Right Place
12 Fake Plastic Trees
13 There There
14 Outro
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Wilco - A.M.
1995
Wilco's 1st album, very country, but very good.
Box Full of Ltters and I Must Be High are great, I used to think Summerteeth was their most accesible album, but this def is.

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I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
2006
A ccol band I seen late last year in Whelans, 23 band members on a small stage.
They're playing the Village this Friday(March 2nd) as part of the Swedish music fest, highly recommend going for some crazyness and most importantly, good music.

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Stephen Malkmus
2001

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Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out of this Country
2006
Another very cool album from last year.

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Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
2005

DISC 1
DISC2

Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
2000

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Eels - Souljacker
2001
Dog Faced Boy is a great opener, also best cover pic.....ever.

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Eels - Shootenanny
2003

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Wilco - Kicking Television :live in Chicago
2005

One of the best live albms ever? Misunderstood as an opener is awesome !
"Q Magazine named Wilco's live album “Kicking Television” #16 on their list of the “20 Best Live Albums” of all time."


Disc 1:
1. Misunderstood
2. Company In My Back
3. Late Greats
4. Hell Is Chrome
5. Handshake Drugs
6. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
7. Shot In The Arm
8. At Least That's What You Said
9. Wishful Thinking
10. Jesus Etc
11. I'm The Man Who Loves You
12. Kicking Television

Disc 2:
1. Via Chicago
2. Hummingbird
3. Muzzle Of Bees
4. One By One
5. Airline To Heaven
6. Radio Cure
7. Ashes Of American Flags
8. Heavy Metal Drummer
9. Poor Places
10. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
11. Comment

DISC 1
DISC 2
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Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
2006
Seen them in Whelans about a year ago, brilliant gig. One of the best albums of last year but can't be gotten here in Ireland anymore for some odd reason, was out in US in 05 and made loads of the end of year lists.

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Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure:
live in the pacific northwest
2006


I've been listening to this nearly non-stop since October when I got it.












A brilliant free download of the audio from the dvd show, just him with an acoustic guitar for everything except 1 or 2 songs towards the end and its awesome, crowd sings along, he fucks up songs, chats with the crowd but best of all the is its good music and its live, opening track Sunken Treasure is great.
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Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
2007

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Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
2007

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Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1998
Most people have this but putting it up anyway, an essential album I guess.
And if anybody needs convincing, just check out the 2nd pic below !, best picture ever.

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Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat
2006
one of the best albums of last year

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Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8
2007
I need to add, i've been listening to this non stop all this weekend, in a week where very good Modest Mouse and Kings of Leon albums were leaked this would have to be very good to hold my attention, and it is.


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Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
2007

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Weezer - The Good Life, Oz Ep
1997

1 The Good Life.
2 Waiting On You.
3 I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams
4 The Good Life (live & acoustic)
5 Pink Triangle (live & acoustic).
Notes: "oz e.p." was released after the 3-track single with 2 additional acoustic live songs from 1997. b-side "i just threw out the love of my dreams" features guest vocals by rachel haden (that dog.)The acoustic tracks are from the Seattle-area Shorecrest High School, which won a contest to have weezer play during lunch hour in 1997.
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Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall
2006
A cool cover, cool album, everybody seems to be downloading the Eels stuff like crazy so I guess i'l keep posting some.
It'd be cool if someboy could point me in the direction of their live EP "Sixteen Tons", the link is dead anywhere I find it.

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Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
2006
Without doubt my favourite album of last year, listened to it soooo...many.....times.....
They're on a tour of the UK in May,Irelands not on it so far, but maybe, fingers crossed.

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Kings of Leon - Beause of the Times
2007

1. Knocked Up
2. Charmer
3. On Call
4. McFearless
5. Black Thumbnail
6. My Party
7. True Love Way
8. Ragoo
9. Fans
10. The Runner
11. Trunk
12. Camero
13. Arizona
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Albert Hammond Jr - Yours to Keep
2006
This is better than the last Strokes album and in my opinion sounds like a Strokes album, what does that tell you?, is he the brains behind the whole band? the John Frusciante of The Strokes?"Back to the 101" in paticular, is a very cool song
(i did think"You Only Live Once" was an awesome song on the Strokes album, one of the best of the year, but then they fucked it up with an awful video by an overrated director)

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Gruff Rhys - Candylion
2007

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Simple Kid - SK1
2003
Watch a cool simple kid live performance and interview here

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Weezer - The Lion and the Witch EP
2002
A limited edition live EP from 2002, each copy was individually numbered.

Dope Nose
Island In the Sun
Falling for You
Death and Destruction
El Scorcho
Holiday
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M Ward - Post War
2006

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Beck (acoustic) - Live at Union Chapel, London 2003

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Simple Kid - SK2
"Sophomore album by Simple Kid (AKA Ciaran McFeely), the Irish singer/songwriter often compared to Beck. This album takes the home recorded element to it's extreme, with many of the basic tracks recorded on his eight-track machine using C-60 tapes as masters! Features everything from raw Rock 'N Roll to a banjo-vs-beatbox hoedown! Universal. 2006."

1. Lil King Kong

2. Self-Help Book

3. Twentysomething

4. Old Domestic Cat

5. Serotonin

6. A Song Of Stone

7. Mommy N Daddy

8. Oh Heart, Don't Be Bitter

9. You

10. Love's An Enigma

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Eels - Black Session
PARIS march 23, 2000

Feelin Good
Grace Kelly Blues
My Beloved Monster
Its A Motherfucker
Jeannies Diary
I Like Birds
I Cant Help Falling In Love With You
Flyswatter
Me E's Beautiful Blues
Susan's House
Novocaine for the Soul
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Weezer-Shinkiba Tokyo Japan
12-22-2005

My Name Is Jonas
Perfect Situation
Don't Let Go
Dope Nose(Scott)
Across the Sea
I don't know how to love her(cover from Jesus Christ Superstar)
Hash Pipe
Why Bother?(Brian)
El Scorcho
Say It Aint So
We Are All On Drugs
Surfwax
Good Life
Beverly Hills
Photograph(Pat)
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Island In the Sun
Haunt You Everyday
Buddy Holly
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Weezer
AOL Sessions 2005
Reading Festival 2002

I took this photo at the gig in the Point in 05!
I have a lot of random live/rare type of stuff of various bands I like so gonna post some of it up, see if anybodys interested. The AOL Session is good , Reading is brilliant, especially Hash Pipe and Dope Nose, both are great quality.




AOL Sessions
Beverly Hills
Buddy Holly
Don't LetGo
Island In the Sun
Perfect Situation
Reading 02
Intro/Undone
Island In the Sun
My Name is Jonas
Why Bother
Dope Nose
The Good Life
Surfwax America
Hash Pipe
Buddy Holly
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The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
2007

I've had this since November, still listen to it all the time, Australia is crying out to be a single.

01. Sleeping Lessons
02. Australia
03. Pam Berry
04. Phantom Limb
05. Sea Legs
06. Red Rabbits
07. Turn On Me
08. Black Wave
09. Split Needles
10. Girl Sailor
11. A Comet Appears
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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2002

If you havent heard it, get it, my favourite album, ever!


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Beck - The Information 2006

I thought this album was great, dunno why nobody else seems to.

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The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America
2006
Temple Bar Music Centre this month !!


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Ben Kweller
2006

Why wont he play a gig in Ireland ?

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Phoenix - Its Never Been Like That
2006

One of the best and most overlooked albums of last year.
Napoleon Says !..... etc


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Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
2006


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Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
2006

I thought this would be shit, but was pleasently suprised, its really really good.



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it also has a really cool video for one of the singles

Phoenix - Live ! Thirty Days Ago

The Black Keys - Magic Potion
2006
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Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix

I really like album covers, a good cover can make or break my decision whether to listen to an album or not. So its strange, i like this album so much, but its an awful cover, so shit its unreal, so i'm posting a pic of the band instead. Seen them 2 yrs ago in Dublin and they were brilliant. Not a bad song on the whole album, contains Neil Jung, often said its the best song they ever wrote.

Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
2007

Brilliant! A great and really catchy album , Can You Feel It could definitley be one of the best songs of the year!

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David Kitt - Not Fade Away
2006
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